Author: Michelle Stoddart

President Donald Trump will travel to the new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center in Florida’s Everglades on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Monday. The Trump administration is turning the remote Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport into a facility that officials say will eventually hold up to 5,000 people. Officials say operations […]

President Donald Trump is ramping up his criticism of Republican senators who are threatening to complicate the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which advances his legislative agenda. On Tuesday, he railed against Sen. Rand Paul in a social media post after the Kentucky Republican publicly criticized the House-passed megabill. Paul opposes the […]

The Trump administration is threatening all of Harvard University’s federal funding after it said it found the university to be in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act, according to a new letter sent to the university that was viewed by ABC News. The letter, sent to Harvard’s President Alan Garber on Monday, detailed the […]

The White House General Services Administration is expected to send a letter to federal agencies on Tuesday asking them to “identify any contracts with Harvard, and whether they can be canceled or redirected elsewhere,” a senior administration official told ABC News. The move comes as President Donald Trump continues his attack on the school as […]

President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Tuesday that the United States would stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen, insisting that the rebel group had agreed to stop attacking U.S. ships in the Red Sea. “They’ve announced to us at least that they don’t want to fight anymore,” Trump said during an Oval Office […]

The White House on Friday released President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which calls for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, in a letter to Congress alongside the proposal, said the cuts to discretionary funding would lead to “significant savings.” “The President […]

President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his idea of sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, telling El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele he wanted to send “homegrown criminals” to his country next, according to a video posted by Bukele’s office on X. The comments came as Trump welcomed Bukele, a key partner in his […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order behind closed doors on Thursday directing federal agencies and the Smithsonian to eliminate what the order calls “divisive” and “anti-American” content from museums and national parks, sources familiar with the order told ABC News. The order — called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” — directed the […]

Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on Friday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss how to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. “We had a number of fruitful conversations, a number of things for us to follow up and work on,” Vance said. “And fundamentally, the […]