President Donald Trump has dismissed Kim Sajet, director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing her support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as "totally inappropriate" for her role
President Donald Trump has indicated he would consider pardoning music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is currently on trial for federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, the 13-year-old Texan honored by President Donald Trump as an honorary U.S. Secret Service agent, has been diagnosed with three new tumors, according to his father, Theodis Daniel.
The Trump administration has presented Iran with a new nuclear deal proposal, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Saturday. The plan, delivered by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, marks the first formal offer from the U.S. since negotiations restarted in early April.
Six months after President Joe Biden blocked U.S. Steel’s $14 billion sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel over national security concerns, the future of Pittsburgh’s iconic steel industry looked uncertain. Now, newly re-elected President Donald Trump has delivered a lifeline.
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, credited President Donald Trump’s “tough love” for driving Europe to boost its defense spending. Speaking at the Shangri-La defense forum in Singapore on Saturday, Kallas acknowledged Trump’s pressure on NATO countries to meet their commitments, saying, “It’s love nonetheless, so it’s better than no love.”
President Donald Trump presented Elon Musk with a symbolic gold key to the White House on Friday, praising Musk’s work as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The send-off, held in the Oval Office, marked the end of Musk’s special government employee tenure, limited by law to 130 days. Trump hailed Musk’s leadership in rooting out government waste, fraud, and abuse, calling him “one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.”
President Donald Trump is blasting federal judges for temporarily blocking his “Liberation Day” tariffs, calling the court’s decision “political” and “Country threatening.” In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump questioned how judges, including one he appointed, could issue such a ruling, expressing frustration with the legal advice he received on certain judicial picks.
U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Cabrera said Thursday the United States is working closely with Panama to eliminate what he called “China’s malign influence” in the Panama Canal. Cabrera, appointed by President Donald Trump earlier this month, made clear in an interview that Washington is determined to block Chinese involvement in one of the world’s most strategic waterways.
President Donald Trump is preparing to dramatically increase U.S. arms sales to Taiwan as part of a strategy to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific. According to two U.S. officials, the sales under Trump’s second term could easily surpass the $18.3 billion approved during his first administration. This is a sharp reversal from the Biden years, when arms sales to Taiwan fell to $8.4 billion.
