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A local GOP candidate is bragging about her election victory this week despite running unopposed. The New York Post reported that Tiffany Henyard won her GOP primary race for a commissioner's seat in Fulton County, Georgia. However, as the Post noted, she ran unopposed. "Thank you, Fulton County! We did it," Henyard wrote on Facebook. "Support the...
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WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump's term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a rare split with the president over his new "anti-weaponization” fund.The administration dispatched Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to Capitol Hill to meet with...
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As Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and former health secretary Wes Streeting jostle for influence in the Labour party, host Sascha O’Sullivan looks at what it takes to turn around a party’s fortunes mid-term. Former John Major aide Daniel Finkelstein explains how the Conservative Prime Minister managed to win the 1992 elections against...
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Transcripts from the Department of Justice's prosecution of the "Broadview Six" anti-ICE protesters have left experts who read them shocked. The Broadview Six were a group of protesters federally charged after demonstrating outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Illinois in 2025.On Thursday, Judge April Perry,...
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An MS NOW panel on Thursday evening was floored by the meltdown of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as Trump alienated them with his "Anti-Weaponization Fund" and demanded politically toxic votes from them.Anchor Chris Hayes began by turning to Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez. "There's ... this sense, I mean, today it was, again, I say the...
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Texas Republicans are facing an unprecedented challenge this year — with new polling giving them a flashing warning sign about one of the state's most important demographics.According to Newsweek, "President Donald Trump's inroads with Latino voters, a voting bloc that historically leaned toward Democrats, helped carry him to victory in the 2024...
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Days after the U.S. Senate took a pivotal step that could end the war in Iran, Arizona veterans gathered at the state Capitol to urge Congressional Republicans to coalesce behind that effort.On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-47 to advance a War Powers Resolution that could block President Donald Trump from engaging in further military conflict...
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There's an ominous backdrop to this year's GLOBSEC forum in Prague as the war in Ukraine strays into the skies over NATO's Eastern flank. The last few weeks have seen an increasing number of drone incursions in the Baltics — Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — across EU airspace. And there are questions over America's commitment...
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A 57-year-old Republican lawmaker who has gone missing for 77 days broke his silence for the first time on Thursday. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who is running for re-election in a highly contested swing seat, confirmed he plans to continue in the race for a third term and vowed to soon disclose more information about his health and an illness. Since...
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President Donald Trump's latest apparent glitch astonished a political analyst on Thursday. David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, reacted to a video of Trump speaking with reporters ahead of his trip to give the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy. During the clip, Trump seemed to freeze up when a reporter tossed him...
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MAGA is having another meltdown over a Hollywood casting choice, this time concerning an adaptation of a classic cartoon. The latest meltdown is sparked by news that Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson will star as Betty Boop in a live-action film, according to reporting by the Daily Beast. MAGA accounts called it "race swapping,"...
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A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt a blow to the Department of Justice's efforts to collect sensitive voter roll information, according to reports. U.S. District Judge Lance Walker, a Trump appointee in Maine, ruled against a DOJ lawsuit demanding the state's voter rolls, according to reporting by All Rise News. "Comity between coequal...
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In what More Perfect Union described as a "new level of corruption” for the Trump administration, an investigation by the progressive news outlet revealed how members of the president's inner circle are cashing in on the Department of Homeland Security's purchase of warehouses for immigrant detention.It was reported earlier this year that under...
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) broke with a number of his Republican congressional colleagues to enthusiastically endorse President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out $1.776 billion to his allies who believe they were unfairly persecuted by the government — but when a reporter asked him about whether January 6 rioters would be...
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In a reversal of his past position and what critics are calling yet another betrayal of his "Make America Healthy Again” campaign pledge, US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his administration is loosening limits on so-called "super pollutant” hydrofluorocarbons used in air conditioners and refrigerators at the expense of the...
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Veteran journalist Dan Rather sees potential good that can come out of the GOP's "never-ending trainwreck" playing out before him. In his latest Substack piece, Rather wrote that infighting between Republicans and Trump will "be good for the country" if it manages to nix some of the president's more outrageous plans. Rather observed how Republicans...
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Angry demonstrators in Greenland converged on a newly-built U.S. consulate on Thursday to protest the activities of President Donald Trump's special envoy to the island, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.According to The Hill, "Hundreds of Greenlanders took to the streets Thursday to protest the opening of the U.S. Consulate, chanting that the Americans...
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President Donald Trump has hit rock bottom with several key voting blocs ahead of the 2026 midterm election, and it reveals "what could be to come," according to one political expert. Paul Rieckhoff, host of the "Independent Americans" podcast, told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" on Thursday that Trump is losing ground with independent voters —...
