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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche just revealed what's coming next in President Donald Trump's ballot scheme with a searing dog whistle during a Fox News interview on Sunday, according to one analyst. Blanche joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures," where he claimed, without evidence, that there is "a ton of evidence"...
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Onlookers mocked Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday after she shared a startling monologue during the opening segment of her weekend show, "Sunday Morning Futures." In the monologue, Bartiromo claimed that her show had been one of the "leading critical journalists" covering government mismanagement, ranging from the "made-up Russia collusion...
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A Democratic candidate running for office in Colorado called for Gov. Jared Polis to be investigated and impeached after he commuted convicted felon Tina Peters' sentence. On Friday, Polis announced that he was commuting the sentence of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who was convicted of nine felonies for her actions to aid President...
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President Donald Trump sparked outrage on Sunday after his heavily edited recorded speech played at his national prayer event in Washington, D.C. Trump addressed the crowd at his "Rededicate 250" event, billed as an effort to highlight "God's presence in our national life throughout 250 years of American history," according to the event's website....
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President Donald Trump called for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to be "thrown out of office" on Sunday in a Truth Social post endorsing Massie's primary challenger. Trump has sought to remake the Republican Party in his image during his second term in office by supporting candidates who run against Republicans who have challenged the president. For...
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Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas told thousands gathered on the National Mall on Sunday that the Almighty spent two centuries waiting to deliver one Donald Trump so the president could finally build his $400 million ballroom."Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom...
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The Republican Party seems to be winning the redistricting wars as the 2026 midterm elections approach, but a legal expert on Sunday compared the GOP's efforts to an own goal that will likely haunt them going forward.So far, the Republicans have gained about seven seats in Congress through mid-cycle redistricting as states like Texas, Louisiana,...
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A prominent Evangelical reverend stunned political analysts and observers on Sunday with his speech during President Donald Trump's "Rededicate 250" prayer event at the National Mall. The Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the late preacher Billy Graham, spoke via a pre-recorded video at the prayer event, describing America as a country that has...
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Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director turned vocal Trump critic, is offering a window into what he says is President Donald Trump's secret psychological weakness — and it's not what most of the commander-in-chief's critics think.In a lengthy post on X published Saturday, "The Mooch" argued that observers who can't...
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Much has been written about President Donald Trump's tendency to fudge the truth, with The Washington Post having tracked more than 30,000 individual false or misleading claims made by the president during his first term – but nearly 16 months into his second term, Americans by the millions are largely disregarding Trump's words entirely, one...
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A U.S. official's statement to Axios published on Sunday has a number of journalists bracing for impact, several of whom accused the Trump administration of "misleading” the American public in a "deplorable” attempt to "justify” a U.S. invasion of a sovereign nation.Axios' report claims that Cuban leaders had recently discussed plans to...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was asked Sunday by Fox News' Shannon Bream whether he had a message for Black voters in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark decision last month and subsequent GOP gerrymandering blitz – which has disproportionately impacted Black Americans – and his answer left onlookers dumbfounded.In late April, the...
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The World Health Organization's declaration Sunday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern triggered a wave of panicked — and in some cases conspiratorial — reactions across the political spectrum.Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer led the charge with a...
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) unleashed a blistering broadside against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday, ripping a series of Pentagon moves as "amateur hour at best and deadly at worst" — and triggering immediate calls from former officials for Hegseth's outright removal.In a lengthy post on X, Tillis condemned what he called the "careless...
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Renowned international security expert Robert Pape issued a dire warning on Sunday that an irreversible "critical point” had been reached in the U.S. war against Iran, one that risks sparking global shortages and economic disruptions on a scale not seen in decades."Two months ago, I warned that the Iran war was not simply creating an oil price...
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Just ahead of making his appearance at a national prayer event at the nation's capital, President Donald Trump issued yet another genocidal threat against Iran on Sunday, warning the Middle East nation that if its leaders didn't "get moving fast” on agreeing to a deal, there would soon be nothing "left of them.”"For Iran, the Clock is Ticking,...
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the conservative cause célèbre acquitted in the 2020 Kenosha shootings, is suddenly persona non grata in parts of the MAGA movement after publicly throwing his weight behind embattled U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie ahead of Kentucky's May 19 Republican primary.Speaking May 16 at a "day at the range" event in Burlington, Kentucky,...
