Raw Story - Politics (An hour ago)
President Donald Trump issued a stern warning Friday to CNN and MS NOW not to book two prominent critics of his – Ex-Trump officials Ty Cobb and Miles Taylor – whom he described as "two dopes” who he "hardly knew.”"When you watch these two guys on Television, which, fortunately, doesn't happen often because there's very little audience at...
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CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown were criticized Friday after a bizarre live interview — and high five — with Dr. Mehmet Oz. Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is a former television health expert made popular by his association with Oprah Winfrey and now a Trump administration official. During the...
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New details were revealed Friday as lawmakers planned to depose a retail billionaire in late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's inner circle. Leslie Wexner, who was at one time Epstein's main financial benefactor, was slated to speak with congressional leaders on Feb. 18 over his ties with Epstein, according to MS NOW reporter...
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Alan Dershowitz, former attorney for both President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, erupted Friday on Newsmax over what he said was a Justice Department document listing him as a "prominent” figure accused by Epstein's victims."I want you to look at this paper that has been reproduced and sent by the Justice Department – it's called...
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Today I want to talk about prostates. (Wait! Don't delete this post! Give me a minute to explain why you might be interested.)All of us are getting older, and some of us are becoming quite old.Many old men, like Joe Biden and me and several million others in the United States, have prostates that contain cancerous cells.But because prostate cancer...
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Jeffrey Epstein's prison cellmate revealed a shocking claim and said he believed that the Trump administration wanted the late financier and convicted child sex offender dead. In a pardon petition in 2025 obtained by The Daily Beast, Nicholas Tartaglione, a former law enforcement officer who was facing charges for four murders over a drug deal gone...
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Yet another House Republican announced he would not seek re-election on Friday: Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV), the only Republican representing Nevada in Congress."Serving the people of Nevada has been the honor of my lifetime," Amodei wrote in his announcement, posted to X. "Nobody is prouder of our Nevada Congressional District than me. Thank you for...
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A Maricopa County Superior Court has permanently blocked multiple anti-abortion laws, ruling that they violate the constitutional right to the procedure voters adopted two years ago.In 2024, an overwhelming majority of Arizona voters agreed to add abortion to the state constitution, throwing dozens of existing restrictions into question. In May of...
ReadCBC - Politics (2 hours ago)
Prime Minister Mark Carney is repealing Canada's electric vehicle mandate that set a target that all new vehicles in Canada must be electric in a decade. Instead, the government is introducing stronger greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicle models 2027-32 to encourage automakers to produce more zero-emission vehicles.
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The federal government introduced legislation that would enshrine its housing agency as a Crown corporation on Thursday, giving it land acquisition authority as well as the ability to partner with private developers — as questions remain over the number of units it intends to build.
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After a decade at the top of the Canadian political pyramid, former prime minister Stephen Harper largely retreated from public life after his election loss in 2015. Now, the country's 22nd prime minister is speaking out and Canadians are giving his legacy a second look.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
Former Republican insider Rick Wilson has a grim outlook for the Kennedy Center. In his Substack published Friday, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project made a stark prediction over how President Donald Trump would handle the performing arts institution — with a tear down. "I regret to inform you that on July 5th or...
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President Donald Trump is currently seeking $10 billion in damages from his own Internal Revenue Service, a lawsuit lodged last month over the 2020 leak of his tax returns, a move so brazen that even some Republicans were left scratching their heads, NBC News reported Friday."If they succeed at that, that's $10 billion coming from the pockets of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
President Donald Trump took down a post that was widely condemned as plainly racist.The 79-year-old president shared a video created by the conservative Patriot News Outlet that had an image of Barack and Michelle Obama's smiling faces superimposed on the bodies of apes in a jungle, with a clip of the 1961 song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," by the...
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Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) suggested that President Donald Trump had made a "mistake" by posting a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, but acknowledge that it was racist."Even if this was a Lion King meme, a reasonable person sees the racist context to this," Ricketts wrote Friday on X. "The White House should do what anyone...
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There's been a lot of support this week for CNN's Kaitlan Collins, who got berated by the Giant Orange Snowflake Epstein Bestie for simply Doing A Journalism While Female in the Oval Office. But it's also a classic example of who Trump has always been, and therefore should be used as an example of how to fight back against him.TRUMP MELTS DOWN AT...
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A Las Vegas bar reportedly escorted former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino from the premises due to safety concerns.On Thursday, the Bottled Blonde bar told The Daily Beast that staff asked the former Border Patrol chief to leave after he was spotted drinking wine and laughing with a group of young men."Bottled Blonde does not...
ReadCBS News - Politics (4 hours ago)
Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown, ousted in November by Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren, hinted in his farewell address that he may not be done with Washington just yet: "As I've said many times before, victory and defeat is temporary...we may obviously meet again."
