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.
A federal judge clears the UFC’s fight card to proceed on the White House South Lawn Sunday, rejecting a corruption suit over the 154-foot arena built on parkland.
A federal judge permanently blocks Trump’s $1.78 billion fund to pay January 6 rioters, saying she does not trust officials who refused to disavow it under oath.
New York health inspectors cite Trump’s Hudson Valley golf club for serving food that is spoiled, adulterated, and from an unapproved source.
Judge warns Justice Department not to play possum over the $1.8 billion fund Trump’s administration created to settle Trump’s own lawsuit.
Trump family sells gold coins up to $12,000 commemorating the White House UFC event while FIFA pays rent on a mostly empty Trump Tower office.
Trump’s Justice Department killed a criminal pollution investigation into the coal empire of Republican Senator Jim Justice, a close Trump ally.
Trump formally nominates his former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general, sending the choice to the Senate.
Lawsuit seeks to block the UFC fight Trump scheduled on the White House South Lawn for his June 14 birthday.
Trump pardons former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer for insider trading, the same week his administration touts a fraud crackdown on Democratic-run states.
Justice Department tells a federal court it won’t proceed with Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund while urging the judge not to block it.
Defense Secretary Hegseth brings his wife and six children to France’s D-Day commemoration, straining his security detail during the Iran war.
Known donors to Trump’s White House ballroom won more than $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months, a watchdog finds, while the full donor list stays secret.
Thousands protest in Albania as a $4.6 billion resort tied to Kushner advances on protected coastal wetlands, with security guards filmed dragging demonstrators off the site.
Senate rejects Schumer’s motion to permanently kill Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate January 6 rioters, 49 to 50, as three Republicans cross over.
Democratic lawmakers demand answers after a top Trump aide steered a $620 million Pentagon loan to a rare-earth firm tied to Donald Trump Jr.
Senate Republicans drop up to $1 billion for Trump’s White House ballroom from their budget package, denying a project he pushed for weeks.
National Park Service awards a $5.1 million no-bid contract to cover four bridge statues in gold leaf before July 4.
Acting Attorney General Blanche says the administration is permanently killing its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund but keeping the order that shields Trump’s family from tax audits.
