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During a Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, Sen Patty Murray (D-WA) got under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's skin just moments after she took a potshot at Donald Trump.Murray's line of questioning centered around the Pentagon seeking a $1.5 trillion in taxpayer money at a time when American families' lives are being made worse by the...
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President Donald Trump got personal on Tuesday, posting a video attacking former First lady Michelle Obama and praising Vice President JD Vance. Trump shared the video clip on his Truth Social platform. It said "watch the difference in thinking" and featured different cuts from frank conversations around parenting and life in the White House, and...
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President Donald Trump appeared to fall asleep during an Oval Office event on maternal health Monday, prompting the White House to deny the incident. When Reuters national security correspondent Idrees Ali posted an image showing Trump with his eyes closed, the White House rapid response X account dismissively claimed, "He was blinking, you...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has declined to rehear President Donald Trump's lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and dozens of other defendants.Trump filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleging that the...
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President Donald Trump's sons are partnering on a new overseas development with a pair of companies linked to a sanctioned foreign oligarch and possibly the Russian mob.The Trump Organization is expanding its $2.7 billion real estate empire with the 70-story Trump Tower Tbilisi, which would become the tallest building in the former Soviet republic...
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) pointed out to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the U.S. had "not won this war" with Iran despite the rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump's administration.During a Tuesday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the war, Shaheen pointed to reports that Iran was receiving intelligence from Russia."Russia is...
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A House Oversight Committee hearing turned emotional Tuesday after a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein issued a blistering rebuke of the Justice Department (DOJ), which months earlier had publicly named her in its release of Epstein-related files "over 500 times,” permanently exposing her identity to the world.The survivor identified herself only as...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters who receive classified information about Department of Justice investigations that they could face legal consequences, The Hill reported on Tuesday.The subpoena warning comes as alarm has heightened over the White House's efforts to target news organizations that have criticized the Trump...
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) faced ridicule from political analysts after accidentally criticizing himself during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity Monday. While discussing the midterm elections, Cruz attacked Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), or AOC's, policies on entrepreneurship, alleging AOC said it's impossible to earn a billion...
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The Trump family scamming the president's admirers out of a hundred bucks each stands out to even a jaded chronicler of their corruption.More than a half million people paid a $100 "deposit” to preorder a gold smartphone announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, but those Trump Mobile devices appear unlikely to hit the market –...
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President Donald Trump's administration is doubling down on its threat to target "secular" and "pro-transgender" groups.In the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy released on Tuesday, Trump insisted that he was "once again putting America First.""As part of my commitment to defending America from all enemies, foreign and domestic, we are once again...
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Sen. Chris Coon (D-DE) called out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to his face for "fighting culture wars" instead of winning real conflicts like the war in Iran.During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Coons noted that President Donald Trump's Iran war had caused a "rift" with U.S. allies."I am concerned that we have a distracted...
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The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority issued a 6-3 order Monday allowing Alabama to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district just one week before the state's primary election. The decision reverses the court's 2022 ruling in Allen v. Milligan, which ordered Alabama to create a second majority-Black district despite the state's...
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A relatively subdued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth changed tactics and talked over a Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday morning as the two argued over Pentagon expenditures with the Donald Trump appointee snapping when one of his claims was called "ridiculous.”Hegseth faced off with Rep. Joe Morelle (R-NY) who asked, "There has been much reported...
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A former Deutsche Bank AG wealth manager connected to Jeffrey Epstein has exited a financial services firm amid questions over why he stepped down, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday.Stewart Oldfield left Third Lake Associates, a financial advisory and broker-deal firm that managed real estate deals, at the end of April, Bloomberg reported....
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A pair of arcade game cabinets appeared Monday morning at the D.C. War Memorial titled "Operation Epic Furious: Straight to Hell,” a satirical jab at President Donald Trump and his wildly unpopular war against Iran – and on Tuesday, MeidasTouch reporter and attorney Aaron Parnas shared a photograph appearing to show National Guard members...
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A decorated FBI special agent has detailed a White House-directed purge of the bureau aimed at removing employees involved in investigations into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, according to an exclusive CNN interview.Brian Driscoll, who served as acting FBI director for one month before Kash...
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine faced off with protesters over the war in Iran.Before Senate testimony on Tuesday, members of the Code Pink anti-war group could be heard yelling at Caine."The American people don't want more war!" the activists shouted. "We don't want our tax dollars spent to kill babies!"The U.S. faced accusations that...
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For all his claimed brilliance as a tech wizard, billionaire Elon Musk's foray into the multi-billion-dollar race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy is, at best, floundering with users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.Late Monday, the Journal reported that Musk's AI chatbot Grok is trailing so far behind competitors like...
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President Donald Trump went on a multi-hour social media frenzy Monday night into Tuesday morning – posting on average roughly once every three minutes for three hours – and buried within his online posts was a sharp critique of his own acting attorney general and former personal attorney.On Monday, AMG News – a website described by the media...
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Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to follow the law when it comes to briefing members of Congress.As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was testifying before a House budget committee on Tuesday, the Rhode Island senator spoke to reporters about the Pentagon's refusal to...
