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A red state leader's claim during an Oval Office visit was met with an outpouring of corrections by online critics.Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told reporters on Friday, "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution," while standing behind Trump. The Texas Board of Education approved a required reading list earlier that day that included...
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A journalist warned that Trump's relationship with an aide who's always around him spells trouble.In an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, executive editor Hugh Dougherty spoke with host Joanna Coles about revelations regarding Trump executive assistant Natalie Harp, who Dougherty said "trails Donald Trump everywhere." The Daily Beast reported...
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A Confederate flag display at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C. was under fire on Friday, according to reports.The flag was part of an interactive exhibit for North Carolina and shared in a viral video shared on X by Reuben Jones, Spectrum News Washington Correspondent. "I stopped by the North Carolina booth at the 'Great American...
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A former GOP operative described how he is looking forward to the revenge of an enemy President Donald Trump made in the Senate.During an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, Rick Wilson spoke about the feuds Trump started with senators, but in particular, he relished the revenge plot that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is suggesting."If you follow his...
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A Republican vying to keep his seat in a swing district is closer to losing it than the GOP would like to admit, according to a columnist.In a Friday article for The Contrarian, Jennifer Rubin wrote that Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), the Trump-endorsed incumbent in the race for New York's 17th congressional district, appears "isolated, stressed...
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Legendary filmmaker Alex Gibney has been quietly finishing a new HBO documentary about Elon Musk, but legal experts have concerns that "deep-pocketed pushback" could stall the project — and others, according to a new report from Status.Brian Lowry, media columnist and critic, described how Musk has threatened to drag Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) into...
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MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle and Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tim O'Brien criticized Michael Boulos, married to President Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany, for being included in Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Middle East meetings. "Are you kidding me!?” Ruhle said. O'Brien agreed.Rubio claimed Boulos was present only to "catch up" and did not...
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Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner on Thursday unveiled a sweeping anti-corruption agenda featuring a plank named after incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, accusing the Maine Republican of using the power of public office to direct money to her husband's firm and enrich herself.Platner's proposed "Collins Rule” would require senators to...
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Reactions were rolling in Friday night after the Freedom 250 Great America State Fair cut the performance for rapper Vanilla Ice.The 90s star was slated to play his hit songs at the event, which was reportedly having low attendance and mixed reviews.The Freedom 250 announced the fair's pause in a post on X, adding that the event would reopen at 10...
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Veteran political strategist James Carville predicted that the next GOP primary front-runners will attack President Donald Trump from an unexpected direction.In a clip from the Politics War Room podcast, a viewer asked Carville if the GOP will "return to normal" by nominating candidates like Jeb Bush or Nikki Haley in the 2028 presidential...
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President Donald Trump has planned to add to his vast number of projects with another White House makeover, according to reports on Friday. After adding gold decor to the Oval Office, knocking down the East Wing for his ballroom and paving over the rose garden, Trump has turned his attention to the next venture — a new landing pad for his Marine...
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At-Large D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson shared an Instagram video Friday touring the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.On Instagram, Henderson revealed mostly empty fairgrounds, joking, she was checking out the fair "so you don't have to." The Councilmember commented on the sparse state booths and limited attractions. She also...
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The Department of Justice's attempt to prosecute a journalist blew up after its own witness' testimony, according to a new report on Friday.The Trump DOJ indicted journalist Georgia Fort earlier this year for a case stemming from coverage of the anti-ICE protests that interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in...
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I am hearing terrible things about Raw Story. Just terrible. People are telling me — very smart people, the smartest people — that some of you are not giving this column your complete and undivided attention. That's bad. Very, very bad. Frankly, it's a disgrace.You think I don't notice? You think I can't tell when you're skimming? When you're...
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Fox News host Jesse Watters was mocked for ranting and dropping unfounded claims about New York City during a live broadcast on Friday.The conservative host of "The Five" was responding to President Donald Trump's comments about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rent freeze, which was approved by the New York City Board, and remarks about what...
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CBS News head Bari Weiss has been reportedly seeking a sympathetic interview to rehabilitate her public image.Weiss has been in talks with New York Times podcast host Michael Barbaro about appearing on "The Daily," leveraging their relationship for what amounts to a high-stakes PR intervention, according to media watchdog Status. However, Paramount...
