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President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.
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A Canadian military counter-intelligence operative, accused of passing sensitive information to a foreign entity, has been involved in a long-running internal battle where he was investigated by his unit and kept in the dark about the allegations against him, CBC News has learned.
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President Donald Trump is setting his sights on Washington, D.C.'s public golf courses, with a particular focus on East Potomac Golf Links – situated on a prime stretch of riverfront real estate – according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal report.The push grew out of an unusual logistical problem: what to do with the dirt generated by...
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President Donald Trump's administration has just one more week under a statutory deadline to release all remaining evidence about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. And Democrats may be using Friday's release of new photos of Trump and Epstein as a way of sending a message to the administration.That's according to criminal defense attorney...
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A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to return files that had been illegally seized from former FBI Director James Comey's ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman, All Rise News' Adam Klasfeld reported. The files were taken as part of the criminal indictment against Comey for false statements and obstruction, which has now been...
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Top Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill came together this week to praise a prominent law firm and government watchdog group – even as the firm remains locked in a bitter legal fight with President Donald Trump's administration.According to a new report in Politico, lawmakers from both parties attended a bipartisan event celebrating the...
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Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels — who faced personal attacks from President Donald Trump for opposing a mid-year gerrymander giving Trump two more Republican districts — ended the week celebrating Trump's defeat in Indiana."My state's Senate, not often the subject of national attention, earned some on Thursday by declining to enroll Indiana...
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Bulwark editor Jonathan Last and former Republican and Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell say Republicans are wheeling President Donald Trump out early to visit Pennsylvania and other states to sell his economic policy because time is running out on his waning charisma."We need to talk about Trump's age … and what it means for the next three...
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Chaos is mounting inside the Department of Homeland Security as rising tensions over Trump's deportation agenda have sparked internal finger-pointing and threatened to derail top leadership, with officials even fearing their emails and messages are being monitored, according to a new NBC News exclusive.DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her top advisor,...
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A Border Patrol agent who allegedly threatened to shoot a bystander during an arrest in Chicago has been exposed for a history of extreme, racist and hate-filled online posts, reported The Daily Beast on Friday."Timothy Donohue, 38, was a member of lead commander Gregory Bovino's maurauding so-called 'Green Army' during 'Operation Midway Blitz' in...
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President Donald Trump has already discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning key aides and officials who could face criminal investigations under a future Democratic administration, according to a new report in Zeteo.Sources with knowledge of the discussions say the conversations have been sporadic and preliminary, and have included Trump, his...
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Federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) are increasingly opting to embarrass themselves in court rather than risk the wrath of the White House. That's according to a Friday article by the New York Times' Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer, who reported that the DOJ's recent string of public losses is seen as highly...
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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun drew the ire of the Wall Street Journal on Friday after threatening political payback against Republicans who torpedoed a Trump-backed plan to redraw congressional maps mid-decade."Political principle has been out of fashion, but it had a good day in Indiana on Thursday,” the Journal wrote in an editorial that praised...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth proclaimed President Donald Trump to be the true heir of former President Ronald Reagan while speaking at the Reagan Library this week — but the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board begged to differ."Most who invoke Ronald Reagan's name today, especially self-styled Republican hawks, are not much like...
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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been threatened with contempt proceedings by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) over the duo's failure to appear to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, issued the sternly worded threat on Friday ahead of...
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Residents of Lexington, Nebraska, are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would shut down operations early next year. MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington — the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, which Trump easily carried with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Meatpacking company Tyson employs 3,200 people in...
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President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter in the Oval Office on Friday after being pressed on what millions of Americans should expect as enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire – a change projected to raise premiums for roughly 24 million people.During an event honoring the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team – the famed...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security is issuing a new directive that will prohibit foreign nationals from self-submitting photographs for their legal paperwork, creating a new bureaucratic hurdle in an already difficult process.The announcement came on Friday from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office."Effective...
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CNN anchor Erin Burnett tapped her pen on her desk and took a brief pause on her show before reading about the contents of a new photo dump from House Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files: an image of Donald Trump-themed condoms.Burnett opened her show, "OutFront" on Friday, sharing that reporters received dozens of new photos from the Epstein...
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A Bulwark reporter is publicly sparring with the Republican National Committee – and he's taken the fight online after his story on RNC Chair Joe Gruters' dire midterm enraged GOP operatives.Journalist Andrew Egger reported that Gruters privately predicted a "pending, looming disaster” for Republicans next year, adding that the party faces...
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Billionaire Elon Musk had an ominous prediction about MAGA strategist Steve Bannon on Friday after a newly released batch of photos showed President Donald Trump's former senior aide with the late financier and convicted child offender Jeffrey Epstein. Musk responded to an X post from user Shadow of Ezra, suggesting that Bannon was apparently...
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President Donald Trump on Friday denied knowledge of newly released Jeffrey Epstein photos. Trump, who was in a number of the photos released by the House Oversight Committee, said he knows "nothing about it" after a reporter questioned him following an event honoring the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team with Congressional Gold Medals."I...
