By Kevin Rector, Los Angeles TimesPresident Donald Trump’s meandering speech on the Iran war late Wednesday — in which he paired promises of a swift exit with new threats of escalated bombing and denied responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz — did little to assuage U.S. allies and world ma...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s war in Iran increasingly looks like political poison for Republicans, giving Democrats more evidence to show voters the president’s party doesn’t care about the cost-of-living concerns that got him elected. While the White House had hoped Trump’s s...

By Heather MillerPublished  April 2, 2026 8:26pm CDTDonald J. TrumpFOX Local President Donald Trump said "it’s not possible" for the U.S. to fund day care and Medicare programs because "we’re fighting wars" and "we have to take care of one thing: military protection." Trump made the remar...

A building in Tehran damaged by airstrikes. This week, President Trump said: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis.”ARASH KHAMOOSHI/NYT WASHINGTON — During his first run for the White House...

One of President Donald Trump’s boldest campaign pledges was to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) completely free. Yesterday, the Trump administration released its long-awaited proposals — which come nowhere near making IVF free, or even significantly more affordable.That promise, a late gamb...

Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, designed to make it seem like Democrats are celebrating the ongoing government shutdown, which has lasted 16 days.  In the deepfake, an AI-generated Schumer repeats the phrase “every day gets better for us...

This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. As the government shutdown continues, government agencies like the Social Security Administration and programs like Medicaid have been fielding questions about whether the money that Americans rely on wil...

After Congress late Tuesday failed to reach an agreement to prevent a federal government shutdown, funding for federal agencies ended at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.What that means is that while government offices continue to stay open for their most important operations, so-called nonessential work is ...