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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) attempted an end-run strategy to pass President Donald Trump's anti-voting-rights SAVE America Act through Congress — only for a contingent of Republicans to block it and deal him a fresh humiliation. And MS NOW commenters were quick to react."Mike Johnson just tried to get the SAVE America Act through the...
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The internet criticized President Donald Trump's response on Tuesday to the Supreme Court ruling that upheld birthright citizenship and rejected the president's executive order.Trump posted a bizarre — and apparently sarcastic — statement on his Truth Social platform following the ruling."I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great...
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A firebrand candidate for governor of Florida who has become infamous for white supremacist antics is being targeted by a lawsuit from one of his opponents to throw him off the ballot — but even some MAGA commentators who oppose that candidate are lashing out over the move.Earlier this week, Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins announced a lawsuit...
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Longtime conservative columnist Matt Lewis, who supported Marco Rubio in 2016, expressed concerns about the Secretary of State's viability as President Donald Trump's presumed MAGA successor, questioning whether he is "damaged goods." Writing for NOTUS, Lewis articulated his central worry: while a President Rubio offers "a tiny bit of hope," that...
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A Louisiana Republican sparked ridicule on social media Tuesday when he tried to brag about the number of attendees at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair while pointing to a nearly empty National Mall on live TV.Gov. Jeff Landry, a frequent Fox News guest, became the latest figure pulled into the mockery surrounding Trump's fair...
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President Donald Trump is "too mentally feeble" to hold office and a "crazy, stalker-ish" aide has effectively taken control of the West Wing, former RNC spokesperson Cheri Jacobus said.Jacobus made the comments on her Tuesday YouTube show, Politics with Cheri Jacobus, about Natalie Harp, 34, an aide to Trump since 2022 who became his executive...
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Accounting firms could be asked to split their lucrative consulting services from their audit functions and individual firm partners could face far greater scrutiny and penalties for legal breaches, under a shake up of the industry being consulted on by the federal government.
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A new poll revealed that President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued pick in the Texas Senate race, Attorney General Ken Paxton, might not win his critical election, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.A New York Times/Siena poll of 656 likely Texas voters found that Paxton is tied at 47 percent in the midterm face-off against Democratic candidate...
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As the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the last day of its term protecting birthright citizenship and invalidating a signature policy of President Donald Trump's administration, Justice Clarence Thomas took a swipe at the majority in his dissent, stunning legal experts with an argument that would have effectively rewritten 14th...
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A former Trump administration official clashed with a CNN anchor in a heated exchange after he was fact-checked about birthright citizenship during a live broadcast on Tuesday. Ken Cuccinelli, former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump, was talking to CNN anchor Eric Hill when the host clarified a talking point...
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Darializa Avila Chevalier, the progressive organizer whose primary victory over five-term Democratic Congressman Adriano Espaillat last week stunned the party's establishment, was among those calling for the expulsion of New York City Council member Vickie Paladino Tuesday night after the Republican issued "a thinly veiled call” for the...
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Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh was on the receiving end of a legal and personal beatdown over a panicked response to the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship on Tuesday.While Republican members of Congress were waving the bloody flag over Donald Trump's courtroom loss with promises of legislative action, Walsh hit the panic button over...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) asserted to Politico that a bipartisan, landmark housing bill will become law and President Donald Trump will not veto it.This marks one of the few issues on which Johnson has threatened Trump, according to Politico's Meredith Lee Hill. Johnson's statement followed Trump's public criticism of the bill as...
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While the Supreme Court narrowly ruled against President Donald Trump's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, the way the justices actually split their votes carried a disturbing message of its own, attorney and former United Nations delegate Andrew Weinstein warned on Tuesday.On Tuesday, four of the Supreme Court's nine justices indicated...
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Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) accused White House budget director Russ Vought of dodging repeated questions about whether USAID funding cuts have killed people.The clash unfolded at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this week, where Vought, who leads the Office of Management and Budget, testified on the agency's budget.A Lancet study published...
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Internal financial documents reveal that the contractor running President Trump's flagship $1 billion self-deportation initiative, Project Homecoming, came within weeks of running out of money entirely.A burn-rate dashboard dated May 7 and shared with the Department of Homeland Security projected that Salus Worldwide Solutions, the company managing...
