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This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day.

Here are the latest developments: In remarks in San Antonio, Texas, Donald Trump tried to channel the anti-Muslim racism that helped get him elected in 2016, by skipping straight from a dire warning that Iran would use a nuclear weapon if it had one to the wild, false claim that Barack Obama could have stopped the Ft Hood gunman, Nidal Hasan, but chose not to.

Trump repeated his false claim that the war he started with Iran in February was necessary to prevent Iran from destroying American cities like Los Angeles or San Diego in a nuclear attack. In fact, US intelligence agencies assessed in 2025 that Iran had abandoned its pursuit of nuclear weapons in 2003. Trump’s midterm rally speech was disrupted up to a dozen times by protesters.

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration in federal court, asking a judge in Washington to stop the president from using taxpayer funds to air a serie

In his remarks in San Antonio, Texas earlier on Wednesday night, Donald Trump tried to channel the anti-Muslim racism that helped get him elected in 2016, by skipping straight from a dire warning that Iran would use a nuclear weapon if it had one to the wild, false claim that Barack Obama could have stopped the Ft Hood gunman, Nidal Hasan, but chose not to.

“We also recently announced that we’re going to deliver final justice to an evil killer, the Ft Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, who murdered 14 innocent souls and wounded dozens more here in Texas, yelling ‘Allah Akbar’, ‘Allah Akbar’ while he was doing it,” Trump said of the Army psychiatrist who killed 12 soldiers and a retired guardsman in a gun attack in 2009.

“And we just found out,” Trump added, falsely, “that President Obama had the emails from Hasan to a known terrorist murderer, well-known, saying he was going to wage jihad against his fellow soldiers. But Obama and his group did nothing about it.” As Trump made this false charg

Near the end of his speech at a midterm campaign rally for Republicans in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Roger Clemens, who retired as one of the greatest pitchers in Major League Baseball history, but has been denied admission to the Hall of Fame because of allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens, who had introduced Trump, thanked the president for the award, but made no comment on the doping allegations that have dogged him since he was named as a steroid user by George Mitchell, a former US senator.

The allegations against Clemens, who has always denied drug use, were based on the testimony of his former trainer, Brian McNamee, who said he repeatedly injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. When Clemens repeated those denials at a Congressional hearing in 2008, he was charged with perjury and obstruction of Congress by the federal government before eventually bein

Near the end of his speech in San Antonio on Wednesday, which has just concluded, Donald Trump repeated his false claim that the war he started with Iran in February was necessary to prevent Iran from destroying American cities like Los Angeles or San Diego in a nuclear attack. “I am ensuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “We had no choice because we can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”

What the president did not say is that US intelligence agencies wrote in March 2025, in an annual threat assessment provided to Congress, that Iran abandoned its pursuit of nuclear weapons more than two decades ago.

“We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that [Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so,” the intelligence community reported last year. Three months later, in June 2025 , Trump ordered US military strikes on Iran

At the Republican midterm campaign rally in San Antonio, Donald Trump just vented his rage at Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democratic congressman he pardoned last year, for not switching parties. Trump claimed that he had made no deal with Cuellar before he signed a pardon that ended the federal government’s effort to jail the congressman and his wife on a dozen charges of bribery, money laundering and conspiracy.

However, the president clearly indicated that he had expected the congressman to become a Republican out of gratitude. “So many considered this to be a tremendous act of disloyalty, and certainly showed him to be an extremely ungrateful kind of a person,” Trump said. Urging voters to defeat Cuellar by voting for his Republican challenger, Trump said: “We’ll call that payback for a disloyal, ungrateful person.

A person whose life has been saved only to go back into the clutches of the people that tried to destroy him. So Henry Cuellar is a guy who is considered low-life in Congress,

In his speech to supporters in San Antonio, Texas, which is still in progress, Donald Trump has been repeating the same false claims about the US economy he has made again and again in recent weeks.

Ignoring soaring inflation and fuel prices exacerbated by the war he started with Iran and has been unable to stop, Trump repeated his entirely imaginary claim that he has already secured $21tn in foreign direct investment in the US since returning to office lat year.

