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Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised regular updates on his government's efforts as Canada continues to work through a U.S. trade war while also seeking to strengthen relationships with other trading partners — and his medium of choice appears to be YouTube.
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Once a target of Russian and Chinese economic coercion, Lithuania has turned pressure into policy. By rapidly diversifying trade, severing energy ties with Moscow and investing in defence and tech, the Baltic state built resilience and saw growth. Its experience now offers Canada a cautionary, and increasingly relevant, roadmap.
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MAGA commentator Scott Jennings found himself repeatedly on the defensive Friday during a tense CNN segment as host Kaitlan Collins and Democratic strategist Paul Begala pushed back on his economic and political claims.Jennings argued during his appearance on "The Source with Kaitlan Collins” that Republicans should "remind the American people...
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by Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona MirrorApril 24, 2026Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing the Trump administration over its plan to turn a warehouse in Surprise into an immigration detention center, saying that federal law prohibits its construction because the building is directly across the street from a hazardous chemical storage...
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Social media users quickly caught that a man interviewed for a Fox News segment as though he were a random voter was actually a leader in a major conservative group. A Fox and Friends segment was supposed to feature the on-the-spot opinions of random diners at a Columbus, Ohio restaurant. Juliet Jeske, who runs the X account Decoding Fox News,...
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FBI Director Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic for reporting on his alleged drinking problems, absences from his job, and constant paranoia about being fired is a "giant self-own," legal analyst Elie Mystal wrote for The Nation on Friday.This comes after a number of other analysts have come to similar conclusions, saying that he does not...
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Chief Justice John Roberts paved the way for a major Democratic victory this week with a decision he made at the end of the last decade, political analysts are pointing out. Justice Roberts delivered a key decision in the 2019 case Rucho v. Common Cause. Roberts siding with conservatives on a 5-4 decision seven years ago kept constitutional limits...
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A federal judge signaled deep skepticism of President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, including with a buried footnote highlighting the unusual dynamics of the case.In an order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams questioned whether the case can proceed at all, noting it is "unclear to this court whether the...
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Video footage has resurfaced showing Mooresville, North Carolina, Mayor Chris Carney without pants inside the town hall after hours with a female journalist, according to The Wall Street Journal on Friday. The 2024 incident is now generating significant controversy as three former town employees sued officials, alleging retaliation for preserving...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), locked in a fierce battle for his political life against state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Senate primary and frantically doing everything in his power to appear the most MAGA candidate, got a new blow from his far-right critics on Friday, after an ad from his previous 2020 Senate campaign emerged.The ad, posted to X...
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The ombudsman of the Pentagon's paper of record warned that her sudden firing doesn't bode well for the publication's future independence."There's a very real threat," Jaqueline Smith, the Stars and Stripes ombudsman who was fired on Wednesday, said on "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Friday about the attack on the editorial independence of the military...
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President Donald Trump's polling, along with the Republican Party at large, is a flashing danger sign for the president and his allies in the upcoming midterm elections, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Friday evening.This comes amid new survey data that shows voters trust Democrats over Republicans on the economy...
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Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday announced that he will call lawmakers into a special legislative session to redraw Mississippi's state Supreme Court districts, but it's unclear when legislators will return to Jackson.Reeves said Mississippi legislators will return to the state Capitol 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in the...
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) faced widespread criticism after calling to legalize public hangings as a form of capital punishment on Friday, following the Department of Justice's announcement to expand execution methods to include firing squads. Burchett wrote "Now do hanging" on X, prompting accusations he wants to "bring back lynching." Critics...
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Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer turned whistleblower Miles Taylor regaled the crew of MS NOW's "The Weeknight" with a startling anecdote about how unconcerned President Donald Trump was in the middle of a North Korean nuclear threat — and what he was singularly focused on instead.This came in the middle of a discussion about...
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A Houston police officer at the center of a viral video featuring racist remarks has been fired, with the department's chief condemning her conduct as "abhorrent” and "entirely unacceptable.”The new development came on Friday when the Houston Police Department announced that Officer Ashley Gonzalez was "no longer an employee of the...
