Raw Story - Politics (50 minutes ago)
As you're probably aware, Trump on Wednesday berated ABC's Chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, for asking a question in a way he didn't like during his meeting with the Saudi crown prince. "It's not the question that I mind; it's your attitude,” Trump told Bruce. "I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these...
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Federal prosecutors abruptly moved on Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agents during an incident in Chicago, bringing an end to a case that has become a political hot-button, reported the Chicago Tribune.The motion to dismiss United States v. Marimar Martinez stunned legal expert Aaron...
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Dogged by collapsing polling numbers, a split with his supporters on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files against his wishes and Republican lawmakers ignoring his demands, Donald Trump went on a frenzied attack aimed at Democratic lawmakers for "seditious behavior” on Thursday.According to Mediaite Founding Editor Colby Hall, the president's...
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Donald Trump's Federal Housing Administration Director Bill Pulte, known as an attack dog for the president, and Department of Justice official Ed Martin are at the center of a Maryland grand jury investigation for hires that were made to pursue investigations aimed at President Donald Trump's critics.According to a new report from MS NOW's Ken...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is slated to meet with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi with the explicit focus on expanding the Canada-U.A.E. economic partnership in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, infrastructure and AI.
ReadPolitico - Europe (2 hours ago)
Der G20-Gipfel in Johannesburg startet – doch die großen Player fehlen. Donald Trump boykottiert komplett, Xi Jinping und Wladimir Putin schicken nur Vertreter. Das Format, einst geschaffen für globale Krisen, gerät damit ins Wanken. Hans von der Burchard ein, warum die Erwartungen drastisch gesunken sind, welche Rolle Friedrich Merz spielt...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
A new report in Newsweek states that although President Donald Trump has changed America in many ways, moderate Americans whom the president has targeted in the past, are now changing Trump."In a year obsessed with fracture, the Epstein Files Transparency Act produced legislative agreement: a left-right coalition large enough to end a monthslong...
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A US veteran is chasing down ICE agents on a scooter to batter their morale as raids sweep the country. Clifford "Buzz" Grambo has shared the "breaking point" that led him to follow ICE agents, who have ramped up their arrest numbers in recent months. Speaking to Mother Jones, the US veteran said he believes the lack of Republican outcry over the...
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President Donald Trump's new plan for the Endangered Species Act could effectively dismantle the program's protections for vulnerable wildlife, CNN environmental reporter Bill Weir warned Thursday."The Trump administration is moving to strip protections for endangered species and their habitats," said anchor Sara Sidner. "The White House says the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 hours ago)
President Donald Trump spent much of his morning on Thursday posting fury at a group of Democratic lawmakers, who previously served in the military, for putting out a video reminding service members that they have a duty to refuse orders that violate the Constitution. In multiple posts on Truth Social, he first said they should be locked up —...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
The case against former FBI Director James Comey remains in serious jeopardy in the wake of Wednesday's shocking revelations that U.S. District Attorney Lindsey Halligan never actually presented the Department of Justice's final indictment against Comey to the full grand jury, according to former federal prosecutor Elise Adamson on "CNN This...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
A ruling by a Donald Trump-appointed judge to toss a Texas redistricting plan designed to help the GOP hold onto the House led an MS NOW host to call out Attorney General Pam Bondi's DOJ for providing shoddy advice.In ruling against the GOP-led initiative, U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote, "The public perception of this case is that it's about...
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A freshman member of Congress dumped up to $130,000 worth of stock in providers that serve Medicaid beneficiaries in the week before voting for President Donald Trump's tax cut megabill that slashed over $1 trillion from the public health program, NBC News reported on Thursday.According to the report, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA), who has rapidly...
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President Donald Trump escalated his fury against a handful of Democratic military veterans who made a video reminding active-duty servicemembers the Uniform Code of Military Justice requires them to refuse unlawful orders — suggesting in a post on his Truth Social platform that those Democrats have committed capital offenses against his...
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During a discussion of the James Comey indictment that it threatened with dismissal for multiple errors, missteps and misrepresentations, MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin battered Department of Justice officials for making matters for embattled prosecutor Lindsey Halligan even worse.Describing the turn of events on Wednesday, when Halligan was...
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U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra continued to lash out against the ad campaign that infuriated his president and abruptly ended trade negotiations while on stage in Ottawa Wednesday, accusing Canada of interfering in "electoral politics” south of the border.
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Donald Trump has called a group of Democratic veterans "traitors" as they urge military members to refuse unlawful orders. The president posted to Truth Social Thursday, calling the stance of Democratic party members, including Senators and Representatives, "really bad." Trump shared a link to the Washington Examiner and wrote, "This is really bad,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
I am going to type something you are not going to like, folks, but it's for our own good, so here goes:We are never going to see the Epstein files.I know, I know, there I go, harshing your mellow again, but I am done playing these silly, tiresome games where our corporate media spends 278 consecutive news cycles chasing the crumbs Donald Trump and...
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President Donald Trump spoke with Paramount Skydance shareholder and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, one of the richest people on the planet, about the possibility of having CNN anchors Trump doesn't like fired if Paramount Skydance acquires Warner Bros. Discovery, The Guardian reported on Thursday."The discussions, according to people familiar with...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
In the face of plummeting approval numbers for the Republican Party, Donald Trump is being urged to reassert his dominance over a GOP that has grown increasingly panicky as the 2026 midterms loom.This week, a Fox News poll showed Republicans facing a possible wipe-out in the next election, a collapse that MS NOW host Joe Scarborough called...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
Donald Trump entered this year with an aura of invincibility, with Democrats disorganized, his GOP doubters once more united behind him, and the president himself emboldened to throw his weight around and bend law firms and media companies to his will. Almost a year into his presidency, though, that's all changed, Jonathan Lemire wrote for The...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
The Jeffrey Epstein files will "dog the president" well into his second term, according to GOP members who will "never stop talking about it".Longtime GOP member Alex Conant told CNN the president will struggle to shift the conversation away from the Epstein files in his second year. A 427-1 vote means the Epstein files will be released within the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
White House staff are bracing themselves for an apparent 2028 presidential campaign run from Ted Cruz. The Republican senator has served Texas since 2013 and has recently taken to opposing Trump on a number of key issues. Insiders believe this is an active strategy from Cruz to position himself against Vice President JD Vance ahead of the 2028...
