Politico - Europe (52 minutes ago)
After yesterday’s royal welcome from the King, French President Emmanuel Macron will get down to business today, meeting Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for lunch, after PMQs. But, as Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy discuss on this episode, away from the pomp, Sir Keir’s in-tray doesn’t look any less challenging. It...
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As the Liberal government attempts to clean up federal contracting, the procurement watchdog says the current system is in desperate need of "fundamental change” and is calling for the creation of a central body to oversee all government purchasing.
ReadPolitico - Europe (4 hours ago)
Die Union steht vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr politisch auf die Füße fallen könnte: Bei der Wahl zum Bundesverfassungsgericht droht Friedrich Merz, sich zwischen Linkspartei und AfD-Stimmen entscheiden zu müssen – oder aber: gar keine Zweidrittelmehrheit zu bekommen. Das politische Patt ist perfekt. Gordon Repinski analysiert die doppelte...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
The announcement on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has opened an investigation into former F.B.I. Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan was met with swift condemnation online. According to a report by Fox News, citing "Justice Department sources," a criminal investigation has been opened against both men....
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Two Democratic lawmakers lashed out at Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday after seeing the latest version of his department's budget. The latest DOE budget calls for significant funding reductions to wind, solar, and electric vehicles, Politico reported. That decision stands in contrast to a law President Donald Trump signed in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Flooding is a fact of life in Texas Hill Country, a region home to a flood-prone corridor known as "Flash Flood Alley.” Judge Rob Kelly, the top elected official in Kerr County, said as much on Sunday."We know we get rains. We know the river rises,” he said as a desperate search for survivors continued along the Guadalupe, a river that rose...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer buys a new outfit every time she meets President Donald Trump, "hyper conscious" of the value he places on physical appearance, according to a lengthy New York Times report, which detailed her obsession with the president.The Tucson, Arizona, native gained national notoriety for her wild and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's abrupt about-face this week to support sending more weapons to Ukraine after months of trying to coax Russia's Vladimir Putin into a "deal" to end the war, left New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has covered the president for years, taken aback in a Tuesday evening interview on CNN."Do you think the president has...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Politico on Tuesday that he's received assurances that Republicans will get another chance to cut Medicaid after voting to support President Donald Trump's mega budget bill. Trump's budget slashed more than $700 billion from Medicaid and imposed work requirements for Medicaid members to receive their benefits...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a big victory on Tuesday by ruling 8-1 that Trump's executive order requiring federal agencies to reduce their workforce is legal. The case had been pending in the judiciary since February after a lower court issued a temporary injunction. Tuesday's ruling paves the way for the Trump administration to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Parents of Venezuelan immigrants deported from the United States to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison are saying that President Donald Trump is using their children as "bargaining chips," according to a new report from The New York Times. The backlash comes at a time when U.S. and Salvadoran officials work to negotiate a prisoner swap involving...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
A CNN reporter's eye-popping new revelations about the Trump administration's decision to freeze — and later unfreeze — military aid to Ukraine baffled panelists Tuesday evening.Reporter Natasha Bertrand shared what anchor Erin Burnett called "real breaking news" on what went on behind the scenes with the United States' sudden decision last...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
The makeshift Florida Everglades migrant detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz" is already facing horrific problems, reported the Miami Herald on Tuesday — with the detainees bearing the brunt of most of it."While the state says the stories detainees are sharing with the Herald are false, various scenarios described by three women in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta slammed President Donald Trump on Tuesday for attempting to retreat from the Jeffrey Epstein files story that caused fury within the MAGA world. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the administration would not release new information about the Epstein case after promising for months to do just that. This happened...
