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Appears in 29 stories · Last updated Nov 11, 2026
Set the 1,000-launch target through Executive Order 14335
The FAA published two proposed rules in the Federal Register on Nov. 9. One clarifies when a rocket operator must abort a flight; the other lets companies show a falling vehicle would break apart enough to avoid multiple deaths on the ground.
Updated 3 hours ago
Says the diesel arrangement is legal; Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the stalled cargo will sell in another port
The first Russian diesel cargo sent to the United States under President Donald Trump's deal with Vladimir Putin has stalled off the East Coast, and no tanker has unloaded at an American port. The Malta-flagged Agioi Fanendes, carrying 40,000 metric tons, stopped off the coast on Nov. 10 after New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and lawmakers warned that accepting the fuel could bring legal penalties.
Updated 7 hours ago
Running the 90-day tariff suspension; no plans to end it early, per POLITICO; Trump has signaled no extension past Nov. 30
the third 100,000-ton tranche was scheduled to open Oct. 31 Through Oct. 19, 59,423 metric tons had entered, about a fifth of the 300,000-ton quota.
Updated 8 hours ago
Publicly praising the October report
US employers added 165,000 jobs in October, nearly triple the 59,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate slipped to 4.1%. August and September were revised up by a combined 84,000.
Updated 4 days ago
Miller was scheduled to take over as chief of staff on Nov. 9, 2026; no report yet of the handover
President Donald Trump named Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration enforcement agenda, as White House chief of staff on November 6, 2026. Miller replaces Susie Wiles, who resigned the day before and moved to Trump's political operation. He was due to start Monday, Nov. 9.
Updated 5 days ago
The Oval Office, Outer Oval Office and Cabinet Room are the designated monument
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on November 5, 2026, making the Oval Office, the Outer Oval Office and the Cabinet Room a national monument. The designation relies on the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that lets presidents protect federal land and structures by proclamation, without a vote in Congress.
Brokered the Oleshky truce, which ended November 1 after evacuations
A six-day ceasefire that Melania Trump brokered in Ukraine's southern Kherson region ended on November 1. Russia and Ukraine reported no violations in the Oleshky area during the pause, though both continued strikes elsewhere and BBC News reported fighting returned to the Kherson region after the truce.
Updated Nov 3
Issued proclamation and public rationale; coordinating implementation
Two federal judges have blocked the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions. A Boston judge ruled in June that the fee is an unlawful tax Congress never authorized, and a California judge ruled Sept. 30 that the administration skipped required rulemaking.
Updated Nov 2
Issued the executive order, hosted the accord signing, and created the Super Intelligence Force
Federal agencies are moving at different speeds to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence.' NASA pushed its second round of website and title changes live on October 16, two weeks early, while other agencies have made only partial switches.
Updated Oct 20
Announced the 25 million-ton soybean target
Chinese state-owned trading firms booked 10 to 13 more Panamax cargoes of US soybeans on Wednesday night, the second large purchase this week and the first since President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping met in September. The two batches total 18 to 23 cargoes, roughly 1.2 to 1.5 million metric tons, shipping between December and March.
Updated Oct 19
Created the ICC sanctions legal framework via E.O. 14203
The U.S. just sanctioned two sitting International Criminal Court judges—because they helped keep the Israel-related Gaza case alive. It's a rare thing in diplomacy: Washington using the same financial weapon it uses on oligarchs and terror networks against a courtroom.
Updated Oct 15
Requested Guilfoyle's resignation on October 13, 2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, resigned Tuesday after the White House asked her to step down. Her exit followed Wall Street Journal reports that she sought a $100,000 payment from a Trump donor in exchange for access to administration officials.
Updated Oct 14
As of October 2026: Published the joint fact sheet on the agreement
Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his first state visit to Washington in more than a decade with a handshake on tariffs. The United States and China agreed on $30 billion of reciprocal tariff cuts in each direction and a formal dialogue on artificial intelligence.
Updated Oct 3
As of September 2026: Announced Driscoll's departure
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll left office September 2 after 18 months, the latest departure in a Pentagon leadership shakeup. President Trump named Adam Telle, the Army's civil works chief, acting secretary the next day.
Updated Sep 16
As of September 2026: Leading renewed peace push
President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for their first official visit to Ukraine. The trip came a day after a three-hour meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, part of a renewed push to end a war now in its fifth year.
Updated Sep 7
As of August 2026: Executive orders have survived major court challenges; Defense Department moved to cancel contracts department-wide
Donald Trump's March 2025 order stripping collective bargaining rights from most of the federal workforce has survived its biggest court test. In June 2026, the Ninth Circuit closed off any further appeal in the union's lead case, clearing the way for agencies to keep canceling contracts nationwide.
