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Canada is a party to an agreement to work with U.S. and Finnish counterparts to produce icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard. Those ships will give the U.S. greater ability to operate in the Arctic. Will they also be used to threaten Canada's sovereignty in the North?
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Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team bringen euch jeden Morgen auf den neuesten Stand in Sachen Politik — kompakt, europäisch, hintergründig. Und für alle Hauptstadt-Profis:Unser Berlin Playbook-Newsletter liefert jeden Morgen die wichtigsten Themen und Einordnungen. Hier gibt es alle...
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Things got heated on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" on Wednesday as the panel tried to dissect the rationale offered by President Donald Trump's administration to justify the recent killing of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis. Host Abby Phillip clashed with Joe Borelli, the former Republican leader of the New York City Council, over whether...
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Mockery abounded on Wednesday after Fox News host Laura Ingraham misattributed one of President Donald Trump's biggest fans as the creator of a raunchy popular song. Ingraham made a passing comment during her interview with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) on Wednesday night, saying that pop artist Nicki Minaj wrote "W.A.P." a popular rap song that was...
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A federal judge expressed fury on Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi had gone on social media and released arrest pictures of protesters charged with assaulting federal agents.According to The New York Times, "In a Minneapolis federal court where 16 protesters were charged on Wednesday with assaulting immigration agents, Judge Dulce J....
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A jaw-dropping poll conducted by Fox News left some analysts speechless on Wednesday. Fox News polled registered voters between January 23 and 26 about what they thought of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' efforts to deport people from Minneapolis. Respondents were asked to decide whether ICE was being "too aggressive," "not aggressive...
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Former South Australian Liberal leader David Speirs says there is a way he could stand for the upcoming state election — but is yet to declare whether he will — despite the electoral commission declaring he is ineligible.
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Former Republican National Committee chairman and MS NOW anchor Michael Steele slammed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's recent call for a "recalibration" of Immigration and Customs Enforcement strategy, accusing him of enabling the very environment that let ICE run wild in the first place by building a massive child detention facility for them."I want to...
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A former state legislator in Colorado was convicted of four felonies on Wednesday after she faked letters of support during an ethics investigation, according to a new report. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a Boulder County Democrat, was convicted on four counts of attempting to influence a public servant and three counts of forgery for submitting fabricated...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board warned Wednesday that President Donald Trump is playing with financial fire. This week, Trump declared a weaker dollar "great," but the Journal warned "he should be careful what he wishes for," as experts have sounded the alarm on what could become a catastrophic miscalculation."Many politicians...
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A Pennsylvania couple is facing charges after authorities said they beat a woman at a local bar, hurled racial slurs, and asserted, "This is a MAGA town."York County couple Richard Willis Mitchell Jr., 62, and Sara Tresnak, 51, have been charged with misdemeanor ethnic intimidation, along with disorderly conduct and harassment charges stemming from...
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Former MAGA leader Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Donald Trump and the GOP on Wednesday, claiming they are enabling censorship of citizens posting about Jeffrey Epstein. Greene warned on X that people are leaving the platform because "banning people's speech is worse than spying on them.”Watch the video below. Your browser does not support...
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President Donald Trump is seriously weighing a massive military offensive against Iran after back-channel negotiations over the country's nuclear program and ballistic missiles hit a dead end, sources confirmed to CNN.The dramatic report comes after Trump considered military action framed as support for anti-regime protesters facing brutal...
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A legal expert on CNN flagged a suspicious new detail that emerged on Wednesday about the death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti over the weekend, one that President Donald Trump's administration should have released by now. John Miller, CNN's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, reviewed a new video that shows a confrontation between Pretti and...
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called out the Department of Homeland Security's lies about the shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, during a segment on the far-right Newsmax network's "Rob Schmitt Tonight."Paul, who has emerged as a frequent critic of some of President Donald Trump's more bizarre and authoritarian policies,...
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A panel discussion on the latest episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" devolved into a shouting match over the actions of President Donald Trump's immigration forces in Minneapolis. Ex-GOP operative Tim Miller was on a panel with former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Jonathan Fahey, Brandon Tatum, a social media influencer known as The...
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President Trump is celebrating what he calls "one of the most transformative" policies of all time -- a new, so-called Trump Account for kids, with the U.S. government chipping in the first $1,000. Kelly O'Grady spoke to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) fired back with humor after President Donald Trump called him a "loser." During an ABC News interview, Trump criticized Tillis and Sen. Lisa Murkowski for questioning DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Asked about the insult, Tillis quipped that being called a loser makes him "qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior...
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Mockery abounded on Wednesday as reports surfaced that movie theaters will hawk a limited-edition Melania Trump-themed popcorn bucket for $12.99, timed to the first lady's new documentary hitting screens Friday. As ridicule swirled earlier this week over dismal expected sales for Amazon's expensive documentary, social media lit up again when...