ReadCBS News - Politics (9 hours ago)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with President Trump at the White House amid renewed hope for a potential 60-day ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court lifted a block against Trump administration's plans to layoff potentially hundreds of thousands of government employees. Ed O'Keefe has the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
A CNN anchor expressed astonishment Tuesday evening as a volunteer search and rescuer said he believes Texas officials are undercounting the number of flood victims by hundreds.Ryan Logue, deputy incident commander for the United Cajun Navy, told Erin Burnett on her show "OutFront" that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was likely way off when he said 170...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
CNN reporter Isabel Rosales broke some important news on Tuesday to rescue crews working to find survivors of the deadly flood in central Texas.Rosales was on the ground reporting on rescue efforts when she told crews that the number of missing people had increased to more than 170. That figure was news to the crew members, Rosales said, who were...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Users on tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform were stunned Tuesday as the inbuilt AI chatbot known as Grok began to praise Adolf Hitler and push antisemitic, white nationalist memes.This comes just a couple of days after Musk proclaimed that Grok, which was a constant source of frustration as it undercut many of the factually incorrect things...
ReadCBC - Politics (9 hours ago)
U.S. President Donald Trump's pause on his sweeping global tariffs is set to expire in just a few days, unless he opts to give countries extra time to strike deals — as his advisers have suggested this weekend. Some trade experts say Canada still faces big risks, despite avoiding that round of levies back in April.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
CNN's Jake Tapper issued a forceful rebuke of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's assertion that questions about who is to blame for the deadly flood in Texas are the "language of losers."During a press conference on Tuesday, Abbott told a reporter that their question about who is to blame for the flood that has killed over 100 people in Kerr County is the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is claiming he does not know who ordered last week's halt in critical U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine—a statement that immediately sparked backlash and renewed questions by critics over whether the commander-in-chief is in control of the U.S. military."Last week, the Pentagon paused some shipments of weapons to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times's decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity.The newsroom will go to extreme lengths to achieve its primary missions — and one...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
A quartet of Democratic lawmakers are warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to build a "Golden Dome" missile defense system could open the door to a corrupt boondoggle.In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Reps. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.) made the case...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
CNN's Jake Tapper was taken aback as he reported on the rapidly growing toll from the flash floods in central Texas on Tuesday afternoon."Republican Greg Abbott said there are at least 161 people known to be missing in Kerr County alone," said Tapper. "We previously had been told that the number was closer to 20 for Texas as a whole, but now we're...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Several provisions of President Donald Trump's mega-budget bill that were cut for parliamentary reasons could resurface in future legislation, Politico reported Tuesday. House Budget Chair Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) told the outlet during a news conference that Republican lawmakers are formulating a plan to include parts of the bill that violated...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Republican senators aren't doing enough to sell President Donald Trump's marquee spending package, GOP leaders warned Tuesday, according to a report.Trump's megabill, officially known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill," is deeply unpopular with Americans, with multiple polls showing that a clear majority oppose the legislation, with support often...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration could move forward with purging thousands of government employees, something that experts say bodes well for President Donald Trump as the case moves forward on its merits."All the rulings on the case to date have taken place on a preliminary or emergency basis, meaning...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace started her Tuesday episode of "Deadline: White House" with angry MAGA supporters demanding more information about the "files" around Jeffrey Epstein's charges, any evidence, and questions around his death. She showed a clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi responding to a Fox News question about the "client list" of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Trump's Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement.This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war.ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets.Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from $3.4 billion in the current fiscal year to $45 billion...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a stern response to a reporter who asked him who is to blame for the deadly floods in central Texas that have killed at least 110 people. Abbott took questions from reporters during a news conference where he updated the public on the devastation from the flood in Kerr County. As of Tuesday, 109 people were dead and...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A group of House Democrats is demanding answers from the Justice Department over their recent proclamation that the fabled Jeffrey Epstein "client list" doesn't exist, reported The Guardian — accusing them of burying information about the case to protect President Donald Trump."The House Judiciary Committee's ranking member, Jamie Raskin,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is laughing at President Donald Trump, said one MSNBC host on Tuesday. Trump has been asked about Putin and the state of the war against Ukraine after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused a weapons shipment to the war-torn country. On Tuesday, when asked about the matter, Trump said, "We get a lot of bulls---...
