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Asia One News reporter Anas Mallick shared photos Saturday of the venue where U.S. and Iranian officials are negotiating a potential end to the war, and observers couldn't help but note its similarities to corporate marketing events."Why did they make the place where people are trying to stop World War III look like a crypto convention,” asked...
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced on Saturday that it's launched an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) after multiple women have accused the gubernatorial candidate of sexual misconduct, and in one instance, sexual assault, CNN reported."We urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our...
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U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, Montana's junior senator, made an emergency landing in a field near Ennis on Friday as the Madison County Sheriff's Office reports that he and another passenger were unharmed.The privately-operated plane made the emergency landing in a field near the town of Ennis in Montana's southwest area of the state. The Sheriff's Office...
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Texas House Democrats who staged a walkout in August over a new congressional map gerrymandered in favor of Republicans will be charged over $8,000 apiece in penalties, a GOP-led panel decided Friday.Democrats avoided the Capitol for two weeks in August to protest the new congressional map that Texas Republicans redrew, at the request of President...
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Veteran columnist Maureen Dowd unloaded on First Lady Melania Trump Saturday over her "mysterious” statement this week regarding Jeffrey Epstein, during which, the first lady called on Epstein survivors to be allowed to testify before Congress."The first lady called on Congress 'to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a...
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President Donald Trump had his second outburst of the day Saturday over the media's coverage of his administration's ongoing war against Iran, an outburst that comes as a U.S. delegation meets with Iranian officials in Pakistan to negotiate a potential end to the conflict."The Fake News Media is CRAZY, or just plain CORRUPT!” Trump wrote on his...
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Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling for a national May Day strike. It's a powerful idea, building off of a Minnesota day this past January where people didn't go to work or school, didn't shop, and didn't otherwise participate in...
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On the same day that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that inflation spiked at its fastest monthly rate in four years, the Trump administration unveiled renderings of President Donald Trump's proposed gold-covered 250-foot-tall arch to be built at Memorial Circle in Washington, DC.The renderings, which were produced by architecture firm...
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A U.S. Navy destroyer headed towards the Strait of Hormuz was issued an imminent threat by Iran on Saturday amid the fragile two-week ceasefire tentatively agreed to between Washington and Tehran, the Hindustan Times reported."Any US military vessel crossing the Hormuz Strait will be attacked within 30 minutes,” reads a warning directed at the...
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Palestinian-American academic Bishara Bahbah – the chair of a group once known as "Arab Americans for Trump” – hammered President Donald Trump on Saturday over the U.S. war against Iran, which he argued was launched at the behest of Israel."I believe that the president was played. Early on during the war, the president had admitted publicly...
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President Donald Trump praised "Allah” – the Arabic word for God – for the second time in recent weeks Saturday morning in a lengthy rant about the current state of the U.S. war against Iran, complaining about media coverage of the conflict and the United States' failure to achieve its stated war objectives."The Fake News Media has lost total...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Virginia Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger early morning Saturday after having attended a fundraising event at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, claiming to be "embarrassed” at the "destruction" of Virginia and other Democrat-led states."This went from a thriving and powerful place, one envied by all,...
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A long-serving U.S. attorney and chief federal prosecutor for the state of New Mexico was exposed Friday for their previously undisclosed ties with Jeffrey Epstein, ties that veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez suggested could explain why a prominent Epstein survivor's report about sexual abuse went unanswered.That former federal prosecutor...
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon baffled historians on Friday after highlighting civil rights icon Ida B. Wells in a social media post using an image created with generative artificial intelligence, an image experts decried as "historically inaccurate,” The Washington Post reported Saturday."The use of AI to pull together infographics about...
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In Pakistan beginnen offiziell die Gespräche zwischen den USA und dem Iran. Während Kanzler Friedrich Merz von einem „ersten Lichtblick" spricht, bleibt die Lage hochexplosiv. Hinter der fragilen Waffenruhe steht ein komplexes Machtgefüge: Kann die NATO die Straße von Hormuz sichern? Und welche Rolle spielt Israel, das seine Angriffe im...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Friday night forcefully denied allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, calling the claims that have rocked his gubernatorial campaign "absolutely false” in his first public response since the accusations surfaced."A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations, and I thought it was important...
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Science educator Bill Nye came out swinging at President Donald Trump on Friday, blasting his administration's proposed cuts to NASA as "surprising, illogical and very troubling” in a scathing new opinion piece.Writing for MSNOW in the wake of the historic return of the Artemis II crew – the first mission to the moon since 1972 – Nye argued...
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Vice President JD Vance is increasingly finding himself "walking on eggshells” around President Donald Trump as he takes on a central role in high-stakes negotiations to end the Iran conflict, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.The Journal reported Friday that Vance – long viewed as an anti-interventionist voice within the...
