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A former FBI profiler floated a new theory about who could have taken Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing earlier this week.Candace DeLong, host of the "Killer Psyche" podcast, discussed Guthrie's disappearance on "The Lead" with Jake Tapper on Wednesday. She said that even though investigators in...
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Republicans that House Oversight Chair James Comer may have spectacularly hoisted his own party on its petard by forcing Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify about Jeffrey Epstein. On Morning Joe, Scarborough said Comer's move all but guarantees future subpoenas for Donald Trump, whose name appears tens of thousands of...
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Some Democrats sounded the alarm Wednesday and broke with their party over what they describe as an out-of-control Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that has become a magnet for bad actors.As some Democrats call for reforming ICE, some Democrats struck a more extreme tone, including Reps. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) and Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA),...
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Donald Trump's foreign policy has taken a hard turn from Greenland ambitions to wielding economic pressure on European nations as U.S. troops carried out a dramatic military operation that led to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture and ongoing U.S. influence over the country's oil sector, a move critics warn could foreshadow new tariff...
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A gathering of local Minnesota Republican Party officials went off the rails this week after a self-described "witch" trolled their meeting by placing a "curse" on them — and the Republicans in attendance appeared to take it at least somewhat seriously.According to Minnesota Public Radio, "Seated around the Dilworth Elementary School Cafeteria,...
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NewsNation discovered a blood trail leading from the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of "Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, as authorities investigate her disappearance. Reported missing since late January, Nancy is described as a "vulnerable adult,” and police are treating the case as a potential abduction with possible ransom demands,...
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President Donald Trump's "mercurial" and "unreliable" negotiation style is starting to wear on his allies, according to a new report. Trump has consistently claimed that his unpredictability was one of his negotiation tactics that helped him get the upper hand. But The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Trump's allies and adversaries appear...
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President Donald Trump called for a Democratic member of Congress to be expelled over the performance of his stock portfolio in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. "It is my Great Honor to endorse MAGA Warrior, Mike LiPetri, who is running to represent the fantastic people of New York's 3rd Congressional District against a Congressman who has proven...
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A key Republican lawmaker is now calling on President Donald Trump to require federal immigration agents to stop wearing masks during operations — a core demand of Democrats in response to brutal immigration crackdowns that have left cities like Minneapolis in turmoil.In an interview with Bloomberg News, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said, "They...
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There's one key detail in Nancy Guthrie's abduction that could prove pivotal in finding her, an expert said on Wednesday. Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared over the weekend from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Investigators have said they believe she was kidnapped from her home, although they have not...
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Analysts say the Trump-era Department of Justice failed to safeguard sensitive data in its latest release of over 3 million Jeffrey Epstein files, potentially harming victims and fueling digital piracy. Slate senior writer Tony Ho Tran reported that users could exploit the DOJ dump to download software, e-books, and other materials, highlighting...
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Another Republican in the House of Representatives announced on Wednesday that he will not seek reelection this fall. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said in a statement that he will not run again during the midterms. Loudermilk has served Georgia's 11th Congressional district since 2014. "I believe it is time to contribute to my community, state, and...
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The past several weeks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns and the rising protests to stop them are proof of just how badly Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller misfired in assuming America was ready for an all-out purge of immigrants at any cost, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told MS NOW on Wednesday."The Wall Street...
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie warned Wednesday that Donald Trump is actively sabotaging Republican electoral prospects by poisoning his own voters against mail-in ballots, calling it a lingering "disease” inside the GOP. Speaking on MSNBC, Christie said Trump's nonstop claims that elections are rigged—especially by mail voting—have...
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President Donald Trump's lawyers were chastized by a federal judge on Wednesday for trying to take "two bites at the apple" in the president's latest attempt to get his felony convictions thrown out. In May 2024, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts for falsifying dozens of business records related to a hush money payment he gave to adult film...
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President Donald Trump's new effort to seize control of election infrastructure from states is more than a pursuit of his 2020 conspiracy theories, election lawyer and Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias warned MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday — it's a "desperate" reaction to his fear of losing the midterms, and his frustration that his...