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President Donald Trump won nothing from his attempt to investigate and intimidate departing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, Washington insiders said. The Department of Justice is ditching its overblown criminal probe into overspending on renovations to Federal Reserve buildings. Punchbowl News reported that Trump didn't get anything out of...
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An embattled Democratic congresswoman who resigned this week under the threat of expulsion is already seeking to reclaim her seat.That's according to a new report in NOTUS, which reported Friday that former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick filed for reelection just four days before stepping down from Congress. A campaign aide confirmed to the outlet...
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Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) has rapidly become one of the biggest mysteries on Capitol Hill, as he has been absent for weeks due to an unspecified medical issue his office will not elaborate on, with no timeline for when he might return.The 57-year-old has not cast a vote since March 5, missing 50 roll call votes in the process.Even while he is gone,...
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Pope Leo XIV took a fresh swipe at President Donald Trump's administration after the Justice Department on Friday moved to resume federal executions, condemning the death penalty as an attack on human dignity.The American-born pontiff delivered the remarks just hours after the Justice Department lifted a moratorium on capital punishment and...
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CBS News journalists were reportedly stunned after their own network's parent company hosted a private dinner honoring President Donald Trump, as it seeks federal approval for a massive media deal.According to The New York Times, Paramount hosted the event in Washington, D.C., where billionaire executive David Ellison praised Trump and senior...
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Trump administration insiders are now leaning towards Secretary of State Marco Rubio taking the helm of the party in 2028, Politico reported on Friday."Some of President Donald Trump's closest confidantes increasingly see Marco Rubio as a serious 2028 contender — an acknowledgement of the Floridian's savvy handling of foreign conflicts and his...
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President Donald Trump spent Thursday's Oval Office press availability complaining about media coverage of his inauguration crowd size, claiming it was larger than reported, despite evidence showing approximately 25,000 attendees rather than the million he claims. Trump then became defensive when reporters asked basic questions about the stalled...
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Friends,Today's question: Why did Trump on Wednesday post the video and transcript of a bigoted podcaster who used racist tropes against Chinese and Indian immigrants?In it, Michael Savage says:"A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet. … [T]here's...
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President Donald Trump went on a back-to-back Truth Social rampage Friday afternoon, branding both firebrand former ally Candace Owens and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as "low IQ" individuals within seven minutes of each other.First in his sights was Owens, the conservative commentator who has become an increasingly sharp critic of Trump...
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New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg described how there is something more troubling behind right-wing podcaster and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's recent apology for misleading people in his support of President Donald Trump.In a column published on Friday, Goldberg described how the conversation between Tucker and his brother,...
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A former Trump aide planning to attend a major press event will have to sit with a group of journalists who sued him. Taylor Budowich, one of Trump's former chiefs of staff, will have to rub shoulders with reporters from the Associated Press, who sued him last year for kicking them out of the press pool. Budowich confirmed that "as a fan of...
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President Donald Trump's latest move to unilaterally change the monuments around Washington, D.C., is to completely redo the interior of the famous reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, replacing the current granite with dark blue swimming pool tiling.However, Trump very nearly used something even more out of...
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has drawn criticism for reportedly continuing to use waterfront government housing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., nearly two months after her March ouster. According to the Wall Street Journal and Coast Guard officials, Noem occupied a housing unit usually designated for the Coast...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is moving quickly to prove his loyalty to Donald Trump and shed the "acting” label by launching a sweeping push targeting the president's perceived enemies, according to a report in the New York Times.The outlet reported Friday that Blanche has set off "a conspicuous salvo of actions” aimed at demonstrating...
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New York Republicans and the National Republican Congressional Committee got off to an embarrassing start with their nominee's candidacy for the 4th Congressional District.This week, the website for Jeanine Driscoll, a local tax receiver on Long Island, went live at this link — but reporters and campaign strategists immediately noticed something...
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President Donald Trump's plan to bail out and effectively nationalize Spirit Airlines could be facilitated by a 1950 law passed to secure national defense during the Korean War.According to CBS News, "The Trump administration is exploring using the Defense Production Act as part of a strategy to save the beleaguered Spirit Airlines, according to...