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An investigative journalist was in disbelief Friday as President Donald Trump's Medicare chief was caught using wildly inflated numbers to attack a Democratic state — then his own agency admitted the figures were bogus.A new analysis from investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler flagged that The Associated Press caught Mehmet Oz, head of the...
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Two recently released surveys revealed a significant drop in Americans' self-reported wellbeing as the Trump administration launches illegal and deadly military conflicts and plunges the global economy into chaos.On Friday, the University of Michigan issued its monthly Survey of Consumers, which showed that consumer sentiment in the US hit an...
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Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, urged President Donald Trump to undergo a medical evaluation following disturbing social media posts. Reiner cited Trump's week of threatening to destroy Iran's entire civilization, followed by posting a graphic video of a woman being beaten to death by a Haitian immigrant....
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President Donald Trump inadvertently made a damning admission about himself in his latest tirade against the far-right commentators who have turned against the MAGA movement over the Iran war, Greg Sargent wrote for The New Republic on Friday.Specifically, Trump took aim at Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist webcaster who has become increasingly...
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A war launched by President Donald Trump to weaken Iran may instead reshape his own political legacy – and hand a high-stakes dilemma to Vice President JD Vance, according to a new analysis in The Atlantic. In an opinion piece published Friday, foreign policy expert Karim Sadjadpour said while Trump "went to war intending to break Iran's...
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Friends,Trump gas — like Trump shoes, Trump cologne, the Trump Bible, Trump shoes, Trump NFTs, Trump crypto, Trump resorts, and Trump University — is turning out to be a ripoff.The average cost of gas tracked by the AAA was $4.17 a gallon yesterday. The station at the end of my street is selling it for over $5 now. If you drive a Mini-Cooper,...
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Former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg suggested Melania Trump's surprise address denying Epstein connections was an attempt to preempt damaging revelations. Speaking on MS NOW, Aronberg identified journalist Michael Wolff as the key figure linking Melania to Epstein through photographs with Trump, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell....
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One of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's main defenses of the U.S. decision to negotiate a controversial ceasefire with Iran is that its ballistic missile program has been "functionally destroyed."But that claim has now been shot down by U.S. intelligence assessments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday."Iran still has thousands of...
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Donald Trump launched his Iran war alone — and now, according to a scathing new analysis, every American is about to pay the price.Political analyst and former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt argued in a new Substack column Friday that Trump's decision to attack Iran will wallop the economy, and America got nothing in return for it."The...
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President Donald Trump said Friday he supported his wife speaking out about rumors linking her to Jeffrey Epstein – although he might not have handled it the same way and admitted: "I didn't recommend it.”The president said in an interview with the New York Times that he knew first lady Melania Trump had wanted to address the speculation for a...
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A suspect was arrested in San Francisco Friday after being accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, the CEO of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.The 20-year-old man was found at the OpenAI headquarters about three miles away from Altman's home, where he was threatening to burn down the building, San Francisco police...
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Political analyst Bernard Goldberg suggested Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may be the next administration official fired by President Donald Trump, following the recent dismissals of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Writing for the Hill, Goldberg suggests that, while Hegseth enthusiastically...
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Since reporting emerged on Friday that multiple women have accused Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of sexual misconduct, and one has accused him of assault while she was intoxicated, prominent figures who have endorsed his campaign for governor of California have bailed out one by one — and his own campaign has taken down its endorsements...
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The White House on Friday released new drawings of President Trump's proposed triumphal arch that will be located near Arlington National Cemetery. According to the drawings, the arch would stand 250 feet high, more than twice the height of the nearby Lincoln Memorial.
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An eye-popping detail buried in a new Bloomberg report may explain why the Justice Department keeps getting caught making errors in federal court: Pam Bondi told her lawyers to treat the president as their client — and now they're afraid to push back on anything.A February 2025 memo from Bondi directed DOJ attorneys to "vigorously" defend Trump's...
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives has moved toward "disciplinary proceedings" against GOP Rep. Travis Corcoran over social media posts he made that appeared to attack colleagues using language from the Holocaust.According to New Hampshire Public Radio, "At issue for Corcoran — who maintains a busy schedule of social media traffic — are...
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Layoffs continued Friday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the nation's premier arts institution prepares for a two-year shutdown tied to President Donald Trump's MAGA-fied overhaul – which included a rebrand as the "Trump-Kennedy Center.”Multiple people familiar with the cuts told the Washington Post that the...
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President Donald Trump unveiled his team's new plan for a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., to be constructed in honor of America's 250th anniversary later this year, on Friday.Many people on social media, however, reacted to the arch with anger.Some accused Trump of making the project more a monument to himself than to the country,...
