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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) torched what was left of her relationship with President Donald Trump on Thursday after new financial disclosures showed he personally pocketed $2.2 billion during his first year back in office, The New York Times reported Friday. "The Republican Party hijacked MAGA," Greene wrote on X, the Times...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) committed to block House floor proceedings unless House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) inserts the SAVE Act into a must-pass piece of legislation, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.Luna has pressed for the SAVE America Act – a bill that mandates voter ID and citizenship checks while adding new restrictions on mail-in...
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This column grimly spent a spring predicting a dark summer of possible chaos and violence, an administration on the move, power grabs at every turn, one preparing for an unpredictable but authoritarian fall season. We would endure a lot of hot weather, late nights, some dangerous dynamics, and Kalshi had odds at 40% that Portland would be ashes by...
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An ex-GOP operative flagged how Trump is killing what he once touted as his "best" deal at the expense of his supporters.During an episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller described Trump's plans concerning the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump negotiated and boasted about during his first term."The Trump administration decided...
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A CNN panel had a good laugh as a GOP pundit twisted himself in a "pretzel" defending the Trump family.While discussing recent revelations about how much money Trump and his family made since returning to office last year, conservative podcaster Ben Ferguson had everyone around him in stitches.Ferguson, the host of "The Ben Ferguson Show," argued...
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A MAGA congressman's attempt to defend his wing from accusations of racism backfired after online critics laid into him.Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) took to X with a post that featured a picture of him with a serious expression and one of his quotes pulled and in bold."The left has one debate tactic: call you a racist and pray you shut up," the quote...
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With England through to the knockout stages of the World Cup and hopes rising that football might finally be coming home, Westminster is watching nervously — and closely. The beautiful game shapes the national mood like little else. For politicians, that creates both huge opportunity and huge risk. This week, Patrick Baker speaks to football...
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The Department of Labor's latest economic report revealed concerning trends despite a declining unemployment rate of 4.2%. Job creation fell sharply to just 57,000 over three months, down from 129,000 in the previous report, according to the survey released Thursday morning. CNN senior business reporter David Goldman highlighted red flags in...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith stunned online viewers by revealing how he prepared for prosecution by the Trump administration.During an appearance on MS NOW, Smith spoke about hiring lawyers when he left his job as a federal prosecutor because he led two criminal investigations into Donald Trump, including for his efforts to overturn the 2020...
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Trump's plans for a massive fireworks display on July 4 triggered an emergency air pollution warning, according to a new report.According to MeidasTouch News, an emergency warning went out across Northern Virginia alerting the public about health impacts from Trump's upcoming fireworks show for the 250th anniversary of the United States.An...
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MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off "The Briefing" Thursday night with a rundown of the utter failure of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" on the National Mall — and highlighted one moment in particular she thought was incredibly bizarre."This was the scene on Tuesday, when there were actually more in the band on stage than there...
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A security expert warned about the impact of Trump's latest move to send hundreds of FBI analysts to Georgia.CNN law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller broke down Trump's decision to send 260 intelligence officials to Georgia to investigate the 2020 election results. Miller said the move is "very concerning," especially as Trump...
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro became defensive during a press conference Thursday when a reporter questioned the prosecutorial disparity in her office's handling of cases. While announcing a federal indictment against Olympic athlete David Hearn, who faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly touching detached paint on the Lincoln Memorial...
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An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that first lady Melania Trump has concocted a "preposterous" new way to try and silence him. Michael Wolff, co-host of the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, said during a new episode that Melania Trump's legal team has moved to...
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President Donald Trump's "rant" and the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on Wednesday sparked fresh health concerns for one political analyst. David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, said in a recent video that Trump's speech at the opening ceremony for the new presidential library raised all kinds of red flags. Not...
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Donald Trump Jr. has a stake in a company that stands to profit massively from a potential federal rule change by the Trump administration to allow guns to be sold entirely over the internet, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.The issue involves the company GrabAGun, an online firearms retailer that has billed itself as "the Amazon of Guns,"...
