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Gov. Ron DeSantis is employing a three-pronged legal strategy to evade Florida's constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering, quietly orchestrating a special legislative session to approve new congressional maps designed to create more GOP-friendly districts ahead of November midterm elections.DeSantis rejected open-process redistricting during...
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News item: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer tells Politico that members of his panel are open to a Trump pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell as a way to encourage her to provide testimony about Jeffrey Epstein.Reaction: Oh sure, by all means grant the most notorious sex trafficking accomplice and groomer of underage girls in American history...
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In der Unions-Fraktion braut sich etwas zusammen. Exklusiv berichtet Rasmus Buchsteiner über die neu formierte „Gruppe 25". Ein Zusammenschluss aus 63 Abgeordneten, die erst im letzten Jahr in den Bundestag eingezogen sind. Unter der informellen Führung von JU-Chef Johannes Winkel und anderen wächst der Unmut über den Kanzlerkurs. Warum die...
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The fragile ceasefire in the Persian Gulf and the uncertainty over peace talks between the U.S. and Iran have cast a long shadow over European capitals hoping for an end to hostilities in the Middle East. Will they have any say over what happens next? The wars in Iran and Ukraine have exposed the chasm […]
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) harshly criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following his firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan without explanation, while U.S. warships actively blockade Iranian ports. Ryan, a West Point graduate and Army veteran, described Hegseth as having thin skin, a "joke", and a "performance artist" that military...
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MS NOW's Chris Hayes took a deep look at scandal-plagued FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday evening, opening up his segment with a brutal nickname that references reports he has been drinking heavily."As scrutiny mounts on Donald Trump's handpicked FBI director, Kash Patel, some people have started calling him — not me — J. Edgar Boozer," said...
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A GOP lawmaker who's endorsed by Trump struggled to answer a basic question about why voters should support Trump's call to unseat Republican Indiana state senators with retaliatory gerrymandering. "Good question, um. Gosh, okay, defining issue. What's it about?" Republican state Rep. Michelle Davis from Indiana responded to a Politico reporter on...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took a swing at President Donald Trump for his swiftly developing plan to have the federal government effectively buy Spirit Airlines to prevent it from liquidating — a move already condemned by multiple Republican lawmakers.The idea, they warned, has "no economic justification" — and would...
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Conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has a message for Donald Trump: You took America to war without ever explaining why.In a column published Thursday, the Reagan speechwriter and longtime conservative voice delivered a pointed rebuke of Trump's failure to make a serious public case for the war in Iran — and didn't spare his...
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CBS News' newly appointed primetime anchor Tony Dokoupil, hand-selected by Trump-friendly network chief Bari Weiss, has gotten off to an awkward start — and behind the scenes, it's even worse, reported Vanity Fair on Thursday."To critics ... partisan politics is exactly what motivates the new regime," said the report. "David Ellison and his...
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WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving, according to a new Gallup survey. That ties this 119th Congress with the 112th Congress (2011-2012) as the least popular in contemporary American history.While most Democrats are embarrassed by the new...
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A GOP congresswoman wants to pardon the U.S. special forces soldier who was arrested after winning $400,000 by betting on the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. "Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned," Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) posted Thursday on X. Earlier in the day, a Manhattan federal...
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Louisiana's semi-closed primary system, championed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, has effectively excluded Democratic voters from selecting the state's newest Supreme Court justice. With both candidates —Judges Billy Burris and Blair Downing Edwards— being Republicans, the May 16 GOP primary will determine the winner, excluding the district's...
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Slate legal analysts flagged what they say is one of the most brazen acts of judicial defiance in recent memory: a federal appeals court that broke a Supreme Court rule specifically about breaking Supreme Court rules.In a 9-8 vote on Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas's law requiring the King James Bible's Ten Commandments...
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A couple of political pundits broke into laughter when they heard President Donald Trump claim that he sold $1.3 billion worth of gold cards, his program to let people into the country for a fee of $1 million."Obviously he sold one gold card for $1.3 billion," political analyst Van Jones said while on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Thursday,...
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A former Trump official had harsh words for anyone planning to attend the upcoming White House Correspondents' Dinner."If you're going to partake in the humiliation ritual that Donald Trump is going to thrust upon you, feel a little bit of shame for going," Sarah Matthews, the former White House deputy press secretary from 2020 to 2021, said on the...
