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President Donald Trump erupted at CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins as she questioned his bombshell allegation that Jeffrey Epstein had "stolen" women from his Mar-a-Lago resort.The confrontation unfolded after Trump made the stunning claim aboard Air Force One while returning from Scotland Tuesday, specifically naming Virginia...
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Media advocacy organization Free Press on Tuesday unveiled an index that documents and rates major media organizations' reactions to the coercive demands being made by U.S. President Donald Trump.As Free Press explained in a press release, its Media Capitulation Index tracks actions being taken by 35 major media conglomerates who are facing...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reacted after Texas Republicans revealed a new congressional map that would likely replace five Democratic lawmakers with Republicans.On Friday, state Rep. Todd Hunter (R) unveiled the map targeting Democrats in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and South Texas."Republicans in Texas just rolled out their proposed Congressional...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at Vice President JD Vance Wednesday over accusations that California's congressional districts are gerrymandered, pointing to what he argued was Republican hypocrisy amid President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape Texas' maps in his party's favor."Try again, dumb dumb,” Newsom wrote in a social media post...
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Reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may already be looking for what comes next in his career after leaving his Fox News gig to become defense secretary, where he has become a constant source of controversy, likely has the White House aggravated with him, according to a former GOP lawmakerDuring an appearance on MSNBC, former Rep. Charlie...
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I am going to start today, by actually giving the America-attacking Trump credit for something: He understands far better than any politician in America that the majority of the American public is comprised of complete morons.The sooner Democrats figure this out the better. And by sooner … I mean RIGHT NOW.It's a national emergency.We've all been...
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Russia launched yet another attack on Ukraine overnight, with more than 300 drones and seven missiles, according to Ukraine's air force. While most of the barrage was intercepted, the relentless attacks prompted President Trump to give his Russian counterpart an ultimatum. Charlie D'Agata has the latest.
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South Park creators brushed off the White House rebuke of their season-opening presidential parody by dropping a new trailer depicting Donald Trump in an illicit relationship with Satan.According to USA Today, "The 20-second trailer includes a shot of Trump attending a dinner, where he is sitting at a table with Satan. As a speaker is heard talking...
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Donald Trump's controversial pick for a lifetime judge appointment, Emil Bove was strikingly normal — until he fell under the president's spell, a journalist noted Wednesday.The Atlantic writer Quinta Jurecic was referencing Emil Bove, who was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday."The newest member of the Third Circuit does not appear to have been an...
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A Democrat lawmaker shamed President Donald Trump over remarks about one of his former employees who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein — and he said the comments revealed that he knows more about the convicted sex abuser than he has admitted.Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) appeared Wednesday morning on "CNN News Central," where host Kate Bolduan asked him...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) got into a screaming match with controversial UK right-winger Nigel Farage during a presentation about free speech, Politico reported.Raskin was in London as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation led by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) to discuss the free speech implications of the UK's new Online Safety Act....
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) fired back at President Donald Trump after he demanded that the Senate drop its "blue slip" tradition that gives Democrats a chance to weigh in on nominees who could serve in their state.In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump criticized Grassley for refusing to abandon the decades-old bipartisan tradition."Chuck...
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President Donald Trump's options to mitigate potentially "the biggest political scandal in American history" are getting fewer by the day, according to a new piece in Mother Jones.Currently on the table is a possible Trump pardon for Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking — a move...
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Two weeks ago, the Miami Herald began asking the Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM) about the "complete hurricane/disaster plan for Alligator Alcatraz." They still don't have one. When President Donald Trump visited the facility with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), he praised the state's ability to quickly build the pop-up prison for...
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) got into it with Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Wednesday during a hearing in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. At issue is Hawley's demand to pass legislation that would ban lawmakers from trading stocks. In the past, there have been accusations that lawmakers have inside information that...
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Count on one thing: If Mark Twain, the famed American author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about U.S. President Donald Trump. After all, Twain's 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a 19th-century version of our Trumpian moment, tariffs and all."They want me...
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A Senate committee devolved into chaos after the president and vice president were added to Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) bill to prevent stock trading by certain elected officials.During a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), a co-sponsor of the bill, suggested he had changed his mind in...
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A decision by Donald Trump to admit on Tuesday that his falling out with Jeffrey Epstein came after the pedophile poached a teen employee from Mar-a-Lago is infuriating Republican lawmakers.As the White House, and Republicans, pray that the Epstein firestorm goes away, Trump's mention of Virginia Giuffre, arguably the most well-known of Epstein's...
