Trump News for Friday, October 2, 2026

At the September 24, 2026 arrival ceremony for Chinese President Xi Jinping, Arabella Kushner sat in the front row and greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, in Mandarin with “Welcome to America,” according to the New York Post.

The new Air Force One gifted to the U.S. by Qatar is currently undergoing "cosmetic upgrades" to its interior, an administration source told ABC News on Friday.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing in terms of human rights? Listening to politicians, it can be di…

The Supreme Court begins its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.  This will be the second full term for the nation…

President Donald Trump said Friday he was ruling out a diesel export ban and never really considered one in the first place, hours after Europe caved to U.S. pressure and agreed to release fuel from its stockpiles.The announcement appears to put to rest more …

MAGA activists are having a meltdown over a throwaway character in Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s political ad.

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Lawsuit alleges NHTSA contravenes its congressional mandate to set fuel-economy standards at 'maximum feasible' .

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his acolytes in the state, rather than stand up for editorial independence. The post Public Radio Station Forced to Call Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” appeared first on The Intercept.

US President Donald Trump says Europe agreed to release a ‘massive amount’ of diesel from emergency stockpiles.

Trump will rally in Mobile, Alabama. It's the latest stop on a swing through red states to boost election turnout among Republican voters, amid low approval ratings.

The lawsuit says the prominent conservative podcaster falsely claimed the protesters were assaulting ICE officers during demonstrations at an ICE facility in Illinois last year.

MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration…

The America First strategy asks for a Memorandum of Understanding as a condition for healthcare and development aid. It's been praised for promoting self-reliance but criticized for its conditions.

The Kennedy Center Honors will move to a new location for the first time in its history, as it will be held at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will take place at the new venue on Dec. 7, a center spokesperson said. The honorees have yet to …

The Orange Menace has lost his multiple bids to slap his failure-associated name on a revered institution and has been ordered not to tear it down on a whim, so he is selling off the parts. Movers have been photographed hauling out the Steinways, which AlterN…

Video first obtained by ABC News shows Coast Guard agents equipped in tactical gear boarding the ship.

After a bumpy ride with the administration, Dario Amodei is putting a twinkle in Trump's eye.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has released a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau's history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It was un…

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle likes her champagne expensive—and her tabs to be someone else’s problem. Guilfoyle’s glitzy Mediterranean lifest...

The US economy added 29,000 jobs in September, with unemployment rising to 4.2 percent, according to Labor Department.

Prosecutors say Yiu Kong Lui conspired with foreign shipping companies to trick US manufacturers into selling him the chips.

The possible selection comes amid increasing calls for the government to intervene in the rapidly developing technology.

This year's Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington's Capital One Arena, not the riverfront building that's been at the center of a legal fight over adding President Donald Trump's name to the building. The 49th annual awards are set to take place …

Judge Allows Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit Against Trump Administration to Move Forward NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of prot…

Time just implied that Elon Musk's flattering chatbot Grok may have convinced Trump to go ahead and invade Venezuela in January.

When Air Force Ones are retired from service, they're often acquired by museums or presidential libraries. Here's where they've ended up.

America.gov launches with a privacy pledge as its Login.gov authentication layer raises questions over a persistent browser identifier and analytics tracking.

President Donald Trump warned Republicans that Texas and Michigan are among the states the party is “worried about” ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The bar for America’s highest elected office keeps sinking.The nation’s totally healthy, very fit, 80-year-old president gave himself a little pat on the back Thursday after he managed to climb on the rally stage at the Peterbilt Motors manufacturing facility…

“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”

President Trump may be trying to pick up votes, "taking a dig" at the Biden administration, or making an ideological point, two policy gurus told BI.

Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the docume…

Macron says G7 will release 100 million barrels over four months; diesel release to be ‘frontloaded’

For the first time ever, the Kennedy Center is holding its award show elsewhere as the Trump administration holds the venue hostage.

Vice President JD Vance thinks that Americans are too worried about the “little things” ahead of midterms—like gas prices, debt, Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings, and war. “This is not the time to sort of gripe about all the little things.… I thin…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Group of Seven industrial nations said they agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel after the fuel recently hit record high prices in the United States, where President Donald Trump sai…

A new report says the White House told the DOJ to stand down on carrying out its anti-abortion agenda until after the midterms. Which, um... how much worse could this all get?

