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President Donald Trump hasn't forgotten about his dream to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison on the island off the coast of San Francisco, California. In his new budget, he funds $132 million to “rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility."Trump is being criticized for his wallet-busting $1.5 trillion 2027 budget for defense spending, which Stars and Stripes explained would be the largest military spending level in the modern era,

President Donald Trump already placed three conservative justices on the Supreme Court during his first term. A liberal group is warning he could replace two of the other three conservatives with his own loyalists — and they’re not waiting for it to happen.While none of the nine justices have announced plans to retire, two conservatives — Justice Clarence Thomas (77) and

On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed headlined "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." The author described his efforts to "preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses."In 2020, former U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Miles Taylor revealed that he was the one who wrote that op-ed. Taylor is a conservative, but after working closely with Trump during his first presidency, he didn't hesitate to support Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 and the next Democratic presid

Security expert Miles Taylor, who served in the Department of Homeland Security from 2017-2019, has revealed the first piece of advice he was given about briefing President Donald Trump: less words, more pictures. “He doesn’t read. Bring pictures. Only try to impress ONE thing on him,” Taylor tweeted Friday morning. “And if there has to be words, single page only.”Taylor’s revelation came as a response to a video that’s been going around of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in which she asserted, “You always want to be the most well-read person in the room, and

The war on Iran has inflicted wide-ranging human, infrastructure, economic and diplomatic damage, with the U.S., Iran, Gulf states and countries around the world feeling the harm. But according to a growing chorus of experts, one of the few nations to directly benefit from the conflict is Russia. “Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin,” tweeted renowned historian Timothy Snyder, reflecting sentiments that not only is Russia benefiting from the war, but the suspicion expressed by many that President Donald Trump is to some degree working on the longtime-U.S. adversary’s behalf. For years, th

The attorney general might be out, but the Department of Justice problems persist. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that every case federal prosecutors in L.A. have pursued against protesters they allege "assaulted federal officers" have been dropped.Even a federal judge is calling the U.S. attorney's office "amateur hour" after losing one assault trial. They have charged more than 100 protesters since June 2025, claiming assault or "interference with immigration enforcement."U.S. District Judge André Birotte presided over a case in which federal prosecutors fail

Justice Samuel Alito he was hospitalized during a Federalist Society event in Philadelphia last week, CNN reported.CNN said that his "falling ill" was "an isolated incident," but noted it's part of the question about whether Alito will resign during President Donald Trump's second term. It would mean four of the nine members of the Supreme Court were installed by Trump. "The justice was evaluated and administered fluids for dehydration. He returned to his home in Virginia that night with his security team," said the report. Democrats are currently aiming to take back the House, which is appearing

Even President Donald Trump can't stop the feuds brewing across his MAGA movement. Writing on Friday, Mother Jones writer David Corn explained that the far-right's "deepening fault line" persists as isolationists battle with the ride-or-die Trump supporters. "An outsider cannot keep track of th

Set for Tuesday, November 3, the United States' 2026 midterms are only seven months away. Democratic strategists are hoping that if the midterms become a referendum on Donald Trump's second presidency, voters will take out their frustrations on Republican candidates. And they are attributing a series of recent Democratic victories in special elections — some of them in GOP-leaning areas of Florida and Texas — as a sign of dissatisfaction with Trump.Journalist David Rothkopf, known for his opinion columns for The Daily Beast, discussed the state of Trump's second presidency d

President Donald Trump has made major shake-ups in his Cabinet this month, with some high-profile firings, but according to a new analysis from The Bulwark, these moves boil down to making women "scapegoats" for his administration's big failures.In early March, Trump marked the first major firing of his second term in the White House, removing Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, reportedly after she told Congress that he had approved a controversial and expensive ad campaign.