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European astronomers have appealed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC, to reject SpaceX's plan to launch 1.7 million satellites into orbit, warning the massive installation would have "devastating consequences for astronomy." The European Southern Observatory, or ESO, study found 100,000 is the maximum number of faint...
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A legal expert pulled apart the Trump administration's prosecution of a U.S. Olympian accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool.During an appearance on CNN, Ryan Goodman, a former Pentagon lawyer and the editor-in-chief of Just Security, said that the case, led by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, "smells really bad."Goodman blasted Pirro's claim that...
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President Donald Trump stunned his critics on Thursday with a remark he made about his kids during an interview on CNBC. Trump was asked by CNBC's Joe Kernen about allegations that his children are using insider information to gain favorable business deals. The president recently disclosed that he earned more than $2 billion during his second term,...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board is alarmed by President Donald Trump's hints he'll give F-35 fighter jets to the Turkish government — which, despite being a NATO ally on paper, has disconcerting ties to Russia.This comes after Trump recently said that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a notorious autocrat who has...
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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been indicted on 16 criminal charges by a grand jury in New Orleans.According to The Times-Picayune, jurors "handed up the indictment at New Orleans' criminal courthouse ... The attorney general faces eight felony counts of malfeasance and another eight felony counts of intimidation."The charges stem from...
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Vice President JD Vance inadvertently revealed sensitive strategic calculations by disclosing President Donald Trump instructed Iran peace negotiators to "use the [memorandum of understanding] to refill the world's oil economy, refill some stocks and then to see where the hand is." Writing for Salon, political analyst Heather Digby Parton...
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A legal expert shared a sobering warning on Thursday about President Donald Trump's continued efforts to dismantle birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court rebuffed his latest attempt. Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, told Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of "The Intersection" podcast, on a recent episode...
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James Carville confessed he's rethinking his most famous phrase because of a new threat posed by Trump.During an episode of Politics War Room, Carville revisited his 1992 quote, "It's the economy, stupid," which he coined during the Bill Clinton campaign to hammer home what issue mattered the most. However, Carville said he now regrets the phrase...
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Former three-time Olympic canoeist David Hearn faces felony charges after being arrested for allegedly touching a piece of partially detached paint from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hearn, 67, claims he was merely curious about the paint and had no intent to vandalize. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro was expected to hold a press conference...
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President Donald Trump tapped two prosecutors with experience in warrantless surveillance to go after protesters, a new report flagged.According to reporting by The Lever, the Trump Department of Justice hired two prosecutors with histories of using warrantless surveillance to helm a unit tasked with cracking down on "anti-Americanism."Prosecutors...
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A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's legal strategy for detaining longtime undocumented residents without bond hearings is "a complete fantasy."The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, 2-1, the release of three men who had been locked up without any hearing to contest their detention.The three — Ignacio...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith has been a constant target of fury and legal threats by President Donald Trump, dating back to even before the election, when the famed prosecutor was helming a pair of federal criminal cases against him.But Smith doesn't dwell much on the possibility that Trump's Justice Department will fabricate some charges...
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A former Republican operative warned that Trump not only lost the Iran war but set in motion a larger conflict.Steve Schmidt argued in an episode of The Warning podcast that Trump lost the war with Iran because he failed to achieve any of his aims. However, Schmidt added that the consequence will be more conflicts breaking out. "We should...
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The internet was stunned Thursday when a Trump administration official declared that World Cup visitors could have the "extraordinary" experience of sitting in a car and eating fast food while talking on the phone.NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker made the stunning statement about people enjoying the "real America" during a Fox News interview, The...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith outlined his fears and beliefs about the direction of the country in a far-reaching interview with MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace, exclusively aired Thursday on "Deadline: White House."Smith, who prosecuted the two federal cases against President Donald Trump, told Wallace that it is important this 4th of July "to...
