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  • WATCH: Trump announces pledges for Gaza reconstruction and troop commitments at first Board of Peace meeting

    WATCH: Trump announces pledges for Gaza reconstruction and troop commitments at first Board of Peace meeting

    Feb 19, 2026 02:06 PM EST

    ... countries that have not joined the board but are taking part as observers. “Almost everybody’s accepted, and the ones that haven’t, will be," Trump predicted. "And some are playing a little cute -- it doesn’t work. You can’t play cute with me.” The U.N. Security Council ...

  • UN Security Council holds high-level meeting on Gaza before Trump's Board of Peace convenes

    UN Security Council holds high-level meeting on Gaza before Trump's Board of Peace convenes

    Feb 18, 2026 10:58 PM EST

    ... administer Gaza’s daily affairs. But the most challenging steps lie ahead, including the deployment of an international security force, disarming Hamas and rebuilding Gaza. Trump said this week that the Board of Peace members have pledged $5 billion toward Gaza reconstruction and will commit thousands of personnel to international ...

  • NIH's Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Trump administration looks for a permanent director

    NIH's Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Trump administration looks for a permanent director

    Feb 18, 2026 10:08 PM EST

    ... hadn’t been made public. Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation's top public health agency, during President Donald Trump’s second term. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired then-CDC Director Susan Monarez last summer, less than a month after the ...

  • WATCH: Trump remembers Jesse Jackson at Black History Month event

    WATCH: Trump remembers Jesse Jackson at Black History Month event

    Feb 18, 2026 09:11 PM EST

    ... White House. Johnson, who is Black, touted Trump as a friend to Black Americans. “This president hears you,” she said. “This president cares for you.” Trump says he’s not a racist At the White House’s Black History Month event, Trump didn’t mention his recent racist social media ...

  • Trump family business files for trademark rights on any airports using the president's name

    Trump family business files for trademark rights on any airports using the president's name

    Feb 18, 2026 06:42 PM EST

    ... a family company unit called DTTM Operations with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are for the use of three names — President Donald J. Trump International Airport, Donald J. Trump International Airport and DJT. The Trump company's claim that it is the most infringed trademark in the world ...

  • Groups sue Trump's EPA over repeal of rule that supported climate protections

    Groups sue Trump's EPA over repeal of rule that supported climate protections

    Feb 18, 2026 05:55 PM EST

    ... Law Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club. The suit named EPA and its administrator Lee Zeldin as defendants. President Donald Trump said in announcing the repeal that it was "the single largest deregulatory action in American history, by far,” while Zeldin called the endangerment finding ...

  • Melania Trump to donate 2025 inaugural ball gown to the Smithsonian

    Melania Trump to donate 2025 inaugural ball gown to the Smithsonian

    Feb 18, 2026 03:32 PM EST

    First lady Melania Trump will donate her 2025 inaugural ball gown to the Smithsonian on Friday The strapless black-and-white gown was designed by her longtime fashion designer and stylist, Herve Pierre, who is seen sketching it for the first lady and fitting her in it in “Melania,” her ...

  • Some states push back on Trump recruiting local officers to aid immigration enforcement

    Some states push back on Trump recruiting local officers to aid immigration enforcement

    Feb 17, 2026 11:46 PM EST

    ... and back into communities,” the department said in a statement. New ICE limits are mirroring public pushback About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” in sending federal immigration agents into U.S. cities, according to an AP-NORC poll that suggests political independents are ...

  • How Trump and Bondi transformed the DOJ to push his agenda and challenge detractors

    How Trump and Bondi transformed the DOJ to push his agenda and challenge detractors

    Feb 17, 2026 11:40 PM EST

    ... no one's been Senate-confirmed to those positions. This happened in New Jersey, where judges picked a prosecutor. The DOJ overruled them and installed Trump's personal lawyer, Alina Habba. Or, recently, it happened in New York, where judges appointed a veteran prosecutor. And then a few hours later ...

  • Trump administration backs Kalshi and Polymarket as states move to ban prediction markets

    Trump administration backs Kalshi and Polymarket as states move to ban prediction markets

    Feb 17, 2026 10:51 PM EST

    ... prediction markets proponents, it has taken on a much larger role in financial markets in the last five years. By stepping into the lawsuit, the Trump administration is taking an unusually broad definition of commodities and futures. Selig has shifted his position from what he told Senators at his confirmation ...

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