Trump facing 'broad-based and deep' collapse among voters who sealed his 2024 win

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon argued that former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis was 10 times "bigger than Watergate." During an interview with MAGA ally Laura Loomer, Bannon suggested that aides had revealed Biden's cancer diagnosis to distract from recently released interview tapes from former special counsel Robert Hur. Bannon, a former strategist for President Donald Trump, worried that Biden might die before the Department of Justice and Congress could investigate him. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. "So they reveal the ...

Donald Trump's team was just "humiliated" by a foreign leader, according to a former insider. Author and former Trump associate Lev Parnas on Saturday published an article entitled, "Putin Humiliates Trump’s Envoy – Witkoff Told Not to Come." In the piece, Parnas cites an incident in which the president's adviser was embarrassed in Russia. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. EXCLUSIVE: Breastfeeding mom of US citizen sues Kristi Noem after being grabbed by ICE "Witkoff was supposed to travel to Moscow, handpicked by Trump as his envoy, a supposed neg...

JD Vance’s efforts to schmooze were rebuffed by Pope Leo XIV Sunday — as the pontiff shook him off to meet with other world leaders. The vice president was in the Vatican to witness the pope’s inaugural mass. Afterward, he tried to speak to the leader of the Catholic church, who shook his hand but barely spoke in the 17-second encounter. But the pope did meet behind closed doors with many other world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Peruvian President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. The ...

Donald Trump posted a bizarre video of himself playing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” on a stage before devoted fans. The clip, which was produced by artificial intelligence, shows the president sitting on a stage in front of a piano festooned with an American flag. In front of the stage is an adoring patriotic crowd. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Trump then changes from a suit to a red, white and blue outfit and is seen rocking a guitar riff, before moving to a drum kit. The famous song was played for Trump at Mar-a-Lago by the band's keyboa...

Donald Trump's decision to take the lead in negotiating business deals while making bold announcements about how he is turning around a faltering economy could end up blowing up in his face. That is according to the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid who wrote on Sunday that Trump is going where few presidents have gone before — and he's playing a risky game because it could lead to becoming the poster-child for failure, particularly in a volatile economic climate he had a major hand in creating. As the Post report highlights, Trump is no more than dabbling in attempts to control drug prices, ...

Pope Leo XIV issued a Donald Trump putdown while two of the president’s key allies sat watching from the pews. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both made the trip to the Vatican to witness the new pontiff’s inaugural mass Sunday. As they watched, the pope — who has criticized the policies of both Vance and Trump before — took a dig many believe was aimed directly at Trump. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. “In this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of d...

President Donald Trump's administration has finally stopped "lying," at least when it comes to tariffs, remarked an MSNBC host on Monday. At the top of their show, "The Weeknight," co-host Symone Sanders Townsend responded to recent reports about a key confession from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Americans will pay the price for his reckless trade policies," said co-host Alicia Menendez. "Trump's Treasury secretary now admits Americans may soon see higher prices. Exactly what economists have been saying all along. As for the president, well, Trump has a long history of saying otherwi...

Donald Trump is the way he is because of family trauma, according to a member of that family who happens to be a trained psychologist. Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump and an outspoken critic of the president, did a live question and answer session on social media Sunday. At about the 20-minute mark of her Q&A session, Mary Trump is asked about whether her uncle's team "genuinely likes him." As part of her answer, the Trump family member says, "Nobody likes Donald. He's unlikable and he's unlovable." Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. EXCLUSIVE...

Donald Trump on Saturday lobbed an apparent threat of litigation at ABC. Taking to his own social media site, Truth Social, the president asked, "Why doesn’t Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC Fake News, especially since I just won $16,000,000 based on the Fake and Defamatory reporting of Liddle’ George Slopadopolus." Trump continued, saying, "He was given warnings, but just couldn’t be restrained by 'management.'" Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. EXCLUSIVE: Breastfeeding mom of US citizen sues Kristi Noem after being grabbed by ICE Accordin...

Donald Trump's administration "significantly reduced" the number of meteorologists working in a state where 14 people were then killed by a tornado, according to a new weekend report. Trump and Elon Musk made a name for themselves by offering buyouts to federal workers, and simply letting others go. As a result of these cuts, one weather forecasting office in Kentucky was unable to operate overnight. Then an "all-hands-on-deck moment" came in the form of a tornado, according to the Washington Post. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. EXCLUSIVE: Breas...

For Rae Vermeal, the experience of one Pima County senior illustrates the complexity of the housing struggle for older people in the region. The woman owns her home and gets $967 through Social Security.

President Donald Trump is being "played by a fool" in negotiations over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conservative columnist Max Boot warned in The Washington Post — and he has no idea how effortlessly he's being used. Trump has been tough to pin down on the Ukraine war. He has spent much of his political career sympathetic to Russia's Vladimir Putin after his government interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and has frequently suggested Ukraine should give up territory to appease Russian aggression, but has more recently acted aware that Russia isn't interested in peace — yet, Boot ...

WASHINGTON — A $400 million plane offered to President Donald Trump by Qatar may be a gaudy symbol of graft, but to some Democrats on Capitol Hill it’s also a distraction. As Trump settles back into Washington after a week in the Middle East, Democrats are glad presidential ethics, or the lack of them, have finally been spotlighted, nearly five months into Trump’s second term. But many say the intense scrutiny Trump received while he was abroad barely scratched the surface. “The plane is the second-biggest scandal on this trip,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Raw Story. “The $2 billion crypto i...

