Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (5 hours ago)
Anthony Albanese says the country must be "vigilant" against politicians seeking to return to an era of Australia that was less accepting of migrants, following the South Australian election where One Nation overtook the Liberal Party on a platform opposing multiculturalism.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies seem to be realizing that there is no "formula" to save Trump from the disastrous fallout of the war in Iran, according to one of Trump's biographers. Since Trump decided to bomb Iran in late February, global energy markets have been in upheaval. The average cost of a gallon of gas in the U.S. has risen by...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
A federal judge slammed President Donald Trump's Department of Justice during a recent court order after the agency admitted to making a rookie mistake in the probe of protesters who attended a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to a new report. In January, protesters attended a service at City Church in St. Paul, where the pastor,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
President Donald Trump issued a blistering ultimatum to the Iranian regime on Saturday night, one that raised the eyebrows of multiple political analysts and observers. Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran has 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or else the U.S. will strike multiple energy plants in the country. He made the threat as global...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump appears to have given Iran a way to inflict economic pain across the globe for years to come, according to one expert. Josh Lipsky, senior director of The Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, argued during a new CNN interview on Saturday that Iran has learned it can cause significant economic damage by controlling the...
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (10 hours ago)
Energy Minister Chris Bowen says six fuel tankers that were scheduled to deliver oil to Australia next month were recently cancelled or deferred, out of about 81 ships expected from mid-April to mid-May — assuring however that supply gap has already been largely replaced.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump threw a tantrum on Truth Social on Saturday about a New York Times column that was critical of his strategy in the war in Iran. The New York Times's White House and National Security Correspondent, David Sanger, reported that Trump is "eyeing an exit" from the war in Iran, but added that the president appears not to have...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
A House Democrat smacked down President Donald Trump's rambling threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide.Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday that he is considering sending ICE officers to conduct security screenings at airports as negotiations to reopen part of the Department of Homeland Security seem...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump threatened "grossly incompetent" Democrats in Congress on Saturday that he is ready to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports across the country after talks to reopen the Department of Homeland Security fell through. DHS has been partially shut down for more than a month, meaning some employees,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog issued a fresh demand for restraint on Saturday after the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced that the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan uranium enrichment complex in Natanz "was subjected to a renewed attack” as the United States and Israel continue to bomb the Middle Eastern country.The Iranian agency...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Conservative analyst Bill Kristol was floored on Saturday after President Donald Trump unleashed his "most grotesque" outburst yet. Trump posted on Truth Social that he is "glad" former FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller had passed away over the weekend. Mueller, who had been battling Parkinson's disease, led the 2016 investigation...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
A foreign policy analyst flagged the surprising reason why U.S. allies seem to have stopped trying to find the "hidden logic" behind President Donald Trump's war in Iran. Anne Applebaum, an author and staff writer for The Atlantic, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump appears to be the only world leader who doesn't understand why no other...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
A political scientist said on Saturday that the Trump administration's "stunning" gaps in its Iran strategy just made Iran's "escalation trap" much more dangerous. Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, argued during a recent interview on MS NOW's "Alex Witt Reports" that if the Trump administration decides to deploy...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Within minutes of news breaking Saturday of former FBI Director Robert Mueller's passing, President Donald Trump took to social media to celebrate his death in a shocking social media post, sparking immediate backlash from critics who called the president's language "disgusting and despicable.”"Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
US Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Saturday that he is set to headline two major rallies next weekend "as part of a growing national movement challenging oligarchy and economic inequality,” including the flagship "No Kings” rally at the Minnesota State Capitol.The Vermont Independent plans to join other progressive elected officials, labor...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to celebrate the death of Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who famously led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election."Robert Mueller just died,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide on Saturday by issuing Democratic lawmakers a strict deadline for action, warning that if his demands were not met by Monday, he would make good on his threat."If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's decision to kick off the U.S. war against Iran last month was motivated, in part, by "pressure from outside allies,” multiple insiders told Bloomberg in its report Saturday, a revelation that sparked a fierce rebuttal from the Trump administration.Speaking with Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity, the insiders claimed...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Shalom Baranes, a Libyan refugee and chief architect for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, described the president's immigration policies as "heartbreaking” in a recent interview, The New York Times reported Saturday."What's happening now is heartbreaking,” Baranes said of the Trump administration's immigration policy in an...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson delivered "bad news” for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her chief of staff – and alleged lover – Corey Lewandowski on Saturday, warning the pair during an appearance on MS NOW that their trouble had only just begun.Noem was ousted as head of DHS by President Donald Trump earlier this month...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