ReadNational Public Radio - Politics (11 hours ago)
The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on average, each woman will have over her lifetime. And for a population to remain stable - flat, no growth, no decline - women, on average, have to have 2.1 kids.In the U.S., that number is 1.6, and dropping. It's driving a new political debate about...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
The Supreme Court was not in session, as it was on summer break, but it issued a ruling on Tuesday afternoon regarding President Donald Trump's cuts to the federal workforce. The high court lifted an order from a lower court that blocked layoffs for federal workers in nearly two dozen agencies. Upon entering office, Trump created the Department of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
The progressive watchdog group Right Wing Watch took aim at Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith on Tuesday for his comments last week pushing a Christian nationalist falsehood regarding the Founding Fathers.Appearing on the Christian nationalist radio program "The Truth & Liberty Show,” Beckwith said that the writing of the US Constitution was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
High-ranking Catholic clergy are beginning to speak out against President Donald Trump's agenda, denouncing it as a threat to the vulnerable in America, reported The Bulwark on Tuesday.In particular, Trump has drawn ire from prominent bishops over his "big, beautiful bill" of tax breaks, for cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid and food...
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Pediatrician Fred Rivara surprised Newsmax hosts Katrina Szish and Bob Brooks after he said President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill would "make everything worse."Rivara made the remarks Tuesday after the network invited him to discuss his study, which found that children's health outcomes in the U.S. have deteriorated since...
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) called the massive show of force at Los Angeles's MacArthur Park on Monday "appalling" after ICE agents and National Guard troops arrived with horses and armored vehicles, with a black Department of Homeland Security helicopter hovering overhead, in what he called a "media stunt" meant to scare the migrant community.Gomez...
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her colleagues over their summary decision on Tuesday to lift lower court orders that blocked President Donald Trump from conducting mass firings of the federal workforce."Historical practice ... confirms that, while Presidents possess some discretion to reduce federal employment, they may not...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec vented rage at the Trump administration after Attorney General Pam Bondi seemed to wash her hands of files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, a reporter asked Bondi if Epstein worked for an intelligence agency."Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?" an angry President...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) came under fire Tuesday in a scathing column accusing her of having "sold (Alaskans) out” for her support for President Donald Trump's budget reconciliation package that includes the single-largest cut to Medicaid in history, all in exchange for some Alaska-specific carveouts.Originally critical of the budget...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has declared that the Trump administration's massive deportation plans will continue without any amnesty for migrant farm workers, and insisted that "able-bodied” American adults who access Medicaid for health care insurance should be the ones to replace deported migrant farm workers. Critics have...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. told MSNBC that he's grieving after his town was hit with feet of rain in a short period. But he's also speaking out about the town's efforts to prevent such a large loss of life. Host Katy Tur cited Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R-TX), who claimed that the state would fund a flood alert system along the Guadalupe River. Her...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't quite get the warm reception from President Donald Trump that he hoped for following U.S. strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran, according to reporting on MSNBC.Journalist Noga Tarnopolsky told host Katie Tur on Tuesday that Netanyahu "expected a lot more pomp and circumstance" to celebrate the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
At a cabinet meeting Tuesday, President Donald Trump floated the idea of imposing a 200% tariff rate on pharmaceuticals, which could cause the cost of medications to skyrocket."We'll be announcing something very soon on pharmaceuticals," Trump said. "We're gonna give people about a year, a year-and-a-half to come in, and after that, they're gonna...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Efforts to implement an early warning system for weather emergencies failed nearly a decade ago in central Texas because some local officials and residents feared that sirens would disrupt their sleep.That decision is being called into question this week after more than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed by flash flooding in the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed confidence that the newly passed domestic policy legislation would help Republicans maintain their congressional majorities.Recent polling suggests voters don't approve of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law last week by President Donald Trump, but the House speaker told NBC News that should...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth halted shipments of weapons to Ukraine that were already loaded onto trucks in Europe and ready for delivery. However, on Monday night, President Donald Trump intervened and instructed the aid be sent, and Republicans are celebrating that the president is embracing a defense against Russia. Hegseth had previously...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins contradicted one of President Donald Trump's recent claims that he'd be putting farmers in charge of their migrant workers. Speaking on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Rollins proclaimed there would be "no amnesty." Instead, she wants to see people on Medicaid who need jobs to meet Trump's new work...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's "testing" a plan for the federal government to take over Washington, D.C.According to Bloomberg, D.C. residents have had the right to elect their own government officials since legislation passed in 1973, "though Congress is still able to review local laws and the city's budget."Although Trump has...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
