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President Joe Biden stands with his son Hunter Biden after the president arrived at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, June 11, 2024. Anna Rose Layden | Reuters Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread further, his son Hunter Biden said in a BBC interview, offering a stark update on

Time was never Donald Trump’s ally. From the moment that he returned to office, the clock was ticking on the term-limited president. Trump’s advisers had planned for a bombardment of policies and changes that would come so fast from all sides that critics and the American people would not be able to react quickly enough.

The chief executive of Ukraine’s leading arms company says Kyiv has “learned the hard way” that military strength is an essential precursor to diplomacy, describing deep strikes into Russian territory as a core tenet of the country’s pressure campaign. Missile and drone maker Fire Point, which says it currently facilitates more than 60% of Ukraine’s

A federal district court has blocked the construction of Trump’s ballroom because the president does not have the legal authority to change the White House and must get congressional authorization for any changes because the White House does not belong to any president and sits in a national park. The White House and its grounds

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook participates in a board meeting at the Federal Reserve on March 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images President Donald Trump is “considering” firing Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, the White House said this week, reviving an effort that had been stymied by the Supreme

Before Donald Trump took off to spend the weekend at his private club in New Jersey, he held an event at the White House that was supposed to be about promoting miners and the mining industry. Trump showed how much he cared about coal miners by telling the attendees to hurry it up. The president

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is seen during a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Department of Defense budget hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on May 19, 2026. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty Images Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday he has been discharged from a rehabilitation facility and will

Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Elon Musk‘s DOGE promised to slash $2 trillion in federal spending and to make the federal workforce lean and efficient. But even the cost savings it has

If there is one lesson the American people have learned over the ten years Donald Trump has been in national politics, it is that when things go wrong, someone else will always be blamed. It is Trump 101. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Support us by becoming a subscriber. Trump decided on his

People queue to refuel their cars at a Gazpromneft petrol station in Yaroslavl on July 15, 2026. Russia — one of the world’s largest oil producers — has introduced a swath of restrictions on petrol sales across the country, as Ukrainian strikes on its refineries, depots and logistics crimp domestic supply. Igor Ivanko | Afp

The Republican plan to flip the current Democratic-held Michigan US Senate seat was to make the election about Abdul El-Sayed instead of Donald Trump, and hope beyond hope that the bruising primary would leave Democrats divided. The odds of Michigan voters being more concerned about El-Sayed than Donald Trump setting the economy on fire were

An American flag flies near the Ever Memo container ship at the Port of Los Angeles on May 28, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Trump administration said it has refunded about $100 billion of the tariff revenue that was collected before President Donald Trump‘s “liberation day” duties were struck

Some in the media are starting to wake up to the reality that the daily breaks from reality the country is witnessing are not just Trump being Trump, which seems to be the common mentality among the mainstream media as they have figured out that Trump is the cash cow and ratings boon that they

Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., are the Democratic Senate candidates from Michigan. Getty Images Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive, anti-establishment Democrat running for Senate in Michigan, defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in one of the most closely watched and impactful primary elections of the 2026 midterms. El-Sayed beat Stevens by 1 percentage point as

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 21, 2026. Eric Lee | Reuters Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will vote against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump‘s pick for the nation’s top law enforcement job ahead of a

To understand how much power Trump has lost, it helps to take a look at the agendas of the White House and the Republican Senate majority. Last week, Donald Trump demanded that Senate Majority Leader Thune cancel the August recess and stay in session until his election rigging legislation, which has been misleadingly named the

US President Donald Trump speaks at Wheeler High School, in Marietta, Georgia, on July 22, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump and Republicans have a new favorite term for their opponents on the left: Communists.  Trump has been trying to stitch Democrats to communism, the economic philosophy championed by Karl

The hype about a deal to end the war with Iran didn’t even last long enough for the mainstream media to write stories promoting it. It seems that the mainstream media will never learn. When Donald Trump posts something late at night on a weekend, there is a very high probability that the president is

A coalition of 25 Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration Monday, arguing President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by imposing sweeping tariffs on goods from 60 U.S. trading partners. The complaint, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, challenges tariffs of 10% or 12.5% on most goods imported from the affected economies, which together

Donald Trump botched the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation. The Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote as much in the legal filing that requested the dismissal of the criminal charges against Olympian David Hearn. Trump still stuck to his vandalism tale over the weekend on Truth Social, and claimed that he disagreed with the government