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A vulnerable House Republican in a battleground district admitted to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman this week on Fly Out Day that he's thought about leaving the GOP and running as an independent — but there's a key issue that prevents him from doing so.Specifically, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said he'd make the switch if Pennsylvania were an...
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards have effectively taken control of the country's military and diplomatic strategy, following the severe wounding of newly appointed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in February airstrikes.The airstrikes injured Khamenei but killed his father, wife, and son.Khamenei suffered severe leg injuries requiring multiple...
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A seasoned Capitol Hill reporter alleged Thursday that a leader in the GOP pressured her to avoid doing anything to risk exposing another former Republican congressman's extramarital affair. Former Axios reporter Juliegrace Brufke wrote in a Thursday post on her blog Sources Say that House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, (R-WI) tried to talk her...
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The Trump administration's criminal fraud charges against the anti-hate group watchdog the Southern Poverty Law Center are haphazardly conceived and doomed to failure, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Thursday."Let's start there," said Melber, himself a lawyer by training. "Your view of the case legally. And if...
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WASHINGTON — The Senate may have done its part, but House Republicans made clear Thursday they will not rubber-stamp a Department of Homeland Security funding deal they say leaves agencies out in the cold that are tasked with immigration enforcement.The Senate passed a $70 billion budget resolution to fund ICE and Border Patrol through...
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Democratic strategist James Carville responded to President Donald Trump's attack on his proposals Tuesday on his podcast. First, he hit Trump with a basic history lesson, then challenged him to an in-person debate. "Wacko James Carville, a so-called Democrat 'strategist,' wants the Democrats to make D.C. and Puerto Rico States and, most...
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A soldier for U.S. special forces has been arrested for winning a $400,000 bet that former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would be out of power by January.CNN reported on Thursday that the soldier opened an account on Polymarket, which allows people to make bets on nearly anything, and placed a $32,000 bet on Maduro's capture. Law enforcement...
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Democrats have built a tremendous lead among independents, Carrie Dann of the Cook Political Report told CNN's Kasie Hunt on Thursday's edition of "The Arena.""[Your outlet] has this new poll of battleground House districts that's giving us an idea of where control the fight for control of the House stands at this moment," said Hunt. "What are you...
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Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) lashed out at the dysfunction of his own party caucus in conversation with reporters on Thursday, as his party prepares for a string of critical votes on national security and funding.Nehls, a far-right lawmaker from the Houston area with a history of controversies, has already decided against running for re-election this...
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A once-prominent support group for President Donald Trump and the GOP has warned that they may take their votes elsewhere at the midterm elections. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, writing in The New York Times, highlighted the growing dissatisfaction with the Make America Healthy Again movement. Leading MAHA figures, who backed Department of Health and Human...
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A New York Times report on Thursday revealed more details behind what led to President Donald Trump's decision to fire Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump apparently wanted Phelan to deliver on building a new class of battleships by 2028, but "the timeline was nearly impossible," according to The Times. Trump had even bragged about the planned...
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A former deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump now running for Congress, is facing accusations of a controlling, abusive relationship with subordinates.The Daily Mail broke the story on Thursday, reporting that Madison Sheahan, who is now running for the ninth congressional district in Ohio, had a controlling, "toxic"...
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Rep. Frank Mrvan (D-IN) confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, after Lutnick appeared to laugh while discussing job losses affecting Mrvan's Indiana district. Mrvan described British Petroleum's, BP, lockout of approximately 1,000 United Steelworkers at the nation's third-largest...
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The Republican National Committee's lawsuit to try to strip thousands of Americans living overseas of the right to vote has been thrown out by a Michigan court.According to the liberal elections outlet Democracy Docket, "In a sweeping opinion, the Michigan Court of Claims dismissed the case brought by the Republican National Committee and state...
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Ex-Republican operative Rick Wilson said Thursday that he anticipates President Donald Trump will extend a pardon to Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. In his Substack, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project wrote how Trump's pervasive use of pardons could soon lead to Maxwell's exit from prison. "And the pardons....
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When voters in Virginia approved Democrats' plan to redraw the commonwealth's congressional districts in retaliation for mid-decade Republican gerrymanders, President Donald Trump went to his go-to accusation that the vote had been "rigged." Close Trump allies, like far-right activist Laura Loomer, made similar claims.Republicans in Virginia,...
