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President Donald Trump insisted he loves inflation caused by his war in Iran and claimed he tanked to stock market on purpose.The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office, where he was asked about year-over-year inflation hitting a three-year high of 4.2 percent last month as his war pushed energy prices higher, and he...
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Military expert Col. Peter Mansoor told CNN an Iranian Shahed drone strike on a U.S. Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz changes the entire situation in the ongoing conflict. If Iran intentionally targeted the helicopter, it would represent a new operational capability for Shahed drones, which are designed as air-to-surface cruise missiles,...
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In four minutes on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump promised to bomb Iran and wished for world peace.At 11:50, gathered in the Oval Office for the signing of a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, President Donald Trump turned to reporters with a warning about Iran. "We hit them hard yesterday, and we're gonna hit them again hard today — in...
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An outburst by Donald Trump when asked about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner provoked laughter on MS NOW on Wednesday afternoon after the president tried to smear the Democrat.During his brief press availability in the Oval Office, where the 79-year-old president once again remained seated, he was asked about Platner's bid to oust Sen. Susan...
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Nancy Mace's political career came to a crashing end Tuesday as the South Carolina congresswoman finished a distant fifth in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary — and the knives came out almost immediately.Former allies, ex-staffers and fellow Republicans were immediately lining up to deliver their verdicts on a congressional tenure...
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Former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino erupted during a tense Situation Room confrontation with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in front of shocked administration insiders last July, refusing to be scapegoated for the DOJ's catastrophic mishandling of the Epstein files, according to new reporting.According to New York Times reporting by...
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Vice President JD Vance held an urgent Situation Room meeting with top White House officials after a Justice Department memo denying a Jeffrey Epstein client list sparked backlash within the MAGA base. According to an upcoming book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Vance appeared panicked, telling the assembled officials, "This is a huge...
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A California Democrat took to the House floor Tuesday to declare Donald Trump's tendency to fall asleep in public a "grave national security threat" — and demanded that Republicans join her in forcing the White House to come clean about the president's health.The speech by Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove was first flagged by journalist Aaron Rupar. "In...
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Donald Trump called up the late conservative gadfly Charlie Kirk last July and berated him for letting one of his Turning Point rallies spiral into anger and conspiracy rumors about the Jeffrey Epstein files, reports the New York Times.According to reporting from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, from their forthcoming book, "Regime Change: Inside...
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Sous les feux croisés des oppositions, des magistrats et des Français en colère, le ministre de la Justice joue un numéro d'équilibriste pour ne pas céder aux appels à la démission. Peut-il tenir ? Quelles pourraient être les conséquences pour son avenir politique ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Elisa Bertholomey et Sarah Paillou dans...
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WASHINGTON — As various officials and groups aim to use the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States' founding, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, with the help of a famed sitcom actor, turned the spotlight Tuesday to a central tenet of U.S. democracy: religious freedom.Actor Rainn Wilson, widely known for playing Dwight Schrute on NBC's...
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Erika Kirk spent less than 20 minutes at Turning Point USA's Women's Leadership Summit — a three-day event where hopeful tradwives gathered to learn how to land a husband and start a family, according to a report from The Daily Mail on Wednesday. The quick appearance from Kirk, the wife of former Turning Point leader Charlie Kirk, left many...
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A longtime Democratic senator slammed a judge nominated by President Donald Trump for an appeals court vacancy after he refused to answer a direct question about who won the 2020 presidential election.Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asked North Dakota U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Mack Traynor, who was testifying before the Senate during a...
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Inflation hit a three-year high last month as President Donald Trump's war in Iran continued pushing energy costs higher, and an analyst warned that could hurt Republican chances in the midterm elections.Consumer prices rose 4.2 percent in May from a year earlier, surpassing the 3.8 percent hike the previous month, and CNN's Jeff Zeleny said those...
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A senior Justice Department official in charge of relations with Congress wanted to recuse himself from working on the Trump administration's so-called "Anti-Weaponization Fund" — because he wanted to apply for money from it.According to Politico, Patrick Davis, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, "raised his plan to file a...
