Raw Story - Politics (53 minutes ago)
This is far worse than shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.President Donald Trump is demanding nearly a quarter of a billion U.S. tax dollars to satisfy a claim of his — a frivolous, absurd and specious claim — that he had been maliciously prosecuted by the Department of Justice. He wasn't. But that won't keep him from trying to have a cool $230...
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Could ‘Maga-fication’ change the course of British politics? Anne has been speaking to former Tory prime minister Liz Truss, who outlines several perceived problems in the country - from lack of growth to higher taxes. The duo also discuss her comments about what the Tories really stands for and the threat from Reform UK as […]
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In Brüssel verhandeln die EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs über Bürokratieabbau, Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, China und das nächste Sanktionspaket gegen Russland. Hans von der Burchard berichtet vor dem EU-Gipfel, wo Kanzler Friedrich Merz gemeinsam mit Emmanuel Macron eine härtere Linie gegenüber Peking vereinbaren will. Gleichzeitig ringen in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
A pair of Democrats bashed a GOP strategist on CNN on Tuesday night after the strategist defended President Donald Trump's ballroom renovation project at the White House, which they argued needed more oversight. Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) joined CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" to discuss the government shutdown and...
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A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of the Trump administration's justification for deploying troops to Los Angeles, according to a new report. During oral arguments heard on Wednesday, Judge Eric Miller pushed back on several arguments made by Justice Department attorney Eric McArthur about whether...
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Rep. Marjoie Taylor Greene (R-GA) escalated her feud with her Republican colleagues on Wednesday night during an interview with Tucker Carlson on his eponymous media network. Greene has been at odds with Republican leadership over the last couple of months over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the government...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Hollywood legend Robert De Niro, who has won two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe, is now just a "sad, broken old man," according to Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy. De Niro, 82, teed off on Miller this week during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," comparing Miller to Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi politician who...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during an interview on CNN after she claimed that Republicans are hurting people by allowing health care subsidies to expire. Greene has broken with Republican leadership in recent weeks over the government shutdown and President Donald Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is "strongly" considering running for the Senate after Texas Republicans redistricted her House seat to make it more competitive for Republican candidates, according to a new report. Politico reported on Wednesday that Crockett has not made a final decision, but has begun considering the opportunity since the...
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Curtis Sliwa, the activist and Republican nominee for New York City mayor known for donning a red beret, quit his radio talk show on Wednesday after getting heated amid calls from the owner for him to drop out.Sliwa, who founded the nonprofit Guardian Angels crime prevention organization, has hosted radio programs for more than three decades and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
President Donald Trump appears to be holding his vice president back from achieving his most "dangerous" goals, according to a former Republican analyst. Ex-Republican analyst Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," said during a new podcast episode on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's lack of apparent ideology seems to be thwarting the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Michael Wolff plans to subpoena President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in the lawsuit he filed against the first lady on Tuesday, the reporter and Trump biographer said.A legal threat against him by Melania Trump last week represented "exactly … what a SLAPP suit is,” Wolff said, going on to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
The wrongly deported migrant, now being charged with gang activity by the Trump administration, is seeking a subpoena of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and several other Justice Department officials as part of his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive prosecution.The news was reported on Wednesday evening by Politico's Kyle Cheney, who...
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The Rev. Tony Suárez, an evangelical pastor who once advised President Donald Trump and publicly backed his 2016 campaign, said Wednesday he no longer plans to endorse political candidates, citing frustration with divisive politics and the Trump administration's hardline immigration stance. Speaking at the Religion News Service symposium "God,...
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A pair of Justice Department prosecutors who lost their jobs after working on special counsel Jack Smith's legal team investigating and charging President Donald Trump are back, having founded a new law firm to take on corruption, CBS News reported on Wednesday.Smith's two legal cases against Trump, for election conspiracy over the 2020 coup plot...
ReadCBS News - Politics (10 hours ago)
The Trump administration is planning to demolish the entirety of the White House's East Wing as early as this weekend, two senior administration officials told CBS News, part of a project championed by President Trump to add a ballroom to the complex. Weijia Jiang reports.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's controversial new Eastern District of Virginia federal prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, is coming under scrutiny yet again for recruiting prosecutors from other states to join her cases against the president's political critics."Once again, Lindsey Halligan has to turn to out-of-state prosecutors, this time for the Letitia...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
The Trump administration launched another military strike on a purported drug trafficking boat on Tuesday night, and for the first time expanded its campaign of extrajudicial killing to the Pacific Ocean.In a social media post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that President Donald Trump had authorized "a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
The recent group chat scandals that rocked the Republican Party revealed the "hubris" living at the core of the party's communications, according to a new column. David A. Graham argued in a new column for The Atlantic that the racist and xenophobic group text messages unearthed in recent reporting show that some Republicans pose "a serious...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump's Department of Justice of ignoring death threats against him, despite their pledge to actively pursue threats against elected officials, during an interview with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Wednesday. Swalwell said he has referred multiple people to the DOJ for threatening his...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Employee sues Ole Miss chancellor after being fired over Charlie Kirk postsby Michael Goldberg, Mississippi Today October 22, 2025A former University of Mississippi employee fired in September over social media commentary she reposted about the assassination of Charlie Kirk has filed a federal lawsuit against the university's chancellor, claiming...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is trying to destroy everything about the government that functions for the people in order to reshape it in his image, former White House ethics expert turned States United Democracy Center chief Norm Eisen told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" in a highly animated tirade.This comes as Trump moves to bulldoze the East Wing of the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
An ally in a New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate's "inner circle" is under fire for antisemitic and homophobic comments. Jack Ciattarelli's ally and Muslim relations advisor, Ibrar Nadeem, apparently held an event Saturday where he made comments about banning gay marriage and Jewish people, Politico reports Wednesday. The unpaid adviser...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Former FBI Director James Comey is going after the appointment of the prosecutor in his Virginia case, alleging that he lied to Congress. In a court filing challenging U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, Comey's lawyers cite another U.S. attorney, like Halligan, whom the Senate has not confirmed for the appointment. The Senate Judiciary Committee vets...
