Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (3 hours ago)
Pauline Hanson's claims that Australian businesses are "tied" to lazy workers they "can't sack", are labelled inaccurate by some employment law experts and small business advocates, while one HR representative says businesses are "terrified to terminate".
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A high-profile ex-CNN anchor singled out the insider said to be the "biggest leaker" in the Trump White House.Don Lemon said during an interview with Legal AF host Michael Popok that Vice President "J.D. Vance is like the biggest leaker of them all" in the White House based on what "many people have said and according to some of the...
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CNN pundits couldn't hold it together as they heard about a new detail in an upcoming tell-all about the Trump White House.The upcoming book Regime Change, written by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, detailed how Trump showed them a document that argued he was more powerful than historical strongmen like Attila the Hun,...
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Department of Justice lawyers ditching the Trump administration to work in a blue state took parting shots, according to a Democratic Attorney General.During an appearance on the Legal AF podcast, Colorado AG Phil Weiser, who's running for governor in his state, detailed the "brain drain" at the DOJ as lawyers flee, with one prosecutor named Hagan...
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Brussels Playbook Week Ender host Sarah Wheaton is on the ground at the European Council summit, where divisions over European Council President António Costa’s outreach to the Kremlin divided leaders and dominated an evening that was supposed to be devoted to confronting the trade deficit with China. Chief EU Correspondent Zoya Sheftalovich,...
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The Alaska Division of Elections took action to disqualify a man named Dan Sullivan from running on the ballot against the incumbent Republican senator of the same name — but a lawyer advising the state legislature is now warning this was probably illegal.According to Alaska Public Media, "Andrew Dunmire, an attorney with the nonpartisan...
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A CNN pundit couldn't believe the description of President Donald Trump's super glue fiasco revealed in an upcoming book.The upcoming book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailed how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked into the Oval Office to find Trump "clutching a tube of super glue and...
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January 6ers who attacked cops won't have much luck with a new workaround to Trump's frozen slush fund, according to a legal expert.Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman wrote in his Substack about a loophole meant to compensate January 6ers despite the freeze of Trump's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund. Litman noted that the slush fund...
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Vice President JD Vance will have to stay home instead of traveling to Switzerland to finalize the memorandum of understanding the Trump administration struck with the Iranian regime last weekend, according to a White House spokesperson.On Sunday, Trump announced his administration had struck a deal with the regime that would immediately reopen the...
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President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly started to "abandon" one of its big projects, The New York Times reported on Thursday — and one legal expert is gobsmacked at the reversal.Specifically, after ICE spent around $1 billion to buy up nearly a dozen mega-warehouses that it planned to convert into detention...
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Former President Barack Obama delivered pointed critiques of President Donald Trump during the opening ceremony of his presidential center in Chicago Thursday. Obama gave a history lesson on America's founding ideals, saying, "In over more than two centuries, through petitions and protests ... men and women of all walks of life, from every color...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
The actions of President Donald Trump's prosecutors in a high-profile case have opened a "Pandora's box" that could unravel the Trump Department of Justice's ambitions, according to one legal analyst. Liz Dye, host of the "LegalEagle" podcast, said during a new episode on Thursday that the damage Trump DOJ's actions have caused in the so-called...
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President Donald Trump has already revealed the next big lie that he plans to sell to Americans, a foreign policy analyst said.Robert Kagan, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a foreign policy analyst, said during an appearance on CNN that Trump will try to frame his deal to end the Iran war as "regime change" and "unconditional...
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President Donald Trump got yet another piece of humiliation about the conclusion of the Iran war — and it came in its entry on Wikipedia.As of press time, the Wikipedia page for "2026 Iran War" states that the outcome of the war was "Iranian victory."As evidence, the article provides a number of citations from political analysts, including a...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) will return to Congress on June 30 after months of unexplained absences, according to his spokesperson Harrison Neely. Neely revealed, "the 57-year-old lawmaker plans to attend the June 30 House session," according to Politico. Kean's office attributed his extended disappearance to an undisclosed health issue but provided...
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CNN correspondent Kara Scannell was left flummoxed after accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione's legal team moved to withdraw their plan for a psychiatric legal defense on Thursday — just a day after having submitted it to the court in the first place."This is like 24 hours. It's a reversal," said anchor Phil Mattingly. "Explain...
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Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton broke with his state party's opposition to in-vitro fertilization Thursday, calling himself a "strong supporter” of the fertility treatment."Strong families are the foundation of a strong nation,” Paxton said in a statement shared exclusively with The Texas Tribune. "Every child is...
