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Protests broke out in Chicago on Saturday against President Trump's immigration crackdown. A group of Catholic clergy led what they called a "People's Mass" outside the Great Lakes Naval Base. The base will also be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a staging area for deportations. Camilo Montoya-Galvez spent a day with ICE agents in...
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FBI Director Kash Patel Saturday made a comment that stood out to some experts as implausible, or worse, completely false.Patel over the weekend addressed the arrest of Tyler Robinson, who stands accused of using a rifle to shoot and kill conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, on social media."Against all law enforcement recommendations, we...
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A GOP gubernatorial candidate was reportedly "assaulted" in part due to his support of deceased conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.Political consultant Matt Hurley first made the claim on social media, writing, "Earlier this evening, while attending the Northern State University football game, South Dakota Republican gubernatorial candidate Toby...
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This week Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price doubled down on her refusal to apologise to the Indian community, and failed to back her leader. That saw her removed from the shadow ministry. And the Prime Minister went to Vanuatu and the Pacific Islands Forum, to discuss security and climate change with other pacific leaders.
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Donald Trump's "populist base is starting to push back" against him, according to new reporting.In an article called "Trump loves AI, and the MAGA world is getting worried," Politico reported, "President Donald Trump's AI action plan has set off a backlash from some of the biggest figures in the America First movement — a rift expected to shape...
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The far-right National Conservatism Conference used to be an event that many traditional Goldwater and McCain conservatives made a point of avoiding. But with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement now dominating the GOP, NatCon is drawing a lot more attention in Republican circles.In an article published on September 13, Salon's Heather Digby...
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A makeup artist from "The Apprentice" was surprised to see how the Trump administration was failing to conceal the president's health condition.In an article called "On Trump's hand, it's not just the bruise. It's the (apparent) coverup," the Washington Post reported Saturday, "A makeup artist who worked on the 2024 'The Apprentice' film critiques...
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Donald Trump on Saturday claimed credit for improving crime numbers in one of the cities he is targeting with a federal takeover.The president took to Truth Social over the weekend to weigh in on the situation in Memphis, TN."The only reason crime is somewhat down in Memphis is because the FBI, and others in the Federal Government, at my direction,...
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An offhand comment made by Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade about using "involuntary lethal injection” on mentally ill homeless people set off a wave of outrage on Saturday morning, and led to calls for him to be fired later that same day.Conservative attorney and anti-Trump activist George Conway responded to Kilmeade's Fox segment, during...
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MAGA legends on Saturday lashed out a restaurant they claim is "justifying the assassination of Charlie Kirk," but the owners say it's all a misunderstanding.Whiskey seller John Rich flagged a sign posted by Rosepepper Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Nashville, TN, which said, "Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions." The...
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Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man arrested in the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, was taken into custody after his father saw the security photos released by authorities of the shooting suspect and confronted his son, sources told CBS News. Scott MacFarlane has more on what we know about the suspect.
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A judge with a history of making Donald Trump mad is now involved in a new lawsuit brought against the administration, and the jurist suggested this weekend that she might not have jurisdiction over the case at all.Politico reported on Friday that Judge Chutkan was "worried publicly" that the Trump administration had, "with a wink and a nod,”...
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Politico senior columnist Jonathan Martin reports House Republicans are aligning with President Donald Trump in wanting to remove Trump's biggest Republican gadfly."If President Donald Trump's top political priority next year is Republicans retaining control of Congress, his second-highest goal may be the defeat of his foremost GOP irritant: Rep....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Donald Trump called a grieving governor to deliver a "warning."The shooting of Charlie Kirk rocked the state of Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox was personally delivering press conference updates. It reportedly hit Cox especially hard that the suspected killer was a native of the state, and didn't come from another country.According to the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
TV host Bill Maher shut down noted right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro with a comment about how news is spread in connection with the shooting death of fellow conservative Charlie Kirk.It started with Shapiro saying we "know" that the suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, was "of the political left." Shapiro cited a report from the Guardian, which was...
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President Donald Trump's push to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is beginning to take shape, but the would-be replacements are already looking like duds in his eyes.According to a report Saturday in Politico, "high-level Republican officials” are already recommending to Trump potential challengers for Massie, who drew the president's ire after...