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
CNN's Harry Enten found that voters agree that Donald Trump's second presidency has been a "failure" on one of the key issues that got him back into office.The 79-year-old president was re-elected in 2024 in part due to his promise to bring down consumer prices, but the chief data analyst told "CNN News Central" that a strong majority Americans...
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Portland Police officers fatally shot a suspect last weekend who was posing as a Secret Service agent, and who was later discovered to be in possession of a shotgun loaded with shells with "threatening messages” written on them against President Donald Trump, Portland Police reported Thursday.According to police, the suspect, who has not been...
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Racy emails between Casey Wasserman, the LA 2028 Olympics committee chair and CEO of talent agency Wasserman Media Group, with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have put him in hot water with a popular artist he represents.Bethany Cosentino, the frontwoman of rock band Best Coast, has released a statement demanding Wasserman step down...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) called President Donald Trump "wrong and incredibly offensive" after he posted a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes."The President's post is wrong and incredibly offensive — whether intentional or a mistake — and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered," Lawler wrote Friday on X.According to...
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Texas appears to be in play for Democrats, as it seems to be every few years before Republicans hold on to win another election, but CNN's Harry Enten said they may have real reason for optimism this time.The GOP-controlled state legislature redrew the Texas congressional maps with an eye on improving their chances of picking up new House seats,...
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Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intentions. Some even see dangerous parallels between American efforts to inflame Alberta separatism and the Russian campaign to gin up a separatist movement...
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Speaking at an Ottawa gala late Wednesday, former prime minister Stephen Harper said that Canada must urgently pivot in the face of an erratic U.S. president and reduce its dependence on the American market to protect its sovereignty and the continued functioning of the economy.
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) lashed out after President Donald Trump posted a racist video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes."Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House," Scott wrote Friday on X. "The President should remove it."White House Press Secretary slammed criticism of Trump's post as...
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Terrance Williams, a Black comedian, MAGA influencer and loyal supporter of President Donald Trump, scrambled Friday to cover for the president's racist social media post that included depictions of Barack and Michelle Obama as primates, and was promptly dogpiled by critics.Early Friday morning, Trump shared a video on social media that included...
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The administration backing Donald Trump may boast about his energy levels but it does not change his ailing health, a medical professional has said. The president said just last week that he does not "sleep much" while Vice President JD Vance says other staffers struggle to keep up with the amount Trump works. Vance said that a 20-hour trip will...
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Mockery erupted online Friday over Attorney General Pam Bondi's comment that "Donald Trump never forgets."Bondi was speaking at a press conference where the Department of Justice announced an arrest of a suspect in the 2012 Benghazi attack when she made the remark. The internet was quick to point out a few times when the president had a mix up over...
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A man who voted for Donald Trump in his three presidential elections denounced the commander-in-chief after he posted a racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes.During Friday's edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, a man named John called in from New Mexico to express his disgust with Trump."Voted for the president,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Donald Trump could sink the GOP's midterm chances even further should he take military action in Iran.Whether the president does so is yet to be seen, but CNN political analyst Stephen Collinson believes the administration may take action. It would follow strikes made last year on Iran, and could plunge the US into a war with the potential to go...
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Bill and Hillary Clinton are set to testify later this month before the House Oversight Committee in its ongoing Jeffrey Epstein probe, a GOP-led effort that "Morning Joe” hosts argued Friday could ultimately backfire "spectacularly” on President Donald Trump and Republicans.Last month, the House Oversight Committee – led by Rep. James Comer...
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President Donald Trump's advisers stopped him from ripping John F. Kennedy's name off the Kennedy Center altogether, leaving the cultural hub simply called the Trump Center, his biographer said."Why does this have to be Kennedy?" the president apparently argued. "That was such a long time ago.”Trump, 79, has substantially remade the Washington,...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted reporters after President Donald Trump posted a video of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes.In the short video, someone discusses the 2020 presidential election before the Obamas' heads are seen on the bodies of apes."This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the...
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CNN's John Berman put a Republican congressman on the spot about an "overtly racist" post President Donald Trump shared overnight.The 79-year-old president shared a video created by the conservative Patriot News Outlet that had an image of Barack and Michelle Obama's smiling faces superimposed on the bodies of apes in a jungle, with a clip of the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Republican Party representatives misread the Texas Senate election according to a political analysist who says one issue was an overstep from the party. Democrat Taylor Rehmet would go on to defeat Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the special election for the Texas state senate position. It was a shock result considering Donald Trump had carried it...
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A former White House cardiologist believes a recent health claim made by Donald Trump has little grounding in fact. Jonathan Reiner, the former doctor to Vice President Dick Cheney, responded to a claim made by the 47th POTUS that he takes aspirin against his doctor's orders. In an interview with NBC, Trump confirmed he is still taking aspirin and...