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The former Trump-appointed Navy Secretary who suddenly departed amid a naval blockade in Iran didn't believe Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth when he was told to leave, a senior White House correspondent reported.Hegseth "did the firing," CNN White House correspondent Kristin Holmes reported on Thursday, by asking former Navy Secretary John Phelan "to...
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President Donald Trump fired back at a reporter who asked if his recent social media posts about destroying Iran are also a threat to use nuclear weapons in the conflict."Why would I use a nuclear weapon? Why would a stupid question like that be asked?" Trump fired back in the Oval Office on Thursday when a reporter asked him to explain his social...
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FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, alleging fraud for using donor contributions to pay informants infiltrating extremist groups without disclosure, reported USA Today. The charges follow the FBI's 2025 severance of its decades-long...
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) had a serious response on Thursday to reporting involving allegations of FBI Director Kash Patel's conduct and excessive drinking.In an exclusive interview with Raw Story, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee described what could come after midterms if Democrats take control of Congress. "It's...
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President Donald Trump was caught sleeping during an Oval Office press conference on Thursday — and the internet didn't hold back. The president was speaking with a group of cabinet members about several topics, including health care, prescription drug prices, and the economy, when people started to notice he was nodding off. Social media users...
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President Donald Trump attacked a reporter during a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday. Trump was taking questions from reporters following a press conference on prescription drugs, TrumpRx and affordability when he became visibly irritated by press inquiries surrounding the ongoing Israeli-U.S. war against Iran. The reporter asked...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to defend President Donald Trump's false claim that he had lowered drug prices by more than 500%. During a Thursday event in the Oval Office, Kennedy recalled that Democrats had asked him to explain why the president had repeatedly suggested that he reduce drug prices by up to...
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A federal judge in Wisconsin sharply rebuked right-wing cable network Newsmax for an apparent "forum shopping" scheme to relocate their lawsuit against Fox News to a court that would be more likely to rule in their favor.Newsmax alleged in its complaint that Fox News violated antitrust law by striking "exclusionary deals" with cable providers...
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A former CIA director cautioned that recent missteps by the Trump administration in its handling of the war in Iran could spell "real trouble for the future."Leon Panetta, the former CIA director, said on CNN on Thursday that "badly stalled" talks with Iran will make a military response more likely on both sides."While talks are stalemated, that...
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WASHINGTON — "Weak sauce." "A joke." "A performance artist." That's how a West Point grad and Army vet on the Armed Services Committee described Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, who is running the Department of Defense in the middle of a war.Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) didn't mince words Wednesday after Hegseth fired Navy Secretary John Phelan, effective...
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MS NOW's "Morning Joe" panel attributed President Donald Trump's worsening Iran crisis to his reliance on only three advisers: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Co-host Joe Scarborough argued Trump ignored Pentagon experts and historical military strategy knowledge, noting the Strait...
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The NDIS was forecast to serve 900,000 people by the end of the decade. Instead, it will serve 600,000. That leaves a void that the anxieties of hundreds of thousands of people will fill – people for whom the stakes are extremely high.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was reportedly concerned that President Donald Trump could dismiss him from his cabinet next, which is dictating his recent moves, an analyst said on Thursday. Hegseth, who fired Navy Secretary John Phelan on Wednesday, has apparently started to show signs of paranoia over whether he will remain in the top Pentagon...
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A couple of GOP lawmakers warned gun owners that the federal government is spying on them and Congress has "one week to get this right" in a Thursday op-ed for right-wing outlet Breitbart. "Federal agencies are buying your personal data," Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Eric Burlison (R-MO) cautioned Second Amendment enthusiasts. "The data for sale...
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The University of Georgia student who was president of the school's Turning Point USA chapter has resigned after a small crowd gathered for Vice President JD Vance — and as CEO Erika Kirk suddenly canceled her appearance, according to The Daily Beast on Thursday. Caroline Mattox shared a statement saying that joining TPUSA was a "dream" and...
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Former hockey teammates of FBI Director Kash Patel have characterized him as dramatically different from the committed assistant coach they knew before his involvement with the Trump administration. According to CNN reporter Isabelle Khurshudyan, Patel dismissed media reports about President Donald Trump as "fake news" during his coaching years,...