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A federal judge appears poised to force one of President Donald Trump's closest allies to disclose potentially damning information about his time at the Department of Government Efficiency. Federal Judge James Boasberg in the District of Columbia ruled on Wednesday that Trump ally Elon Musk's lawyers must disclose any telephone number that Musk...
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President Donald Trump plans to install a reconstructed Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds, reviving a monument torn down during the 2020 racial justice protests and reigniting a long-running culture war over how America honors its past. According to the Washington Post, the statue—originally unveiled by Ronald Reagan and later...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), co-author of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, revealed that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice had invited him to review unredacted documents.Despite Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, his administration has failed to comply with the legislation by not releasing the documents on...
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The four lead prosecutors who led the $250 million Minnesota fraud case have all quit amid mass resignations, according to reports on Wednesday.The departures of Joe Thompson, Harry Jacobs, Daniel Bobier and Matthew Ebert from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota mark a number "already-diminished office," including a wave of...
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President Donald Trump's latest "Hail Mary" legal scheme is almost surely doomed to fail, according to one expert. On Wednesday, Trump's lawyers filed a motion in New York federal court to remove Trump's 34 felony convictions to federal court. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein expressed skepticism about the move because Trump's lawyers waited so long...
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A constitutional alarm bell is ringing after a federal judge found the Trump administration repeatedly ignoring court orders in immigration detention cases, prompting a top legal expert to warn that a core American right may be under quiet assault. Just Security editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman said a recent ruling by Judge Patrick Schiltz shows how...
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A large group of agriculture experts warned that US farms are taking a financial beating thanks to President Donald Trump's global trade war.In a letter sent to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees on Tuesday, the experts warned of a potential "widespread collapse of American agriculture and our rural...
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Former wives of tech leaders have told a longtime journalist that they sensed something was off when they visited late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island. Technology journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher told a CNN panel on Wednesday that several people have come to her and shared their experiences about interactions...
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A leaked list of the munitions that President Donald Trump's immigration agents took with them to Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge appalled one Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday, according to a report. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on a security munitions list for the operation that was leaked to him....
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The Supreme Court has started showing signs that justices are aware of the growing public frustration around its shadow docket, a New York Times reporter said Wednesday. Jodi Kantor, a Times investigative reporter, told MS NOW's Katy Tur that mounting criticism of the conservative majority's court and its recent decisions — which sometimes have...
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President Donald Trump bailed on attending the Super Bowl at least partly due to warnings that the spectators would "aggressively boo him," according to a new report.Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl last year when he visited New Orleans, The Independent noted Wednesday. But last week, he said the big game at Levi's...
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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) lashed out at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over an effort to build ICE detention facilities in his state."It has come to my attention that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is in the final stages of acquiring a warehouse facility in Byhalia, Mississippi, and intends to convert it into an ICE...
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Outrage erupted Wednesday after The Washington Post announced it would lay off more than 300 people from its newsroom — including a reporter in the middle of a warzone in Ukraine.The reporter received the news under harsh conditions while covering the war in Ukraine. "I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have...
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Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump as "perceptive" because he complained that CNN's Kaitlan Collins did not smile more."I mean, like, there was a moment in the Oval Office. I wasn't even in there, but, you know, I was in the West Wing," Vance recalled to Megyn Kelly on Wednesday. "[Trump] was talking to Kaitlin Collins, who's...
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This morning, The Washington Post ceased to exist as the paper of record we once knew.In a move that can only be described as a gutting of a national institution, more than 300 journalists were shown the door. The sports section is gone. The books section is gone. The international bureaus—the eyes and ears that brought us news from the world's...
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At the outset of the American Civil War, a young and at the time relatively undistinguished U.S. Army officer from Illinois who would later rise swiftly through the ranks, offered a simple and straightforward assessment of the political situation in his divided and troubled country in a letter to his father."There are but two parties now, traitors...
