Trump News for Tuesday, October 7, 2025

The newbie won out over a song from the second-year player

Troops arrive despite active legal challenges from Chicago and the state of Illinois in the courts.

President Trump can't seem to shake the Jeffrey Epstein plague ... because U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi got into a fiery exchange over the "Epstein Files" with a senator during a congressional hearing. Bondi faced off Tuesday with the Senate…

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

DHS assistant secretary of public affairs Tricia McLaughlin told TMZ that Bryan should “stick to ‘Pink Skies’”

Eric Dickerson is urging Bad Bunny to pull out of the Super Bowl halftime show if he is, indeed, not a fan of the United States ... saying the "Tití Me Preguntó" crooner should straight up "keep his ass where he's at" if he truly feels some type of way about …

Despite claiming to not know who he is, Trump calls the choice for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show “ridiculous."

The DOJ has added two assistant U.S. attorneys from out of state to work on the case against former FBI Director James Comey ahead of Comey's arraignment on Wednesday.

A lot has happened since last week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent Ian Roberts being arrested by ICE first hit the front page here at Techdirt. A lot of new information has come to light, almost all of it obtained by Des Moines Regist…

Tariffs. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. National Guard deployments. Epstein files. Strikes on Iran. Gaza and Ukraine. Sticky inflation. The first year of President Donald Trump’s time in office has been a firehose of unpopular polici…

The nation's highest court is hearing Chiles v. Salazar, and could overturn a ban on the discredited practice of conversion therapy.

Columbia University students and faculty are participating in weekly listening tables set up on the campus The Trust Collaboratory launched “Listening Tables” to promote understanding. But its champions worry about the impact of Columbia’s deal with the fe…

Senior Hamas official says group intends to release captives in stages linked to the withdrawal of Israel's military.

We’d tell Schumer, ‘Don't quit your day job,’ but that would actually solve a lot of our problems

The attorney general spent Tuesday dodging questions from senators about her tenure at the DOJ.

A year ago, Chait said centrists were winning. When Harris lost, though, he blamed the left's trans rights agenda. The post Jon Chait Thinks Kamala Harris Went Too Far Left. He’s Just Falling for Trump’s Demagoguery. appeared first on The Intercept.

Donald Trump says a Middle East peace deal is “very close,” while pledging US security guarantees for Gaza.

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “extremist speech,” ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said in a report pu…

Nerves were raw in a hearing that covered much ground, and saw Trump's attorney general go on the attack.

"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

Cheryl Hines says she finds Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s falling out with his relatives “disappointing,” speaking out against ...

Democrats and a federal union argue the Trump administration's language posted on federal agency websites and in some emails blaming the 'Radical Left Democrat' for the government shutdown is in violation of a 1939 federal law.

Conor McGregor accepts an 18-month ban for violating the UFC's anti-doping policy, the organisation says.

The country songwriter takes a shot at law enforcement in "Bad News," earning a response from Department of Homeland Security and MAGA singers like John Rich

Oren Peleg on the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, a group in Los Angeles that monitors the movements of federal agents in and out of a Coast Guard facility on Terminal Island.

As Kimmel admitted, his lead should probably be even higher

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

David Adler says Sumud Flotilla activists were 'kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded' and sent to prison camp.

Trump is falsely claiming an "insurrection" is underway in the city, so it's understandable that people are on edge.

Paul Thomas Anderson's celebrated family drama and political thriller is far from the "apologia for radical left-wing terrorism" its conservative critics claim it is

FCI Fort Dix has what's known as a Residential Drug Abuse Program that Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer suggested would be beneficial to him.

By JM McNab Published: October 07th, 2025

Despite the warm words, Canada remains the only G7 country not to have reached a trade deal with Trump this year.

The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee released a new report related to a probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

US's Trump said the two leaders would discuss trade as tariffs weigh on the Canadian economy.

U.S. President Donald Trump has also called for the shot to be broken up into three separate jabs, echoing a major goal of the antivax movement.

EXCLUSIVE: A potential presidential pardon is still in the mix for Sean Combs, as the Grammy winner and former Donald Trump pal stares down a four-year prison stint. At the same time, after Combs complained at length at his sentencing hearing last week about …

A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.

The Democratic governors of California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association because of its silence on President Donald...

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

President Donald Trump said that Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached out to ask him for a pardon following his conviction on two prostitution-related charges.

In an internal message, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reiterated his support for Trump's H-1B changes and shared personal reflections on immigration.

