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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's recent pregnancy disclosure led numerous observers to raise questions about whether or not she intentionally got lip injections knowing she was pregnant.We recently reported that Leavitt, who's 28, is expecting her second child with her husband, Nick, who is 30 years her senior.But the internet was...
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For approximately 10 hours Saturday, Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv with about 500 drones and 40 missiles. The assault left about one-third of the city without power. The attack comes one day before before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago. Elizabeth Palmer has the latest.
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During his first year back in power, President Trump has used American military might to send messages to adversaries abroad. On Christmas Day, Mr. Trump ordered a strike on ISIS militants in Nigeria, which came about one week after the U.S. also struck ISIS targets in Syria. Willie James Inman reports from Mar-a-Lago.
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The tentative agreement comes after the two parties first agreed to a deal in principle last month. Today's agreement finalizes "contractual language" and will prevent either side from locking workers out or striking, ahead of the busy holiday season.
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More new apprentices are signing up than in the past 15 years, yet getting to certification remains a struggle. Financial concerns, difficulty finding employers and spotty guidance and mentorship for apprentices and journeypersons alike are among the barriers tripping up new tradespeople today.
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A former federal prosecutor said Saturday that, if she were still in her old role, she would "send out two FBI agents to have a chat with" Donald Trump after the president signaled he knows more than he previously suggested about Jeffrey Epstein's activities.Ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance, who recently tied a New York Times report about Trump being...
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Fingers are being pointed Saturday at an openly gay member of Donald Trump's administration after what some have called the "disgrace" of the Kennedy Center, once known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.Richard Grenell, the White House special envoy who was named executive director of the Kennedy Center, has been in the...
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New Yorker Columnist Susan Glasser warned that President Donald Trump's poisonous combo of strength obsession and failing health was likely going to push him to more and more extreme behavior as he rages against his fading vigor. Speaking with former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes on his Saturday year-in-review podcast, Glasser said the...
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A popular rising star in the Democratic party on Saturday sounded the alarm about Donald Trump, saying "something is seriously wrong with him" after a recent move.Rising Dem star Jasmine Crockett, a candidate for senate in Texas, issued a panicked plea after the president ordered foreign military strikes. The New York Times reports, "The United...
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The Guardian reports President Donald Trump is struggling to remain conscious at public events while opinion polls suggest Americans are turning against their president and Republicans make for the exits ahead of bleak congressional mid-terms next November."… [T]his is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this...
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A new comment from the president's son led to extensive mockery over the weekend.Donald Trump Jr., who has reportedly been privately fuming over a college friend who has "destructive information" about him, took to social media over the weekend to make a comment that was widely ridiculed.Commenting on an article called "UK to ban boiling lobsters...
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Donald Trump is "illegally" creating a shortage in the U.S., and the media isn't noticing, a senator said on Saturday.Brian Schatz, Dem of Hawaii, flagged the story the weekend after Christmas. Taking to social media, the senator said, "One of the most underreported stories of 2025 is that Trump is the first President ever to create electricity...
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Former GOP Communications Director Tara Setmayer whacked President Donald Trump's 2025 attack on comedians and entertainment as a sign of a weak man on MS NOW's "The Weekend.”"He's done [this] from day one,” said Setmayer. "He went after the media, calling them the 'enemy of the people.' which was straight out of the dictator playbook that...
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Republican commenter S.E. Cupp warns the U.S. economy is likely going to drag down President Donald Trump and his Republican Party leading into the midterms."Looking back, if we're going to assess the health of this administration next year, come midterms, we'll be looking back at Liberation Day,” Cupp told the panel of CNN's "Table for Five.”...
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When holiday celebrations are done President Donald Trump will be facing "daunting challenges in 2026,” said USA Today writer Bart Jansen.The lingering impasse over government spending is brewing in the House and Senate and Jansen said Americans will be facing a health care cost spike in 2026 now that Republicans and Trump have let Obamacare...
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Ankush Khardori, lawyer and senior writer for Politico, called out the Justice Department Saturday for a major contradiction regarding Jeffrey Epstein, and one that he said hadn't "gotten enough attention.”While the DOJ is now releasing its Epstein files in a phased rollout – which it's compelled to by law – last summer, the agency attempted...
