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Nasty infighting broke out last year as the leaders of two federal immigration law enforcement agencies disagreed over how to carry out Trump's mass deportation campaign promise, according to a new report.According to an NBC News report, two officials with the Department of Homeland Security detailed the fight that broke out during a February 2025...
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President Donald Trump criticized FDA Commissioner Marty Makary during weekend calls and on Monday White House meetings over his inability to move "quickly enough" on approving flavored vaping products for retail sale. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump sought advice from advisers about Makary, emphasizing the importance of flavored vaping...
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George Wallace was sworn in as Governor of Alabama in 1963 and famously declared in his inauguration speech (written by a Ku Klux Klan leader) "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Two years later, Alabama state troopers violently broke up a nighttime voting rights march during which a police officer shot and killed young...
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President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had abruptly paused a new initiative to guide ships out of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump announced the initiative, dubbed "Project Freedom," on Sunday, where the U.S. would guide the ships from "innocent and neutral" countries out of the Strait of Hormuz to protect them from attacks by the Iranian...
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A federal judge sparred with lawyers from President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Tuesday over their reliance on the Supreme Court's shadow docket to argue a case, according to a new report. The Washington Examiner reported that DOJ lawyer Michael Velchik told a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit that a...
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The lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court ruling that dismantled the Voting Rights Act is an election conspiracy theorist who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol, according to a new Democracy Docket report published on Tuesday. Phillip "Bert" Callais, a veteran living near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was...
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A red-state governor is facing a recall effort in his own state that was launched by voters upset with him canceling elections amid a redistricting effort. Gov. Jeff Landry suspended the U.S. House primaries on Thursday, and by Tuesday, the Louisiana Secretary of State's office confirmed that it had received a petition to recall Landry from his...
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Vice President JD Vance stumbled into an awkward silence during his speech in Iowa on Tuesday. Vance spoke at a manufacturing facility in the key election state during a rally for Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), who PBS News reported is facing a "competitive" race to retain his seat this November. During the speech, Vance claimed that the Trump...
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A new report found that toxic materials from the White House's East Wing demolition were dumped at a historic golf course, according to The Associated Press on Tuesday. A Virginia engineering firm report, which was shared by the National Park Service, revealed that toxic debris, which included metals, PCBs, pesticides, petroleum byproducts and...
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Senate Republicans unveiled a $72 billion spending package that includes $1 billion for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, contradicting Trump's repeated claims that the project would be privately funded. The reconciliation package, unveiled by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), also allocates $38.2 billion for ICE and $26 billion for...
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Republican candidates in the California governor's race appear to be following President Donald Trump's lead on a path toward another party wipeout, according to a new analysis. Candidates like Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host whom Trump endorsed in April, and Sheriff Chad Bianco have adopted an anti-immigration policy position that is similar...
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A late-night comedian escalated his feud with first lady Melania Trump on Monday night with a stinging rebuke. The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that Jimmy Kimmel blasted the first lady, who has previously called Kimmel a "coward" and advocated for his firing, during a new episode of his show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" He described Melania Trump as a...
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A masked prowler was caught on video near Nancy Guthrie's home in Tucson, Arizona, nearly three months after she vanished, according to reports. News 4 Tucson reported that a masked person was caught on a Ring Camera stealing cacti from one of Guthrie's neighbors' homes. The report indicated that the video "surprised" Guthrie's neighbors, who said...
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President Donald Trump's acting attorney general has come under scrutiny for allegations he lied on Fox News while discussing the administration's criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center — but his attorneys have reportedly offered up an excuse to a federal judge in Alabama.As part of Blanche's Fox News interview on "The Ingraham...
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A South Carolina veteran faces federal charges after the U.S. Secret Service arrested him last week as he was allegedly headed to D.C. to assassinate the president. Army veteran Daniel Swain, a South Carolina resident, was arrested in North Carolina while driving a BMW with the message "HEADED TO WSH TO KILL THE PRES" scrawled in white marker...
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Cole Thomas Allen, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump during the White House Correspondents Association dinner, reportedly had 100 rounds of ammunition on him at the time of the incident.On Tuesday, a four-count indictment charged Allen with attempting to assassinate the president, assaulting an officer with a...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio showed an impressive command of the issues when going to bat for the Trump administration at his press conference on Tuesday, former George W. Bush strategist Mark McKinnon told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Tuesday, but it won't be enough to salvage the administration's credibility.During the speech, Rubio — who in recent...
