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Companies involved in the F-35 program are actively lobbying the governments of Canada and Quebec to promote potential economic benefits for the country, including a maintenance facility in Mirabel, Que., that could service both Canadian and American fighter fleets.
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TSA agents were caught on a hot mic before a Tampa press conference led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, venting about being "terrified” of a supervisor and frustrated with their exhausting schedules. As more than two dozen officers waited for the event to begin, one recalled fearing a superior from their HR days because "she did...
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A CNN anchor was taken aback on Monday night after an investigation revealed more clips of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth bashing President Donald Trump before he joined the administration. On Monday, CNN's KFile revealed new video of Hegseth questioning whether Trump could unite the American military back in 2016. The video was released at a time...
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to demand that Mexico release vast amounts of water to the United States — or face yet another round of tariffs."Mexico continues to violate our comprehensive Water Treaty, and this violation is seriously hurting our BEAUTIFUL TEXAS CROPS AND LIVESTOCK," wrote Trump. "Mexico still...
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A sleepy President Donald Trump again appeared to nod off, this time during a White House Cabinet roundtable on Monday afternoon. The 79-year-old president, who could barely keep his eyes open during a Cabinet meeting last week, again struggled to stay awake during a gathering in which Trump announced a multibillion-dollar aid package for U.S....
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Two of President Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries were blasted by political analysts and observers on Monday after they held what one person described as an "ego contest" at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. about a new family travel initiative. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Transportation Secretary Sean...
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A cabinet official in the Trump administration stunned political analysts and observers on Monday when she claimed during a television interview that a "golden age is right around the corner." Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was interviewed on Fox Business on Monday afternoon, where she discussed America's rising cost of living with host...
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A Republican group hired people from across the country to come to Utah and gather signatures for a ballot referendum repealing the state's anti-gerrymandering law — but many are coming forward to say they are ill-treated, not getting paid, and reduced to "living in their cars."The allegations concern Patriot Grassroots, a campaign operation...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Syrian rebels have taken control of Damascus, overthrowing the regime of President Bashar Assad. Plus, more on the congressional task force investigation into the security failures leading to the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump earlier this year.
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MAGA Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas threatened state school districts on Monday that they will face "meaningful disciplinary action" if they dare to stand in his way of expanding the organization formerly led by slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to a new report. Abbott said during a news conference at the Texas Governor's mansion on...
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Republicans are facing a potentially bruising primary fight in the New York governor's race, as Rep. Elise Stefanik finds herself facing competition.Stefanik, a longtime Trump loyalist who previously headed up the House Republican Conference, kicked off her campaign for governor a month ago. But this week, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman...
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A federal judge dealt President Donald Trump's administration a significant legal blow on Monday, striking down his ban on wind power project approvals on federal lands and waters.Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the president's executive order stopping all leasing for new wind projects...
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With a deadline fast approaching for the Senate to vote on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, far-right Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) issued a warning to his own party to come up with some alternative — any alternative — to what Democrats are proposing.If not, he refused to commit to voting against the Democrats' proposal, which would be a...
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Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty says the Assembly of First Nations sent a strong signal to her government to end the second-generation cut-off in the Indian Act, but her government won't make that change without broad consultations with leaders.
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Republicans are taking heat on two fronts as they struggle to win the affordability messaging battle while killing affordability legislation."Republican lawmakers, aides and strategists tell NBC News they worry that high prices and their party's poor messaging on affordability could cost them in the midterms,” the news network reported over the...
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Political analysts and observers warned on Monday that President Donald Trump's latest move shows that "something is very wrong" with his economy, despite his claims that he has resurrected America's "Golden Age." The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Monday that it was going to roll October's employment data into the November release that is...
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A conservative talk radio host got a call from a MAGA listener with a harsh message for a defecting MAGA and longtime President Donald Trump ally. A listener named Connie from South Carolina called Eric Bolling during his show to voice her thoughts about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has become a vocal critic of Trump and GOP leadership....
