Throngs of UFC fans have descended on the nation's capital for an usual fight night at the White House

The requirement, also under consideration in California, aims to counteract the latest method for producing untraceable ‘ghost guns’

The elephant went viral for peeing on the convention floor in front of shocked spectators

The president revealed the strike was carried out ‘with our friends in Venezuela’

Officials given 21 days to comply with order after Angel Kelley condemns administration for ‘telling half-truths’

A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”.

In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.

The UFC has vowed to carry out the fight, regardless of all but the most severe weather

This provides Paramount a crucial advantage as it seeks to fend off potential state-level challenges to the deal

Deal still under UK scrutiny with new investigation, and could face lawsuit from state attorneys general

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has decided to approve the $111bn merger of Paramount Skydance, controlled by the Ellison family, and Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of networks like CNN and HBO.

The deal was approved by the justice department’s anti-trust division after months of review, and despite the concerns of many people in the entertainment and media industries who believe it will hurt competition by reducing the number of film studios and – most likely – merging two news networks, Paramount’s CBS News and CNN.

President Trump has claimed he would fix the landmark pool, which he said other presidents left in a ‘disgusting’ state

Judges reject Trump administration’s 11th-hour attempt to rename iconic venue after himself while legal battle continues

Public officials stated the IRS had its ‘most successful filing season’ - though an internal memo indicates the agency knew it needed more staff after DOGE cuts

The self-proclaimed master of negotiation insists he can forge a better deal for the US and the world with a rogue nation he claims to have defeated, but, writes Andrew Feinberg, it’s not clear any such thing is possible

President Trump has a history of indulging the conspiracy movement, which believes the Republican is taking on a shady cabal of global elites

Only one Republican who helped pass the law ordering release of the Epstein files escaped Trump’s political retribution. But, Eric Garcia writes, the issue has not left the public consciousness

The feud was ignited after Tucker Carlson claimed on a podcast that Dan Bongino told him the president shut down the investigation into the assassination attempt in 2024

US president dismisses Iranian media reports agreement is close, despite earlier suggesting a deal could be signed this weekend

Prospects for an immediate end to the war between Iran and the US remained uncertain on Friday amid a chaotic series of conflicting claims and counter-claims by US and Iranian officials about ongoing negotiations.

Donald Trump seemed to distance himself from his earlier comments that suggested a preliminary agreement could be signed as soon as this weekend, with a series of angry social media posts describing the Iranians as “very dishonorable people to deal with”.

South Carolina Republican said she plans to return to the private sector on leaving Capitol Hill in January

Trump’s deportation flights to the Central African Republic are a ‘death sentence,’ advocates warn

Trump administration created fund to resolve his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns

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A federal judge in Virginia has extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8bn slush fund, saying the administration’s public statements that the fund was dead were not assuring enough.

The US district judge Leonie Brinkema, an appointee of Bill Clinton, said she would lift her order if the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, and the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, filed a declaration under penalty of perjury that the fund was not moving forward in the next week.

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