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Gordon Repinski spaziert mit Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär (CSU) durch das Berliner Regierungsviertel. Zwischen Ministeriumsbalkon und Charité erklärt Bär ihre Agenda: von Milliarden für die Kernfusion bis hin zum ersten Europäer mit deutscher Flagge auf dem Mond. Im Gespräch geht es unter anderem auch darum, wie die Ministerin den...
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Thirty six Texas Democrats — including a congressional candidate, a former Texas House member and former party staffers — are urging Kendall Scudder to forgo reelection as chair of the Texas Democratic Party, citing operational failures and a "hostile work environment” fostered by his leadership over the past year."We have seen a Texas...
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A former federal prosecutor raised the alarm Friday that the Trump administration may intervene to help a charged ICE agent dodge accountability after a Minnesota county issued a nationwide arrest warrant — and the agent had not yet been taken into custody.Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, was charged...
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Reports this week indicated that Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines, went directly to President Donald Trump to sell him on the idea of a merger with American Airlines, a move that would leave the U.S. aviation industry with just two "legacy" carriers.At least for now, however, executives at American are shooting down the idea, and publicly...
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The National Guard's top general told Congress on Friday that it would follow the Constitution and the law when he was asked about the possibility President Donald Trump would order troops to polling places for the midterm elections.The remarks at a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee hearing came as Democratic lawmakers also voiced unease over...
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FBI Director Kash Patel was the subject of an explosive article in The Atlantic on Friday, accused of being a problem drinker, frequently absent from his duties, whose paranoid outbursts border on being a threat to national security. Patel has broadly denied these allegations, and an FBI communications official threatened to sue over the story.But...
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A right-wing publication is in full meltdown mode after Virginia's Democratic governor signed a bill stripping Confederate heritage organizations of their state tax exemptions, calling it an act of war against Southern identity and a harbinger of leftist tyranny.Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the legislation this week, yanking tax exemptions for...
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FBI Director Kash Patel's communications strategist, Erica Knight, threatened legal action against The Atlantic on Friday night, following their publication of a devastating report on Patel's alleged behavior and the potential search to replace him.The report in question detailed claims that Patel has been frequently drunk on the job, to the point...
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HARLINGEN — For more than a decade, Diana Padilla has been teaching Texans in the Rio Grande Valley how to farm.For four hours on Sundays, she and her husband, Saul Padilla, would help their student farmers at a community garden the couple had set up on their farm by preparing the soil for them, teaching them how to use the space, and telling...
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FBI Director Kash Patel is hanging onto his job by a thread, reported Sarah Fitzpatrick for The Atlantic on Friday — and a large part of that stems from accusations of erratic behavior, including unexplained absences and problem drinking, that have alarmed FBI staff.For the entirety of his time in charge, Patel, a former GOP House Intelligence...
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A growing divide is emerging within the Republican Party as President Donald Trump pushes a massive increase in defense spending, with fiscal conservatives warning a "clash is looming” over the proposal.That's according to NOTUS, which reported Friday that administration officials are lobbying lawmakers behind closed doors to approve a...
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CNN anchor Erin Burnett zeroed in on a striking moment during President Donald Trump's latest remarks on Iran, calling out what she described as a telling misstep."Trump claims everything is back to normal. He said Iran has just announced that the Strait of Iran, the Strait of Iran….interesting, that's interesting,” Burnett told viewers Friday...
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New text messages obtained by TMZ showed the estranged wife of Kyrsten Sinema's boyfriend confronted the lawmaker in a heated exchange.Heather Ammel, who is suing Sinema in North Carolina for allegedly destroying her marriage, said she personally watched her husband Matthew receive messages from the ex-Arizona senator, including a photo of Sinema...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department attached the "wrong document" to a filing in their lawsuit against the state of Minneosta to obtain their full, unredacted voter rolls, liberal elections outlet Democracy Docket reported on Friday."The Trump DOJ's latest blunder came one day after it asked a federal court for permission to fix what judges...
