Trump News for Friday, July 31, 2026

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Government lawyers said in a 20-page court filing Friday evening that information provided since the indict…

Women who met with Trump's attorney general pick say he dodged their questions on whether he read the Epstein files.

The Trump administration arrested a former Olympian, David Hearn, for touching a loose piece of its janky Reflecting Pool liner, indicted him for felony vandalism, and then announced it had "tremendous evidence" of his wrongdoing. The evidence shows something…

Hearing underscores years-long partisan divide on lightning-rod issue fuelled by misleading White House claims.

Architect of our demise, Senator Mitch McConnell's office released another photograph to prove that he remains alive and recovering. The doubting public responded by identifying his wife's $12 Chico's shirt and opening a textile-forensics lab. A family friend…

Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that Trump's settlement with the IRS has no basis "in law or fact."

Advocates warn expiring contract could leave 24,000 children without legal representation, increasing risk of expulsion.

Talks to be led by former lawmaker Dinorah Figuera as opposition figure Maria Corina Machado left out of proceedings.

Trump acknowledged the $1.8 billion so-called "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is "dead," but made clear that he wishes it still existed.

President Donald Trump appealed a ruling that blocked him from officially using a deal that offered him tax immunity and an "anti-weaponization" fund.

Peru's newly inaugurated president indicates her government will join Trump's Shield of the Americas coalition.

Israel has not yet agreed to plan for Hamas to surrender weapons in exchange for full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

The companies are blocked from importing products to the United States.

Deal for Hamas to disarm in stages in return for Israeli withdrawal has been announced, but implementation will be key.

Trump said Israel strongly supports an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas

"Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota," said Trump.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Across the country, federal judges are calling out Department of Justice lawyers, questioning in unprecedented ways whether they can be trusted to tell the truth o…

Last month, an ICE agent gunned down a 25-year-old immigrant father outside his house in Biddeford, Maine. The shooting was a horror. His three-year-old daughter was seen crying after the killing. The victim has been widely described as a good man. The shooti…

New York is one of many states with cases against Kalshi and others in dispute with Trump gov't on who gets to regulate.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is considering changes to some federal airfare policies that could affect the price consumers see when booking a flight.

Earlier this month, Trump offered to license Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles.

Trump blamed Minnesota's Democratic governor for cyberattacks on the state's water systems.

Donald Trump swore he could turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into something he could use to bask in his own reflected glory. Instead, it turned out to be everything we expect from Trump: braggadocio followed by abject failure. Trump hired some guys h…

“The administration should act before a warning shot becomes a preventable disaster.”

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The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate announced Friday that he would give up his position after six GOP incumbents who opposed President Donald Trump o...

Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.

Gov. Hochul and state AG James have sued Kalshi. The state alleges the "prediction market" is just a gambling operation in disguise. [ more › ]

Rival firm OpenAI last week disclosed similar incidents involving its models.

MTA Chair Janno Lieber has been in charge of the nation's largest transit system for a half-decade. Lieber helped drag the nation's largest transit system out of the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented congestion pricing, but collected his fair share of scar…

The president seems less willing to let go of $1.8 billion than his pick for attorney general.

Threehalves is either some fun satire, or an actual robot where the manufacturers include instructions of how to kill it with a gun.

Bond traders quite literally sold what new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh was trying to get them to buy.

Republican support for President Trump's war with Iran remained steady at 71% in June, but has fallen to 61% in July, according to a survey by the Associated Press's NORC Center for Public Affairs. Everyone else overwhelmingly disapproves of the conflict, wit…

Ohio congressman Max Miller is denying allegations of domestic abuse made by his ex-wife.

Amazon has confirmed that it will return some of the money it receives as part of the $600 million tariff refund to consumers.

Ohio’s Republican nominee for governor, Vivek Ramaswamy, got booed off the stage Wednesday in Cleveland while speaking to the Young Americans for Liberty. Ramaswamy was supposed to speak for half an hour at the libertarian student group’s national convention,…

The White House correspondents' dinner was phony and ugly. Comic Con was joyful, colorful and way more real

Donald Trump has added new paintings and sculptures to the White House — some from the White House Collection, and others from contemporary artists.

