Trump News for Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The Treasury secretary is projecting confidence while struggling to get borrowing costs down.

Michael Dell, philanthropist and founder of Dell Technologies, pushed back against critics who argue that allowing wealthy investors to donate individual company stocks to Trump Accounts could have a nefarious impact.Under new rules that took effect last week…

US President Donald Trump said it would be a ‘great discredit’ to the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Democratic Party officials sued US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking a court order blocking his administration from ‌using taxpayer money to pay for election-related TV ads. The lawsuit, filed by ‌the Demo…

Washington is launching a new AI oversight task force while Elon Musk embraces its “Super Intelligence” branding for no real reason.

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration Wednesday, alleging that recent TV advertisements espousing the president’s political agenda were funded by taxpayers and thus violated U.S. propaganda law.The 31-page complaint, filed in the U.S…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level award during a visit to the aircraft carrier

A Gallup survey highlights a deep – and historic – partisan divide over confidence in the country's elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level award during a visit to the aircraft carrier Wednesday, a day before the ship returns home to San Diego after a record-long deployment in support of th…

FCC commissioner warns against AI robocalls, citing risks of misinformation before crucial midterm elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The union representing thousands of flight attendants said Wednesday it has safety concerns about President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch that will be on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Association of F…

Iranian newspaper shares images of oil and blood-soaked Trump... (Third column, 8th story, link) Related stories:Outgunned Tehran succeeding in keeping America on edge... Stark numbers show USA has lost 81 planes and $3.3 billion worth …

Stark numbers show USA has lost 81 planes and $3.3 billion worth of helicopters in Iran... (Third column, 10th story, link) Related stories:Iranian newspaper shares images of oil and blood-soaked Trump... Outgunned Tehran succeeding in …

A Senate flip to Democrats could essentially shut down confirmations of President Donald Trump’s court nominees — but not until January.

The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.

Trump says he will pay for future ads, but the White House says taxpayers will not be reimbursed for past ones.

Gemini told us the Grimace was added, but the photo of Paxton and Trump is real. It's not.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a hypernationalistic speech at the Acropolis in Athens Wednesday in which he lauded the supposed superiority of Western civilization while stoking more fears about immigration.“The heroes of the West are those who choo…

Authorities are taking unprecedented steps to charge protesters in a sleepy Vermont town that hosts an ICE intelligence and targeting center The post Feds Charged Activists Just Before Major Anti-ICE Protest in a Tiny Vermont Town appeared first on The Interc…

Nearly 1,000 armed guards have descended on the United States Postal Service, deploying to at least 55 facilities across the country ahead of Election Day.The security officers were contracted through multinational private security company Prosegur, according…

President Trump is still using your money to pay for his propaganda hype video commercials ahead of the midterms.On Wednesday morning, another “Final Battle” commercial for the president aired on Fox & Friends, featuring a black and white clip of Trump walkin…

File photo of a scene outside of the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark. Over the summer the facility became a flashpoint in the national debate over immigration enforcement. A judge ordered the Peruvian man's release, citing concerns about condit…

The Department of Homeland Security radically reduced training requirements for local law enforcement officers whose departments had agreed to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement.In an email obtained by American Oversight, an ICE official whose name was …

The badges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are seen as they patrol the halls of an immigration court in New York in May. - Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File The Department of Homeland Security’s sweeping election-fraud operation has drawn …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections. Federal law c…

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers appears to be breaking with President Donald Trump on another key issue less than a month before Election Day."Drinking a Labatt and watching the Red Wings, man, it just doesn't get any more Michigan t…

The credits are intended to give Genesis Mission researchers access to computing power that smaller labs and companies struggle to secure.

Republican Mike Rogers wants to end the tariff war with Canada to save Michigan, but he won't say who started it.

Chairman's family ties to Trump and Israel raise questions over editorial independence at CNN and CBS.

Tariffs on tomatoes could turn one of dining's smallest gestures of hospitality into a line item

Democrats are urging HHS Secretary Kennedy to stop proposed changes to Head Start, calling the reforms illegal and "antithetical" to the mission of Head Start.