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A political pundit slammed Congress after poll findings revealed historically high disapproval ratings and predicted poor midterm returns for the GOP."We're talking record-high disapproval of Congress," political analyst Harry Enten said on CNN on Thursday. "I am here in Washington D.C. to deliver a message: they hate you guys."Enten shared Gallup...
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A MAGA fraudster's elaborate scheme left his victims suicidal after he stole hundreds of millions from his followers, according to a Mother Jones report published Friday.Guo Wengui, a Steve Bannon associate who secretly funded a pro-Trump social media company, claimed he was a billionaire Chinese dissident with deep knowledge of corruption among...
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Newsmax host Greg Kelly criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for firing Navy Secretary John Phelan without advance notice, calling him an "insecure fake" who "lied and conned his way through life," on X. Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported Hegseth ousted Phelan after the Navy secretary refused to comply with demands to punish Sen....
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President Donald Trump wants to bring up a sore subject during a visit from an allied foreign leader, a leaked Pentagon memo reveals. The Daily Beast reported on Thursday that Trump wants to question where King Charles should control the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory near Argentina, during his upcoming visit on Monday. Trump's...
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President Donald Trump complained on his Truth Social platform Friday afternoon that the Supreme Court should have let his administration keep all the billions of dollars they illegally collected from his "reciprocal tariff" scheme."People and Companies that have taken advantage of our Country for decades, because of the horrible and ridiculous...
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Video footage has resurfaced of a North Carolina Republican caught without his pants inside the local town hall after hours with a female journalist, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The incident involving Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney and has outraged — and also amused — people in the town nicknamed Race City USA after its long...
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was accused of wanting to "bring back lynching" after he called to legalize public hangings as a form of capital punishment.Burchett made the remarks on Friday after the Department of Justice announced that it was expanding execution methods to include firing squads."These steps are critical to deterring the most barbaric...
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Once again, MAGA Republicans are spreading claims that ballots were found in a "dumpster" and that this is proof of widespread election fraud — but this isn't the case, Kate Starbird wrote for her Sensemaking Distortion Substack on Friday.This time, the ballots in question were for an election in Washington State."At 3:44pm on Thursday April 16,...
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President Donald Trump's economic approval rating has plummeted to minus-32 points, the worst of any president at this comparable point in their term, according to CNN analyst Harry Enten. Trump was re-elected in 2024 partly on economic messaging but experienced a nearly 40-point drop from his plus-6 rating at the beginning of his second term. The...
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Reactions erupted online Friday after President Donald Trump's Department of Justice announced it would reintroduce execution by firing squad. The death penalty method had been under moratorium since the Biden administration, but the announcement in a press release on Friday revealed the DOJ had decided to reverse the move in an aggressive pivot....
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A GOP lawmaker admitted that farmers are feeling a crunch under Trump but shrugged off the economic pressures they've felt recently.CNN's Brianna Keilar pressed Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) to explain how farmers are surviving in a global market affected by war in Iran and a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz."They are so impacted by the strait and...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned an $8.2 million defamation judgment won by former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore against the Senate Majority PAC. Moore sued over a 2017 campaign advertisement alleging he was banned from a mall for "soliciting sex from young girls," characterizing the ad as a "deliberately...
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The White House took swift action after Australian flags were placed on the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the arrival of King Charles III of Britain.On Friday, Photos shared on social media showed Australian flags lining 17th Street. Freelance reporter Andrew Leyden shared several of the photos on X."After a short lunch break (and geography...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has only collected a drop in the bucket for the PAC he promised would bring in more congressional Republicans supporting a "Make America Healthy Again" agenda. A Politico report on Thursday found that the PAC and its only other aligned Super PAC have $412,000 left in cash after lackluster fundraising. Todd Lyons, RFK Jr.'s...
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Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Royce White was found liable by a judge for abusing his ex-wife and their son and ordered to have no contact with them.According to The Minnesota Star Tribune, "Judge Kristen Marttila issued the order in February and wrote that White's ex-wife — who divorced him in 2015 and lived with him from 2022 until...
