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President Donald Trump spoke again about $2,000 tariff rebate checks, though their funding and legality remain questionable.
Pressed by reporters at The New York Times on when Americans would get the checks he has floated over the last several months, Trump mentioned the $1,776 "warrior dividends" sent to the military for the holidays.
"The tariff money is so substantial. That’s coming in, that I’ll be able to do $2,000 sometime. I would say toward the end of the year," he told the Times in an exclusive sit-down on Jan. 7. The transcript of that conversation was published Jan. 11.
President Donald Trump spoke again about $2,000 tariff rebate checks, though their funding and legality remain questionable.
Pressed by reporters at The New York Times on when Americans would get the checks he has floated over the last several months, Trump mentioned the $1,776 "warrior dividends" sent to the military for the holidays.
"The tariff money is so substantial. That’s coming in, that I’ll be able to do $2,000 sometime. I would say toward the end of the year," he told the Times in an exclusive sit-down on Jan. 7. The transcript of that conversation was published Jan. 11.
JACKSON, Mississippi − A suspect connected to the alleged arson at a historic synagogue told federal authorities that he lit the fire due to "the building's Jewish ties," according to a federal affidavit filed Jan. 12.
The affidavit identifies the suspect in the blaze at Beth Israel Congregation synagogue as Stephen Spencer Pittman, 19. A criminal complaint states that he is charged with arson of property used in interstate commerce. A Jan. 12 news release from Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said that more charges could be filed pending the ultimate outcome of the investigation.
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump said he's considering military options in Iran and following through on his threat to attack the Iranian regime after anti-government protests in the country have turned increasingly deadly.
"The military is looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options. We'll make a determination," Trump told reporters Jan. 11 aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Two people were injured on Jan. 8 in a shooting involving federal agents in Portland, Oregon, authorities said, prompting local leaders and law enforcement to plead for calm after tensions were heightened across the nation over the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by immigration agents a day earlier.
Portland police officers responded to a report of a shooting at around 2:18 p.m. local time, Portland Police Chief Bob Day said at an evening news conference. Officers confirmed that federal agents were involved in the shooting.
WASHINGTON ‒ Even before the United States seized control of Venezuela and ousted its leader, some of President Donald Trump's allies worried he was giving too much attention abroad while Americans made clear their top concern was the economy and cost of living at home.
Now, following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, Trump is already talking about other foreign objectives.
While Trump says the United States will "run" Venezuela and tap the country's vast oil supply, he's warned that Cuba is on the verge of collapsing next, threatened military intervention in Colombia and renewed his call for the United States to seize Greenland, which is part of Denmark. He's even given his foreign policy a name, the "Donroe Doctrine," a rebranding of the early 19th century's Monroe Doctrine.
WASHINGTON – One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike to remove Nicolás Maduro from the presidency of Venezuela to face federal drug-trafficking charges, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Jan. 5.
In contrast, 72% of respondents worried about the United States becoming too involved in the South American country.
The two-day poll found a sharp partisan divide over the raid that President Donald Trump ordered, with his approval rating at 42%. The results found 65% of Republicans back the military operation, compared to 11% of Democrats and 23% of independents.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Jan. 1 inauguration and block party reflected a diverse city looking to make good on the 34-year-old democratic socialist’s promises to address affordability.
On a freezing New Year’s Day, the Democratic mayor took his ceremonial oath of office on the steps of City Hall, with thousands of people lining several Manhattan blocks and a slate of celebrities championing him with Millennial cultural touchstones. Mamdani acknowledged people, including those outside the five boroughs, want to see how a leftist will manage a municipal government.
In just a few months, President Donald Trump has instituted a series of policies that have been stunning in scope. He ordered the arrest and deportation of thousands of undocumented immigrants, sent the National Guard into the streets of some of the nation’s largest cities, and directed the military to blow up boats at sea that his administration suspected of smuggling drugs into the country.
When Mayor Frank Picozzi learned Warwick, Rhode Island, had topped a list of the safest cities in the United States, he wasn't surprised.
The charming city on the coast took advantage of federal money handed out during the COVID-19 pandemic to bolster its fleet of fire trucks and police vehicles, part of a yearslong effort to help improve public safety, which Picozzi credits with helping the city rise through rankings.
WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton had his moment in the spotlight when the Epstein files were first released. It was Donald Trump's turn on Tuesday.
The sitting president's name surfaced repeatedly in a new tranche of thousands of documents in the Justice Department's "Epstein Library" released Dec. 23.
A week after Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their home, their family shared that they are planning a memorial ceremony for the couple.
Their children, Jake and Romy Reiner, revealed that information about the service will be forthcoming in a Dec. 22 statement to the Los Angeles Times and People.
The FBI received a complaint about Jeffrey Epstein in 1996, nearly a decade before they investigated his activities in Florida and more than two decades before the Department of Justice brought sex trafficking charges.
The complaint was made public as part of a larger document release Dec. 19 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The document is redacted so that the complainant is not named, but Maria Farmer and her lawyer quickly identified it as hers.
PROVIDENCE, RI — The shooting suspect connected to the deadly Brown University attack and the fatal shooting of an MIT professor has been found dead in New Hampshire, authorities said late Thursday, ending an exhaustive manhunt that rocked the Ivy League school and the surrounding community.
Every week for the duration of the 2025 regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the NFL's ever-evolving playoff picture − typically starting Sunday afternoon and then moving forward for the remainder of the week (through Monday's and Thursday's games or Saturday's, if applicable. And, when the holidays roll around, we'll be watching then, too).
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump said he hopes the top Republican in the Indiana state Senate loses his next primary after Indiana rejected a Trump-backed congressional redistricting plan.
Trump, speaking in the Oval Office on Dec. 11, called out by name Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, who was among 21 Republican senators who voted to defeat the redistricting bill in the GOP-controlled Senate.
"He’ll probably lose his next primary, whenever that is," Trump said. "I hope he does, because he’s done a tremendous disservice."
Last week, Costco nominated Gina Raimondo to its board of directors, a former Biden administration official who has expressed skepticism about President Donald Trump’s handling of tariffs.
The announcement of Raimondo, who led the Commerce Department and played a significant role in U.S. trade policy, came less than a week after Costco sued the Trump administration to ensure its eligibility for a full refund if the Supreme Court strikes down tariffs.
President Donald Trump engaged in a mortgage arrangement that closely resembles loans he has called potentially criminal "mortgage fraud" in accusations leveled at several of his targets, according to a ProPublica report.
In late 1993 and early 1994, Trump claimed in mortgages that two properties he owned in Florida were each his primary residence, despite living in New York at the time, according to the report from the investigative journalism nonprofit. It cited contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with Trump's longtime real estate agent.
Drinking water for at least one of every seven Americans – about 49.5 million people – contains unsafe levels of “forever chemicals,” according to new test results the Environmental Protection Agency published in November.
Since the EPA last updated these records in August, over 100 additional public drinking water systems have reported yearly averages of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, that exceed new limits the EPA approved in 2024.