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South Korea's president is in Brussels for the first EU-South Korea summit in three years — a visit that starts with K-pop diplomacy but quickly moves to chips, trade, defense and China. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart look at why Seoul has become such an important partner for Europe and why South Korea's role in […]
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Bei Friedrich Merz treffen heute die Koalitionsspitzen auf die Chefs der Wirtschaftsverbände und Gewerkschaften, um über die Reformbaustellen bei Rente, Gesundheit und Steuern zu verhandeln. Rasmus Buchsteiner liefert Eindrücke vom Wannsee vorab. Inklusive des Frotzelns zwischen Markus Söder und Lars Klingbeil um die Frage, wer die wahre...
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As people debate whether Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is fit for office, political strategist James Carville threw all of the embattled Democratic nominee's baggage on the lap of his GOP opponent.Platner won the Democratic primary for the Maine Senate race, but not before wading through hot water over a slew of allegations about a Nazi...
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A major media mogul surrendered to one of the key demands of the surviving "60 Minutes" journalists, according to reporting by the New York Times.David Ellison, the chief executive of Paramount Skydance, promised to give "60 Minutes" more editorial independence during a call, Lesley Stahl told the Times.Along with Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim,...
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CNN pundits clashed and yelled over each other when talking about a scandal-plagued candidate's primary victory.Political journalist LZ Granderson explained on CNN why he believes Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner still has support despite allegations about infidelity and aggression against women. Platner had just won the Democratic...
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Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) got the last laugh against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), following the latter's relentless anti-LGBTQ bullying stunts.Mace, who originally described herself as "pro-transgender rights" as recently as 2023, took a hard turn to campaign against any expression of transgender identity in public spaces. When McBride became the first...
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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper couldn't keep himself together while reading the mission statement for the Trump family's gold phone.Cooper was doing a segment about Trump-branded gold merch, including his coin, sneakers, and phone. According to Cooper, the $499 gold-plated phone reportedly started shipping nearly a year after buyers made deposits to...
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President Donald Trump's administration is moving to respond after Iran downed a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, with the official X account for the U.S. Central Command proclaiming that they "began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief's direction," as "a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...
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South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) conceded in the state's primary election on Tuesday after failing to qualify for a primary runoff to a Trump-backed opponent, whom she then sided against.Mace ran in a crowded five-person Republican primary for governor, and came in fifth place with just over 37,000 votes when the race was decided....
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A Democratic political strategist was flabbergasted on Tuesday after new reporting indicated that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has taken a disturbing turn. On Monday, Scripps News reported that former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas was told to "stand down" from investigating disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, about 40...
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Political analysts and observers referred to a GOP lawmaker as a "racist" after he made remarks that seemed to reveal his thinly veiled thoughts. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) spoke about Medicaid fraud during a Fox News interview, where he said, "What we're seeing, especially in the blue states, is there is rampant fraud, especially in the minority...
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Two legal analysts were outraged on Wednesday by recent reporting about the immigration crackdown that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is undertaking while he is running for the Senate. Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian discussed a recent New York Times report on Paxton's efforts to disrupt Latino voting groups in Texas in a new...
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A Trump cabinet secretary is the target of online backlash after making a shocking claim about immigrants.Scott Turner, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said during an appearance on Fox News that "tens of millions of illegal aliens came across our borders unchecked," and that "because of that, it put a great strain on our housing...
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A prominent Republican who previously managed election administration in one of the nation's largest swing-state counties tore to shreds a theory from a MAGA-aligned attorney about how to put Trump's election conspiracy theories into practice.The California election results, and particularly far-right reality star Spencer Pratt's elimination from...
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A far-right gubernatorial candidate in Iowa is already facing questions about his residency just after winning the Republican nomination — and is going on the offensive against the accusations.Zach Lahn, a businessman and farmer running on a platform aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement, is facing criticism for...
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A candidate running against a Republican senator has to face an investigation from the lieutenant governor's office, all because of his name, according to local reports.Dan Sullivan Jr., a former U.S. Forest Service employee and elementary school teacher, is running against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R)...
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President Donald Trump's "stunning" chat with reporters before he boarded Air Force One to fly back to the White House after Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night raised red flags for one political analyst. David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, argued during a new reaction video on Tuesday that Trump's press gaggle with...
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Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) mistakenly directed criticism at Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, called to investigate a federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center.GOP witness Alveda King disrupted Democratic questioning by shouting, "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!"To which...