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David Drucker, senior correspondent for the conservative Washington Examiner, told an MS NOW panel that President Donald Trump's 'old people' style is beginning to weigh down Republicans for the midterms.Drucker delivered his opinion after a clip showing Trump ally podcaster Joe Rogan slamming the president for his hateful response to the murder of...
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As the Trump administration faces growing scrutiny over its failure to release files on Jeffrey Epstein with limited redactions – as it's required to by law – former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg charted a path Saturday for Democratic lawmakers to force the administration's hand.Trump's Justice Department was hammered last week after...
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Sorry to burden you with this question, but it nags at me.Why haven't the American Bar Association or the American Medical Association stood up against the unethical behavior of professionals in the Trump regime?I was always told that professional associations existed to maintain professional standards, not merely to restrict the number of licensed...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) hammered President Donald Trump on Saturday citing "new data” that showed unemployment to have reached a four-year high."NEW DATA: in November, the unemployment rate rose to the highest level since September 2021,” Warren wrote Saturday in a social media post on X. "That's Trump's economy.”Unemployment ticked up...
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As the DOJ releases the largest batch of files yet on the federal investigation into Epstein, we look at some of the most significant revelations with investigative journalist Vicky Ward, who has spent decades reporting on the deceased sexual predator, his powerful associates and the impact of his crimes. Survivors have condemned the Department of...
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Multiple Supreme Court rulings favorable to Donald Trump, particularly those issued through the "shadow docket," have established legal precedents that could allow a future Democratic president to dismantle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and remove agents conducting street-level immigration enforcement operations.In a discussion...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, despite her bureaucratic role leading the agency, is often seen sporting tactical gear – sometimes holding a firearm – and the Trump administration is doing its best to rationalize what Axios described as her "eyebrow-raising wardrobe choices.”"[Noem] wears her agency's uniforms to honor the men and...
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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan donned a hijab while touring the Somali community in her state to express solidarity — and it triggered a meltdown among far-right activists, Newsweek reported on Friday. Flanagan is one of the main Democratic candidates for Minnesota's open Senate seat, the other being Rep. Angie Craig."At the Karmel Somali...
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President Donald Trump's behavior and appearance is increasingly subjected to scrutiny about whether the commander-in-chief is able to serve out the remainder of his second term. Now, one psychologist is worried that the president is rapidly declining in public.The Daily Beast reported Friday that psychologist Dr. John Gartner, who is a former...
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The Jeffrey Epstein files have become a significant liability for Donald Trump, prompting him to curtail domestic travel and raising Republican concerns about his impact on the 2026 midterm elections. Political analysts predict substantial Democratic gains, with one forecasting a 70 percent probability that Democrats will recapture the...
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Fox Business host and conservative journalist Charles Payne said Saturday that the monumental investments into artificial intelligence risk sparking a Great Depression-level global market crash, but that it was "worth it” to see the United States come out "on top” and "stay in control.”"The Second Industrial Revolution where America...
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An answer given by FBI Director Kash Patel to a Republican senator about who Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking teens and young women to, was resurrected and dismantled on MS NOW on Saturday morning.As part of a "The Weekend” segment on Donald Trump's Department of Justice, fill-in host Molly Jong-Fast asked the the producers to run a clip from...
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On Christmas of all days, Donald Trump chose to call Democrats "scum.” Not criminals. Not misguided. Not wrong. Scum. A word we usually reserve for things we scrape off the bottom of a shoe or skim off polluted water. A word whose entire purpose is to dehumanize.That moment matters far beyond the day's news cycle, and far beyond partisan...
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A proposed ballot measure in California that would increase taxes on its wealthiest residents has Pro-Trump billionaire Peter Thiel considering cutting ties with the Golden State, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) felt compelled to weigh in on the news with a sarcastic quip."Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years...
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Top Trump administration officials are dodging lawmakers' requests to testify before congressional committees, and in some cases, "not even” adhering to "legally required” requests according to one Democratic senator, The Washington Post reported Saturday."Many of these folks are required to come before Congress on a regular basis as a matter...
