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Family First upper house MLC Sarah Game has not ruled out introducing another bill restricting late-term abortion access, after her proposed legislation to restrict abortion after 25 weeks failed in the lower house last night.
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A GOP senator is being torched online after he tried to reassure people that the Trump administration knows what it's doing.Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was asked during an appearance on Fox Business how he feels about Trump's embattled deal to end the Iran war."I trust President Trump. I trust Vice President Vance," Tuberville said. "We don't need...
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EU leaders arrive in Brussels for a summit dominated by two major debates: How far Europe should go in confronting China and how the bloc should shape its next long-term budget. Zoya Sheftalovich and Sarah Wheaton break down the tougher mood toward Beijing, the divisions among capitals and the battle over what Europe should spend […]
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A MAGA senator was walloped online after he parroted a head-spinning Trump defense of his dubious Iran deal.Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) was asked by CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday about Trump's deal to end the war with Iran."Are you okay with Iran having missiles?" Collins asked.Marshall responded, "I prefer that they not, but they have to...
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A former top MAGA White House aide warned that Trump is headed for "five-stage denialism" after his biggest flop yet.Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former White House communications director, made the prediction during an interview on The Daily Beast Podcast while talking about the recently announced Iran deal. "You've heard of five-stage clingers?...
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The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal raised questions about a key term included in the Memorandum of Understanding struck by President Donald Trump's administration and the Iranian regime over the weekend. On Sunday, Trump announced that he had agreed to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately and for 60 days...
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A recently leaked list of the members of a MAGA billionaire's secret society looks a lot like the Epstein files, one columnist warned.Wired published a list of more than 200 of the world's elite who are part of a secret society, Dialog, run by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. A list of events at a retreat for the group included sessions on "Navigating...
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President Donald Trump got his chosen candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins clinched the nomination last night — and he plans to go all in on supporting him.In the same post where the president trashed incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and came up with an obscene nickname for him, Trump vowed that he will be...
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President Donald Trump didn't just fail to accomplish all his objectives in Iran and damage the U.S. economy, former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller told MS NOW's Chris Hayes on Wednesday — he also left Israel in the lurch, after right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went all in on attaching himself to the U.S. president."Something...
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Elections attorney Marc Elias laid bare on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" the chilling reason why President Donald Trump is so desperate to put far-right partisan loyalist Bill Pulte in charge of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Specifically, he argued, it's all a bid to seize control of elections — something some other legal...
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The feud between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump Jr. is spilling into the public eye with a scathing response on X.Benjamin Domenech, the opinion editor for the conservative Daily Wire, quoted Cruz in a post on X that took aim at Trump's dubious Iran deal. The quote came from an interview between Cruz and Domenech published by The Daily...
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President Donald Trump's administration admitted to Congress that Iran was still directly involved in financing terrorist activity, at exactly the same time the president was planning to give them money, Punchbowl News reported on Wednesday.According to the report, the State Department "told Congress that Iran's oil exports are a primary revenue...
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President Donald Trump erupted in a profane outburst at the G7 Summit in France when asked to compare his Iran agreement with former President Barack Obama's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA. While sitting beside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Trump claimed Obama bribed Iran with $1.7 billion in cash flown on a Boeing 757,...
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The Trump administration is frantically looking for a way to clean up the murky green Reflecting Pool, according to a report by MeidasTouch News.According to an internal email obtained by MeidasTouch, the Trump administration has elevated the clean-up to a "regional and national priority" and is seeking volunteers to help save the Reflecting Pool...
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CNN host Erin Burnett threw President Donald Trump's previous criticisms of former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face on Wednesday, noting that Trump was now using the same talking points that he rebuked Obama for using. Trump has described Obama's Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as giving away...
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A weird, crude remark made by President Donald Trump while touting his Iran deal has people cringing and mocking him.Trump told reporters on Wednesday that "the press conference seems to have gone well. You shot your load, Steve, pretty much, right?"He was referring to a G7 press conference in France, but it was unclear who Steve was and what Trump...