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A legal expert on Thursday flagged a striking detail in the deal President Donald Trump's administration and the Iranian regime signed over the weekend that could derail the agreement entirely. Dave Aronberg, the former state attorney in Florida, said on a new episode of the "Legal AF" podcast that Trump signed a federal law that could prevent the...
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Senior Trump administration officials privately criticized President Donald Trump as a lazy warmonger, lacking sustained commitment to prosecute military conflicts. Zeteo reports, administration insiders claimed Trump's approach to the Iran war resulted in an inevitable defeat, leaving the U.S. in a weakened negotiating position. One anonymous...
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President Donald Trump failed to clasp the Medal of Honor around a decorated veteran, and critics let him have it.Major Nicholas Dockery received the Medal of Honor, the country's highest military decoration, on Thursday for his heroic actions in Afghanistan. Trump, however, had a problem putting the medal around Dockery during the ceremony. Video...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
One of President Donald Trump's attacks on his own cabinet secretary was so vulgar that a CNN reporter wouldn't read it aloud.CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel was reading an excerpt from Regime Change, an upcoming book about the second Trump administration by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. She had to stop,...
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President Donald Trump is reportedly "determined" to have better sleeping quarters than his wife since she is isolated in the master bedroom, leaving him with the "living room."New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveal the details in Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a copy of which the Daily...
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President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to Jamaica, Kari Lake, refused to retract a false claim about Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) during her Thursday confirmation hearing.During her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) confronted Lake over her 2024 campaign smear against Gallego, during which she...
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Vice President JD Vance tried defending President Donald Trump's tone by describing it as in line with the working class, and it backfired.The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat asked Vance about the tone of Trump and the administration, saying that it "is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity."Vance...
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, the pro-Trump official in charge of election administration in one of America's largest swing-state counties, got a blistering loss in state court on Thursday, as a panel of appellate judges blocked his sweeping election order against the Board of Supervisors.Among other things, Heap ordered the board to hand...
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One of the Trump administration's deportation schemes has seen an "unprecedented" rise in activity over the last year that stunned two CNN reporters on Thursday. Priscilla Alvarez, a CNN correspondent, and Phil Mattingly, who hosted Thursday's broadcast of "The Lead," discussed the Trump administration's efforts to denaturalize U.S. citizens...
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Along with layers of green algae, the Reflecting Pool took another turn for the worse after Trump's $14 million renovations.The paint coating the bottom of the Reflecting Pool started peeling off, according to video and reporting online. The Reflecting Pool has already been plagued with a layer of murky green from algae blooms since last week.The...
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A Republican senator pleaded with reporters to "take a breath" as they tore apart President Donald Trump's Iran deal claim by claim.Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) found himself on the defensive on Thursday during a Capitol Hill press availability, struggling to answer pointed questions about the memorandum of understanding the Trump administration...
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Political analyst Steve Schmidt said the fallout from President Donald Trump's botched Iran war could haunt America for generations in the latest episode of his show, "The Warning," on YouTube.Schmidt started by praising Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who called the Trump administration's Iran peace deal a disaster. "This will go down as a tremendous...
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Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered pointed jabs at President Donald Trump during the Obama Presidential Center grand opening in Chicago Thursday. Describing her husband as consistently unflappable at every turn, she said."Always focused, always calm, always looking at the long view." "How absurd it is to even imagine that you might have...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A forthcoming book revealed that President Donald Trump once touted a document that he received comparing him to world leaders like Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, which he claimed was written by a "presidential historian" but was actually written by the caddy of one of Trump's golf partners, according to a new report. New York Times reporters...
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At long last, Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) finally has a date for his official, in-person return to Congress after months of absence — but questions still remain about what has been going on in his life.Kean has been missing for an extended period of time, with even GOP leaders on Capitol Hill kept in the dark. His office has claimed he is suffering...
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Veteran Washington reporter Scott MacFarlane predicted Congress will investigate Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller by week's end, following the New York Times' reports on Miller proposing to suspend habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate deportations. Habeas corpus, a centuries-old constitutional right rooted in the Magna...
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CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel was astounded on Thursday after former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama called out President Donald Trump during their speeches at the opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Both Obamas spoke at the opening event, which was attended by politicians like former...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
A Slate reviewer delivered a scathing verdict on Vice President JD Vance's new memoir, arguing the book accidentally revealed how much politics has "corrupted" its author."Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith" is Vance's first book since "Hillbilly Elegy" and was released Tuesday in what many read as a soft launch for a 2028 run. In a review...
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While former President Barack Obama threw shade at President Donald Trump in his speech on Thursday, Trump took to his Truth Social account to rant and rage about various things infuriating him.First, the president lashed out at Utah's move toward a mail-in ballot system, warning that Utah could soon follow Colorado and other states down what he...