Standing next to Pfizer CEO Albert Borla in the Oval Office last week, President Donald Trump announced that the pharma giant had made a startling concession: It would voluntarily lower the prices it charges Americans for its medicines. At the same time, the …

It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year by the state of California for commandeering California’s National Guard to shut down anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. Trump justified this by declaring the city to …

The ripple effects of increased tariffs under President Trump could extend to the $117 billion U.S. beer market, according to new research from a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign agricultural economist who studies food supply chains.

Trump and Vance have returned to TikTok after almost a year of posting no videos.

Tomahawks are powerful, long-range missiles that would give Ukraine a major boost in its ability to strike deep into Russia.

Gov. JB Pritzker accused the president of using troops for political gain.

The surge in new AI data centers has sparked concern among environmentalists and public health experts alike.

Comedian Jon Stewart ripped Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday over a flat joke. Stewart played a clip of Schumer’s remarks during “The ...

A global truce for the duration of February's 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will be sought by hosts Italy.

The White House says furloughed federal workers aren't automatically entitled to back pay, and Congress may have to pass a law to grant it to them.

Threat to invoke the Act comes amid protests in Portland and legal challenges against his anti-immigration crackdown.

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Coalition for Health AI says they are for AI transparency. Trump admin believes their aim is to stifle startups.

The hearing follows a tumultuous summer for the Department of Justice.

Republican says she is ‘disgusted’ by rising insurance premiums and may defy her party over expired tax credits

Time-lapse imagery captured the nearly full moon, a forerunner to the harvest supermoon, rising and setting over U.S. cities.

Former NFL QB Mark Sanchez, who was arrested following a physical altercation this weekend, is now facing a felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury, prosecutors in Indianapolis said.

White House border czar Tom Homan has been accused of taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents, which he denies

Trump wants to be on our money — and there's a reason why

It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as if their claims of being silenced have always been a bullshit ploy to dominate t…

Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil have strained ties. But experts say he might be smelling the coffee - literally.

It's once again time for Apple's CEO to deliver action as lofty as his language

The Social Security Administration will send two SSI payments in October 2025, with one payment on Oct. 1 and another on Oct. 31 due to the 2025 calendar...

By Keegan Kelly Published: October 07th, 2025

The poll also asked likely voters how swayed they were by arguments on either side of the campaign

The Israel-Gaza war moves into its third year today. And, examining President Trump's power to deploy the National Guard.

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After the military summit in Quantico, POTUS considers invoking the Insurrection Act

Ken Griffin said investors want to make the most of the rally in American equities but are hedging their spoils out of U.S. sovereign risk.

Here's what the battle over ACA subsidies means.

In one of the country’s most notorious detention centers, detainees are disappearing from court records and ICE’s online locator system.

The sinews of the conflict have stretched wider in the last year.

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump's perceived enemies.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it. The post The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act appeared first on The Intercept.

President Donald Trump's tariffs were aimed at reducing trade deficits, but the travel trade deficit has grown as Canadians avoid the United States.

From 1 November, all medium- and heavy-duty trucks imported into the US will face a 25% tariff rate

Big Tech is set to spend $320 billion on capex, mainly for AI infrastructure like data centers. It's a construction boom unlike any in living memory.

One of the easiest ways to enhance your PC experience is to get a better monitor. It doesn’t require any upgrades for your desktop or laptop, and it shines up the primary way you interact with almost everything: the visuals. Amazon’s second Prime Day event of…

From a bunker in eastern Ukraine, the 33-year-old soldier asks her comrade to fly a reconnaissance drone over her childhood home, hoping for a final glimpse ...

The Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities will be the first Arab to lead the UN's cultural organisation.

President Nicolas Maduro says right wing 'extremists' planned to bomb US embassy and blame his government for attack.

Twin reports from the Costs of War Project find the US has backed Israel with more than $21bn since October 2023.

Al Jazeera's @AlexGatopoulos asks why the focus of the US military appears to be turning inward

Whether this individual was motivated by the value of the copper or something else is unclear.

US President Donald Trump says Democrats must end the shutdown before talks can start after six days of gridlock.

As we discussed last week, Ryan Walters resigned from his position as the state Superintendent of Oklahoma and the mood across the state was sad and sour as a result. Okay, while it’s very funny that Oklahoma businesses hosted celebration parties for Walters’…

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

It was supposed to celebrate America’s birthday, but now the much-discussed UFC fight at the White House will take place on Donald Trump’s birthday. In late August, UFC chief Dana White announced the deal for the fight had been done and it was set for July 4 …

Donald Trump has morphed into a maniacal bully since getting hooked on the drug of power, his former communications director Anthony Scaramucci tells The...

Sources familiar with the talks with Israel and Hamas say that progress was made on Monday, negotiations to continue.

CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday his government had warned Washington of a "false flag operation" by "extremist sectors...

Here are the key events from day 1,321 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.