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U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer makes wildly inaccurate claim about Somali crime on national TVby Madison McVan, Minnesota Reformer December 4, 2025U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer cited false statistics about the percentage of crimes committed by Somali-Americans on Fox Business Wednesday, joining a wave of Republicans engaging in anti-Somali rhetoric lately."It's not...
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A Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by President Donald Trump, who was arrested while livestreaming near former President Barack Obama's house with a stash of guns and weapons, has turned up in Washington, D.C. again — and alarmed Justice Department officials urged a judge to jail him, Politico reported on Thursday evening.Taylor Taranto's pardon did not...
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a growing mutiny from his Republican colleagues as the looming 2026 midterm causes "fear and anxiety" in the caucus, according to a new report. Johnson has faced significant criticism from Republicans in recent weeks over his leadership. Republican women like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have publicly...
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President Donald Trump has been flouting his pardon power during his second term, and a legal expert on Thursday revealed how the Supreme Court helped pave the way for Trump's actions. Investigative researcher Lisa Graves, author of a book on the Supreme Court called "Without Precedent," wrote in a new essay for Substack that Chief Justice John...
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Brussels was jolted this week by dawn raids and an alleged fraud probe involving current and former senior EU diplomats. Host Sarah Wheaton speaks with Zoya Sheftalovich — a longtime Brussels Playbook editor who has just returned from Australia to begin her new role as POLITICO's chief EU correspondent — and with Max Griera, our […]
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Military officials showed lawmakers video of a second strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat behind closed doors on Capitol Hill and testified that there was no order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to kill everyone on board, multiple lawmakers said. Charlie D'Agata has more.
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The Trump administration is sending Border Patrol agents right into the heart of some of America's biggest cities. We investigate how their tactics are shaping immigration operations from Los Angeles to Chicago to, as of this week, New Orleans.
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A controversial pipeline agreement between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith triggered a chain of events that included a cabinet resignation, a cabinet shuffle and — eventually — a fiery debate about the French language in Quebec.
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A deal for the sale of operations at Ayers Rock Resort, near Uluru, and the Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre, in Far North Queensland, is one step closer after the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation reached an agreement with Journey Beyond, an Australian-based "experiential tourism" company owned by an American private equity firm.
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The White House reportedly will be submitting plans for President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom to a federal planning commission later this month, after the East Wing of the White House has already been demolished and as the president replaces the project's top architect."The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will dwarf the White House itself, at...
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Layoffs in the United States have surpassed 1.1 million in 2025, according to a new report, and even one Fox Business host who is typically in President Donald Trump's corner is taking notice of the dire economic picture heading into 2026.During a Thursday segment on Fox Business, Maria Bartiromo – who Trump was reportedly considering naming as...
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One retired Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) officer says officials in President Donald Trump's Pentagon may have been aware they were breaking international law when carrying out a controversial strike in September.During a Thursday interview with CNN, Dan Maurer — a 22-year U.S. Army veteran who served as a military attorney — broke down...
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A top Virginia lawmaker uncorked an eyebrow-raising response after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Thursday night allowing Texas to use a Trump-backed redrawn congressional map for the House aimed at flipping several Democratic districts. A three-judge panel blocked the map in October, finding that challengers would...
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President Donald Trump's administration announced on Thursday night that it had carried out another strike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, an operation that killed four people. U.S. Southern Command, a division of the Department of Defense, announced the operation in a post on X and included a video of the strike. It comes at a time...
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CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, borrowed one of President Donald Trump's favorite phrases on Thursday night to describe the president's precipitous fall in support from a key part of his coalition. Over the last couple of months, Trump's approval rating among young men aged 30 years and under has dropped by more than 56 points, Enten said...
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A top military official undercut a key claim made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the now infamous "double tap" bombing operation on an alleged drug boat in September, according to a new report. During a briefing with lawmakers, Adm. Frank "Mitch” Bradley said that the survivors of the Sept. 2 bombing were "in no position to make a...
