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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy used a Wednesday night warm-up speech for President Donald Trump on the National Mall to brand musicians who pulled out of the Great American State Fair as "libtards," drawing cheers from the partisan crowd.Duffy opened his remarks by saluting the Marine Band and a trio of performers: Lee Greenwood, Christopher...
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Mitch McConnell isn't voting this week. His office isn't saying much about why, just that he's been hospitalized. Curt answers, no timeline, no details.I worked in PR for more than 30 years, and one thing you learn is that when the news is scant, the situation usually isn't good. The less said, the worse it often is.Which raises a harder, more...
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The federal government and more than 1,000 federally appointed judges are at odds over the best way to settle an ongoing salary dispute, raising concerns in both the legal and political community that the case could end up tarnishing the judiciary's reputation.
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A rival bidder for Canada's Arctic surveillance aircraft says it was stunned when Ottawa opened sole-source talks with Saab's GlobalEye, bypassing a formal competition. L3Harris argues its Aeris X would integrate more easily with NORAD and F-35s, while offering thousands of Canadian jobs and a faster alternative if negotiations falter.
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Ein exklusiv von POLITICO enthülltes Foto zeigt Sachsen-Anhalts AfD-Chef Martin Reichardt beim Hitlergruß. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler von „Inside AfD" haben den Skandal aufgedeckt. Gemeinsam mit Gordon Repinski sprechen sie die absurden Erklärungsversuche der AfD, die Reaktionen aus der Parteispitze und wie sich die Affäre auf...
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The Trump administration's defiance of federal judges is starting to backfire as a contempt case is revived, according to a legal expert.Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote in a Tuesday piece for her Civil Discourse Substack about a long-running fight over the March 2025 deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's CECOT prison. Chief U.S....
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A new lawsuit is accusing the Department of Homeland Security of punishing protesters by taking away certain travel rights.The Intercept, an online news agency, filed the lawsuit against DHS after the agency failed to respond to a records request made under the Freedom of Information Act. The records related to reports that immigration agents have...
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A Trump media company reached a new low with its stock prices as it continues to take hits, per a new report.Futurism, which publishes science and technology news, reported that the Trump Media & Technology Group sank to the lowest stock price in its history this week.The company, which first went public in 2024, runs Trump's social media platform,...
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Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night left some observers taken aback. Hawley joined Ingraham ahead of President Donald Trump's "Freedom 250" rally, where the two discussed immigration policy and a host of other issues. At one point, Hawley attempted to make a populist argument about liberals being...
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The wife of top Trump White House aide Stephen Miller was brutally fact-checked online after taking aim at a Democratic senator's family.Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) posted a video of himself holding his daughter, Isla, while speaking on Capitol Hill. He wrote that Isla was "born right in the middle of my Senate campaign" in 2023."One of the most...
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A political expert flagged one point where President Donald Trump has become "especially vulnerable" as the 2026 midterm elections approach. Karl Rove, a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush, argued in a new op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that Trump's deal with the Iranian regime could be his greatest...
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A late music legend's estate shut down Trump's plans to play a beloved hit at his Freedom 250 rally, The Daily Beast reported.Trump had said for weeks that the Great American State Fair on June 24 would include the song "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, according to The Daily Beast.American tenor Christopher Macchio, one of the few artists who didn't...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bashed President Donald Trump's latest legislative "mish-mosh" that came to a boil on Wednesday. Trump abruptly canceled a bill-signing ceremony for the overwhelmingly popular 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to force lawmakers to pass his SAVE America Act, a less popular piece of legislation...
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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Wednesday, stating the Trump administration lacks legal authority to demand voters' private data, siding with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.Benson had refused to provide birthdates, partial Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers. "I told them they can't have it," Benson...
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President Donald Trump dodged a question about whether he would veto a housing bill by touting his housing expertise, drawing harsh online criticism.In an unprecedented move, Trump canceled the signing of a housing affordability bill on Wednesday despite bipartisan support and a final passage by Congress the night before. Trump canceled the signing...
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Trump's obsession with the Reflecting Pool is his attempt to relive a distant memory of triumph, according to a biographer.Michael Wolff, the author of books about Trump and his administration, talked about Trump's pool obsession during an episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles, the outlet's chief content...