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was hammered Friday after reports revealed that, despite being nearly two months out of the job, she appeared to be using waterfront government housing in Washington, D.C.According to U.S. Coast Guard officials and several sources, Noem was seen using government housing on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling...
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A one-time rising star in the Republican Party has been pinned with the blame for a string of losses in Virginia, and now he's getting iced out of roles in President Donald Trump's administration.Top White House officials are expressing frustration with former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, accusing him of failing to adequately combat Democrats'...
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Fresh guidance delivered to White House staffers could make destroying government documents that much easier for President Donald Trump's administration, a report has claimed. An email from the Executive Office of the President issued new guidance on how staffers would save and log internal information and government documents. The new records...
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In a column late Thursday, former President Joe Biden administration senior adviser turned MS NOW host Symone Sanders, pointed out that the constant drumbeat about Donald Trump's mental competence during his second term is creating a new dilemma for Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators.As she pointed out, the president this term has...
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A polling figure has shed light on just how bad President Donald Trump's economic plan for the United States is.Trump's economic policies have triggered unprecedented public dissatisfaction, with consumer sentiment reaching its lowest point in 74 years. The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index fell to 47.6 in preliminary April 2026, a...
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Newsmax host Greg Kelly unloaded on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he unexpectedly fired Navy Secretary John Phelan.Earlier this week, Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin suggested Hegseth ousted Phelan after the Navy secretary insisted on complying with a judge who said that punishing Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) over a video calling on...
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Conservative Wall Street Journal columnist and Former President Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan delivered a pointed rebuke of President Donald Trump's failure to make a serious public case for the Iran war. In a column published Thursday on WSJ, Noonan questioned the administration decision to go to war now, noting Iran has been a...
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President Donald Trump has seemingly cooled on pushing the SAVE Act through the Senate, but the GOP is splintering under the weight of the bill. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is legislation championed by President Donald Trump that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote. Trump has made the...
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Conservative podcast host Megyn Kelly suggested that many voters would find Democrats to be the "better option" in the midterm elections because President Donald Trump had done little other than "make things worse."On her Thursday broadcast, Kelly pointed to recent polls that showed support for Trump had "catered.""It's like not even present tense...
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President Donald Trump has sent envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad, Pakistan, this weekend for continued negotiations with Iran — but Vice President JD Vance did not plan to attend — something a CNN analyst said was telling in a report on Friday. Vance, who previously attended marathon talks with the Iranians earlier this...
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The U.S. government detained and deported a 25-year-old man who says he's a U.S. citizen to Mexico earlier this month, after police stopped the vehicle he was riding in near Fredericksburg, then called immigration authorities when he couldn't immediately provide identification or proof of citizenship.Brian José Morales García, who says he was...
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As Donald Trump's Iran war drags into its eighth week with no end in sight, there is concern both inside the White House and outside among outside presidential advisers that Trump's haphazard and scattershot pronouncements are only making things more difficult.And that is leaving White House officials "fatigued” and wondering what each day will...
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President Donald Trump's January appearance at the Alfalfa Club dinner revealed a stark contrast between his first and second terms: What once passed as joking is now deadly serious policy.Standing before the ultra-elite gathering of politicians and Fortune 500 CEOs, Trump's jokes fell flat, wrote Vox columnist Benjy Sarlin. The room fell silent...
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FBI Director Kash Patel has sued a publication for reporting on his alleged drinking-related problems, but that's not the first time his alcohol use has fallen under scrutiny in his professional life.The Intercept obtained a 2005 letter included as part Patel's personnel file at the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office, where he previously worked,...
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CBS News' newly appointed primetime anchor Tony Dokoupil, hand-selected by network chief Bari Weiss, sparked an internal staff revolt with a controversial introduction, as reported by Vanity Fair Thursday. In a video manifesto launching the Evening News, Dokoupil criticized "legacy media" for relying on "academics or elites," with Weiss reportedly...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has overturned $8.2 million in damages won by former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore (AL) after he sued the Senate Majority PAC (SMP) for defamation over an advertising campaign that alleged that he was banned from a mall for "soliciting sex from young girls."In his 2019 lawsuit,...
