Trump News for Monday, August 4, 2025

CEO Alex Karp dismisses elite education and says that those without college degrees "are creating a lot of value" using Palantir software.

A public document filed by a company that just hired President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons as advisers included a sentence early Monday that said it hoped...

President Trump would hit a home run if he were to grant Sean "Diddy" Combs a pardon for his prostitution conviction ... at least according to Mark Geragos. The famed defense attorney was flying out of LAX on Monday when a photog asked him about a…

Steve Witkoff is visiting Moscow this week - is it a sign that an agreement between Russia and the US to end the fighting in Ukraine could yet be reached?

"The Serpent's Skin" director chats with IndieWire about the Shudder acquisition and the Dark Star Pictures collaboration that's already turned her into a genre powerhouse.

Texas House fails to establish quorum as dozens of Democrats flee state to block redrawn congressional map.

Trump’s latest moves represent an assault on reporting, statistics, and the historical record.

Casting is allegedly fully underway, with scouts working at improv clubs across the country

Apple's new number one iPhone manufacturing country, India, will face a significant tariff increase, after the Trump administration caught it selling oil to Russia.President Trump has threatened India with even higher tariffs.The "reciprocal" tariff policy of…

ABC News' Ian Pannell spoke to the brother of Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage seen in footage released by Hamas over the weekend.

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The Trump Administration’s worldwide tariff wars continue. A top priority for Trump has been resetting U.S. trade relations and earlier this year his administration had vowed “90 deals in 90 days”. But as the August 1st deadline came and went, what emerged w…

The Trump administration has a fresh excuse for transferring Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to a comfier jail. The White House has been accused...

The US president says India doesn't care "how many people in Ukraine are being killed" - but India calls the tariff threat "unjustified".

In India, the bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump was seen as a relationship like no other. From Trump’s tariffs...

Apple may say that most iPhones sold in the U.S. are now assembled in India, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Apple has reduced its reliance on China. Patrick McGee, who literally wrote the book on , explains. more…

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopte…

This story was originally published by ProPublica, along with The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, and Cazadores de Fake News. Republished under ProPublica’s CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Now that he’s free, Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-o…

Investors may want to think twice about betting broadly on a “strongly rising U.S. economic tide,” JPMorgan’s David Kelly writes. Same with lower interest...

These three judges give reason for hope.

Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid in Gaza are, first and foremost, a moral atrocity. Israeli policies since March, most notably the initial shutdown on aid entering the Strip, were very obviously going to cause a hunger crisis down the line. There can…

Dozens of Texas Democrats left the state to protest a redistricting map, facing potentially steep consequences. Lawmaker walkouts have had mixed success in the past — so what is there to gain?

If the law remains in place, other death penalty states may be tempted to follow suit.

Amazon is moving some of its Wondery shows to Audible as video podcasts are taking over

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony...

The United States slaps 25 percent tariffs on a nation long viewed as an ally.

One of the biggest mysteries that has emerged from the Trump-era Supreme Court is the 2023 decision in Allen v. Milligan.  In Milligan, two of the Republican justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh — voted with the Court’s Democratic…

Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”  The maxim lived on. The…

In the US push for mineral independence, AI could support faster discovery and supply chain security, but skepticism in the mining industry remains.

We’re becoming everything we (perhaps naively) assumed most Americans didn’t want America to be: a backwater burg on the world map, overseen by a corrupt sheriff and known mostly for our routine rights violations and unwillingness to treat facts as facts. Big…

Pro-Israel posts point to a handful of cafes to claim 2 million people are not suffering hunger – despite Israel’s own data

Two people were killed and six others were injured in a mass shooting at an apparent after-party in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.

President Donald Trump said he plans to name a replacement this week for Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler, whose unexpected resignation set for this...

The president is yelling at the TV again.

US president accuses India of buying Russian oil and reselling it on the open market 'for big profits'.

The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July ar…

Charlamagne tha God’s appearance on Fox News got the President hot and bothered

Nintendo has officially raised the prices of the Switch, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite -- likely due to Trump's latest round of tariffs.

When President Donald Trump and Elon Musk fed the US Agency for International Development into the wood chipper earlier this year, one of the lesser-known casualties was the shutdown of an obscure but crucial program that tracked public health information on …

Moscow downplayed President Trump's announcement that he'd ordered two nuclear submarines to "the appropriate regions" after heated Russian rhetoric.

Amid falling sales, Tesla's board still thinks Musk is worth all the trouble.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas House Democrats have until 3 p.m. local time on Monday to return to the statehouse for the special session or risk losing their jobs.

In case you haven't seen, Ghislaine Maxwell is now bunking with Jen Shah and Elizabeth Holmes in Camp Bryan. That said: I'm looking for she-roes here...

A PATH train fire suspended service between New Jersey and New York City on Monday morning, the Port Authority said, with smoke filling the Newport Station in Jersey City as passengers evacuated.

Sweeney has faced backlash for an ad campaign promoting American Eagle's jeans.

"Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA." India’s trade ministry did not immediately respond to a request for ...

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

Flights between Europe and Canada are scheduled to reach a record high this month, while both sides have been turning away from traveling to the US.

Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics raises fears for the integrity of official statistics.

Have congressional Republicans forgotten the political pain they suffered when President George W. Bush tried to privatize Social Security in 2005?

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said first-half revenues fell 39% at Squishmallows' parent company and 12% at Fruit of the Loom as tariffs loomed.

Tesla shares have plunged 25% this year, largely due to blowback over Mr Musk’s affiliation with President Donald Trump.

The Golden Dome cometh.

Tesla approved a restricted stock award of 96 million shares, worth about $29 billion, to “incentivize” the controversial billionaire to remain at the head of the company during a protracted legal battle over his original pay package. Last year, a Delaware co…

Global shares advanced Monday after Wall Street had its worst day since May following the release of weak U.S. jobs data and U.S. President Donald Trump ’s...

We’ve noted repeatedly how early attempts to integrate “AI” into journalism have proven to be a comical mess, resulting in no shortage of shoddy product, dangerous falsehoods, and plagiarism. It’s thanks in large part to the incompetent executives at many lar…

The Kremlin has dismissed concerns of a nuclear escalation following US President Donald Trump's decision to reposition two nuclear submarines closer to...

According to the masculinity grifters of ‘King of the Hill,’ inner strength doesn’t come from the lower body

Companies leveraging crypto and related technologies have rallied on friendly policymaking from the Donald Trump administration, such as the recent passage...

Donald Trump is all in on Sydney Sweeney's controversial American Eagle ad campaign ... and it's all because of her voter registration. The prez was taking questions from reporters Sunday evening -- when one brought up that Sweeney had been…

From new caps on student-loan borrowing to higher monthly payments, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Trump's policies could benefit private lenders.

An already insular Defense Department is sealing itself off from outside thinkers.

Elizabeth Warren explains why billionaires are boosting Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo to keep Zohran Mamdani from becoming New York City's mayor.

My off-to-Maine morning reads: • Trump Claims the Jobs Report Was Rigged. Was It? He does himself and his party no favors by waving away economic reality—as Biden did with inflation. (WSJ) see also What to Do When the President Acts Like a 5-Year-Old? For ove…

Also this weekend, Sweeney got heckled at the premiere of her latest film, and Donald Trump said her American Eagle 'is fantastic.

President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to travel to Russia later this week, the president told reporters on Sunday.

LANCASTER/DOWNEY, California (Reuters) -Los Angeles County has a new task taking care of dogs and cats after their owners were detained or deported in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals panel on Thursday appeared skeptical of U.S. President Donald Trump's argument that a 1977 law historically used for ...

The 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health report found that in recent years, depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in teens have declined.

Elizabeth Kolbert on the Trump Administration’s plan to revoke the “endangerment finding,” which has long formed the basis of federal limits on carbon pollution.

Françoise Mouly speaks with the artist Amy Sherald about her cover for the August 11, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.

Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate rows of masked federal agents. Mark Peterson’s photo portfolio documents these harrowing encounters, with reporting from Jordan Salama.

Visits to Las Vegas were down 11% in June over the same month last year amid a drop in international tourism.

Yeonsoo Go, a South Korean student at Purdue University and the daughter of a beloved Episcopalian priest in New York, was arrested by US Immigration and...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday that everyone should be careful about nuclear rhetoric, in its first response to a statement by U.S. President...

The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

White House deputy chief Stephen Miller says it was 'not acceptable' for India to continue to buy Russian oil.

The Trump administration declared victory after Kraft Heinz, Skittles and General Mills made splashy announcements to remove artificial colors — even taking ...

Trump says his tariffs will spur America into a "golden age" — but that remains far from certain. Here are 5 things to know about how his trade policies could impact the U.S. and the global economy.

The Trump Administration has accused its longtime friend of “financing” the war in Ukraine.

The prior commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics had some things to say about the recent firing of Erika McEntarfer. For Bloomberg, María Paula Mijares Torres and Catherine Lucey report: “…

Joel and Kathryn Friedman, both 71, were encouraged by President Donald Trump's remarks in support of eliminating the capital gains tax on home sales.

For the Atlantic, Alexandra Petri on the president’s approach to data: And now, at last, Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Once these disloyal statisticians a…

In July, Russia's manufacturing sector posted its steepest contraction in three years.

The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on Friday after poor job numbers. A Federal Reserve governor resigned on the same day.

The governor also alleged absconding Democrats may have committed felonies by fundraising to cover the $500-a-day fines they will face under House rules.

Witkoff will discuss Russia's war on Ukraine as Trump says again he wants a 'deal where people stop getting killed'.

(Reuters) -Gold prices slipped on Monday as investors booked profits after a sharp rise in the previous session following weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data...

US stock futures were little changed following a week of sharp declines.

U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on...