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NBC came out with a bombshell exclusive report on the Trump administration's controversial "double tap" boat strike, prompting experts to express shock.In a Saturday night article called "Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets," the outlet reported, "Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had...
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A judge on Saturday hit Donald Trump's DOJ with a negative ruling, giving some positive news to a well-known critic of the president.As Politico reported, "A federal judge dealt a setback Saturday to the Justice Department's effort to re-indict former FBI Director James Comey, blocking prosecutors' access to key evidence from email accounts and a...
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A new report Saturday shows one Donald Trump Cabinet official will be fired "really soon."Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem won't be around for long, according to the Bulwark's reporting this weekend."For weeks, a rumor has been circulating in political circles that Noem may soon be on the outs. It briefly surfaced in a CNN report a few weeks...
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The coroner investigating WA's first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here's everything you need to know.
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A new report about a military cover up had one former GOP lawmaker calling the debacle "absolutely incredible and wrong."Melissa Corrigan and David Shuster, the latter having previously exposed GOP corruption as an Emmy-winning anchor at MSNBC and CNN, reported in an article called "EXCLUSIVE: US Navy Deleted Video of October Boat Attack...
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The internet erupted in ridicule on Saturday after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made an odd comparison to a conservative legend.Hegseth over the weekend made a simple comment when he said, "If you look at actual policies, Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan."The statement didn't go over well with critics.Attorney Danny...
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"I don't give a damn," said a top Democratic leader in response to Donald Trump's newest attack.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who recently said that people are driving by his home, rolling down their windows and yelling a slur for developmentally disabled people, mimicking Trump after he used the derogatory term to attack him, weighed in on Saturday...
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Donald Trump's allies baffled onlookers on Saturday by calling on the president to make what one analyst called a "screeching J-turn" on his current policies.Former Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the controversial figure Trump named to be his White House national security adviser, spoke to Steve Bannon on the latter's internet show. Both MAGA allies insisted...
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are throwing one man under the bus for the "double tap" order on a purported drug transport ship, according to a reporter Saturday.MS NOW reporter Jake Traylor reported over the weekend about how Trump and Hegseth have both morphed their responses to the recent scandal in ways that point the finger at Admiral Frank M....
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One MAGA congresswoman "set the world on fire" over the weekend by releasing a photo of herself that some of said suggests she is pregnant.U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), 48, has been a consistent ally of Trump except in her push to release files related to the disgraced child sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein. She is known for dominating...
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Donald Trump has a "tone deaf" video circulating on right-wing networks, and it's "already catching up to him," according to a GOP insider on Saturday.Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MS NOW over the weekend to talk about a video of Trump promoting his line of watches. In late November, Buck...
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By David Higgins, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Dec. 5, 2025, to stop recommending that all newborns be routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus — undoing a 34-year prevention...
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Dick Morris, the well-known political consultant who helped former President Bill Clinton win his 1996 re-election bid, came to President Donald Trump's defense Saturday by launching into a racist rant directed at Muslims, who he said immigrate to the United States to "open up colonies” and take "over the country.”"We see this situation in...
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Donald Trump on Saturday posted a panicked plea aimed at fellow Republicans who are standing in the way of his latest power grab.The president took to Truth Social over the weekend to target GOP lawmakers who might vote against his proposed plan to amend maps in Indiana to give Republicans extra seats. Trump one day earlier wrote, "Congratulations...
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Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted by two of the foremost American artists of the 20th century, Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. No one is around to see them. They are on the walls of the...
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The New York Times says the Supreme Court is giving their favorite president passes he doesn't deserve."The justices … seem friendlier to claims of executive power under [President Donald] Trump than they were under President Joe Biden. They blocked Mr. Biden's efforts to use his authority to forgive student loans and manage the Covid-19...
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President Donald Trump launched into a lengthy tirade Saturday in defense of professional baseball player Roger Clemens, who he argued has unfairly been denied proper recognition due to unproven "rumors and innuendo,” fueled in part by the Obama administration."The Baseball Hall of Fame Committee is voting on admitting new Members TOMORROW, and...
