Trump News for Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Trump’s latest walk was not his first to draw scrutiny, with similar concerns emerging during his meetings with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

An American-born citizen who survived being shot by a federal immigration officer in Chicago is suing the US government.

President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that his military campaign against Iran ended eight months before he started it.In the latest installment of Senior Moment or Shocking Admission?, the president offered an outrageous defense against anyone compla…

The president's comments sparked a posting war, outraging even some Republicans

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 trying to fix the diesel crisis he cau…

President Donald Trump commented on Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, completed on Tuesday, by apparently showering praised on its CEO Larry Ellison and his father Larry. “It’s going to be a great company,” Trump told reporters when asked abou…

Iran lacks a nuclear program to build weapons capable of reaching California, proliferation watchers say, despite Trump's talk about LA and San Diego.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that makes a specific kind of tax-exempt diesel fuel reserved for farm and construction equipment available to a broad set of road vehicles in an effort to reduce overall diesel costs. The type of diesel, …

Anduril said it would invest $3.7bn to develop shipyard that would build submarine parts.

The top US public health agency's remarks come as the Trump administration said it’s 'closely' watching the incident.

With 28 days until the midterms, polling suggests that Democrats have an excellent chance of taking back the House in November. Flipping the Senate, once considered a long shot, is starting to look realistic. Come November, the party may have majorities in bo…

From the Epstein files to the war on Iran, Josh Rushing examines the cracks forming within MAGA in Trump's second term.

Kash Patel’s Federal Bureau of Investigation slammed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a wildly partisan, and likely illegal, propaganda video Tuesday.In a two-minute video posted on social media, the supposedly non-partisan agency decried “democrat…

Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that’s in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass deportation efforts are a daily event, randomly punctuated by court order violations and the oc…

President Trump is preventing Maryland’s Democratic Governor Wes Moore from speaking at an event in Baltimore County in the state on Tuesday. Defense firm Andruil Industries is announcing that they are building a 2-million-square-foot submarine manufacturing …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, there's no sign he plans to refund the millions of federal dollars already spent on them. Nearly $12 million worth …

President Trump is worth $7 billion, and he earned a bulk of it in real estate. But there are several men who made more than him in the same industry.

Most families of the six soldiers killed in the deadliest attack of the Iran war were not attending a major White House event for Gold Star families hosted by President Donald Trump. Only one family member of those killed in an Iranian drone strike March 1 o…

The White House is threatening $190 million in Smithsonian funding.

At least 20 U.S. military sites have been damaged since President Trump started the war.

A federal judge heard arguments on Tuesday in ABC’s First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC, with the network’s attorney arguing that the Trump administration’s threats to its broadcast licenses have created an ongoing chilling effect. The network sued the ag…

From Jordan to Kuwait to the United Kingdom, U.S. outposts are increasingly vulnerable to attack. The post The U.S. Military Struggles to Protect Its Bases Amid Failing Iran War appeared first on The Intercept.

The Trump administration has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens since it began its mass deportation initiative, a ProPublica investigation has found.Trump officials have insisted that U.S. citizens are not at risk under the president’s agenda. “We have said…

Yet another one of Trump’s many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here. It seems Trump really doesn’t know who’s going to be loyal enough to satisfy him and also able to pass the rudimentary screening we generously call the Senate Confirm…

The White House pressured the FBI to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles in violation of the Constitution, a whistleblower alleges.A former supervisory intelligence analyst in the bureau’s field office in Los Angeles, Jill Fields, made a formal com…

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is taking action to strip 40 naturalized Americans of their citizenship.According to a DOJ press release published Monday, the department has filed “denaturalization actions” against these individuals after they were accus…

On Monday, the Justice Department identified more than 40 citizens it’s seeking to strip of their naturalized status.

BERKELEY, Calif. - After artificial intelligence safety advocates captured Washington's attention with dire warnings about the technology's power, the Trump administration and its allies embraced some of their suggestions, while moving to sideline the advocat…

Trump Mobile appears to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the data of 3,615 people, according to reports from PCMag and Straight Arrow News. The breach reportedly included names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order information. PC…

Gulf oil flows surge despite escalating ship attacks in the critical Strait of Hormuz energy corridor.

