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President Donald Trump's sudden change of policy on reopening the Strait of Hormuz has angered Gulf allies and changed how they view the United States amid the Iran war, an expert said on Thursday. Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy Magazine, told MS NOW that Trump's decision followed Saudi Arabia's move to suspend the U.S. military's...
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After being officially reprimanded for treating COVID-19 without permission in Texas, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden has started selling an unproven horse dewormer to treat hantavirus.Bowden responded to reports that at least five hantavirus cases had been confirmed aboard a cruise ship by speculating about the efficacy of ivermectin."Hantavirus is a RNA...
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President Donald Trump appeared at a Wednesday speech with visible bruises on both hands covered with makeup, prompting social media speculation about his physical health. This isn't the first time the, nearly, 80-year-old President has been spotted using makeup to cover the bruises on his hands. However his appearance on Wednesday drew the...
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Trump broke his silence on a meeting with Brazil's president that perplexed journalists on Thursday. "Just concluded my meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the very dynamic President of Brazil," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "We discussed many topics, including Trade and, specifically, Tariffs. The meeting went very well."Journalists...
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Right-wing influencers were spreading conspiracy theories about the rat-borne illness that has left three luxury cruise ship passengers dead, according to reports on Thursday. Experts from the World Health Organization have said that the hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius is being transmitted human-to-human and that MAGA social media accounts are...
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The Trump administration withheld information from a Biden judge and let a lie spread that she knowingly freed a murder suspect, according to a legal expert. Harry Litman, former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, called out the Department of Homeland Security in a piece on Thursday. DHS, the parent agency of Immigration and...
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The out-of-the-blue revelations of the contents of a suicide note reportedly written by convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein in his jail cell have once again focused attention on the cloud hovering over Donald Trump and his administration.Writing for The iPaper, columnist James Ball noted that Epstein stories have fallen by the wayside while the...
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Defenders of the planet took aim at President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday for transferring approximately 1.4 million acres of public lands along the Dalton Utility Corridor from the US Bureau of Land Management to the state of Alaska."This corridor encompasses some of Alaska's most critical transportation and energy assets, including...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheerfully downplayed rising fuel costs as the result of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, and he was pilloried on social media.The Transportation Secretary was asked by reporters Thursday at an event in Philadelphia about average gasoline prices surpassing $4.50 per gallon, and Duffy justified the...
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US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday claimed American farmers are heading toward a "golden age,” even as President Donald Trump's policies are increasingly driving them into financial distress.During an appearance on Fox Business, Rollins discussed Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to talk trade between the...
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The White House spun out an enraged statement blasting "Star Wars" icon Mark Hamill as "sick" over a social media post he shared.The 74-year-old actor best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the sci-fi blockbusters shared an AI-generated image on Bluesky that appeared to show the 79-year-old president lying in a grave beneath a headstone reading...
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President Donald Trump's decision to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet with Pope Leo shows Trump may be interested in pitting his Cabinet members against each other, according to a report on Thursday. The president's "mission impossible" for Rubio has raised questions about loyalties in the Trump administration — not necessarily healing...
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First Lady Melania Trump's remarks about her husband's empathy prompted audience laughter during a White House event honoring military mothers ahead of Mother's Day. Melania described President Donald Trump as "the strong commander-in-chief" whose "empathy transcends the role and shape of a caring leader, who constantly remembers each and every...
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President Donald Trump reversed himself on a major public health issue after lobbyists from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles' former client visited.The Food and Drug Administration authorized an L.A.-based company to sell flavored vape products, which Trump had opposed as harmful to young people, after the tobacco firm Swisher International...
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The relative calm that Tom Homan brought to immigration policy discussions following the firing of controversial DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was loudly slapped aside this week when Trump's border czar made a vulgar boast about the administration's plans for aggressive deportation enforcement.Speaking at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona,...
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A MAGA lawmaker who was wearing a Trump flag as a cape was forced to take it off before walking into a legislative session as Republican state lawmakers were following demands from President Donald Trump to redraw the state's congressional districts — and facing mounting protests that activists say would split the state's only majority-Black...
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A bombshell CIA memo distributed to administration policymakers the week revealed that Iran is in a far stronger military and economic position than President Trump has publicly claimed — directly contradicting the president's rosy assessments about the state of the war.According to a Washington Post report, the leaked classified intelligence...