“This unlawful seven-figure payout to an anti-abortion extremist is all the proof the Senate should need that the so-called anti-weaponization slush fund is far from dead,” Katie O’Connor at the National Women’s Law Center told Jezebel in a statement.

Earlier this week we noted how the Trump administration’s unpopular ban on Chinese drones had become a crony capitalist mess, with Brendan Carr and his FCC struggling to fine or ban companies for violations. The ban is a stupid, protectionist mess that has fa…

Under the agreement, Israel would have to withdraw from Gaza. But experts remain sceptical.

By Echo Wang and Sabrina Valle NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Defense technology company Space-Eyes has agreed to go public through a merger with special purp...

For a moment there, it looked like Trump's approval rating might actually recover a bit. Now it's exploring new all-time lows.

Over the past several years, Missouri voters have amended the state constitution to create abortion rights, legalize marijuana and sports betting and expand...

It’s been quite a year for the Democratic Socialists of America. They got one of their own, Zohran Mamdani, elected mayor of New York City. They’ve taken down congressional incumbents in New York and Colorado. Their membership has soared to 120,000 dues-payin…

The acting attorney general made $10 million as the president’s defense attorney

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 31 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.It’s been a w…

Dozens of women, men and their children, many fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador, arrive at a bus station following release from Customs and Border Protection on June 23, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The end of a federal legal …

The lieutenant governor released seven new charges for state senators to study before the Legislature reconvenes

The prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.”

The Michigan Senate primary is the next biggest test for the direction of the Democratic Party. The post Abdul El-Sayed Answers: Can the Left Win in the Midwest? Yes. appeared first on The Intercept.

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September, Christian nationalists were expected to unite for their martyr. Indeed, the global right wept. Argentinian President Javier Milei, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Hungarian P.M. Viktor Or…

Working full-time in IT, along with side jobs for Best Buy and DoorDash, one student-loan borrower is grappling with an anticipated payment surge.

The senator’s not running this year, and hasn’t yet said whether he plans to run again. But announcing otherwise could be the most popular position he takes all year.

The 14-point deal with Iran signed by President Donald Trump in mid-June was supposed to be a diplomatic offramp.

After over a year of tense debate, Electronic Arts has reported it's achieved "all regulatory approvals" for the proposed $55bn private acquisition of the company. Read more

While US manufacturers welcome the robot restrictions, startups fear they will lose access to affordable hardware.

The borrowers say they were defrauded by their colleges, but the class-action lawsuit to erase their federal student loans has been tangled up in courts for years.

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on fraud doesn’t even mention them. The post Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows appeared first…

In Western states, climate change is starting to overwhelm the old techniques that used to keep fires from raging out of control.

The US State Department acknowledged 'an unfortunate error' after the highly inaccurate African map caused a stir.

Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.

Islamabad is using a domestic insurgency to justify its broader pursuit of strategic dominance.

Russian energy exports could face sweeping tariffs under bill named for late Senator Lindsey Graham.

BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) - Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic...

President Trump says a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza. But many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remain to wind down the war in the Palestinian territory.

President Donald Trump is taking his next Cabinet meeting on the road to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland

The plan - if successful - potentially removes the most significant obstacle to advancing the Trump-backed peace initiative in Gaza.

President Donald Trump announced an agreement for "the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza" as part of a peace plan unveiled last year.

One of the most prominent pro-Trump influencers, Laura Loomer, just made a major shift in her stance on Ukraine.

The claimed tribute to Trump forms part of Morocco's larger ambitions in the disputed Western Sahara.

A powerful home explosion rocked an entire neighborhood in Canton, Ohio, and damaged nearby homes. Two people were seriously hurt in what authorities believe was a natural gas explosion.

America PAC will focus on door-knocking, digital advertising and direct mail aimed at Republican-leaning voters, sources tell ABC News.

A senior Hamas official has told the BBC they have agreed to the Board of Peace's plan. Israel has not commented.

Hamas member told Al Jazeera all implementation would be conditioned on Israel implementing its part of deal.