Dec 10 WATCH: Biden looks back at his economic record in speech at Brookings Institution By News Desk President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was “stupid” not to put his own name on pandemic relief checks in 2021, noting that Donald Trump had done so in 2020 and likely got credit for helping people out through this simple,… Continue reading
Dec 10 Elon Musk signals he'll go beyond supporting Trump to serve as his political enforcer By Thomas Beaumont, Juliet Linderman, Martha Mendoza, Associated Press Within Trump's team, there is a feeling that Musk not only supports Trump's agenda and Cabinet appointments, but is intent on seeing them through to the point of pressuring Republicans who may be less devout. Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 7:04 Trump lays out agenda on border, tariffs and potential political retribution in interview By Laura Barrón-López, Saher Khan Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump sat down for his first formal interview since winning a second term in the White House. Trump spoke to Meet the Press about his plans for his new administration, doubling down on campaign promises… Continue watching
Dec 09 What is birthright citizenship and could Trump end it? By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press Any efforts to halt the policy would face steep legal hurdles. Continue reading
Dec 09 Fact-checking Trump's 'Meet the Press' interview By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact In a Dec. 8 interview, President-elect Donald Trump elaborated on plans for removing people in the country illegally and imposing tariffs on trade partners — and made some false claims to support them. Continue reading
Dec 08 Trump won't rule out revenge prosecutions, deportation of U.S. citizens when he takes office By Bill Barrow, Will Weissert, Associated Press In an interview with NBC's “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, Trump suggested once more that some political rivals and federal officials who pursued legal cases against him should be imprisoned. He also said that he does not want to… Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch 2:29 News Wrap: Trump calls for 'immediate cease-fire' in Ukraine after meeting with Zelenskyy In our news wrap Sunday, Trump called for an “immediate cease-fire” between Ukraine and Russia and said in an interview that he plans to end birthright citizenship in the U.S., New York police released new photos of the suspected killer… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch 7:50 Notre Dame's ceremonial reopening also marks Trump's return to the world stage By John Yang, Claire Mufson, Kaisha Young Against the Paris skyline, the Notre Dame Cathedral has risen from the ashes with its official reopening Saturday. Dozens of world leaders, diplomats and celebrities attended the celebration of the monument’s rebirth, including a high-profile return to the global spotlight… Continue watching
Dec 07 Trump meets with France's Macron and Ukraine's Zelenskyy during visit to Paris By Sylvie Corbet, Adriana Gomez Licon, Jill Colvin, Associated Press The president-elect's visit to France, ahead of a celebration of the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral five years after a devastating fire, comes as Macron and other European leaders are trying to win Trump’s favor and persuade him to maintain… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch 8:15 Examining the major changes RFK Jr. could make to federal food regulations By William Brangham, Frank Carlson President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has raised a number of questions in the public health community about Kennedy’s long history of opposing vaccines. It’s also put a spotlight… Continue watching