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A stage panel plunged toward dancers rehearsing for President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 July 4th celebration on the National Mall, narrowly missing them.Video of the incident, posted to X at 3:18 PM Thursday by independent journalist Aaron Parnas, showed the panel falling from the arched stage structure as dozens of dancers performed below."The...
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President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, organized to celebrate America's 250th birthday, drew comparisons to the failed Fyre Festival due to poor attendance. During her conversation with "CNN News Central," Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Tia Mitchell shared her observations of Trump's festival. "I went out there this week to...
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A menswear expert gave a full breakdown on men's suit styles and commented on a Trump administration official's fashion, offering some tailoring advice.Derek Guy, writer and editor at Put This On, described his thoughts on why White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller's suit did not fit him correctly after the Trump official was seen...
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Newly obtained video reviewed by The Bulwark on Thursday showed a dramatic scene at a home in Venice, Florida, last month, where the niece and nephew of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn squared up to brawl with Liz Crokin, a far-right conspiracy theorist reporter who — much like Flynn himself — has...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department has become so dysfunctional that even Senate Republicans are fed up with the situation, MS NOW justice correspondent Ken Dilanian told anchor Katy Tur on Thursday.This comes as Trump's federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., announced, to great fanfare, charges against David Hearn, an Olympian the...
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Jeanine Pirro is taking heat for indicting a former Olympic canoeist on a felony charge for allegedly ripping pool sealant with his bare hands.David Carter Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Md., a three-time U.S. Olympian, was indicted Thursday on a felony destruction of property charge that carries up to 10 years in prison, according to the New York Times....
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The Justice Department, or DOJ, inadvertently released former special counsel Jack Smith's sealed Volume II report to lawyers defending Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a former Fort Pierce federal prosecutor charged with stealing the document. Volume II contains Smith's evidence regarding President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified...
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A prominent economist on Thursday warned that President Donald Trump's economy has raised some concerns.Justin Wolfers, an economics and public policy professor at the University of Michigan, responded to a new report from the Department of Labor, which indicated the United States has added fewer jobs in June — just 57,000 jobs that month."Each...
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro snapped at a reporter asking about Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol during a press conference Thursday announcing a federal indictment against a three-time Olympic athlete who was arrested last month after allegedly touching the detached paint of the $14 million renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. David Hearn, who...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department is getting involved with a spat in Alaska over two candidates with the same name.The Alaska U.S. Senate race features Dan S. Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, trying to fend off a well-funded and strong challenge from former Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola. The wrinkle is that one Dan J. Sullivan,...
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report Today, with economic reporters and observers noting its lackluster results. "A disappointing jobs report," wrote Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist Heather Long on X. According to the survey, both nonfarm payroll employment and unemployment rates barely changed. But the...
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Conservative commentator John Podhoretz called a pastor "actively evil" for expressing concerns about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's interracial family while the future of birthright citizenship was still uncertain.Right-wing pastor Joel Webbon posted the concerns on June 29 on X alongside a photo of Barrett's multiracial family, which...
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A leading political scientist revealed a chilling prediction Thursday suggesting that the Trump Department of Justice was close to reaching a deal with captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and contributing editor for The Atlantic, said that the deal was inching...
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The latest economic figures for President Donald Trump's economy raised all sorts of red flags for one analyst on Thursday. The Department of Labor reported that just 57,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy over the last three months, which is far below the 129,000 jobs that were cited in the last report. The unemployment rate also dropped to...
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New details were emerging Thursday about the former three-time Olympic athlete who was facing felony charges after he was arrested last month after allegedly touching the detached paint of the $14 million renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro was expected to hold a press conference about David Hearn, who was...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for urging residents to conserve energy during a dangerous East Coast heat wave, calling the request absurd. Mamdani addressed the extreme temperatures on X, "New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool." "Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off...
