Trump News for Thursday, January 1, 2026

She's a maniac, maniac on the floorAnd she's dancing like she's never danced before... And being the #1 MAGA maniac on the House floor for five years has been a very profitable enterprise for Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose net worth went from a pre-Congression…

US recently approved $11bn arms package for Taiwan, which condemned 'provocative' Chinese military drills.

Washington State’s Attorney General Nick Brown says that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has agreed to resume grant evaluations for...

The complaint targets a policy that would nix coverage under federal health insurance for gender-affirming healthcare.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Thursday, President Trump revealed that he received a CT instead of an MRI at Walter Reed Medical Center.

Jeanine Pirro, Lindsey Halligan and Alina Habba all showed us what failing upwards looked like this year. Chris Hayes provided a nice summary on his show on Christmas Eve on these incompetent hacks, like Jeanine Pirro who couldn't even indict a ham sandwich b…

By the end of his second term, Trump will be the oldest sitting president in US history, though he denies slowing down.

The Trump administration is pausing child care funding to all states after allegations of fraud in daycare centers in Minnesota emerged, an HHS official said.

Russia Requests Trump Admin To Stop Pursuit Of Oil Tanker In Atlantic Basin The U.S. State Department received a request from Russia on New Year's Eve to stop pursuing an oil tanker in the Atlantic Basin linked to a dark-fleet network that ships Venezuelan …

The White House cited policy concerns, while opponents pointed to strained relationships with lawmakers and tribes

UPDATED, with Clooney comment: With just a few hours left in 2025, Donald Trump went after George Clooney and his new French citizenship, apparently in response to a recent interview in which the actor recalled that the president was “a big goofball” before h…

Looking back on 2025, we fact-checked multiple rumors that seemed unbelievable but were true. Snopes reporters picked these examples.

A spokesperson for the Trump-Kennedy Center blamed the low ratings on "industry and timing disadvantages" Kennedy Center Dismisses 2025 Honors Ratings Comparisons as “Evidence of Far-Left Bias” Scoop Harrison

President Trump is battling with White House staff over how much work he actually has to do. The 79-year-old president, who has repeatedly dozed through...

Smith told the House committee the attack on the Capitol "does not happen" without Donald Trump’s role

Laura Loomer, the extremist without a single national security credential or even an actual job in the Trump administration, convinced the president of the United States to fire six real national security experts and officials, apparently because she convince…

Once again, the independent journalists at ProPublica are doing the work that most of or corporate media either won't take the time, or refuses to do. We first learned that Kennedy wanted to shift research away from infectious diseases and vaccines and has sa…

Taxpayers could be stretched to new limits in 2026 as key but complicated new tax breaks kick into place on 2025 federal income tax returns.

The tariff pause comes as Trump's Republican Party faces questions of affordability going into the midterm elections.

When a news event is ignored by one side of the aisle, we bring it to you. Here are some of the most notable stories ignored by the left media in 2025. The...

At his New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump turned auctioneer, successfully selling a painting of Jesus Christ for $2.75 million. The proceeds from this auction are earmarked for charity. The bidding kicked off at $100,000. The crowd qui…

The complaint argues that denying coverage of gender-affirming care is sex-based discrimination and asks the personnel office to rescind the policy.

Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation

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Trump and Musk's debacle was a failure on every level for the American people, however it was a huge success for the ones that wanted to steal all our data and dismantle government. We covered the damage Musk and his DOGE bros did quite extensively here, whet…

President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that he takes a higher dose of aspirin than his doctors have...

The Trump administration spent 2025 building crypto infrastructure. Now comes the payoff. After a year of policy groundwork—from signing the GENIUS Act in...

Artists are protesting Trump's Kennedy Center takeover — and creating art in defiance of his repression

The footage, displaying no visible signs of AI, showed dozens of people throwing snowballs at law enforcement officers wearing riot gear.

President humiliated as courts force National Guard retreat from cities... (First column, 5th story, link) Related stories:NOW BOEBERT TURNS ON THE DON...

Above: From November 18, 2025, Donald Trump was extremely triggered when an ABC News reporter asked him, “Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?” We don't give any Crookie awards to Donald Trump, ever. He has enough gold c…

Here’s the latest for Thursday, January 1st: New Year celebrated worldwide; Fatal fire in bar in Switzerland; Former special counsel Jack Smith says Capitol ...

New Year’s celebrations are historically a time for positivity and goodwill, but not for Donald Trump, who rang in 2026 by toasting his Mar-a-Lago guests...

Our solemn daily links: New Year in Gaza, nifty nugget, US contagion surge, Xi Taiwan vow, Pax Silica? Putin drone attack dispute, Trump tariff retreat, Google warrantless searches, billionaires richer, moar US boat strikes, metal margin panic debunked, crypt…

My New Years Day reads: • Financial Discipline Is an Easy Resolution to Make, but a Hard One to Keep: We all say we want to save more and spend less. The key is to think more broadly. (Wall Street Journal) • Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts: President Tr…

Israel currently occupies the Palestinian side of the crossing, choking Gaza of a vital humanitarian entry point.

Trump has aimed to turn American workers against their immigrant colleagues. Labor leaders say it backfired. The post American Labor Needed Unity. Then Came Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. appeared first on The Intercept.

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan. Now, refugees across the U.S. are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during…

Last fall, in the run-up to the presidential election, a new phrase began to circulate. “Sanewashing” emerged as a term to describe the media’s coverage of Donald Trump, which critics claimed made the rambling, often incoherent statements of the then-wannabe …

As most of Donald Trump's crypto empire struggles, Trump Media Group announces new token launch to reward DJT shareholders.

The Trump administration’s recent recall of 30 career diplomats from around the world as part of its "America First" priority push is unprecedented, according to experts who say it may serve to politicize the American Foreign Service while populating it with …

Mali and Burkina Faso are the latest to issue 'tit-for-tat' bans on visas for US citizens with immediate effect.

The U.S. military said Wednesday it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days, killing a total of eight people while others jumped overboard and may have survived.

The U.S. military says it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days. The attacks killed eight people, while others jumped overboard and may have survived. U.S. Southern Command did not reveal where the attacks occurred.

President Trump's plans for wide-scale celebrations to commemorate the nation's 250th birthday got underway on New Year's Eve with the illumination of the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Jud…

Here are some of the most ridiculous (and tragic) events of 2025, in economic or economic policy terms.     January: CEA designate Stephen Miran cobbles together a disjointed attempt at international finance, wherein exorbitant privilege is diminished, but US…

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to the spy software...

Latest attacks bring total number of boat strikes to 33 and the number of people killed to at least 110 since September.

U.S. Southern Command said it targeted three vessels traveling in a convoy in international waters -- leaving "narco-terrorists" as survivors after they jumped overboard.

Jack Smith told lawmakers he had evidence to convict Trump in both cases, according to a deposition.

U.S. President Donald Trump posted "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" on social media with an image of a bird that's not an eagle and not in America.

Trump Pulls National Guard Out Of Chicago, Los Angeles & Portland President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he's pulling National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland. "We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, a…

In our news wrap Wednesday, millions in the U.S. will ring in the new year in their warmest clothes amid Arctic temperatures and heavy snow, President Trump says he's removing National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland and newly-released tra…

President Trump has claimed to have solved eight conflicts since he began his second term. One of those is between Azerbaijan and Armenia, rivals since the collapse of the USSR, whose leaders met with Trump in the Oval Office this summer. Special corresponden…

Courts blocked troops from deploying in Chicago and Portland, Ore., and the Los Angeles deployment effectively ended after a judge blocked it earlier this month.