Donald Trump is attempting to retcon his rationale for attacking Iran.Speaking at a rally in Durant, Oklahoma, Thursday evening, the president suddenly claimed that part of his impetus for launching an all-out assault on the country seven months ago was becau…

Relentless persistence has driven his quest for grift and revenge. With midterm payback coming, it's not enough

Europe's leaders are mulling proposals to respond to Trump's diesel demands.

President Donald Trump went all the way to Texas to trash Ken Paxton in front of his own constituents. The president offered these comments during his rally at the Peterbilt Motors factory in Denton on Thursday night. “He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I…

Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country. The post Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent” appeared first on The Intercept.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that…

Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr endlessly pays empty lip service to the “public interest” and the “value of broadcasting integrity” as he engages in ham-fisted censorship of comedians and journalists the president doesn’t like. Or the illegal dismantling of media…

Pressure meant to isolate Sudan’s army has instead left Washington isolated and a ceasefire further out of reach.

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and how much they are spending on them. Candidates’, parties’ and co…

Polling averages are literally having to expand the Y-axis of their charts to keep up with Trump's disapproval rating.

Our relaxing daily links: Bonds and diesel break Europe, more money to Ukraine, Trump reopens Watergate, and a deep dive into escalators.

The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,” said …

This is probably the biggest scandal involving the US in Latin America since the abduction of Maduro in January.

By the end of November, three US aircraft carriers and two amphibious landing groups will be positioned near Iran.

The narrative battles to control perceptions of the Iran War continue as does the kinetic battle to control traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the American pressure on Iran's economy and the Saudi Arabia conflict with Yemen.

US bond yields have surged upward over the past month, as yields on both the 10-year Treasury (^TNX) and 30-year Treasury (^TYX) have reached levels not seen since 2002, surpassing 2007 high-water marks in the lead-up to the financial crisis.Investors have at…

President Donald Trump picked an odd political moment to remove guardrails from the private equity industry. A July poll commissioned by Americans for Financial Reform found that a 65 percent majority agreed with the statement, “We need guard rails for Wall S…

For the first time since the Supreme Court revived capital punishment in 1976, a death-row prisoner has survived an execution. The state of Tennessee administered two lethal injections to Christa Pike on Wednesday night. She is still “alive right now”—as of T…

Barf Bag: After a Massachusetts man on Thursday allegedly cyberstalked Miller, the DOJ sicced the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force on him.

[AFP via Getty Images] Donald Trump has said he may ask European countries to release some of their diesel reserves as he considers banning US exports of the fuel.The president's comment comes after diesel prices hit record highs on UK forecourts this week,…

A new report says the DOJ official who was allegedly fired for refusing to give Gibson special treatment was told to do so because of his “personal relationship” with Trump.

A new facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, may begin receiving undocumented families with children, local officials and immigrant rights advocates say.  The 528-bed facility will house families with children, unaccompanied minors, and single adult females as t…

Amid threats from China, Taipai is growing concerned about the Trump administration's commitment to arming the island.

Judge Leibowitz's decision underscores state jurisdiction over voter qualifications.

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - US job growth likely slowed in September and the unemployment rate is forecast to have been 4.1% for a third straight month, suggesting the labor market remained stable heading into the fourth quarter. The antic…

Massive US military deployment to the Middle East includes 50,000 troops, F-35s and Marines to pressure Tehran.

Among the many promises that RFK Jr. offered in his confirmation hearings, promises that he has gone about breaking in spectacular fashion, one was a promise of “radical transparency”. His approach, in his own words, was laid out directly to Congress. My appr…

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman [Getty Images] OpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work that involved an external organisation that analyses artificial intelligence (AI) models."Our investigation confirmed t…

Washington should take the "time to be considerate" before letting Chinese cars in, the Ford CEO warns.

Although Facebook has played a big role in recent U.S. politics, Aaron Sorkin didn’t want to make The Social Reckoning a political statement. The Oscar winner noted that although he “was never asked” to omit Trump from his upcoming movie about a young Faceboo…

In a series of campaign-style rallies, Trump seeks to boost Republican odds amid Iran war and rising fuel costs.

Elon Musk will co-lead Project Meridian, a time-limited Pentagon study charged with mapping future battlefields and capability gaps, then proposing how the military can begin developing, testing and fielding systems to address them.

Skyrocketing diesel prices have pushed Washington to weigh an export ban, raising alarm across European economies.

Oil exports in the Gulf have rebounded as the U.S. escorts ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But the obstacles to a lasting peace are greater than ever. Isaac Chotiner interviews Sanam Vakil, who directs the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Bri…