Raw Story - Politics (12 minutes ago)
Ten minutes before oral arguments began at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a hush fell over the courtroom.Then Donald Trump walked in.No sitting president had ever done this before. Trump took a seat in the public gallery—the same rows reserved for tourists and law students and the merely curious—and watched as nine justices prepared to hear...
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Bulgaria is heading towards another tight parliamentary election this month — and it wants the EU to help counter malign foreign interference. Haunted by memories of coordinated social media campaigns targeting other countries in the region, the government is concerned that Russian misinformation could sway public opinion ahead of the...
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In der Nacht zu Donnerstag unserer Zeit hat Donald Trump eine Rede zur Nation gehalten. In der erwähnt er die NATO mit keinem Wort und doch baut er weiter Druck in Richtung der Verbündeten auf. Während er den Verlauf und die Erfolge des Iran-Kriegs lobt, schiebt er die Verantwortung für die Straße von Hormus von […]
ReadPolitico - Europe (6 hours ago)
Despite the war in Iran and its economic consequences preoccupying ministers, much work is going on behind closed doors in Whitehall to strike a closer relationship with Brussels. Nearly a decade after Britain voted to leave the EU, Keir Starmer has tasked his ministers with negotiating a post-Brexit reset that aims for closer alignment with […]
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Gregg Phillips, President Donald Trump's appointee as associate administrator for FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery, is drawing scrutiny for repeatedly claiming he was involuntarily "teleported." Phillips, who lacks formal disaster management experience, told podcast hosts he ended up at a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia, 50 miles from where he...
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Political analysts and observers ridiculed President Donald Trump on Wednesday night as the stock market shed more than $550 billion in market capitalization following his national address about the Iran war. Trump spoke for the first time since the war in Iran began five weeks ago, an operation that has sent global energy prices skyrocketing...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
A former presidential envoy said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump signaled the U.S. plans to escalate the war in Iran during his primetime address to the nation. Trump spoke for about 40 minutes on Wednesday, where he addressed a lot of outstanding questions people have been asking about the war in Iran, which has gone on for about five...
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Political analysts and observers were outraged on Wednesday after a video of President Donald Trump's faith advisor comparing him to Jesus. Trump hosted an Easter event at the White House with evangelical groups. The event was supposed to be private, but Trump's speech was posted on the White House's YouTube channel until it was made private later...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump gave NATO allies a stark ultimatum during his national address on Wednesday night. The speech was the first address Trump has given since the war in Iran started about five weeks ago. Trump addressed the progress of the war and claimed the U.S. is "nearing completion" of its objectives. He also told NATO allies that they have...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump outlined a plan on Wednesday to eliminate the Senate filibuster to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which has remained unfunded since February over disputes regarding ICE and CBP. Trump stated Republicans would "work as fast, and as focused, as possible" to replenish border and ICE funding while claiming "Radical...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump befuddled the nation on Wednesday with a strange rant about the war in Iran, in which many observers remarked very little was said that was new. Trump gave his first national address since the war started about five weeks ago. He spoke about the progress made in the war and said the U.S. has "nearly completed" all of its...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
April Fool's Day, and the biggest fool in the U.S. - um, the world celebrated it in grand style...In the morning, Donald Trump, cankles in tow, shuffled into the Supreme Court gallery like Tony Soprano checking on his crew at Satriale's Pork Store. Trump was convinced his lumbering physical presence would bully his own appointed justices into...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
MS NOW's Chris Hayes broke down all the key points of President Donald Trump's speech on the Iran war on Wednesday evening — and tore apart most of the major false claims made during the address."That was the President of the United States with a 19-minute address from the Blue Room there in the White House, addressing the war with Iran," said...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump was set to address the nation on Wednesday as the war in Iran raged on for its sixth week. The war began in late February after the U.S. and Israel conducted a coordinated bombing campaign that killed several of Iran's top military and political leaders. Trump has offered shifting explanations for the war, from ensuring the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took President Donald Trump to the woodshed on Wednesday over his latest threats to leave the NATO alliance, a move that would be illegal after legislation passed by Congress to prevent precisely that, but which represents an ongoing lack of loyalty for the president toward U.S. military...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump made a startling claim about the U.S.'s involvement in the war in Iran during his national address on Wednesday night. Trump's speech was the first address he's given since the war began about five weeks ago. Since then, the president has offered shifting rationales for conducting coordinated bombing strikes across Iran,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
President Donald Trump made a particularly eyebrow-raising claim about the U.S. war in Iran during his speech on Wednesday evening, that promptly triggered a firestorm on social media."We're now totally independent of the Middle East," said Trump. "We are there to help. We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
