As President Trump spent the week marking the 100th day of his new term, he regularly invoked his predecessor, blaming former President Biden for a wide range of economic issues and mocked him during a blitz of public appearances.
Trump declared it was "Biden's Stock Market" to account for the turbulence during his first three months in office and the gross domestic product (GDP) decline in the first quarter. During a speech in Michigan, an interview with ABC News and remarks at the White House, he lobbed reminders of the Biden era even as he touted his own accomplishments. |
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The White House on Friday called for significant cuts to nondefense programs as part of President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget request, while proposing to beef up funding for defense and the president's border priorities.
The so-called skinny budget is not as detailed as usual presidential budget requests, which is not uncommon for a president's first-year proposal. However, some budget hawks are already grumbling about what they say are key missing details. |
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A federal judge ruled on Friday evening that President Trump's March executive order targeting Perkins Coie is unconstitutional and ordered the government to abstain from enforcing the action.
U.S. District Beryl Howell blocked the order against the elite law firm, arguing the president's measure was in breach of several provisions of the Constitution.
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President Trump weighed in on whether the U.S. will enter a recession, saying during an interview that "anything can happen," but argued country's economic state will be "OK" in the long-term.
Trump, during an interview with NBC's "Meet The Press" that will air in full on Sunday, first dismissed concerns about the nation entering a recession. |
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The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to let the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access millions of Americans' personal data stored by the Social Security Administration (SSA) while it appeals an order that iced the advisory group out.
The emergency application asks the justices to lift a Maryland federal judge's injunction blocking DOGE from poking around the SSA's systems that contain personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, bank data, and earnings history. |
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The Democratic primary for the New Jersey governor's race is a jump ball just more than a month before voters head to the polls.
Public polling of the race has been sparse, but the available public and internal surveys have shown Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) with a small lead over the other five candidates running. But her leads have generally been no more than a few points, often with another candidate within the margin of error behind her.
That's given candidates hope that anyone could pull off a win next month in a race where Democrats are favored. |
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Multiple refineries in California have recently declared their intentions to shutter operations, leaving the Golden State uncertain about future fuel supplies and impacts on prices at the pump.
Valero Energy Corp. was the latest to make such an announcement, alerting the California Energy Commission (CEC) last month that it would "idle, restructure or cease refining operations" at its Benicia refinery by the end of April 2026. |
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Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Friday that the state has reached a settlement with the Trump administration after the federal government took away funding to Maine's schools over its transgender athlete policies. "It's unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations. But we are pleased that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as directed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults," Frey said. |
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Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted Germany's government for labeling the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as an "extremist" political group.
"Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy—it's tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes," Rubio said in a Friday post on social media platform X. "Germany should reverse course." |
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OPINION | In a country as polarized as the U.S., independents are a sort of electoral holy grail. Pundits, practitioners, and certainly candidates know that they can decide elections.
It is therefore puzzling that so much of the recent 100-days' coverage of the Trump administration focuses on President Trump's topline numbers in national public opinion polls. It might be more useful to look at polls of a state that actually cast their electoral college votes for the president and, within them, drill down among independents. |
OPINION | When the federal government funds research or gives money to college students, it does not fund institutions and should not dictate how schools are run. That might sound odd — he who pays the piper calls the tune, right? But for the sake of our most precious political good — freedom — such control must be avoided.
This applies to the Trump administration's efforts to control institutions such as Harvard University and Columbia. If these and other schools do not undertake numerous changes, including ending diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI policies, rooting out perceived antisemitism, and fostering "viewpoint diversity," the administration has said it will end research funding. Aid for students such as Pell Grants could also be at risk, as could the school's tax-exempt status. |
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BY HEATHER KNIGHT AND LAUREL ROSENHALL |
As Democrats grapple with how to recover from their losses in November, an uncomfortable question has emerged in California, the state that has long set trends for the party.
Are their leaders simply too old?
Some party activists, pointing to several examples where they say leaders held onto power long past their prime, want to take the political keys away from state and local officeholders at a certain age. |
This week, a Republican senator tried to get his colleagues to stand up for free trade — and failed.
Just two fellow Republicans joined Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's resolution to repeal the worldwide tariffs President Trump imposed last month in a Wednesday vote, while 49 opposed the move. It was a landmark moment in the GOP's Trumpist evolution, showing how the party has bent to his will, sacrificing the free-market dogma once considered fundamental to its conservative identity. |
BY MARIA GRAZIA MURRU AND SYLVIA HUI |
Next week's conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics is a solemn affair steeped in centuries-old traditions.
But far from the Sistine Chapel where cloistered cardinals will cast votes, people are placing bets on who will be chosen as the next pope. From cash bets on websites to online games modeled after fantasy football leagues and casual wagers among friends and families, the popularity of guessing and gambling on the future of the papacy is increasing worldwide, experts and participants say. |
When Yorely Bernal landed in Venezuela's capital last week after her deportation from the United States, the first call she made was on video to her mother, Raida Inciarte.
"The first thing I asked her is, 'Where is the girl? Where is the girl?'" recalled Inciarte. "She only moved her head side to side, crying."
"They didn't give her to you? They didn't give her to you?" Inciarte said, becoming emotional. |
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