May 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM EDT
'Don't feel sorry for him': Trump calls Biden 'vicious' when asked about cancer diagnosis

During a wide-ranging Oval Office question-and-answer session on Friday, President Donald Trump was asked about former President Joe Biden, who is now battling an aggressive form of cancer. Trump told reporters he does not feel sorry for his predecessor. "He's been a sort of a moderate person over his lifetime," President Trump said, "not a smart person, but a somewhat vicious person, I will say."

May 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM EDT
'Food fight': Legal expert says Trump's anger defies the Constitution

President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism over his sweeping, multi-front attack on the U.S. Court of International Trade, an influential conservative legal activist who shaped his first-term judicial picks, and the Federalist Society -- with one prominent law professor calling it a clash between "MAGA men" and conservatives. "MAGA men and conservatives aren't the same. The food fight on the right is now in the open," wrote Professor Richard Painter, the former Bush 43 chief White House ethics lawyer who is now a political independent.

May 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM EDT
What the science of predators tells us about the obscenely rich

Nature and economics share some fascinating patterns, one of which explains why Donald Trump became president again and how the morbidly rich have appropriated over $50 trillion from working class people since the 1980s. Scientists use something called the Lorka-Volterra equations to explain how predators and prey interact in the wild. These equations show us that animal populations rise and fall in predictable cycles -- when there are lots of rabbits, fox populations grow, but as foxes eat more rabbits, the rabbit population shrinks, which then causes fox numbers to drop, allowing rabbits to multiply again.

May 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM EDT
Alarm raised on new federal 'hiring plan' that quizzes applicants about Trump

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) unveiled new hiring guidelines on Thursday, May 29, describing them as a "merit hiring plan." And according to a joint memo from acting OPM Director Charles Ezell and Vince Haley, director of President Donald Trump's Domestic Policy Council, job applicants are being quizzed on their favorite Trump policies. One of the four essay questions applicants are being asked reads, "How would you help advance the president's executive orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired."

May 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
'We are all going to die': GOP senator shrugs off possible deaths from Medicaid cuts

Constituents at U.S. Senator Joni Ernst's town hall on Friday morning yelled that Americans will die if President Donald Trump's bill""which cuts $800 billion from Medicaid and SNAP and will force anther $500 billion in cuts to Medicaid""becomes law. "People will die," an audience member yelled.

May 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM EDT
Trump doesn't just think of himself as the president

The American Revolution was a result of the tyranny experienced by colonists under the British monarchy. Many Americans had fled from Europe where they had been persecuted under the rule of powerful monarchs. The government produced by the revolution was designed to ensure no such tyranny could be reproduced in the newly formed United States. The framers of the constitution created a checks-and-balances system of government to ensure that no single branch of the federal government (executive, judicial or legislative) could dominate the others. Each branch has powers to curtail or empower the others.

May 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM EDT
Republicans 'can't win fairly, so they're trying to rewrite the rules' -- in red states

Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives. In Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and approved just months before; one made abortion in the state legal again, while the other created an employee sick leave requirement.

May 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM EDT
'You left just in time': Why American doctors are moving to Canada to escape Trump

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and got out. Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might face reprisal from the Trump administration if he returns to the U.S. He said he feels some guilt that he did not stay to resist the Trump agenda but is assured in his decision to leave. Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty, he said.

May 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM EDT
No administration has ever been this corrupt - and you just can't look away anymore

It's axiomatic that dictators are corrupt. But understanding the inevitable relationship between corruption and dictatorship -- and how it flows in both directions -- is essential to understanding the direction the Trump Crime Family is taking America. First, it's important to know that there's no such thing as a dictator who's not corrupt. Every dictator in world history, with the possible exception of Cincinnatus, has been massively corrupt.

May 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM EDT
Trump's top aide had her phone hacked -- here's what her 'impersonator' asked officials

Federal investigators are examining a covert attempt to impersonate Susie Wiles, chief of staff to President Donald Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that the impersonator reached out to senior Republican figures and leading business executives while impersonating Wiles.

May 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM EDT
'You don't love your country': Conservative exposes 'moral rot at the core of Trumpism'

One prominent conservative writer is now directly calling out both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance for attacking one of the most distinctive parts of the American identity -- the reason servicemen and women fight and die for their country. In his Thursday column, New York Times columnist David Brooks -- a protege of conservative icon William F. Buckley -- began by saying that while his mentor often encouraged him to write about "whatever made me angriest this week," he wasn't an angry person and usually didn't use anger as a source of inspiration. However, he said that comments made by Vance and conservative political scientist Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame forced him to heed Buckley's advice: Brooks told readers he was angry in particular that both Deneen and Vance insisted that American military members primarily fight and die not for their country, but for their comrades.

May 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM EDT
'Probably hates America': Trump melts down at 'sleazebag' GOP power-broker in lengthy rant

President Donald Trump reacted to the U.S. Court of International Trade ruling against his tariffs Thursday in a 506-word social media rant, saying that the judges who issued the ruling have done "damage" to the United States. Trump said Leonard Leo, a conservative legal activist who serves on the board of the Federalist Society, "controls" the judges of the Supreme Court and is a "sleazebag" and a "bad person." "The U.S. Court of International Trade incredibly incredibly ruled against the United States of America on desperately needed Tariffs but, fortunately, the full 11 Judge Panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court has just stayed the order by the Manhattan-based Court of International Trade," Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post Thursday night.