Trump News for Monday, September 28, 2026

A bill to establish a 20% federal film and TV tax credit has added eight new co-sponsors in the Senate, a boost to the legislation as backers pin their hopes on passage during Congress’ lame duck session. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Sen…

The event was marred by protests, with demonstrators accusing Donald Trump of undermining democracy and calling for the full release of the Epstein files.

House leader Mike Johnson ended congress early to avoid a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth, President Trump's crusader-tattooed "Secretary of War," and opinion polls show why. Never popular in the first place, Hegseth is now among the administration's most wid…

The federal government has spent at least $1.7 million to air three different TV ads featuring President Donald Trump in recent days, according to an estimate from AdImpact, which tracks and analyzes political ad spending across television, digital and connec…

ai Trump says she reinjured her surgically repaired left wrist during her University of Miami golf debut, but she isn’t ready to give up. Kai Trump and UFC President and CEO Dana White share …

Researchers link the rise to immigration politics, economic anxiety and the growing visibility of South Asians in US.

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 spending taxpayer money on propaganda …

The Trump administration’s attempt to rebrand its faltering forever war hasn’t slowed the mounting toll of U.S. casualties. The post Iran Has Wounded and Killed More Americans Since the End of Operation Epic Fury appeared first on The Intercept.

They clearly violate the intent of the law. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be easy to stop.

The conservative political operative said he’s voting for a Democrat

Gold hits seven-week low; silver follows suit and records a nearly 5 percent loss.

Paramount and Warner Bros. are inching closer toward closing a deal, but they won’t be anywhere out of the woods.

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. I have good news and bad news for the holiday shoppers in the audience. The good news is that the US and Chi…

President Trump’s move last week to cancel close to $1 billion of funds already appropriated by Congress is getting zero pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to push back on the “pocket rescission” o…

Trump administration officials said on Monday that the United States has no plans to sell weapons to China after U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue indicated during a televised interview that President Donald Trump offered a weapons deal to China's Xi Jinp…

Amid tight Iowa midterm races, US President Trump emphasises steel industry revival with a project announcement.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself Monday from a major climate change case coming up on the court’s docket.Alito’s decision was revealed via a letter issued to the lawyers involved in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder Count…

"It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants' AI agents hasn’t compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid—yet."

Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery and a dozen blue states want Cory Booker to stay in his own lane when it comes to the settlement with state Attorneys General over the companies’ $111 billion mega-merger. “The fact that a proposed consent decree does not c…

The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed asked him…

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was attacked by right wingers for depicting a lazy, white, gamer named "Brad" in an ad about welfare fraud.

The US ambassador to China says Donald Trump asked Xi Jinping about buying American weapons during Xi’s visit to Washington last week. David Perdue recounted the exchange on Fox News on Sunda…

It's part of a campaign to cut government assistance programs

The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it "among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration." It's a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have req…

The tunnel boring machines set up in North Bergen, New Jersey will dig out the new Hudson River train tunnels. The digging machines will carve out the first new set of Hudson River rail tunnels in more than a century. [ more › ]

Why not let the bots choose what you can and can't find out about what your government is doing?

Vivienne Yang spent years building a life in New York City. Losing her job meant leaving behind an apartment and her two cats.

The US president has denied Tehran the opportunity to use the US midterm elections as a pressure point.

Steelmaker Stelco Holdings says it's idling some production at its Hamilton plant in response to U.S. tariffs.

Wall Street seems to be noticing that the data center boom rest on a bed of hype while the claims of AI boosters are getting more extreme by the day.

Environmental advocates have decried the move

House Speaker Mike Johnson cares so little about Americans that he’s pretending that public opinion is really the result of brainwashing by the Chinese government. Speaking on Fox Business Monday, Johnson agreed with host Cheryl Casone’s assertion that the pu…

Mediators are trying to facilitate more talks, but Washington signals faith in its pressure tactics.

Federal Bureau of Investigation co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey is resigning from the bureau to spend time with his family, he announced in a post on social media.

The government claims the change could save Americans $138B over the next five years.

Analysts dismissed Trump's proposal as lacking any strategic logic – but said it revealed how he views Beijing.

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers. The post AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Cares appeared first on The Intercept.

The report into the explosion in Demilitarized Zone threatens to provoke renewed tension between the two Koreas.

Nvidia is promoting its new Agent Safety Platform as a new industry standard for AI security, while its CEO waves aside calls for regulation.

The Trump White House is defending spending taxpayer dollars to run a series of ads that have drawn criticism on both sides of the aisle as they resemble campaign spots. In fact, an ad featuring Trump that ran over the weekend is nearly the same as one that h…

The conservative firebrand whom the Trump administration installed as a No. 2 at the FBI announced Monday that he is resigning from the bureau. Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general who has supported debunked claims that the 2020 election was …

America's farms have largely escaped the president's aggressive immigration crackdown. But as ICE sweeps continue across the nation, farmers are uneasy because many still can't find enough workers.

The Republican-led US state says the AI should be blocked from development until safeguards are put in place.

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before the di…

FBI co-deputy director and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey—who helped lead the draconian raid on a Georgia election center in January—has resigned from his post.“I want to thank President Trump, @AGToddBlanche, and @FBIDirectorKash for the oppo…

America has the “best poverty numbers,” according to our billionaire president.“We have the best, I guess you could say poverty, they talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country,” Donald Trump told reporters outside the W…

The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. On Monday, the E…

Tehran condemns 'unfounded and malicious speculation'; British FM vows to 'act against the proxies of Iran'.

