Trump News for Tuesday, August 5, 2025

A DHS spokesperson thanked South Park for "drawing attention to ICE law enforcement recruitment," even though the Trump administration called the show irrelevant

The sweeping secondary tariffs could cut the flow of Russian oil and gas to global markets.

Missile and drone attacks on Ukraine are now higher than at any other point of the war, according to Ukrainian data.

Why is ICE using a desperate, fourth-rate comedy show to try and boost its recruiting numbers?

US president's comments come amid warnings that expanding Israeli operations would be 'catastrophic' for Palestinians.

A new, independent association for leading snooker players gives them "a stronger voice", according to its chairman John Higgins.

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The Right has begun reappropriating ‘South Park’s attacks for their marketing campaigns

LARGO — Friends and colleagues of Terry Bollea, the pro wrestler better known to the world as Hulk Hogan, gathered Tuesday evening to say goodbye to the...

The committee asked the DOJ for files related to its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. It is also looking to question Bill and Hillary Clinton, among several other former government officials.

President Donald Trump creates LA28 task force to prepare for the first Olympics in the US since the 2002 Winter Games.

As the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues apace, and MAGA grapples with the gaslit reality they live in, the Trump Administration continues to negotiate so-called trade deals, which are negotiated and implemented using pure executive fiat, under emergency powe…

He’s not the winning cause some elected officials seem to think he is

Unfortunately, we have to talk about Bronze Age Pervert. The pseudonymous writer, widely identified as a Romanian-American political theorist named Costin Alamariu, has become a popular influencer among very online young conservatives. BAP’s worldview is crud…

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for companies to use drones for business — from delivering coffee to inspecting power lines to working on farms.

Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the a…

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are slowing economic growth, raising prices, undermining American manufacturing, marginalizing the US geopolitically, and attracting widespread public opposition. And future presidents may largely preserve them.  This is becau…

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has issued a number of new subpoenas — including one to the Department of Justice for the complete Jeffrey Epstein files.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to help communities protect against natural disasters. U.S...

Fights over Congressional maps never used to be this intense. On Tuesday, Texas Republicans voted to issue civil arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state.<br><br>The GOP is trying to redraw house districts, and the proposed new map could give Republic…

Advocates have denounced the bond scheme as a 'legalised shakedown' that profits from vulnerable, lawful travellers.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatories have been a game-changer for agriculture and climate science. Now, NASA is under pressure to terminate them.

Anyone with the tiniest bit of humanity would have found a better way to mass deportations, if they even felt compelled to do it all. Under Trump, the extra layers of cruelty are an essential part of the package — something that piles the deliberate inflictio…

A dramatic redistricting fight could spread to other states before next year's crucial midterm elections.

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon, aiming to establish such a power outpost by 2030, according to Politico.

Windows PCs powered by Snapdragon processors or NVIDIA RTX GPUs can run OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model natively.

The future of American politics might be decided by whether young voters get most of their news through TikTok.  I don’t mean to single out the Chinese-owned vertical video app here. TikTok is a stand-in for a bigger phenomenon in modern American society: pas…

Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Black's US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.

Tom Ryan is stepping down, and the ‘South Park’ community is claiming divine intervention

Ever the developer-in-chief, President Trump makes surprise appearance on White House roof above the briefing room in an apparent effort to inspect future construction.

President Donald Trump claimed Republicans are "entitled to five more seats" in Texas, where a redistricting battle is playing out among state lawmakers.

The Tesla Robotaxi still has a human babysitter.

There’s no real future to late night, according to experts

Are you tired of hearing about the controversy over Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad? A remarkable thing about this latest culture-war dust-up is just how much people seem to resent its sheer existence. The whole thing feels, on its face, ginned up an…

Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you’ll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they’ve built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to concentrated politica…

The weapons include U.S. missiles for Patriot air defense systems already in Ukraine. President Trump opposes more direct U.S. military aid for Ukraine, but announced the new arrangement last month.

He reportedly shouted something about launching nukes into space The post The Internet Reacts To President Trump Wandering Around On The White House Roof appeared first on Kotaku.

Oversight Committee also issues deposition subpoenas for former top US officials, including Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Palantir chief executive Alex Karp has told analysts and investors that the company treats Harvard, Princeton and Yale graduates the same as those without college degrees, calling employment at the data analytics firm "a new credential independent of class an…

The Hong Kong Observatory says it has recorded 355.7mm of rainfall, making it the highest daily rainfall recorded for August since records began in 1884.

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans as soon as Tuesday to formally axe a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk...

Woody Allen compared late pal Jeffrey Epstein to Count Dracula in a wild letter the filmmaker allegedly wrote to the notorious pedophile for his 63rd birthday. The letter -- published Tuesday by the New York Times -- is both shocking and…

U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear who his new Latin America priority is: former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a personal and political ally. ...

The White House is said to be preparing an order calling for regulators to review US financial institutions.

