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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance praised Justice Elena Kagan's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Temporary Protected Status as a devastating rebuke of the conservative majority — one that forced into print the very comments her colleagues "cannot even bear to repeat."Writing in her newsletter, Civil Discourse, Vance broke down...
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Reporting from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Fox News' Peter Doocy claimed that people were "still coming out” to the Great American State Fair, though he soon became the butt of a joke online after viewers noted a glaring contradiction directly behind him."It's really something!” Doocy said Sunday, speaking from an elevated news desk...
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Iranian state media has reportedly declared that the country now has "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb," according to a post circulating online — a statement that, if accurate, would mark a dramatic escalation amid the ongoing exchange of strikes between the U.S. and Iran.The claim was relayed by the account The Hormuz Letter, which posted...
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President Donald Trump spent more than an hour and a half on a rainy Sunday morning inspecting renovation plans for a federal golf course in Washington, D.C. — a side project that drew mockery online, particularly given that it came just days after he blocked a housing relief bill.The outing was documented in real time by White House pool...
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The Supreme Court is "on the brink” of ruling on major cases regarding President Donald Trump's "most audacious gambits,” Bloomberg reported Sunday, and one law professor is predicting the outcome may bode poorly for the commander in chief.The Supreme Court is set to rule this week on two cases that will determine whether Trump can eliminate...
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President Donald Trump's claim that "everybody" stayed until the end of his State Fair kickoff speech was false — and it revived a boast he has been making, and getting wrong, for years, according to a CNN fact-check by Daniel Dale.Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the address he had delivered the previous day to launch the Great...
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a grave warning to viewers last week in response to the recent progressive sweep of Democratic congressional candidates, a warning that included a potential "implication” that left two podcast hosts laughing hysterically."If we turn our government over to a bunch of Democrat socialists, Israel will be treated...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson floated the idea of getting a tattoo Sunday in honor of President Donald Trump and his agenda, telling Fox News exactly what it would say and where he would get it.Speaking with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, Johnson was asked about Trump's controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, which Trump has furiously insisted...
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President Donald Trump's trip to his Virginia golf course on Saturday generated a wave of online commentary, with critics seizing on everything from the cost of his travel to the device in his hand.Several accounts documented the president's return to the White House after lunch at the club. Freelance photographer Andrew Leyden, posting under the...
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President Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks sparking chaos for Senate Republicans, who only now, according to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, are "coming to understand” the threat the president poses, though the realization may be "a bit too late.”Trump has aggressively pushed Senate Republicans to advance his controversial...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's move to block the promotions of high-ranking service members is "even worse than it looks," according to political analyst and longtime federal trial attorney Sabrina Haake, who argues the real motive behind the blocked promotions is more dangerous than the racial and gender bias suggested by mainstream...
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The Trump White House waged a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on the obscure federal board responsible for shielding government workers from unfair firings, ultimately securing a ruling that could hand the president sweeping power to purge the civil service and install loyalists throughout the government, according to a New York Times...
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The conservative New York Post was mobbed by critics on Sunday for its critical report on a rising star within the Democratic Party, the headline of which was labeled by some as perhaps the "most ridiculous” smear of a Democratic figure "of all time.”Published on Saturday, the report in question was about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who...
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Israel’s government unanimously voted on Sunday to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, amid worsening ties with Turkey. “Despite the extensive and unambiguous historical documentation, the Armenian genocide remains to this day the subject of an institutionalized campaign of denial and minimization, including a manipulative rewriting of...
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Former "Superman" actor and prominent Trump supporter Dean Cain set out to showcase the administration's Great American State Fair this weekend — but critics say the photo he chose did the opposite, capturing a sea of mostly empty grass on the National Mall.Cain posted an aerial shot taken from the fair's Ferris wheel, framing it as a celebratory...
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President Donald Trump has successfully thwarted one of his greatest fears, journalist Molly Jong-Fast argued in an op-ed published in The New York Times Sunday, but one celebrity appeared to stand alone in weaponizing that fear against him.That fear, Jong-Fast argued, was that of celebrities undermining his messaging through fierce public...