A MAGA TV host ripped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday for refusing to punish the "fly boys" who flew an Apache helicopter near musician Kid Rock's home in Nashville, Tennessee, over the weekend. Videos surfaced on social media of an Apache helicopter buzzing Kid Rock's home, a move that the U.S. Army condemned. The pilots who flew the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
The Supreme Court heard arguments on President Donald Trump's executive order redefining birthright citizenship, with observers noting Justice Samuel Alito's apparent support for the government's position. While Chief Justice John Roberts called Solicitor General D. John Sauer's approach "quirky," Alito posed questions that aided the government's...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
It may have lasted only a few minutes, but a withering exchange between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Trump's own solicitor general likely sealed the fate of the president's bid to gut birthright citizenship, according to a new analysis.Slate legal analyst Marc Joseph Stern pointed to a single moment during Wednesday's Supreme Court arguments as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Former Republican National Committee chair and Trump administration critic Michael Steele pinpointed the moment of Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday that he believed was a true body blow to Trump's executive order to abolish birthright citizenship, in a discussion on MS NOW's "The Weeknight" with Cody Wofsy of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's latest failure is guaranteed to leave a "black mark" on America for years to come, according to a new analysis. Trump attended oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a case that could determine whether birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment is constitutional. The case arose from...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Political analysts and observers roasted President Donald Trump's latest "absolutely insane" confession on Wednesday. During a speaking engagement at the White House, Trump said the U.S. government can't manage multiple social programs that millions of Americans rely on. His comments were made at a time when the Trump Pentagon has asked Congress to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz predicted the Supreme Court will likely reject President Donald Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship following Wednesday's oral arguments. Dershowitz stated that while Trump's administration seeks an absolute rule against citizenship based on birth in the U.S., "The [14th] amendment itself gives to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Democratic Trisha Calvarese announced Tuesday that she will not continue her campaign seeking a rematch against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.Calvarese said in a post on X that she will suspend her campaign and congratulated Eileen Laubacher, the leading Democrat in the race, who will likely face the incumbent...
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Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., are moving for a contempt of court judgment against the lawyer representing Brian Cole, the man accused of planting the pipe bombs outside political party headquarters around the time of the Jan. 6 attack."DOJ is seeking to hold alleged pipe bomber Brian Cole's lawyer in contempt for publicly posting an...
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A Fox News host was forced to clarify Wednesday for viewers that a bizarre national security scandal embroiling Kristi Noem's family was not an April Fools' Day joke.The ousted former Homeland Security secretary was reportedly "devastated" to learn that her husband, Bryon Noem, had a fetish for cross-dressing, specifically a "bimbofication" fetish...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump ousted embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after she publicly threw him under the bus, and now he may have his sights on another member of his Cabinet.According to The New York Times, "President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
The first manned flight to the moon in half a century was scheduled to launch on Wednesday. The mission, known as Artemis II, will send four astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft to the moon for a 10-day flyby. Americans Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen will crew the spacecraft. The launch is scheduled for...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
The Trump administration sued Idaho's top election official after he declined to give the federal government access to sensitive personal information about 1 million Idaho registered voters.Idaho secretary of state won't give US Justice Department sensitive voter information
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump attended Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship — a historic first for a sitting president.Upon leaving, Trump posted, "We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow 'Birthright' Citizenship!” via Truth Social. This claim is false. Birthright citizenship exists in dozens of countries,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A political analyst ridiculed Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday for dismissing the concerns that many Americans have about rising oil prices as a result of the war in Iran. Oil prices have spiked over the last five weeks since the U.S. and Israel began conducting bombing strikes against Iran. Data from AAA show that the price of a...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
The US-Israeli war on Iran and the resulting regional conflict have unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on healthcare workers and infrastructure across the Middle East, from paramedics in southern Lebanon to medical facilities and ambulances in Tehran.The international humanitarian group Save the Children estimated on Tuesday that, since the US and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
It's pretty clear by now that our "president” has not the thinnest clue of what he's doing with regard to this Iran War. And quite frankly, it's making me feel pretty annoyed.Trump keeps talking about conducting these imaginary "serious discussions” with Iran as if anyone is going to believe him when it's crystal clear he's lying. It's like you...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Nancy Metayer Bowen, the vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, has been found fatally shot in what police believe may have been a domestic violence incident.According to Florida Politics, "Her husband, Stephen Bowen, is a suspect. He is now in police custody after initially fleeing to Plantation, where he was apprehended at the Landmark Towers...
