President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to a new low in a recent American Research Group poll, with just 30% of Americans approving of his job performance as the 2026 midterm elections approach. The survey, conducted June 16"20 among 1,100 respondents (plus or minus 3 percentage points), found 66% disapprove of Trump, the highest disapproval and lowest approval ever recorded by the pollster during either of his presidencies.
President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to a new low in a recent American Research Group poll, with just 30% of Americans approving of his job performance as the 2026 midterm elections approach. The survey, conducted June 16"20 among 1,100 respondents (plus or minus 3 percentage points), found 66% disapprove of Trump, the highest disapproval and lowest approval ever recorded by the pollster during either of his presidencies. Among those who disapprove of Trump, economic pessimism is widespread: 82% say they expect conditions to worsen over the next year, according to the poll.
A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal. The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open.
Speculation swirled around a report that a single patient " a 79-year-old man " was given access to a powerful new obesity drug that's still awaiting federal approval. STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the Food and Drug Administration allowed one individual to gain access to retatrutide, which has demonstrated the ability to cut weight at comparable levels to bariatric surgery, through a "compassionate use" program typically reserved for patients with serious and immediately life-threatening medical issues.
The North Korean leader proclaimed a new era of naval power that will project his reclusive regime's nuclear capabilities Tuesday as he commissioned a 5,000-ton destroyer.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday shocked lawmakers by canceling plans for a ceremonial signing of a housing affordability bill at the Capitol. Trump said he would withhold his signature from the bill - a major bipartisan breakthrough that passed both chambers of Congress this week by overwhelming margins - to force lawmakers to enact a radical overhaul of voting procedures. "Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," he posted on Truth Social.
The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited "tremendous interest" among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright and other officials said Tuesday. Read more
Camp Mystic's owner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods in Texas Hill Country killed 25 girls, two teenage counselors and the camp's longtime director. In a court filing, the operators of the all-girls Christian summer camp said its total debts were in the range of $10 million to $50 million. The filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas in Houston said the camp's total assets were between $1 million and $10 million. Camp Mystic's owners and operators have faced intense scrutiny over their response to last year's devastating July 4 floods. In a scathing report released earlier this month, state investigators faulted the camp for inadequate advance emergency planning, storm preparation, evacuations and incident management.
President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell this morning, canceling plans to sign a bipartisan landmark housing affordability bill until he gets action on his controversial elections overhaul legislation. He's expected to press senators at a GOP lunch today to pass the "SAVE America Act" by any means necessary.
The Army, Navy, and Air Force are once again requiring basic trainees to get vaccinated against influenza after the virus quickly swept through an Air Force base in Texas, sickening at least 222 recruits and hospitalizing four. The outbreak flared just two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abandoned a decades-long requirement for flu shots.
The Air Force has re-implemented a flu shot requirement for trainees after more than 200 fell ill due to an outbreak at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio " just two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped a vaccination mandate for the military. At the basic military training wing, hundreds of trainees, who are already more likely to get sick due to lower immune systems from physical, psychological and environmental stress, were exposed to the flu over the last three weeks, leading to a "localized" outbreak, ABC News reported last week. As of June 19, there had been 222 cases of the flu, Rep. Joaquin Castro, who represents the San Antonio area, said, while four had been hospitalized. It's a sharp increase from 159 cases and two hospitalizations a week earlier, ABC reports. It occurred after Hegseth dropped flu vaccine requirements for members of the military in April.
President Donald Trump canceled his plan to sign a bipartisan affordable housing bill on Wednesday in an effort to pressure his fellow Republicans to pass a long-stalled package of U.S. national voting restrictions that has aggravated party fissures and shown the limits of his power.
More than 4.7 million people nationwide have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, also known as food stamps, since President Donald Trump's signature tax and spending law took effect last July, according to data through March from the U.S. Department of Agriculture " about 11% of participants.
Nowhere have the changes to America's second-largest social safety-net program taken hold as rapidly as in Arizona, where the number of SNAP recipients has fallen by about half, the steepest drop in the country.
That means lost benefits for more than 457,000 Arizonans, including nearly 196,000 children, according to DES data as of the end of May.
Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, submitted his paperwork to retire after a little over a year in his position, a Pentagon official told The Hill.
What did America learn from the war with Iran? In this After Action Review, we break down what went right, what went wrong, and what the United States needs to fix before the next major conflict. Operation Epic Fury showed that the U.S. can still dominate the battlefield: thousands of air missions, successful Patriot and THAAD intercepts, deep strikes against Iranian military infrastructure, effective cyber operations, combat search and rescue, and the successful use of lower-cost systems like APKWS and LUCAS drones. But the war also exposed serious problems: vulnerable bases, drone threats, limited allied support, unclear end states, the disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, weak information warfare at home, and America's ongoing struggle to win the narrative after it wins the fight. This is not about cheerleading or doomposting. It is an honest AAR: what worked, what failed, and what we should do better next time. Read more
Russia exploits African countries to bypass sanctions, loot mineral resources, and recruit mercenaries for its war against Ukraine, reported Andrii Cherniak from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (HUR).
The Africa Corps replaced the Wagner Group
