Democratic senators have pledged to defend the Smithsonian's autonomy as the White House pressures it for internal records.

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The US president has his sights set on the vast mineral-rich Arctic wilderness currently administered by Denmark.

A coalition of 24 Republican-led states is backing Trump’s migrant detentions, saying courts lack power to question his authority.

Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.

President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, released Dec. 4, largely charts a needed correction for the United States on military and foreign policy.

State television started playing Christmas ditties on October 1st in 2024 as well. The country was reeling after Mr Maduro had flagrantly stolen an election. Since then many Venezuelans have given up on politics.

Donald Trump’s appetite for flattery appears as insatiable as the supply of bootlickers among his followers appears inexhaustible. He also blessed engraving his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace building and delivered a cartographic decree that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America.

Rob Van Dam is thrilled with the “birthday present” that Donald Trump just gave him. RVD’s birthday is8. That also happens to be the same day that United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reclassified cannabis as a Schedule 3 controlled substance.