According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering a plan that would let federal prosecutors investigate and indict members of Congress unfettered by traditional oversight designed to stop political persecution. Traditionally, before such an investigation could proceed, a prosecutor would have their case reviewed by the lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. But that would go away under the new proposal. The report notes that, should the proposal go into effect, "a long-standing provision in...

Two of the president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are making miliions by investing in a tiny bank hidden on a high floor of the Trump Tower, according to a Bloomberg report. The bank, Dominari Holdings Inc., is headquartered on the 22nd floor of the New York City building. Three years ago, it was developing cancer therapies — today, however, they have pivoted to finance and are “stockpiling Bitcoin.” According to Bloomberg, Dominari has “shifted priorities and tribulations” for years, but it went unnoticed until Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump joined their board of advisors. Want m...

A new warning from Brazilian pulp exporter Suzano SA has raised concerns about the potential for toilet paper shortages and price hikes in the United States. While store shelves currently remain well stocked, the company reports that ongoing supply chain disruptions and new U.S. tariffs are already affecting shipments.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.

A Mexican Navy ship smashed into the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night — and MAGA world descended into a race-tinged joke fest. The crash killed two crew members, injured many more and damaged the iconic New York City landmark as the sailing ship's tall masts smashed against it. The incident sparked horror among thousands in the city who saw it unfold. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. But in the annals of right-wing social media, the reaction was much different. “In an absolutely stunning modern metaphor a ship blaring Mexican music and flying a mass...

FRESNO, Calif. — A chaotic brawl in southwest Fresno took a horrifying turn earlier this month when a woman allegedly shouted for a teenager to “shoot the girls,” leading to gunfire that injured three females, police stated.

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The Reverend Nontombi Naomi Tutu torched the Trump administration in a blistering op-ed Friday that denounced a decision to fast-track refugee status for white South Africans – which she blasted as a “grotesque falsification” of what it means to seek refuge. Tutu, a South African-born Episcopal priest in Atlanta, praised the church’s decision to cut ties with a federal refugee resettlement program rather than “elevated a lie that will affect refugee resettlement for years to come.” “The Episcopal Church has taken a moral stand,” she wrote Friday in an MSNBC op-ed. “The Boers who arrived on U.S...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — After nearly three decades of investigation and heartbreak, justice has arrived for the family of Monica Leech, a Camarillo mother of four killed during a 1997 bank robbery in Thousand Oaks, county prosecutors announced.

Lawyers for Jonah Bevin, the adopted son of former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, have filed a sharply worded reply to claims Matt Bevin filed under seal April 25 in which he responds to “certain assertions” made by his estranged son.

Former President Lyndon Johnson in many ways stood for the antithesis of what President Donald Trump does today, backing the expansion of civil rights, social assistance, and immigration — some of which Trump is directly undoing. But his complicated legacy helped to lay the groundwork for the current president's rampage over the federal system, wrote Jonathan Farmer for Slate. "I’m starting to see the value in using LBJ to think about Trump," wrote Farmer. "Because in almost every facet of his political career — his style, his agenda, his keen nose for everyone else’s hypocrisy, his disdain fo...

The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries’ monthly payments to claw back money the government had allegedly overpaid them.

A key Social Security program mandated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was ordered shut down on Friday for not only being "inefficient" but also creating chaos for those applying for their benefits and those who process claims. According to a report from the Washington Post, officials from Elon Musk's creation designed to root out waste had demanded "a security check, developed at DOGE’s request, that was meant to root out allegedly fraudulent claims filed over the phone," which, in turn, was a bust. According to two employees, "the measure — which involved placing a three-da...

“Corporations First.” That’s the slogan that would truthfully describe the Trump administration’s approach to law enforcement, not “America First.”. A new investigation by my organization Public Citizen shows that the Trump administration is dropping investigations and enforcement actions against corporations that showered money on Trump’s inauguration earlier this year.

President Trump’s budget proposal “is bad for the work to end homelessness,” according to Ann Oliva, chief executive officer of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “From zeroing out the Continuum of Care and (Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS) programs in favor of an inadequate Emergency Solutions Grants increase, to eliminating the Community Development Block Grant and HOME programs, to major changes and cuts in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s rental assistance programs, to cuts in other critical supports — this budget would (if passed) be disastrous for already-marginalized people, especially those experiencing homelessness and housing instability.”

LANCASTER – Officials are investigating the death of an incarcerated man at California State Prison, Los Angeles County (LAC), as a homicide, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in July 2013. He still draws several cartoons a week and distributes them through his own syndicate. Through Heller Syndication, his cartoons regularly appear in more than 400 newspapers, making him the most successful self-syndicated editorial cartoonist in the nation. His cartoons are reprinted many times in USA Today, Denver Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek Japan, The Week and The Washington Post. Joe’s cartoons have won numerous distinctions, including 10 Best of Gannett awards, eight Milwaukee Press Club awards and two Honorable mentions for the John Fischetti Award. He lives in Green Bay with his wife, Pamela. He is a regular featured cartoonist for the NKyTribune .