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The Trump administration got more bad news on Wednesday in a new poll that shows what a drag on the president Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has become.The survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University, finds that 61 percent of voters believe the government is not telling the truth about the shooting death of Minneapolis intensive care nurse...
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"I want to see elections be honest, and if a state can't run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it,” said Trump on Tuesday during a bill-signing ceremony to reopen the federal government."Take a look at Detroit … take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Atlanta,” he continued, alleging corruption —...
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A CNN analyst was shocked on Wednesday after a new interview with President Donald Trump revealed that he acknowledged that his administration could change its approach to immigration. Trump, whose administration has faced criticism over fatal ICE shootings of American citizens, detaining children, and unlawful activity, was interviewed by NBC...
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Authorities are refuting explosive allegations surrounding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie. The Pima County Sheriff's Department directly contradicted claims made by NewsNation correspondent Ashleigh Banfield on Tuesday, who reported, citing high-level sources, that Savannah...
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First lady Melania Trump faced questions after she seemed to promote her movie at an official White House event.While speaking with freed Israeli hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel on Wednesday, Trump put in a plug for her movie."After Aviva was freed, she called me, wanted to see me, and we set up a meeting in New York in January 2025," the first...
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A Texas man was arrested after violently attacking a teenager during a protest against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.Police determined that 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts was the primary aggressor during a fight with the minor teen as hundreds of students from Hays Consolidated Independent School District in Kyle walked out of...
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In a knee-jerk reaction compared to that of a "jealous wife-beater," an unguarded utterance by President Donald Trump has onlookers alarmed he plans to tear the Kennedy Center to the ground.The alarm was raised by Salon writer Amanda Marcotte on Wednesday, as she wrote about Trump's announcement that the Washington, D.C. hub of culture would be...
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that California may use a new congressional map approved by voters.Justices rejected arguments from Republicans asking the court to block district lines they claimed were rigged in favor of Democratic candidates, and their decision was issued as a one-sentence order that did not provide explanation or dissent,...
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Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang was asked to leave a bar in Minnesota after being accused of harassing the staff. Lang, however, claimed that it was due to his support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump.Lang shared a video of his visit to BLVD Tavern in St. Paul this week."This is what you get when you're a patriot,...
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President Donald Trump's MAGA coalition has fractured in the months following the assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk and turned on itself over its internal battle over anti-Semitism. Following Kirk's death, his Turning Point USA organization had anticipated bringing together MAGA loyalists to continue Kirk's attempt to unify the...
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MAGA influencers celebrated the idea that undocumented migrants could burn their hands trying to get into the country after the Trump administration painted a portion of the border wall black.On Wednesday, NewsNation's Ali Bradley shared a video of the new black border wall in Nogales."Trump's Southern Border Wall is being painted BLACK in order to...
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Maine Republican legislators are calling to impeach Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for refusing to assist an Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge last month.Bellows temporarily paused the issuance of undercover license plates while ICE agents carried out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, and the Midcoast Villager...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon called on President Donald Trump to "nationalize" elections by deploying the U.S. Army to voting locations.During an angry Wednesday rant about Trump's decision to pull Homeland Security agents out of Minneapolis, Bannon argued that the administration should provide "zero" cooperation with cities in blue states."All of...
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In today's edition, I'm going to try something different. Instead of an essay or analysis or an interview, I'm going to offer diary-like entries. The reason is practical, but also artistic, if you will indulge the term. These diary entries reflect how my mind works — vestiges, observations, random thoughts — sometimes interconnected but more...
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Rick Wilson, a former Republican operative, warned that MAGA is looking at a "bloodbath" ahead of the midterms. The co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project wrote in his Substack Wednesday that while President Donald Trump says he wants to nationalize the midterm elections — which Wilson said is "much, much worse than it sounds" —...
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The construction of President Donald Trump's border wall — the core issue he initially ran on in 2016 — hasn't been going very smoothly, according to Axios. And a policy put into place by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is playing a big role."Only 30 miles of border barriers — out of a target of nearly 2,000 miles by 2029 — have...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon slammed the Trump administration's plan to withdraw 700 Department of Homeland Security officers from Minneapolis after Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents killed at least two U.S. citizens.Bannon expressed concern on Wednesday after border czar Tom Homan said 700 agents would be removed from...