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President Donald Trump reacted on Thursday to reports on where negotiations stand with Iran amid the ongoing Israeli-U.S. war. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he argued that reports saying he was uneasy about the ongoing conflict were inaccurate and tried to set the record straight, while also attacking The New York Times and CNN for their...
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Recruiting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to gerrymander his state as a counterattack to the Democratic redistricting victory in Virginia could backfire, a political consultant warned Thursday, as the GOP looks to punch back. "We have already compacted Democrats into such tight districts, the only thing you can do when you are redrawing is cut them out...
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Podcaster Joe Rogan suggested that Americans would revolt if President Donald Trump attempted to use the war in Iran as an excuse to serve an illegal third term as president.During a Thursday interview with Australian comedian James Donald Forbes McCann, Rogan pointed out that many Israelis wanted to try Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on...
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President Donald Trump posted a cryptic statement on Truth Social on Wednesday, stating, "YOU CAN'T COMPROMISE ON SANITY AND COMMON SENSE!" amid the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war against Iran and current ceasefire negotiations. The context and intended target of the statement remained unclear. Social media users quickly mocked the post, questioning...
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A member of President Donald Trump's administration has confirmed they may lift a Joe Biden-era policy to fix an ongoing crisis. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has confirmed that a plan to shore up domestic fertilizer production, previously flagged by the Biden administration, is under consideration to fix a current problem. Trump's team is...
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The artificial intelligence boom has been wildly profitable for tech billionaires and catastrophically hollow for everyone else, a new Mother Jones report said this week. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have built fortunes on AI hype while delivering false promises, toxic platforms, and minimal actual job creation.According...
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When thousands of voters cast their ballots next month to decide who will join the Louisiana Supreme Court next, none will be registered Democrats.Louisiana's new semi-closed primary election system, pushed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, has shut Democrats out of picking the state's newest justice entirely.The only two candidates who filed to run...
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Rep. Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN) scolded Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the Trump administration official appeared to laugh at job losses in his district.During a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, Mrvan observed that Lutnick had been supportive of union jobs outside of government."British Petroleum in my district, which is an...
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards have consolidated control over the country's military and diplomatic strategy, effectively sidelining the newly appointed supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who remains gravely wounded and in hiding following airstrikes that killed his father.Khamenei, wounded in the Feb. 28 bombing of his family's compound that...
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President Donald Trump is preparing a "revenge" attack on White House media at Saturday's Correspondents' Dinner, according to The Daily Beast. Trump plans to target publications he has accused of negatively covering his administration, particularly its role in the Iran war, consistent with recent Truth Social rants accusing news outlets of rigging...
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Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) called out Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after he misrepresented his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.During a Thursday hearing before the House Appropriations Committee, Dean noted that Lutnick falsely claimed he had never spoken to Epstein again after a single meeting in which his wife was present."After speaking...
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A French billionaire much admired by President Donald Trump warned of the Iran war's catastrophic risks to the global economy.LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault warned Thursday that failure to resolve the Middle East conflict could trigger a "world catastrophe" with severe economic consequences, as the Iran war has already halved the luxury giant's...
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In a surprise announcement on Thursday afternoon, Department of Justice Inspector General William Blier is initiating a review of his department over complaints that the release of the entire Jeffrey Epstein files is not in compliance with the law signed by Donald Trump.Posted on the DOJ's website, Blier stated, "The DOJ Office of the Inspector...
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U.S. border czar Tom Homan at a right-wing Turning Point USA event faced questions about immigration agents killing Minnesota resident Alex Pretti.At a TPUSA event on Thursday, host Benny Johnson invited members of the audience to ask Homan questions. One young man demanded "accountability" for Pretti's killing."Out of all three speakers, you're...
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A new Fox News poll shows that voters have started turning on President Donald Trump and how he's handled the economy, according to a report published by The Daily Beast on Thursday. The poll was conducted among 1,001 registered voters between April 17-20 and revealed Trump's leadership around several major issues has come under fire "as more...
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Kash Patel's former hockey teammates have shared what the FBI Director is really like behind the scenes. Patel recently filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic and staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on April 20, following the outlet's bombshell investigative report detailing his alleged excessive drinking and erratic behavior. The Atlantic's...
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Law enforcement veterans blasted the Department of Justice case against a civil rights group that helped take down the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.FBI Director Kash Patel and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, accusing the organization of defrauding donors by...
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