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Legal experts' suspicion of misconduct in the so-called "Broadview Six" case was confirmed with the release of grand jury transcripts on Tuesday, proving that prosecutors resorted to illegal tactics to coerce jurors into returning an indictment against anti-deportation protesters in Chicago.The revelations in the transcripts prompted some attorneys...
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President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the BBC is about to implode, legal experts reported on Tuesday.National trial lawyer and strategist Michael Popok, the host of the "Legal AF" podcast, discussed with legal analyst and MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas how Trump's attempts to sue the BBC for $10 billion — after he accused the broadcaster...
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A Trump cabinet secretary will have a slush fund of his own after the House passed a funding bill for immigration enforcement, according to reporting by Politico.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin will have $5 billion to "dole out at his discretion" after the House voted 214-212 to approve a $70 billion package, the report...
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President Donald Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence got a disastrous meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to Politico — increasing the likelihood Trump will simply not nominate anyone for the post at all and leave him in limbo on an acting basis.Capitol Hill insiders briefed on the meeting "were left with the...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has conceded to violating the Epstein law in a court filing, according to a legal analyst on Tuesday.Michael Popok, host of the "Legal AF" podcast, spoke with Brendan Ballou of the Public Integrity Project, discussing his client and journalist Katie Phang's case against Blanche. In the lawsuit, she alleges that...
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President Donald Trump lost his composure during a "Meet the Press" interview when challenged on fraud claims regarding Spencer Pratt's Los Angeles mayoral loss. Tech writer Gil Duran and New Republic columnist Greg Sargent argued Trump was misled by the MAGA online disinformation ecosystem. "In a sense, then, this saga is really about the failures...
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The U.S. military struck Iran in response to an attack against an Apache helicopter, according to breaking news reports.Trump vowed to retaliate for the attack against the helicopter, saying that the U.S. "must, of necessity, respond," Axios reported. He said the attack against the helicopter "wasn't a big deal" in an interview with the Wall Street...
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President Donald Trump's repeated, desperate demands for various state legislatures in Republican-controlled states to roll back voting rights and rig congressional maps are a clear sign he knows his coalition is falling apart ahead of November, former Democratic New York state Sen. Daniel Squadron told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White...
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A federal prosecutor in Chicago wanted six ICE protesters indicted. One grand jury told her no. So she went looking for a panel that would say yes — and when a juror on that second panel called her case garbage, she told him to leave the room.That's the picture painted by grand jury transcripts the court made public Tuesday, an extraordinary...
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House Republicans launched damage control Tuesday after President Donald Trump made two damaging public statements, saying he doesn't care about midterm elections and Americans' economic hardships are of no concern to him. National Republican Congressional Committee, or NRCC, Chairman Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) attempted to reframe the comments,...
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An outgoing Republican lawmaker anticipated that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing would be explosive, according to reports on Tuesday.Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), a foe of President Donald Trump who was defeated in his reelection bid for the Senate against the president's endorsed candidate, told reporters that Blanche would...
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The Trump Department of Justice seems to be engaged in a game of "chicken" with some federal judges, and one former federal prosecutor argued on Tuesday that it would blow up in the department's face. Last week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the Trump administration's $1.776 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund is...
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After Democrats win the midterms and take a majority in the Senate, their "number one" mission will be to keep MAGA in check long term, according to a political commentator.Allison Gill, the progressive podcaster who runs Mueller, She Wrote, said during an interview that the "most important" task at hand for Democrats will be blocking Trump's...
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Vice President JD Vance announced Monday night he forwarded a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding fraud allegations against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. Vance released a statement on social media, saying, "I've referred these allegations to DOJ's new Fraud Division for criminal...
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In yet another blow to House Republican leadership, nine GOP lawmakers broke ranks to advance debate on a discharge petition for a labor rights resolution.The proposal, noted independent congressional reporter Jamie Dupree on X, "sets strict timelines for businesses and newly-certified labor unions working on a first contract."It's the latest in a...
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Underfunding of Canada's judicial system is causing trials to drag on past their legal limits, significantly boosting the number of unrepresented people and worsening mental and physical health of the country's judges, says the country's highest-ranking justice.
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Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. is "very close" to reaching a deal with Iran, but it could come next week or months from now. "I think that the deal could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now," Vance told Robert Costa in an interview airing Sunday.
