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A Conservative government would prevent any new supervised consumption sites from opening, while making it harder for existing sites to operate, leader Pierre Poilievre announced Sunday, as he provided greater detail into his approach to a form of harm reduction he has repeatedly condemned.
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This week on "Face the Nation," six months to the day after Hamas attacked Israel, the Israeli military has pulled many of its troops out of southern Gaza. Holly Williams joins from Tel Aviv with more. Plus, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Sen. Chris Van Hollen join as Baltimore seeks to rebuild from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
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Spending habits of 50 members of Congress and 30 officials in President Donald Trump's administration are on display in publicly accessible Venmo accounts, according to a report Tuesday.NOTUS reporter Mark Alfred sifted through the accounts and the associated lists of contacts, uncovering telling things about U.S. lawmakers. Rep. Steve Womack...
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Farmers in Kentucky overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump last year but the New York Times reports that they are already bracing for severe impact from the global trade war that he launched last year.Kentucky State Rep. Ryan Bivens, a Republican who owns a 10,000-acre corn, soybean and wheat farm, tells the Times that his farm was already...
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Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, declined an invitation to visit the White House for a discussion on a budget being pitched by President Donald Trump and his advisers.The Hill's Emily Brooks reported Tuesday that Harris had rejected the White House's invitation."There's nothing that I can hear at the White House that I...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) slammed President Donald Trump for spending at least $26 million of taxpayer money to play golf in the first two months of his presidency.During a DOGE subcommittee hearing chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday, Crockett wondered why Republicans were focused on dismantling government services instead...
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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is facing sharp criticism for delaying a special election to fill the seat of a Democratic U.S. Representative in a solid blue district who died in March. With the U.S. House of Representatives nearly evenly split, Democrats argue that waiting until November—eight months after the congressman's death—to...
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Financial Times columnist Edward Luce on Tuesday ridiculed President Donald Trump's billionaire backers who have expressed bewilderment at his decision to launch trade wars against nearly every nation on Earth.Pointing to comments from Trump-backing hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman that expressed dismay at Trump's trade strategy, Luce found...
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Lost in the focus on President Donald Trump's tariffs is the economic impact his war of words is having on international visitation to Las Vegas. When the President of the United States tells people they are not welcome, could be detained, or even end up in an El Salvadoran prison, they listen and decide to go elsewhere. The result will hit Las...
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Elon Musk's DOGE team has been using artificial intelligence to conduct surveillance on at least one federal agency's communications for signs of disloyalty to President Donald Trump and his agenda, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees about the...
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Experts from a conservative think tank are challenging "bad math" in President Donald Trump's complicated-looking formula explaining why he thinks tariffs are a good idea. CNN's John Berman exclaimed, "This is going to blow your mind here!" when introducing two economists with The American Enterprise Institute who pointed out the "major math error"...
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Republicans are growing restless and frustrated over President Donald Trump's escalating trade war — and some strategists are warning he's set to trigger a dangerous backlash, Politico reported on Tuesday.Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, dubbed a "reciprocal" scheme even though the tariffs are in most cases far higher than those imposed on U.S....
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Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday lobbed new insults at Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro after he accused Musk of opposing President Donald Trump's tariffs for self-interested reasons.Writing on his own X platform, Musk lashed out at Navarro's claim that Musk is a "car assembler" who gets many of his cars' parts imported from overseas before...
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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is calling on President Donald Trump to abandon a law passed by executive order in a scathing column published in the Wall Street Journal. The 83-year-old politician — who has frequently criticized Trump since stepping down as the Republican leader in the Seante, hammered the president over recent executive orders...
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and one of his panelists agreed that President Donald Trump means every word he's saying about the tariffs threatening to wreck the global economy.The president's allies are split on the double-digit tariffs Trump is imposing on more than 90 trading partners, which he insists are necessary to undo trade deficits and boost...
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President Donald Trump previewed a possible agreement with South Korea Tuesday to potentially avoid reciprocal tariffs — and said he's willing to negotiate with China.South Korea is sending its trade minister to the U.S. to discuss the 25-percent tariff Trump is imposing, which is one of the highest to be slapped on a U.S. ally. But the president...
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A divisive and protracted years-long quest to terminate Mesquite's police chief is causing collateral damage in the executive offices of City Hall over allegations of racist remarks by the city manager. In an audio recording obtained by the Current, Mesquite City Manager Edward Owen Dickie tells several residents that he notified police union...
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Washington Post Columnist Catherine Rampell slammed the team around President Donald Trump Tuesday, calling them 'Sycophants and cowards" for failing to stand up to his market-crashing tariff plan.The writer called out several members of Trump's inner circle because they have "egged him on" his tariff tirade. Like economic adviser Kevin Hassett who...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested that billionaire DOGE administrator Elon Musk could be trusted with Americans' data because "he's the richest man in the world."During an interview on Real America's Voice this week, host John Solomon asked Greene to react to a recent appellate court ruling that gave Musk access to sensitive private data...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Sen. John Barrasso discusses the new tariffs announced by President Trump. Rep. Don Bacon and Sen. Maria Cantwell discusses a measure in Congress to claw back its authority over trade and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discusses next steps in the...
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A Michigan lawyer who's representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at a campus protest says he was detained, interrogated and ordered to hand over his phone for inspection after returning from a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic with his family.Dearborn attorney Amir Makled, whose client Samantha Lewis was among seven arrested...
