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Trump says Secret Service wants him to ‘take down’ Oval Office

The president also said he is looking into designating the White House room as a “federal landmark,” potentially preserving his changes.

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Oct 1 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Inside Larry Ellison's Wide Web of Power, Money and Politics, As Oracle's Data Centers Claim Force Majeure

The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself. Tom Dotan dives deep into Ellison’s kingdom, starting on the island enclave of Lanai.

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Oct 1 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • vanityfair.com
Brown: Trump’s $15 billion Iowa surprise roils Minnesota politics, but merits skepticism

"On Monday, President Donald Trump welcomed Iowa officials and the Minnesota iron mining company Mesabi Metallics to the Oval Office for an announcement. The news he revealed was stunning," columnist Aaron Brown writes.

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Oct 1 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • startribune.com
Tucker Carlson has a new enemy: the politics he helped build

Tucker Carlson is talking about what happened behind closed doors in his very public break with President Trump over the war with Iran.He recounts an Oval Office meeting, before the conflict began, when Carlson says he warned Trump that he was allowing the U.S. to be led to war by Israel. “Yes, you’re right,” Carlson claims Trump admitted. “But in the end we all die anyway, so it doesn’t matter.” "And I was shocked by that, because it's nihilism,” he says. “That's the last thing any leader should display.”In response to a request for comment from NPR, the White House did not address that point specifically, instead sending along a social media post by the president that describes Carlson and others as “stupid people” who want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.In this episode of NPR’s Newsmakers, Carlson and host Steve Inskeep unpack the conservative commentator’s split with Trump and the MAGA movement. They also get into faith, money, political power, and why Carlson believes both major parties have failed Americans.Newsmakers is where you'll find NPR's biggest interviews. We post new episodes as soon as they're available -- any day of the week. Follow or subscribe on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you watch or listen to podcasts to get new episodes as soon as possible. You can also find Newsmakers on the NPR app. Newsmakers relies on supporters who value independent journalism and a free press. Join NPR+ today to support our work and get perks from the podcasts you trust. Go to plus.npr.org.

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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

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Sep 19 • 10:08 PM EDT • Health • politico.com
Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash

A heated debate took place in the Oval Office on Friday, with some Trump officials accusing the National Institutes of Health of funding grants that conflict with the president’s agenda.

