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Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodríguez revealed that Bradbury Stamm, a major U.S. government-linked contractor specializing in military and industrial construction, appears to have built Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. In her 3,000-word investigation posted on Substack, Valdes-Rodríguez described the revelation as "terrifying,"...
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Friends,You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your job in the Trump regime.You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job.You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as...
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A former MAGA loyalist claimed there was a coordinated strategy among Republicans to fast-track President Donald Trump's ballroom after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, according to an analyst on Monday. Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described how in the wake of the shooting, the right immediately pivoted to repeating...
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President Donald Trump became defensive during a CBS News interview with Norah O'Donnell on Sunday, one day after alleged shooter Cole Allen opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. O'Donnell referenced Allen's manifesto, in which he described Trump as "a pedophile, rapist, and traitor," and asked Trump to respond. Trump lashed out at...
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President Donald Trump has created an environment in which his own base is incapable of weighing facts rationally and listening to the media, MS NOW's Katy Tur argued on Monday — and this has come back to haunt him now that he wants his base to stop going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes about the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking case...
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A former police officer who was hired and trained by ICE — and was later turned away from the job in an email saying he was "too old" — has revealed that ICE's hiring surge under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has prompted more than 10,000 equal opportunity legal claims. A new investigation from PunchUp, a Substack launched by...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was roundly mocked on Monday after admiring President Donald Trump for bravery during the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting.Leavitt spoke to reporters during a press briefing, blaming Democrats and members of the media for what led to suspect Cole Allen allegedly shooting a Secret Service...
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones suggested that Israel may have played a part in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to influence American foreign policy.During his Monday show, Jones noted that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had said that the war with Iran had been won as he was preparing for the...
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Analyst Molly Olmstead examined the aftermath of Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where alleged shooter Cole Allen fired multiple rounds at the Washington Hilton, striking a Secret Service agent's bulletproof vest. No one was killed, and Allen was arrested on scene. Writing for Slate, Olmstead highlighted how people...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday warned that the United States is being "humiliated” by Iran and risks getting trapped in a quagmire there like it did in Afghanistan and Iraq."The Iranians are clearly stronger than expected and the Americans clearly have no truly convincing strategy in the negotiations either,” Merz told students at...
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After White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt used her Monday press conference to blame Democrats for a lone gunman attempting to crash the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night. MS NOW reporter Laura Barrón-López pushed back with a list of physical threats President Donald Trump has made over the years.Leavitt was presented...
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President Donald Trump called on ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired after he joked about the commander-in-chief's death days before a gunman allegedly attempted to assassinate administration officials at the White House Correspondents' Dinner."Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings,...
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Prominent conservative activist Brigitte Gabriel was hammered Monday after joining First Lady Melania Trump's call for ABC to cancel comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show – only for her past remarks to be immediately used against her."ABC must TAKE action against Jimmy Kimmel,” Gabriel wrote in a social media post Monday on X to her more than 1.4...
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PARIS — C’est finalement un “oui”. A l’issue d’une réunion de plusieurs heures à huis clos, les députés de la commission d’enquête sur l’audiovisuel public ont voté en faveur de la publication du rapport rédigé par le député de l'Union des droites pour la République (UDR), Charles Alloncle. Douze députés se sont...
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President Donald Trump is preparing to fire FBI Director Kash Patel following a series of embarrassing gaffes, according to a White House insider cited by Real Clear Politics correspondent Susan Crabtree. The firing could occur within days, following Trump's recent dismissals of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Crabtree...
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One of President Donald Trump's closest allies, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, has had a recent string of "repeated failures” in securing indictments against the president's political enemies, but those very "failures,” argued MS NOW producer Steve Benen, could ultimately elevate her to the nation's top law...
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Vice President JD Vance has been questioning the Defense Department's portrayal of the Iran war behind the scenes, according to a new report.Two senior administration officials told The Atlantic that Vance has cast doubt on the accuracy of information about the war provided by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the...
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RNC National Committeewoman Patti Lyman called on Steve Bannon's War Room "posse" to ask God to prevent Virginia's new district maps from being used for the midterm elections.As the Virginia Supreme Court was hearing oral arguments on the new district maps, Lyman predicted a ruling would come in the next few days."I wouldn't be surprised if they...