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Legal experts were taken aback after a federal judge issued an "extraordinary" warning to President Donald Trump's immigration forces in a new court order on Wednesday. Federal Judge Patrick J. Shiltz of the District of Minnesota issued an order cancelling an upcoming contempt hearing for acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Todd...
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Melania Trump heaped praise on Wednesday on Brett Ratner, the director of her eponymous documentary, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women, and whose photo also appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files.Six women, including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, have accused Ratner of sexual harassment, assault, and...
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A watchdog group says President Trump may be violating the Presidential Records Act by using auto-deleting apps to text world leaders, citing posts showing messages from French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO's chief Mark Rutte. The group, American Oversight, called on the White House to ensure all presidential communications are properly...
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A federal judge blasted President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement forces in a scathing order on Wednesday that gave the administration a temporary win. Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, posted on X that the order cancelled an upcoming contempt hearing scheduled for Friday. Federal Judge Patrick J. Schiltz...
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Former Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, now running for Senate in that state on a pro-Trump platform, keeps accidentally revealing his close ties to Florida, reported the Detroit Metro Times on Wednesday — and reopening old accusations that he actually lives there.Rogers, who also ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2024, was also hit with...
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A Border Patrol agent recently spilled the beans about more than a dozen 'secret and obscure watchlists' that President Donald Trump's administration has created to monitor Americans, according to a new report. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on Wednesday that a source inside Customs and Border Patrol spoke to him about a list of...
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Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, a Trump ally, reportedly told EU leaders he was shocked by the president's mental state after a Mar-a-Lago meeting, describing him as "dangerous.” Fico expressed concern over Trump's psychological condition, amid growing scrutiny of the president's health following public appearances showing bruising,...
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One of MAGA's favorite companies is still reeling from its political ties to President Donald Trump, and that could cost its CEO a $1 trillion payday he recently negotiated with its board of directors, according to a new report. Last year, Tesla shareholders approved a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that would allow him to earn more than $1 trillion...
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President Donald Trump's mass immigrant arrest scheme suffered a huge setback on Wednesday, as a federal judge in Minnesota ordered a halt to any arrest and detention of lawful refugees not accused of committing crimes.Senior U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ordered that the moves to arrest Minnesota's 5,600 refugees, transport them to other...
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President Donald Trump's immigration forces stunned observers on Wednesday after they drew their weapons on an elderly couple in a church parking lot in Minneapolis. The retired couple spoke with journalists outside the church on Wednesday, where Trump's immigration agents were trying to catch members of the congregation as they left the building....
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Lawmakers on Wednesday appeared to have heightened questions over Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and new reporting suggested she'll find it challenging to find allies on Capitol Hill. CNN senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes pointed out via text that most lawmakers "never really cared for Noem," during a report. "I was told...
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President Donald Trump is suddenly realizing Democrats have boxed him in over the explosive immigration crackdown in Minnesota, Greg Sargent argued in The New Republic, prompting a cosmetic "pivot” meant to calm outrage without changing anything meaningful. While the White House is leaking talk of cooperation and de-escalation after deadly ICE...
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More information emerged Wednesday about why President Donald Trump's administration raided an election office in Georgia on Wednesday.Greg Bluestein, chief political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, received a copy of the warrant Trump's FBI used to enter the Fulton County Clerk's office and posted it on X. The warrant confirmed...
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A prominent Democratic operative and former aide to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has been hit with serious criminal charges, fueling GOP accusations of misconduct at the AG's office.Belmont attorney Traci Kornak, a former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, has been charged with two counts of embezzlement and one count of false...
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President Donald Trump issued a stark threat against Iran Wednesday, warning that a U.S. naval "armada” led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is moving toward the region and could carry out forceful military action if Tehran does not agree to a deal to end its nuclear ambitions — comments coming as the carrier and three accompanying...
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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid administrator on Wednesday of inciting racial bigotry against Armenian-owned businesses in his state."Our office is reviewing reports that Dr. Mehmet Oz targeted the Armenian American community in Southern California recently — making racially charged claims of fraud...
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Election workers in Georgia issued a dire warning to the public after President Donald Trump's FBI raided the Fulton County Election Hub and Operations Center on Wednesday. Trump's FBI executed a search warrant for all ballots from Fulton County's 2020 general election, including digital imagery, ballot counts, and voting machine information. The...
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A conservative columnist shredded giddy fans of the MAGA movement on Wednesday for latching on to a video that purported to show the slain Minneapolis ICU nurse agitating ICE officers days before he was shot dead. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump's immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti during a protest in...