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Sep 18 • 11:19 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
What Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on how the Right should think about environmental and climate policy. Read Chris Barnard on Reclaiming Environmental Policy from the Left. More than a decade ago, the world’s governments negotiated and signed the Paris Climate Agreement, committing to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. In the following years, climate had immense cultural power. Greta Thunberg emerged. Fortune 500 companies established net-zero plans. The U.S. got the Inflation Reduction Act. Then the pendulum swung back. President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, speaking of green energy as a “scam” and carbon footprints as a “hoax” and on all matters of international policy emphasizing bilateral engagement and power over globalism and cooperation. The technology companies that had been at the forefront of net-zero pledges and green leadership discovered the importance of all-of-the-above power to their visions for artificial intelligence and began quietly postponing or removing their targets. On the left side of the political spectrum, rising concerns about inflation and cost pushed climate lower down in the stated priorities of voters and stump speeches of politicians. The moment is ripe for a reset on the politics of climate change and for conservatives especially to chart a course that acknowledges and addresses the real challenges in plausible ways. So what should we think about climate change as we enter a post-peak climate era? If it is neither an apocalypse nor a hoax, what will hold up as a durable view of climate change? And how does it project onto the concerns and priorities of the right-of-center’s emerging coalition? New to Commonplace_? Subscribe below to get the magazine in your inbox._ Subscribe A Solid Foundation As the politics and economics of climate careened over the past ten years, the physics carried on regardless. In 2015, the year the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted, the world emitted 41.2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. By 2025, emissions had risen only 2.4%, to 42.2 gigatonnes, because falling emissions from land use offset increasing emissions from fossil fuels. But slow growth in annual emissions is not rapid decline, let alone net-zero, so carbon dioxide kept accumulating in the atmosphere, going from 399 to 426 parts per million. Global temperature kept rising too, from about 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 1850–1900 average in 2015, to 1.4 degrees above it in 2025. None of this should surprise anyone. Even most prominent skeptics, like the authors of the 2025 report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, accept the basic physics. Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere at industrial volumes accumulates and traps heat that would otherwise escape to space. That heat warms the upper ocean and increases temperatures at the surface. Increased ocean heat and melting of land ice cause sea levels to rise. Changes in the climate become noticeable to us as subtle shifts in temperature and precipitation, seasons arriving early or late, changes in the surrounding ecosystem, and weather extremes. The much more meaningful debate is not about whether these things are happening, but about what it all means for human societies. (While it is a proxy measure of overall risk, no one experiences global surface temperature.) This debate invokes at least three interesting questions: how much today’s warming is showing up in regional climate trends, how much more warming we should anticipate, and how extreme weather events can be understood in the context of climate change. Recent scientific advances give us new insights into each of these, but there is still much to learn. This is the context in which the next generation of conservative leaders will be the first to deal with significant climate change as a fact, not a forecast. It will be with them for their entire careers. Our evolving scientific picture of climate change will come from weather and climate records stretching further into the past, new kinds of observations in the present, better modeling tools for the future, and simply more time to observe the emergence of climate signals and their tangible effects on ecosystems and communities in the United States and around the world. The policy landscape will be shaped by not only the impacts of changes in the climate, but also by the ways in which societies respond and by the emergence of new technologies for both altering the trajectory of emissions and adapting to new climate realities. Global climate records now show the fingerprints of warming in different phenomena around much of the world. The IPCC, in its most recent assessment report, documents warming trends over all land regions, even as natural variability adds substantial variance to local trends. And the highest temperature extremes have become more intense and frequent, almost everywhere, since the 1950s. Scientists are highly confident that these changes are attributable to human influence. But confidence in detecting trends and attributing them to human influence degrades across heavy precipitation events; drought trends are heterogeneous and not attributable to human activity with great confidence. For hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms there is even less confidence in trends or their relationship to climate change. In general, a fair summary of the evidence is that for well-observed phenomena, like surface temperature or heavy rainfall, with a clear relationship to warming, our multidecadal observations are consistent with human influence overcoming natural variability over long time periods and extremes increasing. For regions that are sampled more sparsely, or phenomena with a higher noise-to-signal ratio, we will need to observe them longer to understand the magnitude of the climate signal or improve dynamical understanding using models and observations together. But for Climate For those who can’t wait, we also have new techniques that attempt to understand the role climate change has in influencing particular extreme events. When the climate is changing and disaster strikes, it is natural to ask whether that disaster was somehow “caused” by climate change. For scientists and policymakers acting in good faith, answering that question helps develop a more accurate picture of the problem, how it may be getting worse, and what preparations we should be making to respond to it. It may, at some point, give some weight to how liability is assigned by courts or adaptation funding is distributed by society. But how we ask this question is extremely important. It is easy to get the analysis wrong by discounting the role that meteorology plays. As meteorologist Theodore Shepherd explained in a clear 2016 review of climate attribution methods, “if a weather or climate event is truly extreme in the present climate, then perforce it requires unusual meteorological conditions, which means that climate change is at most a contributing factor.” Share Scientists have two ways to probe climate as a contributing factor, both of which