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23 Percent: The World Has Rendered Its Verdict on Trump's Second Term
A 36-country Pew survey finds global confidence in Trump's leadership near historic lows, U.S. reliability ratings in freefall, and an alliance system quietly rewriting its assumptions about Washington
The number is 23. That is the median share of adults across 36 countries who told Pew Research Center they have confidence in Donald Trump's leadership of world affairs, according to a survey released June 23, 2026. Not a margin. Not a rounding error. A number that lands with the quiet authority of a verdict.
Pew has been asking this question for more than two decades. The institution knows what normal looks like. What it found in the spring of 2026, after interviewing 42, 151 people across six continents from February through May, is not normal.
Investigations & The Dossier
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China Is Practicing Sinking U.S. Warships. Again.
Satellite imagery confirms a new Arleigh Burke replica at China's desert missile range. This is not the first. It will not be the last.
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The Reflecting Pool Racket: How a Trump Donor With Two Guilty Pleas Landed a $1.7 Million No-Bid Federal Contract
Federal contracting records show the National Park Service bypassed competitive bidding to award public money to a company whose owner donated $250, 000 to Trump Victory and lives less than a mile from Mar-a-Lago.
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Wrong Topic, Right Lesson
The research supplied has no connection to the sources retrieved. Here is what the record actually shows, and why the mismatch matters.
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Trump's Name Is Gone From the Kennedy Center. He Is Hiding the Evidence.
A federal court ordered the removal. A 14-member crew completed it at 3 a.m. Then the tarps went up. What the president does not want the public to see has now leaked anyway.
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Trump Claimed a 350-Foot Knife Slit Vandalized His Reflecting Pool. Reporters Found Nothing.
The president deployed National Guard troops and threatened ten-year prison sentences over damage the press corps could not confirm exists.
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A Republican Senator Yelled at the President. The Room Called It a Total Cluster.
Sen. Bill Cassidy confronted Trump to his face over the Iran memorandum, the war's unmet objectives, and what the American people have not been told. The Senate GOP lunch on June 24 cracked open a fault line the party has been papering over for months.
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Lammy Out, Powell In: How Burnham Is Already Reshaping a Cabinet He Has Not Yet Won
The prospective Labour leader is signalling who sits at the top table before a single vote is cast, and the Foreign Secretary is the most visible casualty
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Starmer vs Burnham: The Defence Budget Fight That Could Define What Labour Leaves Behind
The Prime Minister is racing to lock in a long-term military spending blueprint before any leadership transition. His Mayor of Greater Manchester is telling him the money has to come from somewhere else.
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Iran Is Winning the World Cup Group Stage. Washington Is Trying to End the War. The Two Facts Are Not Unrelated.
How a soccer team forced to train in Tijuana became the most politically loaded story at the 2026 World Cup, and what it reveals about the moment Tehran finds itself in.
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Trump Told Scaramucci MAGA Voters Are 'Stupid': What the Admission Reveals About the Transaction
A former White House communications director says the president privately called his own base fools. The quote is a decade old. The implications are not.
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The July 4 Miracle That Wasn't: How a MAGA Rally Booking Became a National Punchline
When the entertainment lineup for a patriotic celebration goes viral for the wrong reasons, the story is about more than bad bookings, it's about a movement that can no longer tell the difference between sincerity and self-parody
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Miranda Hart and the marriage question
What one comedian's public reckoning reveals about the pressure women still cannot name out loud
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