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Spain to Trump: Mind Your Own Business
Leaked US Cable
Calls Out Spain
Apr 1, 2026 10:40 AM CDT

Leaked US Cable Calls Out Spain

Spain's health minister blasts US after it critiqued legal euthanasia case

(Newser) - Spain is bristling at Washington over its critique of a Barcelona euthanasia case, which has served to further strain ties between the two allies. A leaked US cable shows the State Department told its embassy in Madrid to scrutinize how Spain applied its right-to-die law in the case of 25-year-old...

Trump's Planned Library to Dominate Miami Skyline

Design rendering for presidential skyscraper along waterfront has just been released

(Newser) - Donald Trump is picturing his presidential library less as a building and more as a skyline takeover. On Monday, he shared a video on Truth Social depicting a soaring glass tower in downtown Miami, topped with a needlelike spire and emblazoned with "TRUMP" at the top, per NBC News...

Trump Blasts Allies: 'USA Won't Be There to Help Anymore'

US president slams UK, France, NATO over their wariness at joining US-Israel blitz against Iran

(Newser) - President Trump is signaling a colder era for some of America's closest partners. In a series of Truth Social posts, the president lashed out at the UK, France, and NATO over their reluctance to join US and Israeli military action against Iran and efforts to reopen the Strait of...

Gas Prices Top $4 as Iran War Disrupts Global Oil Supply
Gas Prices Just
Crossed a Threshold
Mar 31, 2026 5:50 AM CDT

Gas Prices Just Crossed a Threshold

Tuesday's average hovered at just over $4 a gallon in the US

(Newser) - American drivers are once again seeing a number they don't like at the pump: a $4 national average for regular gas. AAA put Tuesday's average at just over $4.01 a gallon, the first time prices have crossed that line since the inflation surge of 2022, when gas...

Florida on Board to Rename Palm Beach Airport for Trump

DeSantis signs bill, but FAA must still sign off

(Newser) - A Florida airport is on track for a high-profile name swap, USA Today reports. Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill to rechristen Palm Beach International Airport in honor of President Trump, who lives at his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort. The longtime New Yorker, who previously lived in the Trump...

SCOTUS Could Overturn 128 Years of Precedent

Birthright citizenship fight revives 1898 case of Wong Kim Ark

(Newser) - More than a century ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark was a US citizen. That 1898 case, in which the government tried to block Wong from returning to his country of birth after a visit to China, recognized that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship to anyone...

Trump Says His 'Preference' Is to Take Iran's Oil

Trump weighs seizing Kharg Island as oil prices surge

(Newser) - President Trump is floating a blunt idea for ending the US-Israeli war with Iran: seize Iran's oil. In a weekend interview with the Financial Times , the US president said his "preference" would be to capture Iran's main export terminal, Kharg Island, insisting it could be taken "...

DHS Funding Standoff Now the Longest Partial Shutdown Ever

Partisan standoff over immigration funding leaves DHS shuttered for weeks

(Newser) - The fight over immigration policy just produced a new kind of record in Washington, and not the bragging kind. The Department of Homeland Security's funding lapse hit day 44 on Sunday, making it the longest partial government shutdown the US has seen, NBC News reports. It broke the previous...

After Noem's Departure, Lewandowski Is Out at DHS
Lewandowski Is Out at DHS
Mar 29, 2026 9:40 AM CDT

Lewandowski Is Out at DHS

'Special government employee' had far exceeded the legal tenure

(Newser) - Corey Lewandowski is out at the Department of Homeland Security, days after his longtime ally Kristi Noem was removed as head of the agency. Lewandowski, who had been an unpaid adviser to Noem, "no longer has a role at DHS," a department spokesperson confirmed Saturday without elaborating, USA ...

Forbes Has a New Estimate of Trump's Net Worth

Magazine attributes $3B jump to crypto, branding deals

(Newser) - President Trump's bank account, at least on paper, is looking markedly fatter in Forbes' latest deep dive . The magazine pegs the president's net worth at $7.3 billion as of September—up $3 billion in a year—largely on the back of postelection crypto gains and a stock...