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While two U.S. Army soldiers were fighting to survive after their Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman, President Donald Trump chose to board Marine One — headed to the NBA Finals.According to U.S. Central Command, two crew members from a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache were rescued at 7:33 p.m. ET on June 8 — "within approximately two...
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The private company that operates the sole immigration detention center in Colorado sued state officials Monday over a new law that requires frequent health and safety inspections at the site.The GEO Group, which operates the 1,530-bed federal detention center in Aurora, filed the lawsuit in Denver-based federal court on Monday against Attorney...
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A key aide to deceased financier and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein revealed she helped put him in touch with President Donald Trump, Politico reported on Tuesday — though she denied this happened while he was actually president.The aide, former secretary Lesley Groff, "is on Capitol Hill to speak to the Oversight committee as part of its...
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A military expert on Tuesday revealed new details emerging after Iran struck a United States Apache helicopter and how it "changes the entire situation" involving the ongoing conflict.After reports that a Shahed drone struck the helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, and it was unclear whether the drone had initially targeted the Apache or if it was...
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MAGA influencer Nick Shirley confronted an 86-year-old woman named Doris at her home, claiming California records showed she is 126-years-old with 51 votes cast. Shirley, a pro-Trump YouTuber, recorded himself confronting Doris and shared the video online. On Tuesday, Democratic strategist Tom Bonier exposed a fundamental flaw in Shirley's...
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Steve Schmidt, a former Republican strategist, ripped President Donald Trump after he showed up at the Knicks' NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden, right in the heart of New York City, where he appeared to fall asleep during the historic game. He warned this could signal Trump's undoing.The co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln...
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has turned to an unlikely person to help advise him as he prepares to testify about his relationship with late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a report from The New York Times on Tuesday.Gates was slated to speak to the House Oversight Committee in private on Wednesday, and The Times...
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An angry letter from a retiring Republican senator has kicked off a new round of handwringing inside the Senate Republican caucus.According to Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who has grown increasingly alienated from his own party in recent years, fired off an angry 15-page letter to the caucus, in response to Sen. Tommy...
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Trump administration officials have expressed in private that they are concerned that the ceasefire between the United States and Iran has given Tehran a chance to recover from previous attacks, CNN reported on Tuesday. CNN senior reporter Zachary Cohen said that as President Donald Trump responded to a downed Apache helicopter that was patrolling...
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Investigative journalist Ken Silva revealed three significant omissions in the toxicology report for Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania before the 2024 election. Silva discussed his findings in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on Monday. According to Silva's...
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Republican lawmakers, Trump administration officials and industry lobbyists are quietly pushing for Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) to become the next Labor secretary — but the effort is running into resistance from the White House.Nearly 20 people familiar with the behind-the-scenes campaign told Politico that Moore has become the subject of an...
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Religious conservative activist Alveda King came to a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday as a Republican star witness. She left rattled — and firing back at a Texas Democrat who questioned whether she has any right to her famous last name.The confrontation erupted at a GOP-called hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) —...
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A Texas Republican went after the wrong congresswoman Tuesday — and got schooled on the spot.The mix-up unfolded at a House Judiciary Committee hearing already careening off the rails. GOP witness Alveda King — niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and a Fox News contributor — had just derailed Democratic questioning by shouting "Stop killing the...
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President Donald Trump made his way to his home city of New York Monday to attend the NBA Finals game only to be met with thunderous boos by basketball fans, which, according to a former senior Trump administration official, genuinely upsets him."Getting booed in public really gets to him,” said the ex-senior Trump official, speaking with Zeteo...
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A single word in a scathing ruling by a federal judge should be enough to sink the nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general, according to a new analysis.The 79-year-old president formally nominated his former criminal defense attorney to lead the Department of Justice, but MS NOW columnist Jordan Rubin flagged a key word in a recent ruling...
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Hollywood legend Christopher Meloni trolled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after the conservative politician moaned about his midterm election fears.The "Law & Order" franchise star responded to the Texas Republican's Fox News interview on Monday night, where Cruz told the conservative outlet that if Democrats take the majority in the House of...
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President Donald Trump was booed by the crowd at Madison Square Garden during the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. As the anthem played, ABC cameras captured the President saluting in his suit. The crowd reacted loudly; this marked the only time Trump appeared on screen during the...
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President Donald Trump threatened a military response to the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.The two crew members were rescued in the first-ever sea drone operation conducted by the U.S. military, and the president blamed the crash on an attack by Iran."I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the...
