The Justice Department sued California election officials, including Secretary of State Shirley Weber, on Oct. 15, seeking a court order to block the state from counting mail ballots in the Nov. 3 midterm election from...
Trump announced Oct. 12 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a truce on striking each other's energy infrastructure, saying the two sides agreed "because I told them to." Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces...
Four Republican senators on the Foreign Relations Committee -- Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, John Curtis and Susan Collins -- joined Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Richard Blumenthal and Ron Wyden in a joint statement...
On September 28, 2026, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel plant in Iowa, with Lutnick declaring "this deal is done" and Trump claiming construction had already...
Trump, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Mesabi Metallics chairman Rewant Ruia announced a planned $15 billion steel mill in Lee County at the White House on September 28, 2026, promising 1,750 jobs by 2030. Commerce Secretary...
The White House released a taxpayer-funded television ad around Sept. 27, 2026 featuring President Trump declaring "this is the final battle" over imagery of him walking a White House hallway, vowing to "cast out the...
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., released a campaign ad on Sept. 17, 2026, telling President Trump directly that "some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far," CBS News reported. In the ad, Salazar...
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's third emergency bid to revive its mail-in voting rule for the midterms, voting 7-2 to leave in place U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's injunction...
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols in Washington — a Trump appointee — issued a preliminary injunction late Sept. 13 barring USPS from implementing Trump's order restricting mail-in voting, becoming the second federal...
President Trump announced on September 10, 2026 that the federal government will send $500 refund checks to nearly 1 million Obamacare enrollees in the 30 states that use the federal Healthcare.gov exchange, with checks...