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President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to hold a popular piece of legislation hostage to force Republicans to pass his sweeping election reform legislation baffled one MS NOW analyst on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Trump canceled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which passed Congress with support from a...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has committed a "cardinal sin" in a recently launched investigation and betrayed the department's fundamental mission in the process, according to one legal expert. Harry Litman, a former federal prosecutor, argued in a new Substack essay that the Trump DOJ's investigation into Jennifer Siebel Newsom,...
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The departure of a right-wing star subtly hides a darker statement, according to a former Republican insider.Steve Schmidt, a long-time GOP strategist, spoke on his podcast The Warning about right-winger Tucker Carlson's announcement that he's leaving the Republican Party. He dissected Carlson's move but put it in a context that Schmidt said...
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Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate, argued four Supreme Court decisions handed down Tuesday debunked the long-standing myth. In a new article, Stern concluded that the court does not rule along ideological lines. Each case was decided by a 6-3 majority, with GOP appointees in control. He warned that the supermajority pursued expansive...
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The teal independents have confirmed they are forming a new political party, Community Strong Australia, but are yet to convince crossbench colleagues to join what they call a "responsible alternative" to the major parties.
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MS NOW's Ari Melber hit back at an outgoing Republican senator on Wednesday who has been recently vocally critical of President Donald Trump. During a press gaggle on Wednesday, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) was asked by a reporter about the Trump Department of Justice trying to prosecute people for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting...
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Republicans heading into November have a problem they can't say out loud: they're terrified of being seen anywhere near Donald Trump.That was the blunt read on Wednesday from John Heilemann, national affairs analyst for NBC News and MS NOW, on Nicolle Wallace's show, "Deadline: White House," where he argued the only thing that halts a slide toward...
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A fiery clash exploded during a CNN live broadcast between two political commentators on Wednesday in a debate over where the United States and its political parties are headed. Political analyst Charles Blow and Alyssa Farah Griffin, a strategist and former Trump administration official, got in a heated back-and-forth over the direction of the...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and President Donald Trump engaged in a heated confrontation at a Senate GOP luncheon Wednesday, according to multiple political reporters citing insiders at the event. MS NOW congressional correspondent Mychael Schnell described the scene. "Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) confronted President Trump over the Iran memorandum of...
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Former CNN broadcaster Jim Acosta warned that President Donald Trump could be considered a "vandal" accused of damaging federal property — just as the president has threatened to others over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Acosta spoke with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) about the president's threat to arrest and charge anyone who damaged the...
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Veteran political strategist James Carville flagged an upcoming runoff as a potential "earthquake" on Trump's grip on his base.During an episode of the Politics War Room, Carville said that the June 27 runoff for a Senate seat in his home state of Louisiana "is a potential huge earthquake" for Trump.The runoff is part of the race to replace Sen....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly cancel a bill-signing ceremony on Wednesday for a widely popular piece of legislation raised red flags for one political analyst. Trump announced on Truth Social that he was canceling the signing event for a bipartisan housing affordability bill, and said it won't be signed until the SAVE America Act is...
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A Republican senator who attended Wednesday's closed-door lunch with President Donald Trump recalled the discussion that reportedly led to yelling.Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told Semafor the exchange was memorable — and not in a good way."It was not a good discussion," Marshall said. "Sometimes two guys just have to get it off their chest."The...
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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Wednesday delivered a blunt fact check for a Republican defending President Donald Trump's plot to interfere with elections.Keilar was talking to Rep. John Rose (R-TN), one of the co-sponsors of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, when the conversation got fiery over tensions within the GOP and Trump's refusal to sign...
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Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has spent months telling voters that the state constitution is under threat from "out-of-state special interests” using ballot initiatives to bypass the Republican-controlled legislature and enact major policy changes. The measures have included legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding Medicaid and restoring abortion...
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Senate Republicans unveiled annual farm legislation this week that would do nothing to address the worsening nationwide hunger crisis spurred by President Donald Trump and the GOP's unprecedented assault on federal food aid.The draft bill introduced Tuesday by Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, omits a...
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President Donald Trump cancelled a scheduled signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing affordability bill Wednesday.According to reports by NPR, Trump postponed the ceremony until members of Congress agreed to pass his polarizing voter ID bill, or the SAVE America Act. Trump posted on Truth Social, "Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is...
