Raw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump suffered a severe humiliation this month when the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was finally ordered by a federal court to remove Trump's name from the side of the building, clarifying that Congress only allowed Kennedy's name to be on the facility.Now, days later, tarps are still covering the spot where Trump's name...
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A Republican town official in New Jersey with a colorful history that includes ties to the mafia and a 14-year prison sentence for murder told constituents he was now on the straight and narrow — but now he's been arrested again.According to the New Jersey Globe, John Alite, who was appointed to serve on the Englishtown council last year, "made...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is hemorrhaging support from a key business community as they express "buyer's remorse," according to a new report. NBC News reported on Friday that support for Trump from Latino business owners has seemingly fallen off a cliff during his second term. Latino voters were one group that swung heavily in favor of Trump during...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
The recently released Broadview Six transcripts revealed a stunning pattern of behavior by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, raising multiple red flags for a legal expert. Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor, said during a new interview on "All Rise News" with Adam Klasfeld on Friday that the federal prosecutors who brought...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
President Donald Trump has talked a lot about the strength of the stock market recently, and a new analysis suggests that his recent surge in trading activity may be a motivating factor. The New York Times published an analysis of Trump's stock trading activity on Friday that found the president's brokerage account has placed about 3,600 trades in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Republican strategist Doug Heye is alarmed by the rift between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a right-wing leader who was initially close with Trump but is now on the outs with him.Tensions came to a head on Friday as Meloni posted a public video raging about Trump's false claim that she had "begged" to get a...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Vice President J.D. Vance's comments about Israel have sparked an ugly, public brawl of words among two of the Florida GOP's most controversial figures.This comes after Vance lashed out at Israel for publicly opposing President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran to end the war that has been raging over the last three months."If I...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
A former U.S. ambassador to Russia was shocked to read some of the proposals included in President Donald Trump's recent deal with the Iranian regime, according to a new essay. Michael McFaul, who was the ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, wrote in a new Substack essay that Trump's 14-point memorandum of understanding, signed...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparked mockery on Friday after he uncorked what some analysts described as an "absolutely insane" claim about what Kennedy referred to as the "most consequential crime" in American history. On Thursday, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on her professional X account that...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo admitted some bad news on Friday — his pet referendum will not make it onto the ballot.According to The Nevada Independent, Lombardo stated on social media that his ballot question restricting participation of transgender athletes in school sports will not go to voters this year, because "legal delays and uncertainty...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Reporters received exclusive tours of the new Air Force One, a former Qatari jet reported to have "gold plating throughout" to match the design requests of President Donald Trump.The tours offered the public their first look inside the plane.The aircraft, designated the VC-25B Bridge, arrived Friday at Joint Base Andrews after a $400 million...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump seemed mildly taken aback when a pair of Air Force officers got a bigger round of applause than he did, while speaking about the unveiling of the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Friday."That's pretty good. That's the best hand. You got a bigger hand than I did," said Trump. "That's the end of your job. I don't like...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
It's a "precarious day for our country," MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace said in her opening of "Deadline: White House" — because President Donald Trump got his chosen partisan loyalist in charge of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence."Donald Trump's personal political attack dog, Bill Pulte, officially assum[es] the role of acting...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Fox News's seemingly lone liberal host, Jessica Tarlov, stunned a political analyst after she humiliated Vice President JD Vance during a recent appearance on "The Five."David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, described Vance's recent appearance on Fox News during a new episode as an "unfortunate stop" on his book tour because...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Following his 2024 win, President Donald Trump required help from aides because he couldn't remember the names of the people he promised to retaliate against.That's the scene described in "Regime Change," a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.One of the targets was Chris Krebs, the former head of the Department of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wasted no time swiping back at President Donald Trump on Friday after he said that she "begged' him to take a photograph together, a spat that left one GOP strategist completely flabbergasted. Brad Todd, a veteran GOP operative, discussed Meloni's sharp rebuke of Trump during a segment on CNN's "The Arena."...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Pro-MAGA influencers erupted in outrage after CNN tested the bright green water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which President Donald Trump recently renovated.Trump ordered the landmark repainted "American flag blue" for $14.2 million — far exceeding his initial $2 million estimate. Algae turned the water green within days of the pool...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
With Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refusing to commit to a federal court in writing that the Trump "Anti-Weaponization Fund" will be canceled, he has a new problem, analyst Scott MacFarlane told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Friday: backlash from the Senate Republicans reviewing his nomination to serve as attorney general permanently."So the question...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice thrashed a federal judge in a new court filing for demanding that DOJ officials and two Trump cabinet secretaries officially declare that Trump's "anti-weaponization" slush fund is officially dead. Last month, the Trump administration announced plans to create a $1.776 billion fund to pay claims from...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
An elected official in a small, rural town in east Georgia bashed President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security after local residents defeated the department's attempt to turn a local warehouse into one of the nation's largest deportation centers, according to a new report. Trump's DHS had planned to open a 10,000-person deportation...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) laid into President Donald Trump's administration on MS NOW as they head into final negotiations for a deal to end the Iran war, faulting them for not understanding the most basic things about the enemy they attacked and then capitulated to."I wonder if the military brass and the intelligence community laid it on the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
A pro-Trump commentator triggered a White House attack after she called President Donald Trump's preliminary deal with Iran a humiliation for the United States.Batya Ungar-Sargon, a self-described "MAGA lefty" who hosts a weekend show on NewsNation, broke with the administration over the memorandum of understanding Trump signed with...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is causing needless suffering within the military ranks by eliminating the universal flu vaccine mandate, according to a new analysis. More than 160 soldiers at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas because of a growing influenza outbreak, which may have killed at least one person in basic training, according to a new...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Democratic political strategist James Carville warned President Donald Trump that the knives would be out after this fall's midterm elections.The veteran political operative was discussing the forthcoming book "Regime Change" by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on his "Politics War Room" podcast, and he said the depth of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
During President Donald Trump's second term, White House staff began "monitoring” the president's trash after it was discovered he had been discarding potentially valuable White House property, according to a new book from two New York Times reporters, the Daily Mail reported Friday.The book, "Regime Change,” is written by Times journalists...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled for a printer inside the Palace of Versailles after President Donald Trump went to the sign his Iran deal — without bringing a copy with him.A new report sheds light on the chaotic behind-the-scenes details of how the historic agreement came together.According to Agence France-Presse, Trump decided to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
President Donald Trump seems to be shrinking himself down, according to a conservative columnist, and his seeming capitulation could diminish him even further.The president signed an agreement to get out of his war in Iran just days after turning 80, and fellow octogenarian George Will published a column for the Washington Post outlining how all of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Despite the Justice Department's claim that it released every document related to Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, three million remain unpublished – including those from a lesser-known Epstein email account that may contain "references to Epstein's relationship" with President Donald Trump, CBS News reported Friday.A significant share of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
After sifting through Vice President JD Vance's new book titled "Communion,” author Colin Dickey found a startling theme that appears to "telegraph” the impending implosion of the MAGA movement — an apparent precursor to a presidential run that Dickey warned may ultimately backfire."It's hard to say how he thinks this is going to work out for...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's new acting spy chief arrived at his post Friday with orders to fire hundreds of intelligence officials — clearing the way for Trump's election meddling aspirations in the midterms.Bill Pulte, who took over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday without Senate confirmation, can hold the post for up...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ran a secret online search operation that effectively punished subordinates for behavior he has described as "woke."The result of what the New York Times called Hegseth's "war on diversity" had serious consequences for officers who were up for promotion.Hegseth and his top aides ordered the Army, Navy, Air Force and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Vice President JD Vance's new book was released this week to reviews from professional critics that did not hold back – with The Wall Street Journal arguing it was filled with "egregious sloppiness.” The amateur critics took it even further, flooding the book's page on the Barnes & Noble website with one-star reviews."This book literally reads...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Donald Trump's physical appearance at this week's G7 summit disconcerted a panelist on MS NOW — who was lightly scolded by the host for pointing out the president's apparent decline.Joel Payne, the chief communications officer for MoveOn, appeared Friday morning on "Money, Power, Politics," where he commented on the 80-year-old president's...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