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Today, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's Day One executive order canceling the right to birthright citizenship. Good. That executive order declared that children born in the U.S. would not be considered citizens if their parents were living in the country illegally or were visiting the country on temporary visas.The executive order never took...
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President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of a golden eagle attached to the White House facade on Monday. "A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!" The President posted on Truth Social. The eagle holds a red, white, and gold shield surrounded by 11 stars. The post immediately drew widespread ridicule on social media....
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The internet slammed Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) on Tuesday, calling him out for cutting Medicaid and healthcare services — the same ones he needed — after he revealed that he had been battling depression and was hospitalized, disappearing from Congress for nearly four months.Kean's office had given cryptic explanations while he was gone, citing a...
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While the Supreme Court's decision Tuesday regarding birthright citizenship dominated news headlines, another ruling delivered by the court moments earlier may ultimately "destroy what remains of America's anti-corruption laws,” journalist David Sirota warned."For the last 2 years, [we have] been warning about this case spearheaded by [Vice...
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The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow Tuesday to the Trump administration's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, but less than an hour after the justices handed down their decision, President Donald Trump was already musing on how to sidestep the court's ruling."The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our...
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Reactions were mounting among legal analysts Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order.The divided court ruled in a 6-3 majority decision in Trump v. Barbara, upholding the 14th Amendment and blocking Trump's efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, "but the Court split 5-4 on whether a...
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh helped hand Donald Trump a defeat on birthright citizenship on Tuesday while simultaneously offering a roadmap for how a future Congress could accomplish what the Supreme Court refused to allow the president to do unilaterally.Kavanaugh joined the majority in striking down Trump's executive order attempting to eliminate...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) said Tuesday that depression was behind his nearly four-month disappearance from Congress.Kean had not cast a vote since March 5. He missed more than 100 votes.His office had previously blamed only a vague "personal medical issue.""Several months ago, due to health concerns, I entered the hospital for some testing," Kean...
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Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann expressed deep concern about the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned 91 years of precedent allowing presidents to fire independent agency members without cause. Weissmann highlighted Chief Justice Roberts' use of the word "secrecy" when describing executive branch vitality,...
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Another Republican Senate candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump is facing scrutiny about giving a plea deal to a man accused of sexually abusing children.Montana GOP Senate nominee Kurt Alme oversaw a case as the state's U.S. attorney involving tribal police officer Mychal Thomas Damon, who investigators said admitted to molesting a...
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Ses équipes n'en font pas mystère : Edouard Philippe ne peut pas rater son meeting de dimanche à Paris alors que le candidat avait repoussé son entrée en campagne pour la présidentielle. Celui qui reste le favori du bloc central a besoin d'enclencher une dynamique s'il veut plier le match avec ses adversaires, à commencer […]
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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was taken to task on Tuesday over his non-legalistic claims in a ruling that allows states to bar transgender female athletes from participating on girls' and women's sports teams.In the 6-3 decision for the conservative majority Justice Brett Kavanaugh took the lead and wrote that schools "may...
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A veteran Supreme Court correspondent apparently jumped the gun with a report that Justice Samuel Alito is retiring.NPR's Nina Totenberg reported Tuesday, just after the current term's last opinions were handed down, that the 76-year-old George W. Bush appointee was stepping down, but the network quickly retracted the breaking news article.Alito...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) let out a growling sound when a reporter told him in real-time that the Supreme Court had rejected President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order. Johnson was attending a House Republican Caucus meeting and spoke to reporters when he was told about the high court's decision to uphold birthright...
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Justice Clarence Thomas's eyebrow-raising birthright citizenship dissent on Tuesday became the topic of discussion on MS NOW, with one anchor describing it as "astonishing" and legal analyst Lisa Rubin calling it "disappointing.""Astonishing may be the wrong word; I think disappointing maybe another word," Rubin said, telling viewers the dissent...
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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that states can bar transgender girls from female school sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho — and the justices spent much of the opinion going at one another.Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, holding that neither Title IX nor the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause stops...
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For one day, at least, the Constitution held, and in the chaotic and disjointed time we are living in, and where we hold our breath awaiting the rulings of an overtly bigoted Supreme Court, that is saying an awful lot.The court today struck down President Donald Trump's executive order attempting to strip birthright citizenship from children born...
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, a constitutional right established in 1868. Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority, "Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community," in Tuesday's ruling. Trump, pressured by...