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A pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host declared he won't wear a single drop of sunscreen on an upcoming Florida trip — then played a clip of an anti-medicine influencer arguing against science that the sun doesn't cause cancer; it's the corn dogs.Steve Gruber, host of the conservative network's morning program Day Break, made the announcement...
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Add to the number of missteps Donald Trump's White House has made with regard to the "explosive” Jeffrey Epstein files, Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles believed that the controversy would blow over after the FBI released a memo on their findings.She could not have been more wrong and she had been warned, according to the New York Times' Maggie...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough bashed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for questioning a Democratic candidate's masculinity.Cruz joined the chorus of Republicans jeering Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, whom his GOP rival Ken Paxton has insulted as "Talafreako," and the GOP senator mocked him as weak and not manly enough."If you were making a list of...
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New Louisiana laws will establish stricter voter identification protocols and require election officials send every voter's personal information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.Act 5 by Sen. Thomas Pressly, R-Shreveport, removes provisional ballots from voting locations, forcing anyone without a photo ID to go to their parish registrar ...
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Democratic candidate Graham Platner coasted to an easy nomination for the U.S. Senate race in Maine on Tuesday night, overcoming weeks of negative press over scandals about his personal life and interactions with women to take on longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a top target of Democrats hoping to flip control of the upper chamber.While...
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The central bank was largely expected to hold its benchmark rate at 2.25 — a fifth consecutive hold. Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said the decision to stay on pause was made in effort to balance inflation threats from high oil prices, and sluggishness in the economy brought on by the uncertainty of the trade war with the U.S.
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Controversial candidate Graham Platner won the Democratic nomination in Maine's Senate race, but a new analysis found the party doesn't even need him to win to take back control of the U.S. Senate.The Iraq war veteran won his primary race and will face off against Republican Sen. Susan Collins despite allegations of mistreatment by past...
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According to reporting in the upcoming book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, former Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly infuriated the president's inner circle during a meeting with high-profile conservative influencers about the Jeffrey Epstein...
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White evangelicals are just 13% of the American population. But according to one columnist, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is building a Pentagon that looks a lot like their church — and writer Amanda Marcotte says that's no accident.When the Pentagon cut its official list of military religious designations from 211 to 31 earlier this month, it...
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Der AfD-Bundesparteitag in Erfurt rückt näher und mit ihm die Neuaufstellung der Spitze. Während Björn Höcke nicht selbst antritt, steigt sein Einfluss durch die Kandidatur seines Vertrauten Stephan Möller. Er ersetzt Stephan Brandner, der das Vertrauen im Thüringer Lager verloren hat. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler besprechen,...
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The latest inflation numbers brought more bad news for President Donald Trump, with consumer price increases jumping to 4.2 percent in May — a three-year high.According to The New York Times, the new data on the Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics represents "is up from a 2.4 percent annual increase before the conflict in the...
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House Republicans broke a months-long logjam on Tuesday by passing President Donald Trump's package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the remainder of his term, bypassing Democrats who had been demanding reforms to the agencies as a condition for a bipartisan vote. But already, tensions are boiling over whether to...
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According to excerpts from the forthcoming book "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Vice President JD Vance and senior White House officials engaged in an extraordinary debate over whether to publicly release an uncorroborated allegation of sexual assault...
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Any question over whether Donald Trump was watching MS NOW's "Morning Joe” on Wednesday morning was put to rest after he fired off a furious Truth Social post moments after the hosts read excerpts from a bombshell New York Times report on the Jeffrey Epstein files.Following an interview with Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, co-host Joe...
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Donald Trump really might just be as mighty as he claims. He did what no NBA team has been able to do to the New York Knicks in the basketball playoffs. His very presence in Madison Square Garden caused them to lose, breaking a 13-game winning streak.As so many have said before, everything our "president” touches tends to die.He also united what...
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President Donald Trump boasted that Iran has been "completely defeated" as the U.S. trades strikes with the Middle Eastern nation.U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday evening that it had conducted "self-defense strikes" in response to the downing of an Army helicopter the previous day, which prompted Trump to threaten a response, and he rejected...
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Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) pretended to take a phone call for roughly 90 seconds when asked about Speaker Mike Johnson's comments on potential Social Security cuts — and the evidence was right there on his screen.Asked about a "plan to cut Social Security," Wittman is seen in the video grabbing his phone, holding it up to his face, and saying, "Hey,...