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The Justice Department is offering $25,000 signing bonuses and retention incentives ranging from $60 to $220 per pay period through Thanksgiving to address critical staff shortages. The bonuses target positions investigating youth transgender treatments and advancing the Trump administration's immigration agenda, according to Bloomberg Law. The...
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A Pennsylvania man running for U.S. Senate is now facing federal charges for threatening a member of Congress, President Donald Trump, and the family of a U.S. official. Raymond Eugene Chandler III was running to unseat fellow Democrat Sen. John Fetterman before he was arrested on May 1, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. According to an FBI...
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Reporters at the White House press briefing on Tuesday were audibly laughing after Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on a pro-MAGA correspondent to ask a question. Rubio called on Cara Castronuova, a White House correspondent for LindellTV, which is owned by Mike Lindell, a Trump ally who also founded My Pillow, when the laughter broke out....
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Alabama GOP lawmakers moved to toss out votes already cast for its May 19 primary amid a gerrymandering push without notifying voters of the changes. According to reporting on Tuesday by Democracy Docket, the Alabama lawmakers began taking votes on Tuesday to change the congressional and state senate maps as a primary election is underway. The...
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FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have used an AI-generated ripoff of a Beastie Boys music video to promote the Trump administration's anti-fraud efforts, NPR reported on Tuesday."With President Trump's leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast — and we're not stopping," Patel wrote...
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos was mocked on Tuesday after news that the Amazon founder has reportedly grown "unhappy" with the attention his 417-foot yacht — which has a carved sculpture of his second wife, Lauren Sanchez — has brought him and now wants to sell it. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman described Bezos' decision on his Substack,...
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People were stunned on Tuesday after President Donald Trump started touting his unpopular Iran war and discussing it in front of a group of children in the Oval Office. The kids were at the White House to celebrate Trump's signing of a proclamation to restore the Presidential Fitness Test award, and in the press briefing, the president ranted about...
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The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision Monday allowing Louisiana to redraw its congressional map and eliminate a majority-Black district, exposing a rare public dispute between conservative Justice Samuel Alito and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. According to CNN, Jackson, the lone dissenter, accused the majority of taking steps to...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio struggled to wrangle a room full of reporters when he hosted the White House briefing on Tuesday while Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave."I'll be filling in for Karoline today, obviously," Rubio announced to reporters before recapping President Donald Trump's efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz....
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President Donald Trump endorsed a barrage of candidates in a key battleground state on Tuesday, but seemed to snub a key race. In a series of Truth Social posts, Trump endorsed candidates ranging from Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for Ohio governor as a Republican, to allies like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and up-and-comers like Eric Conroy. However,...
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Sanchez was already nervous about receiving a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but nothing could prepare him for seeing the dollar amount the government said he owed them: $1,820,252.00The Cuban landscaper, who came to the United States with his family 20 years ago, was floored. The Arizona Mirror isn't identifying Sanchez by...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Indiana Republicans on Tuesday afternoon, with just hours to go before a crucial primary that could test his influence over the state's electorate — and the future of the legislature."Good luck to those Great Indiana Senate Candidates who are running against people who couldn't care less about our Country, or...
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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation restoring competitive fitness tests for schoolchildren at an Oval Office event that drew criticism for its chaotic nature. The 79-year-old president veered significantly off-topic, discussing golf, auto racing, and the Iran war to an audience including government officials, celebrities, and children....
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was hit with a serious fact check on Tuesday after denying that President Donald Trump had previously said that Pope Leo was "endangering" Catholics with his comments against the Iran war. Rubio was filling in during a press conference for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who was on maternity leave when he...
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A man who formerly worked for the U.S. government found himself in a shouting match with Russian "Merchant of Death" arms dealer Viktor Bout on Tuesday.During a segment on The Alex Jones Show, a caller from Kansas named Lee spoke to Bout about Russia's war in Ukraine."It's quite a unique experience to be able to talk to you, sir," Lee said. "The...
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Republicans won't have an easy time trying to sneak a high price tag for Trump's White House ballroom into a bill to fund federal immigration enforcement, a political analyst warned. "The White House boasted last summer that the price tag for the ballroom would be $200 million, and every penny would come from private donations," wrote Steve Benen...
