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A CNN pundit shut down a conservative who kept interrupting her by yelling in his face.Leigh McGowan, a political commentator and the host of the PoliticsGirl podcast, got locked in a fiery exchange with Jason Rantz, a conservative radio host, during their appearance on CNN on Tuesday.The debate centered around Zohran Mamdani and Darializa Avila...
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Heute legt eine Expertenkommission ihre Vorschläge zum Social-Media-Umgang für Kinder und Jugendliche vor. Statt klarer Kanten gibt es ein „Jein" in zwei Varianten: Entweder gestaffelte Altersgrenzen ab 13 Jahren mit elterlicher Hintertür oder eine rein funktionale Risikobewertung gegen süchtig machendes Endless-Scrolling. Maximilian...
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Trump attacked the Republican senators who crossed party lines and voted to check his Iran war powers.In a late-night Truth Social post, Trump claimed he had "Iran on the 'ropes,' ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything, and for the first time in decades, respecting the hell out of the United States and its...
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Makerfield has proved to be the making of Andy Burnham's bid for the top job, but could it also be the moment that Nigel Farage's ambitions for Number 10 took a knock? While Reform UK continues to lead the national polls, it failed to capture the Greater Manchester seat last week and was beaten into third place by the Conservatives,...
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The Trump Department of Justice is again asking a federal court to erase a January 6 rioter's gun conviction, per a new court filing.In a renewed motion on Tuesday, the Trump DOJ asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the conviction of Benjamin John Martin, who was found guilty of possessing firearms despite a prior misdemeanor domestic...
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Political analysts and military experts were outraged on Tuesday night after The Atlantic reported that the latest high-ranking military officer had been forced out under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership.The Atlantic reported that General Chris Donahue, commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe and Africa and commander of Allied Land...
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President Donald Trump faced scrutiny Tuesday when a reporter pressed him for evidence after he claimed someone used a knife to damage the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. While visiting a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania, Trump was asked to respond to his claims on the Reflecting Pool's alleged vandalization. A reporter told the President,...
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MS NOW's Chris Hayes cracked up on Tuesday's broadcast of "All In" after President Donald Trump celebrated the results of a primary race where he endorsed both candidates. Alan Wilson, the South Carolina attorney general, defeated the state's Lieutenant Governor, Pamela Evette, in a Republican Governor primary race. Trump endorsed both candidates...
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Political analysts ridiculed President Donald Trump's state fair after it was announced that FBI Director Kash Patel's MAGA girlfriend was tapped to perform.Alexis Wilkins announced via a post on X that she will be a "featured performer" at the June 24 kick-off rally to the Great American State Fair."Does having the FBI director's girlfriend...
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Military sources who recently spoke to The Atlantic about the departure of a high-ranking leader warned that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "war on warriors" is causing havoc within the military. On Tuesday, The Atlantic reported that General Chris Donahue had unexpectedly departed the military. Donahue was considered a "rising star" within the...
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President Donald Trump complimented himself during a speech Tuesday at a Mack Truck manufacturing facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania, for creating a new nickname for the Democratic Party. Trump began calling Democrats the "Dumocrats," a phrase he has used in multiple Truth Social posts. The nickname replaces the "E" in Democrats with a "U." During...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
A MAGA senator attracted online ire by making a threat against one of Trump's political foes.Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) called Obama "a crook" during an appearance on Real America's Voice on Tuesday and demanded, "Let's put him in jail." He added that Fauci "should be in prison" for supposedly "lying to the American people," but didn't specify...
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The Tennessee Young Republicans, a GOP-affiliated group, published a statement on Monday distancing itself from white supremacist messages and mailers sent by Austin Lee, president of the Tennessee Maury County Young Republicans chapter. "The views expressed therein DO NOT constitute the views or an official position of the TYRF,” the Tennessee...
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A physical therapist said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is exhibiting symptoms of someone who recently had a stroke. During his trip to the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Trump gave a bizarre handshake to French President Emmanuel Macron that caught the eye of Adam James, a licensed physical therapist. James noted that Trump's odd...
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President Donald Trump may need to procure a life jacket to save himself from the cost of his broken promises to his supporters, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist.Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump appears desperate to end the war with Iran because of its...
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Former Republican operative Steve Schmidt described his amazement as President Donald Trump is "decomposing in real time."On his podcast "The Warning," Schmidt spoke about Trump's health. He said that he thinks Trump "will live to be at least 108 years old," but the president is "falling apart, decomposing in real time, under the stress, the...
