• WATCH: Dell family pledges more than $6 billion for U.S. children to build on 'Trump accounts'

    WATCH: Dell family pledges more than $6 billion for U.S. children to build on 'Trump accounts'

    Dec 02, 2025 03:08 PM EST

    ... experts link the high child poverty rates to the lack of social supports for new parents, like paid parental leave. While the funds in the Trump Accounts may help young adults whose families or employers can contribute to them over time, they won’t immediately help to diminish childhood poverty ...

  • News Wrap: White House says Trump's MRI was focused on heart and abdomen

    News Wrap: White House says Trump's MRI was focused on heart and abdomen

    Dec 01, 2025 11:50 PM EST

    In our news wrap Monday, the White House says that a recent MRI performed on President Trump was a preventative screening focused on both his heart and abdomen, a federal appeals court ruled that Alina Habba has been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey and a West Virginia National Guard member shot...

  • Trump declines to mark World AIDS Day as funding cuts threaten HIV-prevention efforts

    Trump declines to mark World AIDS Day as funding cuts threaten HIV-prevention efforts

    Dec 01, 2025 11:45 PM EST

    Communities across the globe commemorated World AIDS Day, reaffirming a commitment to end an epidemic that has killed more than 44 million. But this year, for the first time in decades, the U.S. government decided not to mark the occasion, and the Trump administration has reportedly barred agencies from commemorating or participating. William Brangham discussed...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political reaction to Trump's boat strikes

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political reaction to Trump's boat strikes

    Dec 01, 2025 11:40 PM EST

    Amy Walter: Yes, not the general election. Amna Nawaz: Well, Tam, pick up on that, though. Speaking of Republican efforts, Speaker Mike Johnson was there today. We have seen Kamala Harris there in recent weeks as well. President Trump posted online about this race, telling people don't take this ...

  • As Russia and Ukraine mull Trump's peace proposal, land and security seen as main sticking points

    As Russia and Ukraine mull Trump's peace proposal, land and security seen as main sticking points

    Dec 01, 2025 06:53 PM EST

    ... gather again in Brussels.The main issue for the EU right now is what to do with the frozen Russian assets in Belgium that the Trump peace plan in its initial version sought to use for post-war investment in Ukraine. Those funds are central to European Commission President Ursula ...

  • See photos of Melania Trump's White House Christmas decorations, including a LEGO Trump

    See photos of Melania Trump's White House Christmas decorations, including a LEGO Trump

    Dec 01, 2025 05:53 PM EST

    ... America is strong and that Home Is Where The Heart Is." Planning for the holidays starts months in advance, and the White House said Melania Trump chose every detail of the decor. Trees in the East Room are trimmed in patriotic red, white and blue and national symbols, including golden ...

  • WATCH: 'I am not going to be silenced.' Sen. Kelly denounces 'bullying' by Trump, Hegseth

    WATCH: 'I am not going to be silenced.' Sen. Kelly denounces 'bullying' by Trump, Hegseth

    Dec 01, 2025 05:29 PM EST

    ... not absolve troops. Kelly and the other lawmakers did not mention specific circumstances in the video. Some Democratic lawmakers have questioned the legality of the Trump administration's attempts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Kelly has pointedly questioned the use of the military to attack alleged ...

  • Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned

    Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned

    Dec 01, 2025 02:58 PM EST

    ... that the president received “advanced imaging” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center “as part of his routine physical examination” and that the results showed Trump remains in “exceptional physical health.” WATCH: Trump calls online rumors of his death ‘crazy’ and based on ‘fake news’ Trump added Sunday that he ...

  • Alina Habba, Trump's former lawyer, disqualified as New Jersey prosecutor

    Alina Habba, Trump's former lawyer, disqualified as New Jersey prosecutor

    Dec 01, 2025 02:49 PM EST

    ... argued Habba is validly serving in the role under a federal statute allowing the first assistant attorney, a post she was appointed to by the Trump administration. A similar dynamic is playing out in Nevada, where a federal judge disqualified the Trump administration’s pick to be U.S. attorney ...

  • Lawmakers voice bipartisan support for congressional reviews of Trump's boat strikes

    Lawmakers voice bipartisan support for congressional reviews of Trump's boat strikes

    Nov 30, 2025 11:58 PM EST

    “I wouldn’t say it went well or badly,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, when asked about the call. The Venezuelan communications ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the call with Trump. Turner said there are concerns in Congress about the attacks ...