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CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell (L) speaks during a roundtable discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Dec. 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Michael Dell bought into President Donald Trump‘s second term early. Now his hardware company, Dell Technologies, is closing

Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello has announced a powerhouse one-day music festival in the Washington, DC, area that is designed to protest Donald Trump and gear up America for the midterm election. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion with no billionaire, corporate, or political party influence. Support us by becoming a subscriber. According

US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on May 21, 2026. Kent Nishimura | AFP | Getty Images Iran’s armed forces fired missiles at unidentified targets late Thursday local time, the state media outlet Fars

There is a scenario where Republicans are in a much different place right now. Imagine a United States where Donald Trump doesn’t sabotage the US economy with tariffs, healthcare cuts, and a war in the Middle East. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber. It is estimated that inflation could have been

U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna visits Ultium Cells, an electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Warren, Ohio. Garrett Downs | CNBC PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO and MICHIGAN — U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna was riding shotgun in a black Chevrolet Suburban hurtling down an Ohio highway. His mind was on the economy.  “I do think I have the right

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One on May 20, 2026 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump is traveling to Connecticut to deliver the commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s recently dismissed $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue

Trump held a Wednesday cabinet meeting that was apparently designed to continue his manipulation of the stock market. Trump was also trying to sell his apparently fake Iran deal and needed an ego boost from his Dear Leader-style cabinet. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent with no political party, billionaire, or corporate influence. Support us by becoming

Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas (L) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Eddie Seal | Bloomberg | Getty Images Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a Republican Senate runoff Tuesday, coming a week after President Donald Trump endorsed the challenger over the objections of Senate leadership.  Paxton will

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened a new front Tuesday in the Trump administration’s public feud with the Vatican, dismissing Pope Leo XIV’s warning about artificial intelligence as the White House resists new guardrails on the rapidly evolving technology. “I didn’t know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being pope,” Burgum said in

Doesn’t every president endlessly ramble about ballrooms in between falling asleep in public? That’s what Donald Trump wants the American people to believe. A president who has never released his full medical records or even disclosed the reason for many of his visits to see doctors posted on his social media platform: Just finished my

TOPSHOT – Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the site of a heavily damaged building following Russian strikes to the Ukrainian capital in Kyiv on May 24, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Vladyslav MUSIENKO / AFP via Getty Images) Vladyslav Musienko | Afp | Getty Images Russia said on Tuesday

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters NATO will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defense in the coming years, its Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, hours after U.S.

Donald Trump could be trying to manipulate the stock market, now that we know that he has done more insider stock trading than all of Congress combined since returning to office. PoliticusUSA is corporate-free, political partyless, non-millionaire, independent news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber. Something else appears to be happening. It is

An Iranian flag flutters in the wind as ships remain anchored on May 16, 2026 in the Strait of Hormuz near Larak Island, Iran. Majid Saeedi | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. and Iran have signaled progress in talks to end the war, but the combatants remain at loggerheads over Tehran’s enriched

President Donald Trump on Sunday urged his negotiating team not to rush a deal with Iran to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, while appearing to slam critics of the brewing deal. Trump’s comments on Truth Social are largely a continuation of the status quo from Saturday, when Trump said that a

The deal that the Trump administration is floating as almost done to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war is being criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for failing to meet the objectives that the Trump administration laid out when it started the war three months ago. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support

Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves a check-in at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Office the day after a federal judge ordered his release from a detention in Pennsylvania, on Dec. 12, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images A federal judge in Tennessee on Friday dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar

President Donald Trump led a ceremony swearing in Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve, putting him in charge of a central bank that must navigate a tumultuous economy and a president with very specific expectations on interest rates. Trump, whose actions toward the Fed have spurred bipartisan alarms about executive influence on the

The crisis within the Republican Party that has been unleashed by Donald Trump is being understated. It is rare for senators to yell at any US attorney general during a meeting. Senators yelling during closed-door meetings is not an accepted behavior. When the Senate abruptly closed up and left town without passing the reconciliation bill

US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 21, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two new lawsuits challenging the creation of the controversial $1.8 billion ‘lawfare” fund by the Department of Justice were filed Friday in federal