President Trump’s attorneys have mounted a last-minute bid to pause the payment of a more than $5 million judgment owed to writer E. Jean Carroll over two years after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. Trump’s attorneys urged District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday to deny Caroll’s motion to disburse the…
The former reality television star and Los Angeles mayoral candidate was photographed sitting with three others, including what appeared to be his son and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
President Trump hijacked NATO's annual summit within hours of touching down in Turkey, threatening allies and declaring the Iran ceasefire "over" as Washington and Tehran lurched toward renewed war.The big picture: The carefully choreographed Ankara summit unraveled into the Trump show, with the agenda quickly overtaken by the president's grudge against allies who sat out the Iran war.Driving the news: On his quick trip to Turkey, Trump opened new wounds and rubbed salt in others by:Threatening to cut off all trade with Spain, calling the country "hopeless" for refusing to let the U.S. use its military bases to strike Iran.Deeming talks with Tehran a "waste of time" and suggesting the U.S. could take out "every single bridge in Iran";Renewing his demand to acquire Greenland, which triggered a full-blown crisis in January and prompted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to pledge that Denmark would defend its territory;Floating the removal of "all of our soldiers out of Europe," alarming allies who have relied on the U.S. security umbrella for decades;Praising China, saying he's a "big fan" of President Xi Jinping, and cozying up to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over Israel's objections;And making it abundantly clear: "I'm not happy with NATO."The White House did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.Catch up quick: Since the Iran war began, Trump has waged a running campaign to humiliate European leaders — even those who'd worked hardest to stay in his good graces.On Sunday, he posted a meme of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with the caption: "Restraining order needed" after previously claiming she "begged" him for a photo, which she disputes.He also pre-announced British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation a day before Starmer confirmed it himself.Reality check: Despite mounting concern about rifts in the alliance, members reaffirmed their commitment to collective defense and pledged "unwavering support" — including security funding — for Ukraine.In the summit's most concrete win, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the U.S. will license Ukraine to manufacture its own Patriot air-defense interceptors — a capability Kyiv has sought for years.NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who has heaped frequent flattery on the president, downplayed the divides, saying NATO was made stronger by the defense spending commitments Trump demanded.The bottom line: NATO leaders are used to Trump's threats by now. What's harder to shrug off is the ongoing drawdown of U.S. troops in Europe — the biggest shift in the continent's defense posture since the Cold War.Go deeper: Europe braces for Trump's wrath
A new analysis from clean energy think tank Energy Innovation finds that the Trump administration's rollback of clean energy policy will add more than half a trillion dollars to American households' collective energy costs by 2040, even as it publicly promises lower bills. 350.org says the findings confirm what millions of Americans are already living through this summer: a sudden AI-driven electricity crunch colliding with policy choices that are making the problem worse, not better.According to the report, the cumulative impact of the administration's actions, including the repeal of clean energy tax credits, new barriers to permitting wind and solar, and a tilt toward more expensive coal-fired power, will raise the average household's energy costs by $460 by 2035, rising to $490 a year by 2040. That comes on top of electricity rates that have already spiked 7.4% nationwide since last fall, with more than a dozen states seeing double-digit increases, driven in part by the explosive growth in data center electricity demand.The findings land just as households across the eastern US are living the consequences directly. A "heat dome" and severe storms over the Fourth of July weekend left almost a million households without power across more than a dozen states, and sent wholesale electricity prices up more than 240% in New England and doubled in New York City. Detroit was among the hardest hit: roughly 350,000 people lost power, some for four to five days, with outages still ongoing for some. Detroit's utility, DTE, ranked among the worst-rated in the country, has pushed through repeated rate hikes even as reliability has failed to improve, including a $242.2 million increase approved in February during a deadly cold snap, and a further request in April for up to $474 million, an 11% increase.Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has intervened in DTE and Consumers Energy's current rate cases over the pattern, saying DTE continues to treat Michigan families like an open checkbook to satisfy its shareholders, whether through massive rate hike requests or secret data center contracts.Candice Fortin, US Campaigns Manager at 350.org, said:"This report puts numbers on something households are already feeling in their bills and their blackouts. We were told cutting clean energy would lower costs. Instead, we're seeing the opposite: rates spiking, grids failing under record heat, and households paying more while data centers' electricity use explodes. You can't fix an affordability crisis by blocking the cheapest, fastest power we have to build. The fossil fuel industry and this administration's policies are adding fuel to the fire, and ordinary ratepayers are the ones getting burned."The Trump administration disputes the report's findings, with the White House and Department of Energy characterising Energy Innovation's analysis as partisan and arguing that rolling back clean energy regulation will ultimately lower prices by letting market forces determine new generation. Energy Innovation and other independent analysts maintain there is a direct line between the administration's policies and rising bills, pointing to the growing gap between the promise of cheaper energy and the reality households are experiencing this summer.
NATO leaders gathered in Ankara this week aiming to impress Donald Trump with a raft of defense contracts and spending plans. The idea was to demonstrate to the US president their commitment to upgrading their militaries.
US President Donald Trump says the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, was successful. He also praises Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. (Source: Bloomberg)
The war Trump launched against Iran in February didn’t end in the victory he has claimed. Nor did the ceasefire terms he agreed to represent Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” They were anything but, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marc Champion says. (Source: Bloomberg)
President Trump addressed the war with Iran and the country's nuclear weapons program while taking questions from reporters on Wednesday at the NATO summit in Turkey. Mr. Trump claimed Iran's nuclear material is so far underground that no country besides the U.S. would be able to harvest it, and also spoke about trade relationships and rising prices in America.
