MACHADO MEETING: Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who presented him with the Nobel Peace Prize that she won last year. Per the Nobel Institute, a Nobel Prize can’t be revoked, shared or transferred.

Clemency: President Trump issued more pardons this week, again rewarding allies and those who had funneled money to to his associates or donated to his political operation. Among the recipients was a woman who was convicted of fraud in 2024, after he commuted her sentence in an unrelated fraud in 2021. Read more ›

A Reagan-appointed federal judge continued to make headlines for his fierce broadsides against Trump, whom he has labeled as an "authoritarian" and "bully."

Trump’s initial reference to canceling the elections came during his Jan. 6 address to House Republicans as they gathered at the Kennedy Center to discuss their agenda for the year ahead. Criticizing Democrats, Trump said “they have the worst policy” and questioned “how we have to even run against these people.”