A diplomatic firestorm between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sparked global reactions Friday.The prime minister acidly denied Trump's claims to an Italian TV network that she had "begged" him for a photo together during this week's G7 summit and that he agreed because he "felt sorry for her." Meloni claimed his...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is just hours away from violating a judge's order on President Donald Trump's January 6 slush fund after thumbing his nose at it for weeks.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent until Friday afternoon to file sworn declarations confirming the $1.776 billion...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
President Donald Trump turned his back on Vice President JD Vance in anger last summer after he suggested softening parts of a speech about U.S. strikes on Iran, according to a book from New York Times reporters.In "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," obtained by Politico, New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
Iran issued the Trump administration a fierce ultimatum that could collapse the tentative peace deal just a day after it was signed, Drop Site News reported Friday.The demand was related to Lebanon, which Israel invaded in March and has since killed nearly 4,000 Lebanese and sparked a humanitarian crisis affecting millions. Included in the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
Multiple residents of Washington, D.C. told CNN Friday their unfiltered thoughts on President Donald Trump's $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool – and the feedback was scathing."It looks bad!” one D.C. resident told CNN's Tom Foreman. "I just see green – green slime.”Trump's restoration of the Reflecting Pool has...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
President Donald Trump has reportedly told associates and at least one foreign leader that he isn't worried about the political cost of his decisions ahead of November's midterms.The 80-year-old president's comments confirm what many Republicans have feared for months — that Trump is willing to let the party absorb the fallout from his choices,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sounded the alarm recently when meeting with Senate Republicans over the Pentagon's dwindling supply of funding for weapons — and the details were shared Friday by a GOP senator spurned by President Donald Trump."[The Pentagon is] running short on funding they need in order to acquire the weapons and missiles and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
New details are coming into focus about a longtime Donald Trump donor whose company landed a no-bid federal contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in what has turned out to be an over-budget, ongoing debacle.The National Park Service awarded the $1.7 million contract to what has turned out to be the ironically named Greenwater...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's maneuver to install a conspiracist atop the nation's intelligence apparatus may have dire consequences for November's midterm elections, a new report warns.Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency with no known intelligence experience, takes over this month as acting director of national intelligence....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
British media personality Piers Morgan and countless others reacted with shock Friday morning over a top Israeli official's call for all of Lebanon to "burn,” a threat that stands at odds with Iranian demands and risks blowing up the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran."For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
President Donald Trump fired off a social media attack Friday morning as he was buried under an onslaught of criticism hurled his direction regarding the tentative peace deal he reached with Iran.According to the 14-point memorandum of understanding reached between Washington and Tehran, the United States would help Iran gain access to a $300...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
President Donald Trump sat down for nearly half an hour with Axios correspondent Marc Caputo after signing a memorandum of understanding to wind down the Iran war — and that reporter flagged one particular statement that stood out to him.The 80-year-old president acknowledged that he negotiated an end to the war to avoid a global economic...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
A diplomatic firestorm erupted Friday after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused President Trump of fabricating a story about her — and her government responded by canceling a planned diplomatic visit to Washington.The dispute traces back to comments Trump made to Italian channel La7, claiming Meloni had "begged" him for a photo together...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
In the wake of a fourth death at a U.S. Postal Service megafacility in Georgia, a union leader blasted the government agency for its inadequate emergency response procedures.Jonathan Smith, president of the American Postal Workers Union, called out a lack of emergency phones at a 1-million-square-foot USPS warehouse in Palmetto, Georgia, where an...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Democratic lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are growing frustrated with chair Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) over his leadership — including "barely-veiled personal jabs” and other provocations — and are already "vowing they won't forget" if they reclaim the majority in the midterms, Punchbowl News reported Friday.During a recent...
