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Congress realizes maybe it’s a bad idea to let presidents declare war unilaterally after decades of letting it slide

What Congress passed for President George W. Bush had no effective end date and continued through the Obama and Biden presidencies.

05.03.2026 0

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Bill Barrow

Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after bipartisan backlash. The White House initially defended it, then blamed a staffer

A rare admission of a misstep by the White House, the deletion came hours after press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed “fake outrage” over the...

07.02.2026 2

Fortune

Bill Barrow

Reference to Trump’s impeachments is removed from Smithsonian portrait display—while Clinton’s and Andrew Johnson’s still remain

Trump ordered in August that Smithsonian officials review all exhibits before the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of...

12.01.2026 6

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Bill Barrow

Elon Musk an ‘odd, odd duck’ and JD Vance a ‘conspiracy theorist for a decade’: What Trump’s right-hand woman really thinks

Chief of staff Susie Wiles offered an unusually candid look inside President Trump's administration in a series of interviews published by Vanity...

17.12.2025 4

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Bill Barrow

The first-term congressman leading the GOP’s midterm House campaign says Trump is intimately involved in recruitment decisions

Trump’s involvement contrasts with 2017, when he was not as tied to House leadership, on details of the midterm campaign as he is now.

14.12.2025 6

Fortune

Bill Barrow

Trump’s demolition of East Wing of White House challenged by National Trust for Historic Preservation

“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever,” the lawsuit states.

14.12.2025 7

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Bill Barrow

Elon Musk admits DOGE was only ‘somewhat successful’ and he should have ‘worked on my companies’ instead

Almost wistfully, Musk added, “They wouldn't have been burning the cars" — a reference to consumer protests against Tesla.

11.12.2025 3

Fortune

Bill Barrow

Trump slams Democratic congressman as disloyal for not switching parties after pardon and vows ‘no more Mr. Nice guy’ next time

The Republican president might have expected the clemency to bolster the GOP's narrow House majority heading into the 2026 midterm elections.

08.12.2025 10

Fortune

Bill Barrow

‘Californians deserve a life they can afford’: Billionaire Tom Steyer is running for governor in crowded race to succeed Gavin Newsom

Steyer joins a field with progressive Congresswoman Katie Porter, former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

20.11.2025 5

Fortune

Bill Barrow

Swing-state Democrats turn on 8 centrists not facing reelection over hijacked shutdown

“After 40 days, it wasn’t going to work,” longtime moderate Sen. Tim Kaine said of his fellow Democrats’ demands.

11.11.2025 5

Fortune

Bill Barrow

Top economist blasts ‘incredible cynicism and betrayal of Reagan by his own foundation’ as free trader’s image tarnished in tariff fight

A statement by the Reagan Foundation was cited by Trump when he threatened to stop all trade with America’s northern neighbor.

25.10.2025 10

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Bill Barrow

Trump administration still won’t say whether it will return Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, despite Supreme Court ruling

“Where is he and under whose authority?” a federal judge asked. “I’m not asking for state secrets. All I know is that he’s not here."

14.04.2025 9

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Bill Barrow

US won’t say whether it’s facilitating return of mistakenly deported man, despite judge’s order

The Trump administration confirmed to a federal judge Saturday that a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported remains confined in El Salvador.

13.04.2025 5

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Trump kept his pledge on tariffs. Here’s what to know about how the charges will affect Americans’ wallets

The president now is acknowledging what many economists have long forecasted: that the levies could yield higher prices and lower supplies across the...

03.02.2025 20

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Bill Barrow

Jimmy Carter eulogized by Kamala Harris, Mike Johnson and others: ‘First and foremost a faithful servant of his creator, and his fellow man’

As a presidential candidate in 1976, Harris noted, he slept in the homes of his supporters to “share a meal with them at their table and listen to...

08.01.2025 20

Fortune

Bill Barrow