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Legal experts pounded the Department of Justice as it faces a possible probe into its failed effort to bury evidence of misconduct.Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, and Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, weighed in on a court filing demanding a special counsel probe into DOJ's botched prosecution of the Broadview Six, a...
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Conservative former Naval War College professor and writer for The Atlantic, Tom Nichols, had a blunt assessment of President Donald Trump's pie-in-the-sky dreams for the Iran war, as the president goes all in on a deal to end it that makes Iran considerably stronger than before everything started and left many of his own supporters furious.MS...
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The widow of a flight test engineer killed in Monday's B-52 bomber crash at Edwards Air Force Base says her husband knew the aircraft was having problems in the days before the deadly flight.Monday's deadly plane crash in California killed all eight of its passengers, including Defense Department contractor Jeromy Smith, who flagged the B-52's...
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Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) won Georgia's Republican Senate primary Tuesday night with President Donald Trump's backing, defeating former football coach Derek Dooley (R-GA). Collins now faces Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in what experts predict will be one of the country's most contentious Senate races. However, Collins carries significant baggage. He faces...
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President Donald Trump floored onlookers on Wednesday after he dismissed a reporter's question about the bombing strike on an Iranian girls' school more than three months ago that left about 175 people dead, many of whom were children. Trump was asked during a press conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, whether he would hold...
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Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt unloaded on Vice President JD Vance in a YouTube video published this week, zeroing in on Vance's interview on "The View" and pinpointing a key moment when one co-host tore a hole in his lies."Here's Vance explaining that you don't understand the Epstein files," said Schmidt. In Vance's reckoning, he said,...
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A swing-state senator targeted by President Donald Trump was not impressed with the obscene nickname the president had come up with for him.Trump launched his new attack on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) following a closely watched Republican primary runoff on Tuesday night that saw his preferred challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, get the Republican nomination...
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Former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor warned President Donald Trump's preference for authoritarian leaders over democratic allies has evolved from a personal quirk into consequential national policy. In his op-ed for The i Paper, Taylor traced the pattern to Trump's 2018 G7 disruption in Canada — where he arrived...
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A national security expert flagged the impact of one of President Donald Trump's moves that effectively allowed a key U.S. spy tool to expire.During an appearance on CNN, Leon Panetta, the former CIA director under former President Barack Obama and White House chief of staff during the Clinton administration, expressed concern about the expiration...
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A MAGA billionaire gubernatorial candidate in Georgia was under fire on Wednesday after a recording surfaced with him reportedly "agreeing that women should have to 'prove' they were raped in order to qualify for an abortion," according to a report from The Daily Beast.Rick Jackson defeated Burt Jones — a candidate backed by President Donald...
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Fox News host Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran across a series of posts on X, with his sharpest break coming over the deal's soft treatment of Hezbollah."On top of this, we do the unthinkable," wrote Levin, a longtime Trump defender who has broken with the president over the agreement. "We...
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The Bulwark's editor Jonathan V. Last argues President Donald Trump's deteriorating relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could inadvertently boost Vice President JD Vance's 2028 presidential ambitions. A potential U.S. and Israel split could reshape the MAGA coalition, positioning Vance to appeal to both pro-war Republicans...
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The U.S. may have narrowly avoided a Constitutional crisis after insiders in the Trump administration temporarily thwarted a plan to suspend habeas corpus, but the risks don't end there, one legal expert warned on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and President Donald...
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Jackson Lahmeyer, a candidate in Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District Republican primary, endorsed by President Donald Trump, is reportedly planning to withdraw from the race following a texting scandal. NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman cited two sources confirming the candidate's withdrawal, but cautioned that he could change his mind. Lahmeyer, a...
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President Donald Trump's claim that wealthy donors will fund the White House ballroom continues to unravel, as reports unearth the real cost to taxpayers."Trump has been lying the whole time with full knowledge of the cost and the cost to taxpayers," political analyst Brian Tyler Cohen said, pointing to new reporting by The Washington Post.The Post...