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A top MAGA lawyer melted down on Wednesday after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case that could determine whether birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment is constitutional. MAGA lawyer Mike Davis, who leads the Article III project, joined Steve Bannon on his "War Room" podcast to discuss the oral arguments,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
A Republican governor and her security team helped pull one of the actors from the hit television show "Bob's Burgers" out of a fiery car wreck, according to a new report. TMZ reported on Wednesday that New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, and a veteran state trooper helped rescue Comedian Eugene Mirman, who voices Gene Belcher, from a...
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Fossil Free London activists protested outside the U.S. Embassy in London on April 1, demonstrating against President Donald Trump's war with Iran and its impact on oil prices and energy costs. The gathering began at 8:15 a.m. local time, with protesters painting their faces, posing next to mock gas pumps, and having fake oil poured on their heads....
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A far-right "prophet" tied to the extremist Christian Nationalist movement, who has been backed by Vice President JD Vance, has proclaimed President Donald Trump to be a Biblical figure."With Trump there, which is one of those rare moments in Earth history where you have someone who's not a politician, you've almost got a prophet in office," said...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
MAGA influencer and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon anticipated what President Donald Trump will announce during his address to the nation on Wednesday night. Trump was slated to speak to the American public at 9 p.m. ET about important updates related to the war in Iran, which has reached its fifth week since the United States and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
The White House has started looking for interns — but there is a catch — it's unpaid, and applicants are required to be Trump administration fans. The White House Internship Program gives young workers 10- to 12-week in-person working experiences throughout the administration, The New Republic reported. And while the economy takes a downturn,...
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and President Donald Trump are all delivering major addresses Wednesday regarding the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, sparking online speculation about coordination. Albanese urged Australians in a rare national address to switch to public transport and prepare for...
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Conservative analyst Scott Jennings could barely finish his thought about the birthright citizenship case the Supreme Court is hearing before a CNN host gave him a swift fact-check.On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could determine whether birthright citizenship, as outlined in the 14th Amendment, is constitutional....
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MAGA lawmakers and loyalists fumed Wednesday after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) caved in a standoff to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Johnson sided with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in a joint statement, signaling that the partial government shutdown could be over, and agreeing to pass the bipartisan Senate funding bill...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Conservative singer Kid Rock defended the pilots of two Army attack helicopters after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ended an investigation into their flyover of his Nashville home."Man, I was sitting right there just having like, kind of Saturday morning beer, and I seen a chopper start coming," the singer told News 2 this week. "I was like, man,...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough on Wednesday called on Republicans to intervene as President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly panic over Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's impending election loss on April 12. Scarborough stated that Trump, Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are...
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President Donald Trump's "obsession" with putting a massive ballroom onto the White House has become such an optics problem that even Republicans want him to stop talking about it, former GOP strategist Rick Wilson told MS NOW on Wednesday.This comes as a federal judge ordered construction on the ballroom, which has already demolished the East...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Conservative analyst Scott Jennings got heated during a panel discussion on CNN's "The Arena" on Tuesday after new polling found the American public largely does not approve of President Donald Trump's war in Iran. A new poll from CNN revealed that two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the war, and 63% said they believe the conflict will develop...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
TMZ caught 30 members of Congress touring Scotland courtesy of taxpayer funding amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The large group was captured on camera at Edinburgh Castle, a major tourist location, all while government workers have gone unpaid, according to a report on Wednesday. The image featured Rep. John McGuire (R-VA), Rep....
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The Trump administration is wildly undercounting the casualties in the Iran war, alleged a new report by The Intercept on Wednesday."At least 15 U.S. troops were wounded Friday in an Iranian attack on a Saudi air base that hosts American troops, according to two government officials who spoke with The Intercept," said the report. "Hundreds of U.S....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put out a joint statement with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), effectively surrendering in the standoff on Department of Homeland Security funding and agreeing to pass the bipartisan Senate funding bill that reopens the agency without Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol funding.This comes...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday he was lifting the suspension of a pilot crew that flew an Apache helicopter near Kid Rock's Nashville home over the weekend. Hegseth posted "No punishment. No investigation" on X, drawing immediate criticism from military analysts and observers. President Donald Trump said during an Oval Office...
