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A law expert warned on Wednesday that the Supreme Court's decisions this week — and its reluctance to conclusively resolve central constitutional issues — should concern Americans.Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman discussed the high court's major decisions and "blockbuster term" during a Substack video and conversation with Melissa Murray,...
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Following the sparse attendance at last week's Great American State Fair rally, Trump administration officials are privately concerned about low turnout at an event scheduled for the 4th of July.According to CNN, officials are worried no one will show up, despite President Donald Trump promoting it as the "most unforgettable birthday party any...
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Critics ridiculed President Donald Trump's first flight on a Qatari-gifted $400 million jet, calling it everything from "Air Fraud One" to a "Flying Bribery Palace."The president flew to North Dakota aboard the controversial Boeing 747 on Wednesday for the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.The plane — gifted by Qatar's...
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A former beauty queen says President Donald Trump asked her a disturbing question after an alleged sexual assault she says occurred decades ago, according to a new report. Former Miss Europe contestant Beatrice Keul, 55, told PunchUp on Wednesday that Trump — whom she accuses of sexually assaulting her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993 — proceeded to...
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Political analysts were aghast on Wednesday after a new report revealed FBI Director Kash Patel was embroiled in a new cryptocurrency scandal. NOTUS reported that Patel waited about six months to disclose a stake he had taken in a cryptocurrency company that is doing business with the Department of Justice. One watchdog said the move violated...
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Trump biographer Michael Wolff published a deep dive into Boris Epshteyn — the attorney and former Sinclair Broadcast Group political commentator who has emerged as one of Trump's biggest sycophants, and, despite his lack of an official title in the administration, the man who could shape the president's legal future.All of this comes as Wolff's...
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CNN correspondent Katelyn Polantz said that President Donald Trump's enemy, former CIA Director John Brennan, has filed a new lawsuit against the administration that could provoke Trump.Polantz reported that Brennan has sued to try to have investigative records into him preserved. She revealed more details about the lawsuit during a live segment...
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President Donald Trump's unusual decision to host a midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, this fall could have unexpected consequences for Republicans, a CNN analyst warned on Wednesday. Journalist Chuck Todd told CNN anchor Erica Hill that the event, hosted by the Republican National Committee on Sept. 9 and 10, has been touted as an attempt to...
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A defensive President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared American children owed him gratitude for his leadership.The commander-in-chief's typically rambling and grammatically ambiguous Truth Social post claimed credit for a new $250 million investment in Trump Accounts, the government-run savings accounts for kids that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praises...
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Discontent is brewing among right-wing college students who believe the Trump administration is not aggressive enough on immigration enforcement. The Atlantic's Charlie Sabgir spoke with young men who support the MAGA movement at academic institutions across the country. Overall, these men believe, "the future of American conservatism should be...
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The U.S. Navy was searching for a missing crew member after a helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea, CNN reported on Wednesday.Three of the four crew members were reportedly rescued, and searchers were trying to find one more person, according to CNN.U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet shared the following information...
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The Justice Department sued Virginia on Wednesday over its ban on the sale and purchase of high-capacity semiautomatic weapons, which took effect this week, arguing the law is unconstitutional and targets a political fiction. Filed in Richmond federal court, the lawsuit challenges SB749, which makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to import, sell,...
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Former CIA Director John Brennan's lawyers have moved preemptively against the Trump administration, filing a lawsuit in federal court that lays the groundwork to fight any future charges as an act of political retribution.The suit filed in Washington asks a judge to order President Donald Trump and top Justice Department officials to preserve all...
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A new Washington Post report says President Donald Trump's golf course redevelopment plan would destroy "Washington's oldest grove of cherry trees," the sole survivors of Japan's original 1910 gift to America.Photos from Trump's Sunday tour of East Potomac Golf Links showed plans far larger than the government had publicly admitted, the Post...
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Melania Trump issued a rare statement expressing support for the LGBTQIA+ community on Tuesday, sparking outrage among MAGA followers. The first lady shared her comments on X, following the Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia and Idaho prohibiting transgender girls from competing in female school sports. The decision was considered a setback...
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A boast by a Republican House lawmaker about his plans for July 4th left a former member of Donald Trump's first administration briefly speechless on MS NOW and conceding the MAGA Texan has never been known for being very smart.In an interview on the Capitol steps, Rep. Troy Nehls claimed, "Over the 4th, I'm going to get me a couple of big lobster...
