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Texas Republicans took a victory lap after an early morning vote Saturday that sought to give their party an edge during the 2026 midterms. Democrats in Texas plan to challenge the legality of the new congressional map, saying it dilutes the power of minorities. Willie James Inman has the details.
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Israel has called the United Nations' declaration of famine in parts of Gaza an "outright lie," but multiple U.N. bodies, more than 100 humanitarian groups, and several of Israel's own allies have warned for months that the war and Israel's restrictions of food into Gaza are causing starvation among civilians.
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Several municipalities in Florida have received letters from the Florida Department of Transportation demanding that they paint over rainbow crosswalks or face funding cuts. This includes the one outside Orlando's Pulse nightclub. Cristian Benavides has more.
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Photos of Donald Trump's hand went viral as experts speculated he was using makeup to cover up bruising, and online observers had a lot to say.It was reported over the weekend that the viral pictures of Trump's hand were "breaking the internet." Political analysts and observers were no exception.scary lawyerguy posted on X on Saturday, "The lack of...
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The states have been warned to get on board with a new scheme to divert children with mild autism from the NDIS, with the treasurer reminding them that a five-year hospital funding deal is tied to their support for NDIS changes.
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Congressman Jim Jordan went on TV over the weekend to declare President Donald Trump's innocence in connection with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex abuse conspiracy, but onlookers had a lot to say about the lawmaker's own past.Jordan, a Republican lawmaker from Ohio and a staunch ally to Trump, used the government's release of edited transcripts of...
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency could look significantly different by next year's hurricane season, with state and local governments shouldering more of the responsibility for natural disaster response and recovery.Members of both political parties have long criticized FEMA, but a bipartisan bill moving along in Congress...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday set off a MAGA meltdown when she made a comment on social media.Greene has been a staunch supporter of "America First," but has at times bumped heads with top Donald Trump allies and even the president himself in rare cases.On Saturday, the Georgia Republican posted on X a passionate plea for the...
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Business and political leaders tackle Australia's biggest economic challenges at the economic roundtable, while a significant shake-up to the National Disability Insurance Scheme is announced by Health Minister Mark Butler.
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"A chump, a fool, a know-nothing." That's how former Trump adviser-turned-critic John Bolton portrayed the president before he was raided by the FBI, according to conservative lawyer and activist George Conway. Conway, the prominent conservative attorney and "never Trump” Republican turned independent, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss the...
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Republican lawmakers recently released some documents about disgraced financier and convicted child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, but with that disclosure came a red flag for one Dem lawmaker.California Congressman Robert Garcia, the Democratic leader on the House Oversight Committee, talked to journalist Aaron Parnas about the release."This...
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The family of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent victims, is "outraged" at the Trump administration.Journalist Aaron Parnas on Saturday published an article in which he highlighted how a Democratic lawmaker says some Epstein documents are still being withheld by the administration and Republican lawmakers.But Parnas also...
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Two of Donald Trump's political enemies are showing the Democrats how to "fight back," according to a conservative strategist Saturday.Mike Madrid, who served as the Golden State's GOP political director before co-founding the group of current and former anti-Trump Republicans known as the Lincoln Project, has previously commented on Trump's...
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Donald Trump is engaging in the "set-up of the century," according to the president's former trusted operative over the weekend.Former Trump associate Lev Parnas, who says he used to be "deep inside the Trump machine" and now reports from the outside, published an article Saturday called, "The Theatrics Are Over-Trump's Dictatorship and the...
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President Donald Trump spent months aggressively pushing his "big, beautiful bill," telling members of Congress what he wanted the megabill to include, and warning Republican lawmakers that there would be hell to pay if they voted "no." But one thing Trump didn't release in the spring was release a fully detailed federal budget.In an op-ed...
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California "bluffed" its way into flipping the script on Republicans and Donald Trump, according to a new report.Politico on Saturday published a story called, How California bluffed its way into a redistricting war with Trump, in which the outlet quotes "nearly 50 people involved with the effort" who "shared details with POLITICO about the tightly...
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A former state attorney predicted that not only will Ghislaine Maxwell be pardoned by President Donald Trump, but said exactly when such a pardon would take place.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking charges related to Jeffrey Epstein, who was also facing sex-trafficking charges until his death in 2019. Epstein...
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Former Donald Trump lawyer Todd Blanche's interview with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was dismissed by a former FBI supervisor who admitted he was stunned at how poorly it appears to have been conducted. Coming on the heels of the Department of Justice releasing audio and transcripts late Friday, where Maxwell downplayed Trump's...
