President Donald Trump from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.
Mere startups when he took the oath of office, the new ventures have now that took him decades to accumulate.
Also, the House leadership on Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker 鈥檚 majority once again ground to a standstill by a Republican revolt over their own party鈥檚 agenda. In this case, it鈥檚 a standoff blocking the annual defense bill as Republicans push to include Trump鈥檚 own priority, the , a strict voter ID bill.
Here’s the latest:
How the Supreme Court became a pivotal force in Trump鈥檚 immigration agenda
President Trump鈥檚 administration looked to the Supreme Court to greenlight its sweeping and, by and large, it got the backing it was looking for with one key exception 鈥� birthright citizenship.
After lower courts repeatedly ruled against the Trump administration, the nation鈥檚 top court allowed it to for people fleeing war or strife. It gave immigration officers greater leeway in dealing with returning from abroad, and it allowed the government to limit the number of people who can apply for .
In being asked to serve as an enabler of the Republican president鈥檚 contentious immigration crackdown, the Supreme Court showed deference to constitutional guardrails in the key case of birthright citizenship that would have redefined who can be an American. In ruling against the administration, the court upheld the idea that people who are born in the United States, regardless of their parents鈥� immigration status, are Americans.
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Trump鈥檚 actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to and live alongside peers without disabilities 鈥� rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.
Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and lawmakers.
Meanwhile, following a White House push to , the Department of Justice released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability.
Taken together, the actions signal a worrying return to a reality where people with disabilities are pushed to the margins of society, advocates said.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a direct, frontal assault on the rights of people with disabilities to live their lives the way that people who are nondisabled live their lives,鈥� said Selene Almazan, legal director for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 imagine that as a country, that would be something that we would agree we should go back to.鈥�
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Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her after she in 2019.
Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in Manhattan federal court to say Trump is unjustly trying to further delay release of the money after of the 2023 civil jury verdict.
The amount has grown to nearly $5.8 million with interest and should be required by the court to be disbursed, the lawyers wrote, saying Trump has resumed his defamatory attacks against Carroll as his lawyers considered asking the high court to reconsider its decision.
The jury reached its verdict in a trial that Trump did not attend after Carroll testified that she was sexually abused by Trump in spring 1996 in the dressing room of a midtown Manhattan luxury department store after a flirtatious and friendly chance encounter between them turned violent.
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Trump to visit newly built Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota鈥檚 Badlands
Trump will visit North Dakota on Wednesday to see , a massive facility exploring the 26th president鈥檚 life, built in the rugged, lonely landscape where the young easterner built his conservation values while ranching and hunting in the 1880s.
opens over the weekend on July 4, the pinnacle date of celebrations this year honoring of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But Trump is coming early to see the $450 million project, a push of Interior Secretary from when he was , and bringing the official celebrations of the nation鈥檚 birth to a region synonymous with its westward expansion.
All living presidents were invited to the grand opening of the library, which joins more than a dozen such libraries examining the lives and legacies of U.S. presidents from Ronald Reagan in California, to Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York to Herbert Hoover in Iowa. in Chicago, bringing together four former presidents for the occasion.
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Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead new White House UFO council
A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the to lead a team of outside scientists to study the posed by .
Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard鈥檚 astronomy department until 2020, was recently appointed to helm a new scientific advisory council tasked with investigating the origins of mysterious orbs and other objects reported by military personnel in recent years. It鈥檚 part of President Donald Trump鈥檚 push to declassify more information about the issue.
Loeb鈥檚 team will report to a new White House panel focused on UFOs, now often referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
For the last decade, Loeb has been scanning the skies and seas for evidence of intelligent alien life. He began the quest in 2017 as scientists puzzled over an soaring by Earth. While others proposed it was a comet or ice chunk, Loeb said it could be a thin 鈥渓ight sail鈥� detached from an alien spacecraft.
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House GOP deadlocks over Trump鈥檚 demands, sending lawmakers home early
As the nation celebrates its this weekend, the legislative branch has momentarily called it quits.
The House leadership on Tuesday and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker 鈥檚 majority once again ground to a standstill by a Republican revolt over their own party鈥檚 agenda.
In this case, it鈥檚 a standoff blocking the annual defense bill 鈥� with pay raises for the troops and other matters at 鈥� as the renegade Republicans push to include own priority, the , a strict voter ID bill. Last week, the Senate similarly shuttered .
The emptying Capitol provides another snapshot of the in Washington as a headstrong executive confronts a .
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Trump filing shows he took in about $1.2 billion from crypto businesses last year
President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.
Mere startups when he took the oath of office, the new ventures have now that took him decades to accumulate. Fueling their rise were billionaire investors and Trump鈥檚 own move to quash a federal crackdown on the industry.
Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including 鈥済overnance tokens,鈥� according to the required annual disclosure report with the Office of Government Ethics. It also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, took in more than $600 million from sales of souvenir-type 鈥渕eme鈥� coins stamped with his face.
Both the tokens and the coins have plunged in value since the sales.
Trump also took in millions last year from selling in another unprecedented move for the presidency. The sale of Trump-branded watches alone brought in $4.7 million.
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