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Trump: Yep, I'm Serious About Canada Becoming 51st State

President agrees with Canadian PM that the idea is a real thing

(Newser) - A prerecorded interview between President Trump and Bret Baier of Fox News aired during the network's Super Bowl pregame show Sunday, and during it, the president said he's not joking when he makes remarks about Canada becoming the "51st state." Asked by Baier if it was...

As Courts Push Back on Trump, GOP Questions Their Authority

An increasing number of voices on the right are questioning judicial authority

(Newser) - After Elon Musk called for judges who have ruled against the Trump administration to be impeached , others on the right were echoing that general idea. Below is a sampling of the conservative figures currently questioning the court's authority and the very legitimacy of judiciary oversight, which the AP calls...

Trump: I Told Treasury Dept. to Stop Minting Pennies

He says they cost 2 cents each, will no longer be produced

(Newser) - President Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin, the AP reports. "For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!"...

Trump Makes History at the Super Bowl

He's the first sitting president to attend, thinks the Chiefs will win

(Newser) - As a student, Donald Trump played high school football. As a business baron, he owned a team in an upstart rival to the NFL and then sued the established league. As president, he denigrated pros who took a knee during the national anthem as part of a social justice movement....

Emergency Arab Summit to Address Trump's Gaza Idea

Announcement refers to 'new and dangerous developments'

(Newser) - Egypt announced Sunday that it will host an emergency summit of Arab leaders to address "new and dangerous developments" after President Trump proposed resettling Palestinians from Gaza, a plan that sparked alarm and anger in the Middle East. Egypt's foreign ministry said the Arab League meeting will be...

American Importers Stock Up on Prosecco

They're apparently worried tariffs could affect the popular Italian wine

(Newser) - American importers have been stockpiling Italian bubbly Prosecco as a hedge against the possible impact of tariffs, the AP reports.
  • US imports of Italian sparkling wine—90% of that Prosecco—surged by 41% in November, after President Trump's election, far exceeding consumer demand as importers filled the pipeline for
...

$7B Arms Sale to Israel Won't Wait for Congressional Review

Democratic lawmaker criticizes end run on oversight

(Newser) - The Trump administration has told Congress it's moving ahead with weapons sales to Israel totaling more than $7 billion, circumventing the review being conducted in a House committee. The State Department made the notification on Friday, the New York Times reports. Congress had put a hold on a $1...

Afrikaner Groups Tell Trump They Won&#39;t Budge
Afrikaner Groups
Tell Trump They
Won't Budge
the rundown
Feb 8, 2025 3:25 PM CST

Afrikaner Groups Tell Trump They Won't Budge

Executive order cutting off aid accuses nation of human rights violation, proposes resettlement

(Newser) - President Trump followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order Friday stopping all aid to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group. The executive order includes a plan to resettle white South African farmers and their...

Trump Fires Archivist, Though She Wasn&#39;t in Documents Fight
Trump Fires Nation's Archivist
Feb 8, 2025 2:15 PM CST

Trump Fires Nation's Archivist

Colleen Shogan held what had been an apolitical role supervising an independent agency

(Newser) - The Trump administration announced Friday night that it has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan, who ran the independent agency charged with preserving and providing access to federal government records. The National Archives and Records Administration was involved in trying to recover documents President Trump took home with...

Far-Right Leaders Cheer Trump at European Summit
EU's Far Right Cheers Trump
Feb 8, 2025 12:40 PM CST

EU's Far Right Cheers Trump

Orban tells supporters they're mainstream now

(Newser) - The leaders of Europe's far-right parties met in Madrid on Saturday to celebrate President Trump's return to office and their accompanying political ascendancy. "Yesterday we were heretics, today we're mainstream," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told about 2,000 supporters at the event labeled "...

Judge Blocks DOGE's Access to Treasury Payment System

A preliminary injunction was issued early Saturday

(Newser) - Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's ability to access a sensitive system used by the Treasury Department to make federal payments has been put on ice by a federal judge. US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction early Saturday in response to a suit filed...

Trudeau: Trump's Threat to Annex Canada Is Real

The Canadian prime minister warned that Trump is serious about absorbing his country

(Newser) - President Trump has suggested that Canada and its abundance of resources should belong to the US , and outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he believes the talk is very real. The Guardian reports that during a closed-door summit of business and labor leaders working on a response to Trump'...

Trump Says He's Taking the Reins at the Kennedy Center

The president is gutting the board of the cultural institution and naming himself chairman

(Newser) - President Trump said Friday that he is firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman. The AP reports he also indicated that he would be dictating programming at one of the nation's premier cultural institutions, specifically...

Trump Revokes Biden's Security Clearance

It's a tit-for-tat move

(Newser) - President Trump said Friday that he's revoking former President Biden's access to government secrets and ending the daily intelligence briefings he's receiving as payback for Biden doing the same to him in 2021. Trump has the right to end the briefings for Biden because it is a...

Judge Puts Limited Freeze on Trump's USAID Job Cuts

Hearing was held on lawsuit by federal workers unions

(Newser) - A federal judge announced after a hearing Friday that he'll enter a "very limited" temporary restraining order before midnight to keep the Trump administration from implementing parts of its plan to dismantle the US Agency for International Development. US District Judge Carl Nichols said his order "will...

Opinion: For Guantanamo Migrants, Abuse Is &#39;Guaranteed&#39;
'Abuse at
Guantanamo
Is Guaranteed'
OPINION
Feb 7, 2025 11:48 AM CST

'Abuse at Guantanamo Is Guaranteed'

Children will be among the victims in this 'nightmare,' writes Spencer Ackerman

(Newser) - As President Trump signed an executive order to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay to "full capacity" on Wednesday, it was "like seeing a nightmare I've had for years manifest before my eyes," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Spencer Ackerman. Ackerman, who's attended...

Netanyahu's Gift to Trump: a Golden Pager

Gift celebrates 'exploding pager' attack on Hezbollah members

(Newser) - President Trump has a very unusual souvenir of his Tuesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader gave Trump a golden pager, a reference to the exploding pagers that targeted Hezbollah members in Lebanon in September. The blasts killed at least 37 people and injured thousands, including...

Trump Forms Task Force Against 'Anti-Christian Bias'

President says DOJ will root out so-called 'targeting' of Christians

(Newser) - President Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out "anti-Christian bias" in the US, announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the "targeting" of Christians, the AP reports. Speaking at a pair of events in Washington surrounding the...

Senate Confirms Vought After Democrats Have Their Say

OMB choice has 'an unusual view' of the job, say opponents, who talked all night on Senate floor

(Newser) - Russell Vought won Senate confirmation on Thursday night to become White House budget director, after Democrats—lacking the votes to block him—had held the floor overnight to rail against President Trump's choice. The 53-47 vote was along party lines, the AP reports. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had said...

White House Readies Order Firing Health Agency Workers

Plan calls for action to be taken after buyouts are final

(Newser) - The next section of the federal workforce to face mass firings by the Trump administration could be health workers. White House aides are preparing an executive order to fire thousands of employees in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Other agencies involved in health,...

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