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A rat-borne virus that broke out aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Cape Verde, West Africa, is now suspected to have spread to seven people, according to reports.The World Health Organization, or WHO, confirmed two cases and suspects five others aboard the MV Hondius cruise. Of them, one patient who is critically ill and three others with mild...
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Ken Griffin, a wealthy investor and one of the largest Republican megadonors, conceded to CNBC's Sara Eisen on Tuesday that he expects Democrats to win the House of Representatives this fall."I think Trump has to deal with that reality that the American people have just had it when it comes to inflation," said Griffin. "And unfortunately, I think...
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FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the Trump administration would soon release its UFO and alien-life files. Patel, who has been facing rumors over questions about his job security, defended President Donald Trump on Hannity's Fox podcast "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" and claimed that the Trump administration was...
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Amid a critical staff shortage at the Justice Department, Trump administration officials are resorting to desperate measures to try to hire and retain personnel, Bloomberg Law reported on Tuesday."New vacancy postings show signing bonuses of $25,000 are newly available to staff offices investigating youth transgender treatments and litigating the...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will look into an expense program under which former governors general billed the government for more than half a million dollars last year. The program, which launched in 1979, has been shrouded in secrecy despite calls for greater transparency.
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President Donald Trump scolded his Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary last weekend over a disagreement related to flavored vapes and nicotine products – specifically, over what he said was Makary's inability to move "quickly enough” in approving such products for retail sale, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday."In a...
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A former model and real estate entrepreneur who publicly accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has been reported missing in New York after family members lost contact with her nearly two weeks agoElisabetta Tai Ferretto, a 50-year-old Italian native who has lived in New York since 2001, returned to Manhattan in early April after...
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A high-level Trump administration official warned Iran on Sunday of an impending U.S. operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, an effort to mitigate the risk of escalation, according to a report.Despite the advance notice, Iranian forces launched attacks on commercial shipping and targets in the United Arab Emirates, and claimed to...
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President Donald Trump struggled to demonstrate his athletic prowess to a group of children at the White House, failing on several attempts to putt a golf ball.After arriving on the White House lawn to "Eye of the Tiger" on Tuesday, Trump walked over to a group of kids who were on hand to promote the Presidential Fitness Test. The president...
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James Carville is pulling the alarm on New Hampshire's Senate race, warning that Democratic operatives are dangerously overlooking a contest that could determine control of the chamber."New Hampshire is keeping me up at night," Carville said bluntly, drawing on decades of experience reading electoral maps.The strategist laid out the mathematics as...
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Der Ton zwischen Berlin und Washington hat sich spürbar verschärft. Die USA stoppen vorerst die Stationierung von Tomahawk-Raketen in Deutschland, gleichzeitig verschieben sich strategische Prioritäten Richtung Iran-Krieg zulasten der Ukraine und der europäischen Sicherheit. Im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Ischinger, langjähriger Chef der Münchner...
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Conspiracy theories — including claims that Barron Trump is a time traveler or that 11 dead scientists were killed by aliens — distract Americans from real issues, an analyst wrote Tuesday. The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi suggested that President Donald Trump, who once led the "birther" conspiracy that former President Barack Obama was not born in...
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President Donald Trump has tried to ignore a top issue among his base: abortion. But now that's backfiring — and could risk further fracturing his MAGA coalition and losing support from anti-abortion activists, an analyst noted on Tuesday. The Bulwark's Andrew Egger referred to it as Trump's "lose lose abortion dilemma" as Trump, "who has never...
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During a Pentagon briefing on the Iran War, Daily Wire reporter Mary Margaret Olohan asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine about "kamikaze dolphins" allegedly being deployed in the Strait of Hormuz. Olohan also inquired about the threshold for restarting major combat operations and concerns about mines in the...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who in February was exposed for lying about his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, is scheduled to be interviewed by lawmakers Wednesday about his knowledge of the disgraced financier, and on Tuesday, was taunted by one of the lawmakers set to question him."Tomorrow I question Commerce Secretary Howard...
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While Donald Trump was busy holding court in the Oval Office, answering questions and demonstrating his putting skills, the official White House X account posted a racist image of Democratic Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer (NY) and Hakeem Jeffries (NY) celebrating Cinco de Mayo.In the AI-generated picture, the two are shown sitting at table by the...
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FAA employee Dean DelleChiaie, 35, has been charged "for interstate communication of a threat" to kill President Donald Trump.In a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Justice said DelleChiaie "conducted various internet searches on his government work computer in late January, like how to get a gun into a federal facility, previous...