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Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump's ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, faced backlash Monday after arguing that US-backed Middle Eastern monarchies—most of which are ruled by prolific human rights violators—offer the best model for governing nations in the tumultuous region.Speaking at the Doha Forum in Qatar on Sunday,...
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A federal judge Monday said he is pushing forward with a contempt inquiry over whether the Trump administration intentionally disregarded his order in March to stop deporting more than 100 Venezuelan men to an El Salvador prison. James Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, has now demanded that two of the Justice...
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During a Kennedy Center Honors appearance, President Donald Trump used a tribute to Sylvester Stallone to launch into an on-stage rant, calling parts of the audience "miserable, horrible people” after quoting Rocky Balboa. Trump appeared multiple times throughout the event to honor Stallone, KISS, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, and George...
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First lady Melania Trump promoted a high-dollar handbag on her social media accounts on Monday as her husband rages that the concerns Americans have about the cost of living are a "Democrat scam," according to a new report. Melania Trump posted about a handbag designed by Alexandra Gucci Zarini, the great-granddaughter of Gucci founder Guccio...
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The inquest findings into WA's first recorded death in youth detention, that of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd, are a stark warning for the government — and vulnerable lives remain at stake. WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy admitted Monday afternoon that he did "not have a plan" to lower airport food prices as a part of President Donald Trump's family-centric travel initiative.Duffy made the admission during a news conference on Monday."So the question is lowering the cost of food in airports," Duffy said. "And again, it's...
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Democrats praised a progressive politician in Colorado on Monday after she filed paperwork to run for Sen. John Hickenlooper's (D-CO) seat. Julie Gonzales, a progressive state Senator in Colorado, announced her primary challenge against Hickenlooper on Monday, according to a report by The Colorado Sun. Gonzales has served in the state senate since...
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President Donald Trump revealed a major decision Monday on Nvidia chips. Nvidia, a chipmaker and a leading semiconductor and artificial intelligence company, has become a major focus of the Trump administration's policies regarding U.S. competitiveness in advanced technology and competition with China, particularly around restrictions on exporting...
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The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy has altered how the U.S. conducts itself to protect Americans — and with major influence from Stephen Miller, it has shifted a major focus on how it views its relationship with China and Russia instead of new threats from the countries. Trump's inner circle has shifted its attention to...
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Democrats who are hoping to snatch control of the House away from Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in 2026 are going to get a major boost from former Republicans who want to see Donald Trump neutered for the last two years he is in office.According to a report from Politico's Andrew Howard, the Save America Movement PAC has launched a...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had some harsh words for President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress on Monday about the renewed push to bar states from passing their own regulations on artificial intelligence.DeSantis, who is pushing his own "citizen Bill of Rights" on AI, spoke out in reaction to reports that Trump is going to issue an executive...
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones questioned Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) Somali ethnicity and suggested she did not have the right to speak on racial issues.On his Monday program, Jones complained that Omar spoke out about racism."I'm only like three, four, five percent of [Native] American," Jones noted. "But the point is, is that you look at her, she's...
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The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act would effectively punish Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by curtailing his travel budget if he refuses to turn over "unedited" video of the strikes President Donald Trump has ordered on alleged drug boats.According to the legislation, Hegseth would only be entitled to 75% of his travel budget unless...
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Republicans have become increasingly worried about voter backlash as time begins to run out for the party to come together on a thorny issue: health care. The Senate is slated to vote this week on extended healthcare subsidies for three years under a Democrat-backed plan, but Republicans have struggled to come up with an alternative proposal,...
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President Donald Trump grew angry while addressing the resignation of Alina Habba, the former acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, who multiple courts disqualified."Alina Habba says she's stepping down as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey after the courts disqualified her," a reporter told Trump on Monday. "Do you have...