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The U.S. Supreme Court could soon be put on the spot if lawmakers challenge President Donald Trump's war against Iran.The president's war with Iran is most likely illegal under the War Powers Act, argued Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley, law school in an op-ed for the New York Times, and he said it will be plainly...
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Last month, in a unanimous decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life without parole sentences imposed after a conviction for second-degree (felony murder) were unconstitutional.Immediately over 1,000 people in prisons across the state learned that the sentences they are serving violates their rights under the Pennsylvania...
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President Donald Trump has weaponized Vice President JD Vance to absorb blame over failed negotiations with Iran, an analyst reported on Monday.Salon's Amanda Marcotte described how Trump has forced Vance into a situation he didn't want to be in and by doing so, has put his political future in question."The vice president didn't even want to be...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will hear oral arguments on the Trump administration's efforts to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that could open them up to deportation.The case has the potential to have an impact on multiple lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's efforts to end...
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First Lady Melania Trump erupted at comedian Jimmy Kimmel Monday for spreading what she called "hate” – and was promptly told by one prominent political commentator to "walk across the hall” and "start” her crusade against "hate” by speaking with her husband, President Donald Trump.Last week, Kimmel jokingly referred to Mrs. Trump as an...
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On Monday, former MSNBC host Katie Phang filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking the court to compel acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to release the entire Jeffrey Epstein files.According to Phang, a former prosecutor turned legal analyst at MSNBC (now MS NOW) the DOJ has illegally withheld files and has...
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President Donald Trump and Republican Party leaders have decided to "host a GOP midterm twist" with a convention in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News reported.The "Texas power play" would bring a rare midterm rally to deep-blue Dallas in an attempt to garner voter support ahead of the midterms this fall. The unprecedented move would rely on "Texas...
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Recently, columnist Janice Ellis asked the question: "Who is the real Republican Party? Look at how it governs.”As the Missouri state chair for Our Republican Legacy, here is my answer. The Republican Party belongs to history, not to one man. The principled Republicans and conservatives are still here. And we're not going anywhere.There is a...
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President Donald Trump has been losing on multiple fronts and these losses have now taken a "humiliating turn," The New Republic reported in its podcast on Monday. In a conversation between Zeteo reporter Asawin Suebsaeng and Greg Sargent, staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast, the two analysts described a...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might not be feeling comfortable about his future after a Republican senator publicly broke ranks and said that there is growing discomfort in Congress with Hegseth's job performance.In an interview with The Hill, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), whose threat to halt the confirmation of Donald Trump's pick, Kevin Warsh, to...
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The United States Supreme Court reversed a block on Texas redistricting efforts, ending litigation against new maps that could give Republicans additional House seats.The high court cited Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens in its order, but did not elaborate on its thinking. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown...
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First Lady Melania Trump demanded Monday that ABC "take a stand” by axing comedian Jimmy Kimmel over what she described as his "hateful and violent rhetoric,” calling the comedian a "coward” that engages in "atrocious behavior.”Last week on his show "Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the comedian joked that Mrs. Trump "had the glow of an 'expectant...
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In a nearly 3,000-word bombshell report, veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez recently uncovered the company that appears to have constructed Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling New Mexico property, the implications of which, Valdes-Rodriguez wrote, were "terrifying” and made "it hard to sleep.”Valdes-Rodriguez has uncovered several revelations as...
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was expected to convene a meeting this week on protecting President Donald Trump.In a statement on Monday, the White House confirmed the meeting to PBS NewsHour. The meeting will come just days after a gunman tried to enter the White House Correspondents' Dinner."President Trump and the White House are...
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Followers of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who contributed mightily to Donald Trump's reelection in 2024, are fuming that the administration is blowing off their concerns as a closely-watched case heads to the Supreme Court on Monday.According to CNBC reporting, the conservative-leaning court will hear...
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Donald Trump is preparing to fire a chief member of his Cabinet after a series of gaffes left the president embarrassed, a White House insider has claimed. Trump recently dismissed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi in quick succession, marking a dramatic purge of Cabinet members. FBI Director Kash...