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President Donald Trump may have just suffered his "most significant blow yet," an analyst wrote Friday.When Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature rebuffed his redistricting scheme despite intense pressure from MAGA allies, the implications extended well beyond electoral calculations. The 31-19 vote represented a coordinated challenge to the...
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President Donald Trump has given a significant amount of attention during his second term to the construction of a massive ballroom at the White House, but now, per a report from NBC News, a new lawsuit might see the project "immediately halted."To make way for the ballroom, Trump directed that the entire East Wing of the White House, first built...
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A Democratic lawmaker on Friday revealed a shocking update about the new trove of "explicit and disturbing" images released by House Democrats on the Oversight Committee from the Jeffrey Epstein estate, including the revelation that some of the more than 90,000 images have "pictures of people engaged in sexual acts." Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA)...
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The GOP has struggled to unite around an alternative to the Democrats' health care bill to fix the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies, which they shot down in the Senate this week, as the deadline to prevent a spike in premiums rapidly approaches. But many Republican plans involve some variant of replacing the subsidies with direct cash to...
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For the first time this year, Republicans in the House of Representatives have released a health care bill.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has suggested that there will be a vote on the bill next week. The text was released late Friday afternoon.Read the contents of the bill here.
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President Donald Trump has reshuffled the pack of contenders for the next Federal Reserve chair, elevating two candidates he says are now at the top of his list – and they're both named Kevin.According to a new Wall Street Journal report, Trump is giving a fresh look at former Fed governor Kevin Warsh while continuing to hint that National...
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Newly leaked emails show Donald Trump's 2020 campaign repeatedly sent messages to Jeffrey Epstein's account — which, after Epstein's death, was addressed using the shocking nickname "Pedophiles.” The emails add to mounting evidence of Epstein's long-running fixation on Trump, including buying exposés, coordinating travel around him, and...
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An analyst on Friday warned that President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are showing signs of collapse. David Rothkopf, a foreign policy expert and columnist for The Daily Beast, wrote how the president's declining health, defecting Republicans, concerns over the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, the tanking economy, aggressive...
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Disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has gotten a sweetheart upgrade in prison in return for an interview with the Justice Department in which she distanced President Donald Trump from Epstein's crimes. But living it up in a luxury Texas prison camp likely isn't enough for her, Miami Herald...
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Lisandra Vazquez, an Atlanta-based comedian, has gone viral with her frequent parodies of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt — who sees the MAGA Republican as a caricature of herself and mocks her relentlessly with her videos on YouTube and TikTok. And Vazquez isn't the only one with that opinion of Leavitt.In a biting opinion column...
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A young voter and President Donald Trump fan ripped the president at a Christmas event in Louisiana this week. CNN interviewed several voters at a "Redneck Christmas Parade" on Thursday — where the outlet went two years ago and met hopeful supporters — but found they weren't as happy this time around with Trump. One young male voter, whose name...
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A legal expert tore into the latest effort by the Department of Homeland Security to attack Somali refugees, providing the data that shows their claims are completely false.The flareup began with a post on X by the official DHS account."[U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] is working to implement the most rigorous screening and vetting...
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Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan warns that Trump's once-loyal base is eroding in his second term. Plummeting poll numbers, vulgar attacks on perceived enemies, and public mood swings are pushing voters and congressional supporters away. Even high-profile allies like Marjorie Taylor Greene are distancing themselves, signaling cracks in...
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National Guard members have felt demoralized and that the mission has started to take a toll on them after the shooting last month in Washington, D.C., according to reports Friday. National security reporter Haley Britzky told CNN's Boris Sanchez that the troops have expressed concerns after the shooting that left National Guard soldier Sarah...
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Every man and woman who enlists in the United States Armed Forces raises their right hand and swears a solemn oath. It is a ritual of profound transformation, marking the passage from private citizen to guardian of the Republic. Yet buried within the cadence of those familiar words lies a paradox that has haunted battlefields from the Ardennes to...
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Indiana state Sen. Liz Brown (R) has resigned her leadership role as assistant majority floor leader after her Republican colleagues voted against new district maps.A day after Republicans in the Indiana Senate rejected President Donald Trump's redistricting demand, Brown said she was stepping down from the position. She will continue to serve as...
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Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday unveiled a new statewide fraud prevention program in the state's latest effort to crack down in the wake of the Feeding Our Future scandal — a scheme that siphoned away $250 million in taxpayer funds meant for hungry children.
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President Donald Trump continues to receive bad news about his support from voters, with a Friday report from Axios revealing some 2024 supporters in a key swing state now think "he's full of it" and have some familiar complaints about his leadership.North Carolina is a state Trump won in all three of his presidential races, and one that has only...
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President Donald Trump got a clear message from defiant members of his own party this week.After growing pressure from the president, GOP lawmakers twice on Thursday stood up against Trump and his administration, The Washington Post reported. Trump spent months trying to push members of his own party to redistrict in deep-red state Indiana — and...
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As the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence nears, President Donald Trump's escalating attacks on immigrants of color have made his administration the most globally racist, hostile administration for non-white immigrants in U.S. history, on top of its aggressively implemented racist policies in the U.S. and around the world.In the...
