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Trump Says He Feels No Political Pressure to End War With Iran

As strikes strain the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, at home, President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting where he defended the war and insisted he’s not concerned with the war’s political consequences heading into the critical midterm elections. It comes as the president is threatening to "blow up" ally Oman in response to a deal in which Iran and Oman would share control of the Strait of Hormuz. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for TODAY.

Trump refiles $10bn defamation suit against WSJ over report on Epstein ties – US politics live

The lawsuit is one of several that the president has brought in his personal capacity against news organizationsHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Donald Trump has refiled a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10bn in damages against the Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after a judge threw out an earlier version over legal deficiencies.In a new interview with CBS News, Jill Biden, the former first lady, said that she was “frightened” as she watched her husband, then-president Joe Biden, freeze up during his disastrous 2024 debate against Donald Trump. Pressed to explain what happened, Jill Biden said: “I don’t know what happened. I mean as I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke’. And it scared me to death.”Two House Democrats, Don Beyer of Virginia and Dina Titus of Nevada, announced that they plan to introduce a bill that would “explicitly prohibit construction of President Trump’s proposed ‘triumphal arch’ outside Arlington National Cemetery”.Cam Higby, a rightwing activist disguised as a pro-Palestinian activist, disrupted a news conference with the Democratic congressmen Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Continue reading...

MAGA-tainted governor mocked for 'martyr' pose: 'Get out of politics'

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis presented himself as a martyr to free speech after the state Democratic Party censured him for springing an election denier from jail before her sentence ended.The Democratic governor granted clemency to former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted in 2024 for allowing unauthorized individuals to access her office's election system looking for fraud in the 2020 presidential contest, and a Colorado Sun political reporter flagged his appearance Wednesday in a party call."Gov. Jared Polis, fresh off being censured by the Colorado Democratic Party for letting Tina Peters out of prison early, showed up today to a private, internal party call like this #copolitics," posted Sun reporter Jesse Aaron Paul.Paul's photo included a screenshot of the governor wearing headphones and black duct tape over his mouth, which prompted a wave of criticism."Seems to be conflating censured with censored… another sign that his brain has been captured by X/Twitter," muttered Kate Starbird, a computer scientist and former professional basketball player."Alright this guy absolutely has scrambled eggs for brains," agreed New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie."Get off the cross, ding dong," cracked journalist Imani Gandy. "We need the wood.""Powerful people sure do love to whine about there being consequences for their actions, it’s a shame we’ve built an attention economy that rewards that kind of behavior," opined writer Cooper Lund."Polis caved to Trump's months-long pressure campaign against his state to free Tina Peters," stated journalist Lindsay Beyerstein. "Trump did everything from shut down a major climate research facility to denying disaster aid to vetoing a bill to supply clean drinking water to his own supporters in CO. Now Polis wants to play martyr.""How many other people currently locked up in Colorado prisons and jails would he do this for?" wondered writer and activist Chad Stanton."Federal employees are facing NDAs that will functionally silence their ability to tell the public about wrongdoing, and you have the Governor of an entire state cosplaying like a college speaker claiming to be cancelled in 2017," noted University of Michigan policy professor Don Moynihan. "Just not serious.""I really think we should consider the possibility Polis did this for attention," suggested attorney Ken White."Mild consequences for the thing that everyone in the party said was bad? For a rich man?" asked author Courtney Milan."Doing something ugly & stupid, experiencing the entirely predictable social consequences, and then complaining that you are oppressed -- this is the quintessential reactionary move," posted journalist David Roberts. "F--- this dips---.""Governors are not immune from criticism nor from censure by their own parties," added labor lawyer Katelyn Oldham. "If he can't handle this absolutely justified criticism and censure, he needs to resign and get out of politics altogether."

Dana White denies America 250 UFC fight at White House will be ‘political’

In 2025, White revealed that Trump was the one who came up with the idea for a UFC event at the White House in honor of the America 250 celebration.

Karen Bass treats Maxine Waters endorsement like a political Super Bowl win

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is being mocked all over X for celebrating an endorsement from Congresswoman Maxine Waters. While it’s no surprise that California Democrats would […]

Texas Politics and Then Some

Trump compares Dem Senate candidate to freckle-faced cartoon character, promises to campaign for Paxton

Trump mocks Texas Democrat James Talarico as Alfred E. Neuman and pledges big rallies for Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton ahead of November's election.

Trump’s May primary scorecard: From the Politics Desk

In today’s edition, we take stock of President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign this month as Ken Paxton and James Talarico look ahead to the general election in Texas.