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FBI Director Kash Patel faced tough questions Monday morning on "Fox & Friends" about an apparent assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.The embattled FBI director was questioned on Fox News about security failures that allowed alleged gunman Cole Tomas Allen to charge into an area near the entrance to the black-tie event...
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New details were revealed Monday about the suspected gunman who rushed through a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday in Washington, D.C., details that journalist Ken Klippenstein described as "unsettling in its ordinariness.”The suspected gunman was soon identified as Cole Allen, a 31-year-old California...
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As part of the scramble by the Donald Trump administration to deport immigrants as quickly as possible after they have been swept off the street by heavily armed ICE agents, a huge recruitment campaign is reportedly underway to pack the courts with compliant judges, many of whom have zero experience in immigration law. According to a Washington...
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While Donald Trump said the suspected White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter "hates Christians,” a purported manifesto not only suggests otherwise, but indicates they "might have” even been "provoked” by a social media post the president made that drew accusations of blasphemy, journalist Ken Klippenstein argued on Monday."The guy is a...
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When the College Republicans of America appointed a student with ties to white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes as its political director, social media praise rolled in from university chapters."We are @KaiSchwemmer,” posted Nick Jacobs, president of the Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans."UF LET'S GO!! Kai is a legend! We are so...
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was hammered Monday after video of him being escorted by security officials amid the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting on Saturday went viral, in which the HHS secretary was seen being tailed by his wife, Cheryl Hines."RFK Jr. rushed out of the White House Correspondents'...
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Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville on Monday highlighted a Senate seat in Florida he thinks can turn blue.Carville, who recently hit Trump with a history lesson, sent an email to supporters in which he hailed Alex Vindman, the retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and former National Security Council (NSC) official who was a prominent...
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President Donald Trump signaled his discomfort with a particularly sensitive topic during a new interview after an alleged would-be assassin charged into an area near the White House Correspondents Dinner.The 79-year-old president sat down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Norah O'Donnell, who read from alleged gunman Cole Thomas Allen's manifesto...
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Senate Democrats' desire to hold acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's feet to the fire over the Jeffrey Epstein files and his reasoning behind his sympathetic treatment of Ghislaine Maxwell, could be waylaid by a legal loophole.According to Politico's Erica Orden and Eli Stokols, legal scholars are divided on whether Donald Trump can keep Blanche...
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Republican Rick Jackson is confronting an awkward contradiction in his Georgia gubernatorial race.While aggressively positioning himself as President Donald Trump's most loyal supporter, the billionaire's healthcare company has repeatedly criticized Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, warning it will devastate the medical industry, reported Fox...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is poised to have an "absolutely brutal week” as a confluence of challenges is all set to fall into his lap within a matter of days, challenges that present the House GOP leader with risks of losing support and are likely to "set the tone for the rest of the legislative year,” Punchbowl News reported on...
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President Donald Trump erupted during a "60 Minutes" interview over a topic that he's clearly "sensitive" about, according to CNN's Audie Cornish.The 79-year-old president sat down for an interview with correspondent Norah O'Donnell, who asked him about allegations about assault made by would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen in his manifesto."I was...
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The Wall Street Journal lambasted the Trump Administration's recent reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act, warning the move carries significant implications for public health, particularly regarding adolescent brain development.The practical consequences are substantial, the newspaper's editorial...
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Donald Trump's 2024 campaign promise to get a landmark crypto bill passed through Congress, which currently has a Republican Party majority in both chambers, is running into a roadblock.His own family.According to Politico's Jasper Goodman and Declan Harty, Don Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have built crypto businesses worth hundreds of millions of...
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Ever think a drone could chase you down the street or fire a bullet through your living room window because you upset Trump, Miller, or their ICE thugs? If the answer is "that's science fiction,” please read on: that reality may be only a few months away, and every single part of the spying and death-dealing infrastructure needed to make it...
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Finance experts predict Tuesday's spring economic update will contain a number of new economic measures aimed at tackling affordability and the wider economic challenges of the country, and they expect the update will show a smaller-than-forecasted deficit.
