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White House Launches Site With a Very Familiar Look

New portal dedicated to pro Trump news closely resembles the Drudge Report

(Newser) - The White House has a new website to highlight pro-Trump news, and it looks pretty familiar. Dubbed "White House Wire," the portal features a large photo at the top of the page, underneath which are a bunch of headlines that link to full news articles singing the praises...

Kamala Harris: Yes, Things Will Probably Get Worse First

Former VP, presidential candidate emerges to give big anti-Trump speech

(Newser) - Former Vice President Kamala Harris used a high-profile speech Wednesday to sharply criticize President Trump amid speculation about whether she will mount another presidential campaign or opt to run for California governor. In her most extensive public remarks since leaving office in January following her defeat to Trump, Harris said...

Trump Cabinet Meeting Was a Lovefest

Officials drenched president with praise

(Newser) - In a two-hour game of one-upmanship at the White House on Wednesday, top Cabinet officials took turns drenching President Trump with praise that went beyond even the usual levels of adulation. Near the end of the marathon meeting, Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted that the US has brought home...

Impeachment Resolution Is Down to 1 Co-Sponsor

Democratic caucus chairman had said party wasn't interested in the attempt

(Newser) - Three House Democrats who signed on to Rep. Shri Thanedar's resolution to impeach President Trump have now signed off it. Reps. Kweisi Mfume, Robin Kelly, and Jerry Nadler are no longer co-sponsors after asking the House clerk to remove their names, the Hill reports. That leaves only Rep. Jan...

Trump: 'This Is Biden's Stock Market'

He blames 'overhang' for economy's first quarterly contraction in years

(Newser) - Stocks fell sharply Wednesday morning after the Commerce Department said the US economy shrank in the first quarter of this year, but the person who was president for most of that time blamed the first GDP drop since early 2022 on his predecessor. "This is Biden's Stock Market,...

Things Got Testy in Trump's '100 Days' Interview on ABC

President called the network 'one of the worst,' told interviewer he'd never heard of him

(Newser) - In addition to his Michigan rally , President Trump gave an interview to ABC News to mark his 100th day in office Tuesday, and it wasn't exactly a friendly one. Words like "contentious" and "testy" were being used to describe Trump's sit-down with Terry Moran, an anchor...

Trump Revisits Old Grudges at 100 Days Rally

'I miss the campaign,' he tells Michigan crowd

(Newser) - President Trump on Tuesday celebrated the 100th day of his second term—yet spent much of his rally marking it in campaign mode, bringing up past grudges and grievances. The AP reports that at the rally at Macomb Community College in suburban Detroit. Trump repeatedly mocked his Democratic predecessor, Joe...

Trump to Revisit Auto Industry Tariffs
Trump's 'Significant
Reversal' on Auto Tariffs
UPDATED
Apr 29, 2025 7:52 PM CDT

Trump's 'Significant Reversal' on Auto Tariffs

He signs executive order to ease impact on US automakers

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to relax some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts, a significant reversal as the import taxes threatened to hurt domestic manufacturers. Automakers and independent analyses have indicated that the tariffs could raise prices, reduce sales, and make US production...

Judge: White House Must Give Radio Free Europe Its $12M

The money had been appropriated by Congress

(Newser) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million that Congress appropriated for Radio Free Europe, a pro-democracy media outlet at risk of going dark for the first time in 75 years. US District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, granted the temporary restraining order...

Trump Fires Biden Nominees to Holocaust Memorial Council

'To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous,' Doug Emhoff says

(Newser) - President Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden's nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris. The board oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  • Emhoff, who is Jewish and who led the Biden administration's efforts
...

Democrat Is First to File Articles of Impeachment

Michigan's Shri Thanedar introduces measure destined to go nowhere

(Newser) - A Democratic lawmaker has found his own way of marking President Trump's first 100 days—by unveiling seven articles of impeachment. Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan introduced his resolution on Monday, accusing Trump of "tyrannical overreach" with his second-term policies on everything from mass government layoffs to deportations,...