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Donald Trump's Truth Social outburst on Friday, where he flipped out over reports that there are one million more Jeffrey Epstein documents that the Department of Justice needs to review and release, is another example of the president's wild mood swings, making it difficult for the White House to take the focus off of him.That is according to...
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A growing number of Republican lawmakers are growing dissatisfied with the ever-increasing power of the executive branch under President Donald Trump and are hoping to reclaim some of Congress' authority starting next month, The Hill reported Saturday."I've been concerned for ten years about that,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the growing power...
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New Republic Associate Writer Edith Olmstead argues President Donald Trump's administration violated the Constitution while it was haunting the internet with holiday images invoking Christian nationalism."The Department of Homeland Security's tasteless holiday sh——posting may have just violated the United States Constitution,” Olmstead said,...
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You know how you've been listening to all the chatter about the expiring of the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies on Dec. 31 with about 25 percent of your attention? Well, it may be time to engage the other 75 percent.Brace yourself, because this thing really is about to happen, devastating a giant swath of Americans.It isn't just some...
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A tense exchange on CNN played out Friday night when podcast host Tezlyn Figaro accused Republicans of rigging the system whenever they face electoral trouble – prompting immediate pushback from conservative commentator Scott Jennings. The fireworks began during a discussion about the growing number of retirements on Capitol Hill when Figaro...
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Wer regiert die Welt – und was treibt sie an? In unserem regelmäßigen Machthaber-Spezial geht es um die mächtigsten und umstrittensten Politikerinnen und Politiker unserer Zeit. Wir zeigen, wie sie denken, entscheiden – und was das für uns bedeutet. Eine Politikerin oder Politiker, alle zwei Wochen, ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Macht....
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Former Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer is warning that President Donald Trump's aggressive use of clemency power has already produced dangerous consequences, particularly for defendants involved in the January 6 Capitol riot.In a guest essay for The New York Times, Oyer said that in the opening months of Trump's second term, the...
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Critics of President Donald Trump say he managed to slam the release of more Epstein files while simultaneously demanding his Department of Justice release even more files to embarrass Democrats."Now 1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found,” Trump complained in a Friday post to Truth Social. "DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this...
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A sitting Senate Republican in a red state has staggeringly low odds of even making it out of a primary next year, according to online traders.Polymarket traders believe MAGA Texas Attorney General Paxton is most likely to win the Republican primary over Sen. John Cornyn, with the most recent estimates putting Paxton at a 63% probability. Cornyn...
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President Donald Trump attacked the process of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein case files on Friday, claiming that they just suddenly "found" a million more documents and that it's all a hoax manufactured by Democrats.Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, however, pointed out on his "Justice Matters" YouTube show that Trump's own FBI director...
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Donald Trump is facing rare pressure from members of his own party who want the president to take a harder stance against Russian President Vladimir Putin as he prepares for an expected meeting Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a report from The New York Times. Three Republican senators – John Barrasso (R-WY),...
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President Donald Trump bragged this week that his endorsement caused sales to skyrocket on a book — but even the author of that book is calling this out as nonsense, The Daily Beast reported on Friday evening."Trump boasted at the White House Christmas reception earlier this month that he had boosted sales for Venom and Valor: A White House...
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President Donald Trump and his helpers are cheering prematurely over some good economic numbers that came out this month, according to Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik.On Dec. 18, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that inflation had fallen to an annual rate of 2.7 percent in November, down from 3 percent in September. Then, on...
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President Donald Trump's signature trade policy is wreaking havoc on the economy of one of the reddest states in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. In a Friday editorial, the Journal argued that the recent decision by the Jim Beam distillery to halt production at its Claremont, Kentucky facility for all of 2026 can be chalked up to...
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The president of the Kennedy Center's board is once again lashing out at critics of President Donald Trump – this time targeting a veteran jazz musician who abruptly canceled a Christmas Eve performance following the center's MAGA-style renaming to the "Trump-Kennedy Center.”Richard Grenell, a Trump ally who has led the board since February,...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has become a frequent target of President Donald Trump's ire, with the president repeatedly singling him out due to his role in advancing the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act. Now, Massie is cashing in on those attacks.Trump spent much of Christmas Day posting to his Truth Social platform, posting missives...