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A Freedom 250 fan charged with lewd acts at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair is claiming his alleged conduct was constitutionally protected "patriotic expression."Gian Rachtelli, 54, a Baltimore-area MAGA livestreamer known as "Manny," was arrested June 25 at a Cirque Mechanics acrobatic show on the National Mall.Prosecutors...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's five-part reality-style video series, "The Great American Road Trip," has failed to premiere as promised, leaving its fate uncertain.The series, produced with Duffy's family, was pitched as a patriotic road trip celebrating America's 250th birthday, with footage teased in a trailer showing stops at the Liberty...
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FBI Director Kash Patel declined to comment Wednesday on the ongoing Nancy Guthrie case as a new Reuters report reveals that FBI sources say the ransom notes were fake.During a press conference in Washington, D.C., Patel refused to discuss the ongoing investigation and said "locals are still in the lead," Fox News reporter Matt Finn wrote on X....
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A sluggish elevator forced Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) into an awkward confrontation with a local TV reporter seeking answers about her gubernatorial campaign.The MAGA senator is the frontrunner in the Republican primary for Tennessee governor, but she's refusing to debate her GOP rivals and has refused to give interviews with reporters, so the...
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Fresh off the embarrassment of a sparse crowd at last week's Great American Start Fair rally on the National Mall, Trump has now trained his focus on July Fourth — an event he's hyped as the "most unforgettable birthday party any country has ever seen." But behind closed White House doors, officials are quietly freaking out that nobody will show...
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Department of Justice lawyers representing the Kennedy Center urged a federal appeals court on Tuesday to restore President Donald Trump's name to the institution, warning the removal jeopardizes "hundreds of millions" in gifts and pledges to a newly created entity called the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation. The foundation,...
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Two activists climbed the top of the Empire State Building in New York City to fly a banner message in an apparent marriage proposal, shocking CNN pundits live on-air Wednesday.The two people were wearing masks and held a banner saying "When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace."They set up a selfie stick at the top of...
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FBI Director Kash Patel waited six months to disclose a six-figure stock purchase in a company that does millions of dollars in business with his own Justice Department — a delay one watchdog said broke federal law, according to federal records reviewed by NOTUS.NOTUS reported that Patel bought between $100,001 and $250,000 in MicroStrategy stock...
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A North Carolina pickle company has pulled the plug on supporting President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair after a Confederate flag display ignited a firestorm, according to reports on Tuesday.Mt. Olive Pickle Company, a 100-year-old business from the Tar Heel State, ended its participation last week after the interactive exhibit at the...
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Vice President JD Vance attempted to make a joke at the expense of former President Joe Biden while speaking to troops at Virginia Beach — but the crowd was not amused.Vance was at Naval Air Station Oceana to commemorate 250 years of the American military when he made a comment about worrying about falling in public while walking down the steps...
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A CNBC anchor told a Republican megadonor that he sounded "pretty angry" Wednesday after he spiraled on live TV over government AI contracts.Palantir CEO Alex Karp, whose company pulls more than half its revenue from government contracts, launched into an extended on-air tirade defending Palantir's grip on federal AI work — at one point using ...
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White House staffers scrambled to scrub social media evidence of Donald Trump's humiliating turnout at his "Great American State Fair" opening after the president blew his top over aerial photos documenting the sparse crowd for the rally he headlined.According to CNN reporting, Trump was "infuriated" behind the scenes after witnessing visual proof...
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Budget, justice, sécurité, logement, agriculture, violences aux enfants… la liste des lois à examiner s'allonge à mesure que le temps imparti pour en débattre diminue. Les députés arrêteront leurs travaux le 28 février 2027, deux mois avant la présidentielle. Pourront-ils discuter de tout ? Combien d'élus pensent déjà à la suite ?...
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When Elon Musk descended on Washington with his Department of Government Efficiency, he burrowed into individual agencies, chasing headlines with mass firings and access to sensitive federal systems.It made for dramatic television, but journalist and author David Dayen published an analysis in The i Paper showing the more consequential power grab...
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The estranged brother of President Donald Trump's top aide, Natalie Harp, revealed why his sister has formed an "emotional bond" with the president, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.Preston Harp told The Beast that his 34-year-old sister "was distant from their late father and was always looking for a replacement.""The way my sister interacted...