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CNN's Sara Sidner was astonished by new polling that shows a deepening mistrust for President Donald Trump's commitment to democracy.The 79-year-old president proposed that Republicans nationalize and take over elections in at least 15 states, just days after the FBI and his spy chief Tulsi Gabbard raided a Georgia election facility seeking...
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The White House was forced to admit they made a shocking error after accidentally accusing a man of a child sex crime. In a now deleted post on the White House X account, it had listed "worst of the worst” immigrants arrested in Minnesota and shared an image of alleged undocumented immigrants, The Daily Beast reported. One of the suspects...
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Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) shouted down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after he refused to give forthright answers at a hearing.While speaking before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, Meeks noted that President Donald Trump's fans had lost about 50% of their investments in his World Liberty Financial crypto scheme."You can see...
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An immigration attorney for the Trump administration has been removed from her post after complaining about her job to a Minnesota judge.Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney Julie Le had told a judge Tuesday that her job "sucks" due to the crushing workload and the government's noncompliance with court orders as part of President Donald...
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In Litauen erreicht der Aufbau der Panzerbrigade 45 einen neuen Meilenstein: Die Multinational Battlegroup Lithuania wird offiziell unterstellt, Deutschlands bislang größtes Auslandsprojekt der Bundeswehr nimmt sichtbar Gestalt an. Rixa Fürsen berichtet direkt aus Kaunas über eisige Temperaturen, fehlende Infrastruktur und warum diese Brigade...
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Border czar Tom Homan revealed that President Donald Trump was withdrawing some ICE and Border Patrol agents from Minneapolis after at least two U.S. citizens died at their hands.In a speech on Wednesday, the border czar cited "unprecedented collaboration" with local officials."I have announced, effective immediately," Homan said, "we will draw...
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As President Donald Trump's administration plans to move ahead with massive new "prison camps" around the country for Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns, led by White House strategist Stephen Miller, they are running into a surprising new source of opposition: MAGA voters who would have the camps in their backyard.According to Greg...
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A former Justice Department official seemingly violated the law over the weekend by imploring Donald Trump loyalists to apply for jobs as federal prosecutors, according to experts.Chad Mizelle, a former DOJ chief of staff, issued a public call on social media for MAGA attorneys to apply for jobs under Attorney General Pam Bondi and suggested he...
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Donald Trump has set his sights on a post-Greenland target and may use tariffs as a way of hindering the country in question. The president's administration carried out an operation in Venezuela and then shifted tact to Greenland earlier this month. While Trump confirmed the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, his campaign in Greenland...
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Georgia's Fulton County has filed a motion seeking the return of 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI, state election officials said Wednesday. The motion has requested that the FBI return the records and ballots it took last week during a raid at a the county's election center warehouse, according to MS NOW. The motion was under a seal and the...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough warned Republicans that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has established a precedent that's certain to backfire.The Kentucky Republican has compelled the testimony of Bill and Hillary Clinton later this month about their association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the "Morning Joe" host said that...
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As Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) fights for his life in a bitterly divided primary, Republican leaders have poured $50 million into Texas to try to regain control of the contest, The New York Times reported on Wednesday."Allies of Mr. Cornyn have spent about $50 million on advertising on his behalf since last July, an unheard-of sum to support a...
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Donald Trump's continued obsession with the Kennedy Center may have weakened one of the biggest MAGA talking points. The president confirmed earlier this week that the Center would close for two years to undergo renovation work from July 2026. The renovation work comes after a collection of artists confirmed they would no longer perform at the...
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BRUSSELS — EU ambassadors are close to a deal on a €90 billion loan to finance Ukraine's defense against Russia thanks to a draft text that spells out the participation of third countries in arms deals, three diplomats said Wednesday. The ambassadors are scheduled to meet on Wednesday afternoon to finalize talks after a week […]
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