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Trump touts 'historic' new trade development with key trading partner

President Donald Trump announced a new agreement with Japan on his Truth Social platform Tuesday — and attributed it all to his controversial tariff policies.

"Our MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan has just launched!" wrote Trump. "Japan is now officially, and financially, moving forward with the FIRST set of Investments under its $550 BILLION Dollar Commitment to invest in the United States of America — part of our Historic Trade Deal to REVITALIZE the American Industrial Base, create HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of GREAT American Jobs, and strengthen our National and Economic Security like never before."

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'Monstrous cruelty': Outrage erupts as baby in ICE detention falls ill and 'unresponsive'

News broke this week that Juan Nicolás, the two-month-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, was hospitalized over an episode of bronchitis that at one point rendered him "unresponsive."

Dilley has become infamous as a facility that warehouses large numbers of children, and is a focal point of anti-deportation protests in Texas.

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'Unhinged!' New Trump DHS pick melted down at gym for 'bullying' her over MAGA hat

A MAGA Fox News commentator who was reportedly selected to join the Department of Homeland Security as a spokesperson was outraged just days ago after she claimed her gym bullied her for wearing a Trump hat.

Katie Zacharia, an adviser to Richard Grenell, the current interim head of the Trump-Kennedy Center and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, has been hired by DHS following the announcement that top DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin was leaving the Trump administration, a source told Axios in a report published Tuesday. Zacharia will join the agency as deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Public Affairs.

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Insiders say Trump is using pardons as revenge against judges: 'He hates Boasberg'

President Donald Trump's pardon process doesn't make sense to many observers, including some inside the White House.

Nearly three dozen sources spoke to NOTUS, including lawyers and lobbyists and people inside the White House, about what they described as an ever-changing process that depended on access to the president and creating an appealing story about those seeking pardons.

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'Trump is worried': Experts say FCC move to kill Colbert interview backfired big time

President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission began its long-threatened crackdown on political late-night talk show interviews by pressuring CBS to pull an already-filmed interview on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" with Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.

But that move appears to have blown up in their faces — and some political observers are saying this could be a "boon" for Talarico's campaign.

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Trump's meddling in foreign elections is no mere 'whim': analyst

Donald Trump's administration has overseen a shift in the mood of world politics, with the U.S. drifting further to the right and a question mark looming over its relationship with Europe.

The president's team has openly backed political candidates in elections across the globe, notably in Brazil and Honduras last year. Trump's meddling is targeted and shows how far the president will go to ratify his U.S. national security strategy, CNN analyst Stephen Collinson said.

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Trump blitzes timeline with Jesse Jackson photos after whining about being called ‘racist’

President Donald Trump posted nearly a dozen photos of himself with the late civil rights icon Jesse Jackson in quick succession Tuesday, hours after complaining about being called “racist” – a label he appeared to be attempting to rebut by highlighting his past association with the Black civil rights leader.

Jackson died Tuesday at 84, prompting an outpour of condolences to his family from political figures across the political spectrum, including Trump. The president called Jackson a “good guy” who “truly loved people” in a social media post shortly after his passing.

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‘I’d like to report a murder’: Rebel GOP lawmaker trolls JD Vance over past Epstein posts

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) spent Tuesday morning reviving Vice President JD Vance's old comments on late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Massie, who co-authored legislation to push the Department of Justice to release the full Epstein files, pulled up the old posts on X from Vance that revealed the vice president had different thoughts about Epstein in the past. Since the release of more than 3 million documents and materials related to Epstein, Vance has appeared to change his tune about the deceased pedophile's operation and has been criticized for staying mostly quiet on the situation.

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DOJ accused of misleading judge to obtain search warrant in Fulton County election case

Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, accused the Department of Justice of misleading a judge to obtain a search warrant last month for 2020 election ballots.

Local officials accused President Donald Trump's DOJ of making “serious” omissions in the application filed by the FBI that fails to allege probable cause that a crime had been committed, reported CNN, but instead “does nothing more than describe the types of human errors that its own sources confirm occur in almost every election — without any intentional wrongdoing whatsoever.”

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MAGA celeb vows Jesse Jackson will suffer 'eternal shame' in wild 'white slavery' rant

MAGA influencer Benny Johnson reacted to the death of Jesse Jackson by linking the civil rights leader to "mass white slavery" and white "genocide" in a wild and evidence devoid rant.

During a Tuesday broadcast, Johnson said he had been "triggered" by Jackson's death.

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Trump files trademarks aimed at making millions off namesake airport

President Donald Trump's company has reportedly filed trademark applications to rename Palm Beach International Airport as “Donald J. Trump International Airport” — a move he's already making moves to turn into a major profit churner.

Trump has been criticized over his business earnings and dubbed "grifter in chief" while in office. This latest step would give his holding company DTTM Operations LLC an opportunity to capitalize on “a range of branded merchandise, including clothing, handbags, luggage, jewelry, watches, and tie clips," The Daily Beast reported.

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Trump 'undercut his own ambitions' with dismal decision ahead of midterms: analysis

Donald Trump has undercut the GOP's chances at the upcoming midterms yet again with a decision that goes against voters, a political analyst has claimed.

Thomas B. Edsall believes the president has hindered his party's chances at the November elections by highlighting erosion within his supporter base. Edsall, writing in the New York Times, suggested, "Trump's posting of a video portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes is one of his more glaring miscalculations, which have given Democrats an opening to halt a steady erosion of support among minority voters crucial to their party's chances for success.

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JD Vance actions paint him as 'hypocrite' in year after vaunted speech: analysis

A speech given by Vice President JD Vance in Munich last year directly contradicts his actions in office, a political analyst claimed Tuesday.

Vance has tackled free speech frequently during his time in office, more recently coming to the defense of X owner Elon Musk, whose company is facing a wider investigation into its AI chatbot, Grok. Vance defended Musk against European Commission investigations of the Tesla CEO late last year.

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