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A group of Democratic secretaries of state in a letter to top Trump administration officials say they're concerned the administration misled them about how it would use voter data collected from their states.The letter, dated Tuesday, is addressed to Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, and Kristi Noem, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Reports of Donald Trump's base growing increasingly unhappy with his performance are being borne out by new polling from Fox News showing the president and the Republican Party's approval numbers on a wide array of policies are in free fall.On Thursday morning, MS NOW's "Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough noted that he had never seen such a...
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An expert believes Donald Trump's "piggy" comment is part of an "emotionally unstable" strategy often deployed by the president. His comment to a Bloomberg News reporter aboard Air Force One last weekend has been roundly denounced, but it highlights an ongoing tactic utilised by the president, psychologist Alex Iszatt said. Trump, when asked about...
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President Donald Trump's hand-picked prosecutor overseeing the charges against former FBI Director James Comey has rapidly turned the case into a "comedy of errors," former litigator and conservative analyst David French wrote in a scathing analysis for The New York Times published Thursday.This comes after a bombshell revelation that acting U.S....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
One recent weekday, a group of Chicago kindergartners visited their neighborhood high school. It should have been an unremarkable moment — but as the visit was in motion, parents learned that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had been spotted nearby.Instantly, the community mobilized. Teachers left school and hopped on their...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Now that Congress is back in session, the Republican Party leadership is butting heads on priorities and competing views on legislation that could lead to yet another government shutdown.According to a report from Politico's Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill, the relationship between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader...
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Stephen Miller erupted in fury against six lawmakers who urged U.S. military and intelligence personnel to refuse potentially illegal presidential commands, accusing them of stoking "insurrection" and demanding they "resign in disgrace."Speaking on Fox News, the White House chief of staff described the lawmakers' video as a "general call for...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
The girl pleaded not to go.She fought with her father on the drive over, screaming and crying in his truck until they arrived at the office building for Bruckelmyer Brothers, a home construction company on the outskirts of Duluth, Minnesota. She was just entering her first years of grade school.In the office, two men were waiting. One of them was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
A former Trump White House insider revealed during a podcast interview on Wednesday that the "surface-level" cracks that have emerged within the MAGA movement lately have become "foundational cracks" as President Donald Trump "races" toward lame-duck status. Anthony Scaramucci, who served as Trump's communications director for 11 days during the...
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Donald Trump has been told to make amends with Marjorie Taylor Greene as the president's ex-ally takes center stage in a schism that's tearing apart the GOP.Republican representatives have challenged Trump in recent weeks on the cost-of-living crisis, health and food benefits, as well as the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files. The president had a...
ReadNew York Times - Politics (9 hours ago)
The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is involved in A.I. data center deals that overlap with work his family is doing. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton describes what we know about these deals for massive data center projects, one of which includes a planned nuclear power plant to be named after President Trump.
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A judge appointed by Ronald Reagan has fumed at the decision to reject the GOP's proposed redistricting of Texas. In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge panel said the new congressional maps drawn earlier this year must be set aside. The proposed map, should it have been passed into law, would have opened up five new Republican-friendly House seats. The...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Liberal commentators have spent the last ten years serving up all-too-feel-good comfort food, much-needed pablum to the undernourished, assurances that the American body politic is on the cusp of excising the infection that oozes all things MAGA. The end always sounds near. It has never got around to happening. But that doesn't alter the fact that...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Legal action could be taken against Donald Trump over the president's proposed refashioning of the Eisenhower Building. Historic preservationists have sued the president over his plans to paint the office building next to the White House. Trump has been warned that such a plan could do irreversible damage to the building, with a suit filed on...
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Donald Trump has raged at "no talent" talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in a post to Truth Social. The president has made few allies in the late-night television sphere, previously posting about Stephen Colbert, whose Late Show will end next season. Trump has now targeted Kimmel and the Live! show, with a post to Truth Social showing the president is...
ReadPolitico - Europe (10 hours ago)
As the prime minister heads to the G20 in South Africa, could international support for the Ukrainian war effort be under threat as an alleged corruption case rocks the Zelenskyy government? Back home, is a massive political row about to erupt over the use of single sex spaces? Plus, there could be some uncomfortable reading […]
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Donald Trump is still facing down a fractured GOP, with infighting threatening stability in the party, according to a political expert.Will Sommer believes the fallout between Trump and former MAGA personalities like Marjorie Taylor Greene is only adding to the strain put on the president. The GOP appear split on the cost-of-living crisis and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Donald Trump is "threatening to play games" with the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files, DNC Chair Ken Martin has said. In a statement released by the Democratic Party, Martin suggested there is a long-term plan in place from the president to avoid releasing all of the files. The House voted to release the files with a 427 to 1 vote on the act,...
ReadPolitico - Europe (13 hours ago)
Ein Satz über Brasilien beschäftigt die Politik. Friedrich Merz sorgt mit seiner Bemerkung über die Gastgeberstadt der Klimakonferenz für Irritationen. In Berlin wird über Stil und Verantwortung diskutiert und in Belém und Brasilien ist man verärgert. Gordon Repinski fragt, ob der Kanzler seine Kommunikation noch steuert oder ob Offenheit...
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