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A pardoned Jan. 6 rioter led an anti-Muslim protest in Dearborn, Michigan, that had been planned and then denounced by Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson.On Tuesday, Hudson told the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) that he had abandoned the anti-Muslim protest after visiting area...
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The House voted on an overwhelming bipartisan basis to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and in the end, even most heavily pro-Trump lawmakers backed the bill, as President Donald Trump, who spent months trying to keep a lid on this legislation and quell a GOP revolt against him, relented and proclaimed...
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Donald Trump claimed last week on social media that "Our economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down,” and that "grocery prices are way down.Rubbish.How do I know he's lying? Official government statistics haven't been issued during the shutdown — presumably to Trump's relief (the White House said Wednesday that the October jobs and...
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The widow of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi fired back Tuesday as President Donald Trump defended Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump defended the crown prince — who made his first visit to the United States since the killing of Khashoggi — saying "things happen" and describing Khashoggi as "extremely controversial" in a tense moment...
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Republicans have a problem with President Donald Trump's priorities after recent election losses and upcoming midterm elections, according to reports on Tuesday. Republicans are concerned about maintaining their MAGA base and asking the president to help them out on the campaign trail, Politico reports. In response to recent Democratic wins and...
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The White House blamed Bloomberg News correspondent Catherine Lucey after President Donald Trump referred to her as "piggy."On Friday, Lucey had asked Trump about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal during a gaggle aboard Air Force One.The reporter wondered why the president was defensive, "if there's nothing incriminating in the files.”"Quiet. Quiet,...
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Industry Minister Mélanie Joly pitted two giant defence companies against one another on Tuesday for the future of Canada's fighter fleet, saying the $27-billion contract to buy 88 U.S.-made F-35 jets doesn't deliver enough jobs for workers in this country — and that the public expects a better deal.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 427-1 to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and send the discharge petition to the Senate in a move aimed to reveal more information about the disgraced late financier and convicted sex offender and his potential ties to other powerful entities. The landmark bill marks a major victory for the...
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A CNN anchor got in a fiery exchange with a GOP lawmaker over the Epstein files on Tuesday, just ahead of the vote. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) was in a conversation with CNN's Boris Sanchez about the discharge petition when the conversation turned into a yelling match — with both of the men speaking over each other — after Sanchez brought up...
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After a month of losses and setbacks in his plan to push Republicans to rig congressional districts to give themselves extra seats, President Donald Trump suffered a massive blow as a three-judge panel, including a judge he himself appointed, struck down Texas's new congressional districts as an illegal racial gerrymander.The Texas redistricting...
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The Republican who was the lone "no" vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files to prompt the Department of Justice to release the files was brutally mocked online Tuesday after the vote. The House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously at 427-1 to push the discharge petition forward to the Senate. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) was the only no...
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Although President Donald Trump has previously floated Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his heirs apparent in 2028, that plan is under threat as new Republicans mull a 2028 run, Newsweek reports.Recent cracks in the MAGA base over the release of the files pertaining to late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and...
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CNN analyst Matt Egan said mom-and-pop stores are reeling from surging import costs, rising inflation and a stressed-out workforce.Enten reports Doug Scheffel, owner of a family-run ETM Manufacturing in Massachusetts, "laid off about a quarter of his employees in April as the Trump administration's haphazard tariff rollout dented demand for the...
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Donald Trump will debase the White House today like never before.Far worse than bulldozing its East Wing, Trump will use the People's House as the grotesque backdrop for reducing to rubble any pretense of American moral leadership in the world. He will prostrate himself — and our nation — at the feet of one of its most malign actors.All for the...
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President Donald Trump set off waves of disgust by suggesting that assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi got what he deserved.The Washington Post columnist was brutally murdered in October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government closely tied to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who joined Trump in the Oval Office Tuesday when a reporter...
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A "long-delayed' pair of economic data points are set to be released "in the coming days,” leaving market analysts on edge over what could become a "defining moment” in determining whether the United States is on the cusp of a market crash, NBC News reported Tuesday."Markets are bracing for a turbulent week as major economic data returns and...
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A federal appeals court set up a likely U.S. Supreme Court challenge over a Republican redistricting map in Texas.A three-judge panel threw out a newly drawn redistricting map for the 2026 election and ordered the state to use the districts passed by the state legislature in 2021, with a Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to file for the March...
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The House was convening Tuesday to consider a landmark vote on a bill that could compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a bill that President Donald Trump had fought fiercely against but reversed course on Sunday after calling on Republicans to support it.The vote comes after a months-long effort from Reps....
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President Donald Trump launched a nearly three-minute tirade against an ABC News reporter on Tuesday after being asked a question about Jeffrey Epstein.Sitting alongside Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why he didn't direct his Justice Department to release all the files it holds on Epstein, rather...