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President Donald Trump is headed toward a "real-time collapse,” according to one political commentator, following the Friday release of a new batch of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, two of them depicting Trump with what appeared to be young females, their faces redacted.Adam Mockler, a political commentator and contributor to...
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President Donald Trump's recent social media tirade shows he may be acknowledging falling support as polling indicates Hispanic and Black voters are abandoning him. Analysts on The New Republic's "Daily Blast” podcast called the post a "strange tirade,” noting it's one of the first times Trump has recognized real numbers reflecting his...
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones revealed that he was "insanely angry" following the release of new Jeffrey Epstein photos that included President Donald Trump."One of the things that sent me into a rage is that I knew exactly what they would do with Epstein," Jones said Friday after the photos were released. "I predicted what Trump and the CIA would...
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The lawyer representing jailed former Colorado elections clerk turned MAGA conspiracy activist Tina Peters suggested that Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO), as well as Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, could find themselves in prison soon.The attorney, Peter Ticktin, made this claim as part of a furious statement responding to Polis' refusal to...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) claimed the FBI arrested the wrong person in the Jan. 6 pipe bomb case.The Kentucky Republican and frequent foe of President Donald Trump claimed Friday afternoon on X that an FBI whistleblower approached him to claim that suspect Brian Cole Jr. couldn't possibly have planted pipe bombs in early 2021 at the headquarters...
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Donald Trump's own ranks unraveled again Friday as Julianne Murray, his acting U.S. attorney in Delaware, abruptly resigned and blamed a "flawed” Senate Blue Slip process for blocking her future in the role. Her exit stunned Trump allies, prompting attorney Alina Habba to sound the alarm that political pressure and partisan maneuvering are...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed paperwork on Friday seeking the ouster of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg before he can hold a contempt hearing aimed at Department of Homeland Security officials who ignored his legal directive on deportations.At the center of the dispute is Boasberg ordering DHS to halt deportation flights containing...
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Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was expected to get another round of embarrassment from Senate Democrats, according to reports Friday. President Donald Trump's former attorney and pick for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia has continued her role — despite calls for her to resign — while the Trump...
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President Donald Trump's push for Indiana Republican state lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional districts failed spectacularly on Thursday after the majority of GOP state senators rejected the proposal, leading Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to voice his disappointment on social media in a post that was resoundingly ridiculed for its...
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Leaked emails suggest Donald Trump offered to fund a 2006 Jeffrey Epstein-backed modeling venture — an offer that was described in the correspondence as "ridiculous and insulting.” The messages involve Epstein, his aide, and Elite Model Management co-founder Alain Kittler, and note Trump's possible stake and debts in the proposed company.Watch...
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President Donald Trump's handpicked chairman of the Republican National Committee predicted a dismal outcome for the GOP in next year's midterm elections.RNC chairman Joe Gruters tried to set expectations for 2026 as low as possible, according to The Bulwark's Andrew Egger, after Democrats overperformed in special elections across the country and...
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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned Friday that MAGA influencer Steve Bannon could be under fire next after a new batch of images showed Bannon with late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was also seen with filmmaker Woody Allen and President Donald Trump.Bannon, a former chief strategist and senior counselor to...
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The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division announced a lawsuit against a Georgia county, where President Donald Trump faced charges for election interference until recently.In a statement on Friday, the DOJ said it was suing Fulton County in Georgia, along with four states — Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada — for voting...
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President Donald Trump claimed credit Friday for brokering a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia while a frenzy grew over the newly released Jeffrey Epstein photos. House Democrats released a massive trove of photographs of Trump and other rich and high-profile people palling around with the late financier and sex offender. The president has...
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A decision by Democrats to release yet another batch of Jeffrey Epstein photos, this time including one of Donald Trump with his arms around six women who had their faces blacked out, was a calculated move to bait him, according to one conservative journalist.Appearing on MS NOW on Friday afternoon, David Drucker of The Dispatch suggested Democrats...
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President Donald Trump's top two FBI leaders have sparked concerns with their closed-door meetings with a high-ranking Ukrainian official.The secret meetings between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's top peace negotiator, Rustem Umerov, and FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have injected new uncertainty into talks to end...
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Donald Trump is considering an executive order to speed up federal marijuana reclassification, potentially moving it from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III, the Washington Post reported. The idea prompted resistance from House Speaker Mike Johnson, and no final decision has been made. Trump can only direct agencies to expedite the process,...
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CNN's Jeff Zeleny was visibly stunned on-air after host Jake Tapper broke news that Indiana Republicans had overwhelmingly rejected a Trump-backed push to redraw the state's election map ahead of the 2026 midterms. Despite holding a dominant 40–10 majority in the state Senate, 21 Republicans crossed over to join Democrats to kill the proposal —...
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A batch of new photos released Friday of late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with President Donald Trump, Woody Allen, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and Richard Branson prompted a series of reactions online. The images released Friday include Epstein with a number of political leaders, "Trump condoms" and sex toys. Only...
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