have entered media coverage of extreme weather events. One asks a probabilistic question: How much more likely is a particular event (e.g., a temperature record over a particular area) amid global warming? The answer involves using historical records and computer simulations to estimate the likelihood of such an event in both a changed and a preindustrial climate. The findings are less about the specific event, and more about events of that nature. The other question is: How has the changed climate affected the specific event in question? Here, scientists try to understand what a similar event would have looked like in the preindustrial climate. This is sometimes called the storyline approach, where the story is the specific meteorological details of the event. These methods offer ways to test the intuition of scientists about real weather extremes. In late June and early July of 2021, a persistent high-pressure ridge, or heat dome, set up over the Pacific Northwest and an extraordinary heat wave affected the area from Oregon to British Columbia. For six days, it shattered temperature records across the region and hundreds died from heat-related causes, in an area where such high, and persistently high, temperatures were well outside of experience and many live without air conditioning. Scientists have studied its connection to climate change using multiple approaches. This specific event was created by a rare combination of meteorological factors, a strong high-pressure ridge created the conditions for extreme heat, which occurred on top of higher average temperatures in the region from global warming. Probabilistic analyses showed that climate change increased the likelihood of such an event by at least 8-fold to more than 100-fold. One standout example found that such an event had effectively zero probability of occurring in the preindustrial climate. The enormous range in these assessments reflects how hard it is to estimate probabilities of events at the tail of the historical record. Estimates of the effect on the temperature of the event are more clustered. A recent review paper documents how multiple methodologies have found a positive influence, roughly 1-2 degrees Celsius of an anomaly that exceeded 15 degrees, of climate change on the temperature magnitude of the event. Multiple studies have investigated and found some positive influence of climate change in other extreme events. Attribution studies found climate likely increased the heavy rainfall that accompanied Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and surrounding regions in 2024. The extensive fires that struck Los Angeles in 2025 illustrate how the causal chain can become messy, though. Studies do detect a positive influence of climate on the event’s likelihood, but while climate change likely contributed to underlying aridity, it would not have played a role in the heavy winds or land practices that preceded disaster. These event attribution studies will become more common for extreme, or damaging, weather events. They can be produced quickly, and often are reported before peer review. As the Pacific Northwest heatwave example shows, when multiple methods converge on a positive attribution, the finding should probably carry some weight even if you have to be careful about accepting the results from a single study. I expect that as climate change proceeds and the climate thus departs further from a preindustrial counterfactual, the influence will become more detectable across a variety of extreme events and more easily identified. This will be used to cast blame, but can also be used to inform how communities and society adapt to ongoing change. We May Still Be Surprised One positive development, insofar as less climate change is better, has been that our central estimates for future climate change should probably be revised downward. Mostly, that is because the high-end warmings that scientists regularly analyzed about ten to 20 years ago, driven by high emissions throughout the twenty-first century, now appear to be somewhere between unlikely and impossible. At one time, the upper end of mainstream climate projections extended well into 4 to 6 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of this century, which, models suggest, would have wrought enormous real-world damage. Current energy and policy trends now point toward 2.5 or 3 degrees. Damages and risks are commonly modeled as increasing steeply with more warming, so this is already a better-than-previously-expected outcome for the climate (which is independent of the physical response to emissions). But we should maintain a wide range for plausible outcomes and prepare for the possibility of being surprised. Emissions trajectories are subject to deep uncertainty, the physical climate response is still developing, and whatever change occurs in the climate will then be mediated through unpredictable economic, social, and political institutions. Over the past decade, the pace of warming surprised some keen observers and appeared to accelerate, though not yet outside the range of expectation provided by climate models. The reasons for that apparent acceleration are being actively studied (as was the apparent pause in warming from 1998 to 2012), but no single driver has emerged. Some blame it on the El Niño, variability which would have no bearing on climate. Some think it is a result of factories in East Asia and global shipping fleets cutting aerosol emissions, which in the strongest version of the argument would indicate higher climate sensitivity to carbon-dioxide emissions. Others are more measured, not yet ready to draw solid conclusions as to whether climate projections require revision. We will have to see. Long-Term Thinking Climate change asks us to think over long time scales. But the pace of human-driven warming is compressing a large global change into a century. Changing weather patterns and extreme events are already causing adjustment costs and damages and will do more. Adaptation will help, but it is not free. For some communities, these costs will erode livelihoods and well-being, and may force migration. Are we prepared for large-scale managed retreats in the United States? Thankfully, American wealth, geographical diversity, and moderate climates may leave us better prepared than many around the world. But wealthy countries can still suffer serious disruption from narrowly concentrated costs, even if they appear entirely manageable in aggregate. Readers of Commonplace are familiar with the challenges of rapidly adapting to economic forces. The displacement that came from the China Shock is barely perceptible in aggregate GDP and employment data, but it affected millions of people and those people were far less mobile than economic models tended to assume. Deindustrialization rippled through the nation with enormous effects for not only our economic vitality, but also our national security. The forces surrounding climate change may not be so different; the world gets richer and must accept some diffuse costs. Those may be modest overall, but cause all manner of unpredictable effects with which policymakers must cope. In the case of the China Shock, our faith in a growing pie served us poorly. We’ll need to do better on climate. Leave a comment

