Trump News for Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The new restrictions will be in place for at least a year.

Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, has described inhumane conditions in Israeli detention as rights advocates call for his release.

Fans debate whether or not the show’s satire of the President is too tame

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is trying to pay himself $230 m…

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil said the government is still trying to detain him with a "kangaroo court ... because they know they can control that process."

The significant funding reductions mean certain activities will simply not happen: WHO's polio eradication director.

By Bo Erickson and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Tuesday rebuffed a request by top Democratic lawmakers to meet until the...

President Trump is pressing the DOJ to pay him roughly $230 million as a settlement for probes he faced during the Biden administration and his first term, sources say.

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

In a recently leaked group chat, it was revealed that a Republican operative named Paul Ingrassia referred to himself as having a “Nazi streak.” The leak is just one among many recent signs that this kind of radical and incendiary rhetoric has become increasi…

China's recent expanded export restrictions on rare-earth metals was a 'power play' before Trump-Xi meeting.

Hundreds of thousands of people left without power.

Parlays, zero day options, and perpetuals have gone mainstream. The world is getting stranger.

NATO announced on short notice that Secretary General Mark Rutte will meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday. No public press events ...

A federal judge overseeing the Trump administration's prosecution of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver on charges she assaulted and impeded immigration officers...

Donna Gallo Ingrassia demanded meetings at the Capitol Hill office of Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia in late June to defend her son.

The filing comes after an appeals court overturned another order that prevented the Trump administration from deploying the Oregon National Guard to Portland.

In a letter to the Senate Judiciary chairman, lawyers for former special counsel Jack Smith seek to correct what they call "inaccurate" claims about Smith's Jan. 6 probe.

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration's power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile apps from its stores could have been connected to a le…

Alvaro Uribe had previously been found guilty of asking paramilitary members to lie about their alleged links to him.

As Trump’s agents raid South Shore and other neighborhoods, local rappers are speaking up for their fellow Chicagoans

Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist and US resident, appeared before a federal appeals court in Philadelphia.

The first lady of the United States became a pawn in an intricate memecoin scam that resulted in millions of dollars in losses, crypto investors have alleged.

Targeted for participating in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, Khalil says his case is 'test for everyone's rights'.

Development kits for Microsoft's Xbox consoles are getting a major price hike just one month after the systems themselves were made more expensive.

The Party of Free Speech Snowflakes is at it again. Despite Charlie Kirk not actually being a member of the administration or, indeed, a political leader of any sort, the Trump Administration continues to act as though one of its own has been assassinated, ra…

The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since this summer, when the Trump...

Less than a week out of prison, he’s already a media darling again

Christopher Moynihan is the first pardoned Capitol rioter to be arrested over alleged political violence.

The SpaceX CEO is tweeting up a storm about the acting NASA administrator.

By Matt Solomon Published: October 21st, 2025

There are no plans for Pres. Trump and Russian Pres. Putin to meet "in the immediate future," a White House official said on Tuesday — calling off an expected summit in Hungary in the coming weeks.

It’s hard to think of a more dramatic question than the issue before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois.  President Donald Trump wants to use federalized troops to quell protests outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago. Two federal courts h…

At a Colorado clinic, neither appointments or private insurance are considered desirable.

Across the wider region, four people are reported to have been killed and 10 others injured.

Israel is de-registering major nongovernmental aid groups from helping people in the Palestinian territories, according to several officials with humanitarian organizations.

Inflatable frog costumes are selling out following the weekend's “No Kings” protests and to counter Trump’s demonization of US cities more broadly.

Part of the White House East Wing was demolished on Monday as President Trump sets out to build a massive ballroom.

There are no plans for President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin to meet "in the immediate future," the White House said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Maine Senator provided the 50th vote to give a Trump-loving, abortion-hating law professor a job for life.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is reportedly in a power struggle with Jared Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally, over who will lead NASA.

The agreement is the latest deal the Trump administration has struck to deport migrants to third-party countries.

The Senator says that ‘No Kings’ can’t be followed with no plan

The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's e…

Two Trump-appointed federal judges just decided that facts don’t matter when the President wants to send the military into American cities. Donald Trump declared Portland a “war-ravaged” city requiring military intervention based on a few anti-ICE protests an…

Comcast, Netflix and Paramount-Skydance reportedly have interest in buying the media giant.

A New York man who was convicted of charges related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack was arrested Sunday on a charge that he threatened to kill...

Lawyers for President Trump want a judge to proceed with a $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book.

