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Photo: UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In his rambling press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, Donald Trump said some very curious things, to put it mildly. One claim about Jimmy Carter, which he repeated twice, is just wrong. Following up on his recent threats to retake control of the Panama Canal if Panama doesn’t lower shipping fees […]

Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo If you thought Donald Trump’s plans for world domination would stop at unhinged threats to take over Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, think again. The president-elect fully entered his imperialism era on Tuesday, announcing offhandedly that he’s changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America.”

Photo: Candice Tang/Sipa USA/AP Photo Over the last year, the Washington Post has often been at the center of the news itself. The storied publication contended with controversial new leadership and an 11th-hour spiked political endorsement that sparked a wave of subscriber cancellations. Amid questions over Jeff Bezos’s continued interest in owning the paper, Axios

Kent Nishimura/New York Times/Redux Twelve days from now, TikTok could be out of business in the United States. Middle school teachers, your days of enduring students who randomly blurt out “Skibbity!” and “Low taper fade!” might soon be over. Of course, TikTok is about far more than nerve-grating adolescent catchphrases. It has become the most

Photo: ebecca Noble/Getty Images On January 20, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, beginning his second term. This is a sentence that would have read as rank parody in 2015 or even early 2021, when Trump was spurring on an insurrection at the Capitol. Instead, like a

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images When it comes to Melania Trump, the perennial question is: What is she thinking? The once-and-future First Lady’s latest puzzling move was revealed on Sunday, when Amazon announced that Prime Video will release a documentary about Melania in the second half of 2025, in theaters and on the streaming service.

Photo: Cristina Matuozzi/Sipa USA/AP Images Rudy Giuliani’s legal morass has, incredibly, gotten even worse. On Monday the former New York mayor was found in contempt of court for failing to turn over assets to two Georgia election workers he defamed. Manhattan federal judge Lewis Liman said he will rule on “appropriate sanctions” against Giuliani at

Matt Rourke/AP Photo It’s being remarked upon far and wide that this January 6 is unfolding in a very different manner from the events on this day four years ago, when Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and temporarily interrupted the confirmation of Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral-vote majority. Kamala Harris’s supporters in Congress, and

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images It has been obvious from the moment the GOP narrowly won control of the House and the Senate in the 2024 election that budget reconciliation would be the primary strategy for implementing Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Reconciliation bills can be enacted on party-line votes, and Senate Democrats can’t use the filibuster

Photo: NDZ/STAR MAX/AP Photo New York City’s heavily debated congestion pricing plan finally, officially went into effect early Sunday morning after a rollout plagued by years of legal challenges and delays. Reaction to the program, which will levy a $9 base toll against most drivers traveling at or below 60th Street in Manhattan, has naturally