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U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro faced backlash after trying to walk back her remarks, which vowed to prosecute gun crimes in Washington, D.C.In an interview on Fox News this week, Pirro insisted that anyone who brought a gun into the district should "count on going to jail.""I don't care if you have a license in another district,...
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A 67-year-old retiree was slapped with a subpoena by the Department of Homeland Security after mildly criticizing an immigration prosecutor in an email after reading a newspaper article about an Afghan refugee's case.Jon, who asked to withhold his last name out of fear for his family's safety, told the Washington Post that he had read the paper's...
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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) suggested that Americans would be "justified in shooting" ICE agents if they mistook them for "masked hoodlums.""What is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets, the attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums," Nadler told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. "If you were...
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Kiew im tiefsten Winter: minus 20 Grad, Angriffe auf Energieanlagen, Menschen ohne Strom und Heizung. Trotz angekündigter Feuerpause setzt Russland seine Attacken fort. Während Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj gemeinsam mit NATO-Generalsekretär Mark Rutte Blumen niederlegt, heulen in der Hauptstadt erneut die Sirenen. Im Gespräch mit dem...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has come under fire after he had a veteran removed from a town hall meeting after asking questions about ICE. The Trump-supporting congressman, whose seat is considered at high risk in this year's midterms, appeared at the SUNY Rockland Community College's Cultural Arts Center, where 450 members of the public attended to ask...
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President Donald Trump's administration insisted that there would be "national security implications" if the new White House ballroom was not built immediately.In a motion opposing an injunction to halt the building of a massive White House addition, attorneys for the National Park Service warned there could be "an emergency situation" if the...
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Investigators in Arizona discovered blood inside the Tucson home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" host Savannah Guthrie, according to reports Tuesday. The finding suggested that the 84-year-old could be a victim of foul play, The Los Angeles Times reported. Authorities believe she could have been forced out of her home sometime in the middle...
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The apparent collapse of MAGA and support for President Donald Trump in parts of Florida has left it wide open for the Democratic Party, insiders believe.Ryan Ray, who chairs the Leon County Democratic Party, argued a change in mood, as well as infighting in Florida's GOP supermajority, were all positive signs for Dems who may feel they can push...
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In 2016, former prime minister Justin Trudeau overhauled the way appointments are made to make them more open and transparent. However, recent appointments by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government raise the question of whether his government is still following the system Trudeau put in place.
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The Lockheed Martin event in Texas comes as the future of the CF-18 replacement program is under review because of the ongoing trade and political disputes between Canada and the United States, and as the first F-35 is set to be delivered within months.
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The UK has historically been a global leader in life sciences innovation, but recent statistics paint a worrying picture for medicines access. The right policy can start to reverse this. We are living in a time where the intersection between breakthrough science, technology and data insights has the potential to transform treatment options for some...
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Donald Trump has given a clear sign he will not accept the outcome of the midterm elections should he lose, a Nobel Prize winner has warned. Paul Krugman believes the president will flat out refuse to accept the results of the midterms should the Democratic Party find themselves with a majority in the House and Senate. The economist, writing in his...
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While the Trump administration has promised high salaries and generous bonuses for federal immigration agent recruits, a wave of apparent new agents have taken to social media to complain about getting stiffed on everything from bonuses to health insurance, the International Business Times UK reported."Been here for about 2 months, still waiting...
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President Donald Trump erupted Tuesday at The New York Times over a recent article that revealed the president had "backtracked” on his previous vow to extract millions of dollars from Harvard over allegations that it had mishandled antisemitism on its campus."Why hasn't the Fake News New York Times adjusted its phony article on the corruption...
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MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski sighed in exasperation as she listened to President Donald Trump lying about winning elections in a state he lost three times.The 79-year-old president spoke to his former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino on his podcast, where he falsely claimed to have won in Minnesota in each of his races and then argued that Republicans...
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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was named in an allegation sent by email to two federal judges and discussed last August by federal prosecutors in New York, the Justice Department's Friday release of around 3.5 million Jeffrey Epstein files has revealed.Given the sheer volume of Epstein-related materials released by the DOJ, many...