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Sep 16 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • commonplace.org
Why the new Trump order to shoot wolves is both illegal and a dreadful precedent for endangered species

On September 4, Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections of gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves. In the Oval Office he stated to an Arizona ranc…

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Sep 5 • 4:54 PM EDT • Science • southernfriedscience.com
The U.S. is "unlearning" decades of public health progress

On August 10, in the Oval Office, Donald Trump signed an executive order telling American parents to break the measles, mumps, and rubella shot into three separate injections and to space childhood vaccines across many more trips to the doctor. He said the change would "align the United States with ...

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Sep 5 • 7:02 AM EDT • Health • thefulcrum.us
Pres. Trump Makes Announcement on Health Care Affordability

President Trump makes an announcement on efforts to advance health care affordability in the U.S. from the Oval Office.

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Aug 31 • 3:06 PM EDT • Health • c-span.org
Trump told donors 'we need to elect JD,' source confirms, as he weighs Vance or Rubio in 2028

President Donald Trump told Republican donors "we need to elect JD" in a private Oval Office meeting, a source confirmed to Fox News Digital.

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Aug 6 • 9:35 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Inside the Oval Office showdown between Trump and Jeanine Pirro

The showdown shows anyone who is willing to contradict a theory trumpeted by the president is in trouble, even if the dissenter happens to be among his closest family friends.

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Aug 5 • 4:48 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.

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Aug 4 • 4:46 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Trump lashes out as political losses pile up

President Donald Trump lashed out at oil companies and his own US attorney in the gilded Oval Office on Monday as his spin ran into the real world.

