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A panel of voters on Fox News suggested that Republican control of government and President Donald Trump were to blame for "very, very, very high" prices.During a Fox News segment on Monday, host Harris Faulkner asked the voter panel how they would approach the midterm elections. One independent said that she was frustrated and might not vote at...
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By announcing a new naval operation to provide security for vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump had "effectively” admitted that his naval blockade of the critical shipping waterway was a failure, Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas argued on Monday."The push to re-open the Strait of Hormuz today, with two US warships...
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On Sunday President Donald Trump stunned analysts with his Truth Social post about Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's hospitalization in Florida. According to reporting by The New York Times, Giuliani is listed in critical but stable condition. Rather than simply expressing concern, Trump blamed Democrats and the "Radical Left" for...
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The Trump administration is accelerating deployment of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet donated by Qatar for use as Air Force One, with the U.S. Air Force announcing the aircraft will be ready for presidential use this summer.That could cut the projected timelines nearly in half and raises fresh concerns about the arrangement's ethical and political...
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New data contradicts the Trump administration's arguments to justify a sharp rise in violence by federal officers against migrants in detention centers.Federal immigration authorities appear to be systematically undercounting injuries sustained by detainees during use-of-force incidents, according to internal records reviewed by the Washington Post...
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The Trump administration refuted a claim Monday that a U.S. warship transiting the Strait of Hormuz was forced to retreat after being struck by Iranian-launched missiles, a denial that several critics called into serious question."I suspect that a US Navy ship was, indeed, hit and the Pentagon is playing wordsmith because they are attempting to...
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According to DC insiders, the race to assume the MAGA crown from Donald Trump as the Republican Party's 2028 presidential nomination is a two-horse race between Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.However, as longtime GOP campaign strategist Rick Wilson wrote on Monday, there is a wild card in the mix who not only could use...
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As the United States' war against Iran continues to dominate news headlines, the Trump administration is simultaneously ramping up its attacks on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean, attacks that several legal scholars continue to call illegal."Many expected that the lawless strikes – which amount to killing suspected criminals without...
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Donald Trump flew off the handle on Monday morning, attacking Van Jones, claiming the CNN personality once came to him "crying like a baby” for help, and now has deemed him a "dictator.”Jones, who once famously praised Trump in his first term after the president honored the widow of a slain NAVY Seal during a joint session of Congress, telling...
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Democrats are feeling good about taking back control of JD Vance's old Senate seat in Ohio.The one-time swing state has leaned heavily Republican in recent elections, but Democrats believe thing might be different in November because President Donald Trump won't be on the ballot, and they sense voters have soured on his second term in the White...
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) faced backlash after he used the death of Nicole Brown Simpson to mock Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over the abrupt shutdown of Spirit Airlines.In a Monday post on X, Lee shared a photo of O.J. Simpson and Brown Simpson, suggesting that Warren killed Spirit Airlines in the same way that many people believe the former football...
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President Donald Trump's deepening unpopularity is dragging down Republican chances with crucial swing voters, according to CNN's Harry Enten.The 79-year-old president remains underwater in public opinion polling with most demographic groups, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that he's struggling with a key voter bloc that Republican congressional...
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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took to Fox News Monday to boast about reliability of U.S. aviation under his watch, claiming the United States to have the "safest skies in the world” – a poorly timed remark that coincided with a split screen showing video of a plane that struck a pole in New Jersey on Sunday."We have the safest skies in...
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By Andrew Caggiano, President, New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of PoliceThe stadium lights will be blinding; the crowds electric. And somewhere along the New Jersey Turnpike, in a hotel room booked under a fake name, a young person will be dreading a stranger's knock at the door.That is not a scare tactic. It is the reality that New Jersey...
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Comments made by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during two Sunday cable show interviews with regard to the prosecution of former James Comey likely delighted the former FBI director's lawyers.That is the opinion of former state attorney of Palm Beach County, Florida, Dave Aronberg, who was amused on "Morning Joe” that Blanche put himself in...
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U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes warned of "serious consequences" if the Trump administration failed to get her approval before renovating a Washington, D.C., golf course.In federal court on Monday, the D.C. Preservation League argued that President Donald Trump should not be allowed to take over the East Potomac Golf Links for renovations. For...
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With his newly announced Project Freedom – a naval operation commencing Monday to provide security for vessels traversing the Strait of Hormuz – President Donald Trump "made a public bet,” international security expert Robert Pape argued on Monday, one that has only two likely outcomes: a major military escalation or "humiliation in full view...
