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What Happened Today – April 14, 2026

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Donald Trump sitting together in yellow armchairs by the Oval Office fireplace smiling at each other

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Trump shared a warm exchange in the Oval Office before he called her "unacceptable" this week for defending Pope Leo and suspending arms to Israel. (Official White House photo)

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,000 January 6 insurrectionists on his first day in office but wouldn’t forgive the extremist organizers behind the seditious conspiracy. His Justice Department asked a court today to entirely erase their convictions. The last time we forgave insurrectionists who attacked us, we spent 161 years subsidizing their memorial societies and watching … Read more

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