Trump News for Thursday, April 2, 2026

The former prosecutor has a long-standing relationship with President Trump, having represented him in the criminal hush-money case.

After Amazon, Oracle is now in the bulls-eye.

Let's take stock of just how much Trump is distorting the truth about this war.

Now that a challenge has finally reached the Supreme Court, is birthright citizenship any safer?

US State Department accuses Iran of attacking civilian sites as Trump shares footage of destruction of Iranian bridge.

The US fired 850 Tomahawk missiles in 30 days but buys only 57 a year. As munitions run dry, the Pentagon pivots to ground troops in Iran, guaranteeing the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, European gas storage hits crisis levels, and Western energy prices keep …

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track microplastics in drinking water—but experts say doing so will be difficult

Early in the first Trump administration, the legal journalist Benjamin Wittes coined one of the best descriptions of how President Donald Trump governs: “malevolence tempered by incompetence.” Trump, as Wittes originally wrote, often issued executive orders t…

The suits are the most ambitious effort to date that the Trump administration has gone to try to override state laws and set the rules for the fast-growing and increasingly divisive betting industry.

New Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has a track record of loyalty to President Trump — but so did Pam Bondi, ABC News' Alex Mallin reports.

Trump's deputy attorney general and former personal attorney Todd Blanche will serve as acting Attorney General, the president said.

It was late January, and Pinterest engineer Teddy Martin was on edge about recent layoffs at the company. Martin had just survived a round of cuts, but he and other employees were confused about who was being let go and why, and explanations from top executiv…

Taking a break from calling Bruce Springsteen a boring loser on Thursday, Donald Trump followed that up with another Truth Social post saying "loyal friend" Pam Bondi will transition to a yet-to-be-announced job in the private sector. CNN, the New York Times,…

After five weeks of muddled messaging, President Donald Trump finally addressed the nation on Wednesday night to make the case for his war on Iran. That message was…still muddled. He did not articulate a clear exit plan from the conflict, fobbed the Strait of…

There's been a lot of public is concerned about health risks from the chemicals, especially from the Make America Healthy Again movement. The agency's move doesn't in itself guarantee regulation.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to know if Trump's plan to transfer the federal student-loan portfolio to the Treasury is in borrowers' best interest.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first ...

"I'm running for US Senate. If elected, the first bill I introduce will draft Lindsey Graham into any conflict he publicly supports while in office."View Entire Post ›

President Trump has announced that Pam Bondi is being ousted as his attorney general, and that Todd Blanche will serve as acting attorney general.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, "these substandard parts are killing American families."

Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham claimed Iranians seek to kill Jews worldwide and said Trump was chosen by God.

President Trump has announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi is out at the Justice Department. Her departure comes amid simmering frustration over her leadership and handling of the Epstein files.

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Body camera footage has been released showing the law enforcement response to Tiger Woods' rollover crash in Florida.

Trump’s do everything all at once approach to immigration enforcement is starting to go off the rails. Trump’s plainly stated hatred of “shithole countries” and their inhabitants manifested in early wins for his bigoted “remove the brown people” programs. The…

The FDA asked the producer of the raw cheese that has given 9 people E. coli infections to take it off the market. The producer said no.

Explosive News’ A.I.-generated videos have been shared by Iranian-government accounts and co-opted by No Kings protesters. A spokesperson for the group says, “Let’s face it—if truth isn’t flashy, it’s kinda lonely.”

It’s been exactly one year since the Liberation Day Tariffs were announced, implemented, challenged, and ultimately overturned at every level. They served as the foundation of the administration’s main economic policy. What has been the overall impact – econo…

Prudie says: “This is not the hill you want to die on.”

Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners' European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms ar…

For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi has been developing AI designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from a person's speech. But after failing to secure FDA clearance in time, the company is shutting down and releasing mos…

It's rough out there for the pure EV companies, but despite all the challenges, Rivian says its on target for a historic year. Ahead of the launch of the company's more affordable R2 electric SUV, Rivian released its sales and production report for the first …

Elon Musk's automaker announced on Thursday that it had produced 50,000 more vehicles than it sold in the first three months of the year.

Senators Cotton and Schumer introduced the American Security Robotics Act to ban federal agencies from using robots tied to foreign adversaries like China.