White House Is Not Happy With Amazon&#39;s Reported Tariff Plan
Amazon: No, We're Not
Adding a Tariff Label
UPDATED
Apr 29, 2025 12:50 PM CDT

Amazon: No, We're Not Adding a Tariff Label

Company responds after heavy criticism from the White House

(Newser) - The Trump administration is taking none too kindly to reports that Amazon might slap labels on their imported wares letting consumers know how much tariffs affected the price . "I just got off the phone with the president about ... Amazon's announcement. This is a hostile and political act by...

Danish King Drops In to Visit Greenland

Denmark appears to be underscoring its ties in light of Trump's demands to take over the island

(Newser) - King Frederik X of Denmark arrived in Greenland on Tuesday, reports the AP , kicking off a visit to the semiautonomous territory that President Trump wants to annex because of its strategic Arctic location. Frederik's trip to the island's capital city of Nuuk follows the new Greenlandic prime minister'...

They're 'Using the Civil Rights Division Against Civil Rights'

Lawyers flee DOJ office as it shifts focus to 'woke ideology,' anti-Christian bias

(Newser) - Half of the lawyers employed by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have left their jobs in recent weeks as a new director brings the office in line with President Trump's agenda, the Washington Post reports. Harmeet Dhillon, a California lawyer who represented Trump in challenging the 2020...

The Trump Presidency at 100 Days
Trump Slams 100-Day Polls,
Late-Night Hosts Disagree
the rundown
Apr 29, 2025 6:38 AM CDT

Trump Slams 100-Day Polls, Late-Night Hosts Disagree

Tuesday is president's 100th day of his second term

(Newser) - Tuesday is President Trump's 100th day of his new term, and he plans to mark the occasion with a speech in Michigan later in the evening outside Detroit, reports CBS News . In the meantime, there is no shortage of 100-day assessments.
  • Polls: Trump's approval rating has dropped , particularly
...

Deported Moms' Only Option Was to Take Kids: Lawyer

Lawyer refutes Trump administration's insistence that moms chose to keep kids with them

(Newser) - The Trump administration insists the two mothers recently deported along with their young children—despite the fact that those children are US citizens , and one of them has cancer— chose to take their children with them . A lawyer representing one of the families says that's not so. "Here...

Trump Order Aims to 'Unleash' Law Enforcement

Executive orders aim to bolster law enforcement, punish sanctuary cities

(Newser) - Among President Trump's latest executive orders is one promising to strengthen and "unleash" the country's law enforcement. The order calls for resources to be directed toward the legal defense of law enforcement officers who find themselves incurring "expenses and liabilities" related to actions carried out in...

Trump's Order Returns to English Rule for Truck Drivers

Law has been in effect, but president says it isn't being enforced

(Newser) - President Trump's latest executive order calls for enforcing a measure already on the books—a federal law requiring proficiency in English for commercial truck drivers. In signing the measure on Monday evening, per the AP , Trump said the "requirement has not been enforced in years, and America's...

Many but Not All Eagles Celebrate With Trump

Quarterback Jalen Hurts is among the no-shows at White House Super Bowl party

(Newser) - President Trump hosted the 2025 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles at the White House on Monday—though several players, including quarterback Jalen Hurts, skipped the celebration. Hurts and other players cited scheduling conflicts as the reasons for their absences, according to a White House official, the AP reports. Still, the...

Donor&#39;s Newspaper Rips Trump Pardon of Ally, Fraudster
Big Donor's Paper
Rips Trump Pardon
Apr 28, 2025 6:15 PM CDT

Big Donor's Paper Rips Trump Pardon

Miriam Adelson put $300M into a campaign PAC for Trump

(Newser) - A Nevada newspaper owned by a megadonor to President Trump has harshly criticized the president's pardon last week of a local political operative convicted of fraud, calling the action "a debasement of presidential pardon power." The editorial published Friday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is owned...

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