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One of the oldest and most right-wing justices on the Supreme Court appears not to be retiring after all, Fox News reported on Friday.Justice Samuel Alito, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, "'is not stepping down this term and is in the process of hiring the rest of his clerks for the next term,' a source told Fox News Digital....
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President Donald Trump demanded Friday that Israel stop attacking Lebanon amid the fragile U.S. and Iran ceasefire, an announcement that surprised critics and prompted international security expert Robert Pape to describe it as a major turning point in U.S. global power. Trump wrote on Truth Social that Israel is "PROHIBITED" from bombing Lebanon,...
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What does Big Ag have to do with the Strait of Hormuz? A lot, actually, when you consider that almost every so-called efficiency that industrial agriculture relies on to operate flows through this waterway. And now it is closed, threatening global food security.And what is the primary source of the problem? Our reliance on fossil fuels.What do...
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A Democratic congressman on Friday seized on an unlikely source to hammer Donald Trump over his escalating feud with the Pope — Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who urged the president to show some restraint.Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, speaking with progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, noted that even one of Trump's most reliable...
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Seven weeks into the conflict with Iran, new polling suggests President Donald Trump is struggling to win over the American public - a challenge one Republican strategist described as his "biggest problem.”A new survey from Politico found that just 38% of Americans back the military strikes, while a majority say the war is not in the national...
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A Minnesota prosecutor's decision to criminally charge a federal immigration agent over a road rage incident could mark the first crack in the Trump administration's wall of ICE accountability — and potentially open the floodgates for states across the country to follow suit, Slate's Shirin Ali wrote Friday.Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty...
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President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary tried to walk back his disparaging remarks against children with autism and people with disabilities at his congressional hearing on Friday — but CNN's Jake Tapper had a clip ready to hold him to account."Another round of intense questioning for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,"...
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In Texas, a new coalition of business groups, restaurants, and lawmakers opposes the Trump administration's immigration policies because of its economic strain on restaurants, as reported by The New York Times.The Texas Restaurant Association reports 50 percent of restaurants were unprofitable last year, up from 38 percent in 2024. Restaurant owner...
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Caitlyn Jenner spent years championing Donald Trump and his movement, but now she can't leave the country. And the man she backed hasn't responded.Jenner revealed this week that her passport was returned with a male gender marker after she sent it in for renewal, a direct result of Trump's executive order requiring all federal documents to reflect...
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Far-right conspiracy theorist webcaster Alex Jones took to X on Friday to accuse President Donald Trump of deliberately throwing the midterms on behalf of a foreign power."This is my response to the new attack President Trump launched on myself and other sane American patriots today. The evidence is overwhelming President Trump is committing...
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President Donald Trump and his sons are negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service to settle a $10 billion lawsuit without trial, according to a motion filed Friday with IRS consent. Trump filed the lawsuit after taking office, claiming an IRS contractor leaked his tax information. Unlike most modern presidents, Trump has repeatedly refused to...
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A Republican strategist's reaction during a live CNN broadcast drew laughter after he was pressed on a sharp conservative critique of President Donald TrumpDuring a segment on CNN Friday, host Kasie Hunt called attention to GOP strategist Brad Todd's visible discomfort as the discussion turned to Trump's growing tensions with Pope Leo XIV."Brad...
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A former Republican Party House of Representatives member sounded a warning for Trump's MAGA movement heading into the 2026 midterms. Adam Kinzinger, who represented Illinois in the House from 2011 to 2023, claimed that Donald Trump's pattern for keeping his most dedicated followers in check will face its biggest test to date later this year....
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Trump administration officials are increasingly employing religious symbolism to justify the Iran war and other unpopular policies, according to New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman. President Donald Trump posted an image depicting himself as a Christlike healer, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has framed the conflict in explicitly...
