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President Donald Trump’s personal phone number is “for sale to deep-pocket interests seeking influence, two administration officials” told the Atlantic.The stunning report reveals Trump’s personal number is a “hot commodity” as officials tell the Atlantic they’ve “heard of CEOs offering money for his number … [and] crypto bros offering cryptocurrency for it.”According to the At

President Donald Trump’s team “is privately trying to reassure the president that conservatives aren’t abandoning him,” the Wall Street Journal reports, including providing him recent polling data “they say shows the [Iran] war is popular with his supporters.”Still, the Journal notes, “a majority of Americans in polls [oppose] the war” as Trump’s team tries “to make the case that the conflict won’t drag on like the so-called ‘forever wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan.” The Journal notes such an extended conflict is “a red line for many lawma

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is trying to raise more than $5 billion from foreign governments for his private equity firm while working as “one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East,” the New York Times reports.According to the Times, who spoke with five people familiar with the discussions, Kushner is trying to raise money for his investment firm Affinity Partners. Representatives form the company “have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investme

The trouble with reprisals is that they never end. The resentment over loss always creates a new target, and retaliation itself spawns another cycle of violence.News that the West Bloomfield, Michigan synagogue was targeted by a naturalized immigrant from Lebanon whose relatives were killed in a recent Israeli air strike felt as inevitable as it does irrational. His truck smashed into a temple where young children were in classes, burst into flames, and the driver apparently killed himself.At Old Dominion University in Virginia, it was

Pete Hegseth won't have to wait much longer before notching his first officially recognized war atrocity as secretary of defense. Investigators for the Pentagon's Central Command, in charge of all Mideast operations, have determined that U.S. forces were likely culpable in the lethal air strike on a girls' school in Minab, Iran, that killed 175 Iranian civilians, mostly children under 12, two weeks ago.While that reported finding is "preliminary," the Tomahawk missile that hit the school is only being deployed in this conflict by the United States -- and the same weapons were fired the same day at an I

A dark money group offered at least two social media influencers $1,500 apiece for a single negative social media post about progressive Illinois Democrat candidate Kat Abughazaleh.Abughazaleh is running against 15 other Democrats in their primary for the chance to replace retiring Representative Jan Schakowsky in Illinois’s 9th congressional district. MS Now reports TikTok and Instagram influencer Amanda Informed was among those approached with the offer. The dark money group, Democracy Unmuted, requested an anti-Abughazaleh post. She declined

Donald Trump suddenly popped on TV screens this week, giving his most extensive remarks on the war in Iran and taking questions from the press. Trump had previously given no public speech to the American people upon the initiation of this war—unlike every American president taking the country to war. His communication to the American public was mostly in the form of videos or speaking by phone to select reporters, offering wildly shifting rationales for the war and its goals. Then, however,

President Donald Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing has shown that he does not “understand markets” and his spokespeople have shown they are “flacks" when they defend advisers by praising their loyalty, according to one of President Bill Clinton’s top economic advisers.“Loyalty to Donald Trump is not a credential of economic insight or knowledge,” Dr. Robert J. Shapiro told AlterNet on Friday. Shapiro was responding to a Wall Street Journal editorial from Thursday by Dr. Peter Navarro. In that piece Navarro — often described as one of the chief architects of Trump’s tariff policies — claimed Iran �

President Donald Trump insists that the American economy is booming under him, but a pair of conservative commentators discussed on Friday how unemployed people are “SOL” right now.“If you are among the unlucky people who don't have a job, you are basically SOL,” Catherine Rampell told Sam Stein for the conservative website The Bulwark. After explaining that she does not believe America is technically in a recession right now, Rampell argued that “we've lost jobs in, whatever it is, like six of the last twelve months at this point. And if you look at, for example, job gains among

President Donald Trump is acting a lot like Richard Nixon, another Republican president who engaged America in risky military gambits even as scandal destroyed his administration.“Circumstances were different but the last time an ideologically motivated aspiring hegemon threatened the world’s oil supply was 1973, when the Soviet Union was observed making preparations to intervene in the Arab-Israeli war,” observed Holman W. Jenkins Jr., a longtime columnist at The Wall Street Journal. Jenkins described how Nixon alerted the military to Defcon 3, making him the last president who “resorted to an unvarnished nuclear threat.” After that “