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Ashley St. Clair, a former Turning Point USA brand ambassador turned critic, is exposing what she describes as a coordinated paid promotion scheme involving President Donald Trump's top online personalities. In monologue-style videos published on TikTok to 77,000 followers, St. Clair alleges MAGA influencers portrayed as grassroots activists...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called out a yawning child who did not appear to be thrilled with his speech.During an event in Philadelphia on Thursday, some of the city's schoolchildren were on hand to hear Duffy talk about America's 250th birthday."Are you guys excited to be in Philadelphia?" Duffy asked the kids."Yes," the group responded,...
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Major energy companies are reaping enormous profits from the ongoing Strait of Hormuz stalemate triggered by Donald Trump's war on Iran, with European oil giants reporting dramatic earnings surges while American producers sit on the sidelines, the New York Times is reporting.British energy giant Shell reported robust first-quarter profits Thursday,...
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Friends,We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate but cannot.Iran is unlikely to give in. It can withstand the economic pressure of a blockade better than Trump can withstand the political pressure that comes with rising gas prices (now nearly $4.50 a gallon, on average), soon followed by rising food...
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mulling complained that "Kamikaze" Dems had sabotaged his supply of paperclips during the recent partial government shutdown.During a Fox Business interview on Thursday, host Maria Bartiromo asked Mullin if he could insulate DHS from future shutdowns so "people are still getting...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a campaign-style video Wednesday describing his "hope for America," triggering widespread speculation that he may challenge Vice President JD Vance for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. Though Rubio has publicly stated he would support Vance, political analysts and conservative influencers...
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Federal law enforcement has collapsed as the Department of Justice focuses on President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.A Reuters review found that between January and April, federal prosecutors in Minnesota charged eight people with gun or drug offenses compared to 77 in the same period last year, which amounts to a 90 percent collapse in...
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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R), the powerful chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been implicated in a lawsuit filed by two FBI agents who were terminated by Director Kash Patel for their work on special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Donald Trump.According to reporting from The Hill, the 92-year-old Republican played a significant...
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President Donald Trump's question for a teenager at the White House this week has revealed a MAGA divide, according to a report from The Bulwark on Thursday. Trump was meeting with a group of students and athletes in the Oval Office to celebrate Trump's signing of a proclamation to restore the Presidential Fitness Test award when he quipped "you...
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President Donald Trump has for years gotten away with flagrant corruption and self-dealing off of the apathy of the American people, Mona Charen wrote for The Bulwark on Thursday — but that may finally be coming to an end.The extent of his excesses, she wrote, can be seen in the "gargantuan shakedown" Trump is trying to stage against the IRS,...
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The Department of Justice is investigating a series of suspiciously timed trades timed around major announcements about the war in Iran, prompting skepticism.The DOJ, along with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is looking into at least four transactions where traders made more than $2.6 billion betting that oil prices would drop right...
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Deutschland und die EU diskutieren über Regulierung, während die Weltspitze bei der Künstlichen Intelligenz davoneilt. Während ChatGPT und Co. die Schlagzeilen beherrschen, entscheidet sich die Zukunft des Standorts Deutschland in den Fabrikhallen. Siemens-Chef Roland Busch steuert das wertvollste Unternehmen des Landes durch diese...
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According to MS NOW national security analyst David Rohde, what is known about the rumored one-page memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran to halt the war is less than being advertised and the advantages still lie with the war-torn country.Appearing on "Morning Joe,” Rohde praised the work of the negotiators but also claimed that the...
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The economy has been pushed to the brink as President Donald Trump escalated his war with Iran, sending the price of oil and gas surging and setting off a new wave of inflation.But even if that war is resolved now, it's likely too late to fix the economy ahead of the midterms, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday."Amid the economic pressure, Trump...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has been making the rounds reassuring the public that the economic hardships from Donald Trump's Iran war will eventually subside, received a sobering reality check from the airline industry — one of the sectors being hit hardest by skyrocketing fuel costs.According to reporting from the Wall Street Journal,...