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President Donald Trump's control over his own party amid a number of breakups and backlashes are challenging his "iron-fisted grip" on the GOP. Trump has faced several blows in recent weeks and "appears to be slipping" as he sees support drop in ways not seen since the Jan. 6 insurrection, Politico reports on Tuesday."But the extraordinary rebukes...
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New College of Florida is on its intellectual deathbed.Once an authority-challenging, free-thinking institution for students passionate about learning, a place where difference was celebrated and creativity encouraged.Now, it is becoming a third-rate jock school with overpaid administrators and underachieving freshmen, a casualty of Ron DeSantis'...
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In dieser Spezialfolge des Berlin Playbook Updates berichtet Rixa Fürsen von der Berliner Sicherheitskonferenz – wo Generäle, Verteidigungsminister und sicherheitspolitische Entscheider Europas über Abschreckung, Aufrüstung und die Zukunft der NATO sprechen. Partnerland in diesem Jahr: Schweden. Rixa trifft Pål Jonson, den schwedischen...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed to vote in favor of a bill to release files on Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday in a sharp reversal from his earlier stance, and one that drew an immediate rebuke from one Democratic lawmaker."Daddy gave you permission??” wrote Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) Tuesday in a social media post on X, responding to the news...
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Multiple federal agencies are planning a nationwide crackdown on Spanish-speaking churches during the upcoming holiday season, according to three sources in the U.S. Department of Justice.DOJ attorneys assigned to U.S. attorney's offices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York told This Week in Worcester they had received briefings on a plan...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who asked about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during an Oval Office meeting with the man accused of ordering his killing, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."Mr. President, is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you are president, is...
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During a joint press availability with Mohammed bin Salman, Donald Trump smeared the murdered Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi when a reporter attempted to grill the Saudi prince.Trump snapped at ABC reporter Mary K. Bruce after she asked the price about the assassination of the journalist on the leader's watch, as well as how he thinks...
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At the conclusion of a press conference with survivors of convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) put Donald Trump on notice that his followers in the MAGA movement will keep an eye on his actions after a bipartisan bill on the Epstein files passes.Appearing with survivors and House colleagues, Reps. Ro Khanna...
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A Kansas town has been thrown into turmoil after the state's hardline anti-immigration attorney general charged its newly re-elected mayor with voter fraud.Joe Ceballos came to Coldwater from Mexico decades ago as a teenage ranch hand, and a teacher at his high school took him to the county courthouse when he turned 18 and helped him register for...
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Following a press conference conducted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) where he attempted to sow doubt about the Jeffrey Epstein files bill to be voted on Tuesday, GOP strategist Susan Del Percio asked for time to call out the Republican leader.At the conclusion of her appearance with MS NOW host Ann Cabrera, Del Percio interrupted and...
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MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a close ally to President Donald Trump, argued that Republicans "deserve to lose the midterms" if they did not address a "Nazi problem" within the party."I'm going to say it. The GOP has a Nazi problem," Loomer declared in a Tuesday post on X.The warning from Trump's self-described "loyalty enforcer" came after the...
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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) proposed renaming a Republican bill against the harming of service animals after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who admitted that she shot a puppy to death.During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Goldman addressed the "Bill to Outlaw Wounding of Official Working Animals Act" sponsored...
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Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleges, examining export data and U.S. Department of Defence contracts.
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Donald Trump and "his FIFA soulmate" Gianni Infantino got slammed Tuesday by a European analyst who claimed America's president is destroying the world's leading sporting event. In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Marina Hyde criticized how Trump and Infantino, "the Forrest Gump of Trump's administration," are bringing politics to the World Cup...
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A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down President Donald Trump's attempt to keep a lawsuit against CNN alive.In an eight-page ruling on Tuesday, the panel — including two judges appointed by Trump — concluded that the president's claim against CNN was "meritless." Trump had argued that CNN had defamed him by...
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A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump tried to silence a child he's accused of molesting by allegedly promising money from a reparations payment he claims was coming his way, according to a report.Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned last month in a Florida court on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old,...
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I want to get back to some of the content that was found in the 23,000 emails released by the House Oversight Committee that were obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.I'm going to go straight to the authority, Julie K Brown. She's the reporter for the Miami Herald who wrote that blockbuster series revealing that Epstein got a sweetheart deal...
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The likelihood that dozens of House Republicans will vote in favor of compelling the Justice Department to release the Epstein files has caused Trump to reverse his objections and urge House Republicans to back such a measure.But this raises two questions that are the subjects of today's Office Hours discussion.First: Is Trump sincere about wishing...
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Prior to the House of Representatives voting on a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, one survivor of the sexual predator took a moment to address Donald Trump — and warn him that he needs to make good on making sure all the files are released.Following addresses by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Tom Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reluctantly agreed to back a petition to release files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after many Republican lawmakers indicated they would support it — forcing President Donald Trump to reverse his position.Just hours before the expected vote on the discharge petition, Johnson announced his support during a GOP...