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The US Supreme Court's right-wing majority Monday opened the door for Alabama to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district before this year's midterm elections in a decision that came as Tennessee voters sued to stop their state's racially rigged redistricting.The nation's high court issued a 6-3 order with no explanation allowing Alabama...
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President Donald Trump pushed back on new reporting that Senate Republicans have implored him not to order military strikes against Cuba.The 79-year-old president fired off a 40-word denial, seemingly in response to a new report published by The Hill, on Tuesday morning before jetting off to China for talks with Xi Jinping."No Republican has ever...
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As the 250th anniversary of the United States' independence approaches, a government watchdog group is warning that the Trump administration has refused to release key documents regarding President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 project, in which the White House has partnered with corporations including Palantir and ExxonMobil to organize what it's...
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President Donald Trump's move to counter skyrocketing gasoline prices could ultimately make matters worse, according to a new analysis.The 79-year-old president announced Monday that he's open to suspend the national gas tax as prices remained higher than $4.50 a gallon and the war against Iran persists in a stalemate, but MS NOW columnist Hayes...
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President Donald Trump spent hours Monday night into early Tuesday morning publishing dozens of social media posts attacking his perceived enemies – including sharing a post that called former President Barack Obama a "demonic force” – in what one prominent Democratic influencer called "one of his worst mental health episodes yet.”"Trump...
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Donald Trump's trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping comes as the leadership of China is buoyed by an internal report that their country has seen its profile in the world rise above the US in large part due to American president.With Reuters reporting that Trump needs some "wins” due to his horrific approval numbers at home, the...
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Nicholas Tartaglione, once the cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, revealed new details recently about a "pressure” campaign Epstein had been subjected to in the final days before his 2019 death, a campaign that Tartaglione claimed left the disgraced financier "visibly shaken,” and involved...
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Miles Taylor, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security turned fierce anti-Trump critic, announced the rollout of a new app designed to alert people about plans to open immigration detention facilities in an appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Show” in late April.Roughly 72 hours later, a former programmer linked to Elon Musk's DOGE with a large...
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President Donald Trump lashed out early Tuesday morning at a New York Times journalist over their reporting that tied him directly to the contractor the Trump administration had selected to handle renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, denying that he even knew the contractor – despite having praised them weeks earlier.The Trump...
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss has intensified her contentious overhaul of "60 Minutes," directly inserting herself into high-profile booking decisions and pushing aside longtime correspondent Lesley Stahl — a move that has sparked internal hostility and raised questions about whether the legendary outlet is being dismantled from within.According to...
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CNN's Kate Bolduan was startled by the latest polling on President Donald Trump and the economy.A new survey conducted for CNN by SSRS finds that 77 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, say the 79-year-old president's policies are to blame for the increased cost of living, and his economic approval rating has hit a career-low...
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The co-hosts of MS NOW's "Morning Joe” piled on Donald Trump for repeatedly nodding off during an Oval Office appearance on Monday afternoon and contrasted that with comments he made in 2024 where he ridiculed "Sleepy Joe” Biden.To make their case, they ran the Monday video of Trump with his eyes closed for an extended period of time with audio...
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The processed food industry, facing its most hostile political environment in decades, has found an unlikely ally in the very movement threatening it — and is now using the "Make America Healthy Again" wave to pursue federal standards that would undercut tougher state-level rules.As the Trump administration pressures food makers to voluntarily...
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Netflix aired its television special "The Roast of Kevin Hart” on Sunday where the Pennsylvania comedian was hit with a wave of ridicule from various celebrities, one of whom, according to Variety, took a particularly brutal jab at First Lady Melania Trump with a joke that ultimately "didn't make the cut.”While Hart was the primary target for...
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Administration officials are intensifying efforts to secure $1 billion in security funding for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, but they're facing growing resistance from Republican lawmakers concerned about the political optics.Secret Service Director Sean Curran will meet Tuesday with Senate Republicans to pitch the funding...
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President Donald Trump attacked the New York Times for coverage of the Reflecting Pool renovation, claiming his administration achieved dramatic cost and time savings compared to previous administrations' efforts.The Times published a piece called, "Reflecting Pool Repairs to Cost $13.1 Million. Trump Had Promised $1.8 Million." That seemed to...
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Property experts warn that unless the Victorian government lightens its tax burden on property, the changes to negative gearing and capital gains announced in the federal budget could result in the construction of even fewer new homes.
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Anyone who was a fan of the Real World series on MTV remembers Sean Duffy in the Boston house. And you also remember the whole premise of the show was watching young strangers stop being polite and start getting real.Decades later, as Transportation Secretary, he's back in front of the reality cameras, this time as a dad. In a five-part YouTube...
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Will today’s cabinet showdown push Sir Keir Starmer to make a final decision on his future? And will that mean Wes Streeting starts a leadership campaign? Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy go over the dynamics of the cabinet meeting and who of the 32 is thinking what - with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood the most […]
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Ukraine wants Europe more involved in peace efforts with Russia — but who exactly would represent Europe in those talks? After Vladimir Putin floated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as a possible negotiator, Brussels reacted with disbelief. Host Zoya Sheftalovich and Nick Vinocur unpack the growing debate around Europe's role in future...