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I'm writing to you from Houston, Texas, where I'm flogging Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America to every Texan who might be interested. So far, I think I've sold two copies.Just kidding. Last night, in fact, I met hundreds of Texans who seemed interested.Texas wasn't always the bastion of right-wing extremism it seems today. Remember Ann...
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A county in North Carolina where nearly 70% of voters favored President Donald Trump in 2024 is facing an exodus of educators following budget cuts to the Department of Education, cuts that have left some residents feeling betrayed.During Trump's second term, the Education Department has seen its workforce nearly cut in half, around $900 million...
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Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought were raked over the coals on Saturday for breaking with a decades-long tradition of releasing the entire budget bill which was recently signe .In an accusatory column in the New York Times, the ex-staff director of the House Budget Committee,Thomas Kahn, claimed the Trump...
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GOP strategist Kristin Davison stunned a CNN panel Saturday after blurting out a bizarre and debunked claim regarding merchandise carried at the retail store franchise Target.The discussion on CNN's "Table for Five” Saturday centered around Target's latest quarterly earnings report, which showed the franchise taking a 42% nosedive in share value....
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The Department of Homeland Security admitted to what experts called a "violation” of federal law when pressed by a watchdog organization in late July, according to reporting from The New York Times Friday.American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group, filed a public records request with DHS related to the deployment of National Guard troops in...
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A Democratic lawmaker who is leading the charge to force the Department of Justice to release the entire files they have on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein appeared on MSNBC on Saturday morning where he revealed that what was released on Friday was a lot less than it appeared.Speaking with "The Weekend” co-hosts, Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA) , who...
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Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon was promptly cut off Saturday during an appearance on CNN after launching a tirade in defense of President Donald Trump, whose administration fired a top general Friday following their assessment of the U.S. strikes on Iran.Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse was fired on Friday, with no official cause given from the White House....
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During a segment on the transcripts the Department of Justice released of Todd Blanche's interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and partner of Jeffrey Epstein, MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart had his producers put up a screenshot of a remark the high-ranking DOJ official made that drew his scrutiny."There's something unusual...
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Cory Ruth, a CEO and former GOP consultant whose worked on Republican presidential campaigns, was shut down Saturday during an appearance on CNN after pushing false claims about Black wealth in the United States."Right now, we as African Americans put a lot of attention on what we're not getting,” Ruth said, who also leads the Atlanta-based...
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The animated and irreverent "South Park," like comedian Bill Burr and "Real Time" host Bill Maher, isn't shy about brutally mocking liberals and progressives along with conservatives and MAGA Republicans. And the show's disdain for left-wing "woke" culture and "political correctness" is intense.But recent "South Park" parodies of President Donald...
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Branded as an effort to crackdown on overall crime, President Donald Trump's federal takeover of Washington, D.C. was likely designed from the start with an ulterior motive, Mayor Muriel Bowser suggested Saturday.A CNN review of crime data in the nation's capital found that, since Aug. 7, just two days after the Trump administration took control of...
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Last week, Donald Trump directed hundreds of masked agents and soldiers, who may soon be armed, to "do whatever the hell they want,” presumably to whomever the hell they want, on the streets of the US capital. Someone should do Trump a solid and explain, slowly, that when ICE starts murdering civilians on his request, he will be criminally liable...
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Hours after FBI Director gave the go-ahead to his agents to raid the home and office of John Bolton, Vice President J.D. Vance was well prepared and ready to discuss it with NBC's Kristin Welker during an extensive interview to be released in full on Sunday.During an interview on Saturday on MSNBC, one former official from Donald Trump's first term...
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US President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago is the next city in his crosshairs for the kind of federal invasion and occupation currently underway in Washington, DC—a threat that sparked defiant pushback from officials in the Windy City and beyond."After we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also," Trump told...
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When "Real Time" host Bill Maher cautions liberals and progressives against reacting to every offensive thing that President Donald Trump says and does, his point is that they should save their energy for Trump's most egregious actions. Maher had a lot to say about Trump during "Real Time's" Friday night, August 22 broadcast — warning that...
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Despite disavowals from Donald Trump that he was not aware of a planned raid on the home of John Bolton, White House insiders claim he had been obsessed with his former national security adviser for the past few weeks.Questioned about the raid afterward, the president told reporters he was out of the loop and knew nothing about it, however, in...
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By Tatishe Nteta, Adam Eichen, Alexander Theodoridis, Jesse Rhodes, and Raymond La Raja, UMass Amherst.Has President Donald Trump survived the latest and most serious firestorm of controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal? Or has the Trump administration's handling of the release of information concerning the prosecution of a convicted child sex...