ReadPolitico - Europe (22 hours ago)
Andy Burnham is the new Labour MP for Makerfield, heading for parliament and, likely, Number 10. But what does his momentous win here on the outskirts of Wigan tell us about his chances of masterminding a wider Labour revival as prime minister? Host Patrick Baker has been in the constituency over the past few weeks, […]
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is exhibiting a clear pattern that shows just how badly his cognitive abilities have slipped from what they used to be, MS NOW political analyst John Heilemann said on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House."Heilemann's observation came after a general discussion in which he and Nicolle Wallace outlined what they saw as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Donald Trump built his political brand on the power of national pride — and it could have been the "fatal mistake" of his second administration, according to an analysis Friday.The American leader can't seem to understand that other countries are patriotic too, Alexander Burns wrote for Politico.That blind spot is unraveling Trump's second term...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) issued an "extraordinary rebuke” of members of his own party this week amid a wave of recent inner-party "chaos” sparked by President Donald Trump, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.Thune, according to Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio, Laura Weiss and John Bresnahan, has had "just about the worst luck...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Scott Thomsen has voted for Donald Trump three times. Now, the fourth-generation Nebraska farmer says he's done with the Republican Party."I'm pretty disenfranchised as a voter right now, and I think I'm not the only one," Thomsen told the Washington Post. "Either I'm going to completely sit these elections out, or I'm going to vote down the line,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Donald Trump is hyper aware that his Iran deal is tearing his party apart — but he's especially concerned that he's left his MAGA base "seething," a columnist wrote Friday.Even the president's most loyal supporters didn't mince words when they blasted the deal Trump is expected to sign in an effort to end the Iran war.Ted Cruz, the Texas senator...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (24 hours ago)
Speculating on the basis for President Donald Trump's political and personnel moves is done only at one's peril. The man's mind, always a complex mix of paranoia, confidence, and confusion, is never linear, always leveraged, all in his personal favor.Despite that reality, it is gravely important to speculate on the reasons that Trump would take on...
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Andy Burnham has secured a thumping victory in the Makerfield by-election - but is it game over for Sir Keir Starmer? With a critical few days ahead, attention now turns to Labour’s cabinet ministers, MPs and party members. Who could make the first move to oust the prime minister? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy have […]
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Pauline Hanson's claims that Australian businesses are "tied" to lazy workers they "can't sack", are labelled inaccurate by some employment law experts and small business advocates, while one HR representative says businesses are "terrified to terminate".
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A high-profile ex-CNN anchor singled out the insider said to be the "biggest leaker" in the Trump White House.Don Lemon said during an interview with Legal AF host Michael Popok that Vice President "J.D. Vance is like the biggest leaker of them all" in the White House based on what "many people have said and according to some of the...
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CNN pundits couldn't hold it together as they heard about a new detail in an upcoming tell-all about the Trump White House.The upcoming book Regime Change, written by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, detailed how Trump showed them a document that argued he was more powerful than historical strongmen like Attila the Hun,...
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Department of Justice lawyers ditching the Trump administration to work in a blue state took parting shots, according to a Democratic Attorney General.During an appearance on the Legal AF podcast, Colorado AG Phil Weiser, who's running for governor in his state, detailed the "brain drain" at the DOJ as lawyers flee, with one prosecutor named Hagan...
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Brussels Playbook Week Ender host Sarah Wheaton is on the ground at the European Council summit, where divisions over European Council President António Costa’s outreach to the Kremlin divided leaders and dominated an evening that was supposed to be devoted to confronting the trade deficit with China. Chief EU Correspondent Zoya Sheftalovich,...
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