Michelle L. Price, Author at The Rapid City Post

Governor JB Pritzker, second from right, speaks as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, right, listens to him at a news conference in Chicago, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Trump says Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose Guard deployment

October 8, 2025

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city. The Republican president made the comment in a social media post Wednesday. It’s the latest example of his calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up Trump wrote on Truth Social that Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritkzer “should be in jail for failing to protect” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The officials said they wouldn’t be deterred.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at a news conference, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Lindsay Wasson)

Utah’s governor, in impassioned remarks, urges Americans to find ‘off-ramp’ from political violence

September 12, 2025

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is making an impassioned plea for Americans and young people to use the horror of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division. Cox spoke Friday at a news conference announcing authorities had a suspect in the conservative activist’s killing in custody. Cox says this is a moment to make a choice: escalate or “find an off-ramp.” The two-term Republican governor has throughout his political career issued pleas for bipartisan cooperation and at times drawn national attention for his empathetic remarks. Cox says the 22-year-old suspect in Kirk’s killing had become “more political” in the run-up to Wednesday’s shooting.

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump celebrates West Point alumni group canceling award ceremony to honor Tom Hanks

September 8, 2025

President Donald Trump celebrated news that an alumni group from West Point canceled an award ceremony set to honor Tom Hanks. Hanks was scheduled to receive the 2025 Sylvanus Thayer Award on Sept. 25, but news reports say the U.S. Military Academy’s alumni association canceled the ceremony last week. West Point, its alumni association and a representative for Hanks did not respond to messages seeking comment Monday. It comes as Trump has moved to direct the ideology and leadership of higher education institutes and the military in his second term, seeking to assert control with a mix of executive orders and threats of legal action and withholding funds.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs order to designate nations that hold Americans as sponsors of wrongful detention

September 5, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage. The designation, similar to state sponsors of terrorism designation that the U.S. imposes, allow the State Department to target countries falling under the label with penalties such as economic restrictions, restrictions on visas for those involved and travel restrictions for Americans to those countries.

The Rose Garden of The White House is seen from the Colonnade Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump to host top tech CEOs — except Musk — at White House dinner Thursday

September 3, 2025

President Donald Trump will host a high-powered list of tech CEOs for a dinner at the White House on Thursday night. The guest list is set to include Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a dozen other executives from the biggest artificial intelligence and tech firms, according to the White House. One notable absence from the guest list is Elon Musk, once a close ally of Trump, whom the president tasked with running the government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency. Musk had a public break with Trump earlier this year.

FOX News reporter Peter Doocy shows President Donald Trump a photo on his phone during an event about the relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says video showing items thrown from White House is AI after his team indicates it’s real

September 2, 2025

President Donald Trump claims a video showing items being tossed from a White House window is fake and created with AI, though his press team earlier seemed to confirm the video’s authenticity. Trump said Tuesday that the windows are sealed and too heavy to open. The video, which circulated Monday, shows a small black bag and a long white item being thrown from a window. The White House told several news outlets that inquired about the video that it was a “contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone.” The White House has not addressed the discrepancy.

FILE - Charles Kushner arrives for the funeral of Ivana Trump, July 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

France summons US Ambassador Kushner over ‘unacceptable’ letter about rising antisemitism

August 24, 2025

France has summoned the American ambassador to Paris after the diplomat, Charles Kushner, wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat antisemitism. France’s foreign ministry issued a statement Sunday announcing it had summoned Kushner to appear Monday at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and that his allegations “are unacceptable.” The White House and U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a visit to ALTA Refrigeration Inc., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Peachtree City, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Vance pitches Trump’s sweeping new law as a ‘working families’ tax cut’ in swing-state Georgia

August 21, 2025

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump’s new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia. On Thursday, the Republican vice president spoke at a refrigeration facility in metro Atlanta. He highlighted tax cut extensions and breaks on overtime and tips. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff was also campaigning on the law in Georgia. He cited a rural hospital’s worry that it will have to cut its intensive care unit because of a budget hole. Both parties are using the law to rally support before the 2026 midterm elections.