President Donald Trump warned Democratic lawmakers Saturday that unless they approved funding for the Department of Homeland Security "immediately,” he would send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports across the nation where they would "arrest” any undocumented migrants they encounter.The federal government has been partially...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
Political commentator Adam Mockler confronted two conservative writers on Saturday over their fierce defenses of President Donald Trump and his decision to launch a war against Iran, telling the two to their faces that their arguments were filled with "contradictions.”CNN's "Table For Five” saw conservative writers and commentators Noah Rothman...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another just won the Oscar for Best Picture. It's a multi-generational saga of political resistance. It's a film about people fighting for something real, even when the odds are against them. It's bloody, messy, and violent.And then there's the Trump administration's version: One Lie After Another, a violent,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
The White House lashed out Friday after being called out over its misleading suggestion that the Iran war enjoyed majority support among Americans, and to such an extent that one target of the White House's fury hit back with a particularly scathing rebuttal.On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that "Americans agree...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
Donald Trump's relentless campaign to bully Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into slashing interest rates faces a fundamental contradiction: the president's own economic policies and actions are creating conditions that could force the Fed to do the opposite—raise rates instead, according to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip.According to Ip:...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
The leadership of Stetson University College of Law, located in Gulfport, Florida, is facing the very real prospect of donations drying up in large part because of alumna Pam Bondi's performance as Donald Trump's attorney general.According to a report from BayNews9, there is a growing list of law school alumni who have signed onto a letter urging...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
Just six days after Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, a Bureau of Prisons "After-Actions team” swept the jail and shredded "huge amounts of paperwork,” recruiting the help of at least two inmates to dispose of the files in a dumpster, a newly unearthed FBI report suggests.Flagged by famed...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Sen. Mike Lee's refusal to back down on pushing his Republican colleagues in the Senate to force through the SAVE America Act has them gritting their teeth and even has some wondering if he should be stripped of a committee chairmanship due to his "scorched earth" tactics.According to reporting from Politico's Jordain Carney, Lee's aggressive,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Mark Robinson, North Carolina's former lieutenant governor and failed GOP gubernatorial candidate, came clean this week over the allegations that he had made a series of shocking online comments, including describing himself as a "Black Nazi” and admitting to enjoying transgender pornography, despite his fierce anti-trans and homophobic...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Donald Trump's offhand remarks during a Monday press availability about Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL)—casually stating the lawmaker had received a "terminal" diagnosis and would be "dead by June"—have revived scrutiny of the president's own guarded approach to his health.The Guardian's Victoria Bekiempis noted Saturday that Trump has consistently...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
Over the past week, Donald Trump has cycled through claiming the United States needs no assistance from allies in its Iran conflict, then requesting their support, and finally expressing rage at their refusal—a pattern that reflects an escalating personal crisis as the war continues and public approval declines.Greg Sargent of The New Republic...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (22 hours ago)
The Trump administration was hit with a major discrimination lawsuit after having cancelled a $250,000 federal grant for a New York museum celebrating Black history, a move lawyers for the museum described as "overt and coded racism.”The grant was awarded to the museum – the Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany, New York – in...
ReadPolitico - Europe (A day ago)
In dieser Sonderfolge spricht Gordon Repinski mit zwei Experten, die sich regelmäßig mit unsichtbaren, hybriden Angriffen beschäftigen: Sinan Selen, Präsident des Bundesverfassungsschutzes, und Marika Linntam, Botschafterin Estlands in Deutschland. Zusammen haben sie auf der Sicherheitstagung des Bundesverfassungsschutzes und des „Verbandes...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
It's reassuring to know that if you have brown skin and happen to be dead, it's no longer OK to be a suspected pedophile.I only wish the same were true for those who are white and living.The lesson we learned from the news that broke this week in The New York Times is that Cesar Chavez, for decades hailed as a Latino civil rights champion and farm...
ReadCBC - Politics (A day ago)
In total, Mark Carney spent 84 days either travelling or visiting other countries in his first year as prime minister. According to records provided by Global Affairs Canada, Justin Trudeau's first year included 63 days of travel. For Stephen Harper, the total was 34 days.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
Zeteo journalist Andrew Pérez highlighted a more alarming comment from President Donald Trump's Thursday Oval Office meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that overshadowed the Pearl Harbor joke controversy. Trump stated the U.S. possesses "unthinkable" military weaponry that "you don't even want to know about," and claimed America...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
Frustration with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is intensifying among some Democrats, with conversations quietly underway about whether he should step aside after the midterm elections, according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal report.Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told progressive activists during a February dinner that lawmakers had been...