Iranian state media released footage showing the launch of missiles plastered with messages mocking Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an order to pay "all" employees at the Department of Homeland Security amid the record-long agency shutdown.

Usha Vance has a new podcast: Storytime with the Second Lady. It's exactly what it sounds like. Each episode begins with a brief introduction, after which JD Vance's wife reads a children's story. The first three episodes were released Monday, and none is lon…

It might be the worst job in all of prison.

U.S. oil prices soared more than 10% on Thursday.

It's become an American truism: Once you buy an SUV, there's no going back. And our love affair with pickups has been documented in a million country songs and TV commercials. But a brutal spike in gasoline prices - nipping $4 nationwide for a gallon of unlea…

Islamabad's statement follows Trump threatening to bomb Iran 'back to the Stone Ages'.

The latest ThreatsDay Bulletin is basically a cheat sheet for everything breaking on the internet right now. No corporate fluff or boring lectures here, just a quick and honest look at the messy reality of keeping systems safe this week. Things are moving fas…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said Donald Trump's comments about his marriage were "neither elegant nor up to standard".

Last election season the Trump campaign lied to everyone repeatedly about how his second administration would “rein in big tech,” and be a natural extension of the Lina Khan antitrust movement. As we noted at the time, that was always an obvious fake populist…

A source says the FBI is now involved in the search for veteran American journalist Shelly Kittleson.

Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

Trump is reportedly fed up that Pam Bondi hasn't prosecuted enough of his enemies, and maybe desperate enough to do something really stupid.

Dealerships say they’re getting busier as the Iran war and the shipping crisis at the Strait of Hormuz drag on.

From forcing down chewy, bacon-flavored Man Cereal to vomiting at the office, buying into the MAHA protein craze was a challenging endeavor.

Any viable reform coalition has to include voters who oppose unlawful immigration but support legal channels.

The case that AI is already stealing young people’s jobs is based on a statistical mirage.

“Apart from the rapes, they beat us with sticks and pointed guns at my head,” one woman in Sudan told Doctors Without Borders about the violence against women amid the country’s ongoing civil war.

It's been a year since Liberation Day on April 2, 2025. Here's how tariff rates and inflation have evolved since then.

Big Tech's H-1B filings are falling as Washington has made the visa program harder and more expensive to use, and as tech companies cut jobs.

Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

Trump says war in Iran is 'nearing completion' in national address, Iranian officials react to President Trump's speech on Iran war, SCOTUS hears arguments on birthright citizenship.

As the war enters day 34, US President Donald Trump said Washington was close to achieving its objectives.

A systems architect traces the dependencies from DOJ gutting to Polymarket insider trades to $580M oil futures bets placed 15 minutes before a presidential announcement.

President Trump on the war in Iran: "We are on track to complete all of America's military objectives... We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong."

The newly announced sanctions relief is the latest U.S. recognition of Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in Venezuela ever since the U.S. military captured her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro.

President Trump delivered his first primetime address on the war in Iran - just over a month after the conflict began.

President Trump delivered a primetime address to the nation on Wednesday, touting U.S. military operations against Iran.

US President Donald Trump said Iran was the ‘bully of the Middle East’ but is ‘no longer a threat’.

President Trump says the US will bring Iran ‘back to the Stone Ages where they belong' by striking hard.

Tens of thousands have registered with the CBP for their IEEPA tariffs back, but one-third of the total sum will be excluded from the first refund.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech gian…

The Iran war of 2026 will continue, but it appears to be entering its final phase. Or at least, that’s what President Donald Trump hopes. Claiming that the “hard part is done,” Trump made the case in a televised address on Wednesday night that America has “be…

President Trump's address on Iran left oil markets unsettled, leading to a spike in Brent and WTI futures amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.

Footage from aboard a commercial aircraft shows a unique perspective of the Artemis II launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The four-person crew of the Artemis II mission has crossed the boundary into space after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Artemis II has launched, taking four astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

A crowd gathered in Titusville, Florida, to watch NASA's Artemis II mission blast off from Kennedy Space Center.

The federal housing agency wants to shift money away from permanent housing and toward programs that impose sobriety and other conditions. Advocates warn that would push many back into homelessness.

NASA teams cheered and crowds at Kennedy Space Center clamored to view the launch as the astronauts embarked on their voyage.