In fact, as CNN reported last month, federal data shows that new foreign direct investment in the US was about $232bn in 2025, and Trump appears to be “counting trillions in vague investment pledges – pledges that were about “bilateral trade” or “economic exchange” rather than investment in the US – and “vague statements that didn’t even rise to the level of pledges.”

Trump also repeated his false claim that tariff revenues have swelled federal coffers so much under his administration that he was able to pay a $1,776 bonus to

Donald Trump’s midterm rally speech in San Antonio, Texas has been disrupted by protesters at least six times so far.

Television coverage of the rally showed that one of the protesters was violently assaulted by an older Trump supporter as he attempted to leave the arena.

“You know, many of these protesters are paid,” Trump said, repeating a baseless claim he has been making for a decade. “These are paid protesters. They’re paid by enemies of our nation. Now, I’m telling you, they pay them for this.”

The interruptions seemed to momentarily derail the president as he repeated a lie about James Talarico, the Texas Democrat he claims is a vegan who only pretends to eat meat and secretly vomits every time he does. There is no evidence for this imaginary tale the president has repeated multiple times in recent weeks as Talarico has pulled ahead of the Trump-backed Republican candidate for the US Senate, Ken Paxton. Trump began his riff with the rare admission that he has been mispronouncing

After as brief introduction from Roger Clemens, the disgraced former baseball star accused in a high-profile report of using performance-enhancing drugs, Donald Trump has taken the stage at a midterm campaign rally for Republicans at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas.

The president began by attacking the Texas Democrat James Talarico, using the nickname “Talafreako”, which the candidate has put on campaign merchandise. Trump then praised Republican Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who is running for US Senate against Talarico, as “probably the greatest attorney general in the history of the state of Texas. He is tough. And he was with us all the way. And so I just want to thank him. He’s a fantastic – he’s a fantastic man and what a job he’s done.” Trump made no mention of the fact that Paxton was recently caught on audio revealing that he considers Trump’s unpopular war on Iran, and the resulting high gas prices, a drag on his campaign.

We are now waiting for Donald Trump to arrive at a Republican campaign rally at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas, where the embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton finished speaking 30 minutes ago.

Moments before Air Force One touched down at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Trump fired off a lengthy diatribe attacking Texas congressman Henry Cuellar, a Democrat he pardoned last year, attacking him as “ungrateful” for not becoming a Republican.

I did the pardons, and made no deal, where a crooked politician would have, but I thought there would be a good chance that Cuellar, who was persecuted by Democrats because they didn’t like him, would have routinely gone over to the Republican Party — The people that saved him from years in prison. Shockingly, Cuellar announced, only a few days later, that he is going to remain a Dumocrat.

Many considered this to be a tremendous act of disloyalty, and certainly, showed him to be an extremely ungrateful person … Henry Cuellar is a LOSER who, right

The federal lawsuit Democrats filed on Wednesday to stop the Trump administration from using millions of taxpayer dollars to air a series of pro-Trump ads includes details of another eight ads that have already been prepared for broadcast – all of which celebrate Donald Trump, and appear to violate a federal ban on the use of public money for “self-aggrandizement” or “purely partisan” messaging from the government.

The Democratic National Committee says in the suit that “there are at least 13 campaign-style political ads in a Dropbox account controlled by LMD Agency Inc, the government contractor bringing the ads to air”. Each ad in the Dropbox account includes on-screen text saying that the ad celebrating Trump in the run-up to midterm elections his party is in danger of losing was “Paid for by the U. S. Government”.

In addition to the five pro-Trump already broadcast since last month, the suit describes another four in detail: An ad titled “UFC 250”, which celebrates the fights staged

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration in federal court on Wednesday, asking a judge in Washington to stop the president from using taxpayer funds to air a series of ads promoting himself, arguing that the ads are illegal government-sponsored propaganda. The ads promoting Donald Trump, including one recycled from his 2024 presidential campaign, have cost taxpayers more than $12m so far, according to the media tracking firm AdImpact.

After a bipartisan backlash to the use of public money to promote the president during the final month of the midterm campaign season, the president claimed on Monday that he would direct the Maga Inc Super PAC he controls to pay for the ads instead. The next day, however, when the government unveiled a fifth ad in the series, celebrating the military intervention in Venezuela ordered by Trump, that new ad was also paid for by the public. The DNC complaint, filed in the US district court for the District of Columbia, alleges that th

Reporting from Athens In a speech heavy on symbolism and historic reference, Marco Rubio urged Europe from the rugged hill where democracy was first experienced in Athens to remain faithful to the traditions that have kept the west alive. With the Acropolis behind him, illuminated by the last light of day, the US secretary of state called for a renewal of the western spirit.