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President Donald Trump was dealt a major blow when the Supreme Court ruled to uphold mail-in voting, but the "win" Trump saw with the high court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter might come back to haunt him and the GOP, an analyst reported on Tuesday.In Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled that the president has the power to fire members of formerly...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor smacked her conservative colleagues with a stinging rebuke for their decision to gut another campaign finance statute by overturning a decades-old precedent.The court struck down federal limits on how much money a political committee can spend in coordination with candidates in the case National Republican...
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The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to President Donald Trump's agenda Tuesday after ruling 5-4 against his efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, a constitutional right long targeted by far-right figures."Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community," wrote Justice John...
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MAGA loyalists were furious on Tuesday after the Supreme Court reaffirmed birthright citizenship, signaling a major loss for President Donald Trump's agenda.Trump lost in his attempt to deny automatic citizenship to those born to undocumented migrants, and justices ruled to maintain a 150-year-old court precedent."Children born in the United States...
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With Senate Republicans appearing unwilling to nuke the filibuster to pass President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act, House Republican leaders are trying a new tactic to pressure states to enact the bill's severe voting rights restrictions without actually passing the bill itself.The SAVE America Act has already passed the House multiple times....
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A crowd of reporters gathered outside the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) Tuesday morning, but the long-missing congressman has not yet shown.Kean last voted in the House on March 5. He has missed more than 140 votes since then.He has said only that he is dealing with a "personal medical issue." His office said he would return on...
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President Donald Trump shared what appeared to be an AI-generated image Monday night of a golden eagle statue affixed to the White House facade, and while the post was ridiculed by critics, one former GOP staffer flagged what they believed was a hidden message.The image in question shows a golden eagle statue attached to the front facade of the...
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A federal judge ruled Monday that a pro-impeachment protest group can keep flying a flag with a phrase President Donald Trump has called a death threat against him.The group Accountability NOW USA has displayed a flag reading "8647" as part of a months-long demonstration outside a federal courthouse demanding Trump's impeachment."8647" turned up...
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Tens of thousands of people still haven't been found after a pair of devastating earthquakes in Venezuela last week—including some Venezuelans who had just been deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation push and were being held in a hotel when the temblors hit, The Associated Press revealed Monday.There...
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A legal battle over one Jeffrey Epstein accuser's unreleased FBI interview notes has emerged as a flashpoint threatening to complicate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's path to confirmation, as a federal judge presses the Justice Department for answers it has so far declined to give.The woman, known in court filings as Jane Doe 4, alleged in...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on Newsnation Tuesday to tout the return of the Presidential Fitness Test to public schools, but during the interview, made an off-handed comment that carried a startling suggestion."One of the criticisms of the Presidential Fitness Test back in the 2010s before it was nixed was...
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As Secretary of State Marco Rubio assumes a commanding position as the presumed successor to Donald Trump's MAGA throne, one of the former Florida senator's supporters wondered this week if he is damaged goods.Writing for NOTUS, longtime conservative columnist Matt Lewis noted that he supported Rubio in 2016 and his esteem for him has only grown,...
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Mary Trump is once again training her fire on her uncle — this time throwing her weight behind a Senate campaign in Florida, the state President Donald Trump now calls home.In an email sent on behalf of Senate candidate Alex Vindman, the psychologist and outspoken Trump critic framed the race as a direct test of her uncle's standing in his own...
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You can hear the whispering in the White House across the Mall from the Smithsonian Aviation Museum, "Well, that didn't work, and that's bad — really bad." They're talking about the "Great American State Fair."Aaron Rupar, the Left's irreplaceable and most deeply embedded intel agent, captured Fox News's inability to paper over a debacle devoid...
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The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump another victory Monday by expanding his authority to fire heads of independent agencies, a decision that Zeteo's Andrew Perez argued was just the latest example of the court's "far-right justices” executing a long sought-after plan."Fundamentally, Trump and the justices are partners in fascism,”...
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A new White House hire of a controversial former Donald Trump adviser could land Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in court.On Monday, a report claimed the White House is in talks to bring Jason Miller, long associated with the president since his first term, back to help with communications issues before the midterm elections. That potential hiring did...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly disavowed the existence of any formal agreement reached during his August summit with President Donald Trump in Alaska, undercutting months of Kremlin messaging that had treated the meeting as a diplomatic turning point in the war in Ukraine.Senior Russian officials had insisted for months that a path...
