Defiant Democrats are embracing this weekend's "No Kings" rallies, bashing the GOP's attacks on the anti-Trump protests as an assault on free speech while urging voters to take to the streets.
"Showing up to express dissent against an out-of-control administration, that's as American as motherhood, baseball and apple pie," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Friday.
The pushback comes in response to Republican leaders who have spent much of the last week trying to brand the planned protests as "hate-America" demonstrations backed by left-wing extremists vying to undermine the country's democratic traditions. |
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President Trump's dual-pronged action on expanding access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) is garnering mixed reactions from lawmakers, advocates and medical groups, with some calling it a step in the right direction, if only to start the conversation.
Speaking from the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump announced new federal guidance on insurance coverage for IVF services, as well as his administration's latest deal with a drug manufacturer under his "most favored nation" pricing policy.
The updated guidance from the Department of Labor, the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would make opting in to fertility benefits similar to opting in for dental or vision benefits as part of an employer's insurance plan. |
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The anti-President Trump opposition is leaning into its biggest moment so far with the "No Kings" protests that are scheduled across the nation Saturday.
Organizers say the number of planned events has grown to more than 2,700 and that online RSVPs by people hoping to attend have more than doubled in the past week alone. |
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President Trump said Friday he granted former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) a sentence commutation months after the ex-lawmaker reported to prison.
"George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated," the president wrote in a statement on Truth Social. |
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BY FILIP TIMOTIJA AND LAURA KELLY |
President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the White House, part of a renewed push to end Russia's more than three-year war in Ukraine.
Trump, feeling victorious after securing a ceasefire in the Middle East, projected optimism about ending the war that he once proclaimed he could resolve in one day. |
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President Trump signed a Friday proclamation intended to offset the impact of auto tariffs with an expansion of credits for eligible car manufacturers.
Automakers who import car parts to the U.S. will receive 3.75 percent offset from the vehicle's listed retail price until 2030 under the Friday order. Originally, the program was set to expire in 2027. |
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The Supreme Court is about to run out of money, and federal courts across the country are expected to run out by early next week because of the government shutdown.
The nation's top court "expects to run out of funding on October 18," Patricia McCabe, Supreme Court public information officer, told The Hill. |
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President Trump on Friday endorsed a potential challenger to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has tussled with the GOP over the last several months.
Trump threw his full support behind Ed Gallrein as a contender in Kentucky's 2026 GOP primary.
"I hope Ed gets into the Race against Massie, who is now polling at about 9% because the Great People of Kentucky are wise to him — He only votes against the Republican Party, making life very easy for the Radical Left," the president wrote in a Friday post on Truth Social. |
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Reports have found additional controversial social media posts Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner made years before his bid to oust Sen. Susan Collins (R).
The Bangor Daily News wrote that Platner — who has already disavowed his previous posts on Reddit — reportedly asked why Black people "don't tip" in a thread of questions users "have always wanted to ask someone of another race." |
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OPINION | As the race for New York City mayor nears its end, the shrinking pool of undecided voters is being shaped by moral confrontation and identity politics. It is terrain where Zohran Mamdani, the out-of-nowhere Democratic primary winner, excels. It is also where Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor turned independent candidate, risks appearing weak when seen as "soft" on that city's bogeyman, President Trump. |
OPINION | The ladies of "The View" think Republicans, particularly Republican men, are too afraid of them to come on the show. Seriously! Host Joy Behar made that case during a recent episode, take a look.
"I think that we should have more Republicans on the show, but they don't wanna come on. They're scared of us," said Behar. "Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she finds Republican men afraid of powerful women — well, that may be true of all political persuasions. But if they would come on the show they could explain to us what they're trying to do to this country." |
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It is visible from almost anywhere on Chicago's South Side, a 225-foot-tall chunky obelisk that some have nicknamed "the Obamalisk."
The structure is the centerpiece of what will be by far the most expensive presidential center ever constructed and, like the president whose vision shaped it, it is setting off intense and often conflicting reactions.
The Obama Presidential Center is taking shape in Jackson Park, as four buildings rise around a new landscape where workers are busily rolling out sod and planting saplings along man-made hills. The goal is to finish this unusual, ambitious project by next spring. |
BY MAGGIE SEVERNS AND GREGORY ZUCKERMAN |
Soon after a Justice Department official instructed attorneys to probe George Soros's philanthropic empire last month, Soros's son Alex joked to a friend "that the Stalinists had a saying for this."
"'Give me the man, and I will give you the case against him,'" Alex Soros recounted to former Ithaca, N.Y., Mayor Svante Myrick.
Threats from the Trump administration are mounting toward the two Soroses and other Democratic megadonors, as the president has accused them of supporting violent protests and engaging in unlawful activity. |
As Democrats dig in for a lengthening government shutdown, former Vice President Kamala Harris is cheering them on as she travels the country touting her presidential campaign memoir amid speculation about another White House run.
The Democratic 2024 nominee told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she remains in contact with Democrats on Capitol Hill, encouraging them to maintain their demands that President Donald Trump and the Republican congressional majority address looming spikes in Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums.
"The Republicans control the House. They control the Senate. They control the White House. They are in charge, and they are responsible for the shutdown," she said. |
On the morning after the U.S. election last November, an American living in London woke up, read that Donald Trump would be returning to the White House and sent an email to the U.S. Embassy. It said, in essence, I want a divorce.
A year later, the country of his birth is about to grant his request not to be an American any more.
The man, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he fears retribution by the Trump administration, is in the final phase of expatriation, the process of formally renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
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