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Trump Demands Colorado Remove His Portrait

President alleges he was made to look bad intentionally

(Newser) - President Trump doesn't just dislike the portrait of himself hanging in Colorado's state capitol—he thinks the artist made him look bad on purpose and wants it removed. As the Hill reports, the unusual demand came via Truth Social :
  • "Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mass Firings

White House seeks emergency appeal over lower court's ruling

(Newser) - The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings, per the AP . The emergency appeal argues that the judge can't force the executive branch to rehire some 16,000 probationary employees. It...

Mike Myers Gives Canada a Rallying Cry
Mike Myers Gives
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Mar 24, 2025 9:17 AM CDT

Mike Myers Gives Canada a Rallying Cry

PM Mark Carney backs 'elbows up' in campaign ad

(Newser) - Mike Myers' "elbows up" rallying cry has moved from Saturday Night Live to an official Liberal Party ad featuring new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Ahead of the April 28 general election , Myers and Carney seemingly bump into each other in Canada—where else but a hockey rink? Myers,...

Trump's New Tariffs May Be Narrower Than Feared

Markets are rising on the optimism

(Newser) - President Trump still plans to unveil a new round of tariffs on April 2, but they're now expected to be less severe than initially feared, reports the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg . The new reports have buoyed investors, and US markets are expected to open with a jump. Dow...

Trump Border Czar: We'll Abide by Judge's Deportation Order

Though Tom Homan doesn't specify exactly what that means, given the flights already landed

(Newser) - President Trump's border czar said less than a week ago that he didn't "care what the judges think" regarding the administration's controversial deportation flights to El Salvador, which continued despite a judge ordering them to turn around last weekend, and that more would be coming . He...

White House Wants Corporate Sponsors for Easter Egg Roll

Some ethics experts are raising concerns

(Newser) - In recent years, the White House Easter Egg Roll has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now, the Trump administration is putting forward an unconventional idea to fund it: corporate sponsorships. The event production company Harbinger, which is putting on this year's Egg Roll, is offering sponsorship opportunities...

Yes, Politics Came Up as Conan Got Kennedy Center Award

O'Brien accepted Mark Twain Prize for humor

(Newser) - Conan O'Brien accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Sunday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the current state of national affairs came up quite a few times during the course of the evening. President Trump, of course, wasted no time gutting...

Citing Trump, Carney Calls Snap Election

Earlier vote could help Liberals capitalize on anti-Trump sentiment

(Newser) - Against the backdrop of a trade war with the US and President Trump's talk of a takeover, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election. Carney, who was elected by the Liberal Party earlier this month, wants the election to be held on April 28 instead...

Law Firms Delete Mentions of Mueller Investigation

Archived web pages show lawyers' bios have gotten shorter

(Newser) - Starting in October as the president election neared, four major law firms began removing references on their websites to work their lawyers had done on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence and possible coordination with Donald Trump's campaign. Bloomberg Law found the deletions from the lawyers'...

Critics Decry 'Cruel' DHS Move Against 532K Immigrants

Homeland Security to revoke legal protections for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans

(Newser) - The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month. The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States...

Biden's Security Clearance 'No Longer in the National Interest'

Trump strips former president, Kamala Harris, other political foes of the courtesy

(Newser) - More than a dozen of Donald Trump's political foes, including former President Biden, have had their US security clearances yanked by the current president. "I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information," Trump wrote in...

After Trump Move, Family Sues Cartel Over DEA Agent's Killing

Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena was kidnapped in Mexico in 1985 and tortured

(Newser) - The family of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena has sued Mexico's Sinaloa cartel over the kidnapping and killing of the US DEA agent, taking advantage of the new designation of cartels as terrorist organizations. The lawsuit also names three drug lords, Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Miguel Angel...

Hegseth: Musk Didn't See 'Secret' War Plan on China

President Trump also denies that DOGE leader was privy to classified plan

(Newser) - A Thursday report in the New York Times claiming Elon Musk would be briefed by the Pentagon on top-secret war plans against China is now getting pushback, including from President Trump. First, per the Guardian , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday denied Musk saw any such plans during an early...

Trump Offered Asylum, 67K White South Africans Jumped

Group finds tens of thousands are interested in coming to US as refugees

(Newser) - South Africa has been in President Trump's crosshairs over the past few months, with Trump accusing the African nation's government of confiscating land from white farmers—a claim that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa denies. Trump issued an executive order in February that cut aid to South Africa...

Trump: Tesla Vandals, 'Funders' Could Get 20 Years

80 vehicles damaged at Canada's largest Tesla showroom

(Newser) - President Trump, who became a Tesla owner last week, warned against attacking the vehicles in a Truth Social post Thursday night. "People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders," Trump...

Trump Axes Order After Firm Promises $40M in Free Services

Executive order last week targeted prominent law firm

(Newser) - President Trump rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent international law firm on Thursday after it pledged to review its hiring practices and to provide tens of millions of dollars in free legal services to support certain White House initiatives. The move follows a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp,...

Georgetown Researcher Is Fighting Deportation

Scholar married to Palestinian-American is involved in case similar to that of Mahmoud Khalil

(Newser) - Badar Khan Suri, a researcher at Georgetown University and husband of a Palestinian-American woman, was detained by US immigration agents this week. Arrested Monday night outside his Virginia home, the Indian citizen was told his visa had been revoked. He's now being held in Louisiana, more than 1,000...

Pentagon Will Brief Musk on Plan for Hypothetical War: Report

Elon Musk set to be briefed on the plan for a potential US-China war, sources say

(Newser) - Two US officials tell the New York Times that Elon Musk will be at the Pentagon Friday, getting briefed on the US military's plan for a hypothetical war with China. A third official confirmed a China-focused briefing is happening, and a fourth confirmed Musk will be at the Pentagon...

Trump Signs Order on Education Department, to Unclear Effect
Trump Asks Students:
'Should I Do This?'
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Mar 20, 2025 7:00 PM CDT

Trump Asks Students: 'Should I Do This?'

President signs executive order on Education Department

(Newser) - The White House made a production out of President Trump's signing of an executive order to cancel the Education Department—bringing in governors, young students, and props—while acknowledging that he lacks authority to fulfill the campaign promise. "It sounds strange, doesn't it? Department of Education. We'...

Fired FTC Commissioner: 'This Is Corruption'

2 Democrats say they were illegally fired by Trump

(Newser) - Markets "should be very concerned" by President Trump's actions at the Federal Trade Commission, says one of two Democratic commissioners fired on Tuesday. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter says she was "illegally fired" by Trump, who violated "the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent,...

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