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House Speaker Mike Johnson offered a baffling defense Wednesday for Donald Trump’s blatant corruption schemes, seeming to forget entirely ab...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are both refusing to confirm whether they will be in Istanbul on Thursday to attend what could be the first...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of Georgetown scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri, who was illegally detained in March. U.S. Distri...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is once again refusing to divulge his views on vaccination, and, with no trace...

The Trump administration has reportedly cut a deal with a former cartel boss in Mexico, with 17 family members being allowed to enter the U....

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The D...

Donald Trump received 56 percent of the working class vote in 2024, according to exit polls, up from 51 percent in 2020 and 49 percent in 20...

The White House has been boasting that President Trump’s partial pause in the trade war with China is a historic breakthrough. But two new r...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “The math i...

Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee may make it harder for single parents to access the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...

Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will lift all U.S. sanctions on Syria, but the timing of the lifted international penalties was remarkably...

House Republicans’ draft budget bill includes a clause to give Donald Trump the ability to revoke the tax-exempt status of any group the Tre...

Elon Musk announced Tuesday that Saudi Arabia had approved the use of Starlink, as part of his mounting efforts to use Donald Trump’s trip a...

Donald Trump is paving the way for white South African “refugees” to come to the United States, but they’re not all that interested in takin...

Joe Biden’s decline was obvious in the final months of his presidential campaign, but new and intimate accounts by his staffers reveal that...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The D...

Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviem...

Over the weekend, the news broke that President Donald Trump is accepting a luxury jet from the country of Qatar for presidential travel. Th...

Trump is replacing the first Black librarian of Congress with his own personal lawyer.The Justice Department on Monday announced that Deputy...

Two men claiming to be Trump appointees were denied entry to the US Copyright Office Monday.The men arrived at the internal Library of Congr...

The Episcopal Church is refusing to help the Trump administration resettle white South African “refugees,” ending a decades-long collaborati...

House Republicans are already opposing House Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget proposal stripping health care coverage from millions of American...

The Trump administration’s decision to deport immigrants to the U.S. base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cost taxpayers at least $21 million betwe...

Does Donald Trump know the details of his own executive order to reduce the price of pharmaceuticals? During an address from the White House...

Donald Trump is trying to take credit for the selection of the first American pope—who doesn’t seem to like him all that much. In a post on...