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When foreign ministers meet in Brussels today, Israel and Russia will likely dominate the agenda. Today on the pod, Zoya and Nick discuss why the bloc might finally be able to move forward on sanctioning several Israeli individuals involved with settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Plus, the EU is looking to move forward on a...
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Es ist ein Lehrstück über Fehleinschätzungen im Kanzleramt. Der Bundesrat hat die geplante 1.000-Euro-Prämie knallhart scheitern lassen. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie die Koalition den Ernst der Lage verkennen konnte und warum die Abstimmung zwischen der A-Seite (SPD) und der B-Seite (Union) in einem kommunikativen Desaster endete. Hat die...
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The Washington Post's editorial board is warning Americans that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to dictate what hospitals can serve patients is a sign of dangers to come.In a blistering editorial published Sunday, the board accused Kennedy of "using the coercive power of government to substitute his judgment" for...
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Progressive podcaster Bryan Tyler Cohen is calling on Democratic governors in blue states to "wake the [expletive] up" and go on the offensive, warning that the GOP redistricting blitz could erase Democrats from the U.S. House for a generation.In a Sunday video posted to his "No Lie" YouTube channel, Cohen ran through the running tally of...
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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board is accusing the ethanol lobby of "extortion" after Congress handed it a sweetheart deal as "political compensation" for the damage caused by President Donald Trump's tariff blitz, and warning that American drivers will pay the price at the pump.In a scathing editorial published Sunday, the board described...
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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board is sounding the alarm ahead of President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, warning that Xi set a "Venus fly trap" for Trump on Taiwan that could upend decades of U.S. foreign policy.The board warned that Xi wants Trump to formally "oppose" Taiwanese...
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Author and journalist Anand Giridharadas identified Sunday what he called the single thing that has allowed the wealthy and powerful figures in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit to escape accountability for decades — and it's something most Americans have lost.Speaking on The Daily Beast podcast with host Joanna Coles, Giridharadas argued the so-called...
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A former senior White House official is spilling the tea on Stephen and Katie Miller, describing the union of Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff and his right-wing podcaster wife as less of a romance and more of a corporate transaction."It's more like a merger than a marriage," the former official told the Financial Times in a sprawling profile...
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A hotly contested Democratic primary in Nebraska's Omaha-area Second Congressional District is shaping up as one of the more unusual dilemmas of the 2026 midterms: the candidate best positioned to flip the seat could, under certain circumstances, inadvertently put the district's coveted electoral vote at risk in a future presidential race,...
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A Virginia church group's Sunday discussion turned into a raw debate over whether President Donald Trump deserves forgiveness — with one parishioner flatly declaring it isn't his job to grant it.About a dozen members of Annandale United Methodist Church gathered in a chapel beside the sanctuary to wrestle with faith, the U.S. war in Iran, and...
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Critics across the political spectrum erupted Sunday after the Trump administration's stunning move to clear a path for major tobacco companies to flood gas stations and convenience stores with flavored e-cigarettes — a policy shift that benefits some of President Donald Trump's most reliable donors.The Food and Drug Administration's Friday...
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President Donald Trump launched a second furious rant against Fox News on Sunday afternoon, hours after a first explosive Truth Social post attacking Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) for an interview the California Democrat gave on the network earlier in the day.In an evening post, Trump broadened his target beyond Khanna to include comedian Bill Maher, House...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at two of his own Supreme Court picks in a rambling Truth Social post this week, suggesting he should pack the nation's highest court after Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined the 6-3 majority that struck down his sweeping tariff agenda as unconstitutional."I 'Love' Justice Neil Gorsuch! He's a...
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A former top Food and Drug Administration tobacco regulator who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations unloaded on the Trump administration's stunning new policy opening the door to flavored e-cigarettes.In guidance issued Friday, as President Donald Trump reportedly signed off on a plan to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary,...
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Friends,When I was very young and frustrated about one thing or another, my mother reassured me that "everything works out in the end.”Her optimism used to drive me nuts. "When is the end?” I'd ask her. "Next week? Next year? After we die? In a century? What are we supposed to do in the meantime? Just wait?”My mother's words come back to me,...
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Right-wing voices erupted Sunday over a report that congressional Democrats had privately floated ousting Virginia's entire state Supreme Court, a long-shot idea that came up during a Saturday call with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) following Friday's ruling that voided the state's Democratic-drawn congressional map.The Virginia GOP...