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A scandal-plagued Republican congressman was illegally running an arms-export business to foreign countries while serving in the House of Representatives, reporter Roger Sollenberger revealed in an investigative Substack post — and his company to do so was run into the ground and is now in foreclosure.Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) has faced a series of...
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Legal experts bashed the Supreme Court's unsigned order on Thursday that allows Texas to use an election map that significantly favors President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. On Thursday, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court's order prohibiting Texas from using the map state Republicans created during a special session that eliminated...
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The right-wing justices on the Supreme Court handed Republicans a win on Thursday evening by allowing Texas' extreme mid-decade gerrymander of its congressional seats to take effect, staying a lower three-judge panel's finding that it was illegally determined using racial criteria. But buried in a concurrence by the three farthest-right justices...
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A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sent President Donald Trump's Justice Department a stark message after grand jurors in Virginia failed to secure a re-indictment on allegations of mortgage fraud charges. The news came after a judge tossed an initial indictment about 10 days earlier, declaring the appointment of the...
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News that a grand jury declined to indict one of President Donald Trump's political foes on Thursday set off a firestorm of reactions from legal analysts and court watchers. A grand jury on Thursday refused to return an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged bank fraud and lying to a financial institution. It was the...
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Following the Supreme Court's decision to allow Texas Republicans to use their heavily gerrymandered new congressional map that attempts to delete five Democratic seats, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig and CNN anchor Jake Tapper agreed that the ruling could have significant implications beyond the specific map at hand."Jake, this is going to...
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The New York Times reports U.S. diplomacy is floundering, with fully 98 percent of diplomats reporting plummeting workplace morale since the Trump administration took over in January."The Foreign Service is in crisis,” said John Dinkelman, president of the American Foreign Service Association, or AFSA. "Damage is being done to America's...
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was recently heard discussing California's mid-decade redistricting plans, which included criticism of one of his Republican colleagues for running against an incumbent GOP member of Congress.Spectrum News reporter Cassie Semyon posted the clip of Issa's remarks to X on Thursday, in which he's heard speaking to someone...
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President Donald Trump fired his own ballroom architect after clashing with an architect over expanding the project. The boutique architecture firm led by James McCrery II was reportedly replaced after three months when questions surfaced over whether the group could manage the large-scale plan, The Washington Post reported Thursday. "It is unclear...
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A federal judge signaled she is prepared to disqualify yet another improperly-appointed Trump administration prosecutor, this time in the Northern District of New York — just as he is starting to work on an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James.According to Politico, "During oral arguments, U.S. District Judge Lorna...
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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the election map favored by President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterm election, according to a new report from CNN. The ruling paves the way for Texas Republicans to use a map that will give them a significant advantage over Democrats in the election. It also blocked a lower court's ruling...
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A federal grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday refused to return an indictment for New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking yet another setback for President Donald Trump's Justice Department in its bid to prosecute her.However, reported MS NOW's Carol Leonnig, two sources tell her this isn't the end of the DOJ's attempts to bring...
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Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he doesn't see the "simmering antisemitism" on the right, as some of his Republican colleagues have claimed, according to a new report. Vance told NBC News in an interview that it is "anti-American" to judge someone by their immutable characteristics, and that he doesn't see "simmering antisemitism" in...
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Three Supreme Court justices issued a blistering dissent on Thursday to yet another unsigned order from the high court. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas can use the new election map its Republican-controlled legislature drew during a special session during the 2026 midterm. The new map is designed to eliminate five Democrat-controlled...
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Federal courts will probably "kill" President Donald Trump's latest attack on one of his political foes "in the cradle" before the case gets off the ground, a legal analyst said Thursday.Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, discussed a subpoena that Trump-aligned prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone, served to New York Attorney...
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President Donald Trump has completely remade the Kennedy Center in his image — and now he wants to name it after himself.According to The New Republic, Trump let this plan slip "during a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace for the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Coincidentally, the Institute of...
