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Today on the pod, we're talking money, money, money. An important vote on the EU's next long-term budget is happening in the European Parliament. Zoya and Nick discuss how lawmakers are pushing for a bigger cash pot … which will likely cause a stir with some countries. We unpack the battle lines already starting to form. […]
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Die Amtszeit von Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier endet im kommenden Jahr, am 30. Januar 2027 wählt die Bundesversammlung seinen Nachfolger oder seine Nachfolgerin. Markus Söder hat den Startschuss in die Debatte gegeben, Friedrich Merz pfeift zurück, alle anderen positionieren sich. Gordon Repinski mit einem Plädoyer für eine...
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A political columnist warned President Donald Trump on Monday that his administration's ghosts will soon come back to haunt him after the "momentary grace" following the White House Correspondents' Dinner fades. David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that...
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Political analysts and observers roasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday after he announced he took a "joyride" with MAGA music star Kid Rock. "Joined my friend @KidRock — and some of our great @USArmy Apache pilots — for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!)" Hegseth wrote in a post on X. "Kid Rock is a patriot and huge...
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CNN's Abby Phillip brutally fact-checked a MAGA pundit during Monday's broadcast of her show "NewsNight" over the White House's claim that left-wing rhetoric inspired the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. Ben Ferguson, who co-hosts the "Verdict" podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined the panel to discuss the...
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Right-wing podcaster Katie Miller was brutally mocked on Monday after she made a strange claim about her husband during a Fox News interview. Katie Miller, who is married to Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, said during an appearance on "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham that her husband took some heroic...
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A pair of debates aimed at informing voters ahead of the May primary election was mostly tense and sometimes personal as frontrunners in both the Republican and Democratic primaries in the race for governor took the opportunity to sling attacks previously reserved for the airwaves.Candidates from both parties honed in on promises aimed to address...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats during Monday's press conference for the failed assassination attempt at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner, reading from a prepared list of Democratic criticisms and accusing members of the party of inciting violence.MS NOW reporter Laura Barrón-López pushed back,...
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On Monday, the Trump White House appeared to float a trial balloon to rebrand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the acronym so that instead of "ICE," it would be "NICE.""ICE - NICE AGENTS. 'National Immigration and Customs Enforcement.' DO IT!" said the official White House X account, posting an AI-generated image of an agent...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt drew widespread ridicule Monday after praising President Donald Trump's composure during the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, calling him "fearless" and "willing to put his own life on the line." Leavitt blamed Democrats and media members for the incident involving alleged shooter Cole Allen....
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The Washington Post editorial board joined the Wall Street Journal on Monday evening in condemning President Donald Trump's plan to effectively nationalize Spirit Airlines with a $500 billion bailout in exchange for an up to 90 percent equity stake — and warned that this flirtation with "socialism" could lead to many other airlines coming for a...
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An appeals court has ruled that the Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge's decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times.
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A legal expert was stunned on Monday by the Supreme Court's latest "truly unusual" order in relation to the Texas legislature's effort to redraw the state's election map.Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown University, wrote in a new essay for his Substack, "One First," about the Supreme Court's order on Monday to "resolve the merits" of...
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In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the president and some of his closest Senate allies are seizing on the moment to try to do something the polls have foreclosed until now: approve taxpayer funding for the president's White House ballroom project, under the guise it...
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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to revamp America's election system was brutally mocked by political analysts and observers on Monday. In a short Truth Social tirade, Trump demanded that the Republican Party shift its focus to passing the SAVE Act, which would implement several large-scale changes to how the U.S. conducts elections. For...
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U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, is one of at least three members of Congress who responded to the shooting at the White House Press Correspondents' dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, calling on lawmakers to approve plans for a ballroom at the White House.President Donald J. Trump, a Republican, tore down the East Wing of the...
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed Monday that Israel may have been involved in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to influence American foreign policy regarding Iran. Jones questioned the official narrative, speculating the incident could be "staged" while avoiding definitive claims without evidence. He...