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The Department of Homeland Security has reversed a controversial policy requiring secretary approval for all contracts above $100,000, eliminating a bottleneck that delayed thousands of federal contracts and hampered disaster relief efforts.Secretary Markwayne Mullin rescinded the directive put in place by former Secretary Kristi Noem in June, CBS...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
The man appointed by President Donald Trump to lead America's disaster recovery will not stop talking about teleportation. It's leading many people to question whether he's fit for the job.Even before this past week, many concerns had already been raised about Gregg Phillips, who Trump tapped as associate administrator for the Office of Response...
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The internet was stunned on Wednesday as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the landmark birthright citizenship case — with one question from conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch leaving President Donald Trump's top attorney stumped."Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?" Gorsuch asked. "Ah, I...
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Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" protesters. Chrissy Isaacs, a Grassy Narrows woman suffering from mercury poisoning, was in Toronto on Monday to demand compensation from the provincial government for mercury contamination in her community.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
President Donald Trump sent another conflicting signal on the status of the Iran war on Wednesday, saying he does not care anymore about Iran's possession of enriched uranium — a key reason he previously stated for launching the military operation in the Middle East. Trump was just hours away from addressing Americans when he made the comment...
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The New York Times editorial board condemned President Donald Trump's decision to pardon approximately 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, many of whom have since committed additional crimes. Unlike past presidents who issued controversial pardons near the end of their terms, Trump deployed what MAGA ally Steve Bannon described as a "flood the zone" strategy:...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio took a shot at trying to explain the Iran war to the nation before President Donald Trump was scheduled to appear on television networks hours later.In a video posted by the White House this week, Rubio offered the administration's latest excuse for attacking Iran. The secretary's X account also shared the video on...
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On Tuesday, Eric Trump revealed a video mock-up of President Donald Trump's planned presidential library, but by Wednesday, critics couldn't help but point out what appeared to be a glaring error.The nearly two-minute video, which appears to have been made, at least in part, using generative artificial intelligence, shows interior and exterior...
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President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece signed off on some eye-watering expenditures, according to leaked documents.Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News co-host and Donald Trump Jr.'s one-time fiancée, requested the construction of a $58,000 basketball court at the lavish Jefferson House in Athens, where she has been living while serving as...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
The relationship between Republican Party representatives in the House and Senate has never been worse, according to various insiders. Unnamed GOP lawmakers from both the House and Senate made their thoughts clear on the divisions currently undermining the party. A fix for the Department of Homeland Security freeze pitched by the Senate was trashed...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Dr. Mehmet Oz was hit with a lawsuit by the owner of a family-owned Armenian meat market in California after he alleged that the small business has ties to the "Russian Armenian Mafia." Anna Ivanyan, owner of Tigranakert Meat Market in Van Nuys, said that President Donald Trump's Medicaid services administrator damaged her reputation when he...
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Former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah told People that while she was in prison for conspiracy to commit fraud, she observed Ghislaine Maxwell's lack of remorse for her sex trafficking victims."I had interactions with her, limited interactions with her," Shah recalled during the wide-ranging interview. "I mean, I worked at...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
The U.S. Supreme Court started hearing arguments on President Donald Trump's executive order redefining the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, and observers pounced on conservative Justice Samuel Alito's apparent support for the government's arguments.Several justices expressed skepticism toward Solicitor General D. John Sauer's...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
The coalition of famous faces and far-right figures who brought Donald Trump's second term together is now broadly opposed to the president, a political analyst has claimed. Where Trump once had the support of various factions from within and beyond the MAGA base, it appears some figureheads of the movement have grown tired of his administration's...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
In a nearly 500-word rant, President Donald Trump unveiled a plan Wednesday to steamroll his agenda through Congress, issuing lawmakers a strict deadline and warning Democrats that his plan was essentially foolproof.Trump's proposal was that Republican lawmakers eliminate the Senate filibuster, a Senate rule that allows members to block a bill that...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's new executive order on mail-in ballots will likely backfire for Republicans in the midterms, former Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned on Wednesday. In his Substack on Wednesday, the co-founder of The Lincoln Project outlined why telling his fractured MAGA base not to use mail-in voting — the system that won...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Not long after having attended the Supreme Court hearing to hear oral arguments on the legality of ending birthright citizenship – becoming the first sitting president in history to do so – President Donald Trump took to social media Wednesday to lash out at the longstanding and constitutionally enshrined right, and with a claim that was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said the Supreme Court was likely to rule against President Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship in the U.S.Following Supreme Court oral arguments on Wednesday, Newsmax host Bianca de la Garza asked Dershowitz to predict how the justices would rule."I think the Trump administration wants the Supreme...
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