Updated Aug 8
As of June 2026: Has now intervened in two frontier model launches — staging GPT-5.6 via ONCD and OSTP, and forcing Anthropic's models offline via Commerce export controls
Trump signed a voluntary framework on June 2 asking frontier labs to share their newest models with federal agencies for up to 30 days before release. Within ten days, the government had gone further. A June 12 export control directive forced Anthropic to kill worldwide access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two newest models, after the government said it had found a jailbreak in the more capable one.
Updated Jun 26
As of May 2026: Trump called ceasefire 'on life support' May 11; truce expired without completing prisoner exchange; officials reassessing next diplomatic steps
The Trump-brokered three-day ceasefire expired at midnight on May 12, and Russia launched 216 attack drones at Ukraine within hours. Ukrainian air defenses neutralized 192 of them. At least one person was killed in Dnipropetrovsk, and debris set fire to a 16-storey residential building in Kyiv's Obolon district.
Updated May 31
As of May 2026: Reviewing military options for Iran intervention
Iran's judiciary chief announced January 14 that detained protesters face fast-track trials and executions, despite Trump's warning of "very strong action." The death toll hit at least 2,571, per Human Rights Activists News Agency — four times the count from two days earlier and more than any crackdown since 1979.
Updated May 20
As of May 2026: Pushing for federal preemption; pressuring states to stop AI regulation
New York just told the biggest AI labs: if something goes seriously wrong, you don't get to bury it. Under the RAISE Act, large "frontier AI" developers must publish a safety approach and report "critical harm" incidents to the state within 72 hours after determining one occurred. First violations carry civil penalties capped at $1M; later violations, $3M—far below the bill's June penalty structure.
Updated May 15
As of May 2026: Political driver of the pressure campaign and public messaging
Harvard won. A federal judge said the government unlawfully cut off Harvard's research money—then ordered the taps turned back on. Now the Trump administration is appealing, keeping a cloud over a sprawling research portfolio that runs from medical breakthroughs to national-security science.
As of May 2026: Issued executive order directing rescheduling acceleration and expanded cannabinoid research
Trump's executive order instructing DOJ to fast-track marijuana's move to Schedule III immediately triggered a familiar split. Public health and industry groups cheered the potential research and tax impacts, while House Republicans organized opposition, urging Trump to keep marijuana in Schedule I.
As of May 2026: Set Alaska policy direction via executive order and bill signings
BLM's rollback of the 2024 NPR-A protections isn't new news—but today is when it becomes real. As of December 17, 2025, the rescission is officially in effect, wiping out the Biden-era rule that tried to hardwire stronger guardrails into how the Western Arctic gets developed.
As of May 2026: Driving the blockade threat and broader Venezuela pressure campaign.
Trump's Venezuela "blockade" threat is now backed by policy. Washington has added new Venezuela-linked sanctions and also targeted Iran's shadow-fleet network. Together, these expand the pool of already-sanctioned vessels that the U.S. Navy could board if they try to trade with Venezuela.
As of May 2026: Driving the enforcement-delay strategy and the divestiture framework
The deal closed on January 22, 2026. TikTok's U.S. operations now belong to TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC—a new entity where Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX each hold 15%, existing ByteDance investor affiliates hold 30.1%, and ByteDance itself retains exactly 19.9%.
As of May 2026: Driving the U.S. peace framework and dispatching envoys to close a deal
Zelensky just did something he once treated as untouchable: he offered to drop Ukraine's NATO bid. Not as surrender, but as a trade—Kyiv gives up the alliance path, and the West gives Ukraine legally binding protection strong enough to scare Moscow off for good.
As of May 2026: Construction continues after Jan 22 court hearing where judge questioned legal authority; review presentations completed, votes scheduled for Feb 19 (CFA) and March 5 (NCPC)
At a January 22 hearing on the National Trust's preliminary injunction request, Judge Richard Leon signaled deep skepticism about Trump's authority to tear down "an icon that's a national institution" using $400 million in private donations. Leon called the funding mechanism a "Rube Goldberg contraption" and is expected to rule in February; Trump declared on Truth Social that "IT IS TOO LATE" to stop the project, claiming structural steel, marble, and bulletproof glass are already lined up.
As of May 2026: Trump signed NDAA into law December 18, codifying parts of more than a dozen executive orders.
President Trump signed a nearly $901 billion defense bill into law on December 18, 2025, cementing the 65th consecutive year Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act. It delivers troops a 3.8% pay raise and locks in $800 million for Ukraine weapons over two years.
Updated May 10
As of May 2026: Issuing directives to review and potentially shrink the childhood vaccine schedule
In his second term, President Donald Trump is overhauling U.S. childhood vaccination policy. He argues the country gives too many shots compared with its peers. On December 5, 2025, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted 8–3 to end the longstanding hepatitis B shot recommendation for newborns. Trump signed a memorandum ordering the HHS secretary and CDC director to review the childhood schedule and align it where possible with peer countries' practices.
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