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A "disturbing" Supreme Court ruling will allow border officials to subject green-card holders to a "Kafkaesque nightmare," per a Slate analysis.According to the analysis by legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern, the 6-3 Supreme Court vote along usual partisan lines in the case Blanche v. Lau established that border officials don't need "clear and...
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Charlie Kirk, the late right-wing activist and ally of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, privately expressed concerns about how the president was handling Middle East affairs amid fractures in the MAGA base, according to a highly anticipated book released Tuesday.In "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald...
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A boxing challenge from Facebook user Jay Artem to rapper Talib Kweli escalated into a heated online feud marked by escalating accusations and threats. Artem initiated the confrontation by posting repeated challenges for Kweli to accept a boxing match. Kweli declined and responded by labeling Artem a white nationalist who hates Black and gay...
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A federal judge has vacated the Trump administration's policy of arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses, finding Immigration and Customs Enforcement acted with a "complete lack of decisionmaking."U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts of the Northern District of California issued the order wiping out both ICE's courthouse-arrest policies and a...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's narrative about the issues the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool faces is under intense scrutiny, and political analysts were astounded by a new report that seemed to make the scrutiny much worse. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that internal White House documents show the Trump administration was well aware of the...
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In a 6-3 decision in Blanche v. Lau, the Supreme Court's conservative majority sided with the Trump administration, ruling border officials can revoke green cards from returning residents based on suspicion of criminal activity without requiring evidence. The Independent reports Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized her conservative colleagues...
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Internal White House documents about the issues at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool seem to undercut President Donald Trump's claims that the pool had been vandalized, according to a new report. Trump blamed alleged "vandals" for damaging the pool after crews recently completed a more than $16 million renovation. Video of the bottom layer of...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned top executives that the United States was taking steps to respond to China's state-backed robotics industry, something viewed as a potential national security threat, Politico reported on Tuesday.During the closed-door meeting on Monday, he told the business leaders that the Trump administration was studying...
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A GOP senator couldn't help but laugh when asked about Trump's algae-filled Reflecting Pool, according to a veteran D.C. reporter. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) was amused by reporter Joe Perticone's question about how the green, murky Reflecting Pool with floating strips of paint is looking, according to a new Substack piece by The Bulwark."It doesn't...
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Fencing and an AI surveillance system went up at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after President Donald Trump blamed "vandals" for a gash reporters cannot find.On Wednesday, workers were seen installing fencing around the pool and near the World War II Memorial. A solar-powered mobile surveillance unit was placed poolside.TMZ DC co-managing...
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As Donald Trump entered the Oval Office for a second term, Republican legislators bent over backward with "tributes” to the president that would "shock students of history,” according to a newly released book from New York Times authors.In stark contrast to Republicans' turn away from Trump after he lost the 2020 election — and was impeached...
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President Donald Trump used a Tuesday speech at a Pennsylvania Mack Trucks plant to make the striking claim that Republican Steve Hilton only advanced in California's governor's race because Trump personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene."I called up the very powerful, very good U.S. attorney in California and I said, 'Do me a favor,...
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Fox News cut away from President Donald Trump's live Pennsylvania speech Tuesday to let a conservative commentator tear apart his Iran deal, with Trump visible on the split-screen.Trump was at a Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania — his first major event outside Washington since signing a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran...
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An FBI report obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, in federal court in Alabama may reveal secrets about Stephen Miller's role in the Trump administration. Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, has previously shielded his White House communications under executive privilege. The SPLC, which the Trump administration...
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A major Senate rebuke of President Donald Trump on Tuesday led a CNN anchor to declare that the 80-year-old MAGA leader just received a clear message that his grip on the GOP has weakened.In a striking bipartisan rebuke, the Senate on Tuesday voted to order Trump to halt the war in Iran or seek congressional approval to keep fighting. Many Raju,...
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly stunned by the relationship between President Donald Trump and one of his closest aides, according to The Daily Beast.Trump has apparently told those in his inner circle that his executive assistant Natalie Harp, 34, will "never leave" him, The Beast reported. She has worked closely with the...
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Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie was the recipient of a dig courtesy of President Donald Trump on Tuesday.Mackenzie joined Trump in Macungie, where the 80-year-old president delivered remarks to a Mack Trucks assembly plant.During Trump's rambling speech, the president introduced four MAGA "warriors," including Mackenzie. As Mackenzie...
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Trump saw his power to continue waging war in Iran checked by a Senate vote on Tuesday, per reporting by the New York Times.The Senate resolution tells Trump to end the war in Iran or seek congressional authorization to resume it, according to the Times, which described the 50-48 Senate vote as "the most significant bipartisan rebuke yet of the...
