Raw Story - Politics (42 minutes ago)
A legal expert warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday night that his latest "galling" outburst may have just become his "Joseph McCarthy moment."On Monday, Trump was asked by a reporter on Air Force One about the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump snapped at the reporter and said, "Quiet, Piggy." Joyce Vance, a law professor at the University of...
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Industry Minister Mélanie Joly pitted two giant defence companies against one another on Tuesday for the future of Canada's fighter fleet, saying the $27-billion contract to buy 88 U.S.-made F-35 jets doesn't deliver enough jobs for workers in this country and that the public expects a better deal.
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President Donald Trump appears likely to sign the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act into law this week, which would compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all remaining evidence pertaining to deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein that has yet to be made public.However, Epstein's brother, Mark, recently said that a "pretty good...
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The Washington Post's editorial board slammed President Donald Trump on Tuesday over comments he made about one of the outlet's assassinated journalists during a press conference in the Oval Office. Trump hosted Saudi Arabian Prime Minister Mohammad bin Salman on Tuesday, and the foreign leader faced tough questions about journalist Jamal Khashoggi...
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The prosecutor President Donald Trump hand-picked to take his political foes to court hit back at a CNN guest on Tuesday over a perceived slight during an interview on the network. On Monday's edition of CNN's "NewsNight," attorney Stacy Schneider, who appeared with interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan on Trump's TV show "The Apprentice," clashed...
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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson thinks the vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files Tuesday afternoon was a genuine turning point against President Donald Trump by his own supporters — and outlined why on MSNBC's "The Beat.""There's ... been this large clash inside MAGA that Trump has failed to quell," said anchor...
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One of President Donald Trump's staunchest supporters on television admitted on Tuesday that he couldn't defend the president's latest outburst. David Urban, a GOP strategist, was asked about a comment Trump made to a reporter on Air Force One on Monday during an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." Trump called the reporter a "piggy" and told...
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A top Democrat in the House of Representatives attacked a 31-year-old GOP colleague on Tuesday during a hearing on a bill that would make it easier for President Donald Trump's administration to deport immigrants.Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) clashed with Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) over Gill's bill that would "authorize the expedited removal of aliens...
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Gov. Greg Abbott seeks to ban two Muslim groups and their members from owning land in Texasby Berenice Garcia, Joshua Fechter and Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune November 18, 2025Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday named two Islamic groups as terrorist and criminal organizations, banning them and those associated with the groups from purchasing or...
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Ever since the federal government shutdown was averted, controversy has sprung up over a hidden provision in the bill that would let U.S. senators investigated by former special counsel Jack Smith in the 2020 election coup plot to sue the federal government for up to $500,000. Even Republicans in the House scrambled to disavow the provision, and...
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A legal expert was taken aback on Tuesday after a federal judge issued a stunning ruling against President Donald Trump's efforts to sway the 2026 midterm election in favor of Republicans. On Tuesday, Judge Jeffrey V. Brown of the District Court for the Southern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, ruled that the Republican maps drawn by the Texas...
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President Donald Trump's latest speech is the latest indicator that he is losing his mental faculties and "slipping badly," The Bulwark editor and former conservative Jonathan Last said in a new video released on Tuesday.The speech, delivered at the McDonald's Impact Summit in D.C. on Monday, featured Trump arguing for his plan to make prices more...
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After a panel of federal judges struck down Texas' new gerrymandered Congressional redistricting maps, one Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives is turning his outrage toward House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for giving them his blessing.Punchbowl News' Laura Weiss reported Tuesday that Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) denounced both...
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A House Democrat whose district was targeted by a mid-decade Republican redistricting effort hit back Tuesday with a forceful statement after a federal court struck down the effort as a racial gerrymander.Texas Republicans plotted to draw Democratic Reps. Lloyd Doggett and Greg Casar into the same Austin-based district. The move effectively targets...
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Texas Republicans took yet another loss in court on Tuesday, as a federal judge blocked their law requiring the Biblical Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms via a preliminary injunction.According to CBS News, "In September, a group of Texas families, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued to stop public...
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Rep. Andrew Clyde's (R-GA) rebuke of Democratic Del. Stacey Plakett (USVI) for calling President Donald Trump a felon earned groans both online and on the House floor.Plaskett was censured by the House on Tuesday over revelations she inappropriately coordinated and communicated with Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing in 2019. The...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump may be asking "too little" in return from a foreign leader that he is treating to a lavish reception at the White House. Trump hosted Saudi Arabian Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday, where the president treated him to a lavish dinner and...