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Fox News cut away from former President Barack Obama's historic remarks at the opening of his presidential library on Thursday to go to political analyst Reince Priebus.The abrupt switch came during Obama's dedication speech at the $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park, where three former presidents and a roster of A-list...
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President Donald Trump privately laughed at two top tech billionaires behind their backs as they sought to curry favor with him following the 2024 race.According to "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" — a new book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, obtained ahead of its June 23 release by...
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US President Donald Trump's war with Iran may finally be reaching a close. But consumers and businesses around the world will continue to pay the price in the months ahead as still-elevated energy costs funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to fossil fuel giants.That's according to a report from the environmental group 350.org released Thursday,...
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President Donald Trump joked Vice President JD Vance would bear blame if the Iran peace deal fails, but Republicans are already privately criticizing the agreement while publicly remaining silent. Oil industry insiders and GOP lawmakers object to economic support for Iran and Trump's defense of Iran's ballistic missile rights, with one Republican...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Former President Barack Obama shaded President Donald Trump during his speech at the opening ceremony of his new presidential center in Chicago on Thursday. Obama gave a brief history lesson about the founding ideals of America during the opening ceremony of The Obama Presidential Center, where he reminded the audience that the framers of the...
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy deployed a foul-mouthed Donald Trump to salvage his bid to remain in his leadership position at the beginning of 2023 as the "beleaguered” California Republican faced a revolt from his fractious caucus.According to the New York Times, which obtained a copy of McCarthy aide John Leganski's book to be released...
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An administration appointee blew off President Donald Trump as a "lazy warmonger" after his approach to the military conflict in Iran led to what that official called an inevitable defeat.While the self-described "Peace President" has proven adept at initiating wars, even his own senior officials believe the 80-year-old lacks the sustained...
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A Republican Senate candidate boasted of his AI experience at a campaign event, then admitted seconds later that he was "scared" by a video that later turned out to be AI-generated.Heartland Signal obtained audio from a March 17 event hosted by the Oakland University College Republicans. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), a former FBI agent and House...
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Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA) confronted Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) during a closed-door Republican lunch Wednesday.Sources described it as a pile-on over Lee's push to keep the Senate in session until a voter ID bill passes, reported Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio. Cornyn and Kennedy challenged Lee's strategy for the Safeguard...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani trolled Knicks owner James Dolan during the team's championship celebration.The Knicks won their first title Saturday since 1973, and the city held a parade for a team that has already been hailed as the greatest in New York's long and storied sports history, and Mamdani lauded past players and fans who suffered...
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Former first lady Michelle Obama took a moment Thursday afternoon to troll President Donald Trump as she delivered a powerful speech during an event honoring her husband, former President Barack Obama.Crowds poured into Chicago for the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center as part of a dedication ceremony. During a rousing speech, Michelle...
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Kari Lake, President Trump's nominee for ambassador to Jamaica, refused to retract a debunked smear against a sitting Democratic U.S. senator at her confirmation hearing, insisting her claim was not wrong.The confrontation came during Lake's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) pressed her over a...
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President Donald Trump lashed out on Truth Social, insisting there is no $300 billion U.S. payment to Iran tied to his new peace deal and blaming Democrats for the reports."There is no 300 Billion Dollar payment to Iran by the U.S. That's Fake News!" Trump wrote. "All there is for the U.S. is Success, Lower Oil Prices, and Victory. Check out the...
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Officials at Palm Beach International Airport were deluged with angry comments — including a bomb threat — after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis paved the way for the facility to be renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport.According to NOTUS reporting by David Levinthal, who obtained the airport's website comments log via a Florida...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Vice President JD Vance have adopted a sauerkraut-and-kimchi-heavy diet promoted by physician Dr. Sean O'Mara.The diet promises weight loss and improved gut health through fermented foods and grass-fed steak, reports the Wall Street...
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CNN cut away from Vice President JD Vance mid-briefing Thursday to launch live coverage of the Obama Presidential Center's grand opening.Vance was at the White House podium fielding questions about the newly signed memorandum of understanding with Iran when anchor Pamela Brown pulled the plug on the briefing."Alright. You've been listening to Vice...
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During an interview with one of the New York Times resident conservative columnists, Vice President JD Vance objected to the characterization that he is at war with Pope Leo XIV.Donald Trump's veep has indulged in a heavy media schedule this week as he promotes his book "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” where he describes his conversion...
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A fermented food fad is permeating the White House, with some of President Donald Trump's top officials touting its health properties, but onlookers held their noses in disgust.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Vice President JD Vance have all jumped on board the...