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The first Nova Scotian of African descent to be appointed to the province's judiciary, now retired, is joining the federal government's newly formed Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion, after scathing criticism directed at Ottawa for its initial omission of a Black representative.
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President Donald Trump unveiled new U.S. passports featuring his face, and onlookers can't help but recoil in their online reactions.In a Friday Truth Social post, Trump shared a picture of the new passport designs, which commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States with a portrait of the president scowling superimposed over the...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and tenant organizers celebrated a "historic victory” on Thursday after the city's Rent Guidelines Board approved a two-year rent freeze affecting roughly a million apartments—around 40% of NYC's rental housing.The freeze, approved in a 7-1 vote, applies to tenants in rent-stabilized apartments on new one- and...
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GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's warning about electing Democrats ended up sounding like 'a good time' to online critics.During a full-throated speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition "Road to Majority" Conference on Friday, Johnson (R-LA) tried to admonish voters, "If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into...
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President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair got off to a troubled start Thursday on the National Mall.According to reports by The Washington Post, organizers struggled to open gates on time while workers hid construction debris. Thirty minutes after the scheduled opening, small crowds waited at security checkpoints as power failures...
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Vice President JD Vance delivered a warning to Tehran on Friday night after the United States launched a series of air strikes.The strikes came over a week after President Donald Trump signed a ceasefire deal meant to end the war. U.S. Central Command said its forces hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar stations. It called...
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Far-right activist Laura Loomer was ridiculed across social media after melting down over a World Cup match because Turkey — a majority-Muslim nation — was playing the United States."Everywhere you look these days, Islam is in your face," Loomer wrote on X late Thursday. She said she had hit her "daily quota of Islamic bulls—," then turned on...
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The internet mocked President Donald Trump after he was caught sleeping — again — during a White House press conference on Friday.Trump appeared to doze off while sitting in the Oval Office while Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stood behind the president with television personality Dr. Phil and Dr. Ben Carson, former Secretary of Housing and Urban...
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The United States launched airstrikes on Iran on Friday, just over a week after President Donald Trump signed a ceasefire deal meant to end the war.U.S. Central Command said its forces hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar stations. It called the strikes a response to an Iranian attack on a commercial ship in the Strait of...
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A former prosecutor flagged that the "most powerful" legal weapon that states have against President Donald Trump is "now in play."Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman wrote in a Friday piece for his Talking Feds Substack that a judge's recent rebuke against the Trump administration has opened the door for states to rely on the "anti-commandeering...
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A Utah judge ruled Friday that Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard violated a pretrial publicity order by giving media interviews to TMZ, USA Today, PolitiFact, and Fox News in the murder case against Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Judge Tony Graf, who oversaw the case, concluded Ballard...
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) confused World Cup soccer and hockey during a live broadcast Friday on Fox News — and the internet didn't miss it.Jordan apparently mixed up the current FIFA World Cup with MMA and hockey, confusing the sports events in the interview. He was asked about the upcoming match between Team USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina on July...
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Friday that his family was targeted in a "terrifying" swatting incident — but this involved Child Protective Services.Buttigieg described what happened in a Substack post and said a CPS worker showed up at his home and asked to speak with him after someone filed a false report about him...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) challenged President Donald Trump's rationale for demanding Congress pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, calling the president's election fraud claims absurd. Trump continues insisting that fraud cost him the 2020 presidency and made passage of the voter ID legislation a prerequisite for...
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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon declared House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) an "unmitigated disaster" on Thursday, warning his MAGA base that Republicans have already lost the Senate ahead of the midterms.Bannon unloaded on his War Room podcast on Real America's Voice after President Donald Trump blew up a rare Republican win — a...
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Back in March, President Donald Trump claimed that an expensive renovation to a White House pathway was paid for by himself personally, but on Friday, The Atlantic's Michael Scherer revealed that the bill was actually footed by taxpayers.The pathway in question connects the Oval Office to the White House's central complex, a commute that takes all...
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Katie Miller, wife of President Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Miller, drew criticism on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" for a social media post celebrating a Supreme Court ruling on immigration policy. On Friday, the panel was discussing Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion, which found nothing racist in Trump's comments about Somali and Haitian...
