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White House Working on Plan to Extend Health Care Subsidies

Though sources say some Republicans aren't happy about it

(Newser) - The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as millions of Americans face spiking health care costs when the current tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year,...

DOJ Goes Back to Judges With New Epstein Law

Filings argue for quick release of files

(Newser) - The Justice Department on Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking cases, arguing the material should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime accomplice. The...

DOGE Has Disbanded Early, Administration Confirms
Musk's DOGE Is No More
Nov 24, 2025 6:29 PM CST

Musk's DOGE Is No More

Elon Musk's cost-cutting operation fell well short of its promised spending cuts

(Newser) - The Department of Government Efficiency has gone out of business. With eight months theoretically left in its run, Elon Musk's DOGE no longer has centralized leadership and officially has been disbanded, the Office of Personnel Management confirmed. It was set up by President Trump on his first day in...

Trump Takes Unexpected Call from China's Xi

Reports say Chinese leader was the one who initiated the call

(Newser) - American and Chinese officials have confirmed that Xi Jinping and President Trump had a rare phone conversation Monday morning. The Wall Street Journal , calling it an "unusual diplomatic move," reports that sources say the Chinese leader was the one who initiated the call. According to Chinese state media,...

Trump Family's Crypto Fortune Tanks by $1B

Losses come amid larger crypto selloff, but Eric Trump isn't worried

(Newser) - The Trump family's crypto fortune has taken a sharp hit, with their collective wealth dropping by $1 billion since September, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The drop in wealth down to $6.7 billion is tied to a broader selloff that has erased more than $1 trillion from...

As Peace Plan Hits Opposition, Trump Leaves an Opening

President says Zelensky can take it or leave it but also says proposal isn't his final offer

(Newser) - European leaders drew up a counterproposal to the US plan to stop the war over Ukraine on Saturday as Republican senators criticized the terms and President Trump said President Volodymyr Zelensky can either agree to them or "continue to fight his little heart out." At the same time,...

Trump's Next Project: Andrews Golf Courses

President says Jack Nicklaus will handle the design

(Newser) - President Trump said Saturday he's enlisted golf great Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews—adding a site long known as the "president's golf course" to his list of construction projects. "We're doing some fix-up of the base, which it needs,...

Bomb Threat Follows Post by Trump
Bomb Threat
Follows Post
by Trump
Nov 22, 2025 12:10 PM CST

Bomb Threat Follows Post by Trump

President accused Elissa Slotkin of sedition over video message to troops

(Newser) - Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin's Michigan home was targeted by a bomb threat on Friday, days after she and other former military service members in Congress released a video urging troops to reject "illegal orders" from the Trump administration. The threat followed President Trump's public accusations on Thursday...

Rep. Vindman: Trump-MBS Phone Call a 'Shocking' One

Widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi demands transcript of 2019 call be released

(Newser) - The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday called for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call that President Trump had with Mohammed bin Salman, joining Democratic lawmakers who are raising questions about whether Trump personally benefitted from his embrace of the Saudi crown prince....

Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Resign From Congress

'Great news for the country,' says former ally President Trump

(Newser) - President Trump offered his first reactions to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Friday resignation announcement, telling ABC News later that day, "I think it's great news for the country." He went on to say that "it doesn't matter" that the congresswoman, once a staunch ally,...

Trump Changes Tune on Mamdani After Meeting

After months of insulting each other, the two display warmth in Oval Office

(Newser) - With the cameras rolling, the nation's MAGA president and its largest city's democratic socialist mayor-elect expressed at least momentary detente on Friday after meeting at the White House—pausing the trading of public insults that has gone on for months. "I feel very confident that he can...

Before Trump, Mamdani Meet, House Votes Nay on Socialism

Eighty-six Democrats join GOP in approving resolution

(Newser) - Hours before President Trump was to meet with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday afternoon, the House set the stage by passing a resolution denouncing the "horrors of socialism." Although congressional Democrats have been dismissive of the Republican attacks on the democratic socialist and criticized the resolution,...

Trump: 'I'm Not Threatening' Democrats

But he says lawmakers who told troops they could disobey orders are in 'serious trouble'

(Newser) - President Trump spoke to Fox News on Friday and clarified his assertion that Democrats who directed a video to service members committed a crime "punishable by death." The president told Brian Kilmeade that he is not calling for the execution of lawmakers, as some of his critics have...

Zelensky: This Is 'Very Difficult' Moment in Ukraine History

US is pressuring Ukraine to accept its peace plan, but it requires big concessions

(Newser) - The coming week might prove to be the most consequential yet for the Russia-Ukraine war, but how things will shake out remains very much up in the air. Volodomyr Zelensky must decide whether to accept a US-crafted plan to end the war, one that requires major concessions that Ukraine has...

Kimmel to Trump: &#39;Quiet, Piggy&#39;
Kimmel to Trump: 'Quiet, Piggy'
Nov 21, 2025 10:22 AM CST

Kimmel to Trump: 'Quiet, Piggy'

Late-night host fires back after Trump's latest call from him to be pulled off the air

(Newser) - "I have honestly lost count of how many times the president has demanded I be pulled off the air," Jimmy Kimmel said in his Thursday night monologue, firing back after President Trump's latest attack. "Talk about a snowflake, this guy. Every five weeks, he flips out...

Leavitt Defends Trump's 'Piggy' Remark to Reporter

She says voters appreciate his 'frankness'

(Newser) - The White House is defending President Trump's latest verbal attack on a female journalist, arguing that his bluntness is part of what voters want. In a Thursday briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump's "frankness" is why he won a second term, after he called Bloomberg News...

Trump Calls Video Released by 6 Dems 'Punishable by Death'

President accuses them of 'seditious behavior' after they encouraged troops to defy orders

(Newser) - President Trump is steaming mad over a video made by six Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of "seditious behavior" that is "punishable by death." The details:
  • The video: The Democratic video is addressed to US troops and members of the intelligence community, and it encourages them to "
...

Trump Excluded From Cheney Funeral
Trump Excluded
From Cheney Funeral
Nov 20, 2025 6:26 AM CST

Trump Excluded From Cheney Funeral

VP JD Vance wasn't invited, either

(Newser) - President Trump was not invited to the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney, taking place Thursday, sources tell Axios and CNN . The snub is notable because sitting presidents usually attend the funerals of former vice presidents and presidents. But Cheney, who died earlier this month at age 84, broke...

Trump Threatens to Fire His 'Voice of Reason'

President tells Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to get rates down, or else

(Newser) - President Trump has publicly warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that his job is on the line if the Federal Reserve doesn't bring down interest rates soon. Speaking at a US-Saudi investment forum in Washington, Trump told Bessent, "If you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going...

Trump: I'm Meeting With Mamdani Friday

President, NYC mayor's rep confirm the sit-down is taking place in DC

(Newser) - President Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who for months have antagonized each other from afar, the AP reports. The sit-down, which Trump said...

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