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A former Republican State Department official is warning that President Donald Trump's reliance on executive decrees and rule-breaking will eventually be turned against his own supporters — and that the satisfaction MAGA feels now is, at best, "a sugar high."The warning came from Kim R. Holmes, a former Assistant Secretary of State and historian,...
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A veteran journalist and former New York Times public editor called out CBS News' gesture toward public accountability as a "blatant sham."The network's Donald Trump-aligned new owners tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the right-leaning Hudson Institute, to review complaints about its coverage as ombudsman, but media expert...
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A bipartisan briefing on the Iran ceasefire deal turned tense when President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly berated a Democratic congresswoman and cut off her microphone after she pressed him on the details of the agreement.Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said she asked Witkoff direct questions about who authored the 14-point...
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The hardline MAGA wing of the House Republican caucus has once again forced House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) into a difficult spot, one that has relegated his role to "something like a triage nurse,” Punchbowl News reported, despite being arguably the most powerful lawmaker in Washington and third in line to the presidency.Johnson ultimately...
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President Donald Trump has orchestrated yet another massive no-bid contract, this time channeling $500 million in taxpayer funds through a loophole to pay for his East Wing ballroom in secret, a report says.According to Washington Post reporting, White House officials used back channels and awarded the half-billion-dollar contract to Clark...
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The Trump administration's effort to broker peace in the Middle East is being shaped — and at times complicated — by competing approaches from Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.A top Trump adviser described the two men as representing different instincts within the president's own thinking on the region, with Rubio...
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Christopher Rufo, a hugely influential conservative activist who's advised President Donald Trump's team directly, was forced to acknowledge the president's "corruption” problem in an interview with The New York Times published Tuesday, and ultimately conceded that it didn't look good."I guess one thing I think about, when I think about Donald...
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Former Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), who portrayed himself as a champion of fiscal discipline during his tenure in Congress, has put his campaign creditors on notice that they will not get another penny from him. According to NOTUS, the former lawmaker who lost his re-election bid in 2018, has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission...
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Legal analyst and journalist Marcy Wheeler, who writes under the handle EmptyWheel, mocked Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week over a segment celebrating the end of Biden-era protections for Haitian immigrants, arguing Ingraham's framing revealed "two telling confessions."The segment aired during Fox's coverage from Trump's Great American State...
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The failure of the American media is one of the biggest disappointments of the last 11 years. Instead of standing together and standing their ground with integrity and dignity when Trump began bullying them in 2015, media organizations let him wear them down with his never-ending litany of insults. Once a toxic narcissist knows they can get away...
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Will the long-awaited defence investment plan be the prime minister’s final and most contentious act? After months of delays, a multibillion-pound funding gap, and the resignation of his defence secretary, has Sir Keir Starmer done enough to satisfy his military chiefs? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy unpack the political and strategic stakes and...
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A pair of legal experts were astounded on Monday while discussing a trap the Trump Department of Justice may have laid for itself in a recent case. One of the arguments Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made when the DOJ created the $1.776 billion settlement between the Trump administration and the IRS was that Trump had been irreparably harmed...
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A political analyst called out a striking contradiction that President Donald Trump's chief spokesperson made during an interview on Fox News. David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, said in a recent video that Karoline Leavitt "immediately imploded" during her appearance on Fox News's "Fox & Friends" on Monday. He noted that...
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During C-SPAN's Washington Journal program Monday, a Republican caller from North Dakota suggested American citizenship be limited to white people, citing the 1790 Naturalization Act that limited citizenship to "free white persons." Jim, the caller, argued the nation's founders never intended large-scale immigration and expressed disapproval of...
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Rachel Maddow kicked off her Monday night MS NOW program with a discussion of Star Wars — and specifically, how one track from the original trilogy just cost the Trump administration a big settlement payout for unlawful police conduct."The Empire Strikes Back is just as exciting as the first Star Wars movie, but it is darker, it is definitely...
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President Donald Trump was roundly ridiculed on Monday night after he posted a picture of the "golden gift" he plans to give the country for its 250th birthday celebration this week. Trump posted a picture of a golden eagle attached to the front facade of the White House on his Truth Social feed. The AI-generated eagle is shown holding a red,...
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