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Federal prosecutors have indicted and arrested a Democratic Georgia state representative for allegedly stealing almost $18,000 in pandemic relief funds by lying about where she worked.According to 11Alive.com, Rep. Sharon Henderson, who represents a district just southeast of Atlanta, is charged with two counts of theft of government funds and 10...
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The losers in political battles often insist that history will prove them right and their opponents wrong. As comforting a thought as this may be for people licking their political wounds, it is rarely true. History forgets far more than it remembers. Apart from a few major players, even people who gain a degree of prominence in the politics of...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) tore House GOP leadership to shreds in a New York Times op-ed published on Monday, in which she accused House Republicans of crushing rank-and-file lawmakers' ideas, being feckless on getting any policies passed, and sidelining women from any important decision-making.Among the examples of GOP inaction Mace cited are a...
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President Donald Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone, a prominent figure in the MAGA movement, announced Sunday that bank and finance records of right-wing influencer Laura Loomer would be made public "very soon,” sparking her outrage and the eruption of a public spat.Stone's announcement comes amid Loomer's ongoing and one-sided feud with...
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A CNN anchor had a fiery reaction in a conversation with a Republican Indiana state lawmaker on Monday, as Indiana leaders in the Senate will vote to decide on redistricting in the state. State Rep. Andrew Ireland said it was "backwards" to try and blame President Donald Trump for swatting or other attacks on opponents and other lawmakers after...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) filed paperwork Monday to enter the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in the Lone Star state, according to CBS News, just hours before a planned announcement and ahead of the state's 6 p.m. primary filing deadline.Crockett will compete against state Rep. James Talarico (D-TX), whose campaign has generated national...
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A House Republican in Missouri attacked a group of California voters this month in a post on X for trying to interfere in her state's politics — but then quietly deleted her post after realizing these voters were not from California at all. Or at least, not the California she was thinking of.The drama began with a post by the local paper, the...
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A former Democratic congressman is warning that Donald Trump and House GOP leaders could exploit a "craven, but shockingly constitutional” clause to hold onto their majority even if Democrats win the 2026 midterms. Writing in The New Republic, ex-Rep. Steve Israel notes that Article I, Section 5 empowers the House — and Speaker Mike Johnson —...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC reporter and reversed his position on Monday afternoon after saying he would push to release the video of an alleged drug boat strike that has come into question. Trump was taking questions from the press following a roundtable discussion about agriculture at the White House when ABC's Rachel Scott asked...
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President Donald Trump vowed Monday afternoon to deregulate farming equipment, complaining that "you need 185 IQ to turn on a lawnmower."In a Monday meeting with farmers, Trump revealed that he would remove environmental regulations from John Deere and other tractor manufacturers."We're going to also give the tractor companies, John Deere and all...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at the German government over a proposal to ban a right-wing political party to prevent a "repeat of Nazism."During a Monday interview with German AfD party member Beatrix von Storch, Bannon noted that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had floated the idea of banning the party."The article on Saturday,...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics won't be publishing a delayed report on wholesale price inflation this month.The federal agency will skip the postponed October report on the Producer Price Index and instead roll those figures into November's report, which will be published Jan. 14, reported the Wall Street Journal."The monthly report on wholesale...
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Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, announced Monday that she has resigned and blamed the "politicized left" for the move.Habba, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, stepped down after an appeals court ruling found that she was serving in her position unlawfully. Habba said she resigned to protect "the...
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The Kansas Republican Party has pickled itself in a brackish brine of racism, homophobia and intolerance.Officials can dissemble all they want, but the party can't hope to represent everyday Kansans while tasting so sour. Poorly canned pickles can give you botulism, remember.This distasteful metaphor suggested itself as the party staggered from...