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"There was never that much distance between the Establishment and the extremists of the right, even in [William F.] Buckley's era; now they are even closer,” reports Intelligencer Senior writer Sarah Jones.In October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts publicly cast his lot in with entertainer Tucker Carlson hours after Carlson had a...
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National Security attorney Bradley Moss and international affairs specialist Tom Nichols took turns dumping on what they characterized as the mounting idiocy of officials working under President Donald Trump as the administration closes out its first year in office.Moss was particularly furious that the administration was dumb enough to order a...
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You might think that when you are a US citizen, you cannot have that status taken away. You would be wrong, it turns out. And behind that fact is a long and often ugly history.Last Sunday, President Donald Trump said that he would "absolutely” denaturalize American citizens if he could. It comes after a wave of harsh rhetoric directed toward...
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly boasted that revenue from his tariffs will be so substantial that it could fund $2,000 rebate checks for Americans and even eliminate income tax altogether, though even under the rosiest scenarios, economists are saying Trump's promises are "impossible.”"We are talking complete fantasy here,” said Daniel...
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The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow was correct when he said Donald Trump was involved in as many as 60 "catch and kill” operations during the 2016 presidential election in which Trump first won power, former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said."I never actually added them up, but I wouldn't dispute what Ronan is saying,” Cohen told the...
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President Donald Trump's decision to pardon entertainment titan Tim Leiweke this week may have been sparked by a recent "round of golf” with Leiweke's attorney, who reportedly brought up his client's case to the president between swings, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.Leiweke was indicted in July related to a felony charge for...
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Republican megadonor Hal Lambert squirmed Saturday when pressed on the Trump administration's potentially "illegal” boat strikes in September that critics say may have constituted a war crime, refusing to answer a direct question multiple times during an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five.”"They hit the boat the first time, and they're...
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The security of the US grows weaker by the day as some of the highest-profile members of Donald Trump's cabinet are spending too much time playing to the MAGA crowd for "clicks' and adulation, and not taking their jobs seriously.Appearing on MS NOW with host Ali Velshi, former Naval College professor Tom Nichols, who has called for Defense...
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The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American "neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox."Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keating. It's also clear in Trump's habit of...
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A Somali immigrant who aggressively campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2024 is severing all ties with the president over his recent remarks where he referred to Somali migrants as "garbage,” condemning them as "racist” in an appearance Saturday on CNN."It was very dehumanizing and very un-presidential coming from the commander in chief to...
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was raked over the coals on Saturday morning for changing his tune on the Washington, DC, pipe bomber after spending years spreading conspiracy theories that have now fallen flat after an arrest.As a podcaster, the now-senior FBI official claimed the attempted attack was an "inside job,” telling his fans, "It is a...
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Lourdes Ubieta, a conservative radio host from Miami, Florida and major backer of President Donald Trump, said recently that if it took sending U.S. troops – which may include her own son and cousin – to Venezuela to enact regime change, then the Trump administration should "go for it.”"If to free Venezuela and for the best interest of the...
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On Tuesday, the President of the United States chaired a meeting of his busted cabinet that would have been impossible to believe just 10 years ago. I had no intention of watching this North Korea-like, state-run propaganda, but once I'd bumped into it, I found I couldn't take my eyes off it.It was a train wreck wrapped in a dumpster fire, and in a...
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With a series of critical cases still to be heard, the six conservative justices seated on the Supreme Court were admonished by the New York Times editorial board that they need to listen to one of their own and rein in Donald Trump.In an editorial published Saturday morning, the board pointed out that the lower courts have done a better job of...
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Donald Trump is facing increasing sniping from members of his own party that he is ignoring the mood of the country when it comes to the economy and voters turn on him.According to a report from the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid, the president is now faced with a "new reality” that he can no longer convince even some of his most ardent...
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Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning by flipping out on the hosts and producers of Fox and Friends for booking a guest who pushed back at the president's insistence that he has turned the economy around.The president, who stayed in snowy Washington, DC, this weekend, took to his Truth Social account to complain about the appearance of...