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U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston permanently banned President Donald Trump's first executive order on elections, converting a preliminary injunction into a permanent ban that effectively ends his attempt to overhaul voting procedures nationwide. Judge Casper rejected Trump's argument that the lawsuit filed by Democratic state...
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Reactions were mounting after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump's Iran agreement.Waltz claimed the Iran deal was a success, despite conflicting reports about the terms of the negotiations."The Iranian regime is absolutely desperate. I think no president has ever...
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A New York Times reporter detailed how good the Trump administration is at keeping secrets.Jonathan Swan, who co-wrote the book Regime Change with fellow NYT reporter Maggie Haberman, explained during an appearance on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" that the Trump administration even kept secrets from senior officials."There is this phrase that...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), gubernatorial candidate for his state, called former President Barack Obama "a crook" during a Real America's Voice appearance Tuesday Tuberville demanded, "Let's put him in jail."The Alabama senator also publicly vouched for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be imprisoned for allegedly lying to the American people. His comments...
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Pro-Trump influencers lit into a federal appeals court Wednesday after it refused to force Michigan to hand over the personal data of every registered voter in the state.In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Justice Department cannot compel Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to produce the state's unredacted...
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President Donald Trump's "giant miscalculation" on Europe's nationalist right just backfired, a conservative New York Times columnist warned.David French, an Iraq War veteran and longtime conservative writer, laid out the diagnosis on MS NOW on Wednesday. Trump assumed Europe's nationalist leaders were his natural allies. French said that the...
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WASHINGTON — White House aides tend to shield President Donald Trump from opinions that diverge from his own worldview, but this afternoon, he got chewed out by one of his fellow Republicans at the U.S. Capitol.After four Senate Republicans bucked the president last night and voted to limit his ability to wage war against Iran without...
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A Supreme Court watcher was alarmed after a series of decisions handed down by the High Court shredded a long-standing myth about the body. Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate, argued in a new article that four decisions the Supreme Court handed down on Tuesday were a "blunt reminder that the GOP appointees remain in total control of the...
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A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration has no legal right to demand voters' private data, dealing a fresh blow to its unlawful bid to control American elections.The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the 2-1 decision Wednesday, siding with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D-MI), who refused to turn over the...
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President Donald Trump took a swing at defiant Republicans following a reported clash between himself and a scorned GOP lawmaker.Trump was attending the Senate GOP lunch after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill and claiming he needed Republicans to back the Save America Act. During the event, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) apparently confronted...
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Political analysts criticized President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair after FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, was announced as a featured performer at the June 24 kick-off rally. Wilkins announced via X she would perform at the event. Political reporter Sara Higdon questioned whether paying Patel's girlfriend with...
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Let us project forward. It's early 2028, and the unofficial campaign for the federal election, due in May, has well and truly begun. Pauline Hanson is helping rule Victoria and has done well in NSW. Will she ride the wave into the Lodge?
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted six words Tuesday and walked straight into accusations of Nazi rhetoric.The post, published on X, read: "Change the voters, change the country.""Just straight up Nazi rhetoric from husband and wife today," journalist and commentator Mehdi Hasan wrote on X. "Totally mainstreamed in Trump's GOP...
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A Florida Republican's defense bill amendment summary went viral after its text revealed the office had submitted AI output — complete with a chatbot label — without editing a word.Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) used Anthropic's Claude to draft the amendment summary. The document that circulated contained a timestamp, garbled filler text, and...
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President Donald Trump was reportedly "fascinated” with the gory details regarding Israel's Operation Grim Beeper, the 2024 attack that saw thousands of pagers explode simultaneously and brutally maim thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah members and civilians alike, including children, according to a new book."Trump 'regaled' his guests with horror...
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly bewildered by President Donald Trump's relationship with his executive assistant Natalie Harp, 34.According to reports by The Daily Beast, Trump told his inner circle, Harp will never leave him. "When Trump was in quasi-exile at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Harp joined...
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Just as Donald Trump entered a luncheon with Republican Senators to air out their grievances with each other over the SAVE America Act, designed to create roadblocks to voting, a federal judge delivered a massive blow to a voting rights executive order that had similar aims. According to Associated Press reporting, U.S. District Court Judge Denise...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) started yelling at President Donald Trump at a Senate GOP luncheon on Wednesday, according to reports from insiders at the event.Trump had vowed earlier Wednesday to block a bipartisan affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, declining to sign the bill and fueling panic from lawmakers....