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Donald Trump Jr. was reminded that the White House was not his "dad's house" after he shared that he was having a "sleepover" with the commander-in-chief.On Monday, the president's son shared a video of himself exiting Marine One with luggage for a stay at the White House."Sleepover at dad's house," he wrote on X. "It never isn't surreal to be able...
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Concerns are growing among Senate Republicans that Mike Johnson "has lost control of his conference,” potentially making his leadership a major "liability” in the upcoming midterm elections, The Hill reported Monday."It's not like these things are hard,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), according to The Hill. "That's the thing. I feel like the...
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A former Republican congressman ridiculed President Donald Trump's attempt to keep up with Iran's propaganda campaign.Iran has concocted a series of Lego-themed propaganda videos mocking the 79-year-old U.S. president, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their military campaign, and former GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger told "CNN This...
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The author of a definitive examination of the Iranian Revolution is warning that Donald Trump's unprovoked war on Iran was not only a catastrophic strategic failure — it has also exposed America and its allies to a terrifying new vulnerability that terrorist groups and hostile regimes now know how to easily exploit.In a column for the New York...
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Early voting for the May 16 election began Saturday with confusion over whether all the races listed on the ballot are still taking place.Even motivated voters who showed up within the first few hours said they weren't quite sure whether the U.S. House elections were still happening."I went ahead and voted for who I wanted to vote for. If they...
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A retired Army colonel and former dean of the U.S. Army War College is calling for the removal of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing that his combative and factually questionable performance before congressional committees has raised serious doubts about his fitness to lead the Pentagon during a period of unprecedented global instability.In a...
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Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a long-time ally of President Donald Trump, has been hospitalized in Florida, where he remained in "critical but stable condition," a spokesperson told The New York Times on Sunday. "Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition," the...
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A deepening schism within Idaho's Republican Party has turned bitterly personal, with conservative hardliners and agricultural business leaders clashing over immigration policy in ways that are now directly costing their livelihoods.The conflict crystallized when Tom Zuiderveld lost 80 percent of his income after dairy clients refused to continue...
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On Monday, President Donald Trump's newly announced "Project Freedom” is expected to commence, a naval operation to "help free up” ships to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, but one person "close to the president” suggested that the operation could also serve as a tool to grant the United States "legitimacy” for military escalations against...
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Vice President JD Vance's star is not only fading within Donald Trump's inner circle, he is also alienating key MAGA movers and shakers whose support he will require if he makes a bid to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2028.According to a report from former Trump appointee Matthew Bartlett writing for MS NOW, it has become...
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Three nonprofits associated with dark money megadonor and architect of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority Leonard Leo funneled more than $50 million into the world's largest lay Catholic organization — whose donations, in turn, advanced anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ causes, according to analysis of the two most recent years of tax...
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The quiet courtship of Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) by Senate Republicans has been covered largely as a story of bruised feelings and bipartisan friendships, but underneath the congressional gossip lies a higher-stakes reality.If Fetterman does abandon the Democratic Party following a potential Democratic Senate takeover this November, he could hand...
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President Donald Trump is hoping to exert enormous influence on Indiana's primary election on Tuesday as part of a "revenge” campaign against defiant Republican state lawmakers, but early indicators suggest that the effort may have already landed with a thud.Last year, Trump pushed hard for Indiana state Republicans to redraw their congressional...
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Increasingly "frustrated” that the president has not followed up his campaign promises with action, the head of one of the most prominent anti-abortion groups complained to the Wall Street Journal that the president has become an obstacle to their goal of outlawing the medical procedure. According to a report from the Journal's Philip Wegmann,...
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The "far-right” U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has emerged at the center of a series of "destabilizing" decisions in recent days, decisions that journalist Chris Geidner suggested may be part of a coordinated effort to "run the United States” on behalf of conservative interests."Regardless of what the Supreme Court ultimately does,...
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The Trump administration's sudden plan to take over operations of Washington's busiest public golf course prompted emergency legal action and widespread confusion Sunday, as the Interior Department offered little explanation for shutting down the 124-year-old facility during peak season.After news reports Friday indicated the administration would...
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Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they'd damn well better actually listen to this time.Governor Janet Mills suspended her Senate campaign Thursday, leaving Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner as the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in November.The message Maine voters are frankly...
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Europe yet again finds itself on the receiving end of Donald Trump's ire. On Friday, the U.S. president threatened to raise tariffs on European cars to 25 percent, as frustration grows in Washington over the slow pace of an EU-U.S. trade deal. Trump had also called for withdrawing U.S. troops from Germany earlier in the week […]
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Übermorgen ist Friedrich Merz genau ein Jahr im Amt. Die Bilanz fällt schlecht aus. Innenpolitisch reibt sich die schwarz-rote Koalition im Dauerstreit um Steuern und Subventionen auf, während die Umfragewerte im Keller liegen. Gordon Repinski analysiert den gestrigen Auftritt des Kanzlers in der ARD bei Caren Miosga, seinen Versuch einer...
