President Donald Trump has expanded his law-enforcement crackdown in Washington, D.C., with top officials visiting National Guard troops at the city's main railroad station.

As President Trump asks Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps, some Indiana conservatives are pushing back. “They should leave it alone,” one legislator said.

Criticism comes as White House officials have accused Smithsonian of being ‘woke’ and featuring an ‘overemphasis on slavery

President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday, an event the U.S. president called "a very good, early step" to possibly resolve the war in Ukraine.

In March, he signed an executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," which accused the Smithsonian of coming under the influence of a "divisive, race-centered ideology" and sought to remove what it described as "improper ideology" from the institution's museums.

Claims that a White House official in charge of U.S. President Donald Trump's mandate to review exhibits within the Smithsonian Institution said, "You can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress," circulated online in August 2025.

Trump has a soft spot for the popular app, crediting it with helping him gain support among young voters when he defeated Kamala Harris in 2024.

From golden cherubs and golf-club umbrellas to 100ft flagpoles, a £148 million ballroom and towering portraits of his own face, the 45th President has turned the White House into a shrine to himself