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The House GOP canceled a key upcoming vote on President Donald Trump's war in Iran to save the president from a staggering rebuke, according to reports. The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on a resolution on Trump's war powers this week, but a slew of Republican absences prompted the party to reconsider the move, Bloomberg reported....
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President Donald Trump's new taxpayer-funded "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out allies who claim to have been victims of "lawfare" horrified GOP pundit Erick Erickson, who tore into Trump on Thursday for losing focus on issues that matter — and trying to hold his majorities in November."You're not going to like it, but here's the harsh truth:...
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday defended his decision to commute the prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a day after the Colorado Democratic Party voted to censure him over the decision.Peters, an election denier and prominent ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted in 2024 for her role in a breach of her office's...
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As EU ministers gather in Brussels to debate the bloc's competitiveness, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has highlighted Europe's urgent need to protect its energy security, shield consumers and preserve industrial competitiveness. Separate from the conflict in the Middle East, the EU is on the cusp of knowingly exacerbating its...
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A political analyst was stunned on Thursday after one of President Donald Trump's federal fraud investigators refused to answer a reporter's question. Colin McDonald, an assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement, spoke at a press conference announcing criminal charges against 15 organizations in Minnesota that have allegedly...
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New York lawmakers want the Trump administration to know they're not scared as they doubled down on restrictions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a new report. "Tom Homan can shove it," Democratic New York state Sen. Andrew Gounardes told reporters in reference to Trump's border czar, according to reporting by...
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CNN anchor Kasie Hunt was stunned on Thursday as the Democratic Party's long-awaited report appeared to withhold a serious detail. In her opening, Hunt questioned the Democrats' autopsy of the 2024 election and what prompted President Donald Trump to win and defeat Vice President Kamala Harris, when she raised a revelation that hadn't been...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is continuing to campaign in the primary runoff after President Donald Trump dealt a crushing blow by endorsing his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — but his latest stunt is meeting a wave of ridicule."Stopped by @DairyQueen in Sealy, Texas, otherwise known as the 'Texas stop sign,' to sample some of their...
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Onlookers were outraged on Thursday after one of President Donald Trump's top aides made some remarkable claims about the president's fund to pay allies. This week, the Trump Department of Justice established a $1.776 billion fund that will compensate people who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted by the federal government. Trump allies like...
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A 57-year-old Republican lawmaker who has gone missing for 77 days broke his silence for the first time on Thursday. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who is running for re-election in a highly contested swing seat, confirmed he plans to continue in the race for a third term and vowed to soon disclose more information about his health and an illness. Since...
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A former GOP senator predicted that a "great migration" will begin where Republicans start to move away from supporting Trump."This is kind of a perfect storm," former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said during a Thursday appearance on Meet the Press NOW. "It may be that you can point to it and say, 'This is when the great migration begins.'"The "perfect...
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) erupted at his own party Thursday after Republican leaders cut a backroom deal with Democrats that he says blocked GOP amendments to a sprawling $580 billion infrastructure bill."We got rolled by our own party and cut a deal with the Democrats. This is why we will be in the Minority," Burchett posted on X alongside a video...
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President Donald Trump has signaled plans for an "endgame in the Iran war," infuriating a key ally, according to a report from The Atlantic published Thursday.Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and contributor to The Atlantic, described how a Trump administration insider revealed that during a phone call on Wednesday with...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn't an accident.Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend, marking what may be the first time the Speaker has said no to Donald Trump.That's no small thing. Since taking the gavel in...
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A GOP congressman had a blunt assessment of why Trump's party will start pushing back against him more, especially on two major asks from the president.Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who will retire next year, admitted during a Thursday appearance on CNN that Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund "looks bad," considering "you have the president...
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The Trump administration this week created a $1.8 billion fund to dole out taxpayer dollars to the president's political allies, and declared that Mr. Trump is immunized from tax audits. Our chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak, explains how these legally questionable moves test the Constitution's limits on the president's power.
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After publicly freezing a historic Canada-U.S. defence forum earlier this week, senior Pentagon officials sharpened their criticism Thursday, accusing Ottawa of failing to produce a credible NATO spending plan and dragging out a politically charged review of the F-35 fighter purchase, further straining bilateral relations.
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President Donald Trump got a bit of good news for his plans to reshape Washington, D.C. on Thursday as a commission full of his own appointees voted to advance his so-called "victory arch" project, creating a new, Trump-envisioned monument at a key entrance to the nation's Capitol, right on the other side of the Potomac River from the Lincoln...
