Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his pre...

Quoting Chico Marx: "Well, who ya gonna believe me or your own eyes?"

Ukrainian woman fleeing war arrested at green card interview in front of her U.S. citizen husband Viktoriia Bulavina’s petition to renew her parole status was pending, as was her green card application.

A Catch 22? Follow the rules, get arrested and face deportation. Fearing likely arrest at your hearing, skip your court date, face arrest and certain deportation.

ICEBlock app maker sues Trump administration over its pressure on Apple to remove app The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations.

A safety threat to ICE agents or helping immigrant communities protect themselves from surprise raids or potential harassment?

Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: ‘I think they’re weak’ In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America's allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.

A preview of Trump's agenda from the horse's mouth.

New study shows how your brain changes at four key ages: 9, 32, 66 and 83 New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

Fascinating. The word “development” is often associated with childhood or the teenage years — but what this new research demonstrates is that the brain develops continually throughout our lives.

Three Years After Dobbs, ‘the Reality Is People Are Getting Abortions’

Despite red states passing laws restricting abortion access in recent years, the number of abortions nationwide has climbed every year since 2022. Post-Dobbs, the abortion-providing community and women themselves have developed very creative modes of resistance.

Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders

The display includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE” in bold blue letters.

Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy. For Now, He’s on Damage Control.

Tariff report card: $12 billion bailout needed for American farmers, 50,000 manufacturing jobs lost since January, small businesses laying off workers and consumer prices steadily rising.

When democracy dies. Josef Scharl’s “Blind Beggar” (1927). Highly successful during the Weimar Republic, Scharl was declared a degenerate artist when the Nazis took power. His paintings were banned and his Munich studio periodically raided. He fled to the United States in 1939.

Enjoy the wonder of books with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s “The Reader” (1889).

Editorial cartoonist Daniel Medina channels the Far Side in taking a dim view of ICE sharply easing its hiring standards — cutting back on training, lowering the age limit and accepting applicants who struggle to pass simple open-book tests.

Editorial cartoonist Drew Sheneman weighs in on the direction of U.S. public health care under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership.

Trump Giving Farmers $12 Billion to Blunt Trade War Fallout

Taxpayer bailout II. It's not the first time Trump has had to rescue farmers hurt by his trade policies. During his first term, he was forced funnel more than $20 billion in economic support to farmers after China — like this time around — boycotted U.S. products in response to Trump’s tariffs.

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

For months, the Trump has been accusing his political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. Will the fact that Trump has employed the same tactic to receive favorable terms on at least two rental properties open the door for a malicious prosecution defense?

Live updates: The Supreme Court weighs Trump’s bid to fire independent agency board members President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion aid package for U.S. farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as pa...

Coming soon, another example of conservative justices ignoring to honor their pledges of stare decisis? In 1935, the Supreme Court in Humphrey's Executor v. United States blocked President Franklin D. Roosevelt's effort to fire officials of independent agencies

‘The Fall of Icarus’: How the incredible image came to be | CNN Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured an awe-inspiring photograph of a skydiver’s silhouette in front of the sun.

Fantastic. And it's not AI.

Hegseth avoids committing to release second strike video The Trump administration remains under intense scrutiny for the second strike that killed two survivors on a drug boat.

It should be noted that after the second strike the Pentagon changed its policy to emphasize rescuing missile-strike survivors. Why is Hegseth's response in sharp contrast to Trump's statement last week that "whatever they have, we’d certainly release no problem."

A second flight of Iranian deportees, carrying 55, has left the US, Iran says Iranian officials say a second flight carrying deported Iranians has left the United States. Washington reportedly plans to send hundreds back to Iran.

In a recent deal reached between Tehran and the Trump administration, dissidents seeking political asylum will be returned to Iran, whose theocracy has been cracking down on intellectuals and executing prisoners at a rate unseen in decades.

Analysis | Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s The president and his aides have escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies in recent weeks.

“AMERICA OF THE MELTING POT COMES TO END,” a New York Times headline declared on April 27, 1924, with passage of the Johnson-Reed Act. The law sharply limited the number allowed in from southern and eastern parts of Europe, effectively closing the door to Catholics and Jews.

SNL cold open mocks Hegseth as trigger-happy, Trump as tired Melissa McCarthy returned to host for the sixth time.

“Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost played Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as if he were headlining a metal show, with walkout music booming and an energy drink in hand. “You got questions for me?” Jost-as-Hegseth rumbled. “Fine. Pretend I’m a random fishing boat and fire away.”

A Weakened Hamas Still Dominates Gaza, Building Day by Day

Raising revenue by taxing items carried into Gaza by trucks carrying humanitarian aid and commercial goods, Hamas is swiftly regrouping, which presents a formidable obstacle to the Trump administration’s plan to reconstruct a Gaza free of the terror group.

Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums

"Un-affordability." More and more Americans are discovering that their deductibles are rising significantly, worsening fears that they will no longer be able to pay for medical care. That’s on top of higher premiums; they could more than double.

Wind power. Vincent van Gogh’s “Le Moulin de la Galette” (1886).

Victims are not faceless. Leon Offenthal was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in June 1942. Prisoner No. 42388 was murdered on Aug. 10, 1942.

Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall weighs in on abuse of pardon power.

Austrian editorial cartoonist Marian Kamensky takes a dim view of the troubling direction the United States appears to be taking.

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”

But White House border czar Tom Homan said this morning that the immigration crackdown was not using racial profiling in targeting who to arrest.

How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

Anatomy of a disaster.

Donald Trump fumes at Texas lawmaker he just pardoned “No more Mr. Nice guy,” President Trump said, accusing Democrat Henry Cuellar of “a lack of loyalty."

Trump is accusing Texas former Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of a "lack of LOYALTY". Does that remove all doubt on what criteria Trump uses in deciding who deserves clemency or pardons?

Opinion | Populists are replacing meritocracy with something far worse Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.

(Free access) An excellent and must-read essay on the growing shift from meritocracy to plutocracy — and who benefits. The Trump Organization’s income for the first half of 2024 was about $51 million — and about $864 million in the first half of 2025. That is a leap of roughly 1,600 percent.