“Today, we find ourselves at a crossroads. The next decade will write the story of the next century,” he said before a crowd of politicians and diplomats gathered at the ancient Pnyx hill, where popular assemblies first met. “The course we take will determine whether the west maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of atrophy, and servitude, and decline. We will either choose to act now or lose the choice to act at all.” In echoes of the blistering speech JD Vance gave at the Munich security conference last year, Rubio reminded his audience that the Trump administration had decid

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, has slammed the Trump administration’s move to block the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from observing the midterm elections. This will mark the first time in more than 20 years that the group, the world’s largest regional security organization, would not be present to monitor the elections in the US.

“The Trump Administration’s failure to continue this practice is yet another step that risks undermining public trust in America’s safe and secure election system,” Shaheen said. A reminder that monitors do not interfere with the voting process itself, but observe it.

“I was an official election monitor in the country of Georgia in 2012 and most recently in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2022, so I know first-hand the importance of showing up for allies and partners to improve the public’s confidence in election integrity,” said Shaheen, an outgoing senator from New Hampshire who is also the top Democrat on the foreign relations c

Donald Trump said he has “no regrets at all” about endorsing Ken Paxton in the Senate race in Texas, after the Republican nominee reportedly complained about the impact of the Iran war and high gas prices on his precarious performance. According to an audio recording obtained by Axios, Paxton can be heard responding to questions about the main issues affecting his race at a fundraiser in Washington DC.

“It’s not tariffs,” he said. “It’s the war, it’s gas prices, it’s diesel.” A number of polls have Paxton, also the Texas attorney general, trailing his Democratic rival, James Talarico, as Republican groups spend tens of millions of dollars to support his election bid. Meanwhile, the president is on his way to San Antonio, Texas, where he’s set to hold another campaign rally to drum up support for Paxton.

This is Trump’s second visit to Texas in the past week. He’s set to speak at 7pm ET. Trump also said today that he would “immediately” fire ⁠his political advisers Chris LaCivita ⁠and J

Trump again acknowledged the reporting that two of his top political advisers, Chris LaCivita and James Blair, spent time in the Balkans last week, in the Russian-aligned Bosnian territory of Republika ⁠Srpska. The New York Times reported that the pair were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars through a DC-based law firm, retained by the territory’s government.

Earlier, Trump said he would “terminate” the operatives “if there’s conflict”. However, as he left the White House for Texas, the president appeared more unfazed: “They’re allowed to do this. They have a lot of clients in this. I’m a client of theirs. They have a consulting firm, as all people in Washington do. That’s pretty common.”

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, welcomed back the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln back to the US in San Diego today. A reminder, the aircraft carrier has been at sea for more than 300 days, after its deployment was extended in May, amid the ongoing Iran war.

“You responded from minute one, constant combat operations, which Iran never expected-the kind of fire and fury that you were able to bring off this flight deck, along with other incredible Americans,” Hegseth said. “The only reaction the American people and the American media should have is pride.” However, time on the ship has been marked by controversy.

According to Hung Cao, the acting US navy secretary, eight US navy personnel assigned to the Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide since the start of their lengthy assignment – the longest continuous period at sea without a port call. On Wednesday, Hegseth repeated his frequent critique of the media, and accused some members of the press of turning the record-breaki

In the Oval Office, Trump dismissed any concerns about Mike Rogers’ recent campaign ad, where the Republican nominee for US Senate in Michigan calls to “end this tariff war – now”. The spot appears to be another instance of Rogers trying to create daylight between his bid and the administration’s policies. “Here in Michigan, we know that Canada is not our enemy,” he says in the ad.

Trump, however, said he “viewed it as though [Rogers] wanted Canada to make a deal”, before launching into a familiar rant about how the country has been “ripping off” the US for “many, many years”. A reminder that trade talks broke down in August between the US and Canada – resulting in a flurry of reciprocal tariffs of up to 50% between the countries.

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