President Trump isn’t going to like how the European Parliament is allowing him to be depicted.An eight-foot-tall statue covered in 23-karat gold leaf has been erected at the building in Strasbourg, France, showing a naked, overweight Trump being carried on t…

Yet another leaked recording of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton has landed. “It’s the war, it’s gas prices.... It’s over $6 a gallon for diesel,” Paxton said at a donor meeting when asked what issues were “dragging” on him and his campaign, according to aud…

A French official has responded to President Donald Trump blaming Islam and mass migration for the violent riots in France.Nearly 500 people were arrested in just one day in connection with massive riots that French officials claim are about the conditions in…

Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstrated pr…

President Donald Trump announced a $6.6 billion investment with AI defense company Anduril Industries on Tuesday -- the most recent government funding agreement into a company with investment ties to the president's sons.  The Trump administration announced …

Trump said he expects to speak with Putin "very soon."

Sen. Susan Collins drew on her seniority in Congress to counter Troy Jackson, who portrayed her as ineffective in pushing back against Trump’s agenda during their debate.

A fake ICE agent intimidating voters was arrested in Miami this weekend, but he's hardly the only one to take up this LARP.

US military aid and arms transfer continue unchanged, as US public sentiment shifts.

Titled “Orange Plague,” the 2.5-meter satirical piece depicts the US president naked and clutching a long gold club as he sits on the shoulders of a smaller man buckling beneath his weight.

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US Vice President Vance’s call for reduced nuclear enrichment suggests room for compromise, but major obstacles remain.

Donald Trump, the oldest person to ever sit in the Oval Office of the White House, sparked health concerns for his strange posture in public.

While debating Troy Jackson in the first of four debates on Tuesday, Collins had the audacity to claim she’s the more reproductive-rights-friendly candidate of the two.

Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will receive a $90 payment from the Social Security Administration this week as part of an effort to lower health care costs for older Americans.President Trump announced on Oct. 2 that the administration would send a one-ti…

The Saudi counter-offensive is either stalling or progressing and Ansar Allah missiles are either hitting or missing Saudi airports. Iran is definitely hitting tankers in Hormuz and Trump is definitely running his mouth.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on June 25, 2025, makes an arrest during an "enforcement removal operation" at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The total in the first 18 months of Trump’s second term is more than twice that of the same spa…

In theory, there's plenty for MAHA voters to like about a progressive Democrat. There's one big problem.

As President Trump has tried to paint a rosy picture of the economy, Vice President Vance has acknowledged Americans' economic frustrations

The Trump administration has been hostile to federal spending on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. But there's bipartisan support for a multiuse trail that would connect Ohio and West Virginia.

Much of President Donald Trump's second term has focused on changes to the nation's capital.But his ambitions to remake the physical architecture of the presidency transcend Washington: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidentia…

A veteran walked into a California police station to make a horrifying confession. The post He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case. appeared first on The Intercept.

Heating oil costs could jump 50 percent in the Northeast, testing a safety net that the Trump administration has repeatedly sought to kill.

Health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor says no special measures have been ordered regarding a reported plague death in Russia (Igor IVANKO) The United States made a formal request pressing Russia for information on the reported plague death of a laboratory technici…

Iran's oil exports have struggled amid a US blockade. A Russian energy crisis because of Ukrainian attacks could help.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump's unpopularity, persis…

Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3, according to a memo from the acting Army secretary. The execution, the first carried out by the U.S. military in more than 60 …

(Bloomberg) -- On a sprawling property near the Murray River in Australia’s southeast, Andrew Russell is gearing up to harvest one of his best grain crops in years after plentiful rain. But two wars half a world away are souring what should be a celebrated se…

Both Democrats and Republicans have expressed outrage at Trump's remarks that cities could be sacrificed in Iran war.

Skydance CEO David Ellison defended meeting with Donald Trump as Paramount sought to complete its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, while addressing concerns that he talked to the president about the future of CNN. “For absolute clarity, we have not talked …