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The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (Investigative Reporter).It's shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X, had his offices in France raided Tuesday as part of an ongoing criminal probe into the potential "dissemination of child pornography,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The investigation stems from the social media platform's ability to generate user-created deepfake sexualized images.The...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump's latest "crazy" scheme to avoid accountability.The 79-year-old president told former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino's on his podcast that Republicans should nationalize elections and take them over in at least 15 states where he falsely claimed there had been fraud. The...
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A treaty between Russia and the U.S. could expire shortly because of a standstill over country membership. An ex-Pentagon official said the potential expiry is a frustrating one, and it appears Donald Trump is caught up in a detail that, to the former official, makes little difference. Kingston Reiff warned the new START deal, which will expire on...
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In the first election Amy Burgans fully oversaw as clerk-treasurer for Douglas County, Nevada, she received a death threat.It was 2022. Someone returned their mail-in ballot with "crazy talk” written all over it, including the threat to Burgans. That same year, law enforcement got involved over a stalker's texts."It's almost par for the course,...
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President Donald Trump's closure of the Kennedy Center proved he lost a "bad bet" — and was the result of an error that he can't stop making, an Atlantic writer warned.A year ago, Trump assumed control of Washington, D.C.'s premier performing-arts institution. Despite never attending a show there, he expressed confidence in his singular ability...
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Donald Trump has asked Republican Party officials to "take over" voting procedures in 15 states.During an interview with ex-deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, the president made a speech on immigration, and directly called for the election process to be taken into Republican control. Trump's call is cause for concern after previous comments from the...
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Donald Trump is seemingly fretting about the midterm election results months in advance, a political commentator has claimed. The president has recently weathered election results which could be an indicator of a shifting mood across the country, with Taylor Rehmet flipping a Texas Senate seat Trump won by 17 points just two years ago. CNN analyst...
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Leslie Jordan's character on Will & Grace had a running joke, whenever he introduced his lover: "This is my business associate, Benji.” No one was fooled. Everyone knew exactly what that phrase was doing: softening, sanitizing, shielding a truth obvious to anyone paying attention. Some two decades later, that same euphemism has become the go-to...
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PARIS — La loi de finances 2026 à peine envoyée au Conseil constitutionnel, les députés s'apprêtent à enquêter sur "l'imposition des plus hauts patrimoines et des revenus les plus élevés et leur contribution au financement des services publics”, a appris POLITICO auprès de deux sources parlementaires. Le groupe d'élus...
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PARIS — Le parquet de Paris a annoncé ce mardi 3 février qu'une perquisition était diligentée dans les locaux français de X. Menée par la section de lutte contre la cybercriminalité du parquet de Paris, avec l'Unité nationale Cyber de la Gendarmerie et Europol, elle fait suite à l'enquête ouverte sur la plateforme en janvier […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump likes to throw out a lot of figures during speeches to his base that he says prove how successful his first year back in office has been. But given Trump's proclivity for spreading misinformation, we wanted to see how many of these figures are accurate and backed up by real data.
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Lord Mandelson is still the main topic for discussion on the podcast - as Anne reports back from an event with the US ambassador to London, Warren Stephens. Sam and Anne both pick over Peter Mandelson’s interview with The Times, where he is pictured standing next to an aga and seems to hint there’s still […]
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Jimmy Kimmel says he had not expected Donald Trump to take a swipe at him when responding to questions in the White House.The president had been fielding questions in the Oval Office and hit out at Grammy Awards show host Trevor Noah, but also included a jab at talk show host Kimmel. Trump would later make a lengthy Truth Social post about Noah,...
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Donald Trump has threatened Harvard University with a one billion dollar lawsuit in a late night post on Truth Social. The president called out the Massachusetts-based institute in a post to the social media app after it was reported the Trump administration had to backtrack from a $200million payment demand from the university. A post to Truth...
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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the Republican leading the probe said an agreement had not yet been finalized.
