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Last month, in Surry, Virginia, 19-year-old Cameran Drew ran for a seat on the board of supervisors, taking inspiration from his high school civics class. His opponent? His civics teacher, Kenneth Bell. Steve Hartman reports on an election that could be a teachable moment.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Vice President JD Vance joins as President Trump heads to the Middle East amid the critical moment in the Israel-Hamas peace deal and at home, as the ongoing government shutdown drags on. Plus. Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty joins.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, one of the Democrats who eventually voted with Republicans to fund the government after the GOP promised a vote next month on health care subsidies, joins to discuss, as does Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy. Plus, two members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus.
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As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts' advice, scaled back their support of safe supply programs, an investigation by CBC's the fifth estate has found.
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Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the media have unfairly focused on Conservative dissent, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters to pay as much attention to criticism levelled against the federal budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
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President Donald Trump made a startling claim about his administration's strikes on drug boats in international waters on Sunday while speaking to reporters at Palm Beach International Airport. So far, the administration has conducted at least 21 strikes, killing around 90 people. The administration has claimed they are striking drug runners who...
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President Donald Trump's lawyers have asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to pause an order prohibiting him from sending federal troops to protect immigration agents in Portland, Oregon, according to a new report. On Sunday, the administration filed a 494-page appeal of District Judge Karin Immergut's order that found the Trump administration...
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Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad.Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America as a foolish, yet harmless, show of dominance. Now, however, he's created an ongoing bloodbath in the adjacent Caribbean...
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The largest, most advanced aircraft carrier in the nation, along with three guided missile destroyers, crossed into the Caribbean Sea on Sunday morning, the U.S. Navy said, adding to a buildup of U.S. military assets near Venezuela. Charlie D'Agata is in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with more.
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The end of the government shutdown has cleared the way for a critical vote expected Tuesday in the House to release all of the Epstein files. It also led to a major blowup between President Trump and longtime ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Willie James Inman has the details.
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist bashed President Donald Trump's "false" claims about the state of the U.S. economy in a new Substack essay published on Sunday. Paul Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on trade theory, argued in the essay that Trump is "simply lying" about the state of the economy. Although data indicate...
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Bill Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), seems to get along very well with President Donald Trump and that, reports The Daily Beast, is rattling MAGA Republican feathers.Pulte, writes Will Neal, "has reportedly made such a song and dance of pandering to the president that it's starting to drive other aides insane."Pulte's...
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Prices have risen so high at fast food landmark McDonald's under President Donald Trump's leadership that " traffic from one of its core customer bases, low-income households, has dropped by double digits," reports the LA Times."The struggle of the Golden Arches — long synonymous with cheap food for the masses — reflects a larger trend upending...
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President Donald Trump's administration conducted an immigration crackdown on Sunday in Charlotte, North Carolina, that some protesters described as "causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty." The Trump administration announced on Saturday that it was "surging" immigration agents into Charlotte as part of an operation it dubbed "Charlotte's Web."...
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One of President Donald Trump's former "fixers" on Sunday predicted a "Blue Tsunami" would sweep the U.S. after seeing the election results in Aurora, Colorado. For the last decade, Aurora has been under majority Republican rule. In that time, the city has implemented popular Republican policies such as moving to audit nonprofits that serve...
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A key GOP Senator faced significant pushback from political analysts and observers on Sunday after he refused to commit to holding a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files if legislation makes it to the Upper Chamber. Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are expected to hold a vote on Tuesday on a discharge petition to force...
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A darling of the MAGA movement lashed out at a House Republican after she suggested that Israel or another foreign government may be pressuring President Donald Trump into hiding the Jeffrey Epstein Files. Laura Loomer, a MAGA influencer, called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday in a post on X after Greene suggested in an interview...
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In 2011, Tony Abbott was questioned over his use of the phrase "shit happens" when discussing the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan. Instead of responding, he stared at the journalist, fighting the urge to thump him.
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Roger Stone, a longtime ally to President Donald Trump, officially challenged former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to a bare-knuckle boxing match late Saturday, calling the MAGA influencer a "gutless piece of human garbage” and highlighted his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein."The folks at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship have suggested...
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent appeared to sympathize with a protester on Sunday while in Charlotte, North Carolina, but declined to engage with them out of fear of "video cameras.”According to Ukrainian-American journalist Oliya Scootercaster, ICE agents were conducting an operation Sunday in Charlotte, writing that agents were...
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Sunday lashed out a MAGA journalist who suggested someone on his staff might be a "vile bigot."Vance over the weekend took to X, where he attacked a self-identified investigative journalist who suggested Tucker Carlson's son, who works for Vance, might be a bigot.It started when Sloan Rachmuth wrote Saturday, "Today,...
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Republicans are obsessed with taking your health care away. This spring, they cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, all to give massive tax handouts to billionaires. For the last month and a half they shut down the government rather than prevent premiums from doubling on average for 24 million people in the Affordable Care Act marketplace. And they...
