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Israel may not be President Donald Trump's only international policy threatening MAGA unity, said Ransom Miller, reporting for the Hill."More Trump voters disapprove of the president's handling of China than any other foreign policy issue,” said Ransom, according to a public opinion poll by his team at the Institute for Global Affairs. "Even as...
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A GOP strategist on Saturday flagged a key detail about a MAGA lawmaker's recent resignation that he says should "give a lot of Republicans pause."Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MS NOW over the weekend, and was asked about MAGA lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene's decision not to run for another...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is sitting down with the leaders of the U.K., Germany and the president of the European Council on the sidelines of the G20 to talk about Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns his country is facing "one of the most difficult moments in its history.”
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U.S. Representative Don Bacon of (R-NE) broke from Donald Trump on Saturday with a grim reminder about what the congressman says could be Trump's "legacy."Bacon, who has spoken out about Trump's attitude regarding Ukraine and the war Russia has imposed on it, over the weekend weighed in on a recent proposal from the Trump administration to end the...
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Donald Trump on Saturday attacked a Democratic governor and a Democratic mayor, as a pretense to send federal troops to Chicago.Trump over the weekend took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to make some claims for which he didn't provide direct evidence."Massive crime and rioting in the Chicago Loop area. Multiple Police Officers attacked...
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The New York Sun reports that former aides and allies of President Donald Trump are welcoming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to their growing fold of political figures whose careers have ended after crossing Trump."As I like to say … welcome to the under the bus club,” said Trump's one-time lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen in a CNN...
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The Big Mac has a big problem. According to the CEO of McDonald's, fast food chains saw a double-digit dip in visits from lower- and middle-income customers in the first quarter of 2025.The reason? He says we're becoming a two-tiered economy, and lower- and middle-income customers can no longer afford fast food.While the stock market is riding high...
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) resigned because she "didn't get the joke" of all politics in Washington, D.C., according to a former Bush adviser.Former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, David Frum, on Saturday wrote about Greene's retirement in an article called, "Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke," in which...
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New York Times reporter Noah Shachtman says Trump made a "corrosive pact” with the U.S. oil industry, and today that pact is "wiping out jobs at home and strangling what little hope was left of avoiding a climate disaster.”"Trump promised them he would do them so many favors that a billion dollars in donations would feel like a 'deal.' The...
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The Guardian reports that prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky had deeper ties to convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein than the occasional political and academic discussion.Emails disclosed in November by Republican members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee detail the correspondence Epstein had with "political, academic and...
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President Donald Trump has openly gloated about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) resignation announcement — going so far as to describe the longtime MAGA ally a "traitor" — but told NBC News he'd be happy to see her career resume, after a little break.Trump reamed into Greene on his Truth Social platform, writing to followers, "Marjorie...
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President Donald Trump's move to cast out loyalist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and appear to embrace New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has left his most ardent top allies bewildered, with even former White House aide Steve Bannon remarking it's a "world turned upside down."Trump revoked his endorsement of Greene following public...
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The Georgia Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who on Friday announced her shock resignation from Congress, has been dissed and ridiculed by the left for years. Progressives mocked her lies, shredded her conspiracies, exposed her QAnon nonsense, and denounced her cruelty. And through it all she never once feared for her life.She...
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President Donald Trump reversed course this week after excluding certain Brazilian goods from his so-called reciprocal tariffs, a reversal that left one economist stunned on Saturday over what he called a "remarkable admission.”"''I tried a policy, and oh, everyone tells me I want the cost of living to be lower, let me reverse it,'” said...
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A journalist and historian warned Saturday that Republicans have a "fear that places them in a terrible tightening vise" — as they're poised to pay the "butcher's bill" for President Donald Trump's decisions.Sidney Blumenthal, whose career includes political journalism and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, wrote for The Guardian that...
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According to a former Donald Trump administration official, the White House is currently at work making it possible to rescind whistleblower protections if Trump or his inner circle are the ones targeted.Appearing on MS NOW's "The Weekend,” ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor explained that what the Trump White House is proposing is...
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Two key Senate Democrats have launched an inquiry after a ProPublica investigation revealed this week that a White House official had intervened on behalf of his former legal clients — pro-Trump influencer Andrew Tate and his brother — during a federal investigation.On Thursday, Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Gary Peters sent letters to the White...
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Donald Trump and adviser Stephen Miller's grand plan to ramp up the war on drugs by blowing up alleged "narcoterrorists” in attacks from above did not pass legal muster with the lawyers at the CIA.So they ran to a more compliant Pentagon.According to a report from the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima, Warren P. Strobel and Alex Horton, Donald...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has had Canada launch a partnership with India and Australia on emerging technologies while at the G20 summit in South Africa. The trilateral agreement aims to have the three democracies work together to diversify supply chains, use clean energy and help with further uptake of artificial intelligence.
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As President Donald Trump attempts to claim the mantle of "affordability” and boasts that grocery prices are "way down,” a new report tracking the price of several Thanksgiving staples showed they have increased by 10% over the last year, more than three times the rate of inflation.On social media, the president recently trumpeted that "2025...
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Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the billionaire Elon Musk, who recruited them, won't...
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The House passed a bill this week that would force the Department of Justice to release what's now known as the Epstein files. The measure passed overwhelmingly, by a vote of 427-1. Even before it arrived at the Senate, Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for its passage by unanimous consent. He succeeded. The bill went2 to the...
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In a rare break with President Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized the White House's proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan Saturday, describing it as "problematic” while also urging Trump to reconsider."While there are many good ideas in the proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan, there are several areas that are very problematic and can...