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Aug 4 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Business journalism studies took her to the White House | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The story by UNC Hussman alumni Brennan Doherty ’19 and video by John Roberts ’16 (M.A.) was originally published on unc.edu. This story is part of a four-part series on Carolina alumni working in Washington, D.C. Soon after her 2015 graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill, Megan Cassella was an intern for the Reuters news agency, eagerly awaiting and prepping for a special assignment. “Every now and then they needed an intern to run over to the White House last minute,” Cassella said. “You have to send your information the night before, so I started proactively sending my information to the White House every single night to be able to go the next day if they ever needed an intern.” Since then, she’s made many return trips to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in a career that’s included roles at Reuters, Politico, Barron’s and now CNBC, where she works as an on-air Washington correspondent. A longtime newswriter, Cassella made the move to TV in 2024, appearing on broadcasts multiple times daily to report on the biggest political and business stories. But the keys to doing a good job — knowing how to research, asking insightful questions, building relationships and explaining complex topics to a broad audience — remain the same. Did you know: Outside of the state of North Carolina, the Washington region is home to the largest concentration of Tar Heel alumni in the country. Cassella’s time as a Tar Heel was crucial in sharpening those skills, both in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and through roles at student-run publications like The Daily Tar Heel. She excelled in Carolina’s business journalism program with former professor Chris Roush, which led to an internship at The Charlotte Observer and helped Cassella find her journalistic niche. A data journalism course with Associate Professor Ryan Thornburg taught her how to find stories in numbers, and former professor Paul O’Connor’s reporting class took Cassella to the North Carolina Capitol weekly, where she gained invaluable experience interviewing politicians. “Those hands-on experiences that Carolina gave me really kept my interest and have really benefited me since I’ve been up here in D.C.,” said Cassella. “I have UNC to thank for the fact that I even went into business journalism in the first place.” Megan Cassella ’15 “You’ve got to thrive on adrenaline in this job. You’ve got to do well with last-minute changes, with running by the seat of your pants.” Megan Cassella ’15 ‘There’s nothing else like it’ In recent months, Cassella has reported live from the G7 Summit in Geneva, covered the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran war and followed changes to trade policy, including tariffs. “Anything in this realm that influences Wall Street, I’ll be covering,” Cassella said. Her working hours are long and variable. After waking up, Cassella immediately checks her phone to see what news broke overnight. By 8:15 a.m., she usually learns which newscasts she’ll be on, and then she heads to the newsroom, White House or wherever her assignment is. “We want you in the 9 a.m. show and the 11, and then the 3 o’clock show wants you, too,” Cassella said, referring to a hypothetical day. If Cassella gets an exclusive or major news breaks, she might be told, “We want that on TV right now.” Within five minutes, she’d be expected to get to the camera, figure out what to say and deliver the news to a live audience. “It’s exciting. It’s nerve-wracking,” Cassella said. “But there’s nothing else like it.” A well-rounded education Cassella grew up in Maryland, the youngest of four kids. Her oldest brother, Brian Cassella ’05, attended Carolina, became a photojournalist and recently won a Pulitzer Prize. She remembers visiting campus as a young child and loving it. “I just always wanted to go,” she said, and that desire grew when she, like her brother, gravitated toward journalism. But it wasn’t just the journalism school that drew Cassella to Carolina. “It was also the whole liberal arts curriculum,” she said. “Even though I always wanted to be a journalist, I got to college, and I sort of felt I had to think about other things. I had to explore my options and see if that’s what I really wanted.” Did you know: In April UNC-Chapel Hill opened its Carolina in the Capital office in Washington. She combined her journalism schooling with a global studies major and a history minor. That broad range of academic experiences in Chapel Hill molded her, preparing Cassella for a career that’s taken her to the highest levels of political journalism and inside the Oval Office. “When you sit back and remember you’re actually sitting inside the White House and asking questions of the president, it’s a cool feeling,” Cassella said. “No matter who is in office, no matter what administration or party, it’s a privilege to be there.” Megan Cassella on… Being a Tar Heel in Washington: I run into Tar Heels all the time. My husband’s a Tar Heel. We actually met here in Washington, not at Carolina, even though we were the same class. Probably most of our friends are still Tar Heels. Even up here in D.C., we all get together for games and March Madness. And through work, there’s Tar Heels all over the place. It’s often used as a connection. Favorite Franklin Street spot: When we go back, our first stop is always IP3. That’s more my husband’s doing than mine. In college, I was a huge Spanky’s fan. Felt like it was a classic spot. May it rest in peace. Advice to journalism students: Reps, reps, reps! Nothing beats the experience you’ll gain by simply starting to do the work — asking the questions, reporting and writing the stories, doing the TV hits. When you can, go places in person. Talk to more people than you think you’ll need. Read as much as you can, from different sources and on different topics. If you’re not sure how to start your story, that usually means you need more reporting. When you’re not sure, ask.

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Jul 29 • 10:39 AM EDT • Business • hussman.unc.edu
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WATCH: Trump touts new nuclear reactors in his push to speed up domestic power

President Donald Trump hosted executives from nuclear power companies Friday in the Oval Office to celebrate a new milestone in the White House’s push to accelerate the growth of nuclear power in the United States.

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Jul 24 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
‘We Love Iraq,’ Trump Tells New Prime Minister in Oval Office Meeting

The meeting comes as President Trump’s administration has been ratcheting up pressure on Baghdad to diminish Iran’s influence in Iraq.

