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President Donald Trump plans to sign a presidential memorandum on Thursday that he will cast as cracking down on foreign contributions in American elections, according to an exclusive report from Politico.

Caught in the crosshairs is a major online donation platform that funds Democratic and progressive causes and elections.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration lost another procedural motion in one of its legal battles brought by lawyer Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics czar.

Eisen won an injunction for the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, and others in a lawsuit against Trump's administration. Trump signed an executive order that "changed the rules of federal elections," the plaintiffs said in the court filing.

President Donald Trump deflected away questions about how intent he is to force Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia as the terms of a peace deal during a joint meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

With Støre was Jens Stoltenberg, the country's minister of finance and the former Secretary General of the NATO alliance.

A surprise decision by Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) to not seek re-election in 2026 has given Democrats in the state hope that they can snag the seat in what is expected to be a midterm referendum on Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Donald Trump's decision to enact tariffs that have severely impacted American farmers will likely not be forgotten when election time comes around in a state where agricultural policy is always at the top of the ticket no matter who the nominee is.

As Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Rita Hart put it, "There are a lot of people who are seeing this as an opportunity," before adding that Trump's tariffs will be front and center in the campaign.

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According to the Post's Patrick Svitek, "In Iowa — the second biggest agricultural exporting state in the country — not all Republicans have been fully onboard with Trump’s sweeping — and ever-changing — tariffs, which, at a minimum, have created deep uncertainty for farmers who make a living selling their crops to other countries."

Sam Newton, a spokesperson for the Democratic Governors Association, claimed, “It’s definitely a race we’re keeping our eye on. We believe that there’s a real opportunity for a competitive race with a strong candidate who fits the state well.”

President Donald Trump's official store has started selling "Trump 2028" hats years before the next presidential election.

The new hats showed up on the official "Trump Store" website on Thursday for $50 each. Eric Trump was seen wearing the hat in an image circulating on social media. "Gulf of America" hats were also available.

President Donald Trump's second presidency got off to a fast start, but a columnist said it's "falling apart" as it nears his 100th day in office.

The president greatly exaggerated his mandate and governed accordingly, but his approval rating has drooped underwater in multiple polls and he's already more unpopular at this point than any other president besides himself, and his major policies are even less popular, according to the Washington Post's Aaron Blake.

President Donald Trump said that he's meeting with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, the reporter who was added to a private Signal chat among top Cabinet members. According to Trump, it's "out of curiosity and as a competition with myself" to see if he can get a "truthful" story out of The Atlantic. Trump put the word "truthful" in quotes.

The Truth Social post prompted ridicule from others on social media.

In a court filing Thursday morning, the Justice Department confessed that it accidentally publicly uploaded a letter in which the DOJ was giving legal advice to the Department of Transportation. Apparently, it had been intending to post a different letter to the judge in a court case involving the government's scrapping of New York City's congestion charge scheme.

Data engineer Émilia Decaudin pasted the screen captures of the letter on X after they went live on Wednesday.

Critics and education voices were quick to criticize several executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday which target college accreditation, endeavor to foster artificial intelligence "competency" in K-12 schools, and more—the latest move in the president's quest to reshape American education.

With his order focused on the accreditation procedure, Trump is aiming to shake up the process that determines whether colleges and universities provide a quality education. For higher education institutions to access federal grants, loans, and other federal funds, they must be accredited, and for students to access federal loans and grants, they must attend an accredited school.

CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown got emotional while honoring those who lost their lives during the Holocaust.

Leading into the moment reporter Elie Honig presented a package of a holocaust survivor who at just 20 days old was considered a fugitive by the Nazis.

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