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The team as MS NOW's "Morning Joe” ripped into Fox News Tuesday for ignoring the press conference featuring never-before-heard survivors of Jeffrey Epstein just ahead of a landmark vote on releasing files on the disgraced financier — and instead covering news on an "illegal alien truck driver.”"A divided system, people living in information...
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President Donald Trump made a sudden reversal over the weekend and threw his support behind a procedural vote to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and CNN's Harry Enten found a simple explanation for his shift.The president was unable to stop Republican lawmakers from voting on a House measure to compel the Justice Department to...
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Businesses from Wall Street to main street are struggling to comply with President Donald Trump's byzantine tariff regime, driving up costs and counteracting, for some, the benefits of the corporate tax cuts Republicans passed earlier this year. Trump has ripped up the U.S. tariff code over the past year, replacing a decades-old system that imposed...
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Face aux défis qu'impliquent l'intégration des nouvelles intelligences dans la relation client, les entreprises doivent tout réinventer : modèles, compétences et collaborations sont à revoir pour une transformation réussie de l'organisation. La relation client est en profonde mutation, une mutation entraînée et portée par le...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Friday after being asked about Jeffrey Epstein, hurling an insult at her and refusing to answer her question about efforts to release files on the disgraced financier."If there's nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not?” a Bloomberg reporter could be heard asking Trump aboard Air Force One...
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A legal expert was stunned by President Donald Trump's latest "jaw-dropping" court loss on Monday. Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, joined progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on a podcast episode on Monday to discuss an order from a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia for Trump's DOJ to turn over tapes from the...
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Marek Cherkaoui, a 21-year-old New Jersey man, was charged with cyberstalking, the FBI said, for allegedly extorting a 13-year-old girl to cut herself, by threatening to release personal information.Allegations against the member of the nihilistic online network 764 range from extreme psychological abuse of children to promoting mass-casualty...
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President Donald Trump may have acquiesced to demands that give his approval for the Jeffrey Epstein files to be released, but he is not forgiving Republicans for not saving him from the embarrassment of backing down.According to a report from Politico's Dasha Burns, the president believes the GOP leadership was outmaneuvered by Democrats, with...
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Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States."The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back,” Tate posted on X before...
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President Donald Trump abruptly reversed his opposition to releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, and CNN's Maria Cardona believes he's only "faking" support for a congressional vote on the matter.Trump has been unable to turn the page on the long-simmering scandal involving the late sex offender — a longtime friend of his — and House Republicans...
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As part of a discussion about the House of Representatives' vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files on Tuesday, Donald Trump was warned things will take a turn for the worse — and Democrats and the press are not his biggest problem going forward.Discussing the upcoming vote on MS NOW's ”Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough made fun of...
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The White House is publicly projecting confidence that President Donald Trump can weather whatever storms come out in the Jeffrey Epstein files, but a new report reveals an apparent fear his second term could be swamped by a Category 5 scandal.The president and his top lieutenants failed to persuade congressional Republicans to back off from the...
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President Donald Trump issued a demand Tuesday that Congress quickly approve his proposal to send checks directly to Americans as an alternative to extending government health care subsidies, ordering lawmakers to "get it done, now.”"THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I WILL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE, WITH NOTHING GOING...
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President Donald Trump's ironclad grip on the Republican Party may be weaker than it's ever been due to the ongoing fallout over deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.That's according to commentator Scott Morefield, who writes for the conservative website Townhall. Morefield told New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg that Trump's handling of...
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CNN's Audie Cornish noticed a Democratic congressman's reaction to President Donald Trump floating a proposal to send out dividend checks funded by tariff revenues — and her comment teed up an unflattering comparison.The president told reporters Monday that Americans might expect to see $2,000 dividend checks "next year sometime," although...
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On the eve of a landmark vote in the House on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the Republican lawmaker spearheading the effort is sounding the alarm that President Donald Trump may still manage to block the files' release.Trump has pushed back against the legislative effort to force the Justice Department to release its files on Epstein...
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Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein that have never spoken publicly before will speak Tuesday during a press conference in Washington, D.C., and just hours ahead of a landmark vote in the House that could force the Justice Department to release all of its files on Epstein.The presser is spearheaded by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA)....
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Donald Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan was given a losing hand when she was assigned to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey — and things have gone from bad to worse for her, according to legal analyst.Halligan, a civil attorney with no prosecutorial experience, was chosen by Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to push the Comey case...
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A casualty of the MAGA civil war that has erupted over neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes and former Fox News fixture Tucker Carlson is an unlikely victim—Vice President JD Vance—who has been 'shivved' by President Donald Trump, according to Greg Sargent on The New Republic's Daily Blast podcast.Sargent says that as Vance has his eyes on taking the reins of...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Republican Rep. French Hill and Democratic Rep. Jim Himes join as we take a look at some of President-elect Donald Trump's controversial picks for his Cabinet and other senior staff positions. Plus, an interview with Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in...
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