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President Donald Trump snapped at CNN's Kaitlan Collins Saturday morning over being asked about the price tag of his White House ballroom, the cost of which has increased by at least $100 million since first announced."Caitlin Collin's of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now offering new details of conversations she had with President Donald Trump pertaining to deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.CBS' 60 Minutes teased its interview of Greene in a post to X on Friday. In the clip, reporter Lesley Stahl is seen asking the Georgia Republican about behind-the-scenes...
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"Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?”That's what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported Thursday on the National Park Service's recently announced free admission days for 2026."That has become a day of service throughout the country as...
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The latest South Park episode nailed it: When "Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town's annual holiday race, he declares it an "Antifa uprising” and calls out the troops to crush it. While armed forces assemble their AK-47s, Hegseth struts around filming himself for well-coiffed social media content, unaware that his...
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A 14-year-old boy suffers serious injuries in an e-bike crash in Perth's western suburbs, just two days after a parliamentary inquiry into WA's e-rideable laws made 33 recommendations in a bid to make the devices safer.
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to get involved in what they called a "boondoggle" of a liquefied natural gas project in eastern Africa.The project is run by the French company TotalEnergies, and backed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank — but there are numerous red flags that have...
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The Trump administration's odd social media boast lit up the internet on Friday, as bewildered critics wondered whether the economic brag was meant as satire.The Treasury Department's official account claimed that U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020 and that investors who had "confidence and faith in President Trump's economic...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services took Admiral Rachel Levine's name off her portrait in the Humphrey Building, according to National Public Radio.Levine, a former director of the Public Health Corps under former President Joe Biden who became the first transgender person to serve in a Senate-confirmed executive role,...
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A federal judge said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to hold immigrants at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba before shipping them out for deportation, The New York Times reported.U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, did not immediately order the...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fessed up on Friday over who was responsible for the Trump administration's brazen defiance of a court order.In March, the Trump administration made the controversial decision to transfer Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador despite a judicial order temporarily blocking their removal. The move ignited a...
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A significant number of voters in 2025's statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia voted for Democrats this year despite casting their ballots for President Donald Trump in 2024. Now, some of them are hinting at what types of candidates they aim to support in next year's midterms.NBC News reported Friday that focus groups interviewing voters...
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A prominent Iraq War veteran tore into President Donald Trump's administration on Friday night after CNN played a supercut of Cabinet members fawning over the president, including one who declared this was the "greatest Cabinet ever for the greatest president ever."Anchor Erin Burnett played a montage of Trump's public Cabinet meeting from Tuesday,...
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President Donald Trump indicated American football needs a rebrand in a rambling speech Friday during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at the Kennedy Center. At the event, Trump received the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, which criticss have mocked as a made-up award to make up for him not winning a Nobel Peace Prize. At one point, the president...
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The Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi just took a big step toward surveilling left-wing groups as a counterterrorism operation — and onlookers are alarmed.This comes after reports in September that a DOJ official wanted a terrorism investigation into George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and Hungarian-born Holocaust...
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Several groups affiliated with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement are now applying pressure to Republican state legislators in Indiana, who have yet to pass a heavily gerrymandered congressional redistricting map.Politico reported Friday that Turning Point Action — the electoral arm of slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk's organization — is...
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Two analysts tore into Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday after a federal court in Florida reversed course on the Jeffrey Epstein files.Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner joined progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen to discuss the latest development in the Epstein saga, which has plagued the Trump administration in recent months. Earlier...
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A prominent Republican U.S. senator ducked into a bathroom this week to try to avoid questions about the GOP's efforts to throw together a health care plan, The New York Times reported on Friday evening."Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, was on the way to a health committee hearing this week when he was asked what his party was going...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, considered by some to be the frontrunner to be the next Democratic presidential nominee, said during a panel on Wednesday that he wants his party to be a "big tent” that welcomes large numbers of people into the fold. But he's "adamantly against” one of the most popular proposals Democrats have to offer: a wealth...
