April 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM EDT
'Not good for anybody': How Walmart's self-made CEO confronted Trump in White House

Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, reportedly told President Donald Trump -- alongside other business leaders who met the president in the Oval Office on Monday -- that his tariff policy is "not good for anybody." According to a report published in The Daily Beast on Friday, McMillon and the other CEOs reportedly warned Trump that "he was creating a situation that would not be good for anybody."

April 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM EDT
A 'systemic collapse' in Trump approval shattering 'illusion of invulnerability': analysis

With Donald Trump now more than three months into his second presidency, his cheerleaders in MAGA media outlets are praising his "record of accomplishment" -- while his critics are arguing that he is inflicting severe damage on the United States, from the economy to civil liberties to the rule of law. Former GOP strategist and Never Trump conservative Rick Wilson, in a video released by The Lincoln Project (a conservative anti-Trump group) on Friday, April 25, stresses that opposition to Trump is growing, not subsiding.

April 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM EDT
How nepotism allegations and a peeing puppy set the stage for a Bay Area sheriff's removal

To really understand the whole mess in San Mateo County, you have to start with the overtime logs. Or maybe it was the urinating puppy. Or perhaps it was the $1,200 boots. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.

April 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM EDT
'I've made 200 deals': Trump compares the US to 'department store' where he controls prices

President Donald Trump has said the United States has entered into 200 trade agreements, though he did not disclose who the partners are.In an interview with Time Magazine published Friday, Trump said, "I've made 200 deals." The president's remarks come against the backdrop of an announcement made two weeks prior about a 90-day suspension of most of the extensive global tariffs he recently imposed, intended to encourage trade talks with various countries impacted by these severe tariffs. China is the sole country not covered by this 90-day pause.

April 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM EDT
Time's up for the GOP

We've spent years watching Donald Trump attack our democratic institutions, inflame divisions, and corrupt the public discourse. But focusing solely on Trump misses the larger, more disturbing reality: Trump isn't acting alone. He's a dangerous pathogen that found the perfect host in today's Republican Party, an organism already compromised and eager to be infected.

April 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM EDT
'So scary': 'Fertilization President' Trump has things to learn about IVF

For nearly three agonizing years, Mariah Freschi and her husband have been trying to have a second baby. The California mother recently underwent surgery to remove her blocked fallopian tubes, leaving in vitro fertilization as her only option to get pregnant. But the cost quoted by her Sacramento-area clinic was $25,000 -- out of reach for Freschi, a preschool teacher, and her husband, a warehouse worker. "When we first found out IVF was our only option, it just felt so overwhelming," said Freschi, who has insurance through the California marketplace. "No one sets aside 20, 30 grand to grow your family."

April 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM EDT
'No longer a priority': Critics wonder why 'extremist' US soldier remains in the reserves

A former North Carolina National Guard member remains in reserve status -- part of a pool of soldiers on standby for deployment -- more than 18 months after the Army initiated an investigation into his extremist activities, Raw Story has learned. The Army Human Resources Command opened an investigation on Christopher Woodall in September 2023 after Raw Story confirmed that while serving in the National Guard, he organized a "white nationalist" paramilitary group that held at least one weekend training in rural North Carolina. The report also revealed that Woodall used a Telegram channel to recruit for the group while claiming his experience included "running a state for the KKK", or Ku Klux Klan, and demonstrating with the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group.

April 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM EDT
'Chicken': Another Trump 'employee' absent as Colorado voters blast him at town hall

Democrats, progressive groups and constituents in Colorado's 8th Congressional District are keeping up the pressure on Republican U.S. Rep Gabe Evans of Fort Lupton as the GOP's narrow House majority closes in on drastic federal budget cuts that could have a big impact in the battleground district. More than 100 people gathered Thursday in a high school auditorium in Thornton for the latest in a series of "People's Town Halls" organized by the Democratic National Committee across the country, in districts where Republican members of Congress have declined to hold in-person town halls themselves. In place of Evans, attendees asked questions of Rep. Greg Casar, a Democrat in his second term representing Texas' 35th District.

April 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM EDT
Trump says he's defending free speech -- but his aggressive actions say quite the opposite

Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated the Constitution's guarantees of free speech. "Defendants' actions are unlawful," Harvard's lawsuit states. "The First Amendment does not permit the Government to 'interfere with private actors' speech to advance its own vision of ideological balance.'"

April 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM EDT
'How many friends does America have?' Canadian 'crunch time' as voters rally against Trump

President Donald Trump appears to be a unifying force in the upcoming Canada elections as Canadian voters rally against the United States president, CNN reports. Canada on Monday will "decide whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party maintains the reins or whether the Conservatives return to power for the first time in nearly a decade," Axios reports. And, according to CNN, "there's a powerful outside factor in Canada's upcoming election: President Trump's tariffs and his threat of making Canada the 51st state."

April 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM EDT
GOP strategist reveals 'recipe' for Trump's tanking polls: 'Maybe he doesn't know what he's doing'

Bulwark Editor Sarah Longwell says President Donald Trump's reputation has long been inoculated against failure by voters' unshaking faith, but this appears to be shifting in his second term thanks to a stubbornly slumpy economy and market chaos. "The main thing that has sunk in is that maybe Donald Trump doesn't know exactly what he's doing," said Longwell on MSNBC's 'Deadline: White House.'

April 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM EDT
'Brazen hypocrisy': Expert details 'noxious transnational oligarchy' protected by 'proximity' to Trump

New York University professor Scott Galloway on Thursday detailed a "transnational oligarchy" he argued is protected by "proximity" to President Donald Trump. Galloway and CNN host Anderson Cooper were discussing the $TRUMP cryptocurrency meme coin, which Trump released on Jan. 17, three days before his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States. As Cooper noted, Trump's meme coin "rose more than 60 percent on Wednesday" after the president offered "the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the world" to the top 220 investors in his meme coin, Fox News reports.