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A former White House cardiologist advised President Donald Trump's medical team to consider formal testing after the president appeared to fall asleep in the Oval Office this week. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who was the cardiologist to late former Vice President Dick Cheney for nearly 30 years, described what he saw after Trump was caught visibly tired...
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Chris Traux, a conservative appellate lawyer and former GOP campaign official, warned on Friday that Trump's "deteriorating” health was serious enough to be considered an "emergency,” and pitched what he called a "politically achievable” path forward to addressing it."President Trump appears to be deteriorating by the day. He is...
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The Trump administration suffered another blow to its mass deportation policy on Friday after a federal court rejected its attempt to unilaterally deny migrants seeking asylum entrance to the United States.Citing the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), judges presiding over the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that...
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After being alerted to the fact that Donald Trump was up well after 2AM posting on Truth Social, only to resume once again five hours later on Friday morning, a lifelong friend from his Manhattan days claimed he was worried about the president's health and stability.On MS NOW's "Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire pointed to liberal influencer...
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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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President Donald Trump likes to boast that he's created a historic economy, but new polling shows he may be on the wrong side of history.The 79-year-old president was re-elected to a second term in 2024 largely on the basis of his economic message, but CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that shows Americans have not liked seeing those...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, for wire fraud related to its informant program infiltrating extremist groups, drawing celebration from neo-Nazi accelerationist circles. The American Futurist, a Telegram channel run by former members of the...
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President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters have started to turn on him, using his affinity for conspiracy theories to flip the script, a columnist reported on Friday. Matt Lewis, an opinion contributor for The Hill, revealed how Trump's long-time use of 'extreme conclusions,' including his firm belief that the 2020 election was stolen, his claims...
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Kash Patel would not survive the evidence given against him should his lawsuit against The Atlantic be taken further, a political analyst has claimed. FBI Director Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on April 20, 2026, following a bombshell investigative report detailing his alleged...
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Leaked internal communications from the Pentagon revealed Thursday that the Trump administration has considered methods to punish NATO allies that refused to support the United States in its war against Iran, and the Pentagon's response left one security expert dumbfounded.First reported on by Reuters, an internal Pentagon email outlined options...
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Friends,Tucker Carlson told the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that Trump is "a wonderful person. I know him well. By the way, the funniest person I've ever met in my life, actually. You can't be funny without perspective or without empathy, which is true.”But on Tuesday, Carlson admitted that he'll be "tormented” for a long...
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A U.S. appeals court ruling last month that upheld West Virginia's ban on Medicaid coverage for adult gender-affirming surgeries could embolden other states seeking to impose similar restrictions.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March overturned a lower court decision in Anderson v. Crouch that had reversed West Virginia's ban on Medicaid...
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MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire called attention to a shift in tone from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his latest press update on the Iran war.The Pentagon chief attacked reporters once again during Friday's briefing, but the "Morning Joe" co-host noticed that Hegseth seemed to be shifting the terms of what the Trump administration would consider to...
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The Trump administration will reportedly drop an investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell that has drawn bipartisan criticism.President Donald Trump pushed for an investigation into cost overruns on an office renovation project after the Federal Reserve declined to yield to his demand that interest rates be lowered. The probe focused on alleged...
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Romain Fathi, Associate Professor, School of History, ANU / Chercheur Associé at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Australian National UniversityThe United States under President Donald Trump and the European Union have a complicated relationship. On one hand, European countries and the US have built some of the strongest alliances since the...
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Last year, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick boasted that he had sold at least 1,000 "Trump Gold Card” visas at $1 million to $5 million each, but on Thursday, while under oath, was forced to admit that only one had been sold, sparking widespread ridicule from critics."Every word out of Howard [Lutnick's] mouth is a lie,” wrote political...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argued that his so-called Department of War should win the Nobel Peace Prize every year after initiating a military conflict in Iran that has caused death and destabilized the world's oil supply.During a press conference on Friday, TMZ asked Hegseth what he felt while carrying out "this extreme level of violence.""Do...
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