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Four Republican senators broke ranks with President Donald Trump and voted to limit his Iran war powers on Tuesday, according to CNN. The "major rebuke" from lawmakers, including GOP leaders, has directed the Trump administration to begin removing military forces in Iran, CNN reported.Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Lisa...
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The Department of Justice could abruptly be forced to divulge secrets about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's handling of the Epstein files.American Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the DOJ on Monday after the agency denied an expedited release of records tied to Blanche's oversight of...
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The Justice Department is refusing to formally swear that President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund is dead, and one legal analyst said Monday that refusal may have been a telling reveal.Writing for MS NOW, legal analyst Lisa Rubin examined the DOJ's response to U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who gave the...
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Eli Lilly and the Food and Drug Administration granted a single, 79-year-old patient access to Retatrutide, an unapproved obesity drug comparable to bariatric surgery, through a "compassionate use" program typically reserved for patients with serious, life-threatening conditions. STAT's reporter Lizzy Lawrence said the application drew interest...
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President Donald Trump stunned the internet on Tuesday as he mocked a woman weightlifter on stage.Trump started talking about women in sports, sharing a convoluted story and pretending to groan in front of the crowd at the Mack Trucks assembly plant, in Macungie, Pennsylvania.People reacted to the bizarre moment on social media."The President of...
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President Donald Trump appeared to scramble on Tuesday when a reporter pressed him for evidence after he claimed someone had taken a knife and damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Trump was visiting a Mack Truck facility in the swing state of Pennsylvania when he was pressed to respond to his vandalism allegations."You mentioned yesterday...
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President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he might want to run for president again, prompting people in the audience at a rally in Pennsylvania to cheer.Trump was speaking at a Mack Trucks assembly plant, in Macungie, Pennsylvania, to speak about the economy."Maybe we should run again. Should we run one more time? I'd like to do that," Trump...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump gave himself a baffling compliment during a speech on Tuesday in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters at a Mack Truck manufacturing facility, where he briefly mentioned the new name he's come up with to describe the Democratic Party. Trump now calls them the "Dumocrats," a phrase he's used in multiple...
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President Donald Trump has turned his son-in-law's former office into a hoarding space complete with "papers, paintings, tchotchkes, MAGA paraphernalia, and various gifts he couldn't bear to throw away," according to a new report. The Daily Beast reported, citing details in the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump...
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Twenty-three state attorneys general filed a scathing brief Monday calling Trump's settled IRS lawsuit a "collusive sham" that fraudulently used the courts to funnel taxpayer money to the president's allies and immunize the Trump family from federal investigations.The brief, filed in the Southern District of Florida and led by California Attorney...
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More than 16,000 public comments flooded the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, just hours after ABC called on its army of "The View" fans to fight back against the Trump administration.Viewers shared their concerns that the people who appear on the show should be determined by the show's journalists, hosts and producers. In February,...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is threatening to derail House Republican leaders' legislative agenda for weeks, including a bipartisan housing bill, unless the chamber fights for the SAVE America Act, the stalled Trump-backed voter ID and citizenship-proof legislation."I will be voting no and oppose other bills AND rules until we fight for SAVE...
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Prairieland ICE detention center shooter Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday, with others getting 30 years or more for their role in a July 4, 2025 immigration protest turned violent.Song was convicted of attempted murder for shooting and injuring an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center during the...
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US Sen. Susan Collins on Monday faced backlash, including from the Democratic candidate trying to unseat her, for falsely stating that the Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal right to abortion was decided 6-3 and that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was not a pivotal vote.In a newly aired Fox News interview, Collins (R-Maine) said she "disagreed...
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Photographs taken from behind scaffolding at the Kennedy Center show President Donald Trump's name has been removed from the performing arts venue's marble facade. The images, obtained by the activist group Hands Off the Arts and verified by The Washington Post, reveal blank square panels where Trump's name was previously installed in December. The...
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A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that the Trump administration could expand its expedited deportation process nationwide, and the dissenting judge issued a particularly scathing rebuke of the majority's decision, The New York Times reported.Decided in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the ruling also...
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The internet on Tuesday mocked Vice President JD Vance for patting his wife's knee during her podcast.Second lady Usha Vance hosted her husband for a special Father's Day edition of her series "Storytime with the Second Lady." The couple read "Winnie the Pooh" and discussed their family dynamics — and expecting their fourth child together.But one...
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A Senate hearing devolved into chaos when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) clucked like a chicken at Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for refusing to let her answer his own question.The confrontation erupted Tuesday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on housing and consumer affordability. Tillis had been pressing a witness on whether credit card rate...
