White House goes into crisis mode as Todd Blanche gets brutal shellacking
At the beginning of his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was forced to listen to a lengthy list of all his
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Gus the T-rex breaks dinosaur fossil sale record at auction
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton has become the most expensive dinosaur fossil sold at auction after an unidentified buyer paid more than $50m (£37.3m) for it.
British illegal immigrant in ‘international criminal organisation’ shot dead in US
A British illegal immigrant who was allegedly part of an international criminal organisation has been shot and killed in the United States.
‘Can you hear?’ Fiery debate breaks out as CNN panelists try to make sense of Trump’s clip
A CNN panel broke out into a fiery debate as pundits tried to understand Trump’s comments about his upcoming speech. During a panel discussion hosted
GOP has ‘shameful and cowardly’ plan for Todd Blanche to leave hearing untouched: analysts
Political analysts warned that Republicans have a plan to move Todd Blanche through his upcoming confirmation hearing untouched. During an interview on Morning Shots, conservative
Mike Johnson didn’t say this quote about spending on seniors. Here’s who did
Social media posts erroneously claimed the House speaker said, “Every dollar spent on seniors could have gone elsewhere.”
Did Trump’s motorcade leave tire tracks in reflecting pool? What photos show
The president’s motorcade drove through the drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in early May 2026 to survey ongoing work.
Trump’s CDC cut tracking of ‘explosive diarrhea’ parasite before 2026 outbreak
FoodNet, a CDC-led federal collaboration, made tracking the cyclospora parasite optional in 2025.
Ex-VP demands ICE probe after three deaths in space of a week
Kamala Harris has called for an investigation into America’s controversial ICE agents following the deaths of three people in the space of a week.
State AG scoffs at Trump ally’s ‘last-ditch’ attempt to ‘blackmail’ him over mega merger
A state attorney general brushed off a “blackmail” attempt by a media executive amid a lawsuit against a Trump-backed merger. During an interview with former
Rubio’s lawyers retreat in court after denying his Signal war chats set to auto-delete
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a court that he isn’t deleting sensitive information discussed on Signal — then his lawyers had to retract that
Protest over killing of driver by ICE officer in US
Hundreds of people have taken part in a protest in Maine over the killing of a Colombian man by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Trump pays E Jean Carroll $5.6m in sex abuse and defamation case
The writer E Jean Carroll has received a multimillion dollar payout more than three years after she was awarded it by the jury in her
‘Strangled to death’: Lawmakers return from Cuba with a grim warning
As the Trump administration announced a new round of sanctions on Cuba’s tourism ministry, energy companies, and other entities on Monday, four Democratic members of