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President Donald Trump was shamed Wednesday for a long history of making up "colorful quotes" intended to make himself look prescient and knowledgeable.The president told an anecdote Monday about how he made what he called a "correct prediction” on the United Kingdom's Brexit referendum in 2016 while visiting his golf course in Scotland "the day...
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WASHINGTON — Republicans are debating whether to blow up Senate rules to quickly usher through dozens of President Donald Trump's stalled nominees — or to adjourn at the end of the week, thereby allowing Trump to make recess appointments throughout the scheduled August break."I think we have a choice. Democrats either have to relent and let us...
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Vice President JD Vance has been uncommonly silent as the White House contends with the Jeffrey Epstein crisis — and he has good reason for standing on the sidelines.That is according to Politico's Dasha Burns, who appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning to expand upon her report on Donald Trump's vice president's work as the "MAGA...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a new crisis that's brewing despite his sending lawmakers home to avoid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) intends to file a discharge petition to force a floor vote on banning stock trades for members of Congress — which could put the speaker in a bind, reported Politico."Like...
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Pro-MAGA host Gina Loudon warned that President Donald Trump's base was becoming more and more frustrated about a failure to release information on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.During a Wednesday segment on Real America's Voice, Loudon noted that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell had threatened not to answer questions unless she...
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Ohioans whose livelihoods are inextricably linked to the automotive industry are in for a bumpy ride.The Big Three automakers, who employ 86,000 workers in vehicle and parts manufacturing in the state, along with Honda's strong presence, are grappling with escalating costs and tumbling profits as Trump's tariffs take effect.Cumulative tariff costs...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is weighing his options for a path out of Donald Trump's administration as controversies continue to plague his short stint as the head of the United States Armed Forces, NBC News reported.According to sources close to Hegseth who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Hegseth has been having "serious” discussions...
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Senate Democrats are planning to invoke a 1928 law that should compel the Department of Justice to turn over the files they are withholding from the public on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.According to a report from the New York Times, the move by the Democrats will put Republicans on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee...
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President Donald Trump shared a follower's QAnon conspiracy meme Wednesday in a rapid-fire social media posting spree as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to bear down on him.The president shared a barrage of responses to his post Tuesday night demanding Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ram through his judicial nominees over the objections of...
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Now that he's free, Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him if he didn't kneel alongside other inmates and lick their backs.Now that he's...
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President Donald Trump will hit a major U.S. ally with a massive new tax as a punishment for its alliance with Russia, he announced Wednesday.Despite Trump cultivating a close friendship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a conservative leader who recently visited the White House and has held joint rallies with Trump, the president unleashed...
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President Trump has struck a deal with Europe to head off a trade war. It avoids the 30% import tax the president had threatened to impose on European goods beginning Aug. 1. Instead, the tariffs will be about half that amount. The Europeans, in return, will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on U.S. products. Weijia Jiang has more.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at the results of a bipartisan-ordered review of his part in what has become known as "Signalgate," where he put military personnel in potential danger during what was supposed to be a surprise attack against Houthi rebels.According to the report that came out last week, Hegseth and the White House's...
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White House insiders warn Donald Trump's presidency is crippled if just a tiny part of his MAGA base fails to get over the Jeffrey Epstein mess that's swirled for more than a week.Talking to The Washington Post, officials close to Trump said that, though the bulk of his hardcore support seems to be swinging back to him after major outrage, the...
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At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains largely hidden from view.Among the first to formalize such a partnership was New College of Florida, a small public liberal arts college whose board...
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The Trump administration is weaponizing federal agencies to prop up right-wing media in an unprecedented assault on free speech — with the Federal Trade Commission now forcing advertisers to return to Elon Musk's X platform through a controversial merger condition, an expert wrote Wednesday.In a stunning break from traditional practice, the FTC...
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We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end of World War II.The question is: How do we lead moral lives in this era?Putin launches a horrendous war on Ukraine.After Hamas's atrocity, Netanyahu bombs Gaza to smithereens and is now starving to death its remaining...
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Donald Trump Jr. posted a bizarre gushing over his dad as he shared a denim-clad AI image of the 79-year-old president with the comment, "so hot!”The president's son was inserting himself into the Sydney Sweeney advertising firestorm."That Hanse…. Um, Donald is so hot right now!!!" he posted on Instagram, apparently referencing Owen Wilson's...
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Hundreds of employees at the Department of Justice have been pushed out this year for a variety of reasons, although many of them aren't even sure why they were fired.The firings have spread fear across the DOJ workforce, which has also been demoralized by carrying out President Donald Trump's agenda, reported NPR."Being a government lawyer, you...
