Axios reported U.S. officials say he’s prepared to ease sanctions and unfreeze Iranian funds if Tehran makes concessions on its nuclear program.

Donald Trump calls Iran peace talks a "hoax" despite his own officials confirming negotiations.

Donald Trump recently announced a massive new foreign-owned steel mill in Iowa, promising a wave of new American jobs right before crucial elections. But is this real economic revitalization or history repeating itself?

President Donald Trump infuriated his critics Sunday after he released another taxpayer-funded political advertisement...

Elected Democrats—and even the Senate’s top Republican appropriator—blasted President Donald Trump late Friday for rescinding nearly $1 billion in congressionally approved spending that the White House deemed “wasteful and harmful” through a legally contested process.

In today’s daily news roundup, Thom Hartmann examines major breaking political and economic developments:

Iran put a comprehensive diplomatic deal on the table this week to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, restart nuclear talks, and end the conflict—yet Donald Trump flatly rejected it.

-- The Republican Playbook: Break America, Blame Democrats, Then Promise to Save It

In this deep-dive analysis, Thom Hartmann breaks down the recurring cycle of political messaging and policy contradictions in American politics.

This Monday, House Republicans held a hearing focused on creating a closed-door commission to cut Social Security and Medicare. The hearing was for an audience of one: billionaire donor Harlan Crow.

Data released Wednesday by the Guttmacher Institute and Power to Decide shows “the stark and brutal reality that awaits patients across the country” if Republican lawmakers in Congress fulfill their goal of “defunding” Planned Parenthood, which provides contraceptive counseling and services to millions of patients per year, as well as other essential healthcare services.

Thom talks with political strategist and author, Rachel Bitecofer, about how the Nazis intended to create an information system in which the government progressively acquired the power to determine what millions of Germans would know about the world—and how they would understand what they knew. Sound familiar?

The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.

The United States has invited Vladimir Putin to take part in the meeting of the G20 scheduled in Miami in December in what would be the first major summit with the Russian leader present since he launched his invasion of Ukraine in 2022.