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was hit with blowback for claiming that Chinese women were racing into the U.S. days before giving birth so their children would be American citizens.President Donald Trump's DHS chief appeared Wednesday morning on "Fox and Friends," where he made the baseless claims following a Supreme...
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Twenty-five Democratic-led states plus the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration over its new work requirements for people who get their health insurance through Medicaid.At issue is a "medically frail” designation that the states say is too narrow and will make it too difficult for ill and disabled people to remain on...
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Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) warned on Wednesday that Republicans were in a serious battle to stop "crazy people" from controlling the GOP — and the internet had plenty to say in response.During a live interview with Newsmax, Fine commented on Democrats and said he was concerned about the Republican Party."When these people surfaced decades ago, they...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) seemed to vanish for months, with his office refusing to give any details other than that he was recovering from a medical issue, and even leaving his own Republican colleagues in the dark.Finally, upon returning this week, he revealed the issue: he was struggling with an episode of severe depression that incapacitated him...
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Fox News host Dana Perino was left stunned after President Donald Trump's financial disclosure revealed nearly $1.4 billion in crypto earnings.The reaction came right after reporters grilled Trump on Tuesday about the filing in a press gaggle outside Air Force One.The 927-page document, released by the Office of Government Ethics, showed Trump...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is plotting her revenge against the Republican Party that abandoned her after she clashed with Donald Trump — and her weapon could prove devastating to GOP electoral prospects.Appearing on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" Tuesday, Greene revealed she is actively considering launching a third political party...
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Die AfD rüstet sich für ihren Bundesparteitag am Wochenende, der von massiven Protesten und bis zu 50.000 erwarteten Gegendemonstranten begleitet wird. Die Doppelspitze aus Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla tritt zwar ohne Gegenkandidaten an, muss aber aufgrund interner Machtkämpfe in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Baden-Württemberg und Sachsen mit...
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CNN's John Berman immediately fact-checked a claim by President Donald Trump about his business dealings.The 80-year-old president was asked Wednesday morning, as he prepared to board a nearly $400 million luxury jet given to him by Qatar, about recent financial disclosures showing that he had raked in $2.2 billion since returning to office, and...
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The catastrophes at Trump's "Great American State Fair" on the Washington Mall keep multiplying. Now adding to the inventory of failures—sparse crowds, broken rides, canceled concerts, collapsing structures, and hostile weather—is the food.A Washington Post investigation found the culinary offerings included one that was deemed "virtually...
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Fox News commentator and right-wing talk radio host Mark Levin lashed out at the Supreme Court's decision upholding their century-old birthright citizenship precedent — but swiftly got called out by experts and observers for getting a basic fact about the decision incorrect.Levin, who declared the ruling "one of the dumbest decisions I've seen"...
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Sen. Mitch McConnell was "unconscious" at his Washington home when he was rushed to the hospital more than two weeks ago, according to EMS radio traffic circulating online, Punchbowl News reported.Just before 9 a.m. on June 14, a dispatcher sent an Advanced Life Support ambulance to the home of the former Senate GOP leader, according to the audio,...
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President Donald Trump admitted he is "profiting" when a reporter accused him of "profiting off the presidency."The exchange came after Trump's latest financial disclosure showed he earned more than $2.2 billion in 2025 — his first year back in office — including more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency income alone, NBC News reported."What...
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Discontent is brewing in right-wing circles on college campuses against the Trump administration — but it's not because they oppose his agenda.Rather, a large number of college Republicans think the president is simply not going far enough in his quest to purge the nation of immigrants.According to The Atlantic's Charlie Sabgir, when he...
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The language of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution could not be plainer when it comes to birthright citizenship. It says that if you were born or naturalized here, you're a citizen. Period. End of story.There is no debate.And yet, there was.This is settled law. To pretend otherwise is to play into the hands of this tyrannical...
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President Donald Trump's former White House lawyer said Tuesday that Trump's $1 billion crypto haul is part of "the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind."Ty Cobb, who served on Trump's White House legal team in 2017 and 2018, made the remarks on CNN's "OutFront" in response to Trump's newly released financial disclosure — a...
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Small towns across America wanted to throw a party for the nation's 250th birthday, but a new report found President Donald Trump's cost-cutters took away the money and funneled it toward his own beautification projects in Washington.NOTUS reported that when DOGE axed federal funding for state humanities councils last year, local libraries and...
