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After eight years in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Kirsten Hillman will step down from her post in the new year. She sat down with CBC's The House to share how she connects with Trump-era Republicans and what Canadians need to know about the United States today.
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For a merry MAGA Christmas, I believe one of the best gifts you can give, receive, or gift yourself is Bond Arms' DT47 (Trump Gun), a "stunning salute to a remarkable comeback by our 45th and 47th Commander in Chief,” according to Bond Arms. The DT47 will be a cherished memento that MAGA faithful can hand down one generation to the next. The...
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Susie Wiles was quick to call Donald Trump out for "a lie" about Jeffrey Epstein, according to a journalist who recently published a bombshell piece on the White House Chief of Staff.Chris Whipple, who recently wrote an article for Vanity Fair profiling Wiles and her team in the White House, appeared on a podcast with former GOP strategist Rick...
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Donald Trump's administration committed a "grave and indefensible violation" with a mistake it made in the production of certain Epstein files, according to a survivor of the deceased financier's abuse.Lawyer and journalist Aaron Parnas flagged the letter from the Epstein survivor on social media. Parnas wrote, "Jane Doe Epstein Survivor, who...
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The U.S. confirmed that it seized an oil tanker near Venezuela, the second such seizure this month. The U.S. Coast Guard led the operation, which took place in international waters. Meanwhile, the U.S. military hit more than 70 targets in a retaliatory assault against ISIS in Syria. Willie James Inman has more.
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JD Vance once had a lot to say about the Epstein files, and one Republican lawmaker on Saturday reminded the vice president of his words.Vance has largely been silent about the release of Epstein files by Trump's DOJ, which was required under a law passed by lawmakers and signed into law by President Donald Trump himself. The administration has...
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"WE CAUGHT HIM!" are the first public words from a Democratic lawmaker who has been targeted by Donald Trump's administration after a report revealed that a Trump nominee sourced the investigation from a conservative news site.Reuters exclusively reported over the weekend that, "A mortgage fraud probe of a Democratic congressman began last month...
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The Trump administration is breaking the law, according to a Republican congressman who provided evidence of such on Saturday.GOP rep. Thomas Massie over the weekend noted that Trump's DOJ hasn't followed the proper protocol in accordance with a law passed by lawmakers and signed into law by the president himself. The law required the DOJ to...
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A former White House ethics lawyer who has been a persistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump put the president on notice on Saturday over a new report about files released on Jeffrey Epstein.MS NOW executive producer Kyle Griffin started things off by sharing a report from AP:"BREAKING: At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's...
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President Donald Trump's Antitrust chief Gail Slater ended the Biden DOJ's antitrust case against alleged software rent-fixing conspirator RealPage.National average rent fell 0.3 percent from August,” according to the Wall Street Journal, and some of that relief happened because Biden's DOJ had sued data sharing software and consulting firm...
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A legal expert who has prosecuted sex trafficking cases herself gave everyday citizens a clue this weekend about how they can search the recently released files on deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.MS NOW legal analyst Kristy Greenberg appeared on the network Saturday, and was asked about how people at home should be reading the files for...
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There is "one piece of evidence" in the Epstein files that is raising questions Donald Trump must answer, according to a Democrat in Congress.Rep. Eric Swalwell, who recently said Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon the president because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, flagged the...
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A reporter on Saturday flagged what she said is "the biggest thing that went wrong" with the Trump administration's release of new Jeffrey Epstein files.Fallon Gallagher, an award-winning legal affairs reporter for MS NOW, appeared on the network over the weekend. The host asked, "The DOJ rollout of these documents, it did not go as the law has...
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Brett Ratner, the director of "Melania,” the new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, was spotted in the Justice Department's Friday release of thousands of files on Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair reported late Friday.Among the thousands of files released by the DOJ Friday, internet sleuths were quick to identify Ratner in an undated...
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Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) joined his House colleague Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) Saturday in calling for the impeachment of Attorney General Pam Bondi over her agency's failure to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein, which was mandated by law to be released in full on Friday.Following the release of thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein...
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Liberal and progressive observers laughed over the weekend after MAGA infighting reached the point of a publicly recorded slap fight between right-wing men.Conservative Pentagon reporter Cam Higby can be seen in a video being grabbed by Hayden McDougall, a far-right influencer who goes by the name "Woman Propaganda." McDougall then slaps someone...