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President Donald Trump exploded on Truth Social on Sunday after Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) appeared on Fox News to discuss redistricting, the Iran war and competition with China, with Trump calling the congressman a "sleazebag" and accusing him of trying to steal credit for the steel industry's revival.The apparent trigger was Khanna's comments about...
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President Donald Trump declared Iran's latest peace proposal "totally unacceptable" in a blistering Truth Social post on Sunday, signaling that negotiations to end the Iran war remain deeply deadlocked."I have just read the response from Iran's so-called 'Representatives,'" Trump wrote. "I don't like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!"Iran submitted its...
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A Democratic strategist's nightmare vision of an all-Republican governor's race has ballooned into a full-blown campaign to overhaul California's primary system.Steven Maviglio, a longtime Democratic consultant, filed a ballot initiative Friday to scrap California's 15-year-old "top-two" open primary, the system that lets the two highest finishers...
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Congressional Democrats are quietly kicking around a long-shot scheme to clear out Virginia's entire Supreme Court, which just torched their gerrymandered congressional map.During a private Saturday call that included Virginia's Democratic House delegation and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), lawmakers vented over Friday's ruling and...
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Artificial intelligence will be recruited to speed up assessments of housing and energy projects waiting for environmental approval, as the government races to build more homes and ward off a key frustration turning voters away from the major parties.
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Iran on Sunday with a menacing remark amid Washington and Tehran's ongoing, back-and-forth peace negotiations, and critics believe they've identified a potential reason for the president's latest outburst.The United States and Iran agreed to a ceasefire last month that remains ongoing, despite both sides having...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to demand federal agencies stop buying foreign-made products and rail against bureaucrats handing out waivers — but his all-caps tirade glossed over the awkward reality that American manufacturing has actually shed tens of thousands of jobs since he returned to office."ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES...
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Actor Randy Quaid posted a rambling message on social media that drew connections between his own legal battles and Michael Jackson's prosecution, while tagging FBI Director Kash Patel in an apparent call for federal intervention."My career was one film after another, sometimes two at once. I didn't have time to know Michael Jackson or his work...
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President Donald Trump launched into a lengthy tirade Sunday against Iran as its leaders continue to slow-walk peace negotiations with Washington as the U.S. war against Iran continues to sink Republicans' midterm election prospects."Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!),...
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Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy won last week's GOP primary and will face Democrat Amy Acton in November, but one political science expert warned Sunday that his close ties to President Donald Trump could sink his campaign amid the administration's growing unpopularity with voters."Retired professor of political science from...
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Fascism historian Federico Finchelstein publicly corrected Senator Mike Lee's characterization of fascism and Nazism, challenging the Utah Republican's claim that the two ideologies represent a form of socialism.Lee posted on social media: "Fascism and Nazism aren't the opposite of socialism, as the modern left would have you believe. They *are*...
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"Diphtheria Don" was what some were saying after Donald Trump responded to a question about vaccines in a sit-down interview.It starts when the interviewer asks Trump about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a proposed vaccine commission. Trump responds that babies are getting too many shots and then states, "I look at these beautiful little babies and they...
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Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville is raising urgent warnings about the New Hampshire Senate race, saying it demands far more attention than it's currently receiving."What I'm seeing in New Hampshire right now is keeping me up at night — and it should concern y'all too," Carville wrote in a campaign memo, emphasizing he rarely writes...
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Former Trump administration official and right-wing commentator Sebastian Gorka left onlookers baffled Sunday after offering a puzzling explanation as to why President Donald Trump failed to adhere to his own timeline for ending his war against Iran.Shortly after launching the U.S. attack on Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, Trump indicated that...
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Republican strategist Scott Jennings was issued a fierce rebuke Sunday after championing the GOP's recent gerrymandering blitz, remarks that one Democratic strategist characterized as dismissive to the "surgical attack” on Black voters spearheaded by the Trump administration.Last week, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that effectively...
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Stephen Miller's wife Katie was hit with intense criticism over the weekend after a "radical" Mother's Day comment.Katie Miller took to social media to write, "In honor of Mother's Day, a reminder that peak feminism is having babies. The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny." Along with that caption, she included a...
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Is anyone really prepared to put their head above the parapet to challenge Keir Starmer? After a disastrous set of election results, Labour backbencher Catherine West has launched a stalking-horse threat to force the prime minister out. But with rival camps in disarray and would-be successors staying silent, will the cabinet unite around a...