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Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme "Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang sneaking drugs into the prison, gang members distributing them inside and bank records showing...
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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation restoring competitive fitness tests for schoolchildren, and the Oval Office event caught many viewers by surprise.The 79-year-old president veered off-topic from the Presidential Fitness Test Award to discuss golf, auto racing and other subjects found in a newspaper's sports section, and he also made...
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President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, John George Edward Marck, sparked outrage after refusing to answer Senator Chris Coons' (D-DE) question about the 22nd Amendment. The 22nd Amendment explicitly prohibits any person in the United States from being elected president more than twice. When...
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Friends,Last night was the Met Gala, an annual homage to the conspicuous extravagance of America's wealthy. Its honorary chairs this year were, appropriately, Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchez Bezos.If you wanted a ticket to the Bezos Ball, all you needed to do was shell out $100,000 and wear something memorably daring and expensive. Oh, and...
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As part of an MS NOW report on the Republican Party troubles in what has been the reliably red state of Ohio, several locals from Lorain expressed dismay with the economy under Donald Trump, with one elderly man grousing he is having to rejoin the workforce against his will.As host Anna Cabrera stated as she shared a clip of Vice President JD...
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Sherrod Brown's return to Ohio politics represents Democrats' best chance in years to reclaim ground in a state that has become reliably Republican, despite the formidable challenge of running in terrain reshaped by Trump's electoral dominance.Brown, who won more votes in Ohio than his party's 2024 presidential nominee despite losing his Senate...
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Republican insiders watching President Donald Trump's grip on power slip ahead of the midterms have started to use burner phones while it's believed that some staffers are wagering on prediction markets, according to a report. Polymarket, an online prediction market platform, has suggested as of Tuesday that Democrats have an 84 percent chance of...
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President Donald Trump was joined by several children in the Oval Office Tuesday to celebrate his signing of a proclamation to restore the Presidential Fitness Test award, during which he deviated from the topic of youth sports to discuss his wildly unpopular war against Iran, turning to one of the children as he made his case for the...
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Bracing for what appears to be an inevitable Democratic takeover of Congress after November's midterms, the Trump White House is already preparing for a barrage of investigations and hearings by holding secretive briefings with executive branch staff on how to handle aggressive congressional oversight.According to reporting from The New Republic,...
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Political analysts Joanna Coles and David Rothkopf discussed President Donald Trump's deteriorating mental and physical health, highlighting a moment where Melania Trump appeared to reject his attempts to hold her hand. In a conversation during The Daily Beast Podcast, Coles noted Trump's need to cling to Melania for stability -- while descending...
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Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) argued that ordinary people on food stamps shouldn't be able to afford "top of the line foods."During a segment on Newsmax this week, host Rob Schmitt recalled that the Supreme Court had banned race-based college admissions."And now extrapolate that out to all of society when we do this everywhere," he said. "We're ending...
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Analysis of Trump's proposed SAVE America Act reveals the sweeping electoral impact the voting restrictions legislation could have, with modeling showing it could flip competitive states dramatically in Republicans' favor—if it passes. However, a GOP insider raised a cautionary flag about how Republicans are deploying the SAVE Act in their...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows in Tuesday morning's press briefing on the war in Iran.The Pentagon chief told reporters the effort to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz was temporary and "separate and distinct” from the ongoing Operation Epic Fury, and Hegseth said the U.S. intended to hand over the responsibility...
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The final oil shipment out of the Strait of Hormuz arrived in California on Monday, sparking a major turning point for gas prices in the United States, several analysts and experts warned."The war in Iran and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz has actually been buffered by the fact that all of these tankers were at sea at the time that the Strait...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has gone missing from public view and has shifted his attention away from diplomacy amid "America's global collapse," an analyst pointed out on Tuesday. Salon's Chauncey DeVega described how Rubio's focus appears to be on the State Department — and altering its previous emphasis on "cultural pluralism, secularism...
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At the end of a brief and subdued Pentagon press conference on the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut off a reporter from Zero Hedge for suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu will "pull” Donald Trump back into escalating the conflict.Toward the end of a long question from a reporter identifying himself as...
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PRAIRIE VILLAGE — After President Donald Trump took office, a small church in Kansas City retreated underground — abandoning their sanctuary for the basement.Rick Behrens, senior pastor at Grandview Park Presbyterian Church, said he moved services to the locked basement in response to the administration's decision to allow Immigration and...
