While Silver acknowledged rising fuel prices resulting from the conflict are a "big factor" in the president's approval ratings, he wrote that there are also "signs of erosion among his base."
"Only 22% of Americans have a *strongly* favorable view of Trump," the pollster wrote on X. "2028 aspirants are starting to pull away from him. One wonders about the effect of his age, too."
The economy is expected to play a big role in the upcoming midterm elections in November, with House Democrats focusing on a message of affordability in their effort to win back control of the chamber.
A federal judge delivered a serious setback to President Donald Trump Tuesday in long-running civil lawsuits seeking to hold him liable for the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that evidence produced so far in the litigation brought by police officers and Democratic lawmakers indicated that Trump's speech at the Ellipse that day was political in nature and not subject to the immunity the Supreme Court has found for a president's official acts.
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Donald Trump abruptly exited the Supreme Court on Wednesday after some of his own conservative justices did not appear convinced by his bid to upend birthright citizenship in America.
Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones urged his followers to abandon Dummkopf Trumpf and move on to fighting the left without him, arguing that he is showing clear signs of both mental and physical deterioration. "When your ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure," bleated Jones. "And he does look sick. And he does babble, and it sounds like the brain's not doing too hot. And so, we just cut bait on Trumpf, and we just mobilize against the Democrats."
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James Farthing (51), who miraculously won Kentucky's $167 million Powerball lottery almost a year ago, has been arrested again, this time for burglary and possession of marijuana. In April 2025, Farthing was arrested in Florida on misdemeanor charges of battery and resisting an officer to which he pled guilty. The multimillionaire still has two active cases against him; one for a hit-and-run charge and the other for intimidation.
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) claimed on Tuesday that the United States "won" the Vietnam War while arguing that putting boots on the Iran would bring the conflict to a swift end. McCormick joined Newsmax host Todd Starnes on Tuesday to discuss, among other topics, the ongoing military operation in Iran and the controversial option of putting U.S. troops on the ground to end the month-long conflict. We were horrible in Afghanistan and Iraq until we did surge ops, and then we won. We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Thunder One" Rolling Thunder One and Rolling Thunder Two, and then we won.
The University of Pennsylvania must comply with a subpoena from the Trump administration seeking information related to Jewish employees, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The subpoena comes as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, investigates a "pattern or practice" of harassment of Jews at the Ivy League school. It requested, among other things, lists of school groups and organizations "related to the Jewish religion," including personal contact information for Penn employees in those groups.
Latest strikes: A 10-year-old girl was seriously wounded after Iranian missile fragments hit central Israel, while the country was also intercepting a missile from Yemen. The US and Israel continue to bombard Iran's capital Tehran. And in Kuwait, the international airport's fuel depots were hit by an Iranian drone attack.
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Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military's most troubled space programs might finally bear fruit.
Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters.
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San Diego is home to the largest US naval base on the West Coast " hosting Navy SEALs that could be used to seize key oil terminals on Kharg Island and free the Strait of Hormuz from Irans iron grip. But sombre soldiers have been putting Trump's strategic mission in jeopardy by mistaking an exotic dancer for their therapist. "Something I've noticed lately is all the military guys are coming in and they're spending all of their money," Daze says in he TikTok clip. "It's sad. They're kind of depressed ... They're like, Oh yeah, we're gonna have fun, we're getting deployed next week'."
U.S. job openings fell more than expected in February and hiring dropped to the lowest level in nearly six years, government data showed on Tuesday.