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A handful of Republican women lawmakers are leading the charge in Congress to expose allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against their colleagues – allegations, one Republican House representative claimed, that "everybody” knew about but remained silent."It's complete bulls---," one House Republican told Axios, speaking on the condition of...
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Iowa Republicans are engaged in a destructive internal battle that threatens to hand the governorship to Democrats in a state that has voted for GOP candidates decisively in recent elections.Five Republicans are competing for their party's nomination in the June 2 primary, but rather than uniting against Democratic state auditor Rob Sand, the top...
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The average cost for a gallon of gas in the United States hit $4.56 on Saturday amid President Donald Trump's ongoing war against Iran, and when pressed on the possibility of gas soon reaching $5, a top Trump official scrambled to dodge the question during an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press.”Citing a new report from Bloomberg, NBC's...
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Senator John Cornyn, a Republican trying to hang on to his seat in Texas, was hit with a wave of MAGA criticism after he reportedly shared a post from a group critical of the president.According to MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, Cornyn shared an image on social media featuring a Cornyn quote in which he calls his opponent in that race, Ken Paxton,...
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It's not confirmed by Hollywood, but MAGA is already freaking out about a rumor that Elliot Page might be cast as a legendary Greek hero.The rumor mill online has suggested actor Page, who transitioned from female to male several years ago, could potentially nab the Achilles role in an "Odyssey" film.Global Box Office reported, "THE ODYSSEY by...
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Social media erupted after some questionable images became visible during a recent unboxing video featuring a Trump administration ally, sparking widespread backlash and conspiracy theories.The artwork—a provocative photograph by renowned Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki depicting a Yakuza-tattooed couple—was displayed alongside a second...
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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) issued President Donald Trump a blistering warning Sunday over the GOP's new gerrymandering blitz, cautioning the president that his push for Republican-led states to redraw their congressional district maps could come back to haunt them, and as soon as this November.The conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued a landmark...
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A new Financial Times poll has delivered devastating news for Republicans, showing that President Donald Trump's economic policies and the Iran war are eroding voter confidence ahead of November's midterm elections.The nationwide poll, conducted by research firm Focaldata from May 1-5, found that nearly 58 percent of registered voters "strongly" or...
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A joke by SNL comedian Colin Jost fell flat with the audience this weekend, as he made light of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.SNL's Weekend Update, which includes quick newsy bits mixed with jokes from Jost and Michael Che, featured a joke from Jost about recent reports on a purported Epstein suicide note."Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note was...
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President Donald Trump has long championed what he calls "beautiful, clean coal,” and during his second term, has implemented policies designed to "reinvigorate” the waning industry, but one policy expert warned Sunday that those very policies are also causing miners to "get sick and die,” many of whom are among the president's strongest...
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For decades, many Democrats have suspected what's now being confirmed in plain English by a Trump insider. Ashley St. Clair — the 27-year-old former Turning Point USA brand ambassador and mother of one of Elon's 14 kids who built a million-follower platform on X and became one of MAGA's most visible young women — has spent the past few weeks...
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Jack Smith is reportedly sending a message to President Donald Trump: even as he faces the prospect of prosecution, he still possesses weaponizable information that could damage the president.Speaking at a private event at the Cosmos Club in Washington on April 20, Smith indicated his readiness to take on potential charges and signaled he could...
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President Donald Trump's Gold Card, a visa program for wealthy immigrants, has been so "legally dubious” that even First Lady Melania Trump's former lawyer is advising wealthy foreigners against pursuing it, The Washington Post reported Sunday."It would be unethical of me to retain them,” said immigration attorney Michael Wildes, who previously...
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A childhood neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein has published a searing account of growing up in the gated Sea Gate community in Brooklyn during the 1960s, revealing that she lived on the same street as the convicted sex trafficker and exploring what may have shaped his capacity for exploitation.Writer and poet Gabrielle Glancy discovered the connection...
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It happened in a college class in the late 1970s, or what I like to recall as The Stoned Age.Our math professor gave the students an option: write a term paper or – as an alternative – gather all the students in the class together (there were 26) and collectively make a billion chicken scratches on pieces of paper. If we could successfully pull...
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Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, unleashed a serious criticism of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his lack of response to a recent rodent-borne illness outbreak.Reiner shared his stern criticism of Kennedy in an X post on Saturday."RFK Jr has yet to address the hantavirus...