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The New York Times reports that Americans in their 20s and 30s, even if they know they are not poor, feel the "basics of a middle-class life are unattainable” or they require terrible trade-offs. Things like homeownership, supporting children or occasionally dining out are not available to them like they were to their parents.Full-time...
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A recreation of the site where right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September was on full display during a Turning Point USA event this week, leaving critics stunned over what some described as the "disturbing” display."Anyone else find this disturbing?” wrote Michael Flynn Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael...
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Idalia Bisbal moved to Allentown, Pa., to escape high prices in his retirement, but he said President Donlad Trump's economy is hounding him with inflation and big price tags on his fixed income."It's worse than ever,” Bisbal told reporters. "The prices are high. Everything is going up. You can't afford food because you can't afford rent....
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Donald Trump is ready to launch an illegitimate war against a nation that did us no harm in a cynical bid to make America love him again.I think it's that simple.No, his war-mongering isn't about the midterms. If the president cared about politics, he would act politically. He would, for instance, prevent his supporters from being emmiserated by...
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Jeffrey Epstein received a troubling phone message in 2004 from an unidentified caller stating, "I have a female for him,” according to newly released Justice Department documents. The message was recorded just days before Epstein reportedly received calls from Donald Trump during a high-stakes bidding war over a luxury Florida property.The...
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The Trump administration has seized another sea vessel off the coast of Venezuela, Reuters reported Saturday.The seizure, revealed to Reuters by three Trump administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, comes just days after the U.S. military had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela dubbed "Skipper,” an act that...
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Jeffrey Epstein received a suspicious phone message from an unidentified individual in 2004 that read "I have a female for him,” a message written down within days of President Donald Trump having reportedly called Epstein amid their bidding war over an expensive Florida property.The proximity of the two phone messages – hand-written notes put...
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Idaho's U.S. Sen. Jim Risch proclaimed in a Dec. 11 meeting of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the "attacks in the Caribbean are absolutely, totally and 100 percent legal under U.S. law and international law.”Those strikes have produced a body count nearing 100 since Sept. 2. Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley effectively debunked...
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Outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) painted a bleak picture for President Donald Trump Saturday, labeling him as a "lame duck” who's lost his grip on power.Once among Trump's most loyal supporters, Greene had a public spat with Trump amid her scrutiny of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and during her push for the Trump administration to...
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A decision to have Donald Trump address the nation this past week that ended up being poorly received led a panel of New York Times columnists to suggest his White House brain trust is ineffectively managing him.On Wednesday, the president gave a notably short 18-minute prime time speech that fell flat with supporters, including conservative...
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Podcaster Cari Champion took Federalist reporter Brianna Lyman to task for 'normalizing' President Donald Trump's recent changes to the Kennedy Center.Lyman argued that Trump has improved the Kennedy Center since returning to office, despite revenues at the venue plummeting under Trump's influence."President Trump comes in, they are renovating....
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Sen Chris Coons (D-DE) sent the hosts and producers of MS NOW's "The Weekend” scrambling after he pointed to a photo of a check from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in payment for a woman that was included in the just-released Epstein files.Brought on to talk about the Department of Justice's foot-dragging of the files release in violation of a...
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One of the thousands of Jeffrey Epstein-related photos released by the Justice Department Friday was removed from the DOJ's website without explanation, with critics noting it happened to be one of the few photos featuring President Donald Trump."File 468 is now missing,” wrote the Faytuks Network Saturday in a social media post on X, an account...
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The Guardian reports President Donald Trump's politicized Justice Department is trying to obfuscate the president's ties to notorious sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.On Friday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News that the department wouldn't be releasing all of the files on Friday as required by a Congressionally passed...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik's surprise decision to not only drop her bid to run for governor of New York but also give up her seat in the House and return to private life was an admission that she no longer wants to spend her days talking about Donald Trump.The Republican lawmaker who started out as a moderate only to go full MAGA, which allowed her to...
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Progressive political commentator Cenk Uygur flagged a key detail in the Justice Department's handling of files on Jeffrey Epstein that carries explosive implications about the disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender.Per CNN, counterintelligence specialists were asked to help process the DOJ's files on Epstein ahead of their release on...
