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Trump’s Declining Support Exposes the Limits of America’s Fixed-Term Presidency So, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is out after less than two years at 10 Downing Street, mostly victim of continuing bad economic news. Moreover, Starmer resigned when it became clear that his own Labor Party’s confidence in his leadership had eroded so substantially that [...] The post Starmer Out, Where’s Our Accountability? appeared first on DCReport.org.

The decision marks a new effort to tackle an endemic, decades-old security crisis.

As part of his book tour this week, the Vice President compared himself to Nixon and accused Watergate of being a “deep state” conspiracy.

International League of People’s Struggle. Statement of the ILPS The International League of Peoples’ Struggle stands in solidarity with the people of Venezuela affected by the back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude earthquake, particularly in Caracas, Miranda, La Guaira, Aragua, Carabobo, and Falcón. Initial reports indicate at least 164 people have died with more than 1000 injured […]

Somehow President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair keeps getting worse.As temperatures topped 80 degrees Thursday, the festival’s food hall lost power, causing all the ice cream to melt, according to Fox 5 DC reporter Homa Bash.Food hall at Great American State Fair has lost power - they have food but tell me all their ice cream has melted 😭 pic.twitter.com/5sQXOEvUVl— Homa Bash (@HomaBashNews) June 25, 2026The food hall wasn’t the only attraction affected by power outages. The much-hyped Ferris Wheel temporarily stopped running Thursday due to generator issues. In order to cool off, attendees crowded under one of the only sources of shade on the National Mall—Trump’s Temu Arc de Triomphe.The Great American State Fair was already off to a rocky start Wednesday evening when dozens of attendees were seen flocking toward the exits in the middle of Trump’s address, which was meant to kick-start the two-week event.The line for admission appeared to dwindle on the festival’s second day.Also on Thursday, Pennsylvania joined nine other states to pull out of the Freedom 250 gala on the National Mall, including Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and Vermont.A stall celebrating Maine remained empty Thursday, as the state did not send a delegation to Trump’s festival. Connecticut, too, was just “chairs,” according to Bash.All in all, it seems like Trump’s festival isn’t a resounding success, but who can be surprised when the president has shrunk the meaning of patriotism to be more about him than about the country he leads?

Business Vusimuzi Matlala offered to provide evidence against members of the goverment underscoring the breadth of a huge graft probe in the continent’s biggest economy.

Watergate wasn’t even that bad, according to JD Vance.The vice president spoke at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California Thursday, and expressed his admiration for Nixon.“I joked … backstage if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story,” Vance said. “The idea that it would’ve taken down a presidency is crazy.” JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy." pic.twitter.com/osy0V3QLyN— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 25, 2026The 1972 Watergate scandal began when operatives associated with Nixon’s reelection campaign were caught attempting to bug the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate Hotel. It was then uncovered that Nixon knew about the break-in, and had secretly diverted payments in order to cover it up. The two-year scandal ended with Nixon resigning during his impeachment proceedings.The galling conduct by a president—lying to the American people, sending hush money to burglars to conceal their connection to his campaign, using executive privilege to try to withhold evidence—shocked the nation, and resulted in a series of government reforms to create more oversight for the president, including more independence for inspectors general.The idea that Watergate would have taken down a presidency is not at all crazy. But Vance’s assertion shows that the Overton window for acceptable conduct has shifted. And not by accident: Americans have to wade through a constant barrage of offenses, from Trump being convicted on 34 felony counts for hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to normalizing political prosecution of enemies, to creating a slush fund for all the January 6 insurrectionists Trump pardoned after encouraging them to attack the Capitol. That’s to say nothing of his White House ballroom, his gifts to his political donors, and his turning the presidency into a crypto crash grab for himself and his family.Nixon knew that if the country heard the things he said in private in the Oval Office, his presidency would be over. Trump regularly says far worse out loud.Vance went on to say that he sees himself in Nixon: “Young senator, vice president, writes some bestselling books, is hated by the media—it kind of sounds like JD Vance,” he joked to the crowd on Thursday.Hopefully America is smart enough to see Nixon in him too.