The expected — and even hoped for — explosion between President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turned out to be a festival of mutual admiration.
Justice is elusive for many impacted by the deadly realities of a multi-billion dollar industry: human trafficking. A KXAN investigation reveals while Texas is a leader in legislation to stop it, few people actually face trafficking charges. We uncover difficulties Texas prosecutors face in dismantling modern-day slavery and what it means for those seeking accountability.
State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump's 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration's position. Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed...
As federal workers remain in limbo amid the government shutdown, President Trump is traveling to Asia in an effort to unpack key foreign policy topics at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summits. Trump is also set to meet with high-ranking counterparts during stops in Malaysia, Japan and South...
President Trump’s bid to be awarded as much as $230 million by his own Department of Justice as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct would likely face few legal backstops if successful. The president confirmed Tuesday that his personal legal team was seeking out a settlement, a request that could prompt his...
President Trump on Saturday placed preliminary blame on Hamas should its ceasefire with Israel fail, but called the current deal in place an "enduring peace." "I think it will hold," Trump told reporters after meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during a refueling stop in Doha aboard Air Force One while en...
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday alluded to the notion that President Trump could seek a third term after the demolition of the White House's East Wing to make way for a massive ballroom. Maher told his panelists on HBO's "Real Time," former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele and former Biden White House communications director...
A majority of Americans say they have a negative opinion of President Trump sharing AI-generated videos mocking protesters and Democratic leaders related to the government shutdown, according to a new poll. A YouGov survey found 70 percent of American respondents said they strongly or somewhat disapprove of Trump’s artificially generated video where he’s in a...
President Trump nominated cryptocurrency regulator Mike Selig to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), almost a month after the Trump administration withdrew its nomination of Brian Quintenz. White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks announced Trump's "excellent choice" early Saturday morning. Sacks called Selig "deeply knowledgeable about financial markets and passionate about modernizing...
The recent exposure of racist and antisemitic messages in a Young Republicans group chat has caused deep hurt and outrage, and the GOP must address this with both moral clarity and a commitment to education and growth in order to become a home for all Americans.
President Trump should mark America’s 250th year by completing his Garden of Heroes, and he should put a big, beautiful, statue of Charlie Kirk at the center of it.
President Trump on Friday blasted New Jersey gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Mikie Sherill (D) for being "fake and corrupt" during a telephone rally in support of GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli, as early voting was set to begin Saturday. “Mikie, as they call her — the only thing she’s got is an unusual name, other than that...
President Trump has made it mission critical for the United States to return to the moon. Team America Moon Landing needs to be completely honest with the president and tell him if they truly believe we can safely land astronauts on the lunar surface before his term expires.
Republicans are grappling with public polls showing the public places more blame on them, rather than the Democrats, for the shutdown, even as they argue they have the moral high ground in the shutdown fight. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republicans stress that they put no partisan poison pills in a GOP-crafted, House-passed stopgap to...