“CBS News’s 60 Minutes cut out large portions of its interview with President Trump in which he rambled about his ballroom, how hot his Secret Service agents are, and how the No Kings protests are just like the Ku Klux Klan.”

A Peter Thiel-funded startup launched this month will use an “AI jury” to “subject the media’s claims to systematic investigation and judgment.” That same system of AI adjudication assigns a numerical value — the so-called “Honor Index” score — grading the trustworthiness of individual reporters.

“OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is set to be dissolved and replaced by a company focused on the public good by the week’s end, as a massive legal settlement resolving thousands of lawsuits takes effect.”

“Nearly half of American families with young children live in a ‘child care desert’ — a region with a shortage of licensed day care providers, according to an analysis from the liberal Center for American Progress.”

“Several hundred of the top Trump meme coin holders converged on Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, and all they got were Trump watches and a rambling speech. Then the price of the coin dropped to its lowest level ever.”

Trump has used the nation’s highest office to promote businesses that he and his family own 110 times in the last 16 months, a Popular Information investigation reveals. Trump has promoted a diverse array of business interests, including golf courses, crypto tokens, and consumer products.

“Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips.”

“Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace say they are under… pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities, including charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.”

“A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.”

A Peter Thiel-funded startup launched this month will use an “AI jury” to “subject the media’s claims to systematic investigation and judgment.”

In an interview with CBS News’ ‘60 Minutes’, Trump said the “No Kings” protests were to blame for the latest assassination attempt against him. “The reason you have people like that is you have people doing No Kings,” Trump said. “I’m not a king… if I was a king I wouldn’t be dealing with you.”

“Hospitals that treat patients who require extended stays have been closing at a rapid clip, driving up demand for the remaining beds and prompting health systems to appeal to the Trump administration and Congress for relief.”

“More than 30 million people will be pushed back into poverty by the impacts of the Iran war including disruptions to fuel and fertiliser supplies just as farmers are planting crops, U.N. ‌development chief Alexander De Croo said on Thursday.”

Last week, the Justice Department indicted Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke for misappropriating classified information to profit on the prediction market Polymarket.

The FCC “is opening a new front in its ‘anti-woke’ campaign: The agency is seeking feedback about whether the TV industry’s voluntary ratings system needs to be changed — specifically with regard to how shows with child-friendly ratings treat content with ‘transgender and gender nonbinary’ themes.”

“New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024.”

“Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation.”

On March 5, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a small Native American tribe based out of the Rumsey Indian Rancheria in California, donated $2 million to MAGA Inc., Trump’s Super PAC. It was one of the largest donations MAGA Inc. has received this year.

“The billionaire crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Tuesday sued World Liberty Financial, the digital currency venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons, alleging that World Liberty illegally froze his holdings of tokens issued by the company.”

“Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.”

Trump said he is considering a financial bailout for the UAE, an autocratic state experiencing an economic downturn due to the war in Iran. If the Trump administration does rescue the UAE, it will be assisting a country that has partnered extensively with the Trump Organization and the Trump family.

“One is a bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2016 that is supported by the America250 group and has been accused by former executives of wastefulness. The other is a new, Trump-aligned group called Freedom 250 that its critics say is designing a birthday for America more suited to MAGA.”

“Billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the ‘Uber for nursing’ industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector, according to a report published on Tuesday.”

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military will no longer require all American troops to get the flu vaccine, citing ‘medical autonomy’ and religious freedom.”

xAI has boasted about the speed at which it has erected its data centers in Memphis. Now, as xAI attempts to replicate that pace to construct the Colossus 2 data center, it has identified another unnecessary inefficiency: a water recycling plant that it had promised to build for the community.

On Friday, The Atlantic published a story alleging that FBI Director Kash Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.” On Monday, Patel sued The Atlantic and the story’s author, Sarah Fitzpatrick, for defamation, seeking $250 million in damages.

“President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business.”

