President Donald Trump will make a brief trip to Israel to preside over a fragile Gaza ceasefire that includes releasing all 20 living hostages and the remains of others. He is expected to address the Knesset and sign the deal in Sharm El Sheikh as European leaders look on. The...
Trump biographer Michael Wolff alleges Jared Kushner engineered Donald Trump’s Gaza peace push to advance his own Middle East business ties, leveraging investors in his Affinity Partners fund and help from developer and envoy Steve Witkoff. Wolff says Qatar pledged to clamp down on Hamas if Trump pressed Benjamin Netanyahu—prompting...
Donald Trump replaced Sergio Gor with longtime aide Dan Scavino to lead the White House Presidential Personnel Office, shifting Gor to ambassador to India. The move follows Gor’s explosive clash with Elon Musk over NASA pick Jared Isaacman, whose nomination Trump withdrew after Gor flagged Democratic donations. Musk quit days...
At a Los Angeles show, pop star Chappell Roan praised the city’s resilience after this year’s wildfires, then declared “F**k ICE forever,” prompting anti-ICE chants. The Department of Homeland Security’s Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, shot back via TMZ: “Pink Pony Club is good. Pedophiles are bad… Get...
Vice President JD Vance, on ABC’s “This Week,” stopped short of accusing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker of a crime but said Pritzker violated his oath by opposing the administration’s plan to send National Guard troops to Chicago to aid ICE. Pritzker fired back, calling the threats unconstitutional and saying, “Come...
Vice President JD Vance told Face the Nation the administration is confident a 72‑hour hostage release will proceed, with the President likely traveling to the Middle East to greet freed captives. He credited a nontraditional diplomatic team and said Muslim‑majority countries would provide ground troops for Gaza as the U.S....
The Trump administration is intensifying a broad campaign to force Democratic-led cities to adopt conservative policies by tying billions in federal grants to conditions on immigration, diversity, transgender rights and more, while also deploying the National Guard and ramping ICE enforcement. Dozens of cities have sued, and lower courts have...
With no end to the federal shutdown, an estimated 750,000 workers are furloughed and hundreds of thousands more are working without pay. In the Oval Office, President Donald Trump questioned whether furloughed staff would receive back pay despite a legal guarantee, while his administration threatened mass firings. OMB director Russell...
At 89, former Justice Anthony Kennedy reflects on a life in law as his memoir, Life, Law & Liberty, arrives Tuesday from Simon & Schuster. The onetime Supreme Court swing vote recounts his Western roots, a fast rise from Sacramento practice to the 9th Circuit at 38, and cases that...
ABC’s This Week captured a stark split-screen: in Gaza, a Trump-announced ceasefire quieted the fighting, with 200 U.S. troops set to monitor and 48 hostages—20 believed alive—expected back within a day as Trump heads to Israel and Egypt. At home, DOJ indictments of Letitia James and James Comey fueled charges...