Warner Bros. Discovery rejected Paramount's bid — now it wants more bidders for some or all of the company.

The upcoming earnings could bring a positive surprise, but everyone has their eyes on the company's product roadmap.

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After more than a decade, Shannon Keeler was able to confront the man who confessed to sexually assaulting her at a 2013 fraternity party.

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

US president renews his threats to Hamas, saying that the Palestinian group could face 'FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL' end.

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GM CFO Paul Jacobson said clean-air regulations had encouraged some of the automaker's rivals to unload their EVs at bargain-basement prices.

WFP says food supplies remain well below daily target of 2,000 tonnes, calls for Israel to open more crossing points.

Ecuadorian officials say they found no evidence the man had committed a crime, and so had freed him.

One of President Donald Trump's hand-picked U.S. Attorneys -- who is currently prosecuting New York Attorney General Letitia James -- reportedly texted with a journalist to complain about her coverage of the high-profile case ... and then tried to walk back t…

Politico reported on another young Republican group chat, and this one features a Homeland Security employee who has a confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Kremlin insists conditions for Ukraine ceasefire unchanged following reports suggesting growing US concerns.

The US health secretary’s claims are false, as research finds no clear connection between circumcision and autism.

US President Donald Trump has accused Colombia’s president of being a drug peddling “lunatic”.

US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minster Anthony Albanese have signed a deal for critical minerals.

Six months after the AI 2027 project launched, Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh Podcast argued for much longer timelines to superhuman coding agents. We review how AI Futures forecasters (Daniel Kokotajlo, Eli Lifland, Nikola Jurkovic) have updated their timelines…

In this fourth week of the government shutdown, Senate Republicans are gathering at White House — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of...

Adam Iza built the crypto trading platform Zort. Then he fell in with hackers and started a criminal conspiracy including extortion schemes with cops.

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said SpaceX is “behind schedule” and thwarting the space agency’s ability to beat China back to the moon.

The White House on Monday started tearing down part of the East Wing, the traditional base of operations for the first lady, to build President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom despite lacking approval for construction from the federal agency that oversee…

Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar landing …

For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs is “biased” and therefore must be discarded as unreliable, they’ve bullied U.S. media into becoming a feckless …

It's the first major structural change to the mansion since extensive renovations under President Truman in 1948.

Some federal employees may not receive a paycheck this Friday due to the government shutdown. And, tensions between Colombia and the U.S. continue to rise as the respective leaders clash.

The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.

What the man who has Trump’s ear learned in prison

A mass movement against the Trump administration is essential, but no one should take an Iraq War booster’s advice. The post David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now appeared first on The Intercept.

The Oxford Union announces George Abaraonye loses a no-confidence motion by 1,228 votes to 501.

President Trump and former President Obama have endorsed the two candidates locked in a tight race for New Jersey governor, Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill.

Hundreds of volunteer advocates put partisan differences aside and pressed Congress to help people with cancer. The advocacy came just before the stalemate that has shut down the federal government.

A staunch conservative, she takes over as Japan grapples with rising cost-of-living and mounting debt.

A pair of volcano watchers were silhouetted against Mount Kilauea's lava fountain.

A video doorbell camera captured a chilling video of three people in Halloween costumes outside a home in Alexandria, Virginia, last week, the homeowner said.

Breaking China's stranglehold on supplies of the critical minerals is likely to take at least a decade, experts say.

The disgraced former congressman slammed critics who opposed his release from prison after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Japan's parliament elected Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, after her party struck a coalition deal expected to pull her governing bloc further to the right.

During talks at the White House with Australia's prime minister, US President Donald Trump told Australian Ambassador Ke

Appointment clinched via a last-minute coalition deal, but government remains without a majority.

Seven of nine institutions approached by the Trump administration have now declined to sign new federal funding rules.

A Trump-appointed prosecutor tried to claim that a series of messages to a reporter criticizing her coverage had been “off the record.” But she was too late....

The "Danger Zone" singer is not amused.

Donald Trump's looking out for the White House Press Corps ... warning one photog to watch his camera -- 'cause it got pretty close to shattering a very old mirror. The President of the United States was chatting with Australian Prime Minister…

Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations, but only after develo…

Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.

Pro-Trump judges made excuses for Trump's bizarre posts. "The district court erred by placing too much weight on statements the President made on social media."

Tighter price regulation would deliver fewer new drugs but improve global health.

The ‘Heat’ director credits Trey Parker and Matt Stone with keeping counterculture alive