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I will never forget reading New York Times book critic Dwight Garner's 2002 review of Jared Kushner's loathsome memoir, Breaking History, because if you cull it down and paraphrase it, it becomes a perfect description of Kushner the person.So I'll attempt to use the magic of Garner's wonderful wordsmithing.Kushner is a soulless, mannequin-like...
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President Donald Trump's announcement of a fresh round of strikes on Iran touched off a wave of backlash this week — not just from his usual critics, but from voices on the right, including prominent America First and MAGA-aligned figures.The reactions followed Trump's post on Truth Social declaring that U.S. aircraft had struck Iranian missile...
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A handful of GOP lawmakers made their way to Washington, D.C. recently to attend and promote the Great American State Fair, organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250, but in doing so, "accidentally” exposed the event for its numerous shortcomings, The Daily Beast reported.Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), for instance, took...
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Fox News issued an unusual on-air apology this week following claims made by "Shark Tank" star and prominent Trump supporter Kevin O'Leary during an appearance on the network, walking back comments he made about opponents of his controversial data center project in Utah.The apology was flagged by media journalist Brian Stelter, who described it as...
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President Donald Trump has worked over the past several months on a bizarre "side project” aimed at honoring himself at one of Washington, D.C.'s most iconic public parks, two insiders revealed to The Washington Post.As revealed by the Post in its report published on Sunday, the project would be to ensure that Lafayette Square – which sits less...
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A senior U.S. defense official has explained why the American military keeps returning to bomb the same Iranian targets it has already struck repeatedly since the conflict began in late February, according to Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.In a post on social media, Griffin said she pressed the official on why the U.S....
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The sons of both President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to financially benefit from a secretive and lucrative deal between the Trump administration and the Kazakhstanian government, The New York Times reported Sunday, one that the outlet described as having "few precedents in American history.”Signed last year on...
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President Donald Trump unleashed a lengthy attack on journalist Maggie Haberman at midnight Saturday over a new book about him, dismissing the work as fiction and hurling insults at the New York Times reporter who has covered him for years.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he had been briefed on the book and was unimpressed, deriding both the...
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Many of us spend too much time depressed about the seemingly never-ending list of things that President Donald J. Trump gets away with. But we need to refamiliarize ourselves with the well-known dangers of what the military tends to call "mission creep," applied in a slightly different context, no less dangerous. If one had to summarize Trump's...
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Despite having nearly identical parliamentary systems, Canada has avoided the kind of prime ministerial parade that has befallen the U.K. in the past decade. Political watchers point to the Brexit vote as the key moment that led to half a dozen leaders occupying 10 Downing Street in the 10 years since, but there are underlying factors that make it...
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A British columnist's phone call with Trump was so "strange" that he began looking for a way to end it.Financial Times columnist Ed Luce recounted the interaction during an episode of The Mona Charen Show. Luce said that, at the request of his editor, he called Trump around the start of the Iran war."I wondered about the usefulness of this," Luce...
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A defamation lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the BBC is producing what one observer called an "unintended consequence" — potentially opening the president up to broad discovery about the period surrounding January 6, according to journalist and commentator Aaron Parnas.In his newsletter, the Parnas Perspective, Parnas reported that...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) argued this week that the rising cost of living has become a genuine crisis for ordinary Americans — and a serious political liability for President Donald Trump heading into the November midterms.Her comments were highlighted by CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane, who framed the affordability crunch as...
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Trump has been elevating the role of Vice President JD Vance for a clear reason, according to a political strategist.During a recent podcast episode for The Contrarian, Simon Rosenberg pointed out that recent revelations about Trump's health and Vance's new responsibilities correlate to a plan to prepare the vice president for a transition."Let's...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) publicly broke with the Trump administration this week over its push to sell advanced F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, warning that the deal raises serious national security concerns.In a post on social media, Lawler laid out his opposition to the proposed sale of one of the most sophisticated weapons platforms in the U.S....
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A rising MAGA star's vacations with one of his top aides are quietly fueling rumors, according to a former Republican strategist.In a recent episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller spoke with political reporter Will Sommer about rumors spreading regarding MAGA Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) and his relationship with his senior aide, Will Hannen.Miller...
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Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as President Donald Trump's communications director, argued this week that Vice President JD Vance lacks the one quality that makes Trump politically formidable — and that the deficiency is Vance's central problem heading into any future presidential run.Scaramucci, who has become a frequent critic of his...