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Europe is staring down a familiar and unwelcome set of circumstances: rising energy prices, slowing growth and growing political pressure. As the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran ripples through global markets, EU governments are scrambling to cushion the blow — with far fewer tools than they had when the full-scale Russian invasion of...
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In Berlin-Schöneberg trifft sich heute der Union-Fraktionsvorstand der Union am Gasometer. Dort, wo der Koalitionsvertrag unterschrieben wurde. Zu Gast ist EU-Kommissionschefin Ursula von der Leyen. Gordon Repinski und Rasmus Buchsteiner analysieren den großen Druck unter dem Schwarz-Rot inzwischen steht und wie sie abwenden muss, das Schicksal...
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Political analysts and observers raised red flags on Sunday after a new proposal to end the war in Iran was shared with the press. Axios reported, citing "a U.S. official and two sources with knowledge," that Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for kicking talks about the country's enriched uranium down the road. The Strait...
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President Donald Trump just passed an "incredible milestone" during his second administration, and doing so could cost him dearly, according to one political analyst. Trump's disapproval rating among Republicans rose to 31% earlier this month, according to an AP-NORC poll, which liberal political commentator David Pakman said illustrates the...
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There is something "more sinister" happening underneath the surface of the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, according to one analyst. Alleged shooter Cole Allen fired multiple rounds inside the Washington Hilton, where the event was taking place. He struck a Secret Service agent in the agent's bulletproof vest,...
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CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang is also the president of the White House Correspondents' Association. She describes what she experienced when shots rang out at the organization's dinner while she was sitting next to President Trump.
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Observers hit President Donald Trump with a brutal fact-check after he made a "clinical-grade" remark during his interview on "60 Minutes."Trump sat down for a one-on-one interview with Norah O'Donnell of CBS News on Sunday, just a day after an alleged shooter named Cole Allen opened fire during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. No one was...
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President Donald Trump called CBS News reporter Norah O'Donnell "a disgrace" during Sunday's broadcast of "60 Minutes" when she asked for his reaction to the manifesto the alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter left behind. On Saturday, several shots were fired inside the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was being held. The alleged...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Political analysts and observers were outraged after new details from the investigation into the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner were revealed. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that President Donald Trump's administration did not designate the dinner as a "National Security Event," which would have increased security around...
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President Donald Trump's administration appears to be "faltering under the weight of its arrogance and accumulated mistakes" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, a sign that the "energy and self-confidence" Trump's administration once exuded is starting to slip away, according to a new analysis. During...
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide.But congressional appropriators — who rebuffed similar efforts to gut the agency in fiscal 2026 — expressed little enthusiasm for the proposed cut in...
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A cadre of House Republicans just proved that Ghislaine Maxwell is "holding all of the cards" against President Donald Trump as she seeks to "extract" a pardon from him, according to one expert. Allison Gill, host of "The Breakdown" podcast, argued during a new episode on Sunday that by admitting they support pardoning Maxwell — the accomplice of...
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A GOP operative scorched King Charles III on Sunday over his upcoming state visit, calling it a "despicable moment for the crown."Steve Schmidt, a political strategist, discussed the upcoming state visit on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Hugh Dougherty. He argued that King Charles III should not visit President Donald Trump's...
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The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Saturday that his organization has submitted evidence of US-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court and other global bodies, seeking accountability for massive attacks on civilian infrastructure and other violations."The ICC prosecutor announced that the documents provided by the IRCS...
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An employee of the Washington Hilton revealed on Sunday how the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter was able to "surprise" President Donald Trump's security. The employee, who spoke to The Mirror US anonymously, contended that the shooter, Cole Allen, slipped past security at a "cordoned-off" VIP area to evade metal detectors. Allen fired...
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US President Donald Trump on Friday quietly fired every member of the independent board that governs the National Science Foundation, a move seen as an escalation of the administration's destructive war on science.Members of the National Science Board (NSB) were notified in a brief email "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump” that their...
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As the old saying goes, never let a crisis go to waste. That's exactly what President Donald Trump did on Sunday morning as he tried to use last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to sell his signature White House Ballroom project, which has been temporarily halted by a court order. During the event, alleged shooter Cole...
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