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A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has paused an order requiring President Donald Trump to remove National Guard troops from policing operations in Washington, DC.In a ruling on Thursday, the court lifted an injunction ordering the troops to leave by Dec. 11.A Nov. 20 ruling by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb found Trump's deployment of the...
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said Thursday that people are driving by his home, rolling down their windows and yelling a slur for developmentally disabled people, mimicking President Donald Trump after he used the derogatory term to attack him.The Democratic governor said he has concerns after Trump started the attack in a Truth Social post and...
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CNN anchor Kasie Hunt mocked Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) during her show "The Arena" on Thursday over the pushback he's receiving from women in the Republican Party. Johnson has faced sustained criticism from his female colleagues over his leadership, according to recent reports. Some women like Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Marjorie Taylor...
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President Donald Trump is being roundly condemned for making bigoted attacks on Somalis, whom he referred to collectively as "garbage” earlier this week.During a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump unleashed a racist tirade against Somali Americans living in Minnesota, whom he falsely portrayed as layabouts who sponge up welfare...
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This is "the golden age of America, because we are doing better than we've ever done as a country,” President Donald Trump declared last month, standing before a backdrop emblazoned with "The Golden Age,” as he promoted a central theme of his administration.On the White House's social media page on X, it declares, "The Golden Age of America...
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President Donald Trump amused onlookers when he appeared to nod off — again — Thursday at a peace-themed signing ceremony for a U.S.-brokered pact between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.The event was being held at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where Trump was hosting Presidents Félix Tshisekedi of the...
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Federal authorities on Thursday released more information about a man suspected of planting pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic party headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2021.An affidavit revealed more information about the investigation and arrest. The FBI has not released an image of the suspect yet. The bombs were placed outside the...
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Mark Twain allegedly quipped, "God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not be a good test, that the world's most mighty military power be prevented from waging war if a majority of Americans failed to find the alleged enemy on a world map?Frivolity aside, this should not need to be said,...
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FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated an arrest in the case against the alleged Jan. 6 pipe bomber by immediately discussing conspiracy theories with Donald Trump Jr.Following the arrest of Brian Cole on Thursday, Trump complained to Patel that the case seemed to "disappear" while the Biden administration prioritized the prosecution of Jan. 6...
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The Justice Department filed a criminal affidavit on Thursday afternoon in the case of the Jan. 5, 2021, pipe bomb plantings at the Democratic and Republican National Committees.In particular, the affidavit outlined a key piece of evidence that federal investigators used in their effort to solve the nearly five-year-old mystery and zero in on a...
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A top intel committee lawmaker warned Thursday that the video showing a second strike on an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela appeared to confirm the U.S. committed a war crime. The video from a Sept. 2 attack in the Caribbean Sea was shown to lawmakers during a briefing with Admiral Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley and Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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Public reaction to a recent Christmas card greeting posted on the White House's official X account probably isn't what President Donald Trump was expecting. A graphic of Trump giving his signature thumbs up, along with the words "Daddy's Home," accompanies the White House's exuberant greeting of "HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!" posted late Wednesday night....
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Republican Party insiders have a precise date in mind for when more party members, sick of "daily humiliation," will finally break with President Donald Trump, according to Politico's politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin.Martin made an appearance on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, where he was pressed about the recent high-profile instances of...
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Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released. Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Maxwell remains behind bars and called her...
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Press freedom advocates on Thursday welcomed The New York Times' lawsuit over the US Department of Defense's "flatly unconstitutional” press policy, filed on the heels of the first briefing for what critics call the "Pentagon Propaganda Corps.”The newspaper and Times reporter Julian E. Barnes, one of several journalists who refused to sign the...
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Republicans have started to sense a potential loss in Miami, where a Democrat and a Republican backed by President Donald Trump will face off next week. The Dec. 9 runoff between former County Commissioner and Democrat Eileen Higgins against former Miami City Manager and Republican Emilio Gonzalez has Republicans worried, Politico reported...
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