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Advocates for civil and constitutional rights were sounding the alarm on a Trump official's plan to combat groups deemed far-left extremists by the administration."A lot of people are very shocked by the language about left-wing extremists, anarchist extremists," said Chip Gibbons, the policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, in a Saturday...
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Political strategist James Carville is already writing off a GOP senator who wronged President Donald Trump and is now campaigning for reelection. "Magic Seldom happens this close to an election," Carville told The New York Post in a Saturday article while talking about Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Cassidy voted to convict Trump for inciting an...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) was mocked on Saturday for suggesting that 'so many people' had floated her name for Speaker of the House — and replace House Speaker Mike Johnson.The MAGA lawmaker posted on X that she was "honored" to be considered, though the internet quickly questioned why she made the comment."Truly, it is wonderful and I am...
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MAGA California Governor candidate and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco got into a clash on Saturday night when he was asked about his ties to the far-right Oath Keepers militia, with the GOP gubernatorial hopeful appearing visibly angry over the line of questioning. Bianco joined The Weekend: Primetime to discuss his past and current run for...
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President Donald Trump's obsession with chasing his vanity projects has revealed how he dismisses his loyal followers, an analyst reported. During an MS NOW panel discussion on Saturday, Bloomberg Opinion Senior Executive Editor Tim O'Brien described the golden statue, Trump library financing and the White House ballroom. He explained why Trump's...
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A MAGA candidate running to unseat one of President Donald Trump's biggest GOP foes made a social media faux pas, and the Internet ripped into him before he could get away with it."Now I know why woke Eddie won't debate me!" wrote Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) about his opponent, the Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein. "He uses AI to write all his social media...
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President Donald Trump apparently couldn't stand watching one of his main foes laughing and having a good time on national television. "Pathetic!!!" Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday, along with a video of former FBI Director James Comey chatting it up with late-night host Stephen Colbert. Comey walked Colbert, another Trump target, through...
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The Trump administration continued its illegal bombing of small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two and leaving one survivor in its third such strike in five days.US Southern Command announced the attack on social media, claiming that "intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking...
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Trump's "Minister of Tourism" was met with brutal ridicule when he announced his new social media account on X. Special Presidential Envoy Nick Adams, who was a former MAGA influencer before the administration hired him, joined X on Saturday with a post saying, "Honored to serve President Trump as the first-ever U.S. 'Minister of Tourism' —...
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Jeffrey Epstein allegedly covered the medical expenses for a close ally of President Donald Trump — Steve Bannon. Bannon, a prominent MAGA figure and former Trump strategist, apparently received financial help from the late financier and convicted child sex offender, according to a 2018 document in the Epstein files. Heather Ashley, host of the...
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A veteran State Department negotiator predicted that as the Trump administration struggles to find an off-ramp out of the Iran war, a ground invasion seems more likely."The administration is frustrated," David Miller told CNN on Saturday, saying that Trump will likely try "to go back to Project Freedom with some variation," referring to the...
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A major right-wing podcast host slammed the MAGA network where she used to have a show while weighing in on its brutal decline. The Daily Wire has become the kind of media outfit that its founders "claimed they were getting into the business to fight," far-right podcaster Candace Owens told The Washington Post in a Saturday article about her former...
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People were mocking President Donald Trump's bizarre attack on his longtime foe Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Saturday. Trump took to his Truth Social platform and posted an exaggerated illustration of Pritzker eating a smorgasbord, with a cheeseburger in one hand and a pizza slice in another, surrounded by a giant nacho plate, large milkshake,...
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New information was revealed on Saturday about how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to respond to the American passengers who have been stranded on a luxury cruise ship amid the hantavirus outbreak, according to reports.A CDC control crew was slated to meet with the 17 Americans who have been on board a cruise ship where the...
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A former Trump administration insider on Saturday signaled that a cabinet member facing a rash of controversies could be on his way out. Miles Taylor, who served as Homeland Security Chief of Staff in the first Trump administration and is now a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, told MS NOW anchor Alex Witt that FBI Director Kash Patel's...
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A recent series of "bizarre" moves by First Lady Melania Trump might not make sense to most, but a White House biographer explained that she's simply setting herself up for life post-Trump."This is the new Melania, and the new Melania is brand 'Melania,'" said veteran journalist Michael Wolff on Saturday while appearing on The Daily Beast podcast....
