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After an ICE officer shot Oscar Belgal in the Bronx, Mayor Mamdani spent two hours on the phone with Trump and Mullin. Mullin says he rejected an NYPD custody offer.
At a Syracuse rally for Bruce Blakeman, Trump told voters to fire Gov. Hochul and AG Letitia James, whose lead over Saritha Komatireddy shrank in the latest Siena poll.
In Michigan’s first Senate debate, Mike Rogers pressed Abdul El-Sayed on a medical license he never held, a dual-citizenship claim and a Dubai rental on his own disclosure.
Judicial Watch pried 249 pages of FBI records on Thomas Crooks loose, including a redacted chat thread and drone logs. At this pace the full file takes 12-plus years.
At Peterbilt’s Denton, Texas, plant, an employee told the president her family now spans three generations at the company after tariff-driven hiring.
Told the weather meant canceling his Durant rally, Trump took the motorcade from Texas instead, with press vans hitting 98 mph, and arrived to thousands still waiting.
At the America.gov launch, Trump noted he takes no salary and gets no thanks. The record backs him: his pay has gone to federal agencies and the White House since 2017.
The U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement opens two new U.S. military sites, permits Golden Dome on the island, bars non-NATO bases and has no expiration date.
Five days before the fiscal year ends, the White House sent Congress 11 rescissions, led by $567 million in refugee resettlement money and race-based business grants.
At the General Assembly, Trump took credit for stalling a UN shipping carbon levy and for a 15 percent cut to the UN budget. Here is what the record shows.