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President Donald Trump's influential MAGA ally Mike Davis is facing new scrutiny after allegedly threatening to stop a Justice Department official during negotiations over a major tech merger, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. Gail Slater, then head of the DOJ's antitrust division, was reviewing Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's $14...
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Former modeling agent Paolo Zampolli, a Trump confidant who introduced the president to his wife, Melania Trump, allegedly contacted a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official to help deport his Brazilian ex-girlfriend Amanda Ungaro during a custody battle over their teenage son, according to The New York Times. Zampolli reportedly...
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Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-British military base in the Indian Ocean, in a dramatic escalation that revealed Tehran's weapons can reach far beyond what its own foreign minister claimed last month, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.Neither missile hit the remote island base, which hosts American bombers,...
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The White House is facing sharp backlash after the U.S. Treasury authorized limited sales of Iranian oil already at sea – a move aimed at easing soaring energy prices as President Donald Trump's war with Iran escalates.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the decision as a "narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of...
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Federal sex-crimes prosecutor Marie Villafaña repeatedly urged her boss, Alexander Acosta, then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, to pursue a 60-count indictment against Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, but Acosta dismissed her requests. Acosta's chief criminal prosecutor, Matthew Menchel, questioned the urgency, stating Acosta wanted...
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Legal commentators say Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump after warning that criticism of judges can spiral into personal attacks.Speaking this week at Rice University in Houston, Roberts suggested that criticism of court rulings can become problematic when it shifts "from a focus on legal analysis to...
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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is warning employees that jet fuel prices have more than doubled in three weeks due to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and that the crisis could cost the airline $11 billion annually if prices hold.In a letter to employees on Friday, Kirby said United is planning for oil to hit $175 per barrel and stay above $100...
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Economists warned the U.S. economy will struggle in the coming months as the Iran war drives up oil prices through Strait of Hormuz blockade disruptions. Rising fuel costs threaten both consumers and businesses with thin profit margins. Stew Leonard, owner of a $500 million-plus grocery chain, reported suppliers demanding fuel surcharges while...
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Legal analysts at Slate are calling a federal court hearing in New Jersey this week one of the "harshest judicial rebukes" of the Trump Justice Department yet — and say the fallout goes beyond embarrassment.Writing for Slate's Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern broke down Friday an "explosive" transcript obtained by The New...
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Denmark's military drew up contingency plans to destroy key airfields in Greenland if President Donald Trump made good on threats to seize the Arctic territory, according to a report Friday in The New York Times.Citing two European officials familiar with the discussions, the outlet reported that Danish soldiers deployed to Greenland in January,...
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Journalist Anand Giridharadas criticized President Donald Trump on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" for effectively demoting himself to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "VP" in the Iran military operation. Giridharadas argued that Trump has broken core campaign promises by joining the war, which he characterized as a "war of whim" rather than a...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared stunned after reporting surfaced that the Trump administration official now leading federal disaster response has claimed he once involuntarily teleported to a Waffle House.Gregg Phillips, the man President Donald Trump put in charge of overseeing FEMA disaster response, made the remarks on multiple podcasts,...
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A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died at a troubled Florida immigration detention facility early Monday, becoming the youngest person to die in ICE custody since President Donald Trump launched his second-term immigration crackdown — and sparking questions about the missing paper trail behind his detention.Royer Perez-Jimenez was found unconscious...
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US Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday that it is absurd for the Trump administration to demand another $200 billion from Congress for an illegal war on Iran after lawmakers already approved $1 trillion in military spending for the year—and while millions of people across the nation are struggling to afford basic necessities."You got people all...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security has some explaining to do.Sen. Markwayne Mullin, the Oklahoma Republican tapped to replace Kristi Noem, has spent the last month suggesting he knows what war "smells like" despite never serving a day in uniform. Now, a New York Times investigation has unearthed a story...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (A day ago)
MS NOW's Jen Psaki reported Thursday on two blockbuster corruption stories plaguing the Trump administration. NBC News revealed that Corey Lewandowski, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's top lieutenant, allegedly demanded kickbacks from federal contractors in exchange for contract growth, specifically targeting the private prison company GEO Group....
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WASHINGTON — Democrats have continued to push back on the SAVE Act while Republicans were pushing for what President Donald Trump has called the number one GOP priority, and now the Senate plans to continue debating the controversial bill all weekend. If passed into law, the Republican-backed legislation would require U.S. citizens to provide...