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President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention practices are so outside of what the law allows that even judges he appointed are freeing immigrants found to have committed serious crimes, and who sometimes have deportation orders against them, because they weren't detained lawfully.This is on top of the much more public, and...
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President Donald Trump said in a phone interview Friday that Iran has "agreed to everything” in ongoing talks with the United States, including allowing the removal of its enriched uranium, according to CBS News.Trump insisted the effort would not involve U.S. ground troops, but offered few specifics about how the materials would be secured."No,...
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Unnamed Republican sources told Salon columnist Brian Karem that President Donald Trump would likely be impeached, convicted, and removed from office if a secret ballot vote were taken today. Sources with ties to Sen. John Thune's office acknowledged such a vote is not currently viable but did not rule out a future possibility. Karem reported that...
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Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, drew ridicule Friday when he promised America's growth rate would reach 6 percent under President Donald Trump's leadership.Lutnick spoke at the Semafor World Economy Summit during a live session in which he acknowledged Trump's war in Iran created "fear and uncertainty." Despite stark warnings of...
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When federal agents unexpectedly detained a Chicago teen and his mother last month, outraged community members rallied to support them while they were separated, traversed across the country and subjected to alleged harsh treatment while in detention, Raw Story first reported.Community advocates called the arrest of Ricardo Hernandez-Navarrete, 18,...
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President Donald Trump's confused reaction to the term "corner store" drew withering mockery and scrutiny from MS NOW's Katy Tur on Friday, who pulled it into a broader discussion of how Trump has lost his ability to look relatable to the common man."Donald Trump's had a remarkable ability in 2016 of making people believe he was like them," said...
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A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richards sent families a notice Thursday announcing the...
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The new boss of CBS who claimed he was too swamped to face Congress was caught red-handed making time for something far more to his liking — a private dinner with the president whose goodwill he has chased.Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison, who seized control of CBS last summer, ducked a Senate appearance Wednesday by citing a death in the...
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Israel was issued a fierce demand Friday morning by President Donald Trump that they cease striking Lebanon, but according to reports, it appears to have dismissed Trump's orders "a number” of times within a matter of hours, resulting in at least one death.The ongoing two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was brokered on the...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon was mocked after people questioned an apparent stain or shadow on his pants in a viral video clip.During his appearance at a Semafor conference earlier this week, Bannon's green pants appeared to be stained. Some speculated that the dark area on his trousers might be urine. It couldn't immediately be determined what...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) starts off from an enviably strong position for an incumbent senator seeking re-election — and the smart money is on him sailing through the process with no difficulty. But there is one possible chink in his armor, Kathleen Parker wrote for The Washington Post: his rabid support for the Iran war."Graham had some...
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A former White House doctor has called for Congress to pass a bill that would make removing a president from office easier. Jonathan Reiner, who served as former Vice President Dick Cheney's cardiologist, has been outspoken in his criticism of President Donald Trump over the last few months. Reiner has suggested in the past that Trump is in a...
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President Donald Trump and his family say they are in talks with the Internal Revenue Service, which he oversees, to settle a $10 billion lawsuit without going to trial.After taking office in 2025, Trump filed a lawsuit claiming that an IRS contractor had leaked his tax information. Most modern presidents have released their tax returns to the...
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Former Palm Beach County state attorney Dave Aronberg told "Morning Joe" hosts that Department of Justice investigators pursuing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's election theft conspiracy theories in Florida will face embarrassment. Aronberg argued Gabbard's push to criminally charge a whistleblower lacks merit and any DOJ...
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A coalition of business groups, restaurateurs, and lawmakers in Texas has been formed to push back against the anti-immigrant policies of Donald Trump's administration as sales collapse and companies struggle to find employees.According to a report from the New York Times, there is tension in the deeply conservative state, as the economic impact on...
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Members of the Republican Party claim that Donald Trump would be removed from his post as President if an internal ballot were taken. Unnamed sources speaking to Salon columnist Brian Karem, ex-White House reporter, suggested Trump is losing favor with the party. A source with ties to Senator John Thune's office told Karem that a vote on such a...
