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Trump gives his economy top marks. Polls show people are still hurting.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach next year’s budget targets

Donald Trump's DOJ faces backlash after 16 photos, including one featuring the president and Jeffrey Epstein, were briefly removed from public files.

Briefly removed Epstein-related files on the DOJ website have ignited online debate after a redacted photo appears to show the US president alongside a blonde woman some claim resembles a young Ivanka Trump.

Few political contests in 2025 drew as much global attention as New York City’s mayoral race. The winner in the heart of global finance was a brown, immigrant Muslim politician – unafraid to claim his identity and running on an eye-catching redistributionist platform. Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular win in this contest…

The art activists made headlines during the US president’s state visit when they shocked the waiting media with a short documentary – and were quickly arrested

James Austin Johnson continued his streak as the president and ridiculed the Trump administration over its claim to be the ‘most transparent in history’

Todd Blanche says removal of images has ‘nothing to do’ with the president, and removal of 16 photos came at request of victim advocacy groups – key US politics stories from Sunday 21 December at a glance

Donald Trump leaves a North Carolina rally crowd in 'dead silence' after a bizarre detour about Melania's 'perfectly folded' laundry. Read the full story here.