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President Donald Trump made several moves this week that left Joe Scarborough floored Friday morning at what he described as a series of "self-defeating” mistakes that were nothing more than an unintentional "gift” for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.On Thursday, Trump shifted his explanation as to why National Intelligence Director...
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Dear Trump Administration Official,I'm writing to you not as a political opponent, but as a historian who's spent a lifetime studying what happens when democracies flirt with strongmen and otherwise decent people convince themselves that loyalty to Dear Leader today will be rewarded by safety and protection tomorrow.It almost never is.You're out...
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Republicans are increasingly worried they'll lose their U.S. Senate majority.GOP strategists have been concerned for months about polling in U.S. House races, but private polls have been painting a dim picture for their chances for keeping control of the Senate, as well, reported Axios."A year ago, I would have told you we were almost guaranteed to...
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President Donald Trump continues to sink in the polls on issues related to affordability and the economy, but on issues he's historically performed best at – namely, immigration – his numbers have sunk dramatically in what Joe Scarborough flagged Friday as a "shocking turnaround from over the past year.”"I was really struck by the poll [on...
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Donald Trump could be planning a major, MAGA-themed blowout for the final year of his presidency, a political analyst has claimed. Whether the president makes the most of his last year in office in 2028 is yet to be seen, but Slate columnist Justin Peters thinks Trump could pull out all the stops with a garish display. With both the 2026 World Cup...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have perjured himself during his Senate confirmation hearings to become secretary of Health and Human Services.The 72-year-old Kennedy testified last year that his heavily scrutinized 2019 trip to Samoa, which came just ahead of a major measles outbreak, had "nothing to do with vaccines," but documents obtained by the...
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Panelists on "CNN This Morning" ganged up on a conservative commentator for defending the Trump administration's all-hands-on-deck investigation into debunked 2020 election fraud claims.The FBI raided an election hub last week in Fulton County, Georgia, where President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators were indicted for attempting to...
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Donald Trump is "destroying" the Republican Party, and there's one clear sign, according to a former GOP insider.Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who once said he might depose Trump in a lawsuit and force the president to explain his ties to the deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, ahead of the weekend wrote a piece on Substack called, "Trump...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Donald Trump posted a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys. The video was shared to Trump's Truth Social account at around midnight on February 6, with the current president sharing a host of posts, including this video. Said video runs for one minute and two seconds, with the final seconds...
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Jimmy Kimmel has torn into Donald Trump after the president's NBC interview, where the president refused to rule out a third term in office.Talk show host Kimmel highlighted the many shortcomings of the president from the interview, including a comment on how the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were deemed "bad publicity" for the government by...
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A bill set to be presented to the House of Representatives could freeze out military members stationed overseas from voting in elections. Exceptions in the bill do address these concerns, according to co-author Chip Roy (R-Texas), but proponents are calling for some tighter definitions when it comes to defining who can and cannot vote. Roy believes...
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While a judicial coalition applauded a federal appeals court decision this week to dismiss a complaint against a judge who stopped the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, the group is continuing to sound the alarm on threats to and attacks on judges they say the president is fueling.Paul Kiesel, founder of Speak Up...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
President Donald Trump sparked fury Friday morning after posting a blatantly racist video on social media depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates, a post critics denounced as a shocking new low for the presidency."Disgusting behavior by the President,” wrote California Gov. Gavin Newsom's press office Friday in a social media...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Yesterday I watched, horrified and spellbound — which is becoming a regular thing — as an event purportedly built on prayer, humility, and the teachings of Jesus Christ dissolved into a Trump rally, complete with guffaws, applause, and a bizarre reverence for every absurd turpitude that tumbled out of the President's trashy mouth.It was...
ReadPolitico - Europe (16 hours ago)
Mitten in Doha, bei über 20 Grad und zwischen Museumsbesuch und Wirtschaftsdelegation, begleiten unter anderem Gordon Repinski und Markus Preiß den Bundeskanzler auf einer seiner zentralen Auslandsreisen. Die beiden reden darüber, wie sich deutsche Außenpolitik gerade neu sortiert und warum sie sich das auch leisten muss. Es geht um den...
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President Donald Trump's lawyers appeared to use some legal trickery to avoid as much judicial scrutiny as possible in their scheme to seize voting records in Fulton County, Georgia. Last week, the Trump administration's FBI raided the Fulton County election office and hauled away nearly 700 boxes of data related to the 2020 general election. Trump...
ReadSydney Morning Herald - Politics (17 hours ago)
Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce do not change their convictions to suit a particular issue. It's a strategy that means, although the Coalition is facing an extinction-level event, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are not the only ones in danger.
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