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Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) warned this week that President Donald Trump has openly acknowledged directing federal prosecutors to investigate elections whose results he dislikes — a statement the congressman argued the president made plainly and even boasted about."Trump just told the country, out loud, that he picks up the phone and orders...
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Trump's speech at his Great American State Fair exposed signs of what a specialist is calling his "neurological decline."In a recent video, Hilary Shae, a licensed speech-language pathologist, pointed out that Trump "couldn't say 250th anniversary" or the word magnificent. She shared clips that showed Trump stopping hard as those words came...
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A conservative former judge described how stunned he was to see how much a historical document reminds him of Trump.During an episode of The Court of History podcast, Michael Luttig explained that he was reading the 27 grievances, a list from the Declaration of Independence of particular problems Americans had with King George III."I set about to...
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President Donald Trump issued a stark threat against Iran on Saturday night, warning that the country could cease to exist if it continues attacking, as he announced a new round of U.S. strikes targeting Iranian military sites.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said American aircraft had hit Iranian missile and drone storage locations...
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The Trump administration made a small but conspicuous mathematical error in announcing its new nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigration policy analyst pointed out Saturday.The flub came as President Donald Trump announced he would nominate Lance Schroyer, described as a former Oklahoma state trooper and Marine, to serve...
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) threatened legal action against President Donald Trump on Saturday following reports that the United States had launched a new round of airstrikes against Iran, accusing the president of openly violating a war powers measure passed by Congress.Khanna was reacting to a report, flagged by journalist Acyn, that Fox was...
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A former senior Department of Homeland Security official said Saturday that Vice President JD Vance's recent comments dismissing Watergate amount to a "tacit admission" that the Trump administration's conduct is more serious than the scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency — and could ultimately make it easier to hold administration...
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A journalist flagged how a Trump lie was exposed by a recent photo.On an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, host Joanna Coles said she's "slightly fascinated" that Trump "gets away" with lying about his height. Coles said she noticed he's "shrinking" after looking at a picture of him standing next to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD)."He's...
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Influential conservative commentator Erick Erickson warned this week that the Trump administration is being outmaneuvered by Iran, arguing that President Donald Trump waited too long to act and has now boxed himself in over oil prices.Erickson, a longtime radio host and writer with a substantial following on the right, did not mince words in his...
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) seized on Vice President JD Vance's recent comments downplaying Watergate this week, warning that the remarks reveal something fundamental about how the vice president views presidential power.Murphy was responding to reporting from journalist Aaron Rupar, who flagged Vance's comments at an event tied to the Richard...
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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson's recent "protection program" comment reveals his true fear, according to an ex-GOP operative.Johnson's comments came at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual conference on Friday, where he said, "I run the protection program. I'll take care of you." Johnson made the remark in the context of a warning about...
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Conservative legal activist Mike Davis floated an aggressive immigration crackdown this week if the Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration on birthright citizenship, including a call to prioritize the detention and deportation of women of childbearing age.Davis, a prominent ally of President Donald Trump who heads the Article III...
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A Nobel laureate held the world's richest man Elon Musk responsible for the deaths of millions of children in a scathing takedown.Renowned economist Paul Krugman called Musk "a horrible, terrible person" in a recent episode of his podcast. Krugman mostly focused on Musk's cuts to USAID while in the Trump administration."For most of last year, Elon...
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A spat between two Supreme Court justices is putting Trump's plans in jeopardy, a legal expert noted.Justice Samuel Alito looks poised to stay on as a counterweight to Justice Sonia Sotomayor after their "wacko interaction" spilled out into public view, Michael Popok said during a recent episode of the Unprecedented podcast.Sotomayor read her...
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Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted about eleven days as President Donald Trump's communications director in 2017, says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy — thanks to the man he once worked for.In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal Trump critic offered a blunt assessment of the...
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Trump ended up making one of his political rivals look better with online critics after a swipe backfired.In a Saturday Truth Social post, Trump shared a picture of himself when he was younger in his military school uniform next to a picture of an 18-year-old Obama with a cigarette in his mouth while donning a fedora.However, online critics reacted...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went after Vice President JD Vance Saturday over his comments downplaying the Watergate scandal, using the moment to land a pair of pointed jabs at both the vice president and the Republican Party.Clinton was responding to a New York Times report headlined "Vance Downplays Watergate and Compares Himself to...
