Trump news at a glance: president in ‘excellent health’, his doctor says after routine medical check

Three-page memo released by White House provides overview of 79-year-old president’s medical checkup – key US politics stories from Saturday, 30 May at a glance US President Donald Trump’s doctor said he was in “excellent health” but has advised him to lose weight, according to a memo released by the White House after the 79-year-old … Read more

Graham Platner sent explicit texts to other women during marriage, wife confirms

Amy Gertner, wife of Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, says she is ‘hurt’ ex-political director exposed texts Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women during his marriage, according to information his wife shared with his campaign last year, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported. Platner, … Read more

Delaney Hall protests intensify as far-left activists, ICE supporters converge in New Jersey

NEWARK, N.J. — The continued unrest outside Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, took on a distinctly ideological tone during ICE demonstrations Saturday, as far-left communist-socialist activists and a far-right group clashed, transforming a protest over the center’s conditions into a broader political spectacle. The standoff began more than a week ago, when … Read more

Hunger strike at New Jersey ICE facility enters ninth day as protesters face off with Trump supporters

A Newark detention center has been at the forefront of anti-ICE protests – and now counterprotests Protests continued on Saturday in front of the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, as a hunger and labor strike inside reached its ninth day, with detained immigrants demanding improved conditions and medical care. On Saturday … Read more

Judge reopens Trump’s IRS suit to examine $1.8bn settlement with justice department

Investigation to establish whether ‘anti-weaponization’ fund is ‘product of collusion and itself a fraud’ A federal judge has reopened Donald Trump’s $10bn case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), after receiving a third-party motion asserting that the settlement, which lacks detail, “is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the court”. The … Read more