Senate Republican blocks a bill barring taxpayer money to retrofit Trump’s Qatari jet after he flew home from Turkey on the old Air Force One.
Trump says his Qatari-gifted Air Force One needs a month of upgrades after flying it without full anti-missile defenses during the Iran war.
Trump’s teleprompter operator faces a federal probe for allegedly winning nearly $100,000 betting on which words the president would say in speeches.
Trump’s media company will sell Wall Street firms high-speed access to his Truth Social posts, letting traders profit from presidential announcements before markets react.
U.S. Mint will produce $1 coins bearing Trump’s face despite a law limiting currency portraits to deceased individuals, Treasury Secretary Bessent announces.
Justice Department subpoenas 13 top law firms for their communications with Trump’s personal lawyer while asking a judge to shield the White House’s own records.
Trump’s company took $2 million from a top Korea Aluminium investor while the firm fought a Commerce Department case over dodging Chinese aluminum duties.
Judge voids Trump’s IRS settlement shielding his family from audits, ruling he sued the agency he controls for an improper purpose.
Sen. Whitehouse expands his Kennedy Center probe after whistleblowers describe no-bid contracts and rushed cosmetic work ordered to meet Trump’s FIFA Peace Prize deadline.
Park Service drains the Reflecting Pool a month after refilling it, as Trump’s $1.5 million beautification stands at $14 million with algae and peeling liner.
Palm Beach International becomes Donald J. Trump International, the first US airport named for a sitting president, with the FAA identifier now reading DJT.
Three more people plead not guilty to damaging the Reflecting Pool’s peeling $14.6 million liner as an Olympian faces a felony for pulling loose coating.
Secret Service urges Trump off the Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the leg near Iran, and he reboards it in England for the safe flight home.
Treasury Secretary Bessent scraps the decade-old plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill while his department designs a $250 note featuring Trump.
Trump says defense contractor Sikorsky will pay the full cost of a granite White House helipad because its new Marine One helicopters scorch the lawn.
Interior Secretary Burgum says the same Trump-linked contractor whose $14.6 million no-bid Reflecting Pool paint job peeled will repair it, blaming vandals for the damage.
Nearly 1 million buyers of Trump’s memecoin have lost a combined $3.8 billion while his disclosure shows the coin paid him $636 million in royalties.
Belgium’s diamond industry gifts Trump a ring jewelers value at up to $35,000 months after winning removal of U.S. tariffs on its $2 billion in exports.
Trump defends his $1.4 billion in 2025 crypto profits by saying he leaves investing to others and “everybody’s profiting” from rising stocks. 23 words
House Democrats’ report accuses Freedom 250 of diverting donations meant for the congressionally chartered 250th anniversary commission to Trump’s group, potentially constituting wire fraud.
Trump makes the first flight aboard the Qatar-gifted Air Force One, flying to North Dakota to open the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
Trump secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for his White House ballroom, routing it through an office exempt from competitive bidding, the Washington Post reports.
The Trump administration freezes federal funding for New York’s Medicaid fraud unit over too few convictions, the second such suspension this year and part of a campaign focused largely on Democratic-led states.
A reversal of decades of wildfire science draws scrutiny after three federal firefighters die in Colorado under Trump’s new full-suppression policy and untested fire agency.
The Supreme Court strikes down federal limits on coordinated spending between parties and their candidates in a 6-3 ruling, months before the midterms, in a case Vance launched as a 2022 Senate candidate.
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Defense Secretary Hegseth fills the Defense Policy Board with 15 Trump allies, including Robert Lighthizer and tech billionaire Marc Andreessen, after purging the panel last year.
Trump personally orders 47 trees planted in the public park outside the White House to mark his place as the 47th president.
A federal judge orders the Justice Department to justify dropping its fraud and bribery case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, calling its explanation terse and conclusory.
House Oversight Chair Comer subpoenas billionaire investor Leon Black for the deposition and the women’s NDAs he refused to discuss during a voluntary Epstein interview.
DeSantis declares the Everglades migrant lockup “Alligator Alcatraz” a success as he confirms its shutdown after less than a year and at least $1 billion in contracts.
North Carolina’s attorney general reaches a $7 million settlement barring a major landlord from algorithmic rent-setting, the third such deal in a case prosecutors say inflated rents statewide.
Trump nominates a lawyer from the firm that handles his taxes to be the IRS’s top attorney, weeks after his administration shielded him from audits.
Trump says five people were arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, offering no evidence, as a law professor says the bystanders merely witnessed damage his own botched renovation caused. 30 words
A Trump supporter’s company, ScottsMiracle-Gro, pledges $1 million to repair the White House lawn its sponsored UFC event destroyed, drawing ethics complaints.
A conservative nonprofit secretly funded super PACs named Lead Left and Real Change to boost weaker Democratic primary candidates and engineer easier Republican matchups.
A POLITICO review shows Senator Gallego used campaign and PAC funds for family Disney trips and 2023 Super Bowl tickets, which it calls a potential 2028 liability.
Investors tied to Chinese military contractors and the Qatari royal family secretly bought into SpaceX before its record IPO, court records ProPublica sued to unseal show.
The Justice Department refuses a judge’s order to swear under oath that Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, calling the demand a separation-of-powers violation.
The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator spoke at a private Bank of America dinner for Wall Street clients during the Fed’s blackout period, hours after the rate decision.
Trump blames vandals for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s peeling paint and accuses an ABC reporter of trying to tear up the surface.
Trump unveils the $400 million jet Qatar gave him as a new Air Force One that will pass to his presidential library when he leaves office.
ICE moves to sell or give away seven of the 11 warehouses it bought for $700 million to expand detention, abandoning a signature Noem initiative after lawsuits and an inspector general probe.
The White House quietly redirects more than $350 million in OBBBA Secret Service funds toward the ballroom project, days after Congress refused Trump’s $1 billion request and despite his no-taxpayer-money pledge.
Fired Homeland Security Secretary Noem, still serving as a Trump special envoy, joins a Canadian mining firm’s advisory board as it pursues critical minerals.
Internal documents show the White House ballroom will cost $600 million with taxpayers covering more than half, despite Trump’s repeated promise of zero public funds.
Preservation groups sue to block Trump’s planned 250-statue National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park, citing a congressional ban on new monuments in the Mall’s core.
National Park Service crews scrub algae from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool days after a $15 million no-bid renovation painted it blue.
Trump stages a UFC fight card on the White House South Lawn for his 80th birthday, with the arena alone costing over $60 million per a Park Service filing.
Severe storms are forecast over Trump’s 80th-birthday UFC fights at the White House, where 120,000 won lottery tickets to watch from the Ellipse.