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Friday evening to rage against the latest release of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and claim the whole controversy is a fabrication by Democrats."Now 1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found. DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board complained Friday that America's whiskey industry is reeling from the consequences of President Donald Trump's tariff policies, as major distillers make dramatic moves to weather the economic storm. Jim Beam announced it would "pause distillation at our main distillery on the James B. Beam...
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President Donald Trump faced blunt criticism from an unlikely venue on Friday as a Fox News panelist warned that his political influence is rapidly deteriorating with key voting blocs – and may be beyond repair before the midterms.The bleak analysis for the president came as Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall pushed back forcefully during a...
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Outrage rippled through conservative social media circles Friday after New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced he would appoint Lillian Bonsignore as the next FDNY commissioner, a historic selection that will take effect when he assumes office on Jan. 1.Mamdani praised Bonsignore while announcing the appointment earlier this week, saying...
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A New York Republican-turned Democrat who once voted for President Donald Trump went scorched earth over the president's "total chain of lies" during a C-SPAN broadcast Friday of Washington Journal.A caller named Russell called into the program and said he was a 73-year-old former conservative who "stepped over the line" and voted for Trump in...
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President Donald Trump lashed out over the ongoing release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, calling the whole thing a Democratic hoax in a Truth Social post on Friday evening — despite the fact that he signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, and that every Republican in Congress except for one voted for it."The Dems...
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he believes there's a genuine opportunity to broker a peace deal this weekend between Russia and Ukraine, claiming both sides now want to negotiate, even as he acknowledged the persistent obstacle of competing interests."Well, I think we have a good shot at it," Trump told the New York Post on Friday afternoon,...
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Utah voters are coming forward to allege that Republican operatives are lying to trick people into signing a petition to put repeal of the state's anti-gerrymandering law on the ballot, reported The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday.It's the latest saga in a years-long war the Utah GOP has fought over Proposition 4, which was passed by voters in 2018....
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A white Afrikaner from South Africa who came to the United States expecting preferential refugee treatment from the Trump administration found himself blindsided when he ended up in handcuffs.President Donald Trump promised that white Afrikaners would receive preferential refugee status because he claimed they were victims of government...
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones insisted that he was now personally advising the White House and Vice President JD Vance.During a Friday broadcast, fringe conservative insider Patrick Byrne told Jones that a "fog has lifted" for President Donald Trump about the alleged rigging of the 2020 presidential election."I'm going to stop," Jones interrupted....
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A CNN panel on Friday argued that President Donald Trump's repeated references to Jeffrey Epstein over the Christmas holiday have spiraled into an obsession that is now hurting him with his own political base.Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during an appearance on CNN's "The Arena” that Trump helped create a "culture of conspiracy"...
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Donald Trump's much-hyped new battleship fleet, named after himself, "will never sail," a group of experts told CNBC in a new report, owing to the outdated design that will make them a "bomb magnet" in a real conflict.Earlier this week, the president unveiled a new "Trump-class" of US Navy battleships, which he touted as "some of the most lethal...
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President Donald Trump unveiled possible renovations to the former Kennedy Center, promising they would be "unlike anything ever done or seen before."In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump shared photos of what appeared to be marble slabs."Potential Marble armrests for the seating at The Trump Kennedy Center," the president's caption said. "Unlike...
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A scathing new analysis tore into President Donald Trump's self-description of himself as the "Peace President." Will Saletan of The Bulwark wrote Friday that Trump is a "pirate" whose real agenda is "obvious" — and it's anything but peace, highlighting that just this week, Trump detailed plans to take over Greenland and seize Venezuelan...
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Far-right Christian nationalists are feeling empowered during Donald Trump's second presidency. Idaho-based evangelical Christ Church, led by pastor Doug Wilson — who believes that women never should have been given the right to vote — is openly embraced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And Vice President JD Vance, speaking at Turning Point...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 28, is expecting her second child with her husband, Nick, who is 30 years her senior."My husband and I are thrilled to grow our family and can't wait to watch our son become a big brother," Leavitt told Fox News this week. "My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for the blessing of motherhood,...