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Zittern um die Versorgungssicherheit:Deutschlands Gasspeicher sind nur noch zu einem Drittel gefüllt. Während Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche beschwichtigt, warnt die Branche vor Engpässen an extrem kalten Tagen. Joana Lehner von "Energie und Klima am Morgen” berichtet im Gespräch mit Gordon Repinski über die Sorgen der Energiebranche...
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POLITICO's daily audio briefing on what's moving Brussels — and why it matters. The Brussels Playbook Podcast is the audio extension of the Brussels Playbook newsletter. Hosted by the Chief EU Correspondent Zoya Sheftalovich, the podcast runs Monday through Thursday, offering a clear, reporting-driven guide to EU politics in under 15 minutes....
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Things got heated on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" on Monday when a former Republican lawmaker and a former aide in the Clinton White House clashed over President Donald Trump's raid of an election office in Georgia last week. Trump's FBI, accompanied by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, raided the Fulton County election hub...
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President Donald Trump may be out of moves to avoid accountability for the Jeffrey Epstein files, and it cost him dearly, one columnist argued on Monday. David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, discussed the impact of the more than three million documents that Trump's Department of Justice recently released on a new episode of "The Daily...
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Famed Montana paleontologist Jack Horner named in Epstein filesby Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan February 2, 2026Now-retired Montana State University professor and renowned paleontologist Jack Horner thanked Jeffrey Epstein and "the girls” for his visit in an email to an assistant in 2012."Although we didn't find any dinosaur fossils, we did...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday slammed the Trump administration's attempts to semi-nationalize efforts to extract rare earth minerals to compete with China."What would Republicans have said if the Biden crowd acquired government stakes in companies with ties to its friends and family? Well, that's more or less what...
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President Donald Trump's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator made comments about rural health care on Monday that caused a stir online. Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television presenter and author, said during an event for the "Action for Progress" initiative, which addresses mental health and addiction, alongside Health and Human...
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President Donald Trump's administration believes that it has identified the "leader of Antifa" in Portland, Oregon, according to a new report. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on Monday that the Department of Homeland Security flagged a 29-year-old named Chandler Patey, who lives near an ICE facility in South Portland, and lets...
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A former federal prosecutor on Monday revealed all of the ways President Donald Trump's latest lawsuit threat could backfire on him. Trump threatened to sue comedian Trevor Noah after he made a joke about Trump being on the infamous "Epstein Island" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. Noah is the latest comedian to be targeted by Trump...
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Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback unveiled an unorthodox campaign strategy on Monday: take his candidacy onto Tinder.Fishback, a 31-year-old hedge fund manager challenging President Donald Trump's endorsed candidate Rep. Byron Donalds for the Republican nomination, posted to X his plans to campaign through the dating site: "I've joined...
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A former Fox News host said on Monday that President Donald Trump is raising "huge red flags" about the upcoming election. Gretchen Carlson, who left Fox News in 2016, joined CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" on Monday to talk about some of the latest news coming out of the Trump administration. During the conversation, Carlson brought up a New York...
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A federal judge dealt a major blow to the Trump administration Monday, temporarily blocking the government's attempt to strip immigration protections from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and potentially boot them out of the country.Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., threw down the hammer, ordering the government to keep the program alive after...
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Former Trump administration communications official Sarah Matthews told MS NOW's "The Weeknight" that President Donald Trump is fracturing his winning coalition with his ongoing obsession about the 2020 presidential election, and his efforts to try to relitigate and change national voting policies based on his conspiracy theories that the race was...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Republicans to take notice after Democrats stunned the GOP by flipping a deep-red Texas state Senate seat, and CNN data analyst Harry Enten said the numbers back up that concern. Union leader Taylor Rehment defeated Trump-endorsed conservative Leigh Wambsganns in a district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 —...
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Chaos continues at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, which is hemorrhaging more talent, with eight more federal prosecutors heading for the exits, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Monday.The latest wave of departures comes on the heels of a startling mass exodus last month, when six veteran prosecutors walked away in protest over...
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An influencer in President Donald Trump's MAGA movement floated a weird new theory about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after the latest Jeffrey Epstein files were released. Included in the thousands of pages of new documents was a picture of Mamdani's mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, who used to work for Epstein in New York, alongside Epstein and...
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