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An attendee at President Donald Trump's state fair event was forced to seek refuge from extreme heat by dunking herself in a baptismal pool.The entire Washington, D.C., metropolitan region is under extreme heat warning through the July 4 weekend with heat index values expected to be up to 112 degrees, and one MAGA fan told WTTG-TV that she took...
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European astronomers on Wednesday urged the US Federal Communications Commission to block a plan led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to launch a total of 1.7 million satellites into the Earth's orbit, warning that the use of so many extremely bright satellites—partially to support artificial intelligence data centers—would have "devastating...
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A high-ranking Trump administration attorney received a swift schooling Thursday when he took to social media to whine about a recent court ruling regarding ICE agents' ability to go masked. Rather than take a victory lap, James Percival, Seventh General Counsel for Homeland Security, lashed out at Philadelphia Democrats who challenged his...
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An offhand comment from Donald Trump to Vice President JD Vance may not have been meant for public consumption, according to political analyst Heather Digby Parton.In an unguarded moment this week, Vance disclosed that Trump told envoys tasked with negotiating a peace deal with Iran to "use the [memorandum of understanding] to refill the world's...
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Republicans yelped about socialism after Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to keep their thermostats set at 78 degrees to ease strain on the city's power grid during a brutal heat wave.The city is expecting numerous days of extreme temperatures through the holiday weekend, and Mamdani suggested that residents conserve power where possible to...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's post about President Donald Trump's new Air Force One backfired this week when critics zeroed in on its shelf of fake books.In a post on X, Leavitt shared a beaming photo of herself seated aboard the plane, a bookshelf looming behind her. The shelf surrounds a screen displaying the presidential seal....
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Former CIA Director John Brennan sued President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, or the DOJ, shocking one media correspondent. The lawsuit stemmed from the DOJ's investigation into Brennan for allegedly making false statements before Congress and for grand conspiracy. In a 46-page lawsuit filing, Brennan included language that caught the...
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MAGA loyalists were melting down Thursday after President Donald Trump's Social Security Administration announced a new design for babies born this year.The limited edition "Freedom 250" logo-themed cards will be issued for babies born between now and the end of the year, The Washington Post reported."Freedom 250 is the public-private initiative...
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A Republican congresswoman faced derision Thursday for urging Americans she identified as "communists" to move to Europe and suffer through a record-breaking heat wave.Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) cried out in alarm on Newsmax over a string of Democratic primary election wins this week by candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America....
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Le podcast Playbook Paris se délocalise au parc Jourdan des Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, où se bousculent les politiques et la plupart des candidats à la présidentielle — à l'exception notable des responsables du RN et de LFI. Malgré les sondages (et les échanges qui se multiplient entre les lepénistes et le patronat), ils...
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Republican Party lawmakers, fed up with taking the blame for President Donald Trump's failures, are launching pre-emptive strikes ahead of the upcoming midterm election, according to a new report.In interviews with NBC News, GOP senators and operatives unloaded on the president, saying he's already setting the stage to blame Republicans if the...
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Fox News was subjected to ridicule Thursday by critics who say the network inadvertently embarrassed President Donald Trump with its coverage of the virtually empty Great American State Fair. The Trump-friendly network provided real-time footage of the near-empty National Mall event, plagued by sweltering heat, severe storms, power outages,...
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First Lady Melania Trump's close adviser Marc Beckman was ripped online Thursday after praising her work during a live broadcast.Beckman, a longtime loyal aide to the first lady, spoke with Real America's Voice on Rumble about how her self-titled film and book "Melania" has fueled her energy to focus on children."This is the most active, the most...
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The Justice Department accidentally released former special counsel Jack Smith's sealed report on President Donald Trump to lawyers for the former prosecutor accused of stealing it.Volume II includes Jack Smith's evidence in his case to prove Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office — the report Trump has fought to keep secret....
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A septuagenarian lawmaker says he's too sick to vote in Congress unless fellow Republicans really need him, according to a new report.Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL) says he is not physically well enough to make it to the Capitol, a source inside his office told Punchbowl News. The 73-year-old lawmaker was diagnosed with a terminal illness and has not voted...