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Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump's executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it.The Justice Department late Friday filed documents asking a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit and to not block the executive order on a...
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President Donald Trump hosted 130 small business owners at the White House Monday in honor of National Small Business Week, but what was supposed to celebrate entrepreneurs quickly derailed into a lengthy diatribe about the U.S. war against Iran, one that journalist Prem Thakker suggested undermined the president's position.Trump has repeatedly...
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sat down with CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford to discuss his new children's book, "Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence," why he tells young people they are the luckiest people alive "in the history of the world" and more.
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During a relatively subdued Pentagon briefing on the Iran War on Tuesday morning, both Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine were caught by surprise by a question about "kamikaze dolphins” being deployed in the Strait of Hormuz.During the question and answer segment following the opening statements, a...
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A Democratic lawmaker raised red flags over a rhetorical shift in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest press briefing on the Iran war.The Pentagon chief repeatedly stressed that Project Freedom, an effort to move ships through the Strait of Hormuz, was separate from Operation Epic Fury, and CNN's John Berman asked Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) about the...
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The Louisiana Secretary of State received more than 42,000 absentee ballots from voters for the May 16 election by the time Gov. Jeff Landry suspended primaries last week for the state's six U.S. House races, according to records officials provided Monday.The numbers are taking on added significance after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down...
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A group of 29 House Democrats has petitioned the Trump administration to come clean and acknowledge what has been described as an "open secret” among U.S. intelligence for nearly six decades, The Washington Post learned and reported on Tuesday.That "open secret” is Israel's nuclear weapons program, which the United States or Israel have never...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained Tuesday after a reporter pressed him on whether President Donald Trump had capitulated on his demand for Iran to unconditionally surrender, chastising the reporter for deviating from his initially "nice” remarks."I want to first express my gratitude and admiration for the work you do and for everyone...
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn is sputtering financially, with major donors who previously bankrolled his campaigns now sitting on the sidelines — a striking display of the deep fracture within the Republican Party between its business-oriented establishment and its hard-right MAGA base, writes...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has investigated at least four employees for speaking to the press after attending vigils honoring Alex Pretti, a VA worker killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis in January, drawing accusations that the agency is using intimidation to silence staff members.Becky Halioua, a recreational therapist...
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According to a long-time Republican pollster, Republicans have a voter problem that is far and above worse than reeling back MAGA voters as Donald Trump's influence wanes.In an opinion piece for the New York Times, conservative Kristen Soltis Anderson warned the GOP leadership that, what she has dubbed "normie” Republicans, are fed up with where...
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President Donald Trump appeared to be reminiscing on Monday evening over his State of the Union address he delivered back in February, with onlookers baffled to see the president sharing several screenshots on social media of conservative commentators' praise of his performance.As Trump's favorability dips to historic lows amid his wildly unpopular...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) set off a round of brutal mockery for providing his definition of victory in the Iran war.The South Carolina Republican and longtime champion for bombing Iran appeared Monday night on Fox News, where host Sean Hannity asked him to what terms would be necessary for the U.S. to declare victory on the war launched Feb. 28 by...
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Nikita Khrushchev famously said, "We will bury you” ("My vas pokhoronim”) to Western ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956. Seventy years later, it appears that Russia's goal is being realized.Putin called Trump last Wednesday and they talked for almost two hours. Fewer than three days later, America announced we're pulling 5,000 US troops...
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A Democratic influencer tangled with a pair of conservatives on "CNN News Night" over the ongoing war in Iran.Adam Mockler, a 23-year-old Meidas Touch podcaster, pushed back on criticism from the National Review's Noah Rothman after he suggested that younger Americans – who overwhelmingly oppose the war – simply don't appreciate the threat Iran...
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Senate Republicans unveiled a $72 billion spending package late Monday night, and onlookers were left stunned after discovering a $1 billion line item related to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, which he's long claimed would be entirely funded by private donors."What happened to the ballroom being paid for by private funds?”...
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Donald Trump's attempts to throw his weight around and influence a handful of Republican primaries is falling flat with voters and donors who are not willing to back his pushback at GOP incumbents who have forged their own paths. According to a report from Politico's Liz Crampton, Lisa Kashinsky and Alec Hernandez, hand-picked candidates that the...
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