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The phrase "joy is resistance" has been popping up all over the place lately. But what, exactly, does it mean? In this episode, we're unpacking what joy is, when it can actually be used as a tool for social change, and why the slogan has become so popular (even when joy itself feels more tenuous.)
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The media's job in a democratic society is to speak truth to power, not to suck up to it. But last week, CBS and its parent company Paramount waved the white flag, handing Donald Trump a $16 million bribe and agreeing to censor their own newsroom to curry favor with a twice-impeached, multiply-indicted rapist authoritarian who lost the popular vote...
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Nach dem Haushalt ist vor dem Haushalt: Im Kabinett wird heute die Finanzplanung bis 2029 beschlossen – und darin klafft eine Lücke von mehr als 170 Milliarden Euro. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert mit Gordon Repinski die Konfliktlinien in der Koalition.Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Andreas Audretsch. Der Haushaltsexperte der Grünen wirft der...
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President Donald Trump has backed himself into a deep corner on the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to one analyst. Former federal prosecutor Daniel Richman argued in a recent op-ed for The New York Times that Trump's obsession with loyalty could make it more difficult for him to keep his base together as he tries to distance himself from the...
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President Donald Trump's public pressure on the Federal Reserve appears to be working, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman, both of whom are Trump appointees, are considering dissenting in the next Fed meeting. That would mark the first time in nearly three...
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wants to use the revenue raised from President Donald Trump's tariffs to cut $600 checks to Americans — but his idea is already being panned by his Republican Senate colleagues, Semafor reported on Tuesday."It probably would be the most popular thing that this Congress would do. Which means, of course, Republicans would be...
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Critics tore into Republican senators Tuesday night who ignored alarmed whistleblowers and former judges and voted to confirm a former lawyer for President Donald Trump to a lifetime judgeship on a federal appeals court.Emil Bove was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He previously acted as U.S. deputy attorney general...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) built a reputation over his career in the Senate for urging government whistleblowers to come forward and reveal corruption and misconduct to Congress. But now he has done precisely the opposite with President Donald Trump's nomination of his former personal lawyer and DOJ loyalist Emil Bove for an appellate court...
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An 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific Ocean and the U.S. West Coast. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake happened 85 miles off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula at a depth of nearly 12 miles.Tsunami warnings were issued for Alaska's Aleutian Islands and Hawaii. A tsunami watch was...
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President Donald Trump is keeping it close to the chest whether he is truly considering a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of deceased financier and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, as his Justice Department continues to interview her amid outrage from Trump's own base about the lack of transparency for the case...
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A darling of the MAGA movement slammed the GOP on Tuesday for the party's hesitation to address starvation in Gaza. Candace Owens, who is currently ensnared in a defamation lawsuit with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, made the comments Tuesday on her podcast, "Candace." She claimed that GOP lawmakers, like Rep. Randy Fine...
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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration faced an onslaught of criticism on Tuesday for starting the process of repealing the 2009 legal opinion that greenhouse gases endanger public health and the welfare of the American people—which has enabled federal regulations aimed at the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency over the past 15...
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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says the legislation he is filing to send $600 tariff rebate checks to Americans are not for "Biden voters,” but for "Trump blue-collar voters.”"Well, you wouldn't give it to everybody, you'd give it to the working people,” Senator Hawley told far-right podcaster Steve Bannon on Tuesday (video below). "You'd give...
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A former federal prosecutor slammed the Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday for filing a complaint against a federal judge on suspicious grounds. Glenn Kirschner discussed the complaint filed against Chief Justice James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in his latest episode of the "Justice...
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Senate lawmakers on Tuesday night confirmed a controversial nominee of President Donald Trump to a lifetime judge position.Emil Bove was nominated for a federal judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He previously acted as U.S. deputy attorney general and was a central figure in the legal defense of high-profile Trump...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to revoke a key scientific finding it published 16 years ago that six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. David Schechter breaks down why it matters.
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Tuesday, denying that he had anything to do with the cancellation of late-night comedian Stephen Colbert's show — while lauding CBS and Paramount for giving him the axe, and suggesting other comedians who had attacked him might be next."Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday launched an investigation into U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s purge of independent experts from a panel on vaccine recommendations.Last month, Kennedy announced that he was "retiring" all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, despite promising...
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A legal expert warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday that he may have put himself in legal jeopardy by admitting he knew one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims. Trump told reporters earlier on Tuesday that Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre from him when she was employed at Mar-a-Lago. That claim could backfire on Trump because it shows that he knew one...
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