President Donald Trump responded heatedly to a White House reporter on Tuesday after they asked Attorney General Pam Bondi questions about the late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.During a cabinet meeting, Bondi was asked if she had any information about whether Epstein was an asset who had been used by American intelligence agencies to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
A high-ranking campaign official for Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) appears to have infiltrated a private group chat involving the lawmaker's political opponents.Someone using the mobile phone number belonging to the New York Republican's deputy district director Erin Crowley gained entrance to a Signal chat for the Fight Lawler organization and urged...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Kansans now confront a "big, beautiful bill” approved by 218 Republican puppets in the U.S. House, and then signed into law by a convicted felon who was found guilty of sexual abuse, and who has faced multiple criminal cases over the past few years. Many of his indictments went to the core principles of our democracy. Unlike the average American,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
CNN's Dana Bash played a "very interesting" clip on Inside Politics of President Donald Trump admitting that he's been jerked around by Vladimir Putin over ending the war in Ukraine.The clip was recorded during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, when Trump declared, "We get a lot of bull---- thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
The latest debacle to hit Donald Trump was sparked by members of his own team — who then fanned the flames until it was fully out of control, an analyst wrote Tuesday.MSNBC's Steve Benen claimed the Jeffrey Epstein mess that has the president's MAGA base in uproar was completely avoidable.But Trump's team has been amplifying it for so long that...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Estranged former DOGE administrator Elon Musk erupted as President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting without him.While Trump was speaking at the Tuesday meeting, Musk ranted to Roger Stone, one of the president's advisers, about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein."Why would Jeffrey Epstein associate Steve Bannon try to help Robert Mueller...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
FBI Director Kash Patel had an interview with Joe Rogan where he was asked about his previous vow to release the files around Jeffrey Epstein. Now that the administration is changing its story on the files, people are starting to ask questions — including the co-hosts of "The View.""We're going to give you everything we can," Patel told Rogan in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
CNN's Pamela Brown, who attended Camp Mystic as a child, expressed frustration Tuesday that officials weren't answering basic questions about evacuation efforts during deadly flash flooding that occurred in Central Texas over the weekend.Brown let out an audible sigh as Kerr County officials wrapped up Tuesday's update on the recovery efforts. They...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spent several minutes praising God's part in the recent deadly flooding in Texas.At a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Noem recalled that one father found his dead daughter's shoe in the mud."Just hugging and comforting people matters a lot," she insisted. "I'm extremely grateful for...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Imagine walking into a McDonald's with two service lines.Above one cashier reads a sign: "This employee has healthcare coverage.”Above the other cashier reads a different sign: "This employee does not have healthcare coverage.”Which line are you getting in?Our collective public health is the one thing that binds us all together. Whether we like...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter for asking a question about the release of files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that did not include a promised client list.At a Tuesday cabinet meeting, one reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about "some lingering mysteries" around Epstein."One of the biggest ones is whether he ever...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Donald Trump reportedly buddied up to Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter's funeral, desperately pitching a plan for him to play at his golf courses.According to a bombshell new book obtained by Axios, Trump spent Carter's solemn memorial service in January "enticing" Obama with descriptions of his courses worldwide, and begging his predecessor for an...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins argued that 34 million "able-bodied adults" who are at risk of losing their Medicaid benefits should be expected to take the jobs of migrants on farms.During a Tuesday press conference, Rollins was asked about President Donald Trump's pledge to give farmers a "pass" when it came to Immigration and Customs...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
Critics were quick to jump on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for re-nominating President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize after a Ukrainian official withdrew his recommendation, and Pakistani officials considered doing the same following the president's bombing of Iran.Netanyahu "surprised" Trump with the nomination at a White House...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force is once again touting all the cuts it's made to streamline the federal government — but this time it's bragging about the elimination of relatively small-dollar programs that protect and clean up lower-income areas from debilitating pollution and other hazards, NOTUS...
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