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Three days into the 16-day Great American State Fair organized by the President Donald Trump-linked group Freedom 250, the event is already "falling apart at the seams,” argued prominent liberal commentator and podcast host Adam Mockler on Saturday."Just like everything else Donald Trump touches, this Great American Fair is falling apart at the...
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"The pungent odor of Kristi Noem lingers in Washington.”Those are the opening words of longtime conservative columnist George Will, whose column in the Washington Post hammered the 6-3 Supreme Court majority for wrongly dismantling the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program depended upon by hundreds of thousands of immigrants.According to Will,...
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Add anti-immigrant activists to the list of Donald Trump allies who feel betrayed by the president after he cancelled a major policy announcement in Wisconsin in early June and instead revealed it in a little-noticed memo.At the same time, the president has aggravated a substantial number of his MAGA followers by starting a war with Iran, annoyed...
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Emmy Award-winning journalist Eric Flack of WUSA9, a CBS-affiliated D.C. news station, toured the Great American State Fair on the National Mall and found that the fair's state exhibits ranged wildly in quality.Exhibits for Connecticut and Maine, for instance, were especially empty."Connecticut and Maine are sharing a space and basically just put...
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Violence near the Strait of Hormuz continued for its third consecutive day Saturday after "American targets” in Bahrain were hit by suspected Iranian strikes, the Wall Street Journal reported."Iran didn't specifically claim responsibility for the attacks. But state media said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had carried out strikes against...
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Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit filed against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has hit a treacherous hurdle in a new legal filing in Florida where the suit was filed.According to The Telegraph, BBC lawyers have filed discovery demands requiring Trump to disclose his "telephone logs, calendars, schedules, and diaries,"...
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Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Saturday after video emerged that appeared to show less-than-anticipated crowd sizes at the Great American State Fair.Organized by the Trump-linked group Freedom 250, the Great American State Fair officially got underway on Thursday, but had already stumbled weeks earlier when performers pulled out en masse...
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Donald Trump's increasing unpopularity with conservative voters who are dissatisfied with his second term was given voice in interviews with Reuters, who appear to be ready to take out their frustrations on Republicans on the ballot in November.The disaffection stems from a toxic combination of failures: the controversial Iran war agreement,...
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After watching a montage of clips of Donald Trump dismissing American consumers' economic woes, an MSNBC regular noted the president's physical decline with a new observation.Speaking with host Jacob Soboroff, attorney George Conway claimed, "I hear a longstandingly mentally ill man, a narcissistic sociopath who is cognitively declining in his...
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As the number of Americans arrested for touching the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to grow, the Trump administration appears to have enacted new security measures to discourage loitering, video of which circulated online and left onlookers floored.Freelance journalist Amanda Moore published video of the Reflecting Pool that appears to...
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Vice President JD Vance struggled to answer pointed questions about the Trump administration's tentative peace deal with Iran during a tense appearance Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher,” particularly when asked about the supposed destruction of Iran's nuclear capabilities, Mediaite reported Saturday.Maher pressed Vance on what the...
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Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York ripped into Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Friday night for saying that Republican control of Congress is the only thing keeping President Donald Trump from being held to account for his numerous scandals and abuses of power during his second term in the White...
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President Trump's carefully constructed vision for transforming the nation's capital is literally falling apart. The Great American State Fair, meant to showcase his grandiose architectural ambitions, has spiraled into a three-day disaster of musical acts boycotting, equipment failures, tiny crowds and now a deteriorating replica arch buckling...
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Nearly one year after the passage of President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), close to 5 million fewer Americans received federal food assistance in March when compared with the previous year, leaving an untold number of people scrambling, The Hill reported Saturday.Sheila Boyd, an 81-year-old New York resident, was among those...
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Appearing to go off-script at a conservative gathering on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested that he is the last thing saving Donald Trump, and just as importantly, his supporters, from new investigations because he will run interference for them.Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual summit, Johnson warned supporters...
