A top Justice Department attorney argued in court on Friday that President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rally speech before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was at least partially aimed at furthering the broader interests of the United States.

Kennedy Center: President Trump’s name was added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, a day after its board moved to rename it. The center was built as a living memorial to the 35th president, and it has been generally understood that the power to change its name lies with Congress, which has not acted. Read more ›

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits.

Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.

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A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is the Trump administration's latest excuse for demonizing immigrants and refugees.

Rob Van Dam is thrilled with the “birthday present” that Donald Trump just gave him. RVD’s birthday is8. That also happens to be the same day that United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reclassified cannabis as a Schedule 3 controlled substance.

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announced a pause on the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery, saying that the Brown University shooting perpetrator entered the country via the program in 2017 and was provided a green card.

The executive order does not accomplish much in practical terms, but it jibes with the president's conflation of drug trafficking with violent aggression.