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Vice President JD Vance made demonstrably false and misleading claims about manufacturing job growth in speeches on Monday and Tuesday, according to a fact-check of his statements.On Monday in Missouri, Vance claimed the first quarter of 2026 saw "the biggest growth in manufacturing employment last quarter that we have seen in this country since...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused President Donald Trump of rigging the election against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — using the same "stolen election" language Trump deployed for years to dispute his own 2020 loss.Speaking with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on The Alex Jones Network on Thursday, Greene unloaded on Trump after...
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The Department of Homeland Security is warning that a prankster set up a fake tipline to expose people who are trying to report immigrants. Nashville-based comedian Ben Palmer set up a parody website where people could supposedly turn in immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to reporting by the Guardian. DHS, which is...
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Democratic political strategist James Carville said that now is the time for Democrats to launch an "aggressive party-switching operation" that could crack the solidly Republican South."I'm calling for a new Democratic Southern strategy," Carville said on the latest episode of his Politicon podcast. "Southern Democrats, particularly in places like...
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With President Donald Trump establishing a $1.776 billion compensation fund for people who have supposedly faced "weaponization" of federal law enforcement, MAGA allies are lining up and chomping at the bit to get a cut of the pie — but they're not the only ones.According to NBC News, Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and now a...
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Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal assistant, told the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that she was repeatedly raped and abused by the convicted sex offender — and handed lawmakers the names of three previously unknown alleged offenders.Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) announced the development after Kellen's...
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President Donald Trump's push to create a $1.8 billion fund that could compensate Capitol rioters has become deeply unpopular among lawmakers, with many showing signs that they plan to reject it altogether, a reporter told MS NOW on Thursday.Scott MacFarlane, chief Washington correspondent and anchor at MeidasTouch, told MS NOW anchor Chris Jansing...
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A Trump administration official refused to answer a reporter's question about President Donald Trump's pardons for fraudsters on Thursday.Colin McDonald, the assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement, spoke at a joint news conference for the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services at which he announced the...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) brought a dramatic visual aid to a congressional hearing Wednesday — two jars of brown, murky water — as she pressed a Trump EPA official over the administration's push to fast-track data center construction at the expense of clean drinking water.During a hearing of the Oversight and Investigations...
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A leading billionaire right-wing donor and tech evangelist raised eyebrows during a podcast appearance this week with a blunt explanation for why he believes artificial intelligence is superior to human workers.The past few months have seen a wave of tech industry layoffs that companies have acknowledged were driven wholly or in part by AI: From...
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The Productivity Commission was not asked to model how changes to capital gains tax would impact Australia's economy. Business groups say Treasurer Jim Chalmers must explain how the government concluded its tax changes would ultimately be a boon to productivity.
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The renewables project's chief executive, Dennis Barnes, received $323,000 in bonus pay on top of his $1.69 million salary last financial year, while four other senior executives received about $919,000 in "variable pay".
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The Senate will go on recess without voting on a reconciliation bill tied to the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion weaponization fund, according to reports on Thursday.PunchBowl News reporters Jake Sherman and Andrew Desiderio reported that Sen. John Thune (R-ND) told senators that the bill would be left unfinished while the lawmakers returned...
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A meeting between Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Senate Republicans Thursday went disastrously, according to reports. The meeting was held to discuss Trump's $1.7 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. People familiar with what happened behind closed doors called it a "s---show", according to a Semafor reporter.Mediaite noted that Republican...
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner made it crystal clear on Thursday that any Donald Trump ally — or any federal government agent — who attempts to interfere at polling locations in November will quickly be arrested and prosecuted.He then added that they will be facing state charges putting them beyond the reach of any possible Trump...
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A new theory has revealed that a cult was reportedly behind the sex secret allegations that led an ex-girlfriend of one of President Donald Trump's enemies to "kiss and tell," according to a report published Thursday.The Bulwark's Will Sommer wrote how Cynthia West — a candidate for the Okaloosa School Board race in Florida — was telling...
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President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday he might skip his oldest son's upcoming wedding — and social media had a field day.Asked by a reporter whether he planned to attend Don Jr.'s Memorial Day weekend nuptials with Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, Trump was less than enthusiastic."He'd like me to go, but it's gonna be just a small...
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More than $7,000 in cable TV subscriptions.An $11,000 golf cart.$1.5 million in renovations to office space in a swanky Phoenix high-rise.And another $1.7 million for Tasers.Those were among more than $200 million in expenses that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office billed to a class-action settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the...
