A judge in Iowa has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and its former pollster. Trump sued in December 2024, accusing pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Iowa newspaper of publishing a survey that misrepresented the state of the presidential race that year. District Judge Scott J. Beattie on Wednesday rejected the president’s claim that the poll violated Iowa’s consumer fraud law by deliberately misleading consumers. Selzer and the Register said the lawsuit promotes a conspiracy theory.

President Donald Trump has given $45,000 in cash to Natalie Harps among other holiday gifts to White House aides. That's according to new financial disclosures. The Justice Department is demanding grand jury testimony in a new escalation of its effort to show there was an intelligence community conspiracy against Trump. And a new poll finds Americans are more skeptical of federal government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in what they're hearing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have …