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There's a peculiar dialect spoken only at Donald Trump rallies, one where "winning" and being "loved" mean roughly the same thing, observed a new column.The Bulwark's Andrew Eggers pointed out how the 80-year-old president, greeting supporters this week at a factory in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, declared "I won this place so much," attacked...
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pressed Konstantinos Ligris, President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Attorney General, during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday after discovering the Department of Justice hopeful had posted several social media attacks on lawmakers.Whitehouse mentioned the comments during the nominee's testimony before...
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As federal workers race to transform the National Mall for President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 celebrations, Washington, D.C. locals and visitors are growing frustrated with the constant construction and disruptions to daily life."That's been really annoying and it just looks ugly,” said 20-year-old Tristan Monahan, a student at George...
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President Donald Trump drew criticism on social media Tuesday after mocking a female weightlifter during a speech at a Mack Trucks assembly plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania. While discussing women in sports, Trump shared a convoluted story and made groaning gestures in front of the crowd. The moment sparked reactions across social media platforms....
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was put on the spot on Wednesday afternoon when Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a highly anticipated signing ceremony for a housing bill that Republicans were counting on to stop their slide in the polls.As workers were setting up chairs and GOP lawmakers began showing up for the signing of the 21st Century ROAD...
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One of President Donald Trump's nominees, who was up for the federal job of funding police departments across the country, refused Wednesday to apologize for calling cops "dumb as dirt."Konstantinos Ligris, Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs, faced a barrage of questions at his Senate Judiciary Committee...
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Tucker Carlson has publicly broken with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, and a religious scholar analyzes the "potent symbol" he has adopted that suggests he intends to lead the MAGA movement deeper into Christian nationalism.The former Fox News host still holds considerable sway over the conservative movement, which could make him...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) arrived at Statuary Hall expecting to watch the president sign a landmark housing bill and found workers dismantling the stage instead.President Donald Trump pulled the plug Wednesday morning without warning, posting on Truth Social that the signing was "hereby cancelled" until Congress passes the SAVE America Act. Nobody...
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In an unprecedented move, President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to block an affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, sparking panic and shock from onlookers across the political spectrum."We saw glimpses of this during Trump's first administration, but never in my lifetime have I seen a president so...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver's attorneys are set to appear before a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday morning in Wilmington, Delaware.Her legal team seeks to overturn her federal assault charges stemming from a May 2025 confrontation at Newark's Delaney Hall migrant detention facility, according to New Jersey Monitor's Sophie Nieto-Muñoz....
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Postmaster General David Steiner admitted Wednesday that he wants a rule allowing his agency to block mail-in ballots from states that refuse to hand over their voter rolls.The concession came under questioning from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing — one ostensibly about the U.S....
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CNBC had an accidental blunder during a live interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday.The television network was interviewing the long-time Democrat about President Donald Trump abruptly canceling the signing of a bipartisan housing bill and the economic fallout during Trump's second administration when the mix-up...
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Former Trump advisor and MAGA influencer Steve Bannon revealed a plan for the midterms as President Donald Trump's approval ratings sink, according to a report Wednesday.Political correspondent Farrah Tomazin wrote for The Daily Beast's Substack, The Swamp, that Bannon spoke to an audience at a far-right conference and "called for ICE agents and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
A last-minute Donald Trump decision to cancel the signing ceremony for a popular housing bill that sailed through both chambers of Congress with unusual bipartisan support is yet another blow to Republicans who have been looking for any good news as they face a midterm blowout.Mid-Wednesday morning, the president took to his Truth Social platform...
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President Donald Trump's appointee Andrea Lucas might not be well known to the public, but she has caused major repercussions in American life with a series of aggressive moves, an analyst argued on Wednesday.Bryce Covert wrote in an opinion piece for The i Paper about how Lucas has enacted some of Trump's harsh policies after the president took a...
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A former Trump administration official says the president's allies are no longer absorbing his bullying in silence — but that carries new risks of antagonism.President Donald Trump publicly declared British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation this week a full day before Downing Street confirmed it, and former Homeland Security chief of...
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A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade.U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump's illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for...
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