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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to move past the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in releasing interview transcripts of Epstein-associate Ghislaine Maxwell will likely only fan the flames of the controversy, one journalist argued Saturday morning on CNN."If anything, they've sort of started another firestorm,” said Errol Louis, journalist and host...
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Most of us humans have scant ability to hold in our minds things that seemed of tremendous importance not that long ago. We seldom hark back to an incident that at the time seemed momentous, only to be shoved to the back of our minds by a succession of more recent attention-grabbing events.Thus, far too seldom do we think back on one of the most...
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Less than a day after Texas Republicans muscled through their new redistricting plan, cracks are already showing as some party members admit the map could come back to haunt them. Conservative journalist David Drucker told Morning Joe that while the GOP expected to net up to five new House seats in 2026, the lines they drew may have created far...
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On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. government was now a part-owner of a major publicly traded tech company. The reaction among his base was less than enthusiastic.Trump announced via his Truth Social platform that as of Friday the U.S. is a multibillion-dollar shareholder in Intel as part of an agreement with CEO Lip-Bu Tan...
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The FBI raid on President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton appears primarily to be payback against him for years of criticism — but there might be some even more sinister motives at play here, wrote Shane Harris for The Atlantic on Friday.Specifically, he argued, it could also be a ploy to scare the broader intelligence...
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Vice President JD Vance is facing strong criticism from legal and political experts after commenting on the FBI's seven-hour raid on Friday morning on former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton's Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office, reportedly in a search for classified documents."The information that provided the basis for the...
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The FBI raid on the home of President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton is yet another alarming escalation to an authoritarian state, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote on Friday.Bolton, a frequent critic of Trump since leaving office, appeared undeterred, posting criticisms of Trump to X as the...
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Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, dropped explosive testimony on Friday that Epstein may have gone on a date with Princess Diana.Maxwell, 63, testified in an interview with the Justice Department last month while serving her sentence for sex trafficking and other offenses. She agreed to participate as part of a DOJ...
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The Trump administration's Justice Department has declared it believes a decades-old Hispanic college grant program is unconstitutional and will not defend it from a legal challenge brought by the state of Tennessee.According to The Associated Press, the DOJ announced its intentions not to defend the Hispanic-Serving Institution program in a memo...
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The audio and transcript of a two-day meeting between President Donald Trump's Justice Department and Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, didn't pass the smell test for a former FBI official.Andrew McCabe, who served as the deputy director of the FBI from 2016 to 2018, joined "OutFront" with anchor Erin Burnett on Friday evening for a...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is releasing new materials from the 2019 investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee in response to a congressional subpoena. But one longtime Republican strategist is urging Americans to take it all with a grain of salt.On Friday, Mark McKinnon — who was an advisor to...
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The release of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview with convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell only proves what a dishonest and self-serving exercise all of this was for the Trump administration, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" panel on Friday evening."You...
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During a press conference in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump dismissed the new release of documents relating to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein as a "hoax" concocted by Democrats. His claims didn't pass muster after two CNN hosts conducted a prompt fact-check.On Friday, CNN hosts Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar interrupted Trump's...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported in violation of a judge's order earlier this year, was released from custody in Tennessee on Friday."Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free," his attorney, Sean Hecker, said. "He is presently en route to his family in Maryland, after being unlawfully arrested...
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President Donald Trump's warning that imported furniture will soon face tariffs sent stocks reeling for major retailers, according to a report. On Friday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that his administration was conducting a major tariff investigation into furniture imports. The administration plans to impose tariffs at a rate still to...
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A tour guide in Washington, D.C. blasted the Trump administration's decision to send National Guard troops into the city to address crime, calling it a "spectacle" for tourists seeking a new photo op.Elijah Edwards wrote a letter to the Washington Post editors on Friday, calling it "fitting" that most federal agents and troops were clustered along...
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The Trump administration is planning once again to deport Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia — this time, to Africa.According to a new memo submitted by the Justice Department to Abrego Garcia's counsel, "Pursuant to the court order issued in the District Court of Maryland on July 23, 2025, Civil Action No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX, please let...
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Five people were killed in a tour bus crash on Friday in upstate New York, officials said at a news conference.A bus carrying 52 passengers, mostly of Indian, Chinese, and Filipino descent, crashed on Interstate 90 near Pembroke in upstate New York. The bus was traveling back to New York City from Niagara Falls when it lost control, rolled over,...
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