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A self-proclaimed "MAHA Mom" unloaded on President Donald Trump for engineering the defeat of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).Zen Honeycutt, executive director of the grassroots group Moms Across America, warned the president on CNN's "The Situation Room" that she and others who are involved in the "Make America Healthy Again" would withhold their...
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The Republican Party has reached its nadir by standing by and letting Donald Trump oust incumbent GOP senators during the primaries and put in their place what a leading conservative columnist charitably called "sock puppets” who bring nothing to the table. In a blunt column on Thursday, longtime Washington Post columnist George Will didn't hold...
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Joy Behar unloaded on the Trump administration's $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund" on Thursday, comparing potential payouts to Jan. 6 rioters to compensating the Manson family for their crimes."This guy, the former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio — who directed the Proud Boys to assault the government — he received a 22-year sentence...
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) faced pushback during a contentious CNN interview over what critics have called President Donald Trump's massive slush fund.The MAGA lawmaker and Florida gubernatorial candidate appeared Thursday morning on "The Situation Room," where co-host Pamela Brown pressed him on details about the $1.776 billion taxpayer-paid...
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President Donald Trump said Thursday he might skip his eldest son's upcoming wedding — because the optics are a lose-lose no matter what he does.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump acknowledged that Donald Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson are set to wed this Memorial Day weekend in what is expected to be a destination ceremony...
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Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume warned that President Donald Trump's endorsement of Ken Paxton in the Texas Republican Senate runoff could hand an opportunity for Democrats to pick up a seat.Trump threw his support behind Paxton this week in the high-stakes runoff battle following the March primary, when both candidates failed to secure...
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This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Arizona's free newsletter here.A messy and longstanding feud between Maricopa...
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American consumers looking for relief from record prices for beef can thank Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for keeping them high by having a meltdown in the Oval Office.According to a report from Politico, the exorbitant cost of beef, along with gas prices, has become a central focus of the White House, which is grappling with voter...
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The founder of the Hillsong megachurch, Brian Houston, was attempting to respond to why pornography was posted on his X account, according to reports on Thursday.Houston — who once prayed over President Donald Trump in 2019 — shared an explicit video called "The Classic Pornostar Era 80/90/2000" around 2 a.m. Pacific time on May 12, The Daily...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon is predicting Republicans will lose the Senate in the 2026 midterms — and he's laying the blame squarely at the feet of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD)."The Senate, I think, is gone," Bannon said Thursday on his War Room program, rattling off a list of vulnerable Republican candidates he expects to fall....
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Friends,Trump's revenge tour continues.Republican congressman and Trump critic Thomas Massie lost Tuesday to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history (total cost was more than $32 million from combined campaign and super PAC spending).Massie lost by a 10-point margin after being outspent 2-to-1 for...
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Genug Lithium für 500.000 E-Auto-Batterien pro Jahr – das will Rock Tech Lithium künftig im brandenburgischen Guben aufbereiten. Die EU feiert das geplante Werk als strategisches Vorzeigeprojekt, Mercedes-Benz hat die Abnahmeverträge längst unterschrieben. Doch auf der Baustelle steht kein einziger Bagger. Joana Lehner spricht mit Mirco...
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A New York Times opinion writer warned Thursday that President Donald Trump's new $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" has created an unprecedented mechanism for federal money to flow to paramilitary groups loyal to the president.Noah Shachtman, a Times contributing opinion writer who covers government corruption, argued in a guest essay that the...
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While the Department of Justice, now under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, is dragging its feet on the Jeffrey Epstein files, an investigation in New Mexico about the activities at Epstein's property in Santa Fe is moving full steam ahead. According to a report from NPR, the property known as Zorro Ranch is the subject of two investigations...
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President Donald Trump's top immigration adviser, Tom Homan, is under fire from outgoing Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who is insisting Homan is soft on the president's signature agenda item.According to The Daily Beast, "Bovino's latest attack came in a Wednesday X post. It followed a vow made by Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, on the Scott...
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin unloaded a pointed critique of President Donald Trump on Thursday, arguing the president has failed to build public support for his legislative agenda and is alienating the very Republican senators he needs to end the filibuster.Speaking on Real America's Voice, Johnson was asked about Trump pressuring...
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CNN's Sara Sidner couldn't hide her surprise at President Donald Trump's instant impact on the Texas Senate runoff.The 79-year-old president shook up the Republican race by endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in next week's runoff election, and CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten examined polling data and the...
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CNN obtained the Democratic Party's long-private autopsy of the 2024 election on Thursday.CNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere told anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown how he had access to the report, saying the report was "not ready" but that over time, he had discovered more information and worked with DNC chair Ken Martin to release it. CNN...
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