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President Donald Trump's legal war on a Salvadoran immigrant was dealt a bitter blow on Friday, as a federal judge in Tennessee canceled the current date for his trial on human smuggling charges — and will instead hold a hearing on the legality of the prosecution.The order, by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, was first reported by NBC...
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A staffing crisis looms for nursing homes as the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration eliminates work authorization for immigrant employees who care for vulnerable seniors. At a Miami facility, more than a third of one facility's workforce — mostly immigrants from Haiti — have already lost their jobs, Notus reported Friday....
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An acting Pentagon staffer who has made numerous enemies within the Trump administration in his short time on the job is getting a permanent appointment, reported Politico on Friday.Ricky Buria, a retired colonel who has served as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's chief of staff temporarily for eight months, got the nod this month. Previously,...
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While he may have managed to score reelection last year with a popular vote lead, Donald Trump's "avalanche of outrages" over the course of 2025 have reaffirmed that he is "unfit for office," according to an extensive and scathing breakdown from the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer.As the board noted at the start of its new piece, it...
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A Homeland Security spokesperson erupted this week after attorney Victoria Slatton accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully arresting her client, who Slatton says is an American-born U.S. citizen.Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morale, a 22-year-old woman whose lawyer says was born in Maryland, was arrested last Sunday by ICE officers and held...
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A top immigration enforcement official for President Donald Trump's administration spent Christmas melting down in a lengthy social media rampage.Rather than celebrate the Christian holiday, a fuming Gregory Bovino, Trump's Border Patrol commander, opted instead to unleash dozens of posts over a 12-hour span, flooding X with posts fixated on...
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Part-time beauty salon owner and second generation Iranian immigrant Mora Namdar was sworn in Thursday as the Trump administration's new assistant secretary for the Bureau of Consular Affairs, a role that may see her terminate visas for migrants who have been critical of Israel, based on her past testimony before a Senate committee.Namdar served in...
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White House adviser Stephen Miller doesn't seem to be able to spend time with his family at Christmas without obsessing over deporting immigrants."Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids," Miller wrote in a post on Friday, the day after Christmas. "Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants...
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President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts to make Greenland a part of the United States are being met with ridicule — even from a high-ranking conservative member of Denmark's parliament.In a Thursday post to his official X account, Rasmus Jarlov (a member of Denmark's Conservative Party representing Greater Copenhagen) celebrated the news that...
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The loudest question in Washington right now is whether Donald Trump is going to invade Venezuela. The quieter, and far more dangerous, reality is this: he probably won't. Not because he cares about Venezuelan lives, but because he has found a strategy that is cheaper, less politically risky at home, and infinitely more devastating: economic...
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Two significant legal setbacks for Donald Trump's administration are likely to have substantial implications as the president enters 2026.According to former White House correspondent Brian Karem, the Trump administration's winning streak with the conservative Supreme Court ended abruptly when the court blocked the president's attempt to deploy the...
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The White House's redistricting strategy to secure Republican House control has backfired dramatically in California, leaving state conservatives despairing over the outcome.According to the New York Times, rural districts in Northern California face the prospect of losing all Republican House representation following the 2026 midterm elections....
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Israeli combat veteran Benjamin Anthony noted that several former Fox News hosts and other MAGA influencers have become defenders of white supremacists like Nick Fuentes.During a Friday interview on Newsmax, host John Huddy pointed out that anti-Semitic rhetoric was common at the recent Turning Point USA AmFest event."We need to recognize that the...
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Speculation in Washington has grown over whether President Donald Trump might pursue a military intervention in Venezuela. Analysts say that is unlikely — not because of humanitarian concerns, but because the administration appears to be relying on a strategy it views as less risky: intensified economic pressure.Venezuela has endured years of...
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Although Donald Trump's victory in the United States' 2024 presidential election was far from the "landslide" he claims it was — he defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in the national popular vote — the now-president showed his political resilience. Trump was facing four criminal indictments, one of which found a...