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President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, warned in a new interview on Wednesday that the president will likely get bored with the multiple peace processes he's trying to juggle unless he wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The Trump administration is currently trying to negotiate peace in two multi-year wars, one between...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is thinking about reviving the nomination of Elon Musk ally Jared Isaacman to lead America's space program, according to a new report. Politico reported that Trump is considering nominating Isaacman to lead NASA, a role that is currently being filled by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The move that has recently gained...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A former Justice Department attorney tore into his old employer on MSNBC over the legality and ethics of President Donald Trump seeking over $200 million from the department, and delivered a stark warning to a pair of appointees who may help him.Andrew Weissmann joined MSNBC's "The Beat" on Wednesday to discuss the events of the day, calling the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
President Donald Trump inadvertently dropped a stunning claim on Wednesday about his views on the administration's legal authority to strike alleged drug boats in international waters during a news conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. A reporter asked Trump about the administration's legal authority to strike seven boats in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was not lawfully authorized to appear at the grand jury, and Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, knew it, former federal prosecutors Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara asserted during a podcast on Wednesday.Former FBI Director Jim Comey has submitted motions to dismiss his criminal charges in the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Shocked reactions flooded in on Wednesday after a major university announced a deal with the Trump administration in what a college professor called "another shakedown." The University of Virginia made a deal with the Trump administration to cease investigations — at least for now — after facing threats of a federal investigation over...
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The Justice Department small error earned a brutal correction on Wednesday over the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan. Lawfare reporter Anna Bower made national waves this week after Halligan texted her to correct her comments made on social media characterizing a New York Times report. Bower spent 33 hours exchanging messages...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) stated during an interview on the Simon Conway Show that extending Affordable Care Act tax credits for millions of people — the core issue over which the federal government is currently shut down — is an "unreasonable demand" from Democrats. The interview, held on Monday, was quickly picked up by the...
ReadNew York Times - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Trump is demanding about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him by the Justice Department. Devlin Barrett, a New York Times reporter covering the Justice Department, describes what we know about who's most likely to be making the decisions.
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Indiana Republican leadership has descended into mudslinging at each other over frustration at getting the votes to pass President Donald Trump's election-rigging scheme to eliminate two Democratic districts in the state.On Wednesday, Politico reported that the state Senate President Pro Tempore, Rodric Bray, believes that chamber still doesn't...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump announced over the summer that he wouldn't touch any of the historic White House in the construction of his massive gold ballroom. The New York Times reported, citing a senior administration official, that not only has it been proven not to be true, but the project is "far more extensive than he initially let on."As one...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump raged at the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday after the newspaper published a report about the U.S. lifting key restrictions on Ukraine's long-range missile use. The report says the Trump administration lifted a "key restriction" that enables Ukraine to "step up attacks on targets inside Russia and increase pressure on the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Fury erupted Wednesday as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pentagon introduced what he called the "next generation" of press corps after forcing out media organizations and journalists who refused to sign a loyalty pledge. Hegseth's right hand and chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell made the announcement Wednesday on X. "Today, the Department...
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The University of Virginia made a deal with the Trump administration to cease investigations after facing threats of a federal investigation over accusations of civil rights violations, according to reports on Wednesday. "The Justice Department announced the deal. It was the first time a public university had cut a far-reaching agreement with the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump explained his decision to slap a new round of sanctions against Russia during a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Trump took questions from reporters while meeting with Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. One reporter asked him about the Treasury Department's announcement...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
A prominent politician from the Conservative Party of Canada is tearing into President Donald Trump's bid to display giant banners with his face on them around Washington, D.C., on important government buildings.Trump has hung the banners, at taxpayer expense, on several offices, with the most recent being a huge display on the Department of Labor...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Correspondent Andrew Buncombe tells The I Paper that our neighbors across the ocean are half-expecting a second Civil War to break out in the U.S. if tempers continue to flare.The assassination of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk prompted many to demand an end to political violence and the rhetoric that led to it. But President Donald Trump blamed the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Since there is a lot of confusion surrounding the shutdown, I thought it would be useful to go over some of the main points as I understand them. I will not pretend this is a comprehensive account, but there are some issues that are reasonably clear.First, when Republicans claim that they are proposing a "clean” continuing resolution, they are...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
A defecting Democrat was called out by his own party on Wednesday, with a leading Democrat telling CNN, "I certainly disagree."Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), the House Minority Whip, responded to anchor Brianna Keilar's questions about the government shutdown and pushed back on Sen. John Fetterman's (D-PA) remarks. "I don't care if it's Republicans...
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Economist Paul Krugman says U.S. consumer sentiment is much weaker than it was pre-COVID, "in fact comparable to its level at the depths of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.”And people have good reason to feel that way, according to the Nobel laureate's Wednesday Substack article."While there have been no mass layoffs so far, people who have lost...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
President Donald Trump announced he was providing emergency funding to states where he won presidential contests.In a series of posts on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump said that he had spoken to the governors of Missouri, Nebraska, and Alaska."I just spoke with Governor Mike Kehoe, of the Great State of Missouri, and told him that I am approving...
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