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President Donald Trump on Thursday scrapped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, undercutting a promise Hegseth had made publicly and repeatedly just a week earlier.

“He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that did not mention Hegseth. The president said streaming “might have been a strong deterrent,” but that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die.” Trump added that the victims’ immediate families may view the execution in person.

Hegseth had personally championed the idea, telling Real America’s Voice last week that “we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” before Pentagon officials confirmed the livestream. Trump had already been privately backing away from the plan, as it drew bipartisan condemnation and an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found 8 in 10 Americans opposed it, including 64% of Republicans....

A federal judge prevented the Department of Justice from making an unusual move against a frequent target of President Donald Trump's political fury, according to a new report.

CNN's Katelyn Polantz reported Thursday that the White House pushed for an unusually aggressive search at the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), but she said the judge who ultimately signed off on the search warrant expressed concerns about that approach and imposed some limits.

"They wanted to treat it like any other search," Polantz said. "That's not how it works under the law."...

WASHINGTON — Democrats have spent months researching arcane election law, preparing legal briefings and even role-playing ahead of this fall’s midterms so they’re ready, in real time, to combat as many as 150 potential threats President Donald Trump might throw at them.

But, even with all that meticulous preparation, the Democratic Party doesn’t seem to have a solid plan if Trump declares a national emergency ahead of Election Day.

“We talked about this today. It's a little frightening,” Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) told Raw Story last month — on the last day the House of Representatives was in session before November’s elections. “We're just coming up with scenarios of what could happen.” ...

President Donald Trump was interrupted yet again by a protester during a speech in a red state as he stumps for Republicans in the midterms.

Trump was speaking in Kalispell, Montana, about how he believes Democrats "want to destroy America" when he suddenly stopped as the crowd began booing. Trump began repeating, "That's not nice! That's not nice," even though it wasn't clear what the protester was doing to offend Trump. Meanwhile, the crowd began chanting, "Trump, Trump, Trump."

Protesters have been repeatedly heckling Trump during his midterm campaign speeches, including in red states like Texas, Tennessee and Alaska....

President Donald Trump's newly installed press secretary has long presented herself as a lawyer, but a bombshell report raises serious doubts about that claim.

Katie Zacharia never passed a bar exam in the United States, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. She took the California bar after finishing law school at Pepperdine University in 2011 and failed it, according to a source with direct knowledge cited by The Journal.

Trump described Zacharia as an attorney when he tapped her for the White House podium. Questions about her credentials began circulating after she turned up in no searches of licensed attorneys in California, Texas or Washington, D.C., under either her married or maiden name. Journalist Judd Legum had flagged the issue in his Popular Information newsletter....

Some voters who sent President Donald Trump back to the White House have a pointed message for him ahead of the midterms.

Grocery shoppers who backed Trump in 2024 told The New York Times for a Wednesday report that rising prices have left several of them frustrated, with a retired nurse in Maine telling the president, "you should be taking care of the people in your country."

Rebecca Guerrette, an independent, said she was unhappy with the economy and called the war with Iran a "waste of money." "I think Trump did a better job as president like eight years ago," Guerrette told The Times. She said living costs have climbed in recent years while paychecks have not kept pace, adding that she probably would not cast a ballot in the Senate race between Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Democrat Troy Jackson....

Former MLB superstar Roger Clemens fact-checked President Donald Trump during his Texas rally Wednesday night.

Trump traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to stump for Republicans like Tano Tijerina in his race against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whom Trump attacked for what he considered to be a "disloyal act" by not becoming a Republican after Trump pardoned him. At the rally, Trump invited Clemens on stage to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, because Clemens had not yet been elected to the Hall of Fame.

In typical Trump fashion, the president also rattled off a fact about Clemens that the former big league pitcher was quick to correct. ...

Former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen said he could not believe what he was reading in Kimberly Guilfoyle's newly revealed text messages.

Eisen, who served in the Obama White House and later as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday to discuss a Wall Street Journal report on Guilfoyle's Signal messages, which The Journal reports show her asking Trump donor Eric Deters to send her $100,000 to pay off her American Express debt. Guilfoyle is the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

"It's one of the worst things that I have ever seen with respect to a U.S. ambassador," Eisen told Cooper. "It stinks to high heaven."...

Stephen Miller says Americans owe their amazing energy prices to Donald Trump. Critics saw it differently.

Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared Saturday on Fox News’ “My View with Lara Trump.” The segment ran under the banner “Miller touts Trump’s sweeping achievements.”

“The reason we have lower energy prices than anyone else in the developed world is because of President Trump,” Miller said, according to a clip posted by Acyn....