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Some of President Donald Trump's biggest supporters now believe his July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania was staged, according to reporting by Wired. Conservative podcaster Tim Dillon suggested the shooting was fabricated and called for Trump to publicly admit it. The conspiracy theories gained traction after former National...
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A brass-instrument factory in Eastlake, Ohio, is closing by the end of June, eliminating 150 jobs and shifting production to China — exposing a gap between President Donald Trump's "America First" manufacturing promises and the business decisions of his political allies.Conn Selmer, the country's largest band-instrument maker, announced it will...
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President Donald Trump attacked architectural historian Alison K. Hoagland after U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon blocked above-ground construction on Trump's planned White House ballroom. Judge Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issued an opinion and order Thursday blocking government officials from proceeding with the ballroom's above-ground...
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An 85-year-old French woman detained by U.S. immigration officials for 16 days has returned to her native country, whose government alleges violent misconduct in the case.Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé arrived Friday at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, where she was greeted by her three adult children still wearing detention center clothing, and French...
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President Donald Trump risks losing the support of MAGA's most outspoken figureheads as his actions affect the GOP's future, a political analyst has claimed. George Conway, a former lawyer who was at one time considered for a position in Trump's first term team, believes prominent MAGA figures are tiring of the president. He told Gregg Sargent of...
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Longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel, an avid and unapologetic supporter of Donald Trump, battered Vice President JD Vance, saying the more he tries to make himself front-page news, the worse he looks."There is definitely such a thing as bad publicity." Strassel wrote late Thursday, noting that Vance's high-profile failures have...
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Friends,You've got to hand it to Pope Leo, who used a speech Thursday in Cameroon to express "woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”I can't imagine who Leo was talking about, can you?In case there was any doubt, the...
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President Donald Trump's recent appearance in Las Vegas is an attempt to gaslight the public into believing the economic shortcomings are their fault, an analyst has claimed. Trump had been roundly criticized for a DoorDash PR stunt. On Monday, President Donald Trump was greeted at the White House by Sharon Simmons, a 58-year-old DoorDash delivery...
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Another career prosecutor has been pulled off a case against one of President Donald Trump's political enemies after she resisted pressure to bring charges more quickly, according to sources briefed on the situation.Maria Medetis Long notified lawyers representing people involved in the case that she was no longer investigating former CIA director...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted that President Donald Trump was "very, very sane" even though he threatened to destroy Iran's entire civilization.During a Friday House Education & Workforce Committee hearing, Rep. John Mannion (D-NY) noted that Kennedy had called Trump "the most sane president" following the...
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President Donald Trump traveled to Las Vegas to promote his "no tax on tips" policy and discuss its impact on voters. During his speech promoting his "One Big, Beautiful Bill," Trump became confused by the phrase "corner stores," questioning what the term meant. "Corner stores? What the hell is a corner store?" Trump said, adding "I know what a...
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In an announcement that took some critics by surprise, President Donald Trump demanded Friday that Israel halt its attacks on Lebanon amid the ongoing and fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire, an announcement that international security expert Robert Pape argued illustrated a major turning point for the United States and its power on the world stage."Israel...
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Liberal justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are reportedly "slow walking" a redistricting decision to effectively deter additional states from trying the tactic before the midterm elections.On Friday, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told War Room host Steve Bannon that liberals on the court were plotting to prevent Republican-led...
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President Donald Trump proclaimed the Strait of Hormuz has been re-opened, but that's not exactly how he put it.The 79-year-old president notified Americans that Iran would begin to allow "full passage" in what he inaccurately identified as "the Strait of Iran," the narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that has been closed...
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Even some of President Donald Trump's biggest fans are starting to believe his first assassination attempt was staged, and they want him to publicly admit it.Conspiracy theories proliferated almost immediately after a 20-year-old gunman fired off shots that seemingly clipped Trump's ear and killed retired fire chief Corey Comperatore at a July 13,...