“But evidence is mounting that applicants with questionable histories were either not fully vetted before they were brought on or were hired in spite of their past, an investigation by The Associated Press found.”

“Saying the course promotes ideology, the State Board of Education on Friday removed sociology from the list of general education offerings available at Florida’s 28 public colleges.”

Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is leading U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran while engaged in a lucrative, ongoing, multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government. This brazenly corrupt arrangement is being completely ignored by most major media outlets.

“A political committee President Donald Trump uses to pay legal bills is in debt — and owes $1.6 million to a roster of law firms, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission. Trump’s Save America PAC is nearly $500,000 in the red, according to FEC data published Wednesday.”

“President Donald Trump has repeatedly said his deals with drugmakers would bring down prescription drug prices in the U.S. But a report released by Senate Democrats finds prices have continued to climb — in some cases, sharply.”

“The NAACP filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday, accusing the artificial intelligence company of violating the Clean Air Act with its use of natural gas-burning turbines to power data centers in and around Memphis, Tennessee.”

On Friday, Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event. The event is free for people who would like to listen to Trump’s speech from the pews at Dream City Church. But a more interactive experience is available — for a price.

“Senior staff at [FEMA]. The [DHS] budget for an office focused on weapons of mass destruction. Training programs for prison guards. Those are just some of the federal resources that the Trump administration has redirected to support the president’s mass deportation agenda.”

“One in seven people who signed up for Affordable Care Act plans this year failed to pay after premium costs rose sharply, according to an analysis that provides the first comprehensive look at the impact of expiring federal subsidies.”

“A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC, according to internal emails obtained by WIRED.”

In 2025, Tesla reported $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. The company paid absolutely nothing in federal taxes. To achieve this remarkable result, Tesla took advantage of several corporate tax breaks expanded or made permanent last summer as part of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

“An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations… According to the audit… 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking.”

“Trump pulled in $28.1 million in revenue from partners across the region in 2024. Trump-connected projects now being developed there have a combined value of roughly $17 billion—with the bulk of that funding coming from sovereign wealth funds and various other Trump business partners.”

"Emboldened by overturning Roe v. Wade, conservative legal groups hope Ken Paxton’s successor will help them overturn gay marriage and public school access for undocumented students.”

With health care costs rising and more Americans losing their insurance, the leading AI companies are selling an alternative to the public: chatbots. In January, Elon Musk promoted a video clip that urged his followers on X to “upload your X-rays or MRI images to Grok” for a “medical diagnosis.”

On Monday, a federal judge dismissed Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal. The lawsuit alleged that the WSJ defamed Trump when it reported on a bawdy letter allegedly authored by Trump in 2003 in celebration of Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.

“Attorneys representing immigrants held at the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention site alleged… that guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees after a protest over lost phone access — allegations they argue show state and federal officials defying a recent court order protecting detainees’ civil rights.”

“This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—the federal agency that oversees Wall Street—announced that it has brought almost 30 percent fewer new enforcement actions against companies in the first year of the Trump administration.”

"The Trump administration said Monday it will resume flying a rainbow Pride flag on a federal flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, reversing course two months after removing the banner from the first national monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history.”

Sabrina Carpenter, a headlining act of Coachella 2026, is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration and MAGA politics. Whether or not Carpenter is aware, the proceeds from her headlining set at Coachella — along with the other musical acts at Coachella — will help elect more MAGA Republicans.

“Energy executives sold stock worth $1.4 billion in the first quarter on the back of historic shock to the world’s crude supplies.”

“Trump has championed the U.S. steel industry, promising to strengthen it and to impose stiff tariffs on foreign metals to shield manufacturers from overseas competitors. Yet the White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for [Trump’s] $400 million ballroom.”

“The Maine Wire launched in 2011… as the U.S. right took a hard nativist turn — and amid an infusion of cash from some of the most powerful right-wing money men in the country — the site developed a fixation on Maine’s Somali community.”