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President Donald Trump called for Congress to help him overcome his Supreme Court loss by passing a law to limit birthright citizenship, but CNN's Elie Honig called that plan "delusional."Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined five other justices in voting against Trump's executive order, but he argued that the order had violated federal law but not the...
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Lawyers representing Donald Trump in his battle to keep his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts threw a new wrinkle at the court on Tuesday.According to a report from The Atlantic, Department of Justice lawyers representing the Kennedy Center on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to restore Donald Trump's name to the...
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President Donald Trump has set off a "frenzy" of bidding from convicted criminals seeking one of the 250 pardons he's dangling as part of the July 4 semiquincentennial celebrations.The Atlantic's Sarah Fitzpatrick reported this week with colleague Michael Scherer that the jockeying from individuals seeking clemency has been intense, and she told...
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President Donald Trump's simmering split with the MAHA movement burst into the open in a tense Oval Office meeting last week, according to a new Axios scoop, as a top farm lobbyist confronted the president over an executive order on pesticides.Axios reported that Trump met Thursday with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Agriculture Secretary...
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Republicans on Capitol Hill split Tuesday over how to respond after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship through his Day 1 executive order, The Hill reported.In a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly all...
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President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on the National Mall has turned into a Washington punchline, and a firsthand account in Slate found the 16-day celebration earned the ribbing. Slate writer Molly Olmstead visited expecting to find an overlooked upside but reported the opposite, calling the fair a flop marked by thin crowds and...
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President Donald Trump has helped clear a path for Democrats to retake control of the U.S. Senate, according to fresh polling data.A new New York Times/Siena poll across six Senate battleground states found an opening for Democrats to flip enough seats to regain the Senate majority, and the surveys found the 80-year-old president was largely to...
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President Donald Trump eulogized Victor Willis, the founding lead singer of the Village People and co-writer of disco anthems including "YMCA," "Macho Man" and "In the Navy," by boasting about his own popularity.The group's official Facebook page announced that Willis had passed away Monday at age 74 after a brief illness, and the 80-year-old...
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The Supreme Court ended its most recent term on Tuesday with an announcement that it has "agreed to hear a case that asks them to determine whether bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are constitutional,” wrote former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who then warned that the end of controversial rulings has not come to an end.As she noted on...
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President Donald Trump has held a series of private conversations with top military officials over whether to abandon diplomacy with Iran and resume full-scale military strikes, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.Some aides have described the option as "finishing the job," but for now, Trump has decided against it, telling...
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With the very real possibility that Paramount's pending $111 billion acquisition of CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery will be approved, CNN is about to witness the first major departure of its on-air talent.After Paramount took over CBS, the news division has been in a constant state of chaos under CBS News head Bari Weiss, which culminated...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers home for the July 4 recess two days early on Tuesday after members of his own party sank a key procedural vote, the second week running that Republican infighting has frozen the House floor.The chamber voted 198-224 to reject a rule that would have merged President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act with the...
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When Rep. Tom Kean went missing from Congress for nearly four months, the speculation ran wild. Where was he? Was he hiding something? Was his marriage in trouble? Had he done something to be ashamed of?Reporters camped outside his New Jersey home. A colleague said he hadn't heard from him. The mystery became a campaign issue in a swing district...
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Team Burnham have been properly triggered over the defence investment plan now they’ve found out £4.7bn of it is still to be funded. For the first time in the transition, they’re feeling furious. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy have news that the scale of the black hole is even bigger than that. Also - is […]
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Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), who has served in Congress for nearly 30 years, lost a heated primary race on Tuesday night to Melat Kiros, a lawyer and Democratic Socialist.The race was called by NBC News and Bloomberg's Decision Desk HQ, with Kiros taking home more than 49 percent of the vote.DeGette's loss is the latest in a series of high-profile...
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A panel of political analysts recoiled in disgust at MAGA attacks against a Supreme Court justice.CNN anchor Abby Phillip shared online comments about Amy Coney Barrett in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to block Trump's efforts to kill birthright citizenship."Amy Coney Barrett is the poster child for why we need to repeal the Nineteenth...
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Vice President JD Vance's most recent jab at the pope backfired as onlookers shot back at him.During an appearance on Fox News, Vance questioned decisions by the American Pope Leo, who has emerged as a vocal advocate for immigrants and directly challenged the Trump administration's sweeping immigration crackdowns."I don't see Pope Leo as an...
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