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U.S. District Judge Alan Albright abruptly announced his resignation this month, leaving his colleagues with a huge stack of unresolved casework — and it may be because he was simply miserable in his role as a judge, Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law reported on Monday.Albright, who was appointed to the bench by President Donald Trump in 2018, will...
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President Donald Trump revealed a new "sign of weakness" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, according to a former administration insider. Trump claimed during an interview on the CBS News show "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he did not fall while Secret Service agents were trying to escort him out of the...
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President Donald Trump showed the world that his mental and physical decline has become "impossible to ignore" following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, according to one analyst. In an interview following the shooting, during which no one was killed, Trump said that he "didn't make it easy" on Secret Service...
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A state judge in Colorado rejected far-right former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters' motion to have him recuse himself from the sentencing process.Peters' argued that District Court Judge Matthew Barrett, who had previously sentenced her, was biased against her — an assertion Barrett rejected."In sum, accepting Defendant's factual assertions...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Monday the United States is being "humiliated" by Iran and risks becoming trapped in a prolonged conflict similar to Afghanistan and Iraq. Merz criticized the lack of a convincing American negotiating strategy, noting Iran is negotiating skillfully while the U.S. has no clear exit plan. Adding, Iran's...
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A former prosecutor and civil rights attorney shredded President Donald Trump's Department of Justice's crusade against a prominent nonprofit during a new podcast episode on Monday. Melba Pearson, host of "The Breakdown" on Legal AF, said during a new episode that the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center for wire and bank fraud was...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justices wrestled with how far the government must go to protect Americans' privacy.Some of the justices appeared to be searching for a middle ground during oral arguments in a...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is planning to modify the Senate-passed Department of Homeland Security funding bill before it can be brought to a vote — caving to hardliners in the GOP caucus, and creating another obstacle to getting the agency properly funded and open again.According to Politico congressional reporter Meredith Lee Hill,...
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A long-time GOP analyst and former White House insider issued a dark warning on Monday about President Donald Trump's response to the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.Bill Kristol, the editor at large for The Bulwark and a former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, argued during a new episode of "The Bulwark...
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MAGA slammed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Monday over his remarks after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security funding standoff in Congress. GOP leaders were under pressure to end the ongoing stalemate as DHS employees, including Secret Service members who protected...
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FBI Director Kash Patel was questioned on Fox News Monday morning regarding the security failures that allowed alleged gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, to reach an entrance area at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, despite a prior alert with his description. Patel stated the FBI and partners were examining the incident, noting the Behavioral...
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Real America's Voice anchor Eric Bolling expressed outrage after a so-called mentalist performing for President Donald Trump failed to predict a gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.As the alleged gunman was storming a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, Oz Pearlman was performing tricks for Trump and his...
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New details out of Lawfare reveal that Joseph diGenova, the far-right crony President Donald Trump put in charge of his so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation, has made several claims about Trump that could jeopardize any potential charges out of that investigation.Specifically, diGenova has made a number of politically-charged claims,...
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The internet erupted on Monday after news spread that Gov. Ron DeSantis was employing a three-pronged legal strategy to evade Florida's constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering and redrawing the Sunshine State's election map.DeSantis quietly orchestrated a special legislative session to approve new congressional maps designed to create more...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) has announced he is set to make a "complete" recovery from the mystery illness that has kept him absent from Congress for more than a month, reported the New Jersey Globe on Monday.However, Kean and his staff still did not elaborate on exactly what illness he is recovering from or the exact time frame for his recovery and...
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Journalist Ken Klippenstein reported new details about Cole Allen, the California resident accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.In his Substack, Klippenstein described Allen's, 31, background as "unsettling in its ordinariness."In his reporting, Klippenstein obtained Allen's resume...
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CNN's Jake Tapper scorched Kari Lake, who serves as President Donald Trump's senior advisor for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, during his show on Monday for her actions following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. An alleged gunman fired multiple rounds at the Washington Hilton while the press dinner was...
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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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