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US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as Vice President JD Vance’s negotiating team failed to gain the trust of their Iranian counterparts, who have been burned by the United States before and are loath to surrender sovereignty over their nuclear program.Trump announced in an early morning post on his Truth Social network that, “effective immediately,” the Strait of Hormuz—which was open before the president launched his illegal war of choice—would be closed to all shipping. Around 20% of the world’s

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as President Donald Trump’s press secretary before getting elected as Arkansas governor, is being slammed by one of her state’s most prominent editors-in-chief — and based on opposition from her fellow Republicans, the criticisms may challenge her rumored presidential ambitions.“If you’re a red-state governor with an eye on 2028 and a prison you want to build has stalled, what do you say after a disappointing primary election?” wrote Arkansas Advocate editor-in-chief Andrew DeMillo on Sunday. “If you’re Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you return to your greates

President Donald Trump’s “gauche” habit of naming everything after himself is more than just a quirk picked up by his narcissistic father; it is, quite literally, a threat to our republic.“He got it from his father, Fred Trump,” USA Today's Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy reported in an interview with Barbara Res, a former executive vice president at Trump Organization who oversaw major projects like building Trump Tower in the 1980s. The elder Trump was a

President Donald Trump has a number of supporters who believe in various conspiracy theories, and he has thrown sops to many of them throughout his administration — but there is one group that feels overlooked.“After a largely alien-free first 12 months, the president has committed himself to UFO disclosure in 2026,” wrote The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt on Sunday. “In February, Trump directed various departments to release ‘government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life’, and the White House took the unusual step of registering domain ‘aliens.gov’ in March, setting pulses racing among believers online.”Gabbatt added, “UFO watchers have been furt

President Donald Trump’s economy seems to be doing well now but that could rapidly change, according to a respected financial journalist.“Based solely on performance, Wall Street has been thrilled to have President Donald Trump in the White House,” wrote The Motley Fool's Sean Williams on Sunday. “During Trump's first, non-consecutive term, the mature-stock-driven Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and tech-stock-inspired Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) rallied 57%, 70%, and 14

President Donald Trump supporters have stood by him despite his documented abuses of power, rhetorically violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election and numerous alleged instances of sexual misconduct. To those outside the so-called Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, this is mystifying — yet a recent study reveals the surprising reason why.Three studies conducted between 2019 and 2022 examined hundreds of Trump supporters to establish how they reconcile negative information about him with their positive impressions, according to a recent analysis published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. The first found that a majority of 128 Trump supporters refused to believe sexual miscondu

President Donald Trump’s former United Nations (UN) ambassador warned that her ex-boss is causing “chaos” and “distraction” with his erratic behavior.“Ambassador, I covered your presidential campaign in 2024, and at the time you said Donald Trump was unhinged and diminished,” CNN anchor Dana Bash asked Nikki Haley, who served as Trump’s UN ambassador before later running against him in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries. “Do you still feel that way?”Haley replied, “I think that he has the ability to cause chaos, and I think he has the ability to cause distractions.”The former South Carolina governor then pivoted to praising her fellow Republican, adding “when I look at how he's managed — you know, the immigration effort, which was a

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget is a “betrayal” against the low-income Americans who propelled him back to the White House in 2024, a prominent journalist warned on Sunday.“The message to everyday Americans is: beware,” wrote The Guardian's Eduardo Porter on Sunday. Earlier in the article Porter had pointed out that “to the average American, however, it must be hard to understand Trump’s budget proposal as anything but a betrayal. He won the presidency twice, largely by promising help for America’s beleaguered working stiffs, forever ignored by cosmop

President Donald Trump’s governing style involves bullying those on whom he depends into working with him — and at least one Democrat is learning that playing along with this approach after Trump’s 2024 election victory may not have been worth it.“The election was devastating for Whitmer, bringing both a Republican resurgence in Michigan that ended her party’s trifecta and a sweeping Trump victory,” wrote The Atlantic's Elaine Godfrey on Sunday. “During speaking engagements, the governor likes to tell crowds that she dealt with the disappointment by watching all eigh

When President Donald Trump talks about climate change, he often recycles one well-known, shaky argument: that doing anything about it will be a financial disaster. After pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, he said it was costing the U.S. “trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.” He’s also said that President Joe Biden’s plan to boost electric vehicles threatened the auto industry with “economic destruction” (before Trump “saved” the industry by reversing it, of course). Trump has tried to scare other countries into following suit,