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Prominent journalist Wajahat Ali fired off at President Donald Trump Friday after video resurfaced of Paula White – the White House spiritual adviser – comparing Trump to God."To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God,” White can be heard saying in the resurfaced video, remarks she made on PBS NewsHour in late 2019, the day after...
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Donald Trump's Christmas day comments about Jeffrey Epstein aren't sitting well with a survivor of the deceased child sex abuser.Trump on the holy day for Christians wrote, "Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the...
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Donald Trump's frantic posting on Truth Social started on Christmas Eve and went into overdrive on Christmas Day, which raised concerns on MS NOW on Friday morning.As NBC News reported, "The president posted or reposted more than 100 times on his Truth Social website, in many cases amplifying messages disparaging perceived political foes.”Among...
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President Donald Trump launched into a social media frenzy Thursday on Christmas Day, but political analyst Jason Easley says Americans are tuning him out – and Trump "can't stand it.”Trump made well over 100 social media posts Thursday, including one lengthy rant against "losers” who were reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier...
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A man who voted for President Donald Trump explained that he had changed his mind because the current administration was "nothing but corruption."During Friday's edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, a man named Russel called in to explain why he had flipped on the president."I'm 73 years old," he noted. "I was a conservative when I was younger....
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United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's experience undercuts his excuse for not properly handling the release of the Epstein files, according to a former Watergate prosecutor Friday.Nick Akerman, a former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, appeared on CNN the...
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Legal expert Douglas Letter is sounding the alarm after the Trump administration's new push to allow what he called "weapons of war” to be freely carried on the streets of Washington, D.C."It's hard to think of anything that is more dangerous to the American people than assault weapons,” Letter said, speaking with Zeteo in its report this...
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David Brooks, the conservative columnist who is beloved by liberals, wrote last month that the Democrats make too much of the Epstein story. He said they're acting as conspiratorially as the Republicans.Brooks said he was "especially startled” to see leading progressives characterizing all elites as part of "the Epstein class.” If he were a...
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While growing up in a working-class town in New Jersey, my family took the morning and evening newspapers, the latter of which I dutifully delivered to the houses in my tangled neighborhood and along the two main thoroughfares that tucked us all in.When I'd get home from school, there'd be a mountain of bundled papers waiting for me on the curb....
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Donald Trump faces growing fury among farmers who, despite a promised bailout, fear they may face bankruptcy regardless of additional administration assistance.In interviews with the Washington Post, farmers express quiet frustration over tariffs that have devastated their operations. One farmer who voted for Trump three times acknowledged, "For...
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Following his first reported suicide attempt, convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein appeared to recover quickly and showed no visible distress during a subsequent prison interview, according to newly released files reviewed by the Washington Post.The documents detail Epstein's first suicide attempt on July 23, 2019, when he was discovered on his...
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Author and public speaker Steve Siebold made an explosive claim Thursday about President Donald Trump and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that a "smoking gun” may be buried in the history of beauty pageants once owned by Trump.Trump has been under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks amid the ongoing release of files related to Epstein, the...
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The staff at The Bulwark took inventory on predictions made as President Donald Trump muscled his way back into the White House last year. Some forecasts — such as Trump having the proper judgment to fire the worst of his bumbling staff — fell flat as Americans learned Trump's mental state was a lower bar than predicted.Others, however, panned...
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The official X account for the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee posted a Christmas Eve message declaring Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is "definitely a Republican.”The account for the committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) then proceeded to tick down a list of qualities that it deemed specific to the Republican brand, including...
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Donald Trump's first year in his second term is concluding with mounting setbacks that have prompted some former supporters to distance themselves from the president, no longer viewing him as politically invincible.In a post-Christmas column, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg documented a series of defeats Trump has sustained in...
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Explosive claims in an FBI tip about President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein gained new weight this week after a local newspaper uncovered death records consistent with details described in the tip.In 2020, the FBI received a tip from an individual who said they had driven a passenger who alleged she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump and...
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While growing up in a working-class town in New Jersey, my family took the morning and evening newspapers, the latter of which I dutifully delivered to the houses in my tangled neighborhood and along the two main thoroughfares that tucked us all in.When I'd get home from school, there'd be a mountain of bundled papers waiting for me on the curb....
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