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I will never get over the attack on my country January 6, 2021, by the anti-American lowlife, Donald J. Trump.I will never move on until the man who spearheaded that attack is brought to justice.Trump is the most dangerous man in the world, and if this has somehow escaped you until this point, he made the case yet again Wednesday night when he...
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Far-right conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones is warning that President Donald Trump is mishandling the release of Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein—and, in Jones' view, playing directly into the hands of Democrats.Speaking on his program Friday, Jones described the Epstein files rollout as a "disaster” for Trump,...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to withhold video from one of his attacks on alleged drug boats, not only from the public but also from members on Congress, is ludicrous, according to retired US Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling.With the Trump administration continuing their attacks, claiming they are going after narcoterrorists...
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) sounded the alarm late Friday night over two crucial documents he says are "missing” from the Justice Department's release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, documents he said he knows are held by the agency and described as the "most important.”"What we found out is the most important documents are missing,” Khanna said,...
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Donald Trump's rally in tiny Rocky Mount, North Carolina drew a smaller than expected crowd to the economically distressed region, leaving merchandise vendors and supporters disheartened.According to interviews conducted by the Washington Post, the presidential visit was marked by a sense of disappointment and disillusionment as Trump touted...
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Last month, Donald Trump explained away his hoarse voice by saying he "blew his stack” shouting at stupid people. He must have been looking at himself in the mirror — and if he was, there's no doubt that mirror cracked.Not only because of Trump's shrillness, but because of the reflection that poor mirror was forced to provide. His slipping...
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Cem Özdemir will Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg werden – und damit die grüne Erfolgsgeschichte nach Winfried Kretschmann fortschreiben. In dieser Sonderfolge des POLITICO Berlin Playbook Podcast spricht der frühere Landwirtschaftsminister, Parteichef und Europaabgeordnete über seinen Anspruch auf das Amt, seine politische Erfahrung...
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President Donald Trump once again dove into familiar grievances during a rally-style speech on Friday in which he relitigated the 2020 election – and complained at length about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, including what he said happened to First Lady Melania Trump's underwear drawer.As he has repeatedly done, Trump returned to his false,...
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Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Friday scolded Republicans over a series of positions he deemed incompatible with conservative ideology — and MAGA fans were not happy.In a post on X, Ramaswamy outlined what he characterized as core values for the conservative movement. "It's a time for choosing in the conservative movement," he...
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Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon ignited fresh infighting inside MAGA world on Friday after unloading on fellow right-wing influencer Ben Shapiro during remarks at AmericaFest 2025, Turning Point USA's annual conference.Speaking from the main stage in Phoenix, Bannon mocked Shapiro's speech from the night before and accused him of being...
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After studying the newly released Epstein files, MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin quickly discovered that many file entries are nearly completely redacted by federal authorities, despite calls from critics and congressional Democrats to fully release the files.The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially released hundreds of thousands of documents and...
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Sarah Longwell, political consultant and publisher of conservative news and opinion website The Bulwark, said President Donald Trump's last few days qualify as "wheels-off week” with everything underway."… I'm hesitant to talk about things like 'walls closing in' or' wheels coming off', but didn't this feel like a wheels-off week?” asked...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board was enraged Friday that the Utah Republican Party backed down from its war on public sector unions, and on Friday, the editors made their thoughts clear.This comes after the Utah GOP, having passed a law to outlaw public sector bargaining earlier this year, capitulated as unions gathered enough...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took aim at President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing him of pandering to young male voters by easing federal restrictions on marijuana – a move the publication says sends the wrong message to "vulnerable young brains.”In an editorial titled, "Trump Goes for the Stoner Vote,” the board...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is leaving Congress at the end of her term, after a shock decision to end her campaign for governor while acknowledging she had no path to win next year — and longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is beside himself over it, The New York Times reported on Friday evening."Elise needs to keep her seat and challenge Mike Johnson...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out Friday after a viral video showed him leaving a Washington, D.C. restaurant following a public heckling, insisting in a Fox News interview that the confrontation was set up and blaming not only the "deranged” activist, but also the restaurant itself.And he had a few choice words for both. Appearing on...
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The Kennedy Center is reportedly in turmoil following the Trump-led board's controversial decision to rebrand the storied arts institution as The Trump Kennedy Center.Notus reported Friday that the move ignited a firestorm among performers in addition to sparking concerns about the legality of the rename. Musician Kristy Lee, who was scheduled to...
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