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Billionaire Leon Black, the former CEO of Apollo and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was fiercely condemned Friday after fleeing an interview with members of the House Oversight Committee."Leon Black had a chance to do the right thing and help us bring justice to the survivors. Instead, he ran out of the room when he was pressed for information about...
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Mary L. Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump and daughter of Mr. Trump's late brother, Fred Trump Jr., revealed this week what she argued had shaped her uncle into "a destroyed human being.”Trump's father, Fred Trump, a successful real estate developer, gave his son and current U.S. president "at least $413 million in today's dollars,”...
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WASHINGTON — Capitalist or (democratic) socialist? That's the question starting to drive a wedge between the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party.Democratic Party leaders say there's nothing to see here, even after the three progressives New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed won their primaries earlier this week, which has...
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The release of a Donald Trump "commemorative” US passport, featuring an incomprehensible message from the president, baffled a conservative pundit on Saturday morning, which led to gales of laughter on MS NOW.Before moving on to more serious topics, "The Weekend” co-host Jackie Alemany told the panel, "Let's talk about Donald Trump's new...
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Already beset by artist boycotts, electrical problems, equipment breakdowns, and small crowds, Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" suffered the indignity of bad weather, which forced organizers to cancel the one concert they hoped would draw fans on Friday night.According to the Independent, the plug was pulled on "Ice Ice Baby” rapper...
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President Donald Trump's Board of Peace – the international body established to oversee Gaza's reconstruction, on which the president serves as its lifelong chairman – created a draft resolution designed to grant its members broad legal immunity in the case of Palestinian deaths, The Guardian reported Saturday."It looks like an attempt to...
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Auf einem Spaziergang durch die ukrainische Hauptstadt zeigt Deutschlands Botschafter Heiko Thoms im Gespräch mit Gordon Repinski, wie der Drang nach Alltag für die Ukrainer zu einem bewussten Akt des Widerstands gegen die russische Aggression geworden ist. Thoms blickt auf den härtesten Winter seit Jahrzehnten zurück. Wochenlange zweistellige...
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Every reader here understands it is hard to overstate the importance of November's midterm elections. The GOP controls every branch in our Constitutional framework, and the vast majority of Americans agree that the nation is in crisis, providing Democrats with fertile ground on which to harvest winning issues, perhaps combining victories in both...
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The federal government has suspended the Royal Canadian Air Force's $800-million Griffon helicopter life-extension program amid technical problems and growing concerns over cost and complexity. The pause raises fresh questions about whether all 82 aircraft will be upgraded as Ottawa weighs an $18-billion replacement program and mounting NATO...
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After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face over the last year and enacted stricter policies to tamp down on crime rates that have become a political liability in some vote-rich parts of the country.
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Several members of a CNN panel tried to get a MAGA pundit to stop her "embarrassing" rant.Former Trump White House staffer Caroline Sunshine took part in the panel, hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip. Most of the panel turned on Sunshine, however, when she started to defend the Trump administration from accusations of racism because it started...
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A red state leader's claim during an Oval Office visit was met with an outpouring of corrections by online critics.Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told reporters on Friday, "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution," while standing behind Trump. The Texas Board of Education approved a required reading list earlier that day that included...
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A journalist warned that Trump's relationship with an aide who's always around him spells trouble.In an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, executive editor Hugh Dougherty spoke with host Joanna Coles about revelations regarding Trump executive assistant Natalie Harp, who Dougherty said "trails Donald Trump everywhere." The Daily Beast reported...
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A Confederate flag display at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. was under fire on Friday, according to reports.The flag was part of an interactive exhibit for North Carolina and shared in a viral video shared on X by Reuben Jones, Spectrum News Washington Correspondent. "I stopped by the North Carolina booth at the 'Great American...
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A former GOP operative described how he is looking forward to the revenge of an enemy President Donald Trump made in the Senate.During an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, Rick Wilson spoke about the feuds Trump started with senators, but in particular, he relished the revenge plot that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is suggesting."If you follow his...
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A Republican vying to keep his seat in a swing district is closer to losing it than the GOP would like to admit, according to a columnist.In a Friday article for The Contrarian, Jennifer Rubin wrote that Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), the Trump-endorsed incumbent in the race for New York's 17th congressional district, appears "isolated, stressed...
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