Coming Soon to Currency: Trump's Signature

It's a first for a sitting president

(Newser) - For the first time, a sitting US president's signature will appear on American paper money. The Treasury Department announced Thursday that President Trump's name will go on all denominations of US currency, per the AP . The change ends a run dating to 1861 of displaying only the treasurer'...

Israel Says It's Taken Out Another Big Iranian Name

Iran's Alireza Tangsiri, the IRGC's naval chief, is dead, according to Israel Katz

(Newser) - Israel says it has taken out a top Iranian military figure in a strike it's framing as help for Washington. Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday announced that an overnight attack killed Alireza Tangsiri, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' navy chief, and other senior naval officers allegedly involved in...

US Emissions Have Caused $10T in Global Damage
US Emissions Have Caused
$10T in Global Damage
NEW STUDY
Mar 26, 2026 8:21 AM CDT

US Emissions Have Caused $10T in Global Damage

Including losses of $500B in India, and $330B in Brazil, study finds

(Newser) - The United States' role in warming the planet just got a price tag, and it's a staggering one: roughly $10 trillion in economic damage worldwide since 1990, per a new study in Nature . Researchers say no country has slowed global growth more through its greenhouse gas emissions, with China close...

Report: Justice Department Settles With Flynn for $1.2M

Former national security filed $50M lawsuit in 2023

(Newser) - The Justice Department has settled a lawsuit from Michael Flynn and sources tell the AP the former national security adviser will be receiving $1.2 million. Flynn, national security adviser for the first 22 days of President Trump's first term, pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI....

Polymarket Bets on US-Iran Ceasefire Raise Eyebrows

Suspicious Polymarket wagers raise war profiteering, insider trading fears

(Newser) - In a corner of the crypto world, war and wagers appear to be colliding. Experts tell the Guardian that a cluster of new accounts on online prediction platform Polymarket laid unusually large, well-timed bets on a US-Iran ceasefire that look a lot like someone trading on secret information. The platform...

Hollywood Pays Tribute to Chuck Norris

Memes and jokes about the late martial arts star and actor are also proliferating online

(Newser) - The unexpected death of martial arts champ and actor Chuck Norris on Thursday at the age of 86 has left not only his family reeling, but his colleagues and friends in Hollywood and political fans in DC and around the globe. Here, a roundup of what some are saying about...

Sailor Mistakenly Exposes Aircraft Carrier During Jog

Upload on Strava fitness app pinpointed position of France's Charles de Gaulle in Mediterranean

(Newser) - A French sailor reportedly logged a 4.3-mile run on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle on March 13—but when his smartwatch uploaded the route to his Strava fitness app, it effectively pinpointed the aircraft carrier's position in the eastern Mediterranean in near real time, the Telegraph...

Trump Cracks Pearl Harbor Joke With Japan's Leader

'Who knows better about surprise than Japan?'

(Newser) - President Trump made a Pearl Harbor joke while hosting Japan's prime minister at the White House on Thursday, reports the Hill . Asked by a Japanese reporter why he didn't inform allies such as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in advance of the attack on Iran, Trump invoked the infamous...

Iran War Has Exacerbated Fed's 'Worst Nightmare'

High inflation-weak jobs scenario presents a dilemma for Powell and Co. in deciding on rate cuts

(Newser) - Oil and jobs are pulling the Federal Reserve in opposite directions, and a war in Iran just tightened the vise. At its meeting on Wednesday, the Fed faces a familiar dilemma: Inflation remains stubborn, while hiring has cooled. The conflict in Iran adds a new layer of uncertainty, with Goldman...

Military Shares American Toll of 'Operation Epic Fury'

Most injuries are being described as minor

(Newser) - American forces have taken significant hits in the conflict with Iran , according to a new US military tally. US Central Command says about 200 US service members have been wounded since the launch of "Operation Epic Fury," with spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins noting most injuries were minor and...

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