President Trump is going where no president's gone before ... the roof of the White House -- and he's talking about nuclear missiles. The Prez went for a stroll Tuesday morning at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, checking out the grounds from above ...…

The Trump administration wants you to know they’re very, very tough. So tough, in fact, that they’re launching a comprehensive purge of the Naval Academy to eliminate “corrosive DEI programs” and restore what they call the “warrior ethos.” Because nothing say…

The deal between Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump came in a lawsuit the president filed over an article about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Long before Elon Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it to X, the platform was known for allowing users to post a wide range of explicit content. Under Musk's anti-censorship stewardship, the social media platform has only become more of a Wild West. xAI's new …

By Matt Solomon Published: August 05th, 2025

Former top officials from the justice department during the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations were sent subpoenas

As many as 250 migrants may be deported to Rwanda under the plan, as part of Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.

Bill and Hillary Clinton -- and nearly a dozen other former feds and politicians -- have been subpoenaed for depositions by a Congressional committee ... all in connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Rep. James Comer, Chair of the House Oversight…

The project would power a future human settlement on the lunar surface.

OceanGate's Titan submersible, which killed five people on a deep-sea voyage to the Titanic wreckage in June 2023.

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030

President Donald Trump continues to claim without evidence that the jobs report was "totally rigged."

When a Trump-branded phone on a Trump-branded mobile network launches sometime this year (if all goes according to plan), US regulators will face what's become a recurring conundrum in Donald Trump's presidency: how to regulate a product with ties to the head…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to find and arrest the Democrats who fled the state over a Republican redistricting plan.

With prison move, Justice Department meeting and possible Congress testimony, Trump faces scrutiny from his own base

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the BLS after a disappointing jobs report. It likely won't help the data get better.

As Rwanda and the DRC hold their first meeting under a US-backed peace deal, Trump is touting it as a diplomatic win

President Trump is weighing in on the Texas redistricting showdown as the statehouse is set to reconvene again Tuesday afternoon.

Two hikers were rescued by helicopter after becoming stranded on a remote beach in California after rising tides cut off their exit route, police said.

Everyone is focusing on the compliment part of the statement, not the insult part

(Reuters) -The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in June on a sharp drop in consumer goods imports, the latest evidence of the imprint on global commerce President...

The Kremlin has accused Washington of deploying missile platforms around the world. But did the treaty matter earlier?

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's merchandise trade deficit widened in June to C$5.9 billion ($4.24 billion) as imports grew faster than exports due to a one-time...

Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the answer is no, the law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability …

Throughout US history, first families have made the White House their own with new amenities and additions, from bowling alleys to basketball courts.

Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison (R) claimed Monday the Republican Party will “never have the White House again” if Democrats overtake the majority in the...

India pushes back against sanctions, tariffs over its purchase of Russian oil, says West trades more with Moscow.

Stacey Williams, a former model who once dated Jeffrey Epstein, says Donald Trump groped her in his Trump Tower office in 1993—while casually chatting with...

The former Russian president, infamous for late-night online rants, is locked in a row with the US leader.

The Justice Department turned over a version of the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts that identifies which information is not already publicly known.

The reactor would provide power for humans on the Moon but there are questions about feasability.

Texas GOP plans new map; Vance references CA, but its bipartisan map is not skewed, contrary to his claims, say experts.

'Vote him out!': Town hall erupts in anger at Nebraska GOP congressman over Trump megabill, policies

WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would increase the tariff charged on imports from India from the current rate ...

Texas GOP is threatening to arrest Democratic lawmakers unless they return to vote on redrawing the congressional map. And, two NASA satellite missions that scientists and farmers rely on could end.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to bow to a sanctions ultimatum expiring this Friday from U.S. President Donald Trump, and...

“Greg Abbott just told flood survivors across Texas that their suffering comes second to Donald Trump’s thirst for power,” the Texas Democratic Party chairman said in a statement.

Since 2023, the share of Americans who view China as an 'enemy' dropped by seven percentage points, while the share who see it as an 'ally or trade partner' ...

Men may be less well equipped, in many ways, to weather the societal shifts on the horizon.

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

The Pixel 10 series may come with a free trial of Google AI Pro, letting users enjoy Google's best AI features for free. Read on for more!

No breakout song, no runaway blockbuster: Summer 2025's biggest vibe is the lack of actual vibes

Hundreds of former Israeli military officials are demanding an end to the war in Gaza. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to retired Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin about this letter signed a letter to President Trump.

The trial of the far-right leader is receiving renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump directly tied a 50% tariff on imported Brazilian goods to his ally's judicial situation.

Trump — perhaps more than other presidents — often feels compelled to present his religious bona fides. Of course, he naturally has none. But as often as evangelical figureheads proclaim him to be (their) God’s personal pick for POTUS, even Donald Trump occas…

Ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warns of 'further steps', blaming NATO's 'anti-Russian policy'.

Palantir outlined why its approach to AI is superior to normal LLMs, and explains how it plans to attract AI talents.

Here are the key events on day 1,258 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Haley Robson says recent speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her "extremely angry".