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By Gemma Ware, Mend Mariwany and Katie Flood, with mixing by Eleanor Brezzi and theme music by Neeta Sarl.Listen to the interview with Zsolt Enyedi on The Conversation Weekly podcast. The day after Péter Magyar ousted Victor Orbán as prime minister of Hungary, he gave a combative press conference. He spoke in Hungarian, but was talking to the...
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Twenty Republican lawmakers joined Democrats early Friday morning to block President Donald Trump's push for a longer extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, defying the president's explicit call for GOP support, as reported by the Associated Press. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, permits national intelligence...
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President Donald Trump is bracing for a headache over Supreme Court appointments as one judge's retirement could fall just before the midterm elections. It has not yet been confirmed whether Justice Samuel Alito will retire from his position, with his team keeping quiet about his intentions. But should he confirm his retirement and see out the end...
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President Donald Trump issued Israel a fierce demand on Friday as his administration continues to work to negotiate an end to the U.S. war against Iran, an effort repeatedly complicated by Israel's continued strikes in Lebanon.The ceasefire between the United States and Iran tentatively reached earlier this month included a provision from Tehran...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Friday after reports suggested his administration and Tehran have reached a deal to fully re-open the Strait of Hormuz, claiming that NATO allies had offered help, which he immediately rejected."Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from...
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Noting that Department of Justice investigators are busy working in his "backyard” of Florida on election theft conspiracy theories promoted by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, former state attorney of Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg told the hosts of "Morning Joe” it will end in embarrassment for all involved.Brought on to...
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As he has done numerous times before, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday rejected the notion that democratic socialism has limited appeal outside of progressive urban centers by asserting that his worker-centered policies are aimed at uplifting the nation's biggest demographic cohort—working people and their families.Mamdani appeared...
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Onlookers and critics were left baffled Friday after the Trump administration's plans for ending its war against Iran were leaked by two U.S. officials and two additional insiders familiar with the White House's negotiations.As reported by Axios on Friday, the Trump administration is reportedly considering releasing $20 billion in frozen Iranian...
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Rhode Island has become the fifth state to win in court after the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division requested sensitive voter records.Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon has attempted to satisfy President Donald Trump's obsession with the 2020 election loss by requesting voter records from every state. While 17...
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Supporters of Donald Trump reacted poorly to the president's attack on former MAGA supporters who have parted ways with the president over his military adventurism in Iran and Venezuela, with the prospect that Cuba could be next on his list.The president started his day on Friday by once again snarling at Tucker Carlson who lost his job at Fox News...
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Congress' move to allow mining in a national forest near a wilderness area may have broad ramifications across the country.The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn a mining ban in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.By using an obscure tool known as the Congressional Review Act to open...
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President Donald Trump's administration has attempted to shift the consequences of the Iran war to an ally, a report has found. Trump's team caused a fallout in Bahrain, which has undermined support for the United States. But internal documents shared by Politico show the admin has tried to pin the blame for the fallout on the United Kingdom. Nahal...
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Multiple prominent Republicans cheered Friday after 20 Republican lawmakers bucked President Donald Trump earlier that morning by blocking a bill the president had aggressively advocated for, an act of defiance that has been described by some as a GOP "revolt.”The bill Trump had advocated for would have extended the Foreign Intelligence...
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President Donald Trump's plan for a controversial 250-foot-tall gold-covered arch to be built at Memorial Circle in Washington, D.C. has been ridiculed by critics. The renderings, produced by architecture firm Harrison Design, depict a massive structure flanked by four gold lions and topped by a 60-foot-tall gold statue of an angel, with "one...
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Ron DeSantis may be on legally unsafe ground after signing into law legislation to "combat terrorist groups and ban Sharia Law in Florida", a legal analyst has claimed. The Governor of Florida signed into law the HB 1471 legislation earlier this month, which DeSantis' office claims will strengthen the "protections against the application of foreign...
