Trump’s U.F.C. Event Comes as Backing of Young Men, Once a Strength, Wanes
Some Republicans saw a political opening in Sunday’s fights at the White House. Democrats said they saw a distraction from more pressing matters.

Collins emphasized she’s lucky to have "very good genes."
Some Republicans saw a political opening in Sunday’s fights at the White House. Democrats said they saw a distraction from more pressing matters.
Justin Gaethje provides a perfect ending for American spectators at the White House, including President Donald Trump, as he shocks Ilia Topuria to win the UFC undisputed lightweight title.
UFC middleweight champion and controversial online personality Sean Strickland was escorted out of the UFC 250 Freedom Fan Fest at the Ellipse near the White House Saturday afternoon. Strickland, who said he’d been banned days before the festivities, was swarmed by fans at the daytime event ahead of Saturday night’s bouts. The fighter was removed […]
Eric Trump is claiming social media direct messages between him and former UFC star Daniel Cormier in which he purportedly asks Cormier whether any of the White House UFC Freedom 250 fights were rigged were artificial intelligence-generated. “This is completely fake,” Trump wrote on X on Sunday. “I have never reached out to Daniel. In fact, this […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins for the Republican runoff to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Collins and former football coach Derek […]
Lawyers in the District of Columbia revealed on Sunday how President Donald Trump's U.S. Attorney in the area has affected their ability to do their work, according to a new report. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has billed herself as a tough-on-crime prosecutor in D.C., but her actions inside the grand jury room have caused headaches for other lawyers in the District, The Washington Post reported. Pirro's pursuit of overtly political cases, like prosecuting a former Justice Department paralegal for assaulting a Border Patrol agent after he threw a sandwich at the officer, and a slew of other cases that have resulted in acquittals or mistrials, have made grand jurors more skeptical of government cases and could lead to more hung juries in the future. Eugene Gorokhov, a long-time defense attorney, told the Post that he has seen a noticeable shift in how D.C. residents disclose their biases during jury selection. “I’d never had a case with so many people coming in the door saying, ‘I’m going to have a hard time believing the feds,’” Gorokhov told the outlet about a case that ultimately ended in a deadlock. There is one case in particular that illustrates the problems Pirro has caused in the District, according to the report. Days after Pirro took office, a jury convicted four-star Navy Admiral Robert P. Burke of government contracting abuses that were described by prosecutors as a "stunning abuse of power." However, Pirro's office failed to secure convictions against two executives of a New York-based company involved in the bribe, which the Post noted was "the only known case in which a public official was behind bars for collecting a bribe that no one was guilty of paying."“Two juries that heard the full evidence could not convict the alleged bribe payers, yet Admiral Burke remains in prison,” Burke’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, told the Post. “This incoherent result speaks for itself.”A spokesperson for Pirro's office told the Post in a statement that the criminal justice system is working "exactly as designed."
The airing of grievances is a Festivus tradition. The Knicks' playoff run began with a Festivus of their own.
Mark Levin, one of President Donald Trump's most reliable media defenders and a leading hawk on the Iran war, is breaking with the president over the peace deal Trump is racing to sign — demanding to actually see the agreement before it's locked in.In a post on X on Sunday, the conservative radio host pressed for transparency on the memorandum of understanding the administration says it will sign with Iran. Levin asked whether the MOU "has... been released so we can actually read it," answering his own question with a pointed "Why not?" Briefing "selected reporters" through a "senior official" on the deal's "broad outlines," he argued, "is not enough."The complaint lands as Trump pushes to finalize the agreement on Sunday — his 80th birthday. Trump declared on Truth Social that the deal was "scheduled to get signed" and that the Strait of Hormuz would be "OPEN TO ALL" immediately afterward, casting it as a barrier to a nuclear-armed Iran.The reported terms help explain why a hawk like Levin is uneasy. According to Reuters and other outlets, the draft would have Iran reopen the strait while the U.S. lifts its naval blockade, releases roughly $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets — including direct cash transfers — waives oil sanctions and holds off on new ones, with broader nuclear talks pushed to a later phase.The Sunday post wasn't a one-off. British broadcaster Piers Morgan, locked in his own feud with Levin, accused the host over the weekend of having "raged at President Trump for wanting to end the Iran war" and urging him to keep bombing — and Levin's own broadcasts back up the charge. As the fighting moved toward a truce, Levin declared on his show, "I hate this word ceasefire," and argued that Iran "should be forced to sign a surrender document. Unconditional surrender." After an earlier ceasefire, he warned on Sean Hannity's program to "make no mistake: they are the enemy," insisting the regime would not be contained "if there's not regime change."He has been just as dismissive of the diplomacy itself, calling Iran's proposals "an absolute disaster" and branding reported drafts of the deal "disastrous," warning that an agreement along those lines would let the Iranian regime survive. That hard line has put Levin crosswise not only with the president he usually defends but with parts of Trump's own base — figures like Steve Bannon have accused him of undermining Trump's "peace posture" and quietly siding with the neocon hawks the MAGA movement claims to reject.The details of the deal itself remain murky, which is precisely Levin's gripe. Iran has repeatedly cautioned against speculation about the timing and contents, and its Fars news agency reported the strait would stay under Tehran's control, dismissing Trump's "open to all" claim as "incomplete and inconsistent with reality." Trump, for his part, has denied Iran's account of the terms.Also on Sunday, Levin wrote, "Iran’s Hezbollah continues firing missiles into Israel. This is precisely what I and others have been warning about."It all marks a striking turn for a host who spent the war as one of Trump's fiercest defenders. But with Trump now moving to wind the conflict down and cut a deal that delivers Iran sweeping economic relief, Levin has shifted from cheerleader to skeptic — joining a chorus of hawks bristling at an outcome they spent months warning against.