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President Donald Trump has signed off on covert CIA measures inside Venezuela as well as preparations for a possible "broader military campaign," The New York Times reported late Tuesday, citing multiple people briefed on the matter.The operations may be an attempt to "prepare a battlefield for further action," the report said. Further details on...
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The House approved a bill directing the Justice Department to release all files related to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, in a near-unanimous vote. Hours later, Senator Chuck Schumer won unanimous agreement for the Senate to pass the measure as soon as it arrived in the chamber.
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CNN host Jake Tapper slammed President Donald Trump on Monday for his comments about a slain journalist while hosting a foreign leader whom American intelligence agencies concluded ordered the journalist's killing. Trump hosted Saudi Arabian Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud at the White House on Monday. During a press conference, a...
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A CNN reporter was floored Tuesday as news dropped the Epstein bill was to speed through the Senate just hours after a nearly unanimous vote from the House. The Senate was to approve the bill, H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, as soon as the bill was received from the House, CNN anchor and chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju...
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Meghan McCain — the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — recently singled out a popular MAGA-aligned commentator over her attempt to soften deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that on the newest episode of her podcast, McCain took SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly to task for her implication...
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Political analysts and observers slammed President Donald Trump's administration on Monday for its latest attempt to dismantle a government agency. On Monday, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration made significant strides toward dismantling the Department of Education by assigning some of the agency's grant portfolio to other...
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An employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was arrested during a sex trafficking sting, law enforcement in Minnesota said.At a press conference on Tuesday, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said that authorities conducted "Operation Creep" between Nov. 5 and Nov. 8. According to the chief, investigators used several methods to track...
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Former CIA counter-terrorism expert Marc Polymeropoulos said President Donald Trump appears to be caving on U.S. Demands that the Saudi government address its many human rights violations and normalize relations with Israel before granting Saudi Arabia access to more lethal U.S. weaponry."One of the things about this visit that I think is a little...
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Politico writer Kyle Cheney said President Donald Trump's grip on his party may finally be slipping, at least for a moment."[T]he extraordinary rebukes and headwinds the president is now facing — much of it from within his own party — are revealing a GOP beginning to reckon with a post-Trump future,” Cheney said, a move "crystallized after...
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Rep. Jesus "Chuy" García (D-IL), a prominent progressive lawmaker from the Chicago area, triggered a firestorm of controversy when he announced his retirement at precisely the filing deadline to run for his district, a move that meant the only candidate who declared for the Democratic primary was his own chief of staff, Patty Garcia.The...
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Jeffrey Epstein's brother is warning that Republicans are "scrubbing the files" and "sabotaging" the full release, according to reports.Mark Epstein said Tuesday in an interview with NewsNation that President Donald Trump and Republicans have changed course over releasing the Epstein files because they are making moves behind the scenes to alter...
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One analyst was stunned by President Donald Trump's comments about a slain journalist during a press conference on Monday with Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. MBS was asked about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during the press conference. Trump jumped in to answer the question and said Khashoggi was...
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The FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are struggling to quash conspiracies that their current leaders used to espouse, according to a Tuesday report in CNN.The first of these involves the ongoing saga surrounding deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, whose recently published emails link President Donald Trump directly to him.When FBI...
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Tuesday to slam state-level regulation of artificial intelligence, bizarrely claiming that tech companies were being forced to deliver "woke" and pro-"diversity" messages with their language models."Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the 'HOTTEST' in the World — But...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," a look at what's next for America after former President Trump's decisive victory. Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California join to discuss what's next for their parties. Plus, Britain's ambassador to the U.S., Karen Pierce, discusses the...
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A pardoned Jan. 6 rioter led an anti-Muslim protest in Dearborn, Michigan, that had been planned and then denounced by Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson.On Tuesday, Hudson told the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) that he had abandoned the anti-Muslim protest after visiting area...
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The House voted on an overwhelming bipartisan basis to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and in the end, even most heavily pro-Trump lawmakers backed the bill, as President Donald Trump, who spent months trying to keep a lid on this legislation and quell a GOP revolt against him, relented and proclaimed...
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Donald Trump claimed last week on social media that "Our economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down,” and that "grocery prices are way down.Rubbish.How do I know he's lying? Official government statistics haven't been issued during the shutdown — presumably to Trump's relief (the White House said Wednesday that the October jobs and...
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The widow of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi fired back Tuesday as President Donald Trump defended Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump defended the crown prince — who made his first visit to the United States since the killing of Khashoggi — saying "things happen" and describing Khashoggi as "extremely controversial" in a tense moment...