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A Washington, D.C. lawmaker captured a tour of the Great American State Fair in Washington D.C. on Friday — showing a mostly empty fairgrounds.At-Large D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson shared the Instagram video and spoke about checking out the booths for states, with some passing out brochures and others hosting interactive experiences."I...
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CNN reporter Kristen Holmes and anchor Brianna Keilar struggled to take President Donald Trump's social media rant seriously on Friday after the MAGA leader uncorked a 400-word screed on his Truth Social platform.Holmes, CNN's White House correspondent, reported that a political adviser had told her the Republican pitch heading into the midterms...
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A Baltimore man in what witnesses called an "Uncle Sam costume" was arrested on opening day of President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair for allegedly performing lewd acts in front of a circus audience.Gian Rachtelli, 54, was taken into custody Thursday on the National Mall, where President Donald Trump's Freedom250 nonprofit had launched...
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Vice President JD Vance drew scrutiny this week after praising Richard Nixon and downplaying the severity of Watergate during an appearance at his presidential library in California — but an analyst argued that historical revisionism was aimed at the present political moment.CNN's Aaron Blake called out Vance's comments – "if Watergate happened...
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A book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, "Regime Change," reportedly infuriated President Donald Trump. The president was reportedly enraged by claims regarding his personal bathroom and bedroom habits, according to Zeteo. "There's something in the book that hasn't gotten nearly the level of attention of the...
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) met with President Donald Trump to seek assistance with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Thursday at the White House. According to Politico, Luna froze all House floor votes until the Senate passes Trump's Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act. Luna enjoys direct Oval Office access, while Johnson required an...
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President Donald Trump ranted against "godless communists" across more than 400 words as he prepared to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition.The 80-year-old president issued sharp warnings about what he described as the rise of "Communists" in American politics after this week's election wins by candidates backed by New York's democratic...
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After Donald Trump watched fans walk out of the opening rally at his Great American State Fair on the Washington Mall, things have not gotten much better.According to Washington Post reporting, the 16-day National Mall celebration got off to an inauspicious start Thursday, with organizers struggling to open gates on time and workers "scrambling to...
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday that the panel will subpoena billionaire investor Leon Black as part of the Republican-led investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's financial network.Lawmakers are seeking a deposition and related documents following a closed-door interview in which Black declined to answer questions about...
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The canvas of Kansas is painted with fields of golden wheat, sometimes as far as the eyes can see.Children who have chosen paths in life that have taken them away from their rural upbringings return to help with the harvest. While the pace is hectic, there is a peacefulness that prevails as we realize the fruits of our labors. From that...
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President Donald Trump faces mounting challenges from multiple fronts.According to a Trump administration insider who spoke with The Atlantic, the president struggles with bipartisan criticism over his Iran deal, rising inflation, and declining poll numbers among key demographics. The Atlantic's Jonathan Lemire and Russell Berman report Republicans...
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Countless right-wing figures predicted last year that New York City would experience an unprecedented rise in crime under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but after recently published data suggested the opposite to be true, onlookers braced themselves for what some anticipated would be a MAGA meltdown.Right-wing pundits who predicted New...
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A Utah judge ruled Friday that a deputy prosecutor in the murder case against a man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk had violated a pretrial publicity order by speaking to the media — and held him in contempt of court.Judge Tony Graf declined, however, to impose the more severe sanction, stripping prosecutors of the...
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President Donald Trump scored a major victory Thursday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for his administration to potentially expedite the deportation of 1.3 million migrants, but the win could very well end up handing Democrats the key to winning the midterms, one security expert argued Friday.The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday to allow...
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Ryan Fournier, a MAGA activist and co-founder of Students for Trump, was arrested Thursday morning on a cocaine charge, his third arrest since May.A joint D.C. police and FBI task force executed a search warrant at Fournier's luxury Washington apartment. They found a bag of white powder that field-tested positive for cocaine, according to court...
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President Donald Trump fired off at Fox News journalist Shannon Bream on Friday for apparently not defending his deportation record strongly enough, attacking her using a misspelled insult."The Average Daily Catch and Repatriation is, by far, the Highest under President Trump. No other president comes close,” Trump wrote on his social media...