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has fueled speculation about whether he's planning to launch a 2028 presidential bid after he was seen DJing at a family wedding and entertaining reporters with rap lyrics, an analyst reported on Saturday. The Atlantic's Matt Viser described how Rubio's disposition and recent activities have raised questions over his...
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As the Trump administration tries to fall in the good graces of the first American Pope, an ex-GOP operative is shaking his head at the fact that he employs what he called one big 'anti-Catholic bigot' in particular. "Donald Trump is surrounded by anti-Catholic bigots," ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt said on his podcast on Saturday....
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First Baptist Church senior pastor Robert Jeffress, a strong ally of President Donald Trump, argued on Fox News Saturday that he believed Trump to have a better understanding of biblical teachings than Pope Leo XIV.Jeffress' claim comes amid Trump's ongoing feud with the head of the Catholic Church, prompted by Pope Leo's generic criticism of war....
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) took to the right-wing network Real America's Voice on Saturday to lob a series of unsubstantiated claims regarding COVID-19 vaccines, claims that left several onlookers taken aback.For "years,” Johnson – a close ally to President Donald Trump – has spread "conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the...
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A person was killed at Denver International Airport after trespassing onto a runway and being sucked into a Frontier Airlines jet engine Friday night — just hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on Fox News to promote a family road trip reality series he'd been secretly filming for seven months while running the Department of...
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A Virginia Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a voter-approved redistricting referendum has set a dangerous new precedent — and the Democrats whose voters were disenfranchised are barely putting up a fight, according to a scathing new analysis.Last month, Virginia voters approved a new congressional map that would have left Republicans with a...
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week on May 14, with the two nations expected to discuss ways of stabilizing U.S.-China relations, but as the summit draws closer, "the more urgently Washington” races to "freeze the Iran crisis,” lest Trump arrive with a "weakened” hand, journalist...
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President Donald Trump's war against Iran – along with the resulting blockade imposed by both Tehran and Washington – has sparked fear among experts that the supply of the world's "most-consumed chemical” may soon reach a "critical” shortage, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.That chemical is sulfuric acid, which is relied upon in...
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Sean Hannity and a former Marvel mogul are lobbying the president to hand Florida's term-limited governor one of the most powerful jobs in Washington.Some of Donald Trump's closest allies want him to tap Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the next attorney general — despite him being a bitter enemy during the run up to the last general election.Fox...
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By Christopher Niezrecki, Director of the Center for Energy Innovation, UMass Lowell; Ben Link, Deputy Director of the Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and Zoe Getman-Pickering, Program Director of the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind, UMass AmherstThe U.S. is in a bizarre...
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Donald Trump has a problem with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. For over 150 years, its French Second Empire granite has stood elegantly next to the White House. I've been in that building numerous times. To me and many others, it's an architectural marvel.But Trump looks at that historic stone and sees a flaw. He wants it painted white,...
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US President Donald Trump's Justice Department moved Thursday to settle a Biden-era antitrust lawsuit against the analytics firm Agri Stats, proposing an agreement that critics say would effectively give the stamp of federal approval to meat industry price-fixing schemes.The Justice Department—now headed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche,...
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In March 2025, President Donald Trump's administration made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act, the bedrock environmental law estimated to have prevented thousands of premature deaths. All they had to do...
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Despite the Justice Department (DOJ) being in a state of "turmoil” due to its aggressive push to prosecute James Comey, the former FBI director who's drawn President Donald Trump's ire, the agency is now "weighing whether to seek” a third indictment, The Washington Post reported Saturday.The DOJ first indicted Comey last year on charges related...
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Even as President Donald Trump's war with Iran and tariffs on foreign goods are hammering working-class Americans, a new report shows that members of the US elite have never had it better.As The Financial Times reported on Thursday, attendees at the annual Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills this week were living in "blissful ignorance”...
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Editors of newspapers like to say that they cover the newsworthy events "without fear or favor.” Sure. But how can they cover events without the requisite curiosity, without deeply feeling for the public's right to know, and without breaking through their "comfort zone”?Maybe you can help explain the following examples of editors and reporters...
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Late-night host Bill Maher took a sharp dig at President Donald Trump Friday night as he continues to face an onslaught of attacks from the president, a dig that suggested the language in Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note bore a striking resemblance to Trump's own writing style.While its authenticity was disputed by Epstein's own brother, the...
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