The icebreaker Tor (right) in the port of Sabetta on the coast of the Kara Sea on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic Circle, about 2450 km from Moscow. Kirill Kudryavtesev | AFP | Getty Images China and Russia are increasing their influence over Arctic shipping routes, turning the rapidly warming region into a new…

Abdul El-Sayed was the non-incumbent Democratic Senate candidate whom Republicans planned to run against in the general election. Republicans were thrilled when El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, but Things didn’t go as well or as easily as Republicans expected. El-Sayed has proven to be a good campaigner and an even…

Television ads with a pro-Trump message — funded by the U.S. government — are expanding their reach ahead of November’s midterm elections, prompting bipartisan scrutiny over whether the campaign complies with federal restrictions on taxpayer-funded advertising and propaganda. One of the ads — set to music repeating the words “Love me” — prominently features images…

Donald Trump held a few brief meetings and gave a speech full of his usual rambling incoherence in Ireland before getting to the point of his trip: This was a taxpayer-funded weekend to watch golf. Trump apparently came to Ireland to claim this His unpopular interim conference was packed. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and…

A scale model of U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned 259-foot-tall Triumphal Arch and surrounding area, including the Lincoln Memorial, is displayed on a table at a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission in Washington, DC, USA, July 9, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The National Park Service supports the location and scale of President…

Donald Trump hid in a catering truck in Turkey because his criminal brother from another mother, Bibi Netanyahu, told him that the Iranians were targeting him. The story about Trump changing planes and getting smuggled in a catering truck sounds like a bad sitcom — you know, the kind that’s always streaming on Netflix or…

Trump blames China for his 2020 election loss, but how he got there was cartoonish and absurd to the point of being unbelievable. Several channels refused to broadcast this speech on television. And those networks were quickly proven correct, as Trump began his remarks by spending five to six minutes outlining his mistakes and the…

President Donald Trump speaks with CNBC’s Joe Kernen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 2, 2026. CNBC 1. Trump feels sorry for his children over the investment audit The president defended his family’s business and said he regretted that the presidency created a conflict of interest in his children’s…

The SAVE America Act will never pass. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has said it again and again. Republicans don’t have the votes in the Senate to eliminate the filibuster, and even if they did, at least four Republicans oppose the SAVE America Act, meaning it doesn’t have enough votes to pass with a…

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press near the construction site of his planned ballroom at the White House in Washington, DC on May 19, 2026. Kent Nishimura | Afp | Getty Images Senate Republicans on Wednesday cut up to $1 billion in security funding for President Donald Trump’s proposed White House Ballroom and…