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FBI Director Kash Patel's country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, has a new "government gig" planned in Belgium this summer, according to reports on Wednesday.Wilkins will perform the national anthem in Brussels for a "Freedom 250" party featuring a military flyover, thousands of VIP guests, troops and fireworks, reported The Swamp, one of The...
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The memorandum of understanding President Donald Trump brokered to negotiate an end to the Iran war is already being harshly panned by many on the right — and some are beginning to set up Vice President JD Vance to take the fall.This pivot was demonstrated clearly on Fox News Wednesday, as GOP personality Ben Shapiro unloaded on the vice...
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The internet was shocked on Wednesday after President Donald Trump appeared to reverse his stance on Iran having nuclear weapons — a key point he argued for launching the war.The president was boarding Air Force One and heading to Paris when he spoke about Iran's nuclear program. Trump had spent the last several days at the G7 Summit in...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to X on Wednesday with a nearly five-minute video dripping from start to finish with sarcastic praise for President Donald Trump's deal to end the war against Iran."I truly hope that the totally unnecessary Iran war, which is not a war, is truly over and peace is achieved," said Greene. "It's truly...
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says member nations must arrive at next month's summit with credible plans to meet the alliance's new five per cent defence spending benchmark. The demand intensifies pressure on Canada, which has faced sharp criticism from Pentagon officials over the absence of a detailed roadmap for future military spending.
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Georgia Republicans have decided to cancel a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to create more Republican seats, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's nationwide gerrymandering agenda.The plan was supposed to be debated at the special session that begins today, and would only have applied to elections starting in 2028....
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Republican senators reportedly ganged up on Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) at a closed-door Republican lunch Wednesday over his push to keep the Senate in session until a voter ID bill passes.Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA) led what one source described to Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio as a "pile-on" against the Utah Republican...
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President Donald Trump's order to halt the nomination process for director of national intelligence sent Republican lawmakers scrambling on Wednesday, according to CNN.Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) announced just an hour before Jay Clayton, Trump's pick for the job, was set to testify before the Senate confirmation hearing that it was being postponed...
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Former GOP operative Steve Schmidt warned the Trump administration's approval of Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will economically devastate California. In his podcast, The Warning, Schmidt suggests CEO David Ellison will relocate Paramount from California to Texas, crushing Los Angeles and the state economy...
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A new Alabama lawsuit seeks to knock U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville off the November ballot for governor, using his own words against him.The complaint, filed Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Brooke Lynn Dorgan and Justin Jude LeBlanc — two Alabama military veterans — invokes Alabama's quo warranto statutes, a legal mechanism used to...
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A Republican Senator whom President Donald Trump drove from office unloaded on his Iran deal on Tuesday, calling it the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican in the final months of his Senate term after losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, posted the broadside on X hours after the Trump...
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A mysterious new mark on President Donald Trump's hand has prompted questions about potential "undisclosed medical tests," The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.Trump's health has increasingly come into question following a rambling Iran agreement speech during the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, and after video footage on Tuesday showed him...
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Pauline Hanson's public excoriation of a Guardian journalist questioning her at the National Press Club yesterday is an "assault on the freedom of the press", the media union says, as Labor and Liberal MPs criticise the One Nation leader for getting personal with journalists.
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President Donald Trump's shifting relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be a boon for Vice President JD Vance's 2028 presidential ambitions, an analyst reported on Wednesday.Jonathan V. Last, editor of The Bulwark, explained that a split between America and Israel could redefine the MAGA coalition. Although Vance is in a...
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A candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump has withdrawn from his congressional race following a texting scandal with a woman who was not his wife.Jackson Lahmeyer, a Tulsa megachurch pastor and founder of Pastors for Trump, told people he plans to drop out of Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District Republican primary, NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman...
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Administration officials working with Vice President JD Vance have expanded their efforts to weed out fraud, moving on from Medicare to unemployment insurance in all fifty states.According to Wall Street Journal reporting, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling sent a letter to state governors warning the administration would use "every available...