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The day after the U.S. Supreme Court crippled the federal Voting Rights Act, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson addressed a virtual gathering for the group's members and supporters where he ranked the landmark decision alongside the court's most infamous cases.Dred Scott excluded Black people from American citizenship ahead of the Civil War....
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President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.The 79-year-old president has been posting a photo of Jeffries from last year holding a baseball bat in his office and calling the House speaker a "thug" and insulting his intelligence, and Trump stepped up his attacks this week by calling for his impeachment...
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Senate Republicans are giving up for now on passing the SAVE America Act — a sweeping package of new restrictions on voting that President Donald Trump proclaimed should be the Senate's one and only priority just weeks ago.The legislation would impose new voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements on voters in every state, and would also...
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Former Trump White House Communications Director Mike Dubke didn't get a very credulous reception on a CNN panel Thursday morning when he accused Democrats of waging a war against "job creators."This came in the middle of a discussion of New York's proposed "pied-à-terre tax," charging billionaires for owning high-value second homes — as well as...
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President Donald Trump soothes himself after a stressful day in the Oval Office by bending the ear of the construction manager of his massive ballroom project, according to a new report.Despite the ongoing war in Iran and a resulting surge in fuel prices, as well as backlash to his immigration crackdown and other political problems tanking his...
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Ashley St. Clair, a 27-year-old former brand ambassador for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, has turned into one of the fiercest critics of the movement she helped build.St. Clair, who amassed more than a million followers on X, published an anti-transgender children's book, appeared on Fox News and took selfies at Mar-a-Lago, now alleges that...
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), one of President Joe Biden's fiercest Republican critics over inflation and gas prices, is refusing to account for his stunning reversal now that a Republican president's unpopular war in Iran is putting an even bigger squeeze on American consumers.When pressed by MS NOW's Jack Fitzpatrick, the normally press-friendly...
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One of Donald Trump's Cabinet members is considering a plan to upset the natural order of the administration by challenging JD Vance for the 2028 Republican nomination, according to those analyzing a recent campaign-style video that was released.Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said that he would give Vance the top spot, insinuating he...
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With Donald Trump's approval rating hitting a historic low, longtime Beltway analyst John Heilemann told the hosts of MS NOW's "Morning Joe” that Republican Party lawmakers are being swamped by multiple problems with little time to convince voters they should be allowed to keep their jobs.Using a horse-racing analogy, Heilemann told co-host Mike...
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President Donald Trump claimed during his recent "60 Minutes” interview, based on the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud and money laundering charges, that the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally was "a total fake” funded by the extremist watchdog group "to make me look bad.”The actual facts have stood in plain...
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The Department of Justice is seeking the names of every individual who worked during the 2020 election in Georgia's Fulton County, where President Donald Trump has long claimed voter fraud robbed him of a win, but a legal expert said those efforts to intimidate election workers are doomed to fail.Lawyers for the county filed a motion Monday to...
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The Republican Party's electoral prospects in the midterms have dimmed as President Donald Trump's polling has slid into oblivion. But those prospects were arguably long to begin with, Aaron Blake wrote in an analysis for CNN published on Thursday."Republicans would have turnout challenges in the 2026 midterm elections regardless of how President...
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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) told The Daily Beast's Joanna Coles he believes President Donald Trump's cognitive decline is accelerating in a dangerous way, in an interview released this week.This comes amid ongoing additional questions about the president's mental and physical health, including unexplained bruises on his hands."Do you think there has...
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Senate and House Democrats are investigating whether President Trump's pardons and commutations have been driven by "pay-to-play dynamics," launching a coordinated probe into wealthy businessmen who appear to have received favorable treatment from the White House in exchange for financial contributions or other forms of influence.According to a...
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Donald Trump has been playing the long con with his MAGA cult for over a decade now. When he descended that tacky gold escalator in June 2015 to declare his candidacy, he essentially set up a traveling game of Three Card Monte that's never ended. Trump first learned how to grift from his con artist father, then polished his people skills under...
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Canada's military is quietly deploying counter-drone defences at ports and air bases, racing to keep pace with lessons from Ukraine's devastating strikes on Russian assets. The effort exposes a legal and operational grey zone — how to stop airborne threats over Canadian cities without disrupting civilian life or crossing regulatory lines.
