Sep 04 How Donald Trump’s untimely and untrue ‘death’ unfolded on social media By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Loreben Tuquero, PolitiFact The president is not dead. Trump spoke live at the White House on Sept. 2. Even as rumors of his death went viral, he had been photographed by news outlets and his Truth Social posts racked up thousands of interactions. Continue reading
Sep 04 WATCH: Trump’s Federal Reserve board pick says he plans to keep White House job By Josh Boak, Associated Press Miran, who was nominated to fill a gubernatorial term set to expire in January, made the disclosure at a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Continue reading
Sep 04 The District of Columbia sues over Trump’s deployment of the National Guard By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The city's attorney general, Brian Schwalb, said the surge of troops essentially amounts to an “involuntary military occupation.”… Continue reading
Sep 04 WATCH: Trump hosts top tech CEOs, not including Elon Musk, at White House dinner By Michelle L. Price, Chris Megerian, Associated Press President Donald Trump hosted a high-powered group of tech executives at the White House on Thursday as he showcased research on artificial intelligence and boasted of investments that companies are making around the United States. Continue reading
Sep 03 WATCH: ‘The abuse was real,’ Epstein survivor implores Trump, who again calls case a ‘hoax’ By Dan Cooney The survivors criticized the president’s comments that the case was a “hoax” and appealed to him to meet and describe the pain they had endured. Continue reading
Sep 03 Trump administration agrees to restore federal health data and websites in lawsuit settlement By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press Soon after President Donald Trump's inauguration, federal health officials deleted or removed information on a range of topics including pregnancy risks, opioid-use disorder and the AIDS epidemic. The move was made in reaction to a Trump executive order that told agencies to… Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 3:01 Epstein survivors demand justice in Washington as Trump calls case ‘a Democrat hoax’ By Lisa Desjardins, Kyle Midura Women who survived sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein spoke publicly, some for the first time, to demand the release of the federal files in the case. President Trump also responded to the demands for more documents, calling… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 7:51 ‘This is not a political issue, this is a crime,’ Epstein survivor says By Geoff Bennett, Ali Schmitz As survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse demand accountability, President Trump has said the attention on the case is political. Geoff Bennett spoke with Liz Stein, an Epstein survivor who is now an advocate working to combat human trafficking nationwide, and… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 5:19 Trump policies stalled by series of rulings, likely setting up Supreme Court fight By William Brangham, Doug Adams, Jonah Anderson A federal court rejected the Trump administration's use of an 18th-century wartime law, known as the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members. It's another legal setback for the White House, which has also seen courts… Continue watching
Sep 03 Judge reverses Trump administration’s cuts of billions in research funding to Harvard By Collin Binkley, Michael Casey, Associated Press A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding research grants for Harvard University. Continue reading