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Right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly was denounced as "shockingly racist" for a rant celebrating a Supreme Court ruling against Haitian refugees.The court's conservative majority ruled 6-3 to overturn decisions by federal judges blocking the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 asylum seekers from Haiti and...
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A source who claims knowledge of the identities of Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers claims to have enough evidence to deliver them up to authorities on a "silver platter."TMZ received an email from the source claiming to have video showing the "main guy" with the mother of NBC News broadcaster Savannah Guthrie on the day the 84-year-old allegedly died,...
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Reacting to reports that Michael Boulos, who is married to Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany, is being included in meetings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Middle East, MS NOW Host Stephanie Ruhle blurted, "Are you kidding me!?” and suggested something didn't smell right.Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former Trump biographer Tim O'Brien...
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Democrats hold a "secret weapon" heading into this fall's midterm elections, according to CNN's Harry Enten.Health care costs have surged past gas prices, food and housing to become Americans' single biggest financial concern, Enten said, and Democrats hold a decisive advantage over Republicans on that topic."This, to me, is the Democrats' secret...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was seething with "anger" after Trump scrapped a housing bill Republicans were counting on as their midterm lifeline, a source told POLITICO.President Donald Trump cancelled the signing of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Wednesday morning — an hour before he was due at the Capitol. The bill had cleared...
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One of President Donald Trump's key promises has been that, by deporting millions of migrants, new jobs would become available to American citizens, but according to a recent study, the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has largely had the opposite effect."During the first nine months of 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
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America greets our 250th birthday not as the last, best hope of Earth, but under a noxious cloud of broken promises, betrayed ideals, hateful discourse, public corruption, and petulant, petty public leaders peddling horrendous lies without shame.A great bulk of everyday people are sinking in a quicksand of endless struggles, feeling desperate,...
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's secret resort deal on Albania's only island has sparked a mass revolt that now threatens to bring down the country's entire government.Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, quietly secured rights to build a $1.6 billion luxury resort on Sazan Island — a protected Adriatic nature preserve — and a $4...
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John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's national security adviser during his first term before becoming one of his harshest critics, entered a guilty plea Friday to one federal charge of illegally retaining classified national defense information.According to NBC News, Bolton appeared before Judge Theodore D. Chuang in Greenbelt,...
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With Donald Trump expected to meet with evangelical leaders on Friday, The Atlantic's McKay Coppins claimed on MS NOW on Friday that they may already be looking past him since he's a "lame duck.”Speaking with "Money Power Politics,” host Stephanie Ruhle, Coppins, who has written extensively on the intersection between religion and politics,...
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As President Donald Trump continues to face questions over the state of his physical and cognitive health, his own staff is reportedly "concerned” that the 80-year-old president "won't survive” to see the end of his second term, columnist Brian Karem claimed in a report published Friday in Salon."Members on both sides of the aisle, and even...
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A Republican lawmaker upended the rationale for President Donald Trump's legislative obsession.The 80-year-old president is demanding congressional Republicans pass his SAVE America Act to prevent widespread election fraud, which he continues to insist cost him the presidency in 2020, but Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called those claims absurd."I...
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A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently...
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A little-known Donald Trump appointee with no prior diplomatic experience has emerged as a central figure in the administration's outreach to Central Asia — drawing scrutiny over what critics describe as a business-first approach to American diplomacy.Sergio Gor, who serves simultaneously as U.S. ambassador to India and as the president's envoy...
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President Donald Trump's longstanding feud with Pope Leo XIV may reach new heights as the leader of the Catholic Church convenes with cardinals from across the globe Friday and is expected to issue a message "likely to further raise tensions” with the president, Politico reported Friday.After the gathering, Pope Leo is expected to issue new...
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A new report from the Commerce Department on Friday delivered a decisive blow to what has been among President Donald Trump's chief promises while on the campaign trail.According to the report, the U.S. goods trade deficit had widened to its highest point in more than a year as of June, with U.S. exports shrinking by 5.4% when compared with May and...