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President Donald Trump took an oddly personal swipe at MS NOW's Willie Geist in a rant against the "Morning Joe" crew.Geist and his colleagues Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spent Wednesday morning discussing bombshell new reporting by the New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on the White House "freakout" over the release of the...
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President Donald Trump launched another volley in his back-and-forth feud with sports broadcaster Stephen A. Smith, whose intelligence he questioned in response to his criticism.The ESPN commentator went viral with criticism of the 79-year-old president's attendance at Monday night's Game 3 of the NBA Finals, saying he was needlessly...
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Vice President JD Vance convened an urgent Situation Room meeting to address a spiraling crisis after the Justice Department's memo denying the existence of an Epstein client list "backfired spectacularly," triggering a firestorm within the MAGA base and prompting the Wall Street Journal to prepare a damaging article about Trump's relationship with...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faces a treacherous path to confirmation, with a skeptical Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) now forced to rally his fractious caucus behind a nominee increasingly viewed with suspicion by his own party.According to Washington Post reporting by Theodoric Meyer and Perry Stein, Blanche's nomination is on...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has spent the past eight months mounting what critics describe as an unprecedented campaign to install his son-in-law, 26-year-old first-time candidate Michael Alfonso, in a vacant congressional seat — and the backlash from within his own party is growing.Duffy transferred $1 million in leftover funds from his...
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Republicans scored a tactical win this week, using the party-line budget reconciliation process to lock in three years of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — but that doesn't mean they averted chances of a government shutdown.The immigration funding maneuver removed one flashpoint from the government funding debate...
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I have several female friends who have been victims of domestic abuse. Over the past decade, they have confided in me because I've been open about my mental health struggles. When you make yourself vulnerable, it often gives others permission to do the same.It is difficult to hear their stories. That's one reason it has been personally difficult...
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President Trump's advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while researching their book, "Regime Change.” Here's the inside story.
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For days protesters have been clashing with law enforcement over conditions at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz explains how these complaints persist across the country, and takes a closer look at the problems documented at one facility in Louisiana.
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SACRAMENTO, California — Xavier Becerra has moved to the brink of the California governorship, after Tom Steyer was eliminated from the race on Tuesday. Instead of running against a Democrat, Becerra will face Republican Steve Hilton in the November election, giving Becerra a clear path to victory in this heavily Democratic state and positioning...
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Has the unrest in Belfast sparked a new political battle over Britain’s immigration system? Political leaders have condemned the violent overnight protest after a Sudanese national was charged with attempted murder of a man in the city. With parties scrambling to seize control of the narrative, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine how the case...
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South Korea's president is in Brussels for the first EU-South Korea summit in three years — a visit that starts with K-pop diplomacy but quickly moves to chips, trade, defense and China. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart look at why Seoul has become such an important partner for Europe and why South Korea's role in […]
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Bei Friedrich Merz treffen heute die Koalitionsspitzen auf die Chefs der Wirtschaftsverbände und Gewerkschaften, um über die Reformbaustellen bei Rente, Gesundheit und Steuern zu verhandeln. Rasmus Buchsteiner liefert Eindrücke vom Wannsee vorab. Inklusive des Frotzelns zwischen Markus Söder und Lars Klingbeil um die Frage, wer die wahre...
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As people debate whether Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is fit for office, political strategist James Carville threw all of the embattled Democratic nominee's baggage on the lap of his GOP opponent.Platner won the Democratic primary for the Maine Senate race, but not before wading through hot water over a slew of allegations about a Nazi...
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A major media mogul surrendered to one of the key demands of the surviving "60 Minutes" journalists, according to reporting by the New York Times.David Ellison, the chief executive of Paramount Skydance, promised to give "60 Minutes" more editorial independence during a call, Lesley Stahl told the Times.Along with Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim,...
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CNN pundits clashed and yelled over each other when talking about a scandal-plagued candidate's primary victory.Political journalist LZ Granderson explained on CNN why he believes Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner still has support despite allegations about infidelity and aggression against women. Platner had just won the Democratic...
