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Coming in 2026: Increased ICE Raids in Workplaces

New funding boosts ICE, Border Patrol raids as public backlash grows

(Newser) - President Trump is preparing to widen his immigration crackdown in 2026 with a major funding boost and an increased focus on workplace raids, even as public resistance grows and Republicans head into a risky midterm election year, Reuters reports. Under a July spending package approved by the GOP-led Congress, Immigration...

Ezra Klein: Trump's 'Vibe Shift' Is Done
Ezra Klein:
Trump's
'Vibe Shift'
Is Done
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Dec 22, 2025 8:31 AM CST

Ezra Klein: Trump's 'Vibe Shift' Is Done

Columnist argues that there's a correction underway to the president's hard-right policies

(Newser) - New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein is calling it: "The Trump vibe shift is over." He ticks off his evidence: low polls, Democratic victories, a tariff policy that "has raised prices, confused companies and alienated allies but has accomplished very little," criticism from...

Denmark Isn't Happy With New US Move on Greenland

President picks Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy, who wants territory to be part of US

(Newser) - Denmark plans to haul in the US ambassador for an explanation after President Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland—and that envoy immediately talked about making the Arctic island American. As the Guardian reports, the controversy began Sunday, when Trump announced that Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry would take the...

CBS Chief Pulls 60 Minutes Segment on Deportations

CBS reporter slams Bari Weiss' decision as 'political'

(Newser) - CBS News' new boss has yanked a 60 Minutes investigation off the air at the last minute, and the show's own correspondent is calling it a political move. Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled a segment examining alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants held at a high-security prison in El Salvador just...

Blanche Says Epstein Files Weren't Pulled to Protect Trump

Justice Department says it restored photo as lawmakers threaten to hold Bondi in contempt

(Newser) - With the Justice Department facing criticism over the initial, incomplete release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that references to the president are not being excluded. "We are not redacting information around President Trump," Blanche said on NBC's...

Report: Trump Used Primary Mortgages for Rentals

Records show Trump claimed 2 Palm Beach rentals as primary residences, per ProPublica

(Newser) - The Trump administration has aggressively gone after political rivals over alleged mortgage games. Newly unearthed paperwork, however, suggests he once played a similar game himself. ProPublica reports that Trump signed two mortgages in Palm Beach in late 1993 and early 1994, each time listing the property as his main home....

Recipients of Trump's Pardons Also Off the Hook for Restitution

President's clemency wipes out tens of millions of dollars owed to victims

(Newser) - President Trump's latest wave of clemency isn't just slashing prison terms—it's erasing debts owed to people who were told the law would help make them whole. A Washington Post review found that at least 20 people granted pardons or commutations by Trump this year also had...

Workers Begin Adding Trump Name to Kennedy Center

Kennedy family ridicules the move

(Newser) - Members of the Kennedy family are strongly objecting to a move to rebrand the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the "Trump-Kennedy Center." White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the name change Thursday , saying a board appointed by Trump earlier this year had unanimously...

Death Toll in US Boat Strikes Blows Past 100

US military says 5 were killed in 2 new boat strikes against alleged drug smugglers in eastern Pacific

(Newser) - The US military on Thursday said it had conducted two more strikes against boats it claimed were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people. US Southern Command posted on social media that "intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern...

Trump Makes Christmas Eve, Dec. 26 Federal Holidays

Move for this year gives many federal workers a 5-day Christmas weekend in 2025

(Newser) - Federal workers can look forward to an unusually long Christmas break this year. President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order giving federal employees Dec. 24 and Dec. 26 off, effectively shutting most government offices from Wednesday through Friday next week, with Christmas Day already a statutory holiday, per the...

Trump Unveils 'Patriot Games' for Nation's 250th Birthday
Trump Announces
'Patriot Games'
Dec 19, 2025 4:57 AM CST

Trump Announces 'Patriot Games'

Critics quickly compared Freedom 250 event to Hunger Games

(Newser) - President Trump on Thursday unveiled the "Patriot Games," a four-day athletic competition for top high school athletes from every US state and territory, to be hosted by the White House next fall as part of the nation's 250th birthday celebrations. In a video released by Freedom 250,...

Trump Suspends Green Card Lottery Program After Shootings

Program allowed suspect in Brown, MIT shootings to stay in US

(Newser) - President Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States, the AP reports. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that at Trump's direction she...

Erika Kirk Backs JD Vance for 2028 Presidential Run

Turning Point USA leader signals influential youth backing for Vance

(Newser) - Erika Kirk used the opening night of Turning Point USA's flagship conference to make a 2028 call: She wants JD Vance in the Oval Office. Speaking to thousands of conservative activists at the group's America Fest gathering in Phoenix Thursday night, Kirk, widow of Turning Point co-founder Charlie...

It's Not the Tariffs Paying Trump's Troops Bonus

Administration is tapping $2.6 billion approved by Congress for military housing aid

(Newser) - The funding for that Christmas bonus President Trump promised troops in his speech Wednesday night isn't exactly as advertised. Trump indicated revenue from the tariffs he's imposed on goods coming into the US mostly would cover the $1,776 checks, which he called a "warrior dividend."...

Trump Signs Order to Reclassify Marijuana

Downgrading drug to Schedule III could open new avenues for medical research

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done. The switch would move marijuana from its current classification as a...

Board Adds Trump's Name to the Kennedy Center

It was not immediately clear if Congress needs to approve the change

(Newser) - Goodbye, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Hello, Trump-Kennedy Center. Or at least that's the view of the board handpicked by President Trump to run the DC arts institution. On Thursday, the board voted unanimously to rename the facility, reports NBC News . However, the Washington Post reports...

Man Spent a Month in Jail for Sharing Trump Meme
Man Jailed for
Anti-Trump
Meme Is Suing
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Dec 18, 2025 12:20 PM CST

Man Jailed for Anti-Trump Meme Is Suing

Larry Bushart says meme cited Trump's remarks after high school shooting, are his right to air

(Newser) - A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer who spent more than a month behind bars for an anti-Trump post on social media is now suing a local sheriff and investigator, as well as Perry County. Per the Washington Post , 61-year-old Larry Bushart's suit filed Wednesday in federal court claims that...

Trump Moves to End Transgender Care for Minors

Health secretary Kennedy has called the treatments 'junk science'

(Newser) - The Trump administration is moving to sharply curb gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed two rules aimed at restricting such care, which can include puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries. One proposal would bar any hospital or clinic that provides gender-affirming...

It's a 'Total Transformation' for Trump Media

President's struggling company to merge with a nuclear fusion firm

(Newser) - After dabbling in social media, streaming, and cryptocurrency, the struggling Trump Media and Technology Group is planning "a total transformation," per the New York Times . The parent company of Truth Social plans to merge with TAE Technologies, a California-based nuclear fusion company, in an all-stock transaction the companies...

Third Term for Trump? Dershowitz Lays Out How

Draft of attorney's book outlines scenarios he thinks Trump may be able to pursue if he wanted to

(Newser) - President Trump has been kicking around a familiar hypothetical in private: Could he somehow serve yet another term as president? Per the Wall Street Journal , Trump met this week in the Oval Office with lawyer and longtime ally Alan Dershowitz, who handed him a draft of a forthcoming book titled...

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