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Former National Park rangers are organizing a national pushback against an order from President Donald Trump that has stripped dozens of historical exhibits from federal land, launching a public education campaign just as the country prepares to mark its 250th anniversary.The effort traces back to Elizabeth Kerwin, a former exhibit planner at West...
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A social media post by the wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller took center stage on MS NOW on Friday morning as part of a discussion over a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.On "Morning Joe,” the panel was discussing the majority opinion from Justice Sam Alito, who wrote that he saw nothing racist in Trump's outrageous...
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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is dealing with another political headache related to President Donald Trump.The prime minister is scrambling to contain domestic political fallout after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte described her country's support for U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as "massive," which she says badly mischaracterizes Italy's...
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President Donald Trump's crowd-size anxiety exploded back into view when his Great American State Fair kickoff event drew a strikingly thin turnout.The 80-year-old president claimed 45,000 people showed up on the National Mall to watch Lee Greenwood and the FBI director's girlfriend perform, but media accounts estimated about 1,000 attendees –...
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Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's 34-year-old executive assistant whose closeness to the president unsettled the White House, was revealed Thursday to have become estranged from multiple family members after proposing to lie about her father's death, her "secret brother" told the Daily Mail."She doesn't call me. I've accepted that's the way it...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built much of his public health platform around exposing what he calls regulatory failures in the American food system, but that crusade appears to be running into an unexpected complication.Among his targets is the "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation, a mechanism that allows food...
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Donald Trump's deliberate vandalization of DC, along with our democracy, has reached a tipping point where even his most loyal cultists are questioning his motives. Just not enough of them…yet. Senate Republicans are starting to break ties with Trump over his full capitulation to Iran in Versailles. The Senate approved a House-passed resolution...
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A new book from two New York Times reporters has exposed a number of President Donald Trump's secrets, though one claim in particular has the president especially enraged, a senior Trump official revealed Friday.Published earlier this week, "Regime Change” was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and had already rattled...
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Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump's new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president's cognitive fitness.The "Tonight Show" host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as part of America's 250th...
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A conservative commentator yelped with delight over the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government's policy of turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the border, and a fellow CNN panelist calmly dismantled his argument.The justices ruled 6-3 that a policy adopted in response to a surge of Haitian immigrants did not...
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Reports that embattled CBS News head Bari Weiss is searching for a sympathetic ear among journalists for an interview to clear her name have some in the executive suites in a bit of a panic.According to media watchdog Status, Weiss is eager to launch a media counter-offensive. She's been in talks with the New York Times' Michael Barbaro about...
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Comments made by Vice President JD Vance at the Richard Nixon Library on Thursday earned him a thrashing on MS NOW after he blamed Nixon's Watergate scandal on the "deep state.”As "Morning Joe” co-host bluntly observed, Nixon's use of the FBI, CIA and Washington insiders — which brought down his presidency — was the very definition of the...
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The first day of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" did not go to plan, after a power outage knocked out the food hall on the National Mall, according to The Daily Beast.The Thursday blackout left dessert vendors watching their stock melt, Fox 5 DC reporter Homa Bash reported on X, writing that the hall still had food but that all...
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A prominent Republican House member was left "scared" after getting a first look at a new technology during a recent "closed-door demonstration,” Punchbowl News reported Friday — technology that the lawmaker warned most of their colleagues failed to comprehend the ramifications of.That technology was Claude Mythos, the latest large language...
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A 37-year CBS News veteran is preparing to torch his former employer in a tell-all memoir, and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is squarely in his crosshairs.Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of "60 Minutes" who quit the program last April over what he described as corporate interference, calls CBS "the worst-run media company in the...
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The headlines out of the Supreme Court came at us in waves Thursday morning, like a barrage of punches to the gut:Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at BorderSupreme Court Allows Trump to End Deportation Protections for Haitians and SyriansSupreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii Gun Restriction Limiting When, Where People Can Carry...
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It could have been a messy transition, but the ease with which Andy Burnham has returned to Westminster appears to be the product of many months of careful planning. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy delve into the details of how Burnham’s expected coronation has been managed - and why Louise Haigh has emerged as a […]
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A United Nations agency paused the evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday after the British military said a vessel was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman following the passage of several tankers that used a route backed by the U.N.
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