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CNN's Jake Tapper refused to allow Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to pretend to be following sound science on vaccine safety.Kennedy, a longstanding vaccine conspiracy theorist who has baselessly linked vaccination to autism and frequently overstated the risk of legitimate side effects, tried to put all of that aside...
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The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted $10 million in settlement money with the state Agency for Health Care Administration into the Hope Florida Foundation, a charity run by his wife Casey DeSantis to reshape welfare assistance, reported the Miami Herald on Tuesday.Hope Florida, created in 2022, has a mission to reduce...
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President Donald Trump remains entrenched in his belief that tariffs will boost the U.S. economy, despite last week's historic sell-off — but MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said his allies are wondering if there's an off-ramp.Stock futures jumped by 2 percent Tuesday after another volatile day on Wall Street, which witnessed the highest trading volume...
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Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig challenged the legal theory floated by Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller surrounding the administration's deportation of a Maryland father who officials have admitted was illegally transported to a high-security prison in El Salvador."What Stephen Miller said there is straight up wrong,” Honig said Monday in an...
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A prominent American academic was detained on Tuesday and charged with insulting Thailand's monarchy, his lawyer told AFP, in a rare case of a foreign national falling foul of the kingdom's strict lese-majeste law.Paul Chambers, who has spent more than a decade teaching Southeast Asia politics in Thailand, is in pre-trial detention awaiting a...
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In the halls of US universities and research labs, one question has become increasingly common as President Donald Trump tightens his grip on the field: whether to move abroad."Everybody is talking about it," JP Flores, a doctoral student in genetics at the University of North Carolina, told AFP.The discussion was thrust into the spotlight after...
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The writer behind Robert De Niro classics "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver" is being sued by his former assistant for sexual harassment and assault.Paul Schrader has been accused by the unnamed 26-year-old of grabbing and kissing her while they were at the Cannes Film Festival last year.A lawsuit filed in New York last week says after she escaped his...
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Jakob Hanke Vela, the bureau chief at the German economics paper Handelsblatt, has been chatting with European trade officials in recent days who are holding off on launching a counterattack to President Donald Trump's trade war — largely because they believe he's sufficiently hurting himself.Writing on X, Vela relayed some of the whispers he's...
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Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett once again found herself the subject of a full-on MAGA meltdown on Monday as allies of President Donald Trump targeted her for siding with the high court's liberal justices in a brutal takedown of the Trump appointee. Barrett was noticeably missing from the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruling that...
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Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who led a widely derided review of the 2020 presidential election, searching for evidence for baseless accusations of fraud, will have his law license suspended for three years, according to a stipulated agreement between him and the state Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR). Law Forward, the...
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I am not sure how you are holding up right now (I reckon I can guess), but from my sturdy perch here in Madison, Wisconsin, the past week has been one of the longest years of my life …I hope you'll give me a few minutes of your time today while I take you through it, because I do believe the battle against cancerous greed and deadly fascism was...
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CNN's Stephen Collinson believes that there is no easy way out for President Donald Trump when it comes to his trade war — and that means the American economy is headed for what he describes as an "ugly endgame."In his latest analysis, Collinson makes the case that Trump has backed himself into a corner by refusing to budge from his trade wars...
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"As DOGE rips through the federal government, Texans wonder what it means for them" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter that...
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For nearly three decades, a little-known federal agency has provided millions of dollars in support and funding to Mississippi's colleges and universities museums, to libraries and to cultural institutions, including the Margaret Walker and COFO Civil Rights Center at Jackson State University. In 2011, the state's largest historically Black...
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With economists warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war will raise the cost of living for millions of American families and could soon fuel a recession, the economic justice group Patriotic Millionaires on Monday unveiled a "bold, surprisingly simple economic framework" to stop the oligarchy from amassing more power at the expense of...
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Adin Ross, a 23-year-old gamer, internet personality and prominent figure in the anti-feminist Manosphere movement, is so fond of President Donald Trump that he gave him, as a gift, a gold Rolex and a customized, MAGA-themed Tesla Cybertruck.But now, Ross is publicly admitting that Trump's steep new tariffs are hurting him financially.During a...
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has taken himself off the election campaign trail to hold a series of high-level meetings with the Reserve Bank and big bank CEOs to discuss fallout from Donald Trump's trade war and market volatility.
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Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app It's the final episode before recess so Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy wonder, given the turbulent times, who'll be the first to call for Parliament to be recalled? And talking of the Lib Dems, there's some new polling which might put […]
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Candidates were dropping almost as fast as the writs in the first two weeks of the campaign. But after Monday, political parties will have an additional problem if they decide to remove a candidate from their ticket — they won't be able to put forward a backup contender.
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– Wie weiter nach den Börsen-Abstürzen?Hans von der Burchard und Gordon Repinski über die Möglichkeiten der EU jetzt auf Trump zu reagieren. – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: VDA-Präsidentin Hildegard Müller, was sie von der Politik in Berlin und Brüssel erwartet, nachdem die globale Handelsordnung vollends durcheinander gebracht worden ist....
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If President Donald Trump truly wants U.S. District Judge James Boasberg off the bench, he risks upsetting a pillar of the judicial establishment — particularly the conservative one.The New York Times reported Monday on the extensive ties between Judge Boasberg and Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was Trump's second...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board laid into the Trump administration again Monday night as it actively fights against efforts to return a wrongfully deported man from a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison to the United States.Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland was mistakenly sent to a mega-prison last month, and the Trump...
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