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Katie Miller, the MAGA podcaster and wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, ignited a public political firestorm Tuesday after attempting to discredit a Florida Republican who blamed her husband for Trump's looming midterm troubles. After state Sen. Ileana Garcia told The New York Times that Stephen Miller could cost Republicans the midterms,...
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An analyst warned Wednesday that President Donald Trump's approach to addressing affordability and understanding Americans' economic concerns would backfire on Republicans in the midterms. Tara Setmayer, co-founder and chief executive officer of the Seneca Project, told MS NOW's Chris Jansing that although Trump has insisted that "economic growth...
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President Donald Trump's top civil rights attorney got into a petty back-and-forth on X with a prominent conservative lawyer who stepped in to defend the propriety of a judge who had given money to the immigrants' legal relief.U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee who got his start clerking for the late right-wing...
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Before Michigan ever sees federal officers flood our streets, before another video shocks the conscience, the warning signs are already here — and they are coming from inside our own state government.As Michigan Advance reported last week, a group of Michigan House Republicans has now openly threatened the funding of state courts if the Michigan...
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A CNN reporter was startled during a live broadcast as a clash between federal officers and protesters erupted outside a Texas immigration detention facility. CNN's Ed Lavandera was outside the ICE facility in Dilley, Texas, where a group of demonstrators demanded the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father, who were taken last week in...
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At a packed but compact Donald Trump rally in Iowa on the same day he was holding a campaign event in a small auditorium, MS NOW reporter Vaughan Hillyard found some Trump voters openly expressing second thoughts about the former president's leadership — driven in large part by outrage over the killing of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by...
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has planted his flag on a series of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement that Senate Democrats are demanding in order to approve the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.According to Igor Bobic of HuffPost, the core demands from the Democratic caucus articulated by Schumer are to...
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Resident of the Windy City lashed out at the Trump administration with a staggering number of submissions for an innocent snowplow naming contest, taking direct aim at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.For the fourth annual snowplow naming battle, a whopping 80 percent of the roughly 13,000 submissions contained anti-ICE sentiment, according...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sparked outrage Tuesday after he appeared to feign ignorance when asked whether it's legal for ICE officers to enter an American's home without a judicial warrant amid a controversial new enforcement policy that critics say undercuts Fourth Amendment protections. Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee,...
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Republicans have reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on hair and makeup services, according to reports Wednesday. Federal campaign finance records have revealed that the Republican National Committee spent more than $59,000 between April and November on "media preparation" paid to two makeup artists, NOTUS reported.Much of that amount...
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A retired Minnesota couple recalled how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held them at gunpoint after church.The couple spoke to Paul Graham about their encounter in a video posted this week."ICE agents who had the audacity to come and try to arrest and kidnap people leaving church on a Sunday morning," the man remembered. "We turned into...
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On the heels of publishing a study that shows 2,204 species across the United States should be considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday sued President Donald Trump's administration for failing to release public records about efforts to dismantle the ESA."Americans want to live in a...
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A Wyoming Republican walked out of her own town hall session to jeers from angry constituents.Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) abruptly ended the event Tuesday evening at Casper College after students peppered her with questions about the recent killings of two Americans by federal agents in Minnesota during President Donald Trump's immigration...
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Rock icon Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday released a song called "Streets of Minneapolis,” a tribute to activists who have been leading the uprising against federal immigration enforcement operations in the Twin Cities.In a statement posted on social media, Springsteen explained his inspiration for the song, which he wrote in the wake of intensive...
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I was born and raised in Minnesota. One of my childhood homes in south Minneapolis is less than a mile from the scene of last Saturday's brutal Border Patrol killing. The victim was 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a US citizen born in Illinois and a registered ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital.Pretti's crime: He was "Minnesota...
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Outrage erupted Wednesday after the two Border Patrol agents believed to have killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were placed on paid leave. The Department of Homeland Security has not named the two officers or disclosed further information about the shooting death. The move was referred to as "standard protocol after a...
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Vice President JD Vance sparked backlash on Wednesday when he lobbed a pointed comparison at Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth on social media, likening her to the famous movie character Forrest Gump.At a heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Duckworth repeated Rubio's claim that the U.S. is "not at war with Venezuela.""If this is the...
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In a threatening and odd fundraising email for President Donald Trump, MAGA donors were warned that anyone who doesn't respond to a survey validating they are American citizens would be tracked down by ICE. The request for money — and threat — was sent by the Never Surrender, Inc PAC this week and had the subject line "Are you an illegal...
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Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has reignited the scandal from behind bars, claiming in a new habeas filing that dozens of powerful men quietly secured secret settlements tied to Epstein's abuse without ever facing charges, according to The Daily Beast. The filing raises fresh questions about why the Justice Department —...
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