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President Donald Trump canceled Jay Clayton's Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing via a Truth Social post Wednesday morning. But Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR) signaled Republicans will proceed regardless. Clayton was nominated to succeed Tulsi Gabbard after bipartisan pressure forced Trump to abandon Bill...
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A former Trump administration official is warning that the president's pattern of favoring authoritarian leaders over traditional democratic allies has hardened into something far more consequential than a personal quirk.Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, published an op-ed for The i Paper tracing the...
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President Donald Trump's plans for regime change at the Federal Reserve may not go according to his plan, one analyst warned on Wednesday. Trump waged a pressure campaign against former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during the president's second term because of Powell's reluctance to lower interest rates, as the U.S. economy continued to...
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The internet fired off stunned reactions on Wednesday as President Donald Trump gave a meandering speech after the G7 Summit in France.Trump spoke about the Iran agreement from Évian-les-Bains and talked for more than 40 minutes on a stage with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick standing behind him.Political...
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Fox News' Peter Doocy was interrupted Wednesday by President Donald Trump when pressing for answers on the tentative peace deal Washington reached with Tehran last weekend, a deal that has sparked outrage among the more hawkish wing of the Republican Party.Details of the deal, which is reportedly a 14-point memorandum of understanding, include an...
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A former close friend of a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump has confirmed that sex scandal allegations against the would-be congressman are "how I remember it."Matt Hilsabeck, a former police partner and business associate of Mark Lamb, the Trump-backed Republican running for Arizona's Fifth Congressional District on a platform of...
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President Donald Trump abandoned Jay Clayton's Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing Wednesday and announced Bill Pulte would remain as the agency's acting director.The President lacks the authority to cancel Senate meetings, according to NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent, Garrett Haake.The sudden reversal followed...
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Donald Trump's much-anticipated press conference to address his Iran peace deal didn't last long on MS NOW, with host Alicia Menendez cutting in as he discussed the war before taking questions, with the president sounding both hoarse and out of breath.Before taking questions, the president jumped from topic to topic about the attack on the Middle...
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One of President Donald Trump's nominees told senators that a magazine cover depicting a Jewish man with horns and a pitchfork was not antisemitic.Charlton Allen, nominated to be general counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, made the claim during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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Les uns disent qu'il ne décolle pas, les autres qu'il a un socle solide. Avec son meeting samedi au Parc floral, à Paris, le président des Républicains, candidat à la présidentielle, Bruno Retailleau espère faire taire les critiques et convaincre les siens qu'il peut desserrer l'étau entre celui qui représentera le Rassemblement national...
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"Real Housewives of New York City" cast members clashed after Sai De Silva called out Carole Radziwill for her connection to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, TMZ reported on Wednesday.Radziwill, who returned to the show after years off-camera, was reportedly questioned during filming by De Silva after her name was in the Epstein files,...
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I am one of 22 young Americans suing President Donald Trump. I didn't want to have to sue the president as a teenager, but he left us no other choice.We are students, ranchers, scientists-in-training, artists and athletes. We come from Montana, Oregon, Hawai'i, California and Florida, from different places and different backgrounds, but we share...
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The Trump administration accelerated its assault on the US Education Department on Tuesday by announcing that the agency's work defending civil rights and students with disabilities will be placed under the authority of other federal departments, a move that teachers, Democratic lawmakers, and advocacy organizations condemned as illegal and...
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The Supreme Court may decide whether the Trump administration can hold immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, detention indefinitely without bond hearings. Writing for Slate, Legal analyst Alexis Romero warned this could undermine due process across the entire court system. "We should all be worried."The case involves Carol...
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President Donald Trump orchestrated an uncomfortable moment by asking Rupert Murdoch to compare Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio while both men sat at the same dinner table.According to a passage obtained by Axios from the forthcoming book "Regime Change," by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the...
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Donald Trump's pride in getting an Iran deal done, despite accusations that it was a complete capitulation to Iran's leadership, led MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle to haul out the "Trump Always Chickens Out” (TACO) taunt.During a discussion of the deal with former diplomat Richard Haas and MS NOW's David Rohde, she asked the two experts what the US got...