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The Trump administration has reportedly recruited rapper and musician Nicki Minaj in an apparent effort to back its proposed invasion of Nigeria to stop purported persecution of Christians."U.S. envoy to the U.N. Mike Waltz and rap superstar Nicki Minaj will deliver remarks early this week on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria,” wrote Times...
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Donald Trump may end up facing a veto-proof revolt when it comes to the Epstein files, according to a MSNOW panel.MSNOW's The Weekend took questions from viewers on Sunday, including one individual who tried to pour cold water on the upcoming Epstein release vote."Any vote to release Epstein files will be vetoed by Trump, then sent back to the...
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A top Donald Trump adviser is becoming the target of MAGA and must get out now to save herself, according to a former Republican strategist.Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who recently said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the deceased child sex abuser Epstein, wrote in a piece on Substack that Chief...
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MAGA influencer Laura Loomer is under fire Sunday after calling the death of Rhonda Massie – the wife of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – a "mystery” and "bizarre,” with one independent journalist alleging Loomer to be "implying Massie killed his wife.”In a social media post Saturday, Loomer posed what she called a "serious question”...
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Despite President Donald Trump's message of affordability resonating with working class Americans in 2024, that pattern is shifting as "diverging fortunes for wealthy and poor Americans" "has tanked confidence in the economy—and the president who promised to solve the affordability crisis in the U.S.," writes Sasha Rogelberg in Fortune."While a...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, one of the Democrats who eventually voted with Republicans to fund the government after the GOP promised a vote next month on health care subsidies, joins to discuss, as does Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy. Plus, two members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus.
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The Trump administration announced Saturday that it is launching another immigration enforcement operation, this time in Charlotte, North Carolina, a blue city with one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country. Hundreds protested on Saturday, calling the operation an attack on their community.
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Indian Americans are increasingly finding themselves the targets of racism by far-right Christian nationalists, and those who identify as MAGA Indian Americans who work in President Donald Trump's administration aren't immune to the vitriol, reports Harmeet Kaur in Newsweek.When FBI director Kash Patel wished his followers on X a Happy Diwali—a...
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On Oct. 29, just before meeting China's President XI Jinping, Donald Trump posted on his social media network Truth Social that "because of other countries [sic] testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”The US stopped testing nuclear weapons in 1992 — that is, detonating...
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Predatory, short-term insurance plans are waiting in the wings to scoop up desperate Americans losing their insurance this year, but consultants say most people should steer clear of them.Thanks to efforts by President Donald Trump and the Republican party, Obamacare health subsidies are set to expire this year, leaving millions of people with...
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Donald Trump on Sunday raged at his own "friend" as well as other GOP figures who have refused to go along with the latest Republican power grab.Specifically, Trump complained about a failure to fall in line regarding the Republican trend of redistricting before it's time to do so.The president this weekend took to Truth Social, his own social...
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With a vote on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein just days away, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said this weekend that it was clear President Donald Trump was "at the center of a child sex ring,” and that the president's behavior over the past week made it clear that the files contained "something especially and specifically...
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Republicans are facing some "difficult news" about Donald Trump, according to a conservative legend Sunday.Conservative Timothy P. Carney recently wrote an article for Washington Examiner called, "The Trump Era Is One of GOP Decline," in which he argued that Trump is a drag on the Republican party despite in many ways being "good for the GOP and...
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A nervous-looking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to CNN Sunday for her first interview since her falling out with President Donald Trump and strongly suggested that the Israeli government may be "pushing to keep” files on Jeffrey Epstein "covered up.”Greene was asked by CNN's Dana Bash about a social media post she had shared on...
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This week, on Veterans Day, as I sometimes do, I thought about the memorable preface to Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel, Breakfast of Champions.This is what he said.So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.I will come to a time in my...
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Republican lawmakers are pushing back on a GOP-sponsored provision that would allow for GOP lawmakers to sue the Justice Department for $500,000 over its probe in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a reversal that one journalist dubbed a series of "self-owns.”The provision was included in the recent spending bill that re-opened the government, and at the...
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When the 20,000 pages of documents received from the estate of late convicted Jeffrey Epstein were released, the Republicans in control of the majority on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee couldn't avoid the fact that President Donald Trump's name keeps coming up and as a result, it's unleashing "political friendly fire," reports...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was dragged Sunday by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) over having dragged out efforts to force the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, with the Kentucky Republican proclaiming Johnson to have "finally learned his lesson” after being forced to schedule a vote on the issue for next week."I think...
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Pope Leo XIV doesn't want to be the anti-Donald Trump but he is, according to a conservative Sunday.New York Times columnist David French, a former writer for the conservative National Review, wrote an article on Sunday called, "Pope Leo Doesn't Want to Be the Anti-Trump. But He Is," in which he argues that "the path past Trumpism is beginning to...
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California tech billionaire Marc Benioff, once a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, has become "unrecognizable” after endorsing President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments and cozying up to the president, The Washington Post reported Sunday.Benioff had initially distanced himself from Trump following his 2024 victory, pledging to...
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)'s boyfriend, a MAGA entity in his own right, posted a cryptic update as his significant other is embroiled in a public feud with President Donald Trump.MAGA reporter Brian Glenn, known for viral moments including one with the leader of Ukraine about his suit, took to X over the weekend to explain his...
