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May 25, 2026 6:02 PM
Trump’s 2026 Memorial Day proclamation mixes the usual remembrance language with unusually force-forward military framing, including a reference to Operation Epic Fury.
May 25, 2026 6:00 PM
DOJ’s new antisemitism tour and advisory committee are real civil-rights efforts, but the rollout is drenched in Trump-centric praise that makes the whole thing look like…
May 25, 2026 2:08 PM
Two May 19 executive orders took separate shots at the banking system: one focused on illicit finance, identity abuse, payroll-tax evasion, and credit risks tied to non-w…
May 25, 2026 10:07 AM
A federal grand jury indicted James Comey over an Instagram post that prosecutors say threatened Trump. The case is still just an accusation, but it guarantees another po…
May 25, 2026 9:03 AM
The White House issued its 2026 Memorial Day proclamation on May 22, three days before the May 25 holiday. The text honors fallen service members, cites 13 Joint Force me…
May 25, 2026 6:01 AM
One May 19 White House order tightens customer-identification and illicit-finance scrutiny, including immigration-related credit risk. A separate same-day order says regu…
May 25, 2026 6:01 AM
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted former FBI Director James Comey on April 28 over allegations that he threatened President Donald Trump in a May 2025 Insta…
May 25, 2026 12:15 AM
The story date is Nov. 25, 2021, but the Supreme Court action that mattered came on Feb. 22, 2021. That order left in place the lower-court rulings letting New York prose…
May 25, 2026 12:15 AM
As of Nov. 25, 2021, Donald Trump’s fight to block release of Jan. 6-related presidential records was in appellate limbo: a federal judge had rejected his bid on Nov. 9, …
May 25, 2026 12:14 AM
The legal fight over White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation kept stretching through November 2021. The key court action came on Nov. 11, when an appeals cou…
May 25, 2026 12:13 AM
Trump tried to frame the border as a bigger crisis than inflation in a holiday-week statement, then promised he could fix inflation “very quickly” if handed power again. …
May 25, 2026 12:13 AM
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania challenge on Nov. 27, 2020, after the state had already certified the election results three days earli…
May 25, 2026 12:12 AM
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania election challenge on Nov. 27, 2020, saying the claims did not justify the relief the campaign wanted.
May 25, 2026 12:12 AM
Fresh reporting on November 27 reinforced that Trump’s business empire had spent years telling different versions of its own finances to different audiences, a pattern th…
May 25, 2026 12:12 AM
By Nov. 28, 2021, the New York attorney general’s probe into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization was still active and still moving through court fights over records a…
May 25, 2026 12:12 AM
As of Nov. 28, 2021, Donald Trump’s bid to block release of White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation was still pending. A D.C. Circuit panel had already issue…
May 25, 2026 12:10 AM
Documents and reporting around the post-2020 false-elector effort suggest Wisconsin was an early piece of a broader plan, not a lone origin point. The scheme later surfac…
May 25, 2026 12:09 AM
A D.C. Circuit panel heard oral argument on Nov. 30, 2021, in Donald Trump’s bid to stop the release of presidential records held by the National Archives and sought by t…
May 25, 2026 12:08 AM
The Justice Department filed its Minnesota climate complaint on May 4, 2026, arguing the state is trying to regulate global greenhouse-gas emissions in an area the federa…
May 25, 2026 12:07 AM
Trump’s IRS lawsuit was dismissed on May 18 after his side moved to end it. The Justice Department then said its settlement includes an Anti-Weaponization Fund with $1.77…