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President Donald Trump appeared to be trying to save face as he caved to a Supreme Court decision that prevented him from using the military for policing in U.S. cities.

"We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities," Trump announced in a Truth Social message on New Year's Eve. "Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren't for the Federal Government stepping in."

Fresh bruising on Donald Trump's left hand rekindled speculation about the 79-year-old president's health just shy of a year into his second term.

Trump appeared at multiple events last week sporting discoloration on the back of his left hand — adding to the persistent bruise already visible on his right hand for months, CNN reported Wednesday.

President Donald Trump spent his New Year's Eve lashing out at Democrats and vowing not to extend health care subsidies.

"Republicans: No more money to Fat Cat Insurance Companies. The money must go directly to the people to buy their own Healthcare," the president told fellow Republicans in one post on Truth Social.

House Republicans finally released on Wednesday the long-awaited transcript of former special counsel Jack Smith's deposition before the House Judiciary Committee.

The 255-page document was released on New Year's Eve, a time some experts deemed suspicious. The Trump administration is currently trying to distance itself from the recently released files from the FBI's investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which painted President Donald Trump's relationship with Epstein in an unscrupulous light. Trump is also facing considerable pressure to release more files.

Trump Mobile has officially delayed shipping of the T1 Mobile gold-colored smartphones.

The Trump Organization promised the $499 phones would be available in August when the service was first launched in 2025.

President Donald Trump used a New Year's Eve message to brag about his tariff policies without any evidence to back up his claims.

"The United States has set a World Record on investments being made into a Country, and it is Trillions of Dollars more than number two, China," the president wrote on Wednesday. "This is singularly because of TARIFFS, and the fact that if you make your product in the U.S., there ARE NO TARIFFS."

A former federal prosecutor on Wednesday slammed the House GOP for releasing the transcript of former special counsel Jack Smith's deposition earlier this month over the New Year's holiday.

House Republicans interviewed Smith for several hours this month about his investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Following the interview, Smith called on Republicans to release the entire transcript. Republicans obliged on Wednesday by releasing the 255-page document and an eight-hour video of the interview.

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for grant funding said the NIH would consider grant applications made up to Sept. 29, 2025, without judging the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, or vaccines.

President Donald Trump amplified an attack against his Russian counterpart on Wednesday.

Trump reposted an editorial from the New York Post that declares "Russia is standing in the way of peace." It was published at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin had accused the Ukrainians of attempting to bomb his private residence this week, a claim that the Ukrainians have forcefully denied.

On the final day of 2025, the House Judiciary Committee released an interview with former special counsel Jack Smith about his prosecution of President Donald Trump.

In the 245-page transcript, Smith claimed he had enough evidence to convict Trump of election interference charges. The case was dropped after Trump was re-elected.

A major court ruling handed down on Tuesday could allow the Trump administration to enact a "back-door abortion ban," advocates warn.

On Tuesday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that the Trump administration can withhold Medicaid funding for abortion care providers, putting a lower court's injunction on the policy on hold. The three-judge panel found the policy, which was included in Trump's massive domestic policy and spending bill, can withhold the funds from Planned Parenthood centers in 22 states and the District of Columbia, The Guardian reported.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn expressed alarm after claiming that President Donald Trump's administration was investigating them.

During what was billed as an "emergency" message to Trump on Wednesday, Jones brought Flynn on his show to address concerns that the administration was targeting them both instead of going after members of the so-called deep state.