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A Trump administration official went on the defensive Monday after a report that the administration is far outspending previous administrations on chemical weapons — and using them against its own citizens. Advocates have criticized the administration for its spending and accused ICE agents of using force and chemical weapons, including pepper...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is discovering that he can change the players, but he can't change the game as one of the more prominent conservative "reporters” he has allowed to cover the Pentagon is already giving him grief less than a week in. The embattled Donald Trump appointee effectively purged the mainstream media from covering the...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused President Donald Trump's Department of Justice of asking the high court to "destroy the structure of government" by overturning 90 years of legal theory on who the president could fire.During a hearing on Monday, Solicitor General John Sauer argued that a 90-year precedent on who the president can...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem laughed Monday after a reporter asked about reports that President Donald Trump is considering cutting her from the top administration job. Noem was at a press conference in Tampa, Florida where she handed out checks to $10,000 bonus checks for TSA workers who kept working without pay during the government...
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An immigration judge ordered the release of a Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.Bruna Ferreira, who is the mother of Leavitt's 11-year-old nephew, was being held at an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana after federal officers arrested her last month in Massachusetts, but immigration Judge...
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Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's future within Donald Trump's administration is reportedly on "thin ice,” reports MS NOW's Jake Traylor — with highly influential Trump adviser Stephen Miller reportedly seeking her ouster.Over the weekend, The Bulwark reported that White House patience with the controversial Noem is waning over her...
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Vice President JD Vance doubled down Monday on his past remarks about how it was "totally reasonable” for Americans to want their neighbors to speak the same language, lashing out at critics as being "so deranged.”Vance sat down with New York Post's Miranda Devine in late October for a lengthy interview on the outlet's "Pod Force One”...
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The Department of Justice issued a joint statement in support of Lindsey Halligan after federal judges questioned her role as a prosecutor.Two magistrate judges and a district court judge in Virginia told prosecutors in open court they didn't believe Halligan's name should be listed on criminal case filings after another judge found last week that...
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Actress and producer Sophia Bush had a scathing response to a MAGA follower who used her image to attack a political leader in a social post over the weekend.Bush responded to a user named James Lewis who posted a photo of Bush and another woman inside a classic car with the meme text: "Get in loser. We're driving by Tim Walz's house and yelling...
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Ahead of a press conference led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Monday, Transportation Security Administration agents were heard on a hot mic complaining about being "terrified” of one of their superiors, as well as about their "frustrating” busy schedules.Held in Tampa, Florida, details as to what would be announced at the press...
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MAGA pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports warned that President Donald Trump was "losing Republicans" because he wasn't giving them "what we voted for."During a Monday interview with MAGA influencer Steve Bannon, Mitchell said that young Republican voters were expecting Trump to be more like Spain's right-wing dictator, General Francisco...
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Republicans hoping to get questions answered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are getting impatient with his stonewalling and are finding Donald Trump's White House to also be unresponsive, conservative journalist David Drucker reported Monday.Appearing on MS NOW's "Morning Joe,” Drucker claimed GOP lawmakers are desperately seeking guidance as...
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Pollsters believe the GOP is "putting lipstick on a pig" ahead of what could be a complete blowout in the 2026 midterms.With the election cycle just under a year away, Republican Party officials are scrambling to figure out a way through the midterms. It could be a blowout for the GOP, with recent mayoral and governor elections in New York and...
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Two Republican pundits told Newsmax that President Donald Trump was making a mistake by launching seemingly sexist attacks on MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and female journalists.During a Monday panel, Republican strategist Melik Abdul said he wished Trump would stop insulting women after he called Greene a "dumb person" and attacked a...
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Crawling from the wreckage of the successful California redistricting vote that will likely make Golden State GOP representation in Washington, DC, almost extinct, Politico's Jeremy White reported Monday that party leaders in the state are desperately looking for a path forward.In response to President Donald Trump setting in motion redrawing of...
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Months ago, when President Donald Trump urged Texas to redraw its congressional maps in a manner that — he said — would hand Republicans an additional five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, he launched what has become a sweeping mid-decade redistricting push spanning more than a dozen red and blue states.Trump has pressed additional...
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