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House Republicans are working to contain the political fallout from two remarkable statements by President Donald Trump.The 79-year-old president declared last month that he doesn't care about the midterms and that Americans' economic hardships are of no concern to him, setting off weeks of damage control that fell Tuesday on National Republican...
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Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump's "self-serving agenda” may soon trigger a GOP Senate revolt, one that could potentially sink his future nominees for the remainder of his term."I hear a sound coming from the Republican side of the aisle,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on...
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President Donald Trump, like a lot of Republicans, seems to have believed former reality TV star Spencer Pratt's social media success would carry over at the ballot box, but a tech writer explained why the conservative media bubble provided a distorted view.The 79-year-old president melted down over the weekend during an interview with "Meet the...
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Et si le prochain chef de l’État ne parvenait pas à recueillir de majorité à l'Assemblée ? La tripartition de la vie politique sera-t-elle durable ? Pourquoi les législatives sont-elles déjà dans toutes les têtes dans les états-majors politiques ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Elisa Bertholomey et Jason Wiels dans Playbook Paris, le...
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A House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) went sideways Tuesday when a GOP witness interrupted a line of Democratic questioning with a non-sequitur about infant genitalia.It started simply enough. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pressed the panel on whether the Justice Department's controversial $1.776 billion...
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President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden Monday night and was met with sustained booing both outside the arena and during the National Anthem broadcast. In his podcast "Another Day," progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen criticized Trump's attendance as selfish, arguing...
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Since Idaho's abortion bans took effect almost four years ago, an Idaho doctor says he's had to send patients out of state for medically necessary abortions for a range of pregnancy complications under which he used to be able to provide abortions.Dr. Stacy Seyb, who treats high-risk pregnancies as a maternal fetal medicine specialist, answered...
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MAGA influencer Nick Shirley recorded himself confronting a woman at her home in a video published online Sunday regarding his baseless claims of voter fraud in California, but on Tuesday, a Democratic strategist bluntly pointed out an apparent flaw in Shirley's latest probe.Shirley, the "pro-Trump” YouTuber whose unsubstantiated investigation...
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A GOP lawmaker on Tuesday had a different opinion than President Donald Trump when it comes to next steps in the Iran war.Fox News asked Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) during a live broadcast if Trump was helping Iran by ordering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop attacking Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The ongoing military conflict has...
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WASHINGTON — Cracks in President Donald Trump's stranglehold on the GOP — and the 119th Congress — went on full display at the U.S. Capitol this month as the House of Representatives sent the White House a defiant message.Last week, 18 Republicans voted to approve a Ukraine aid package opposed by the White House. It came after four...
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Fast zehn Jahre, rund 100 Milliarden Euro, unzählige Verhandlungsrunden – und nun das Aus: Deutschland und Frankreich ziehen die Reißleine beim Future Combat Air System (FCAS). Verteidigungsminister Pistorius spricht von einem klaren Rückschlag, aber ist das wirklich ein politisches Scheitern – oder ein Versagen der Industrie? Und was kommt...
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For more than two generations, Bill Pulte's family has had close ties with a covert Christian group that has backed allies of President Donald Trump and other conservatives, according to a report on Tuesday.The acting national intelligence director's grandfather and father have been closely involved with a group known as The Family, or The...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired more than two dozen senior military officers since taking office, pushed out two service secretaries, and intervened directly in promotion decisions across multiple branches of the military – but he has refused to explain the dismissals to Congress.The most high-profile ouster was Army Chief of Staff Gen....
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The federal prosecutor leading California's election fraud investigations appeared on Glenn Beck's show Monday to announce imminent charges — then pleaded with the public to help him find the evidence to bring them.First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the number-two federal prosecutor in the Central District of California, told Beck that...
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Conservatives, GOP lawmakers and MAGA followers were ecstatic Tuesday following the announcement that Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz was among those named in a criminal referral forwarded to the Justice Department (DOJ) by Vice President JD Vance."Lock them up!” wrote Abdul-Rahman Magba-Kamara, a conservative political activist and...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn't defend a single allegation in his latest court filing. His opponent — a journalist and lawyer — is now arguing that silence speaks for itself.In a reply brief filed Monday, Katie Phang — a Yale graduate and trial attorney turned independent journalist who spent three years hosting her own MSNBC show...
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