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An offhand comment made by Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade about using "involuntary lethal injection” on mentally ill homeless people set off a wave of outrage on Saturday morning.Lost in the Wednesday shuffle after conservative Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday at a rally on a Utah college campus was a discussion on Fox & Friends...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
A popular MSNBC pundit who was swiftly fired for making an anodyne observation that conservative Charlie Kirk was a "divisive” figure pushed back at his dismissal and accused the network of being manipulated.On his Substack platform, Matthew Dowd noted that he has been in the political commentary business for years and that he appeared on MSNBC...
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I had the opportunity to engage the author of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, Paul Dans, last Saturday on BBC World News Radio. The essential question was whether Project 2025 was a document of totalitarian rule. Dans, who was fired from the Heritage Foundation during the presidential campaign for linking Donald Trump to the fascist...
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New York University professor and historian Timothy Naftali scolded GOP strategist Lance Trover Saturday on CNN after being falsely accused of calling President Donald Trump a "fascist,” a debate centered around heated rhetoric in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing."I think the Democrats and Republicans both have to stop using apocalyptic...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
National security expert Juliette Kayyem slapped down GOP strategist Lance Trover Saturday after dismissing claims that only Democrats were engaged in the type of heated rhetoric that led to the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.Responding to a clip of Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) urging "to take the temperature down” on heated...
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Adding to Donald Trump's problems that already include the Jeffrey Epstein files, his inability to end the Russia-Ukraine war after promising to do so immediately after taking office, he is now confronted with the same harsh economic news that dogged President Joe Biden.According to a report from David Lynch of the Washington Post, the president...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Speaking on the assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, former Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall issued a warning Saturday that similar instances of violence would continue so long as public figures continue to push "hate-fueled speech.”"This murder is not about Charlie Kirk,” Hall said, speaking on CNN with anchor Victor Blackwell....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
A president who calls his opponents "scum” and "the enemy within,” who ordered the murder of 11 people in a boat headed for Trinidad then posted snuff photos of the hit, and who has repeatedly encouraged political violence in his name, is trying to catapult Charlie Kirk's murder into a push for maximum state power. Deliberately stoking outrage...
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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was on the receiving end of no small amount of ridicule on MSNBC on Saturday morning over her book tour that has done nothing to burnish her reputation and is instead having the opposite effect.On MSNBC's "The Weekend,” Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern pounced on Barrett's remarks about the court's...
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller took to Fox News Friday night to reveal, for the first time, one of Charlie Kirk's final messages before being shot and killed Wednesday, a message that he then used to justify launching a sweeping crackdown on "radical left organizations.”"Let me tell you something I've not shared with anybody,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
FBI Director Kash Patel's parting words to slain right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, that he would see him "in Valhalla,” the utopian realm from Norse mythology, may end up jeopardizing the prosecution of Kirk's suspected killer, one former prosecutor said Saturday."You have to be careful when you're running an investigation as a law enforcement...
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There is growing alarm within Donald Trump's inner circle that his message on a booming economy is falling flat with voters who still see prices rising when they were promised the opposite would occur after he was re-elected.According to a report from Politico's Megan Messerly, one of the president's longtime economic advisers conceded that growing...
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Republican lawmakers are starting to panic over a key issue that some say, if not addressed ahead of a looming deadline to approve a spending bill, could end up costing the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections."If we don't do something, some day soon, premiums are going to skyrocket, and not by a little bit,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), speaking...
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Reviewing what has transpired since far-right conservative Charlie Kirk was gunned down on a Utah college campus on Wednesday and his alleged killer was taken into custody on Friday, one MSNBC host pointed to comments made by Donald Trump in the aftermath and what was missing.Discussing what followed after 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was taken...
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President Donald Trump fired off at NATO countries Saturday morning in a fiery social media post, demanding that American allies would have to do "as I say” to bring about the end to the Russo-Ukraine War."This is not TRUMP'S WAR (it would never have started if I was President!), it is Biden's and Zelenskyy's WAR,” Trump wrote Saturday in an...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Too much of the media coverage and reaction I am seeing to the shooting of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk is completely absurd and very, very dangerous.At a time when truth and context are absolutely vital, I am seeing too damn little of both.There would be less angst and our country would be far safer if only we accepted people for who they...
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One Democratic member of the House of Representatives is now sharing disturbing audio of death threats that supporters of President Donald Trump recently called into his office.The Hill reported Friday that Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) posted a minute-long clip of several death threats to both Moulton and his children after he called on President...