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Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) got the last laugh against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), following the latter's relentless anti-LGBTQ bullying stunts.Mace, who originally described herself as "pro-transgender rights" as recently as 2023, took a hard turn to campaign against any expression of transgender identity in public spaces. When McBride became the first...
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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper couldn't keep himself together while reading the mission statement for the Trump family's gold phone.Cooper was doing a segment about Trump-branded gold merch, including his coin, sneakers, and phone. According to Cooper, the $499 gold-plated phone reportedly started shipping nearly a year after buyers made deposits to...
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President Donald Trump's administration is moving to respond after Iran downed a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, with the official X account for the U.S. Central Command proclaiming that they "began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief's direction," as "a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...
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South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) conceded in the state's primary election on Tuesday after failing to qualify for a primary runoff to a Trump-backed opponent, whom she then sided against.Mace ran in a crowded five-person Republican primary for governor, and came in fifth place with just over 37,000 votes when the race was decided....
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A Democratic political strategist was flabbergasted on Tuesday after new reporting indicated that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has taken a disturbing turn. On Monday, Scripps News reported that former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas was told to "stand down" from investigating disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, about 40...
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Political analysts and observers referred to a GOP lawmaker as a "racist" after he made remarks that seemed to reveal his thinly veiled thoughts. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) spoke about Medicaid fraud during a Fox News interview, where he said, "What we're seeing, especially in the blue states, is there is rampant fraud, especially in the minority...
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Two legal analysts were outraged on Wednesday by recent reporting about the immigration crackdown that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is undertaking while he is running for the Senate. Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian discussed a recent New York Times report on Paxton's efforts to disrupt Latino voting groups in Texas in a new...
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A Trump cabinet secretary is the target of online backlash after making a shocking claim about immigrants.Scott Turner, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said during an appearance on Fox News that "tens of millions of illegal aliens came across our borders unchecked," and that "because of that, it put a great strain on our housing...
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A prominent Republican who previously managed election administration in one of the nation's largest swing-state counties tore to shreds a theory from a MAGA-aligned attorney about how to put Trump's election conspiracy theories into practice.The California election results, and particularly far-right reality star Spencer Pratt's elimination from...
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Voters headed to the polls in Nevada, South Carolina, North Dakota and Maine, which features a nationally-watched U.S. Senate race. As Democrats try to win back the Senate in November, their candidate in Maine has admitted to a sexting scandal and is now fighting off allegations from several former girlfriends. Caitlin Huey-Burns has more.
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A far-right gubernatorial candidate in Iowa is already facing questions about his residency just after winning the Republican nomination — and is going on the offensive against the accusations.Zach Lahn, a businessman and farmer running on a platform aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement, is facing criticism for...
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A candidate running against a Republican senator has to face an investigation from the lieutenant governor's office, all because of his name, according to local reports.Dan Sullivan Jr., a former U.S. Forest Service employee and elementary school teacher, is running against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R)...
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President Donald Trump's "stunning" chat with reporters before he boarded Air Force One to fly back to the White House after Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night raised red flags for one political analyst. David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, argued during a new reaction video on Tuesday that Trump's press gaggle with...
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Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) mistakenly directed criticism at Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, called to investigate a federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center.GOP witness Alveda King disrupted Democratic questioning by shouting, "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!"To which...
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Legal experts' suspicion of misconduct in the so-called "Broadview Six" case was confirmed with the release of grand jury transcripts on Tuesday, proving that prosecutors resorted to illegal tactics to coerce jurors into returning an indictment against anti-deportation protesters in Chicago.The revelations in the transcripts prompted some attorneys...
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President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the BBC is about to implode, legal experts reported on Tuesday.National trial lawyer and strategist Michael Popok, the host of the "Legal AF" podcast, discussed with legal analyst and MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas how Trump's attempts to sue the BBC for $10 billion — after he accused the broadcaster...
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A Trump cabinet secretary will have a slush fund of his own after the House passed a funding bill for immigration enforcement, according to reporting by Politico.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin will have $5 billion to "dole out at his discretion" after the House voted 214-212 to approve a $70 billion package, the report...
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President Donald Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence got a disastrous meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to Politico — increasing the likelihood Trump will simply not nominate anyone for the post at all and leave him in limbo on an acting basis.Capitol Hill insiders briefed on the meeting "were left with the...
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