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A MAGA Republican was brutally mocked on Sunday after she told "disgusting lies" about President Donald Trump's scheme to punish a prominent nonprofit. Last week, the Trump Department of Justice secured an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the nonprofit committed 11 counts of wire and bank fraud for its work to infiltrate...
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President Donald Trump's sleep schedule is truly abnormal, and he seems to be becoming more erratic because of it, according to a new analysis. The Daily Beast reported on Sunday that Trump was up at all hours of the night posting on Truth Social on at least 80% of the nights in April. There were only five days in April when the president didn't...
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President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement has hired a contractor who was allegedly involved in torturing inmates at Guantanamo Bay, and news of the hire left a legal expert aghast on Sunday. The Guardian reported that ICE has hired MVM Inc, a U.S.-based contractor, to assist in tracking down immigrant children who are in the...
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President Donald Trump stunned political analysts and observers on Sunday after he made a "bonkers" claim about one of his friends who was hospitalized. Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a close ally of Trump's, was hospitalized in Florida on Sunday, according to a report by the New York Times. It remains unclear why Giuliani was...
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President Donald Trump's latest "grouchy" attack on a top Democrat sparked outrage on social media on Sunday. Trump posted on Truth Social that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries needs to be "impeached" over his criticisms of the Supreme Court, comparing it to the phone call that Trump had with Ukrainian officials in 2019 that got Trump...
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President Donald Trump called on Republicans to impeach House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Sunday after Jeffries criticized the Supreme Court. Trump's comments followed a statement Jeffries released last week in which he described the Supreme Court as "illegitimate" after its decision in Louisiana v. Callais. The case struck down...
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Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a long-time ally of President Donald Trump, has been hospitalized in Florida, where he remained in "critical but stable condition," a spokesperson told The New York Times on Sunday. "Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition," the...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared to inadvertently contradict President Donald Trump during a "cutesy" moment of his Sunday morning interview on NBC News. During the segment, Blanche was asked about the Department of Justice's indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. He claimed that the previous attempt to indict Comey, led by...
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A newly reported failure of the Trump administration's ability to handle sensitive private information in the social programs it is tasked with operating triggered a fresh wave of anger over the weekend after it was revealed that healthcare providers' Social Security numbers were made public as part of a faulty Medicare portal rollout.The...
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President Donald Trump faced fresh market manipulation accusations on Sunday after he said the U.S. would guide "neutral and innocent" ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "countries from all over the world" have asked him to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that accounts for 20% of the world's...
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Louisiana's MAGA Gov. Jeff Landry, a close ally of President Donald Trump's, just sent a chilling message with his latest "corrupt" order, according to one expert. Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney, discussed Landry's recent State of Emergency declaration, signed last week, on a new episode of "Democracy Watch" with progressive YouTuber Brian...
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A civil rights icon said on Sunday that the Supreme Court's recent "seismic shock" echoes back to a time when the U.S. government used its power to prevent Black people from being able to vote. Press Robinson, 88, who was the first member of his family to vote and the first Black member of the Baton Rouge school board, told the Washington Post...
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President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. will guide the ships of "neutral and innocent bystanders" out of the Strait of Hormuz as negotiations to end the war in Iran continue. The announcement came at a time when negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are at a rocky point. Trump recently rejected two peace plans offered by the Iranians...
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A foreign affairs expert shared a sobering warning about President Donald Trump during a new interview on MS NOW. Tim Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House: Weekend" that Trump's personal "defect" appears to be getting worse, and there doesn't appear to be anyone around the president who...
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The Wall Street Journal reports in an article titled "Trump Tells Aides to Prepare for Extended Blockade of Iran” that:"President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, U.S. officials said... In recent meetings, including a Monday discussion in the Situation Room, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran's economy...
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President Donald Trump sparked fresh health concerns over the weekend after he made an impromptu visit to his dentist in Florida. According to reports, Trump was whisked away from his golf club outside of Jupiter, Florida, on Saturday for what the White House described as a "scheduled visit to his dentist." In all, the president was gone for about...
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A political expert warned on Sunday that the U.S. could face a "dangerous and volatile situation" if the GOP suffers massive losses in the upcoming midterm election, as some have predicted. Republicans are limping into the midterms, led by a president with a 37% overall approval rating, one of the lowest for an incumbent in recent elections....