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Pauline von Pezold spricht mit WELT-Journalist und Autor Frederik Schindler über dessen neues Buch, in dem er die Entwicklung von Björn Höcke vom Lehrer mit eindeutig rechten Ansichten zum radikalsten aller AfD-Politiker nachzeichnet. Das Buch zeigt, wie Höcke nicht sich, sondern die Partei radikalisiert hat. Es geht darum, welche Verbindungen...
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A prominent New York Times reporter said President Donald Trump seems to be struggling with the killing of MAGA ally Charlie Kirk, and acknowledged that fellow ally Steve Bannon was right about one big thing.Maggie Haberman joined CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on her show, "The Source," to discuss the fallout of Kirk's killingon Wednesday at an event...
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President Donald Trump's Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte has been on a tear accusing various critics of the administration of mortgage fraud — most recently Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, whom he claimed improperly took out mortgages on two separate properties as primary residences. However, a new Reuters report throws...
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Office Depot became the subject of MAGA fury on Friday night after a video posted on social media showed two employees refusing to fulfill an order to print fliers sharing details of a vigil planned for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, died from a gunshot wound to the neck during a public event at...
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Over the course of two days, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has taken starkly shifting positions on the alleged assassin of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk—repeatedly blaming Democrats, calling for the death penalty, then urging prayer for the suspect to find Jesus Christ.When news broke on Wednesday that Kirk—who had a large following on the...
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After numerous counties turned down the case over the past few weeks, Coconino County has finally agreed to investigate allegations that Republican candidate for Attorney General Rodney Glassman violated campaign finance law.Glassman, a perennial candidate for elected office in Arizona, is accused of accepting at least 30 contributions above the...
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The ink is barely dry on the Missouri Republican Party's mid-decade gerrymander, and it has received its first lawsuit, filed in the state circuit court of Jackson County by the elections watchdog group Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU of Missouri.The map in question, passed after President Donald Trump ordered Republican-controlled states to...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board ripped the Trump administration's mass deportation effort, citing the fallout from last week's "blunderbuss raid" on a Hyundai plant in Georgia.Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a major raid on an electric vehicle battery plant under construction in Ellabell. Nearly...
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New documents obtained by Reuters contradict allegations made by a Trump administration bureaucrat that Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte had previously claimed to have unearthed documents indicating Cook, who had been unwilling to follow President Donald Trump's demands...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is going after House Republicans after many of them blamed Democrats for this week's murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk.As the Daily Beast reported Friday, Crockett went on "The Breakfast Club" to share her thoughts on the national climate in the wake of this week's fatal shooting of the Trump ally and MAGA...
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After FBI Director Kash Patel dropped the ball during the scramble to find the killer who shot pro-Trump activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, an increasing number of figures in the MAGA movement are losing confidence in him and demanding his ouster, The New Republic reported on Friday.Although the suspect, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested on...
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Public health and environment defenders on Friday condemned the Trump administration's announcement that it will no longer uphold Environmental Protection Agency rules that protect people from unsafe levels of so-called ”forever chemicals” in the nation's drinking water.In addition to no longer defending rules meant to protect people from...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday called out Elon Musk's moves to cut government waste with government workforce firings "backward.""The focus should have been on cutting the waste, fraud and abuse, and the people you could do over time,” Lutnick said in an interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen. "I thought he got that...
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Although much remains unknown about Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old arrested in connection with the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Orem, Utah, his grandmother made one thing clear, reported The Daily Beast: he comes from a heavily Republican and pro-Trump family."Although MAGA figureheads have been quick to point fingers at...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly relieved several military service members who posted on social media about Charlie Kirk, according to a report.Hegseth told staffers to hunt down and punish military members and anyone with ties to the Pentagon who appeared to mock or condone Kirk's slaying, two defense officials told NBC News on...
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Democrats reported receiving heightened threats on Friday in the wake of the killing of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk.Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) announced Friday that his office received threats."My office has received an extraordinary number of violent and graphic threats yesterday and today from right-wing individuals online and over the...
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The Wall Street Journal was under fire from social media critics Friday afternoon for spreading "incendiary misinformation" in the hours after the Charlie Kirk shooting.In the initial report, The Journal referenced an early bulletin law enforcement circulated, saying the ammunition they found had engravings signifying "transgender and anti-fascist...
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The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations put out an extensive statement on Friday condemning Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for his recent social media post urging Texans to report anyone attempting to impose "Sharia law," or Islamic religious laws, in Texas.Abbott's post on X came in response to what appeared to be a video of an...
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