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Trump Has Phone Call With Putin
Kremlin Says Trump
Call to Putin 'Pure Fiction'
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Nov 11, 2024 7:30 PM CST

Kremlin Says Trump Call to Putin 'Pure Fiction'

'There was no conversation,' and there are 'no concrete plans' for one, Kremlin spokesman claims

(Newser) - The Kremlin has firmly denied reports that President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin last week and urged the Russian leader not to escalate the war in Ukraine. "This is completely untrue, it is pure fiction," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, per the BBC . "This is...

Stephen Miller Lands His Job in the White House

Trump appoints longtime adviser as his deputy chief of policy

(Newser) - Donald Trump is naming longtime adviser Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner, to be the deputy chief of policy in his new administration, reports the AP . Vice President-elect JD Vance posted a message of congratulations on Monday to Miller on X and said, "This is another fantastic pick by the...

Here's Trump's 'Day 1' Agenda
Here's Trump's 'Day 1' Agenda
Nov 11, 2024 4:27 AM CST

Here's Trump's 'Day 1' Agenda

What the president-elect has promised to do right away, and what he can do right away

(Newser) - Donald Trump has said he wouldn't be a dictator—"except for Day 1." According to his own statements, he's got a lot to do on that first day in the White House, the AP reports. Here's a look at what Trump has said he will...

Trump Names His 'Border Czar'
Trump Names His 'Border Czar'
Nov 11, 2024 2:00 AM CST

Trump Names His 'Border Czar'

Tom Homan's post does not require Senate confirmation

(Newser) - President-elect Donald Trump says that Tom Homan, his former acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as "border czar" in his incoming administration, the AP reports. "I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining...

Trump Was Just Handed a Legal Reprieve

He may 'never face serious legal accountability for an avalanche of alleged wrongdoing'

(Newser) - In becoming the first convicted felon ever to win the presidency, Donald Trump has pulled off a remarkable escape. "Staring down four potential criminal trials on 91 charges and decades in prison ... Trump staked his defense on winning back the White House, a strategy that has now paid off,...

Dow Goes Absolutely Wild on News of Trump's Win

It's trading up roughly 1,300 points

(Newser) - Stocks are responding to a second Trump presidency in a big way. CNBC reports the Dow surged 1,300 points at the open, a rise of about 3% to an all-time high; it's at 43,510 points as of this writing. The last time it experienced a surge of...

Trump's Win Sends Iran's Currency to Record Low

'100% he will intensify the sanctions'

(Newser) - Iran's currency fell on Wednesday to an all-time low as Donald Trump clinched the US presidency again, signaling new challenges ahead for Tehran as it remains locked in the wars raging in the Middle East. The rial traded at 703,000 rials to the dollar, traders in Tehran said....

You Want Fries and a Halloween Costume With That?

'McDonald's costume' searches spiked by 412% after Trump's visit to the fast-food chain

(Newser) - Former President Trump's brief stint in a McDonald's apron served up French fries, a Yelp brouhaha , and, apparently, Halloween costume ideas. As Quartz reports, immediately after Trump dropped in at the Mickey D's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, searches for "McDonald's costume" spiked like your blood sugar...

Supreme Court Has Bad News for Michael Cohen

Justices uphold ruling that lawsuit against Trump claiming retaliatory imprisonment can't go forward

(Newser) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Michael Cohen, who wanted to hold his former boss and ex-president Donald Trump liable for a jailing he said was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir. The justices did not detail their reasoning in the brief order, reports the AP , as is...

Next President to Inherit Fewer Judicial Openings

There are only 43 openings now on federal bench

(Newser) - For presidents who want to shape the federal judiciary, it's been good times for years. The Senate has confirmed President Biden's 213th nominee, and Donald Trump appointed 234 federal judges during his term. But it looks like the next president will be greeted on Inauguration Day by the...

Russia Says There's Truth to Woodward's COVID Test Claim

But it denies that Trump, Putin have spoken since Trump left office

(Newser) - One of the splashier claims in Bob Woodward's new book is accurate, per the Kremlin, though it shot down a second one. The book, War, asserts that former President Trump and Vladimir Putin have spoken by phone as many as seven times since Trump left office and that Trump...

Trump Blames Democrats' 'Rhetoric' for Latest Scare

Former president says inflammatory language led to another attempt on his life

(Newser) - With 50 days to go until the election, former President Trump is walking away from the second attempt on his life since July—and pointing the finger at President Biden and Vice President Harris. Suspect Ryan Routh "believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,...

Trump's Fate Moves to the Jury's Hands

Things kick off at 10am Wednesday

(Newser) - Donald Trump's fate is now in the jury's hands. After a Tuesday packed with closing arguments that went into the evening hours, 12 jurors will on Wednesday be able to discuss the case amongst themselves for the first time. They'll deliberate whether to convict the former president...

Did Arizona Go Too Far on Abortion? Trump Says 'Yeah'

He was asked about the state's supreme court decision at a campaign event

(Newser) - Days after saying decisions about abortion laws should be left to the states, former President Trump shared his thoughts on Tuesday's abortion ruling in Arizona . When asked if the state's supreme court went too far in its ruling that an 1864 law that prohibits nearly all abortions and...

Trump Makes His Promised Statement on Abortion

He says laws should be left to the states

(Newser) - Donald Trump's promised statement on abortion arrived Monday morning via a video posted to Truth Social . In it, the former president speaks favorably of his role in overturning Roe v. Wade but says abortion laws should be left up to the states as long as exceptions are present for...

With Trump Case, SCOTUS Steps 'Into Freshly Fallen Snow'

It will consider whether the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from holding office

(Newser) - Of all the Donald Trump-related court moments of recent months, Thursday's will be among the most consequential, and certainly the most historic. As the New Republic puts it: The Supreme Court is "stepping out into freshly fallen snow." It will be the first time a case about...

Snoop Dogg Now Has 'Nothing but Love' for Trump

This after years of dissing the former president

(Newser) - Snoop Dogg once bemoaned the fact that the US had a "clown" for a president when Donald Trump was in office, and said he'd cast his first vote in 2020 to ensure Trump didn't win a second term. What a difference a few years makes: In an...

Supreme Court Will Take on Abortion Pill, Trump Cases

Court could set limits on mifepristone, undo Capitol riot charges against hundreds, including Trump

(Newser) - The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, in what the AP reports is its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Also Wednesday, the court agreed to...

Trump's Post-Insurrection Interview Airs

He claimed he was prevented from going to Capitol, where he would've been 'very well received'

(Newser) - An audio clip of former President Trump discussing his plans on Jan. 6, 2021, that aired Thursday on CNN may become valuable evidence for the prosecution in his election interference case, experts say. In an interview with ABC News' chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, recorded two months after the insurrection,...

Trump Asks 'Biased' Judge to Grant Mistrial in Fraud Case

Judge Arthur Engoron is unlikely to side with the former president

(Newser) - Seven weeks into his civil fraud case, Donald Trump is seeking a mistrial. The former president, sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the Trump Organization, and the company's top executives on Wednesday submitted a 30-page filing in Manhattan Supreme Court that argued the conduct of presiding Judge Arthur...

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