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While the U.S. war against Iran may soon come to an end if the tentative deal agreed to on Sunday holds, President Donald Trump appears poised to launch another "unsuccessful war,” only this one targeting Americans, journalists Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng argued Wednesday in an analysis published in Zeteo.A Trump advisor told Zeteo that...
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The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple proteins for cheaper ground chicken and hot dogs as it faces higher food costs and surging demand."We have to adapt just like everybody else,” Executive Director Angela Gabel said about...
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As President Donald Trump's vanity projects collapse, the reality of his failures is reflected in his presidency, according to a columnist on Wednesday.Trump has attempted to remodel the White House and build a ballroom, slap his name on the Kennedy Center, and remodel the reflecting pool by spending millions to repaint it dark blue only for algae...
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Republican candidates this year face a difficult dilemma for which there is no easy solution: They can't tell voters the truth and still win.Take Kurt Alme, Montana's Republican U.S. Senate candidate. He is accomplished and respected, but he entered the race through a maneuver to avoid a primary and accepted Donald Trump's endorsement. That ties...
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President Donald Trump's biographer detailed the truth about the president's sex life, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.During a conversation on the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast on Tuesday night, author Michael Wolff described how Trump's Playboy life has long ended and he is now more isolated. And although the 80-year-old president is...
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President Donald Trump appeared to need Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's help to climb a single step at the G7 family photo Tuesday in Évian-les-Bains, France. The White House's own Rapid Response account posted the clip of Trump with world leaders before a cultural showcase. The 80-year-old President had gingerly descended Air Force One...
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Senate lawmakers voted to freeze Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless the Pentagon answers for an Iranian school bombing and Caribbean boat strikes, Politico reported.The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the measure last Wednesday as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2027, passing 18-9 in the...
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New York Times columnist Bret Stephens dropped the hammer on Donald Trump for "betraying” conservatives like himself who were encouraged that he took on Iran — only to capitulate when his war stalled out because he miscalculated the enemy.To make his point about the president's lack of courage, Stephens brought up the way the president avoided...
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) grilled President Donald Trump's budget office nominee, warning that his confirmation would enable "anti-American" policies.Slotkin zeroed in on Hal Duncan, Trump's pick for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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President Donald Trump canceled the hearing for his own nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, in a dead-of-morning Truth Social post on Wednesday — but at least some Senate Republicans are signaling they plan to go forward anyway.Clayton is nominated to succeed Tulsi Gabbard, who is resigning from office this month....
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) gave a remarkably blunt assessment of the intra-party chaos sparked by President Donald Trump's "bombshell” he dropped early Wednesday morning - that he would be "cancelling” a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing – and shrugged his shoulders when asked to speculate on Trump's reasoning.At around 4 a.m. Washington...
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Das Foto und ein kurzer Videoclip von CDU-Fraktionschef Guido Heuer und AfD-Spitzenkandidat Ulrich Siegmund in Sachsen-Anhalt sorgt weiter für Diskussionen um die Brandmauer. Während die AfD-Spitze im Hintergrund auf eine Spaltung der CDU oder ein Bündnis mit dem BSW für eine künftige Regierungsübernahme hofft, gibt sich die Alternative nach...
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President Donald Trump startled onlookers with a profane outburst when he was asked about former President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran.The 80-year-old Trump has been fixated on proving the agreement to end his war in Iran is stronger than the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – which he withdrew from in May 2018, during...
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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance is sounding the alarm that the right of women to vote, long treated as untouchable, could erode along the country's current political path, after watching conservative women publicly declare they would happily surrender it.In her Civil Discourse newsletter, Vance pointed to a recent Turning Point USA Women's...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who lost his re-election bid after President Donald Trump endorsed his GOP primary opponent, confused onlookers Tuesday night after sharing an image online depicting a Senate GOP colleague sitting atop a throne made of human skulls."My favorite Senator [Susan] Collins (R-MA) picture,” Cornyn wrote Tuesday evening in a...
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