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Several Democratic members of the House of Representatives have filed official complaints with the U.S. Capitol Police Department after President Donald Trump endorsed a call to have them hanged.Politico reported Friday that Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Chris DeLuzio (D-Pa.) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) contacted Capitol Police to file reports about...
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Longtime investigators in the high-profile Manhattan U.S. attorney's office are skeptical about what is expected of them now that Attorney General Pam Bondi has instructed them to pursue Democrats over possible ties to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.According to a report from Politico's Erica Orden, newly appointed U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton has...
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After President Donald Trump called for the execution of Democratic lawmakers on social media, some Republican members of Congress are uncomfortable taking a hard stance on the matter when asked by Raw Story.Trump's anger stemmed from a video in which half a dozen Democratic senators and representatives with a background in military service...
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Donald Trump's decision to go after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in an early Saturday morning attack is not sitting well with MAGA fans who took to Truth Social to express their displeasure with the president with one complaining, "Ohhh My God! The government looks like a kindergarten.”Reacting to MTG's surprise resignation announcement in...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced her resignation from Congress Friday evening, and one MAGA lawmaker is openly celebrating the news."Good riddance,” wrote Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) Friday evening in response to Greene's announcement that she'd be resigning from Congress in a social media post on X. "One antisemite down. One to go.”Fine...
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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM — Sometimes the metaphors deliver themselves, dripping in flame retardant foam. So it was in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday when a fire briefly engulfed an events stand at the annual United Nations climate talks. The scenes of a summit supposed to stop the planet burning, halted by an actual inferno, reinforced the sense […]
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Early Saturday morning, Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who stunned Washington, DC, late Friday night with her plan to resign her seat in the House of Representatives in early January.According to the controversial lawmaker who had been one of the president's most ardent backers, "I'm going back to the people that I...
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This week, Donald Trump threw a lavish state party to welcome a brutal Saudi murderer. He defended the murderer's crime, blamed the victim, and viciously attacked a reporter for asking the question on everyone's mind: What about Jamal Khashoggi?Of all the shameful metaphors for the corruption, ignorance, and rot presently infecting the White House,...
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Two of three Sikh separatists arrested for firearms offences have had all charges against them dropped. The third, Inderjit Singh Gosal, replaced Hardeep Singh Nijjar as leader of the Sikh independence referendum campaign in Canada following Nijjar's 2023 assassination.
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Michigan State Police responded to a bomb threat at the Holly residence of U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin late Friday night, just one day after President Donald Trump publicly labeled the first-term Democrat a "traitor” and suggested she should be arrested or even put to death.Slotkin, a former intelligence analyst who previously served three terms in...
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The internet erupted Friday after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will resign from Congress effective Jan. 5 following escalating tensions with President Donald Trump and increasingly frequent breaks from the Republican Party.The resignation followed weeks of public infighting with the MAGA leader and a sudden attempt by Greene to revamp...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas's GOP-favored congressional map, a move that delivers a significant advantage to Republicans as the midterm election filing deadline in the Lone Star State approaches, according to media reports.The decision from the George W. Bush-appointed justice allows Texas to use the...
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Donald Trump-appointed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan tried to fix a big court "screw up" but ended up making things much worse, according to a legal analyst.Halligan's team recently admitted to a grand jury error in the criminal case of Trump foe James Comey, only to later walk back that admission in a second filing that suggested the grand jury was...
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Donald Trump on Friday evening linked one of his political opponents to "fraudulent money laundering activity" in a bizarre rant on social media.The president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to attack Governor Tim Walz, misspelling the Democrat's name."Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering...
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In their first meeting today at the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani struck a surprisingly cordial tone, sparking a Daily Beast analyst to wonder if there is "a method behind the niceness.”In a new analysis on Friday, Daily Beast chief national correspondent David Gardner described the encounter as...
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Former U.S. Naval War College professor and Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols warned that President Donald Trump's social media eruptions this week reflect something more alarming than routine presidential tirades: a loss of control over himself.Presidents often lose control over policy, legislation, or even their parties, Nichols wrote in his...
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Donald Trump on Friday met with the man who was elected mayor of New York City, and concluded that despite previous attacks from both parties, Zohran Mamdani is a "rational person." That provoked outrage with Trump's biggest fans.After the meeting, Trump took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to offer a glowing review of the GOP...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Friday evening that she will resign from Congress, with her last day set for Jan. 5.In a statement, Greene said she has "always represented the common American man and woman,” but criticized Washington, D.C., for being "completely unserious.” "I'm going back to the people that I love to live my life...
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FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino faced a wave of online backlash Friday after giving an exclusive interview to Fox News Digital about the 2024 near assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.According to the report, the FBI concluded that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone, following what officials...
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An agreement, signed today, between all Canadian provinces, territories, and the federal government, will drop interprovincial trade barriers on many goods except food and alcohol. It's part of an effort to provide businesses with more trade opportunities in light of U.S. tariffs.
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Raw Story on Friday reported on rumors swirling online after JD Vance's wife appeared in public without a wedding ring, but the second lady's office offered an explanation.Usha Vance's appearance in public without a wedding ring raised eyebrows among liberal influencers and strategists, who have kept an eye on JD Vance's relationship since the V.P....
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The political world erupted Friday after President Donald Trump publicly rejected GOP claims that New York mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani is a "jihadist” – a moment that immediately blew up Rep. Elise Stefanik's central campaign message in the New York governor's race.And Washington insiders, journalists, and even Stefanik herself quickly chimed in...
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