Heather Timmons

As Donald Trump joins a hostile G7 meeting in Quebec City today, an old friendship is on the line.

As president, Donald Trump has insulted US allies and top Republicans, threatened nuclear war on Twitter, shared top-secret intelligence with Russia, and pushed immigration policies that are ripping apart families and damaging the US’s image abroad.

US presidents have a long tradition of hosting the Super Bowl champions of the National Football League on the White House lawn a few months after the game. At the White House visit, the president usually offers up some good-natured ribbing of the players while accepting a team jersey with their name on the back. It’s typically a good time for all.

After Donald Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum from the US’s closest allies last week, economists warned that they could result in thousands of US job losses. The latest numbers from The Trade Partnership, a DC-based economics research firm, suggests that the impact will be even worse than originally estimated.

Donald Trump and the Philadelphia Eagles got into an ugly public spat that culminated in the US president uninviting the entire Super Bowl champion team from a White House celebration today (June 5).

US Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas is enigmatic. The court’s mostly silent justice speaks so little at oral arguments that his few utterances get serious attention.

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 today in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

Donald Trump upended presidential precedent—again—when he tweeted today about a key, market-moving economic indicator just over an hour before it was released:

The death toll from Hurricane Maria, which struck Puerto Rico last September, is higher than that of any disaster that has struck the US since 1900, including Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attacks of 2001.

Donald Trump’s long-standing promise to use import tariffs to try to revive the US steel and aluminum industry was opposed by US economists, labor experts, and even the industries themselves—but the White House did it anyway. As a result, over 146,000 Americans will lose their jobs, economists estimate.

After weeks of negotiation, the Trump administration put steep tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum today. The decision will punish the US’s closest allies, including Canada, Europe and Mexico. It drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down over 200 points in US morning trading.

Donald Trump’s rally last night in Nashville, Tennessee had many familiar touches: chants of “Build the wall,” MAGA hats, and anecdotes from the president’s 2016 election campaign. But it was also more focused, polished and angry than the speeches Trump has delivered in recent months: In contrast to his speech on unity in Nashville one year ago, this time the president systematically attacked Democrats, the Russia investigation and the “animals” of gang MS-13.

A week after US president Donald Trump canceled a planned June 12 summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un, the meeting appears to be back on again today, with Trump scheduled to discuss it with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on June 7.

The US’s Department of Homeland Security has given several reasons for its new policy of taking more immigrant children who cross the country’s southern border away from their parents, even those seeking asylum.

Sometimes, men and women have sex, but don’t want to have a baby together. And no method of contraception is 100% effective, except not having sex. Consequently, humans have been aborting unwanted pregnancies since at least Biblical times. By age 45, about one in four American women will have had an abortion.

Donald Trump’s surprise cancellation of a planned summit with Kim Jong Un via a plaintive letter on White House stationary Thursday (May 23) quickly became a joke in the US Senate and the subject of mocking editorial cartoons. But the move reportedly was a complete shock to Kim’s government, and may put a group of foreign reporters inside the country at risk; North Korea has a history of taking hostages.

Donald Trump cancelled a much-anticipated meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un this morning with a plaintive letter.

As the new head of the US Department of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen took an oath last December to protect the US from all enemies, foreign and domestic. To do that, she runs a 200,000 employee agency tasked with fighting terrorism, handling immigration, and keeping elections secure.

Construction on the US White House began in 1792. It has been almost continuously occupied by US presidents since 1800, barring a few years after the British set it on fire in 1814.

Democrats in America are getting excited about a “Blue Wave” they hope will sweep through November’s US midterm elections, giving the party control of one or both houses of Congress.

After seventeen died in a February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the White House issued a list of ways in which it promised to “secure our schools.”

Microsoft founder Bill Gates told his staff at the Gates Foundation, in a recently publicized video obtained by MSNBC, that he has had two meetings with Donald Trump since the president was elected.

One year ago today, US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein made an announcement that has helped define Donald Trump’s presidency—he appointed former FBI chief Robert Mueller as a special counsel to probe possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.

The White House is discussing possible replacements for Department of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, because Donald Trump is unhappy with how she is running the massive agency tasked with keeping the US safe, according to two people briefed on the situation.