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Jul 14 • 2:53 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Trump rings Wall Street's opening bells as he ties his presidency to stock market gains

President Donald Trump is ringing the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office.

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Jul 6 • 7:12 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
New York Stock Exchange opening bell to be rung from Oval Office for Trump Accounts launch

The New York Stock Exchange will be opened from the Oval Office next week to mark the opening of Trump Accounts, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Monday.

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Jun 29 • 12:19 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
WATCH: Trump receives report from Religious Liberty Commission in the Oval Office

A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.

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Jun 26 • 5:04 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon

MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.

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Jun 13 • 12:25 PM EDT • Sports • aljazeera.com
Oval Office octagon: How Trump turned combat sports into a political weapon

MMA event reflects career deeply intertwined with professional fighting, but risks political fallout.

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Jun 13 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
With Oval Office replica and skyline views of Chicago, Obama's new museum is political and personal

Former President Barack Obama’s influence in his presidential museum runs deep, from the Chicago location to the textured stone adorning its dramatic tower, art installations and a striped reading chairs that resemble ones in his own home

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Jun 4 • 11:12 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
The Pentagon Knows the True Threat of Climate Denialism. Too Bad They Can’t Do Anything About It.

Newly uncovered documents reveal that the military very recently identified potentially dire geopolitical consequences of climate change. Then a climate denier moved into the Oval Office.

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May 27 • 6:07 PM EDT • Politics • esquire.com
Why quiet luxury is giving way to loud, tacky wealth

From Lauren Sánchez to the gold-plated Oval Office to "Mar-a-Lago face," America's elite are embracing louder, flashier displays of wealth.

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May 17 • 5:17 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
MNG Brands Supports Science-Based Kratom Regulation and Consumer Safety Standards

MNG Brands, parent company of CBD Kratom and Korthals' Collection, including DER- a low-dose kratom beverage line developed in collaboration with actor and artist Nico Tortorella, is encouraged by the support shown for natural leaf kratom by President Donald J Trump. In an Oval Office appearance on May 10, the President stated that he was in favor of his Administration taking steps to approve some forms of kratom. "We're looking very seriously at natural 7-OH and getting that approved" was the m

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May 12 • 2:39 PM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Health Officials Say "Country is Prepared" to Deal with Hantavirus

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz tells reporters in the Oval Office that the country is prepared to deal with the Hantavirus outbreak and treat the disease, despite cuts to federal agencies. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy also says the CDC has been on it from day one and has been in contact with officials in Nebraska dealing with people exposed to the virus. "We have this under control, and we're not worried about it," Kennedy says. The secretary also disputes that it took four days after the World Health Organization issued an alert for the U.S. to follow suit. "It's just not true," he says.

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May 11 • 12:36 PM EDT • Health • c-span.org
WATCH: Trump welcomes UFC fighters to the White House, previews upcoming South Lawn fight

President Donald Trump summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Wednesday touting the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship match that will take place at the White House in June.

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May 6 • 6:07 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Trump welcomes Artemis II astronauts to Oval Office — and fields questions on Iran, Comey and UFOs

The Artemis II astronauts’ journey to the moon and back landed them at the White House Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon — standing by while President Donald Trump talked UFOs, the Space Force and the Iran war.

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Apr 29 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
WATCH LIVE: President Trump hosts White House event on health care affordability

President Trump hosts an event in the Oval Office to discuss health care affordability.

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Apr 23 • 2:41 PM EDT • Health • foxbusiness.com
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Letter to the Editor: We can’t let politics obscure the promise or the peril of psychedelic therapy

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled, “ACCELERATING MEDICAL TREATMENTS FOR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS,” intended to hasten access to psychedelic treatments. The signing was certainly a spectacle, as it often is, but so was the heterogenous group in attendance: President Trump was joined in the oval office by MMA-commentator, podcaster, and...

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Apr 21 • 8:29 AM EDT • Politics • lsureveille.com
Why Trump is reading the Bible — at a complicated moment for his relationship with American Christians

One day after he posted — then deleted — an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and read from the Bible directly to a camera.

