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President Donald Trump says he will not sign the housing bill into law. Posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, the president wrote, “I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.” Prosecutors in Utah are presenting final evid...

Graham Platner, the U.S. Democrat senate candidate and self described progressive from Maine has resigned from the race. It comes after mounting calls from within his own party after sexual and assault allegations. Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appears to have ground to a near-halt after the latest escalation of hostilities between the United States and Iran, after Tehran attacked sh...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States will probably strike Iran again after saying an initial ceasefire deal with the Islamic Republic was "over.” Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump criticized Iranian officials for what he described as not sticking to the deals they negotiated. "I'll give a little warning: We're going to hit them hard tonight," Tr...

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for a summit with NATO leaders. The U.S. president announced that Washington would lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey that were imposed in 2020 over Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system, while expressing a willingness to sell the fellow NATO ally F-35 fighter jets. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said on Tuesday he would quit a...

U.S. President Donald Trump marked the launch of Trump Accounts in the Oval Office on July 6. Under the program, parents can open special investment accounts for any child born during Trump’s second term and automatically receive $1,000 from the government. Trump will travel to Ankara, Turkey, to attend the NATO summit on July 7 and 8, where leaders are expected to review progress on the alliance’...

A day before America’s 250th Independence Day, Mount Rushmore will serve as the majestic backdrop for a speech from President Donald Trump—capped by a show-stopping $700,000 fireworks display. A dangerous heat wave is gripping much of the eastern United States, with extreme temperatures expected through the July 4th weekend. Forecasters warn the heat and humidity could be life-threatening.

U.S. applications for jobless aid inched down last week as layoffs remain at historically healthy levels. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits in the week ending June 27 fell by 1,000 to 215,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. U.S. employers slowed hiring last month and added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month’s total and a sign companies still have a...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States was getting along very well with Iran and that recent meetings in Qatar went well. "The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well," Trump told reporters. "They've had very good meetings, and we'll see." Democratic socialist Melat Kiros was declared victorious over longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) in a major political upset in the...

The Supreme Court makes decisions on birthright citizenship, transgender participation in women’s sports, and campaign finance. It comes after the nation’s highest court released several more decisions in landmark cases on Monday, including gun rights, voting laws, and Fourth Amendment protections. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser to the president Jared Kushner are traveling to Doha for talks...

The Supreme Court issued a major ruling on the fate of mail-in ballots received after Election Day. Find out how President Donald Trump is responding. The president also said Iran had requested a meeting with the United States after the two sides agreed to halt military strikes. NTD has the details on peace talks set to resume as soon as Tuesday. Additional U.S.-funded mobile field hospitals are e...

The death toll from two back-to-back earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to around 589, with close to 3,000 people injured, interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Friday. She also said that the government has decided to militarize the state of La Guaira after the earthquakes. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that after strikes on Iran, the United States is negotiating from a stronger posi...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said U.S. search-and-rescue teams were being deployed to Venezuela following deadly earthquakes. Two powerful earthquakes wreaked havoc in and around the capital, Caracas, trapping people beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings and setting off powerful aftershocks. Oil prices fell to their lowest levels since before the outbreak of the Iran war on...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday canceled a planned signing of bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up the construction and availability of more affordable housing. "Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Brent crude...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran has agreed to allow nuclear inspections for the foreseeable future. "Iran has fully and completely agreed to highest level Nuclear inspections long into the future (Infinity!!!)," he wrote in a social media post. "This will insure 'Nuclear Honesty.' If they did not agree to this, there would be no further negotiations!" Iran has denied that it...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign as leader of the Labour Party, bowing to pressure from within his own party to step down. It opens the door to a leadership contest to replace him as Britain’s next leader. Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastati...

The next phase of U.S.–Iran talks scheduled for June 19 have been postponed, according to the Swiss Foreign Ministry. Negotiations had been scheduled to take place at the Bürgenstock mountaintop resort overlooking Lake Lucerne. Outgoing National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, on June 18, released documents exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s alleged role in directing U.S. funding for “dangerous gai...

Vice President JD Vance holds a briefing at the White House and is likely to face questions on the details of the U.S. framework deal with Iran. President Donald Trump signed the deal in Versailles on Wednesday. Gas prices fell below $4 per gallon Thursday for the first time since March, bringing Americans some relief, after more than three months of elevated prices as a result of the Iran war.

President Donald Trump is holding a news conference on the final day of the G7 summit in France. Trump said Wednesday's Senate hearing on Jay Clayton's nomination to become the next U.S. intel chief was canceled and would not go forward until James McDonald is confirmed as a U.S. attorney.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the text of the U.S.-Iran interim deal would be made public soon, as he met G7 leaders in France. Trump said the text of the deal states clearly that Tehran will not have a nuclear weapon, and the full agreement would be made public in a formal setting in a few days. The FBI disrupted “planned attacks” that were intended to target the White House’s Ultim...

U.S. President Donald Trump is heading to France on June 15 for the G7 summit, just hours after announcing a deal with Iran. Leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies are meeting from June 15 to June 17 in the French spa town of Evian-les-Bains to discuss global trade, immigration, geopolitical conflicts, and other key issues. Oil prices slipped to a three-month low on June 15 after...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on June 11 that a U.S.–Iran deal is close and will be signed in the coming days. “We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran,” Trump said at the beginning of an Oval Office event. “And we’re going to be, subject to finalization of documents, which should get done over the next few days, probably have a signing, maybe in Europe.” Elon Musk's SpaceX is is s...

The United States is going to be striking Iran “very hard tonight,” President Donald Trump said on Thursday, adding, “At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of Am...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Iran of dragging out negotiations with Washington and warned that Tehran would “pay the price” for delaying a deal that he earlier signaled was nearing a breakthrough. Rising energy prices from the three-month-old war in Iran lifted inflation in May to its highest level in three years. The U.S. annual inflation rate surged to 4.2 percent last month, from...

President Donald Trump said Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz overnight. He has vowed to respond. Both U.S. pilots involved in the incident are safe and uninjured. Voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday for primary elections in Maine, South Carolina, Nevada, and North Dakota. And in the Los Angeles mayoral race, Nithya Raman is projected to advanc...

The Senate passed a $70 billion immigration enforcement package on Friday after an overnight vote-a-rama on Capitol Hill. The Senate voted 52–47 to approve the legislation, with no support from ‌Democrats. The bill funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s second term, and now heads to the House. The legislation follows mont...