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The Liberal government is set to strip the Canadian Armed Forces of its power to investigate and prosecute military sexual assault cases after almost 30 years. Bill C-11 is based on new Governor General Louise Arbour's past recommendation when she investigated the military's sexual misconduct crisis.
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A conservative commentator unloaded on a former Trump-endorsed congressional candidate, branding him "an absolute narcissistic sleaze" after a sex scandal torpedoed his bid for office.Daily Wire contributor Carly Bird, a Republican strategist and former national spokeswoman for Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign, took to X to rip Oklahoma...
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Overcompensation is a hell of a thing. Donald Trump knows he's not universally beloved or widely respected like Barack Obama and Joe Biden are, and his entire miserable existence is one of constantly trying to make up for everything he wishes he had. Which is why he's always making things up about himself that he wishes were real. It's why he used...
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Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton noted President Donald Trump appeared unusually exhausted at the Group of Seven summit in France, his worn demeanor revealing more about his weakened standing than his Iran agreement. The 80-year-old president, who stayed late at a White House UFC birthday celebration before traveling to Évian-les-Bains,...
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Playbook Paris se délocalise au salon Vivatech, à Paris, où jamais autant de candidats à la présidentielle n'ont choisi de se rendre alors que le sujet de l'IA se place au premier plan. Gabriel Attal et Edouard Philippe jouent des coudes pour séduire le monde de la tech, en dégainant une série de propositions, avec […]
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A candid admission from a high-ranking NBCUniversal executive that Comcast's multi-million dollar contribution to President Trump's ballroom project was merely the "cost of doing business" sparked outrage among journalists at a company retreat this week.According to media watchdog Status, NBC-owned stations' news directors and NBC News...
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President Donald Trump has a habit of punishing Republicans who tell him no, and his standoff with his party's Senate majority leader may cost him the most.Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, has delivered a string of unwelcome answers to the president — rejecting Trump's demands to fire the Senate parliamentarian, kill...
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President Donald Trump joked that Vice President JD Vance would shoulder the blame if his Iran peace deal doesn't work out, but Republicans are already projecting their dissatisfaction with the agreement onto him.The 80-year-old president returned to Washington, D.C., after meeting with world leaders in France and signing the memorandum of...
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Kann man Deutschland zum weltweit führenden Pharma-Standort machen und gleichzeitig eine Gesundheitsreform auf den Weg bringen? Wir blicken auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen der künftigen Finanzierung der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen und der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Deutschlands. Zu Gast im Policy Talk ist Heidrun Irschik-Hadjieff. Sie ist die...
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A veteran Washington reporter said Wednesday he'd "bet everybody's farm" that Congress will launch an investigation into Stephen Miller by week's end.Scott MacFarlane made the prediction during a panel on MS NOW. The MeidasTouch Network's chief Washington correspondent was reacting to New York Times reporting on secret White House memos showing...
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President Donald Trump publicly congratulated himself for the memorandum of understanding to end his war in Iran.The president signed the agreement Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping and pause hostilities for 60 days while details are negotiated on Iran's nuclear program, and just hours later, Trump claimed in an...
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While Donald Trump is being excoriated by Republicans over his Iran deal, which one GOP lawmaker called "… a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” MS NOW's Bill Rohde stated on Thursday morning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can expect that his role in advising the president to launch the war has put his job at risk.Discussing the blowback...
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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a unanimous loss Thursday, ruling that a 1968 law barring drug users from owning firearms cannot be used to prosecute a Texas marijuana user — a rare rebuke that also resurrects the ghost of Hunter Biden.The justices sided with Ali Danial Hemani, who argued the prohibition violated his Second...
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CNN's Harry Enten presented fresh polling data measuring public opinion on President Donald Trump's war in Iran.The 80-year-old president signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and pause fighting for 60 days while negotiating the terms of a final deal on nuclear weapons, and Enten said...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is only seeing the backlash mount from his own party against the Iran agreement he signed to end the war largely on Iran's terms, CNN's John Berman reported on Thursday morning.Trump, said Berman, is facing "a lot" of anger from conservatives — and the long list of social media posts put up on the display behind him, he...
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) got a shot in the arm for his campaign this week, as he picked up a surprising endorsement from a conservative talk radio host.Shelley Wynter, a prominent Black conservative radio personality, was a significant backer of right-wing Gov. Brian Kemp in 2022. This time, however, he is crossing the aisle, according to Patricia...
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Jackson Lahmeyer, the candidate previously backed by President Donald Trump in Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District, dropped out of the race one day after advancing to a runoff in the GOP primary.NOTUS first reported earlier Wednesday that he was expected to drop out of the race."After prayerful consideration with my wife, Kendra, and my team over...
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