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President Donald Trump erupted at several notable figures in the MAGA movement on Friday, and floated the idea of creating "a list” to rank his supporters from "bad” to "good.”In his outburst – shared on his social media platform Truth Social – Trump named Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones, all of whom at one point...
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President Donald Trump's enormous triumphal arch took a step closer to reality after its early designs received approval from his handpicked fine arts commission, and CNN's Tom Foreman revealed how the massive structure would dwarf its surroundings in the nation's capital.The 79-year-old president has proposed a towering, 250-foot arch, modeled...
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After a stop in Nevada on Thursday, President Donald Trump will be speaking at an event in Arizona on Friday to rally support ahead of the 2026 midterms, a tour of the Sun Belt region that one GOP strategist described as an effort to "staunch the bleeding” as the president's support sinks to new lows, particularly among one critical voter...
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Trump administration officials are leaning harder into religious symbolism to justify the war in Iran and other unpopular policies, and New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman marveled at the "off-the-rails" audacity of their efforts.President Donald Trump posted an image of himself as a Christlike healer over the weekend, while Defense...
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President Donald Trump's choice for the new Federal Reserve Chair has hit a major snag that could make confirming Kevin Warsh tricky. Analysis from the New York Times' Editorial Board suggests that, should Warsh be confirmed as the next Fed Chair, an already clear problem over his dependability will worsen. The team wrote, "Kevin Warsh looks great...
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After Donald Trump faced swift backlash for posting an AI depiction of himself as a Jesus-like figure aglow against a patriotic sky as he heals a sick man, the original source of the image came to light while the president explained away the now-deleted post as a misinterpretation of himself as a doctor.Nick Adams, the alpha-male MAGA influencer...
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During an appearance on MS NOW on Friday morning, conservative journalist David Drucker built upon his recent reporting on the state of the GOP in Indiana to note that there is a civil war going on inside the Republican Party with money being spent to oust lawmakers in safe seats.Speaking with the hosts of "Morning Joe,” Drucker explained that...
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Pope Leo XIV directly challenged the Trump administration this week, stating he has "no fear" of the White House and will continue speaking "loudly" about God's message despite Trump's social media attacks against him.The unprecedented confrontation marks a historic clash between the first American pope and a U.S. president who has repeatedly...
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Department of Homeland Security head Markwayne Mullin has been accused of covering up the failings of Kristi Noem's tenure as the agency's head. Joyce Vance, who served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017, suggested the recent resignation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement head Todd Lyons is a...
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More than a few members of the army of lawyers Donald Trump has deployed to sue his enemies and keep him out of courtrooms due to lawsuits are waiting hat in hand to be paid with the Save America PAC the president used to pay them now wallowing in red ink.According to MS NOW's Hayes Brown, Trump's fundraising machinery has hit a wall now that he's...
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Donald Trump's ramped-up saber-rattling and erratic pronouncements are also having the effect of rattling European leaders who once embraced his form of nationalism, leading them to publicly express their differences.According to the Washington Post's Steve Hendrix and Stefano Pitrelli, longtime Trump ally Nigel Farage — who spearheaded Brexit...
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A total of 20 Republican lawmakers "revolted” against President Donald Trump early Friday morning by refusing to back a bill that would extend a controversial surveillance program, and despite the president's explicit call for GOP lawmakers to do so, the Associated Press reported Friday."First they unveiled a new plan that would have extended the...
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Donald Trump has been criticized by a former aide who believes the president is personally profiting from the war in the Middle East.Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as the White House Communications Director in Trump's first term, claimed that the Trump family is aiming to leverage the war and position of Donald Trump to build family wealth....
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There is just so much back-and-forth going on between Donald Trump and Jesus Christ right now that I had a feeling the two must be secretly meeting and trying to figure each other out. And it turns out I was right.In this Raw Story exclusive, I was able to eavesdrop on the president of the United States and our Lord and Savior as they talked...
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