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Während Friedrich Merz mit den Schwächen seiner Koalition kämpft, bringen sich hinter ihm die Ministerpräsidenten in Stellung. Ob Hendrik Wüst, Markus Söder oder neuerdings Boris Rhein: Sie alle sehen die Risse im Kanzleramt und positionieren sich für die Pole-Position. Gordon Repinski darüber, wie dieser Positionskampf das Machtgefüge der...
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President Donald Trump may send the wrong signals to Chinese President Xi Jinping when he travels to China later this week, and that could ignite a new round of global chaos, according to one analyst. Trump is scheduled to visit China between May 13 and 15, where he will meet with Xi and perform what is known as the "great kowtow," according to...
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Missouri's legislature stalled on a debate over how to finance new nuclear power plants amid rising electricity demand and utility bills. The focal point is CWIP, or Construction Work in Progress, which would allow utility companies to charge customers for power plants as they're being built, before generating electricity. Supporters argue CWIP can...
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A conservative columnist warned on Monday that her Republican colleagues just made a "tacit admission" about the 2026 midterms that could blow up in their face. S.E. Cupp, a columnist for CNN, said during a segment on "The Source" with host Kaitlan Collins that Republicans have all but admitted that they don't stand a chance during the midterms...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was brutally mocked by political analysts and observers after he made an inadvertent admission during an interview on Fox News.Cruz joined Fox News host Sean Hannity for an interview on Monday, where the two discussed the potential impact of the upcoming midterm elections. Cruz pointed out that Democrats like Rep. Alexandria...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board reviewed President Donald Trump's new package of ideas for reducing cost of living as voters call for blood over the issue in the midterms — and found serious problems with some of them.Ultimately, the board concluded, some of the ideas have merit, like pausing tariffs on beef. But one other...
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist blasted President Donald Trump's hidden machine for ripping off American consumers in a new Substack essay on Monday. Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on trade theory, argued in the essay that Trump has effectively hidden the disastrous impact of his tariff regime behind the headlines...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) originally slammed a proposal by his Democratic challenger, Presbyterian seminarian and state legislator James Talarico, to lift the federal gas tax in response to Iran-driven fuel inflation, claiming it was "short-sighted," unsustainable, and would blow a hole in the federal budget.But now President Donald Trump has...
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President Donald Trump is growing impatient with the Cuban government's resilience despite months of sustained U.S. economic pressure, reports NBC News.According to NBC News, Trump has been pressing advisers to explain why his administration's efforts to force regime collapse have not succeeded. White House officials believe the regime could fall...
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President Donald Trump befuddled political analysts and observers on Monday during his speech in the Rose Garden. Trump gave a short speech during a dinner event at the White House that was attended by several cabinet officials, like Vice President JD Vance, as well as fans of his MAGA movement. During the speech, Trump seemed to make a staggering...
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FBI Director Kash Patel just killed any remaining hope of earning the loyalty of his colleagues at the bureau, according to one expert. Glenn Kirschner, a former DOJ prosecutor, said during a new episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters," on Monday, that Patel's latest effort to force his FBI colleagues to take polygraph exams about leaks from the...
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The GOP plan to slip $1 billion in funding for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project into a Homeland Security reconciliation bill is already on life support, as a number of Republicans are either opposing it outright or expressing concerns.Trump has long claimed his ballroom project, which has already seen the East Wing torn down...
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Medical experts recently told a reporter with The Daily Beast that they are becoming increasingly alarmed at President Donald Trump's accelerating deterioration. Sarah Ewall-Rice, a reporter at the outlet, told Nico Hines, the Daily Beast's global editorial director, during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that medical experts released a...
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The Supreme Court's latest ruling allowing a red state to pursue its redistricting efforts sparked outrage on Monday. On Monday, the Supreme Court issued an unsigned ruling allowing Alabama to pursue a new election map that could eliminate two Democratic-held seats. The ruling paved the way for the Republicans to add more seats in Congress as the...
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Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), already one of the GOP's most vulnerable incumbents even after state courts struck down efforts to redraw her district to favor Democrats, landed in hot water on Monday after a clip went viral of her agreeing with a right-wing talk radio host telling Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to "get your cotton-picking hands off of...
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Trump administration official Richard Grenell criticized basketball legend Magic Johnson Sunday night for endorsing LA Mayor Karen Bass in her reelection bid against Democratic and Republican challengers. Johnson posted a video endorsement stating he had known Bass for 30 years and praised her accomplishments in office. Bass shared the video with a...
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Comedian John Mulaney delivered a scathing critique of Human and Health Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his performance at the "Night Of Too Many Stars" autism benefit at the Hollywood Bowl. Mulaney opened by referencing a Riverkeeper benefit he attended with RFK Jr. a decade ago, using the encounter to question RFK Jr.'s fitness...
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The Supreme Court handed Alabama a major victory on Monday in its redistricting fight, according to a new report. The Washington Post reported that the Supreme Court released an unsigned opinion allowing Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature to redraw its election maps and eliminate two Democratic-held seats. The opinion follows the court's...
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