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Trump Says He Is Sending Hospital Ship to Greenland
6+ hour, 12+ min ago (680+ words) President Trump said he plans to send a hospital ship to Greenland as part of his continuing effort to exercise control of the island in the Arctic, which he has said is vital for national security and contains mineral riches,…...
DHS to Suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry
7+ hour ago (656+ words) The Department of Homeland Security will temporarily suspend two popular programs that allow some travelers to move more quickly through airport security starting Sunday at 6 a.m. Eastern due to the shutdown of much of the agency, according to a DHS spokesperson,…...
Pentagon Seeking Ways to Spend Additional $500 Billion
14+ hour, 56+ min ago (672+ words) Washington Post: "Trump administration officials have struggled to figure out how to increase U.S. military spending by a whopping $500 billion in their forthcoming budget, slowing the overall White House spending plan, four people familiar with the matter said." "President Donald Trump…...
Businesses Want Their Money Back Following Tariff Decision
19+ hour, 21+ min ago (750+ words) Corporate America is lining up for refunds from President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs after the US Supreme Court ruled they were illegal, with more than $130bn at stake," the Financial Times reports. The US Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail…...
Note to Readers
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (726+ words) Nothing can keep me from Political Wire " or so I thought. I had emergency hernia surgery on Wednesday, but there were complications. I aspirated during the procedure and stomach acid burned my lungs, so I needed breathing tubes and was…...
Supreme Court's 'Declaration of Independence"
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (757+ words) Adam Liptak: "Starting with the 2024 decision that gave President Trump substantial immunity from prosecution and continuing through a score of emergency orders provisionally greenlighting an array of his second-term initiatives, Mr. Trump has had an extraordinarily successful run before the…...
Gorsuch Calls Out Justices for Lack of Consistency on Presidential Power
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (753+ words) NBC News: "Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch pulled no punches in taking aim at his colleagues on the Supreme Court for a lack of consistency in approaching broad assertions of presidential power made by Joe Biden and Donald Trump." "His colleagues…...
Poll: 64 Percent Disapprove of Trump’s Handling of Tariffs
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (660+ words) Washington Post: "A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released Friday finds Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of tariffs by a 30 percentage-point margin, 64 percent to 34 percent." "Those ratings are identical to a poll last April, despite Trump's persistent efforts to sway public…...
MAHA Turning On White House Over Pesticides
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (762+ words) Politico: "President Donald Trump's Wednesday night executive order promoting production of a widely used herbicide is threatening to blow up a coalition that played a key role in his 2024 election victory." Make America Healthy Again activists brought into the Republican…...
New Tests Loom Between Chief Justice and President
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (705+ words) Other tests loom for the relationship between the president and the chief," the Wall Street Journal reports. In the next few months, the court will rule on another one of Trump's assertions of power: his bid to remake the Federal…...