The Trump administration is flip-flopping on how to manage its mass deportation policy ahead of the midterm elections.Sources at ICE told CBS News’s Camilo Montoya-Galvez that officers had received guidance to limit arrests to individuals with criminal histor…

Congressional Democrats are pressing health officials following the government's decision to end a contract with groups that provide legal support to migrant children.

“The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone,” Brad Woodhouse, president of Protect Our Care, told Jezebel in a statement.

The project, which will be built by Mesabi Metallics in Iowa, is the first mega-steel plant built in the United States since the 1960s.

The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping’s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence” rather than…

Michael Hudson outlines a sound path for the Global Majority to manage the coming oil war-created crisis. But you can't get there from here.

Sid Miller, the Trump-loving Texas agricultural commissioner, talks on his opposition to data centers, and why Greg Abbott may lose.

YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on Friday. …

After two years in office, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to be widely praised, both in Mexico and abroad, for her handling of US President Donald Trump. But Sheinbaum has skillfully—and cynically—disguised the extent to which she has deferred …

In today’s turbulent times, the 1955 conference offers important lessons on global cooperation.

A police cordon remained in place on Monday near a major air base hosting U.S. forces in the southwest of England, where British police arrested five men early on Sunday.

Art of the deal: China gets dominance in AI and renewables, plus global respect. Trump gets a couple cuddle-bears

China has overtaken the United States as the country where the most elite AI researchers work, according to a study by Carnegie China. The think tank is part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2025, 41% of the top researchers it tracked wor…

Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. The progr…

What we know — and still don't — about the suspected terror plot near a U.K. air base. Trump rejects Iran's offer to pause fighting. And CNN prepares for new owners with ties to Trump.

The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China's president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would "upend generations of U.S. policy toward China"—as if Trump blurting it out it meant anything. The U.S. — Read the…

Donald Trump lashes out at Maria Elvira Salazar after she released an ad criticizing the administration's immigration policies

President Trump has brought his New York real estate background to the White House. But experts say D.C. is a very different historic and legal landscape — and worry about the precedent he could set.

The party’s favorite policy idea isn’t as progressive as it sounds.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.After we recorded, Trump again did a ban, yet this time it was only CNN and it was more narrow, excluding it from Air Force One. But’s uncle…

The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.

The News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is running into a wall of congressional GOP resistance as he tries to secure $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon next year. Lawmakers’ growing reluctance to fulfill Hegseth’s eye-popping budget request reflects real intrap…

British police were questioning five men on Monday on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences after their detention near ‌an airbase used by the U.S. to strike Iran.

My Monday back-to-work morning reads: ​• Booms, Bombs and Bonds: Interest Rates, Part I: Paul Krugman on why serious analysts talk about bonds while cable touts talk about stocks. Equity prices are a notoriously unreliable read on the economy; the bond market…

Elon Musk, George Soros, Jeff Yass, Miriam Adelson, and other billionaires have poured millions into the 2026 midterms.

Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice face an enormous moral quandary, Eyal Press reports.

The H-1B visa that allows highly skilled foreign workers to build a career in the US can also make it hard to know how firmly to establish a life here.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The Information reported on Thursday. The three companies hope to launch it by the end of the year or early in 2027. They tentatively plan to call it…

Brent crude rises more than 3 percent to top $107 a barrel as Washington dismisses Tehran's proposal to end war.

Barf Bag: The MAGA senator’s anti-furry tirade has been a not-so-shrouded excuse to disparage gender-affirming care and trans people.

John Yeley is the seventh generation to run his family's farm in Illinois. - Courtesy John Yeley John Yeley has spent the last 26 years working on his farm, which his family has owned since 1852. Yeley is the seventh generation to run his farm in Illinois, …

(Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp. introduced a new double-layered artificial intelligence security system that it says would’ve prevented the recent high-profile breach of Hugging Face by OpenAI’s AI models.Most Read from Bloomberg<ul><li>Kroger Sets New Dress Code…

President Trump has rejected Iran's latest proposal to end the war, five men were arrested near a U.K. air base for an alleged terror plot, Trump's fight with the press leaves his events uncovered.

Five men were arrested on suspicion of the 'preparation of a terrorist act' near RAF Fairford, a base used by the US.

All the claims on the 1.2 million acres of newly opened land appear to have been filed by small-scale miners in Utah with an interest in uranium.

FAIRFORD, England (AP) — Police were holding five men on Monday and examining suspected explosives found near a U.S.-operated air force base in England, as counterterror detectives investigated whether the arrests foiled an attempted attack linked to Iran. T…

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28.

President Donald Trumps speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a state dinner at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI Sept. 28 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump offered to sell U.S. weapons to Chinese leader Xi Ji…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul has called for an official apology from Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed what it says was supposed to be a secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea. Zelenskyy told the U.N. Genera…

Washington and Beijing announce details of agreement to reduce tariffs on $60bn of trade.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. and Rebecca Bennett Republican Tom Kean, Jr. and Democrat Rebecca Bennett squared off for the first and likely only time before the midterms. [ more › ]

Private dinner will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to reports.

Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado has been living in exile, with plans to return to Venezuela spoiled multiple times.

Gates warned on 'Meet the Press' that if no one does anything, AI could "drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths."

In a 2016 opinion, authored one year before he became a Supreme Court justice, then-Judge Neil Gorsuch warned against lawyers who tempt judges to reach conclusions that aren’t supported by the Constitution’s text. “Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitu…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, …