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Republicans have a problem with President Donald Trump's priorities after recent election losses and upcoming midterm elections, according to reports on Tuesday. Republicans are concerned about maintaining their MAGA base and asking the president to help them out on the campaign trail, Politico reports. In response to recent Democratic wins and...
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The White House blamed Bloomberg News correspondent Catherine Lucey after President Donald Trump referred to her as "piggy."On Friday, Lucey had asked Trump about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.The reporter wondered why the president was defensive, "if there's nothing incriminating in the files.”"Quiet. Quiet,...
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 427-1 to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and send the discharge petition to the Senate in a move aimed to reveal more information about the disgraced late financier and convicted sex offender and his potential ties to other powerful entities. The landmark bill marks a major victory for the...
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A CNN anchor got in a fiery exchange with a GOP lawmaker over the Epstein files on Tuesday, just ahead of the vote. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) was in a conversation with CNN's Boris Sanchez about the discharge petition when the conversation turned into a yelling match — with both of the men speaking over each other — after Sanchez brought up...
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After a month of losses and setbacks in his plan to push Republicans to rig congressional districts to give themselves extra seats, President Donald Trump suffered a massive blow as a three-judge panel, including a judge he himself appointed, struck down Texas's new congressional districts as an illegal racial gerrymander.The Texas redistricting...
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The Republican who was the lone "no" vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files to prompt the Department of Justice to release the files was brutally mocked online Tuesday after the vote. The House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously at 427-1 to push the discharge petition forward to the Senate. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) was the only no...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Although President Donald Trump has previously floated Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his heirs apparent in 2028, that plan is under threat as new Republicans mull a 2028 run, Newsweek reports.Recent cracks in the MAGA base over the release of the files pertaining to late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and...
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CNN analyst Matt Egan said mom-and-pop stores are reeling from surging import costs, rising inflation and a stressed-out workforce.Enten reports Doug Scheffel, owner of a family-run ETM Manufacturing in Massachusetts, "laid off about a quarter of his employees in April as the Trump administration's haphazard tariff rollout dented demand for the...
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Donald Trump will debase the White House today like never before.Far worse than bulldozing its East Wing, Trump will use the People's House as the grotesque backdrop for reducing to rubble any pretense of American moral leadership in the world. He will prostrate himself — and our nation — at the feet of one of its most malign actors.All for the...
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President Donald Trump set off waves of disgust by suggesting that assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi got what he deserved.The Washington Post columnist was brutally murdered in October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government closely tied to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who joined Trump in the Oval Office Tuesday when a reporter...
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A "long-delayed' pair of economic data points are set to be released "in the coming days,” leaving market analysts on edge over what could become a "defining moment” in determining whether the United States is on the cusp of a market crash, NBC News reported Tuesday."Markets are bracing for a turbulent week as major economic data returns and...
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A federal appeals court set up a likely U.S. Supreme Court challenge over a Republican redistricting map in Texas.A three-judge panel threw out a newly drawn redistricting map for the 2026 election and ordered the state to use the districts passed by the state legislature in 2021, with a Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to file for the March...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
The House was convening Tuesday to consider a landmark vote on a bill that could compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a bill that President Donald Trump had fought fiercely against but reversed course on Sunday after calling on Republicans to support it.The vote comes after a months-long effort from Reps....
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President Donald Trump launched a nearly three-minute tirade against an ABC News reporter on Tuesday after being asked a question about Jeffrey Epstein.Sitting alongside Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why he didn't direct his Justice Department to release all the files it holds on Epstein, rather...
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President Donald Trump's control over his own party amid a number of breakups and backlashes are challenging his "iron-fisted grip" on the GOP. Trump has faced several blows in recent weeks and "appears to be slipping" as he sees support drop in ways not seen since the Jan. 6 insurrection, Politico reports on Tuesday."But the extraordinary rebukes...
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New College of Florida is on its intellectual deathbed.Once an authority-challenging, free-thinking institution for students passionate about learning, a place where difference was celebrated and creativity encouraged.Now, it is becoming a third-rate jock school with overpaid administrators and underachieving freshmen, a casualty of Ron DeSantis'...
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In dieser Spezialfolge des Berlin Playbook Updates berichtet Rixa Fürsen von der Berliner Sicherheitskonferenz – wo Generäle, Verteidigungsminister und sicherheitspolitische Entscheider Europas über Abschreckung, Aufrüstung und die Zukunft der NATO sprechen. Partnerland in diesem Jahr: Schweden. Rixa trifft Pål Jonson, den schwedischen...
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