GOP seeking to have section 2, designed to prevent discrimination in voting, declared unconstitutional as battles around redistricting take place across nation

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened trade penalties, including tariffs, against Spain, saying he is unhappy with its refusal to raise defense spending to 5% and calling the move disrespectful to Nato.

“I’m very unhappy with Spain. They’re the only country that didn’t raise their number up to 5%... so I’m not happy with Spain,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

Donald Trump presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk’s distraught, tearful widow, Erika Kirk.

Kirk’s widow praised her late husband and said that he would likely have run for president one day had he not been killed before his 32nd birthday.

Trump’s state department announced that it had revoked the visas of six foreign nationals who posted critical comments on social media about Kirk, in the wake of the conservative activist’s murder.

Trump said that a list of ‘Democrat programs’ that the White House plans to cut will be released on Friday.

Trump warned that Hamas must disarm ‘or we will disarm them’.

Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States has struck another small boat that he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people aboard.

The US government shutdown entered its 14th day, with no end in sight.

Katie Porter, the former congresswoman running for California governor, said in an interview that she regrets losing her temper in two video clips that went viral last week, but suggested that the state needs a “tough” leader.