President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he would rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” managed to make only a ripple in the news cycle, which could signal a new problem for him.The 80-year-old president has dominated politics for a decade with his ability to drive conversations wherever he…
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department took a new swipe at former FBI Director James Comey on Monday, reviving an investigation into alleged leaks of classified information to the media. A federal grand jury issued a subpoena to Daniel Richman, Comey’s longtime friend and former adviser, as par…
Interviews with dozens of voters across eight competitive congressional districts show growing willingness among some longtime Donald Trump supporters to criticize the president over inflation, the Iran war and White House spending.An NBC News crew that traveled Interstate 80 from New Jersey to Nebr…
Conservatives revolted Monday against President Donald Trump’s latest screed against Americans opposing his data center push, with one conservative radio host declaring the president had gone “full techno-fascist.”Trump lashed out at “communities throughout the U.S.A.” Monday for resisting new data …
President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to blame “communities throughout the U.S.A.” for resisting his administration’s nationwide data center push, a key priority of the White House that has been largely rejected by Americans.“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should…
Federal health officials say they are confident that all iceberg lettuce linked to a nationwide cyclospora outbreak has been removed from U.S. markets, even as the case count from the summer-long outbreak continues to rise.More than 11,000 people have been sickened this summer in an outbreak tied to…
President Donald Trump is not putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to getting scandal-plagued Ken Paxton elected to the US Senate.As part of a Wall Street Journal report on the Texas Attorney General’s campaign cash woes, the Journal is reporting that Trump’s visit to the state last we…
The Justice Department’s $400 million settlement with TikTok quietly resolved more than the child-safety claims it publicized — it also erased a federal monitoring requirement and left unaddressed a far more alarming allegation that never made it into the case.A former Federal Trade Commission offic…
“Are the Russians bad?”That, according to newly declassified FBI files, is what Donald Trump asked a counterintelligence agent during a 2016 briefing — the same trove the president ordered released to prove the Russia investigation was a hoax. “Because they have more numbers, are they worse than the…
President Donald Trump raged at NBC News journalist Kristen Welker over the weekend after she questioned the worth of his electoral endorsements, and a conservative commentator said his threats betrayed a deeper anxiety.The “Meet the Press” host reported on the “mixed results” in his recent endorsem…