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Tucker Carlson's independent media outlet suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be using blackmail to pressure President Donald Trump into continuing and escalating the Iran war. The newsletter drew parallels to alleged 1998 incidents when Netanyahu allegedly used recordings of former President Bill Clinton and Monica...
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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board poked a seething Donald Trump on Friday after he raged at the editors, essentially telling the president, "We told you so."After Trump melted down at the Journal on Thursday night for saying he declared "premature victory" in Iran, calling the board "one of the worst and most inaccurate editorial boards in...
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WASHINGTON — A top House Republican's attempt to revive questions about Jan. 6 security failures triggered a fiery backlash from Democrats, who called the effort "embarrassing” and accused the GOP of rewriting history.Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who chairs the new GOP Select Subcommittee on the Jan. 6 attack, suggested federal agencies had advance...
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President Donald Trump followed up his endorsement of Hungary's authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orban with a post to Truth Social on Friday."My Administration stands ready to use the full Economic Might of the United States to strengthen Hungary's Economy, as we have done for our Great Allies in the past, if Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the...
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Bryon Noem, husband of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, admitted things became "really bad at home" after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot dead by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Text and phone recordings obtained by The Daily Mail reveal a years-long relationship between Bryon Noem and...
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Donald Trump has been making a standing offer to his White House staff: behave aggressively, carry out his agenda, and don't worry about the consequences — because a pardon is coming, according to a new report.The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Trump has repeatedly promised top administration officials blanket pardons before he leaves...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor leveled serious criticism at fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his "Kavanaugh stops," Slate legal experts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern explained on Friday. The race-based detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection that Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court's...
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The gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is seeing a wave of resignations, in anticipation of a potentially ruinous story alleging sexual misconduct by the longtime congressman.According to Politico, "Members of senior leadership have departed the campaign, including Courtni Pugh, a strategic adviser who served as Swalwell's top...
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A 29-year-old Illinois man has been arrested after allegedly making graphic threats to kill Barron Trump, assassinate his father, and "hunt” Secret Service agents who tried to stop him, according to federal authorities. Prosecutors say Michael Kovko of Chicago sent a series of alarming messages through the White House's website last month,...
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Democratic lawmakers were starting to rethink their strategy going into the midterms and considering the idea of impeaching President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported on Friday. Democrats have long thought it would be more important to focus on affordability and the economy heading into the election cycle, but after Trump's threat this...
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President Donald Trump on Friday blasted former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, claiming his endorsement helped doom a Republican challenger in South Carolina's Senate race.In a post to his Truth Social followers, Trump reacted to news that Paul Dans – a conservative operative and former director of the controversial Project 2025 initiative – had...
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New York Times reporter and CNN contributor Lulu García-Navarro suggested that First Lady Melania Trump's Thursday statement denying connections to Jeffrey Epstein raised more questions than it answered. García-Navarro questioned the timing of the public statement, noting it made no political sense and appeared inconsistent with her typical...
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The White House is lashing out at Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) after he sent a letter to President Donald Trump's doctor demanding he submit to cognitive screening, according to MS NOW's Mychael Schnell."Lightweight Jamie Raskin is a stupid person's idea of a smart person," stated White House spokesperson Davis Ingle. "President Trump's sharpness,...
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Right-wing host Alex Jones clashed with longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone after the conspiracy theorist called for the 25th Amendment to be used to remove the president of the United States.In an interview on Friday, Jones spoke to Stone about President Donald Trump's decision to attack him in a Truth Social post over a disagreement about the war...
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The man accused of planting the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6 is arguing in court that President Donald Trump's blanket pardon of MAGA rioters applies to him — but federal prosecutors disagree.According to Meidas Touch's Scott MacFarlane, prosecutors made a filing on Friday seeking the...
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The chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party, Brian Schimming, is facing calls to resign after a disastrous performance in the latest state Supreme Court race.According to Politico, "Tuesday night's state Supreme Court race saw liberal judge Chris Taylor trounce conservative appeals court judge Maria Lazar by a margin of more than 20 points. The...
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President Donald Trump's attempt to remove Senator Bill Cassidy by endorsing Representative Julia Letlow in the Louisiana Senate race is failing, according to Politico. Per Politico reporting, Letlow is underwater on every metric despite Trump's backing, facing massive spending disadvantages against Cassidy on airwaves and competing against State...
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The Trump administration is considering enacting a policy that would automatically funnel seniors into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans—which critics say would set Medicare on the path to full-scale privatization.Chris Klomp, the Trump administration's director of Medicare and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) got a curse-filled chewing out by a staffer from the National Republican Senatorial Committee over his vote to convict President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 impeachment, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.This comes as Cassidy finds himself in dire trouble in the primary for his re-election, with two candidates, one of whom...