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New details are emerging about the Trump administration's Sept. 2 strike on a vessel they claimed was trafficking drugs to the United States, which cast serious doubt on the validity of the military target.According to The New York Times, "Multiple people who have seen video of the attacks say the survivors climbed on the overturned hull and waved...
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MAGA influencer Laura Loomer melted down Friday over claims that a Republican lawmaker worked to help house Afghan refugees at a Texas military base after the Taliban took over the country in 2021. Loomer was criticizing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and his work with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) to house 10,000 Afghan refugees in August 2021 at Fort Bliss...
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A Texas House Democrat has announced he will not seek re-election just a day after the Supreme Court gave the state the green light to use congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump that aim to delete up to five Democratic seats.Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced his decision Friday afternoon on X, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new...
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Masked federal agents chased a 22-year-old woman in New Orleans who said she was targeted because "I'm brown," according to reports on Friday. Security video from this week shows her telling the ICE agents to "leave me alone," The Guardian reported. She told reporters that she thought she was going to be kidnapped and ran to her front door to try...
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A well-known conservative commentator has a warning for the Republican Party: take action now or face a repeat of the 2018 midterms when the GOP lost 41 House seats in a landslide. And this time, he says, the Senate could go to the Democrats as well.Award-winning writer and journalist Bernard Goldberg reminded readers at The Hill that in 2018,...
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Protesters in New Orleans made it nearly impossible for Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino to lead an operation to detain undocumented immigrants.As Bovino and his men walked throughout the city on Friday, protesters used their First Amendment rights to blow whistles, effectively warning immigrants that law enforcement was in the area....
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The White House quietly deleted a video that used Sabrina Carpenter's "Juno" to promote ICE raids.Earlier this week, Carpenter slammed the Trump administration for using her song. "This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda," she wrote in a response to the White House post on X."Here's a...
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The internet had a hysterical response to the Village People's performance of their iconic hit "YMCA" at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Draw on Friday, while President Donald Trump did not miss the moment to drop his signature moves. Trump, who was given the inaugural peace award by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, stood up at the Kennedy Center —...
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A Department of Homeland Security official took to X on Friday afternoon to deny that a Democratic member of Congress had been pepper-sprayed by immigration agents — but her explanation of what really happened was less than convincing to a legal expert.Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who became a focus of controversy as House Republican leadership...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a gastroenterologist who voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in February, isn't exactly garnering praise for his condemnation of Kennedy's latest controversial health recommendations.Cassidy, whose support during Kennedy's confirmation hearings looked...
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The Indiana House voted Friday to pass a Republican-backed bill to redraw its congressional districts, and it will now move to the Senate.The bill was expected to face additional opposition by the state's Senate as several Republicans have said they are against the redistricting move pushed by President Donald Trump, WTHR reported. Trump initiated...
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) started the year largely holding the GOP caucus together — but now his leadership style, more hands-off than his predecessor Mitch McConnell, is hitting its limit as the party sinks into faction-fighting, leaving many senators frustrated and wishing he would exert more control.This is the assessment of...
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Those of us who came of age during the '60s well remember the Vietnam War, its horrific toll of human life, its cost, the division it caused, and its long-term effects upon those who served and survived. We also remember the phony incidents and propaganda that threw our young men and women into combat in what became our nation's longest war …...
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MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec suggested that former President Barack Obama has been working behind the scenes to insert gay propaganda into Netflix's hit show, "Stranger Things."Posobiec spoke out about his theory in a segment on Real America's Voice on Friday, following Netflix's announcement that it would acquire Warner Bros."This would become...
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A law professor bashed Stephen Miller for pushing discriminatory immigration restrictions in America that have long been gone. Miller, the Trump administration's immigrant policy architect and Homeland Security Advisor, has tried to revive "nationality-based discrimination" policies that formally embarrassed the United States, Amanda Frost, a...
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A big rift is brewing in the Trump administration, as allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the mastermind of the so-called "Make America Healthy Again" movement — lobby President Donald Trump to fire Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.Kennedy and his supporters are notorious anti-vaccine...
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