Trump News for Monday, March 16, 2026

In a rebuke, a federal district court judge blocked the administration's reduction in the number of immunizations recommended for kids and also changes to an influential vaccine committee.

It has long been clear: Trump needs to be removed from office before he can inflict even more damage than he already has. But he doesn’t just need to be stopped; for America to have a future he also needs to be repudiated. Impeachment speaks to each need, to …

Volvo is canceling the EX30 electric SUV in the US market after the 2026 model year, just one full year after its arrival.

The vice president is realizing that signing on with Donald Trump might seem like a shortcut to the top, but it’s actually a guarantee of humiliation.

Donald Trump claimed he ordered strikes on Iran to prevent a nuclear conflict that would have turned into World War III.

Some MAGA fans are encouraging an off-ramp. Newt Gingrich thinks nukes are the answer.

The US president delays March 31-April 2 trip to China to focus on the escalating war against Iran.

Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI over claims that the company's Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of themselves as minors, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, accu…

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: Donald Trump is looking for help with the war he start…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants U.S. diplomats to urge foreign governments to move swiftly to diminish Iran and its proxies' capability to attack.

Speaking at the Oval office, US President Donald Trump stated that Somalia is a “fourth world nation.”

Trump "not happy" with the UK as Starmer says it won't be drawn into wider Iran war.

Trump has criticised the response to his call to help protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the war on Iran.

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal  —  The Trump administration is using AI chips and models a…

Cuba has not received oil shipments since early January amid US pressure, worsening humanitarian crisis on the island.

US president sued BBC over 'Trump: A Second Chance?', seeking $5bn for defamation, $5bn for unfair trade practices.

Social media platforms are currently awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generated deepfakes. Between clips that supposedly show the Israeli Prime Minister sporting extra fingers and dr…

US president frustrated with unenthusiastic response after appealing for help wresting control of key strait from Iran.

A federal judge on Monday issued a stay on the CDC’s move to reduce the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines

The president is lashing out at the media over poor coverage while continuing to offer nonsensical justifications for attacking Iran

Anyone can claim credit for success. A true leader knows how to handle failure.

Around 5,000 U.S. Marines and sailors are being deployed to the Middle East as the U.S. and Israel say their air campaign has greatly degraded Iran's military.

We’ve discussed at length how Trump’s “fix” for TikTok’s problems basically involved forcing the sale of the platform to his greedy billionaire buddies (with the help of pathetic Democrats). The deal fixed none of the real issues Trumpland pretended to be con…

US president refuses to identify which countries he says are responding to call for naval coalition to open trade route.

Here's the latest in the FCC's quest to keep American media on a tight leash.

And should the US have been better prepared over the Strait of Hormuz?

Family, advocates call for full probe after Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal dies less than 24 hours after being detained.

Ministry reports a "complete disconnection" of the country’s electrical system.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, whom ICE said died March 14 after one day in custody, worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, advocacy group says.

It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re illegal. Courts have repeatedly criticized quotas because they create incentives so perverse they’d make /b/ board denizens uncomfortable. Since…

Can Jeff Bezos squeeze a little more money out of his dying newspaper?

Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind are two of several wind farm projects that have come under fire from the Trump administration in recent months

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is grilling several major employers, including Amazon, Target, and UPS, about their recent spate of layoffs amid tax perks to...

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes.

Much of last week I had been working on a different article than the one this became. The American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies — all plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the National Endowm…

The transcript from this week’s MiB: Matt Cherwin, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Marek Capital, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube (video), YouTube (audio…

Michael Raul Bilecky, a recent Joe Rogan podcast guest and archaeology researcher, was reportedly arrested in Maryland facing rape charges.

She will begin treatment immediately, the president said.

DHS’s next leader will inherit a fast-moving $38 billion plan for industrial-scale immigrant detention.

At her nomination hearing last month, Casey Means avoided directly endorsing vaccines for measles and other preventable diseases.

The new coins, which have been in circulation since January, got rid of the olive branch because it was too woke. This is just absurd.

European leaders are hesitant to help Trump secure the Strait of Hormuz, but they know inaction on the Iran war isn't really an option.

Iranian state media calls for turning fire festival into a symbolic protest by burning figures of Trump and Netanyahu.

Pushback comes as US President Donald Trump says NATO allies should help secure key waterway amid soaring oil prices.

The British broadcaster seeks to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over a 2024 episode of its documentary series Panorama.

With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lange

Tehran allows a small number of ships from certain countries to pass through waterway.

Perhaps inadvertently, Trump is revealing the limits of Beijing’s friendship.

Activists in South Korea have staged a protest against Donald Trump’s request for help securing the Strait of Hormuz.

Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?

Citizens of the most violent-wracked provinces have been warned the government is "at war" with the gangs.

Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

An American winery closed almost every day of 2025, as Trump tariffs resulted in an almost 80% drop of Canadian consumption of U.S. wine.

Senate Republicans are gearing up to vote on President Trump's controversial voting overhaul, the SAVE America Act. And, key takeaways from the 2026 Oscars.

Trump’s supporters remain loyal, even if there are a few loud dissenting voices.

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance: Our annual list honors women helping their companies, clients, and country through volatile markets and challenging times. Meet this year’s 28 new additions. (Barr…

A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence.

From emergency oil reserves to nuclear scrutiny, bigger hail, and research on a connection between the aging gut and the brain

The Pentagon says F-35s received no new combat upgrades last year, and that attempts to replace old software have stalled.

After the leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients' trust.

"You can be part of the movie-making community, which is an important community, and also be a citizen," the actor said

The war with Iran enters its third week, as Trump and his top aides refocus their messaging on "winning" to regain faltering support, in the Senate, Republican lawmakers take up the SAVE Act this week.

Dubai contained a fire near its airport and temporarily suspended flights, while Trump claimed Iran wants to negotiate.

The player's departure shortly before midnight on Sunday leaves two of an initial seven squad members in Australia.

"Oh, man, is he going to be mad his wife wasn't nominated for this?" Jimmy Kimmel joked while presenting the award for best documentary feature.

Brent crude tops $106 a barrel as markets see no end in sight to the halt of traffic through the critical waterway.

President Donald Trump warned NATO of a “very bad” future if allies do not help open up the Strait of Hormuz and said he may also delay a planned summit ‌with...