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NEW YORK – A judge on Wednesday unsealed a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein from the New York jail where he was held while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The note, which was allegedly written before a suicide attempt weeks before he was found dead in August 2019, was released now only […]
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Péter Magyar promised a full reset between Hungary and Brussels after Viktor Orbán's defeat — but the EU may be ready to unlock only part of Hungary's frozen billions. Zoya Sheftalovich, dialing in from Madrid, and Sarah Wheaton unpack the first possible tensions emerging between Brussels and post-Orbán Hungary. Then: a right-wing MEP is...
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In Berlin wird heute Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann offiziell verabschiedet. Ein Moment, der weit über die Landesgrenze von Baden-Württemberg hinaus strahlt. Während Horst Seehofer die Laudatio hält, steht der Nachfolger bereits in den Startlöchern: Cem Özdemir. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie Özdemir die Grünen neu erfinden...
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President Donald Trump received an almost "psychedelic" rebuke from a foreign leader recently, and that may help explain why he's kicked his revenge tour into high gear, according to one analyst. Sean Wilentz, co-host of "The Court of History" podcast on the Legal AF Network, argued during a new episode on Wednesday that King Charles III's speech...
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Canadian businessman and star of CNBC's "Shark Tank," Kevin O'Leary, sparked an uproar on CNN on Wednesday after he defended the costs of President Donald Trump's war in Iran. O'Leary argued during a segment on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip that waging the war in Iran is worth the associated costs because it will allow American...
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts whined about how Americans view his court during a recent speaking appearance, according to a new report. NBC News reported on Wednesday that Roberts decried how little Americans know about the Supreme Court's functions and how they view the court as "truly political actors." He also added that the court...
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Political analysts and observers were aghast on Wednesday as a new report revealed the impetus for President Donald Trump's most recent abrupt reversal. NBC News reported that Saudi Arabia had revoked the U.S.'s access to its military bases to conduct operations for "Project Freedom," Trump's plan to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz and...
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Trump's push to have his administration take a bigger stake in major American businesses is beginning to scare industrialists and executives, according to a new report. "Some executives are so worried Trump will ask for a stake in their company that they have prepared for Oval Office meetings by rehearsing what they would say to fend off the...
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Red-state lawmakers had to stop working and leave the state house while debating a redistricting bill because of a blaring fire alarm and major flooding. "Crazy moments unfolding at the Alabama State House," reported journalist Jeff Sanders from X on Wednesday. "During Senate debate over the redistricting bill involving Senate Districts 25 and 26,...
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MS NOW's Jen Psaki started her segment on Wednesday with a review of the news that FBI Director Kash Patel has personally branded liquor bottles — and the brutal fact-check The Atlantic provided on the agency's excuse for their existence."Tonight, even though Sarah Fitzpatrick is already being sued by Kash Patel, and even though she may be being...
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Turning Point USA, the conservative political group, is threatening to deploy its campaign tactics against Trump's GOP enemies in other red states after a recent victory. "[A lot of Republicans] will lose their jobs if they don't get on board, they don't listen to their voters, if they don't do the right thing and fight the manipulation of the...
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A Trump supporter got much more than he bargained for when he attended the Ashnikko concert at Hard Rock Live Orlando on Tuesday.A viral TikTok video showed the crowd jeering and shouting him down for his MAGA hat, which devolved into vulgar chants of "[Expletive] Donald Trump! [Expletive] Donald Trump!" as the man tried to cover his...
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two protesters during a social rights demonstration in 2020, was hospitalized on Wednesday after a venomous spider bite.The 23-year-old shared a photo of himself in the hospital, angling the camera to show where the alleged venomous spider had bitten him."The communists couldn't take me out and i'll be d---ed if I...
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An immigration judge in California sued the Trump Department of Justice on Wednesday, alleging she was fired because of her political beliefs and affiliations with an immigrant-rights group, Fox News reported.The judge, Kyra Lilien, alleged that the Trump DOJ declined to continue employing her past her probationary period for myriad reasons,...
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The Atlantic revealed a startling new detail about FBI Director Kash Patel's drinking habits in an article published on Wednesday.This comes after an initial expose of Patel from last month that detailed his frequent drunkenness, unexplained absences, and his increasing paranoia that he's going to be dismissed from his job."After my story appeared,...
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