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A White House spokesman went on the record to deny a report suggesting that President Donald Trump was granted access to an experimental obesity drug not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.STAT reported the FDA and Eli Lilly allowed one individual – a 79-year-old man – to gain access to retatrutide through a "compassionate use”...
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The Tennessee Young Republicans – a Tennessee GOP-affiliated group of young conservatives – issued a statement Monday night distancing themselves from remarks and mailers issued by one of its chapter presidents that included openly white supremacist messages.Austin Lee, the apparent president of the Tennessee Maury County Young Republicans...
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Elon Musk spent Monday night on social media defending his role in orchestrating massive U.S. foreign aid cuts that research at UCLA suggests could cause over 14 million preventable deaths by 2030. After Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) accused him of causing these deaths through USAID defunding, Musk responded by calling the Congressman a liar, demanding...
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After yet another 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that handed Donald Trump's administration one more victory, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her conservative colleagues over their betrayal of existing green card holders.According to The Independent, the ruling came down in Blanche v. Lau, which agrees with the administration that, if a green...
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Während aktuelle Bedrohungen die Welt in Atem halten, blickt die Allied Foresight Conference der NATO in Berlin in die Zukunft. Rund 250 Experten diskutieren über Szenarien, in denen Cyberangriffe auf Stromnetze, Satelliten-Dimensionen und der Klimawandel das operative Umfeld bestimmen. Rixa Fürsen spricht darüber mit Florence Gaub (NATO...
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Rapper Talib Kweli is not interested in stepping into a ring with a man who has been publicly daring him to fight, but the online standoff between them has only escalated, with each accusing the other of stoking threats.It began when a Facebook user named Jay Artem posted what he billed as "day one of tagging Talib Kweli and challenging him to box...
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President Donald Trump has turned his focus from the Iran war to the ongoing setbacks in his renovation of the Reflecting Pool, but it's clear the project won't be ready in time for the July 4 celebration.The $14 million renovation has been bedeviled by issues from the start, and CNN's Kevin Liptak provided an update to "The Situation Room" on the...
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The Justice Department has withdrawn extraordinary grand jury subpoenas issued to reporters from two newspapers after they challenged the demands in federal court, marking a rare retreat from an exceedingly aggressive tactic against the press.The DOJ had sought to compel Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima and three Wall...
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A GOP analyst and former White House insider revealed that as President Donald Trump has shown signs of "dictatorial dementia," energetic "young henchmen" around him are in a hurry to reshape the government — even rushing to conduct mass firings.Bill Kristol, the editor at large for The Bulwark and a former chief of staff to Vice President Dan...
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a new detail of the tentative peace agreement between Washington and Tehran. "The Money and/or Sanctions that the U.S. Treasury is releasing goes into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United...
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Reacting to reports that Donald Trump has given the okay from Iran to start selling oil to the United States, handing the extremist leadership an immediate source of billions of dollars, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle admitted she was dumbfounded.On her "Money Power Politics" morning show, Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, reported, "We learned...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
CBS News and other news organizations have investigated President Donald Trump's claim that vandals left a 350-foot gash in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and have found that there is "no sign."On Monday, Trump doubled down on his assertions about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco happened, saying it "has been given a 300-foot-long gash." The...
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President Donald Trump doubled down on his theory Tuesday that vandals were responsible for his failed Reflecting Pool renovations, suggesting that "razor blades” may have been used to create a "gash” in the pool's bottom longer than a football field "in the dark of night.”"The 350 foot gash, made by a very sharp knife or razors, is actually...
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As President Donald Trump's favorability among Americans continues to reach record lows, so too has the number of infants given the name "Donald,” a review of Social Security Administration data by NOTUS found Tuesday."The federal agency received fewer than 400 Social Security card applications for baby Donalds last year, making 'Donald' the...
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Vice President JD Vance's becoming the face of the Iran peace negotiations has all the appearances of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Donald Trump leaving the veep out to dangle in the wind by defending a deal that will go nowhere.That is according to MS NOW's Jake Traylor, who told host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday morning that one administration...
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President Donald Trump has become desperate to "erase the sting of defeat," an analyst argued on Tuesday.Salon's Heather Digby Parton described how the Iran negotiations and failed foreign policy maneuvers have left Trump in a position where he needs a "big win." And now, he has turned his attention to Cuba and Greenland in an attempt to restore...
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Speculation swirled around a report that a single patient – a 79-year-old man – was given access to a powerful new obesity drug that's still awaiting federal approval.STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the Food and Drug Administration allowed one individual to gain access to retatrutide, which has demonstrated the ability to cut weight at...
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