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Trump officials on Friday revealed the latest drawings for the proposed 250-foot triumphal arch inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, connecting at the Arlington Memorial Bridge near the Potomac River, according to reports. The Commission of Fine Arts, the federal design panel, received the renderings, The New York Times reported. President...
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President Donald Trump has officially submitted plans to dramatically alter a Washington, D.C., landmark, even though he is being sued over the potential changes.In a design proposal sent to the Trump-appointed members of the Commission of Fine Arts, the White House said it would have the Eisenhower Executive Office Building painted bright white....
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The Department of Homeland Security left onlookers baffled Friday after publishing a montage video featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents – often zooming in on their biceps – set to the love song "Diet Pepsi” by Addison Rae, and with the caption "ICE is HOT.”Shared on social media, the video also featured a link for Americans...
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MAGA conspiracy theorist Alex Jones announced his withdrawal from the Trump movement, calling President Donald Trump a "rotting husk" of his former self. Jones, who built his Infowars platform partly through unwavering Trump support during his first term and 2024 campaign, turned sharply critical after Trump attacked him and other MAGA figures for...
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Kacey Musgraves said she saw alleged UFOs following her plane during a flight, TMZ reported on Friday. The singer and songwriter described on Instagram stories how she saw light orbs that "just didn't look normal" during her trip from Fort Worth, Texas, to Nashville, Tennessee, with her manager Bobby. She also said the pilots on the flight...
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According to a report from Marc Caputo of Axios, DNI chief Tulsi Gabbard was slated to be fired along with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, but a long-time associate of both the embattled Gabbard and Trump interceded on her behalf.On Friday, Caputo reported that political gadfly Roger Stone spoke with the...
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First lady Melania Trump's bombshell denial of ties to Jeffrey Epstein made a major omission, political analysts reported on Friday. The Bulwark's William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift identified that it was what the first lady did not say — and who she did not name — that was most revealing. The move effectively threw her husband,...
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Donald Trump's endorsement of Steve Hilton for California governor may not be enough to secure the state GOP's formal backing at this weekend's San Diego convention — a potentially devastating blow that would expose the limits of his influence with party grassroots.According to a report from Politico's Playbook, Trump's support for Hilton is...
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A member of Donald Trump's administration should brace to lose their job, according to a political analyst. Trump has cleaned out his team in recent weeks, firing both Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi in quick succession. Whether a third major personnel change is made so soon after the two firings is...
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Representative Jeff Van Drew, a former Democrat-turned-Trump loyalist, faces unprecedented vulnerability in his previously safe New Jersey seat as President Donald Trump's approval ratings plummet. Republican leadership is alarmed that what was supposed to be secure territory could flip to Democrats. Van Drew's 2nd District voted for Trump by 13...
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Millions of women could face new challenges to voting under President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act, which would require voters to prove their citizenship before casting a ballot.The federal legislation would mandate that most Americans show a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. But people with names that don't match their birth...
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Author Michael Wolff argued that First Lady Melania Trump called on Congress to hold hearings on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because she "hates" her husband, President Donald Trump.In a video posted on Friday, Wolff reacted to the first lady's speech by noting that it "contradicts much of the evidence, known timeline, and much of what Epstein has...
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MS NOW's Jen Psaki blasted First lady Melania Trump for her "self-important way" of reigniting the Jeffrey Epstein saga by delivering a rare statement denying involvement with the former financier and convicted child abuser. Psaki explained how the timing of Melania's comments were unclear, especially since there is evidence of a social...
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Vice President JD Vance departed for Pakistan on Friday as part of an important assignment given to him by President Donald Trump: to "lead” the U.S. negotiations with Iran to convince them to re-open a critical trade waterway, an assignment that one foreign policy scholar warned could jeopardize his presidential ambitions.Vance departed to...
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President Donald Trump posted a lengthy post on Truth Social attacking immigrants, accompanied by graphic video footage of an alleged violent incident involving a Haitian man with Temporary Protected Status. Trump blamed Former President Joe Biden and Democrats for the death, calling the individual an "illegal alien criminal" and stating Temporary...
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The husband of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reportedly admitted things got "really bad at home" after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.Texts and phone call recordings obtained by The Daily Mail detailed sex worker Shy Sotomayor's years-long relationship with Bryon...
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Moments after Vice President JD Vance and a small team departed for Pakistan Friday to begin negotiations with Iran to bring about an end to the war, President Donald Trump targeted Iranian officials with a series of inflammatory remarks on social media, potentially blunting peace talks before they've even started."The Iranians don't seem to...
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A former White House doctor has told Donald Trump he desperately needs to seek medical attention after a Truth Social post. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who served as cardiologist to former Vice President Dick Cheney, took to X and urged Trump to receive an evaluation. Reiner wrote, "Earlier in the week the president threatened to kill an entire...
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