In this photo provided by the Azerbaijan's Presidential Press Office on Thursday, July 10, 2025, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right, and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan pose for a photo prior to their talks in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)

Trump will meet Friday with leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign US-brokered peace deal

August 7, 2025

Armenia and Azerbaijan’s leaders are set to meet with Donald Trump on Friday to sign a peace deal. Trump announced this on his social media platform, Truth Social. The agreement, brokered by Trump’s administration, aims to end decades of conflict and reopen key transportation corridors in the South Caucasus. U.S. officials say the deal includes a major transit corridor, which will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. This corridor will link Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan region. The agreement follows earlier talks and a visit by Trump’s special envoy to Baku.

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Trump says US will partner with Israel to run additional food centers in Gaza, but details are scant

July 29, 2025

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza. This move aims to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in the region. Trump mentioned that Israel would oversee the centers to ensure proper distribution. The announcement comes amid pressure for the U.S. to do more about hunger in Gaza, but details were scant and it was unclear how the new food centers would differ from existing centers. The Trump administration recently withdrew from ceasefire talks, accusing Hamas of bad faith. Democrats in Congress have urged the administration to resume talks and criticized the existing food aid system.

FILE - President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Musk says he’s forming a new political party after split with Trump over tax cuts law

July 7, 2025

Elon Musk said he’s carrying out his threat to form a new political party after his fissure with President Donald Trump, announcing on social media that he would form the America Party in response to the president’s sweeping tax cuts law. Musk, once a ever-present ally to Trump as he headed up the slashing agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency, broke with the Republican president over his signature legislation, which was signed into law Friday. Trump on Sunday called Musk’s third-party effort “ridiculous.”

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump says he didn’t know an offensive term he used in a speech is considered antisemitic

July 4, 2025

President Donald Trump says he didn’t know that the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders. Trump told reporters early Friday after returning from an event in Iowa that he’d “never heard it that way” and “never heard that” the term was considered an offensive stereotype about Jews. Shylock refers to the villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” who demands a pound of flesh from a debtor. The Anti-Defamation League says Trump’s use of the term “is very troubling and irresponsible.”

FILE - People watch a live broadcast of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander as he is released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, at a plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Trump to meet at White House with American hostage freed from Gaza

July 2, 2025

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will meet at the White House on Thursday with Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, who was released in May. “The President and First Lady have met with many released hostages from Gaza, and they greatly look forward to meeting Edan Alexander and his family in the Oval Office tomorrow,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. Alexander, now 21, is an American-Israeli from New Jersey. The soldier was 19 when militants stormed his base in Israel and dragged him into the Gaza Strip.

People pass by and take photos with a tank, parked on the National Mall, during preparations for an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary and coinciding with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump is finally getting his chance to try to top France with a grand military parade in DC

June 12, 2025

Eight years after Donald Trump was dazzled while watching a grand military parade in Paris, the president is finally getting a chance to try to top the spectacle. His long-delayed dream is expected to finally be realized Saturday with an extravaganza of American military might featuring tanks and other armored vehicles rolling through the nation’s capital, thousands of soldiers marching the streets and military aircraft flying overhead. For Trump, a media-attuned former reality television star, it’s a chance to flex his skills as a showman. But for a president, the muscular display of military might comes as Trump is increasingly flexing the powers of his office.

Vice President JD Vance listens as he speaks with American Compass founder Oren Cass at the American Compass's The New World Gala in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Vance made a brief trip to Montana to speak to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, AP sources say

June 11, 2025

Vice President JD Vance has made a brief trip to Montana to meet with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and a group of other Fox News executives. That’s according to two people familiar with the trip who confirmed the Tuesday night visit to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about it. Vance met with the group at the Murdoch family ranch. It’s not clear why Vance met with the group. Rupert Murdoch and his media organization have long been friendly with Republicans and have, for the most part, had a friendly relationship with President Donald Trump.

U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen stand during the academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/KT Kanazawich)

Vance says Trump will use US military decisively rather than in ‘open-ended conflicts’ of the past

May 23, 2025

Vice President JD Vance has told military academy graduates that President Donald Trump is working to ensure that U.S. armed forces are only sent into harm’s way with clear goals rather than the “open-ended conflicts” of the past. Vance told graduates at the United States Naval Academy that Trump’s approach means that if they are sent to war, it will be “with a very specific set of goals in mind.” Vance was making his first remarks as vice president to one of the nation’s military service academies.

Michelle L. Price.