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Apr 21 • 4:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Joe Rogan and Trump: From podcast praise to clashes

Joe Rogan joined the president in the Oval Office on April 18 in a show of support amid recent criticism from the podcaster toward Trump.

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Apr 20 • 3:08 PM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
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Trump to read Bible verse from Oval Office after feud with Pope and deleted AI image

President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business.

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Apr 19 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office

In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the remarks.

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Apr 10 • 3:18 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Trump gives an Oval Office primetime address on the war with Iran
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Apr 3 • 7:15 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Colby Covington plans to step away from politics after President Trump leaves office

Colby Covington plans to step away from politics after Trump’s second term Colby Covington says he plans to step away from politics once Donald Trump’s second term comes to an end. The former interim UFC welterweight champion has built much of his persona around his support for Trump, even bringing a belt to the Oval Office back in 2018.

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Mar 25 • 9:46 AM EDT • Politics • sports.yahoo.com
President Trump’s history of oval office awkwardness
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Mar 19 • 11:08 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting With Japan’s Leader

Breaking a taboo, President Trump needled Japan’s prime minister about the World War II attack, as she widened her eyes and appeared to take a deep breath in the Oval Office.

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Mar 19 • 1:33 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Exclusive | Trump Ordered Justice Department Reversal on Law Firm Sanctions

‘I never signed off on that,’ the president told aides in the Oval Office, expressing displeasure with Justice Department leadership.

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Mar 11 • 12:40 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99

“There is tape in the Oval Office,” said Mr. Butterfield, a former White House aide, in testimony that rocked the Watergate hearings and led to the president’s resignation.

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Mar 9 • 3:29 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Ocasio-Cortez took her populism global. Will she take her politics national?

Speculation is — once again — stirring about a potential Oval Office bid after the progressive star made her first visit to the Munich Security Conference.

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Feb 18 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • ms.now
Health insurers dodge Trump's pricing crackdown, for now

While the president's ire can return on a whim, the prospect of an Oval Office dressing down appears, for the moment, off the table.

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Jan 28 • 10:00 AM EST • Health • politico.com
Trump held 2-hour meeting with Noem as his administration grapples with Minneapolis strategy

President Donald Trump met for nearly two hours with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her senior adviser, Corey Lewandowski, in the Oval Office on Monday evening, two sources familiar with the meeting told CNN, after Noem had asked to speak with Trump in person.

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Jan 27 • 10:20 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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The dramatic, and unusual, Oval Office moments from the first year of Trump 2.0

From an explosive sit-down with the leader of war-torn Ukraine to an unexpectedly friendly meeting with a Democratic socialist mayor-elect, the Oval Office has hosted some of the most dramatic moments of President Donald Trump’s first year back in office.

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Jan 20 • 7:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Analysis: What Donald Trump has learned about imposing global power

It took Donald Trump five years behind the Oval Office desk to reach an epiphany that could rock the world.

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Jan 9 • 12:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Analysis: 4 takeaways from Trump’s primetime address

President Donald Trump delivered a rare 20-minute primetime speech from the Oval Office on Wednesday night.

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Dec 17, 2025 • 11:27 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Another blue wave? Meet the Democrat trying to make it happen and the Republican trying to stop her

Brian Jack is a first-term Republican congressman from Georgia, but he’s become a key figure in the Oval Office

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Dec 14, 2025 • 7:34 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Analysis: Trump’s answer for everything: Blame Biden

It feels like a lifetime since Joe Biden was in the Oval Office, such is the turmoil and transformation unleashed since he went home to Delaware. But one person in Washington never stops obsessing about the 46th president — his predecessor and successor.

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Dec 9, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump to hold Venezuela Oval Office meeting, sources say

President Donald Trump will hold a meeting at the White House on Monday evening about next steps on Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as the administration intensifies its pressure campaign on the country.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 8:36 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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