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The extra tax revenue generated by the Iran war will be saved in its entirety, as the government downplays major cost-of-living relief in next week's federal budget — though the treasurer warns those gains will be small.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stunned political analysts and observers on Sunday with a strange argument in defense of President Donald Trump's election scheme.Blanche discussed some of the major election changes the Trump administration is pushing for, including adding nationwide voter ID laws, during an interview on "Meet the Press" on...
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Republican strategist Rina Shah delivered a blunt indictment of the Trump administration's economic stewardship on MS NOW, revealing that GOP insiders warned the president precisely where his policies would fail—only to be ignored."I'm unsurprised. It's exactly in the direction that many of us have told him it would be in, which is really high...
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Jeffrey Epstein's "longtime property manager” allegedly kidnapped, "stripped and hog-tied” a Tennessee man after pursuing him and his brother in the U.S. Virgin Islands back in March, according to new court records reported by NBC affiliate KXAN on Saturday.The man in question was Benjamin Owen, the owner of a Tennessee-based anti-human...
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Tucker Carlson Network is touting extraordinary audience metrics that have sparked celebratory posts from MAGA-aligned figures who say the data drop proves Donald Trump wrong when it comes to the president's claims about Carlson's relevance and reach following his departure from Fox News.According to TCN's own reporting, Carlson "broke cable news...
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In the wake of the Supreme Court having issued a controversial ruling that critics warn may "demolish” restrictions around racially discriminatory voting policies, progressive writer Ryan Cooper laid out a plan Sunday that he argued could potentially unseat "every last possible Republican out of office.”Last week, the Supreme Court issued a...
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a scathing assessment of Republican election strategy, accusing the GOP of abandoning democratic principles in favor of engineering minority rule through voter suppression and gerrymandering.Appearing on MS NOW, Holder responded to a gleeful quote from a Republican strategist in Louisiana who celebrated...
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Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, stammered Sunday when pressed on the U.S. war against Iran, telling CBS News' Margaret Brennan that he didn't fully comprehend the definition of the word "war.”At the direction of Trump, the U.S. Navy is currently enforcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway off...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin laid out an ambitious agenda for Democratic reforms if the party regains control of Congress, describing the Trump administration's dismantling of DOJ functions as so extensive that restoring the department will require years of sustained effort.Appearing on MS NOW, the Maryland Democrat and constitutional expert outlined the...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was pressed Sunday on the Justice Department's (DOJ) indictment of former FBI Director James Comey – based largely on a photo of seashells – and his response left several critics stunned, many of whom argued he had undercut his own case.Comey was indicted last week on two felony counts, including for threats...
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Political insiders are sounding the alarm about deepening Republican anxiety heading into the 2026 midterm elections, with GOP operatives describing a party struggling to find a winning message as President Trump's unpopularity reaches new lows.Jackie Kucinich, Washington Bureau Chief at The Boston Globe, offered a blunt assessment of the current...
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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro snapped at CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday after the host read aloud an excerpt from the manifesto reportedly penned by the suspected gunman who disrupted the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) last month, an excerpt that appeared to label the president as a "p-------- r-----.”Identified as...
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President Donald Trump's SAVE Act, his voter ID bill that critics say could dramatically suppress voter turnout, could benefit Republicans electorally far more "than has previously been understood,” two academic researchers claimed Sunday after analyzing a comprehensive postelection survey."What we find, looking state by state, is that the bill...
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Katherine Thompson, a former senior Trump administration official at the Pentagon under Hegseth, is raising alarm bells about classified information that suggests the U.S. military faces far more serious supply challenges than the public has been told, particularly regarding critical munitions needed to counter threats from both Iran and...
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Following GOP insider Scott Jennings' heated outburst on CNN during a debate over Trump's Iran war, Democratic pundit Adam Mockler has issued a detailed response explaining what sparked the confrontation and why he believes the Trump administration's military campaign has fundamentally failed.Jennings erupted during the exchange, snapping at...
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President Donald Trump has reached record-low approval ratings amid his wildly unpopular war against Iran, and according to a prominent insider and former ally of his, the president "knew” launching the conflict would be "the end of his presidency” – but was compelled to move forward "against his will.”On Saturday, The New York Times...
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Famous comedian Aziz Ansari delivered a sharp critique of Kash Patel during his appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, playing the controversial Trump nominee in a sketch that used humor to highlight concerns about his qualifications.In the skit, Ansari's version of Patel opened with a provocative statement about breaking...
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Donald Trump isn't just breaking norms, he's running a live experiment on the limits of American power. Each move is a test: How far can a president go? What laws and how much of the Constitution can be ignored? And, most importantly, will anyone actually stop him?It took the King of England to remind Congress that their job is to restrain a...
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