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The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him. Ad Policy Hiding in plain sight: Despite the epic scale of his crypto-linked corruption, Trump is unlikely to ever face justice. Especially with so many Democrats eager to take the industry’s (real) money.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) There’s never been an American politician as nakedly corrupt as Donald Trump, who makes even the most notorious crooks of history—a rogues’ gallery that includes William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, Warren G. Harding, and Richard Nixon—look like penny-ante con men. These villains only cashed in to the tune of thousands…

Gov. Gavin Newsom escalated California’s push to eradicate homeless encampments on Monday, calling on hundreds of cities, towns and counties to effectively ban tent camps on sidewalks, bike paths, parklands and other types of public property.Mr. Newsom’s administration has raised and spent tens of billions of dollars on programs to bring homeless people into housing and to emphasize treatment. But his move on Monday marks a tougher approach to one of the more visible aspects of the homelessness crisis. The governor has created a template for a local ordinance that municipalities can adopt to outlaw encampments and clear existing ones.California…

Eva Steege may have seemed like an unlikely combattant in the pushback against mass firings by the Trump administration. The 83-year-old retired Lutheran pastor was in hospice, unable to walk, when she was asked to join a group seeking to block the administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “It took us about five minutes to decide that that was a good thing to do,” her husband Ted Steege, 82, told CBS News in an interview. When Eva died in March, Ted took her place in the lawsuit which, to this point, has prevented the agency’s dismantling and yielded hundreds of…

When American presidents visit the Middle East, they usually arrive with a strategic vision for the region, even if it seems a far reach.Jimmy Carter pushed Egypt and Israel to a historic peace accord. Bill Clinton tried and failed with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader. George W. Bush imagined his war on terrorism would ultimately lead to democratization in the region. Barack Obama went to Cairo “to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.”President Trump will tour the Gulf this week in search of one thing above all else: business deals. Planes. Nuclear power.…

Terry Brunk, a professional wrestler known to fans as Sabu who pioneered the so-called hardcore style that became a touchstone of wrestling in the 1990s and 2000s, has died, World Wrestling Entertainment said. He was 60. It was not immediately clear when Mr. Brunk had died, and the company’s statement announcing his death did not give a cause. His family could not immediately be reached for comment. Known for using tables and chairs in the ring, Mr. Brunk rose to national prominence with Extreme Championship Wrestling, a smaller and grittier circuit compared to the more mainstream World Wrestling Federation and…

Stock futures soared after the U.S. and China on Monday announced a truce in their trade war by agreeing to suspend steep tariffs for 90 days. The U.S. reduced its levies on Chinese imports to 30% from as high as 145%, while China cut its tariffs on American goods to 10% from 125%. The deal followed a meeting in Switzerland this weekend involving U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Administrator Jamieson Greer and Chinese negotiators. S&P 500 futures were up 179 points, or 3.2%, as of 7:15 a.m. EST, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures soared more than 1,000 points, or 2.5%,…

A worker bathes a racehorses on the backside of a horse racing track in Louisville, Ky., on April 30, 2025. Lydia Schweickart for NPR hide caption toggle caption Lydia Schweickart for NPR LOUISVILLE — On a recent spring day, Gerardo Serrano works with the thoroughbred racehorses at a barn at Churchill Downs, the famous racecourse that hosts the Kentucky Derby. The 1,000-pound animals peep their heads from the white stalls, while others amble in circles inside the barn’s wooden fence. Serrano pushes a large broom to clear the hay from the barn’s opening. Originally from Morelia, Michoacán, he came to…

The sale of face-to-face access to President Trump using the Trump family’s own cryptocurrency has done more than benefit him financially, though it has certainly done that.Mr. Trump announced last month that leading buyers of a digital coin his family is marketing would be rewarded with a private dinner with him at one of his golf courses and that the very top bidders would win a tour of the White House.The auction, which ends Monday, has set off a spectacle that has drawn bipartisan criticism, triggered a suspicious trading pattern, and left a sitting United States president wide open to…

Washington — President Trump is set to depart Monday for Saudi Arabia, embarking on what will be the first international trip of his second administration. Mr. Trump also visited Saudi Arabia before any other nation during his first term in the White House, bucking the tradition for U.S. presidents to make their first foreign trip to the United Kingdom. Saudi Arabia will be the first stop on a four-day trip to the Middle East for Mr. Trump this week.”Last time I went to Saudi Arabia, they put up $450 million,” Mr. Trump told reporters in March, while pledging to make the…

Society / StudentNation / May 7, 2025 After mass layoffs and scholarship freezes, students and tribal leaders are suing the Trump administration for violating treaty obligations. Ad Policy (Saul Loeb / Getty) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more Student Nation, check out our archive or learn more about the program here. StudentNation is made possible through generous funding from The Puffin Foundation. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]. …