Scientist and content creator Ananya Joshi had to leave her life in the US when her visa was cut short amid the H-1B visa changes.

The concern is that many will avoid medical care out of fear that doing so could jeopardize their immigration status. [ more › ]

Trump himself has voted by mail twice in Florida elections this year.

The US trade deficit jumped to more than $100 billion in August as importers wrestled with a new round of President Trump's tariffs and continued to bring in billions of dollars' worth of components for AI data centers.The total gap: $105.6 billion, a 13.8% i…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was returned to the U.S. after being mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran prison, returns to court to continue fighting his deportation case.

Donald Trump is upset that Fox News isn't giving him as much airtime as he wants, and is daring to interview midterm candidates instead.

The White House also barred Politico from Air Force One to cap off a weekend of media attacks

Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money — a long-sought goal of the Trump administration but one that a top Democratic appropriator calls "bizarre and dystopian."The Federal Transit Adminis…

Because the "Irony Epidemic" is hitting inboxes in honor of Spy's 40th anniversary, here are your early links: West Village gated school street, Trump still promising $5,000 checks, butter is in and more. [ more › ]

At a rally in Nebraska Tuesday night, President Trump told his supporters exactly what he thinks about the well-being of the American people.Trump first said that the price of goods and services, which have gone up thanks to his ill-advised Iran war and tarif…

LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran. The arrest is the seventh in connection wi…

The US has pulled its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford amid Iran fears. Here's where else they can fly from.

Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday."Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approve…

While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.

Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.

Someone actually managed to shame Donald Trump into saying he'll pay for his own political ads rather than just (illegally) using tax dollars.

Brimstone is making strides on two industrial problems, reducing the emissions from cement and providing a way to produce more critical minerals within the US. If the company can do both, with the same rocks in the same plant, it would unlock a cleaner and mo…

The justice's refusal to retire deprives Donald Trump of a Supreme Court vacancy ahead of likely blue midterm wave

President Donald Trump The Trump administration issued new guidance outlining a plan to replace expiring rental assistance vouchers with a new program. [ more › ]

The US Army is averse to capital punishment and has not carried out an execution in decades.

The political ascent of Donald Trump has forced me to adjust upward my estimation of the American public’s gullibility. That Trump is a fraud is something I would have been able to perceive when I was 7 years old. Yet Americans twice elected him president. If…

During a rally in Nebraska, Trump gawked at Harp before taking the stage to remind everyone why he might be experiencing record unpopularity.

President Donald Trump suggested Monday during a political rally in Nebraska that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego, comments that drew condemnation.

Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial was one of the crypto firms that recently received a conditional national trust charter.

President Trump is facing low approval ratings, and voters are blaming him for rising costs. Republicans are likely to pay the price at the ballot box next month.

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems.

Donald Trump has been holding rallies in red states, and in a pair of articles, The New York Times reported that his crowd sizes have been diminishing. This triggered an epic tirade from Trump: He raged that his rallies are “PACKED” and claimed they are “HOTT…

"In the future, we will use AI to cure diseases. But right now it's mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib"

At a campaign rally in Nebraska, US President Donald Trump joked about letting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San Diego.

The ads, which tout Trump and his policies, could have violated US laws barring public government funds being spent on political advertising.

He's committed to this cringeworthy "Super Intelligence" rebrand, and it's an ugly thing to watch.

Move comes after ethics experts criticised three nationally broadcast ads and called for independent investigations.

By Jarrett Renshaw and Kanishka Singh GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that ‌he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska. High diesel prices, which sho…

Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday. “Secretary of War Pete Hegse…

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth recommended the execution and it was approved by President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump said that his super PAC MAGA Inc. would now pay for advertisements that the White House has run at taxpayer expense, stirring an outcry among Democrats and some Republicans. Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday, “The Radical Left is upset with …

Top officials have sought to expand the use of rarely invoked laws that can strip naturalised Americans of citizenship.