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Erstmals hat im Kanzleramt die neue KI-Taskforce der Bundesregierung getagt. Unter Federführung von Digitalminister Karsten Wildberger soll das Gremium endlich den Kompetenz-Wirrwarr der Ressorts beenden und alle Projekte koordinieren. Joana Lehner und Larissa Kögl ordnen die ambitionierten Pläne ein. Ein zentrales Thema der Taskforce ist der...
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A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt President Donald Trump a fresh blow in his crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal court order blocking the Trump administration from firing dozens of CIA staffers tasked with working on DEI projects, court records show."Prior failure to follow...
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An FBI supervisor scrambled to retract her praise for a departing Chicago agent after the bureau branded him disloyal to President Donald Trump, a move a former agent warned could cost her career.FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan accidentally forwarded the resignation email of Chicago Special Agent in Charge Douglas DePodesta to...
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Saddled by infighting, Donald Trump's demands and a GOP House speaker who can't get his caucus to agree on anything, Senate Republicans are looking at a long summer devoid of any legislation that could bolster their standing with voters in November.House leaders have lost control of their chamber with just eight legislative days left before a...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took the microphone to deliver a speech to National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. on Thursday — but struggled to make himself heard over a constant stream of shouting and boos from protesters.Blanche was there to give a speech to thank the guardsmen for their duties patrolling D.C. and working on President...
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was booed and disrupted by protesters while speaking to National Guard members in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.Miller was speaking with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Nordhaus at Meridian Hill Park, where they were hosting a...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was furious as demonstrators overpowered Trump administration officials speaking to a crowd of National Guard members on Thursday.Hegseth, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Steven Nordhaus were speaking to the group of about 200...
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There was more bad news for Donald Trump on Thursday morning as the new jobs report revealed dismal growth, leading MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle to raise a new red flag for the president's embattled administration.Appearing on "Morning Joe," Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, noted that only 57,000 new jobs were created — a far cry from the...
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Kevin Warsh has taken over as Federal Reserve chair with a strategy few of his predecessors would recognize – saying almost nothing about where interest rates are headed.But that silence has instead opened the door for his colleagues to fill the void, and their message is increasingly hawkish, reported Politico.In the past week alone, nearly a...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tried to mock New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for urging the public to conserve energy amid a dangerous heat wave cooking the East Coast — but there was one glaring thing he overlooked."New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool," wrote Mamdani on X. "Set your AC to 78 degrees,...
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The Fox Business team was greeted with bad news on Thursday as job numbers came in shockingly low."We came in underneath expectations," said Cheryl Casone. "We came in at 50,000 nonfarm jobs. The Street was looking for 110,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent, down from 4.3 percent, which it had been holding steady at for about three...
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A new polling analysis suggests Democrats' uphill battle to flip the four seats needed for Senate control may be more winnable than previously thought — thanks largely to a dramatic drop in President Donald Trump's popularity in the states that matter most.CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten examined six pivotal Senate battlegrounds — Alaska,...
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If President Donald Trump was hoping for a good jobs report to boost his party's spirits, he didn't get it.As the latest survey results came in, economic reporters and other observers were quick to note that, while not every figure in the report was bad, it was well below what Wall Street had been hoping for."A disappointing jobs report," wrote...
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House Democrats are alleging "massive Trump fraud" in a new probe that accuses the White House of staging a "hostile takeover" of America's 250th birthday celebration, according to one journalist.In a Thursday broadcast, investigative journalist Scott MacFarlane interviewed House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA),...
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President Donald Trump and his family have made unfathomable profits off their cryptocurrency ventures, Tim O'Brien wrote for Bloomberg Opinion on Thursday — and it is a new level of brazenness from a president who once made his real feelings about crypto tokens very clear."Trump is 80, and he has been working for the better part of 60 years,"...
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