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A California jury found Friday that Elon Musk misled Twitter investors in the lead-up to his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, potentially exposing him to billions in damages, according to multiple reports.The verdict in the class-action case stems from claims that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO – who also served a controversial...
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Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected in the absence of those bans, according to a study published in this month's issue of the American Journal of Public Health.A lack of timely prenatal care can increase the risk of preterm births. Because important...
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A federal judge dealt a major blow to the Trump administration on Friday, ruling that Pentagon restrictions on journalists violated the Constitution. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman, a Bill Clinton appointee, granted summary judgment to The New York Times, finding that key portions of a Defense Department policy setting alternate Pentagon...
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The man Donald Trump put in charge of America's disaster response has claimed on multiple podcasts that he once teleported involuntarily to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia — and that his car was lifted off the ground and carried 40 miles before being dropped in a ditch near a church."Teleporting is no fun,” Gregg Phillips told listeners in...
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Social Security Works blasted the Trump administration on Thursday for covering up damaging information in a Social Security Administration inspector general report. According to The Washington Post, the published report claimed wait times to reach representatives had been reduced to under 10 minutes, but an unpublished draft revealed the true...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
The White House stepped in Friday to stop late-night television host Bill Maher from receiving a prestigious humor award at the Kennedy Center shortly after news of the honor was reported, according to The Atlantic.Earlier Friday, the outlet reported that Maher – a frequent critic of President Donald Trump – had been selected to receive the...
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President Donald Trump said that Japan declined to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a day after he made a joke about Pearl Harbor during his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.Trump told Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Friday that Japan will not get involved, yet clarified, "Japan is a better ally than NATO." Japan's constitution...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
President Donald Trump declared the United States is "getting very close to meeting our objectives" in the Middle East regarding Iran, signaling a potential wind-down of military operations.Trump outlined on his Truth Social platform five primary goals for the campaign:"Completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
With just a month until a key Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act spying power expires, US House Speaker Mike Johnson was planning to try to push through reauthorization legislation next week, but the Louisiana Republican leader is now reportedly delaying the vote while "still dealing with a dozen or so Republican members who want...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
U.S. stocks sank Friday as President Donald Trump's escalating war with Iran rattled global financial markets and sparked concerns that the market downturn may not yet be over, according to a new CNN report.The Russell 2000 – an index of smaller companies seen as more sensitive to interest rates – fell 2.7% and moved in "correction...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
President Donald Trump got a harsh reminder on Friday as gas prices soared amid the ongoing Iran war. CNBC anchor Brian Sullivan suggested that as the economy takes a hit amid the conflict in the Middle East, people are still not likely to cut back on things such as subscriptions for Spotify and Netflix. "I find it hard to believe that people are...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
President Donald Trump escalated his multi-day attack on NATO countries Friday, calling them "cowards" and a "paper tiger" for refusing to assist with his Iran military operation. Trump has unsuccessfully pressured NATO to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route carrying 20% of global oil trade and over 20% of world fertilizer...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
President Donald Trump's administration will carry on with its actions overseas despite claims from a Democratic Party representative that it is a crime to do so. Speaking to The New Republic's Greg Sargent, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) believes the president is using his art of the deal rules to manipulate geopolitical relationships. It is not going...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
President Donald Trump on Friday claimed he could live to 200 — yet he appeared to "strain to sit" before signing a new executive order — prompting plenty of mockery online. Trump signed an order to reserve the broadcast on the second Saturday in December exclusively for the Army-Navy football game. He also gave the Commander-in-Chief's trophy...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
The successor to Donald Trump as the unifying figure of the MAGA voter base will undertake an extraordinary challenge in keeping the cause alive. A GOP strategist believes that no matter who takes over from the president as the MAGA figurehead, there will be a monumental problem at hand. Speaking to Politico, strategist Jeff Burton suggested the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
President Donald Trump's administration is considering relenting on a key demand from Senate Democrats in exchange for funding for the Department of Homeland Security.On Friday, NBC News correspondent Julie Tsirkin reported that border czar Tom Homan was expected to meet with Democrats later in the day to discuss the ongoing partial government...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
American farmers cannot survive much longer as Iran war disruptions to fuel and fertilizer supplies devastate already-thin profit margins. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global fertilizer trade flows, has created severe supply chain disruptions. National Corn Growers Association vice president Lesly Weber McNitt warned of...
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