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Trump Promises a $5,000 Payment to Every Adult American — but Only if Republicans Win the Midterms

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 11, 2026
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President Donald Trump told a Republican Party crowd at the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, on the night of September 9

Categories Politics Tags JD Vance, Supreme Court, United States, White House

63 Years After ‘I Have a Dream,’ Thousands Rally at the Lincoln Memorial to ‘Defend the Vote’

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 28, 2026
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Sixty-three years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, thousands of people

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Supreme Court Lifts Injunction Against Trump’s Mail-Ballot Order, but Says It Hasn’t Ruled on Whether It’s Legal

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 25, 2026 · Updated August 30, 2026
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The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, to lift a lower-court injunction that had been blocking parts of President Trump’s executive order restricting

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Supreme Court Temporarily Lets White House Ballroom Construction Resume While It Weighs the Case

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 19, 2026 · Updated September 5, 2026
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The White House ballroom project, for which the East Wing was demolished, is before the Supreme Court while the justices decide whether above-ground construction

Categories Politics Tags Donald Trump, Lawsuits, Supreme Court, White House

Appeals Court Rules Trump Administration Illegally Kept Sigal Chattah Leading Nevada’s U.S. Attorney’s Office

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 18, 2026
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A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Sigal Chattah is not lawfully serving as Nevada’s acting U.S. Attorney, finding that the Trump administration

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Trump’s Struck-Down Tariffs: $100 Billion in Refunds Is Headed Back to Importers — Not to Shoppers

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 6, 2026
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The federal government has certified roughly $100 billion in refunds of the tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February and moved the money to the U.S

Categories Money Tags Donald Trump, Supreme Court

Haiti TPS Has Ended, Judge Reyes Confirms — but the Discrimination Claim Against DHS Continues

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 6, 2026 · Updated August 11, 2026
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Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is no longer in effect. On August 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — the same judge who blocked the termination

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25 States Sue Over Trump’s New Tariffs, Calling Them an Illegal Rerun of Ones the Supreme Court Struck Down

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 4, 2026 · Updated August 16, 2026
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Twenty-five states asked a federal trade court on Monday, August 3, 2026, to throw out the Trump administration’s newest tariffs — duties of 10 or 12.5 percent

Categories Politics Tags Donald Trump, New York, Supreme Court
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