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Donald Trump's character on Saturday Night Live crashed a press conference and sold Epstein files for $800 each. James Austin Johnson's Trump character, who last week stood indifferent as a man collapsed in his the Oval Office, drawing attention to a widely mocked moment, this week interrupted a presser of a character portraying White House Press...
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Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, issued a statement Saturday addressing the uproar sparked by the release of a 2018 email exchange in which he appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump had engaged in sexual acts with someone identified only as "Bubba,” according to a Business Insider reporter.Sent in March of 2018, the email in...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday seven more initiatives he's recommending for fast-tracked approval by the government's Major Projects Office — and it includes multibillion-dollar energy and natural resources proposals that Ottawa hopes will deliver a jolt to the tariff-hit economy.
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Now we have learned that Jeffrey Epstein was trying to leverage dirt on Trump when he "committed suicide” in a federal jail under Trump's control, am I a conspiracist for pivoting backward, wondering how Epstein really died? And what does it say that I care more about atrocities Trump will commit in order to change national headlines than I care...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced this week a second round of projects he's recommending get fast-tracked by his government's Major Projects Office (MPO) as part of his promise to reduce Canada's economic reliance on the U.S. But there are still questions about what a referral to the MPO actually means.
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Donald Trump on Friday night stopped in on a wedding at Mar-a-Lago, and once again raised the question of whether or not he will be going to heaven.The president was reported to have dropped in the wedding, which took place this weekend at his resort.According to Trump associate and conservative commentator Eric Metaxas, Trump put the heaven burden...
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Donald Trump on Saturday took to Truth Social, his own social media site, to rage against Seth Meyers, and Commissioner of Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr raised eyebrows by amplifying the attack."NBC's Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)," Trump wrote over the weekend. "He was viewed...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was alleged to have been filled with purported gang...
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Former U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went public on Saturday with comments about antisemitic remarks published by his own producer.Conservative political commentator James Lindsay on Friday highlighted the alleged comments first, writing, "OAN's Vish Burra, Matt Gaetz's scriptwriter and handler, has severely crossed the line now, calling...
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The Guardian reports roughly 30 Christian white clergy, including pastors, seminary students and other faith leaders, are filing or have already filed to be Democratic candidates in next year's midterm elections."I … think the stereotypes of Republicans being pro-faith are bull—— …,” said Justin Douglas, who is running for a House seat in...
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The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump's mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency has.
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Albanese slammed the records of the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments and claimed they hurt Australia's foreign relations, a view that would be challenged by opponents who set up the AUKUS agreement underpinning Australia's security strategy.
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Donald Trump on Saturday declared war on yet another late-night TV host.The president over the weekend took to Truth Social, his own social media site, to rage against Seth Meyers."NBC's Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)," Trump wrote. "He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due...
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U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is at war with Donald Trump, and the local Republican party in her district is coming to her defense.Jim Tully, chairman for the Georgia Republican Party for the 14th Congressional District, Greene's district, wrote a letter on X, saying, "The 14th Congressional District Republican Party issues the...
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President Donald Trump's insiders are panicking, according to a controversial Trump biographer whose name was heavily included in the recent Jeffrey Epstein email release.Michael Wolff, a journalist who has written four books about Trump and has had numerous conversations with Epstein, said on a Daily Beast podcast on Saturday that those close to...
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More than two dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have reportedly sent a letter to a GOP lawmaker who has been speaking out against Donald Trump.Trump's decision to lash out and make personal attacks on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) set off a civil war among MAGA followers who are taking sides and lamenting that the president is tearing their...
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President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned a MAGA supporter who threatened to shoot FBI agents.Trump pardoned two individuals with connections to the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt, according to a report published Saturday.Fox News reported that Trump pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who was "sentenced to 18 months in prison for allegedly threatening to...
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The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee predicted Saturday that next week's vote on releasing files on Jeffrey Epstein would pass "with substantial numbers,” and described President Donald Trump's various efforts to block the vote as the president "completely panicked.”"[Trump] is completely panicked,” said Rep. Robert Garcia...
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FBI Director Kash Patel came under fire from MAGA diehards Saturday for a photo op stunt with FBI agent trainees.Patel, who is already experiencing friendly fire from the GOP base for his failures to live up to certain prosecution promises, over the weekend posted a controversial photo on social media. Specifically, he posted an image of him...
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When a delegation of "influencers" appeared at Canberra's budget lock-up this year, joining press gallery journalists in the increasingly arcane tradition of reading a complex document for a few quiet hours before bursting forth in analysis thereof, much comment was made.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), who sits on the House committee actively investigating Jeffrey Epstein and potential co-conspirators, spelled doom for President Donald Trump Saturday when she predicted that the fallout from an impending vote would be as "explosive as Watergate.”"This does not sit well for the American people; our gut is telling us...
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By Nicole West Bassoff, Posdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Policy, University of Virginia After a decisive election win, Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, 2026. His impressive grassroots campaign made big promises targeted at working-class New Yorkers: universal child care, rent freezes and faster, free...
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