Trump News for Monday, October 19, 2026

Lawyers for the former student leader seek to overturn an appeals court decision that would allow for his removal.

The DOJ has charged 28 individuals in California with election-related offenses, and did not rule out prosecuting election workers who are "processing the ballots" there.

Golfers play past felled trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington D.C., US, on Sunday. - Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images One of the tensest showdowns between the Trump administration and the federal bench in Washington, DC, came to a head on Mon…

US President Donald Trump blamed immigrants for the unrest in France, claiming Paris would soon become a ‘Muslim city’.

President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk's SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" sometime next year. Musk had thanke…

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 take over a public park.  Wh…

The Trump administration wants to turn a historic public golf course into championship links. Despite a judge's order, hundreds of trees were cut down to make way for the renovation.

DeepSeek could be sending sensitive data to Beijing, administration fears.

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are more powerful and in plentiful supply, and they have transformed the drugs landscape.

Noncitizen voting remains rare and does not impact election results, data shows

Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Democrats leading by 12 points in generic US congressional ballot surveys against Republicans.

The effort put into controlling even remote fires has started to baffle some veterans.

Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to sue the government for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights.

Eleven people with lawful permanent resident status were arrested in California Monday for alleged voter fraud. Hours later, First Assistant Attorney for California Bill Essayli admitted that they may not have even voted.The arrests were announced in a Depart…

President Donald Trump nearly berated a reporter—until he realized they were with a right-wing blog. While speaking to the press outside of the White House Monday, a reporter asked Trump to respond to French President Emmanuel Macron, who’d blamed his country…

First Lady Melania Trump has championed the executive action as a 'transformative moment' for US women's health.

Vice President JD Vance called a brown man at his rally an “illegal immigrant” because he interrupted his rally to demand the release of the Epstein files.“[The] corrupt, far-left cartel has subjected this country—” Vance was saying at his North Carolina rall…

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish ‌his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according…

President Trump now wants New Mexico to change its name to something that doesn’t offend him. Just like with the Gulf of Mexico, Trump wants the state to be called “New America” instead, he wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday. “New Mexico should immediatel…

And the scandals keep coming: President Donald Trump’s close ally Ric Grenell, who has recently served as both special envoy to Venezuela and acting director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, came under fire Monday for new evidence that he offere…

A Black MAGA influencer says she was booted from a Ken Paxton rally in Texas on Sunday. Thelma Louise runs a large TikTok account in which she makes pro-Trump content, particularly from her perspective as a Black female conservative. On Sunday, she was excite…

Attorneys for the BBC want to subpoena Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought an election conspiracy indictment against Donald Trump, as the network defends itself against the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit. In a filing in federal court on Mo…

President Donald Trump’s border czar Todd Homan seemed to suggest that the FBI was mounting its own investigation into Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. During an appearance on Fox News’s The Big Weekend Show Sunday, Homan was asked whether the Trump admin…

The government's tree removal justification centers on a 2019 landscape report.

President Trump doesn’t want former special counsel Jack Smith to testify in a deposition as part of his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Company. The BBC has subpoenaed Smith to defend itself from Trump’s accusations that the n…

DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.

As disaster looms in the November mid-term elections, the Trump regime is riven with internal dissent and ugly scandal. Scott Bessent, Stephen Miller, and Susie Wiles have leading roles.

Homeland Security Investigations task force officers escort a suspect accused of illegally registering to vote during a federal operation Monday in Commerce. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California w…

Trump’s endorsement comes after he previously shied away from fully backing Netanyahu’s election campaign.

The 2026 midterm elections are just two weeks away. So where do things stand — nationwide — in the race to control Congress? Which party has a better chance of, you know, winning? To get a sense of that, it helps to geek out over some cold, hard data.The usua…

The Supreme Court just signed off on President Trump’s firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board despite laws against at-will dismissals, further cementing his power over independent agencies. On Monday, the high court decided not to review a r…

Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s election, Ben-Gvir faces student protesters.

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite a court challenge to his long-sought renovation.Trump posted on social media about his intent to shutter the…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ideologically loaded recent speech in Athens attempted to trace MAGA’s ideological roots back to ancient democracy. But emphasizing the West’s shared civilizational inheritance will not convince Europeans to embrace the hub…

Islamabad cites security concerns, while Tehran points to technical issues as Pakistan mediates between Iran and the US.

After Kimberly Guilfoyle was fired on live television last week, she reportedly begged MAGA allies to rescue her, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack. None of them d…

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected po…

The mobile hit’s first concert world tour is at risk due to the Trump administration’s stricter immigration rules

Writing for Vanity Fair (archive link), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era. Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself i

President Donald Trump on Monday attacked a federal judge who blocked his lawless construction on a public golf course in Washington, D.C. In a post on Truth Social, Trump raged against District Judge Ana Reyes, who barred the National Parks Service from cutt…

GCC states have pressed Moscow to help halt Iranian attacks and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump's student-loan repayment overhaul would increase payments by thousands of dollars, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds.

Over the course of decades, the Supreme Court has legalized behavior that is poisonous to a functioning democracy.

In rest of the world, the Israeli PM is often blamed for the Iran war. His opponents say he hasn't been tough enough.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 19 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.In the las…

So much for the transatlantic MAGA bromance. Europe's anti-immigrant, quasi-fascist parties are ready to move on

Egypt delays its vote on defending Saudi Arabia, the Saudis lose helicopter in Najran, and the IRGC says a third tanker hit a mine in Hormuz.

Americans are feeling the pressure at the pump as the Iran War keeps prices high. That could have a big midterm impact.

The senator is trying to defy the odds, again.

The breakup with Big Tech is evident in dozens of campaign ads.

Ukraine relies on US intel through Starshield to spot fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia ​fires at its cities.

The Bureau of Consular Affairs described a "complex security environment."

By Gram Slattery SAMARKAND, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied on Monday that the United States had paused some ‌intelligence sharing with Ukraine, contradicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who said ‌Washington had briefly do…

The Cuban Revolution, with all its contradictions, has given plenty to the world. Its fall will be a major loss.

The media had a field day with Zacharia’s short tenure, but claims of chaos in Trump administration are exaggerated.

US President Donald Trump endorses Netanyahu for Israeli election

Iranian Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, on September 29. - Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters Iran has signaled that it is preparing for another round of war with the United States a…

US president accuses Ukrainian leader of not wanting to end the war, as Zelenskyy speaks with Washington envoys.

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping ‌to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict that would ‌favour Moscow, the Wall Street Journal rep…

President Trump continues his efforts to remake Washington, D.C. He wants to turn an area used by the public into a world-class golf course.

US President Donald Trump (L) backed Republican candidate Ken Paxton (R) over sitting Texas senator John Cornyn (Mandel NGAN) After more than three decades of Republican dominance, Democrats in Texas see a rare chance to break through in November's midterm e…

A Nature investigation identified more than 30 requests since 2024 to US universities in a campaign questioning climate attribution science.