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A grim new CBS News/YouGov poll showing President Donald Trump bleeding support over his handling of the economy set off a wave of reaction online on Sunday — with pollsters and pundits alike pointing to what one Washington correspondent called "rancid numbers" for Republicans heading into the midterms.The survey found two-thirds of Americans say...
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Iconic Democratic strategist James Carville gave President Donald Trump a backhanded compliment on Sunday in response to the president's controversial remarks last week – remarks, he contended, that were perhaps the "greatest” presidential gaffe in U.S. history.Standing on the White House lawn last Tuesday, Trump admitted that, when it came to...
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Two of the most influential pro-Trump voices in the podcasting world are airing their grievances in public, after Joe Rogan voiced alarm about fellow comedian Theo Von's mental health — only for Von to fire back that Rogan was full of it.On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan grew somber as he discussed Von's behavior since...
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A stunningly brazen admission from President Donald Trump last week that sent shockwaves across the nation may very well end up being the catalyst that sinks the Republican Party in the impending midterm elections come November, one GOP strategist warned on Sunday.That admission, which Trump made in the span of five seconds when speaking with...
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins took to social media Saturday to celebrate a series of new "commitments” from China – namely, the export of American beef, an announcement that came amid U.S. beef prices reaching their highest level in recorded history, sparking a considerable backlash from MAGA-aligned figures."Proud to confirm that our...
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Former Battle on the Beach co-host Alison Victoria says one stray word may have cost her a return ticket to HGTV's seaside design competition.In a new interview with the Daily Mail published May 15, Victoria, 44, claimed she was passed over for the show's revived fifth season because she announced last year on her Pap Smear Podcast that the series...
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President Donald Trump is expected to be joined by several of his top officials and allies Sunday in Washington, D.C. for Rededicate 250, a national prayer event hosted on the National Mall, and one Christian group is working to erect a "15-foot-tall” surprise for the president in protest.Organized by Freedom250, a Trump-aligned group that has...
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A devastating new CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday shows President Donald Trump paying a steep political price as Americans grow increasingly stressed, frustrated and angry over his handling of the economy — with his overall approval rating sinking to the lowest level of his second term.Two-thirds of Americans now say Trump's policies are...
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U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has now responded to an angry attack by Donald Trump, who threatened to endorse someone to challenge her congressional seat.The Colorado Republican joined the 79-year-old president's most hated Republican – Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – for a pair of campaign events Saturday in his home district in...
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MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart on Sunday painted a vivid picture of one anxious Republican senator sweating out President Donald Trump's primary endorsement decision — and warned the GOP that Trump's habit of meddling in primaries could backfire in swingier states.Discussing Saturday's stunning Louisiana primary defeat of Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of...
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President Donald Trump has poured considerable political capital into ousting Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who infamously bucked the president by leading the charge to force the release of the administration's files on Jeffrey Epstein – a move one Trump voter recently condemned as a "slap in the face.”"We love our congressman, and the fact that...
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They may call themselves the "Pro-Life Party,” but the GOP certainly doesn't act like it. They claim to be "Pro-” a lot of other things as well: family, faith, women, and above all else, children. In the Upside Down of Trumpworld, "Pro-” actually means "Anti-” every time, because they're ultimately only "Pro-” padding their own bank...
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Saturday Night Live's season finale featured a controversial sketch in which actor Will Ferrell played Jeffrey Epstein's ghost, drawing widespread attention for a dark joke about the financier's prison death.In the sketch, Ferrell's Epstein character delivers a punchline that references his disputed 2019 death in federal custody. When a character...
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With the Trump administration having failed to achieve its stated objectives in its war against Iran, President Donald Trump has increasingly set his sights on a new objective: one he appears ready to authorize a "dangerous mission” to achieve at any moment, but also one that several high-ranking Trump officials think is a "resoundingly terrible...
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Friends,My first quote of the week comes from Trump on Air Force One, on his way back from Beijing on Friday — telling David Sanger of The New York Times:"I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write....
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President Donald Trump is hoping to have his latest Washington, D.C. renovation project complete in time for the United States' 250th anniversary on July 4, but in doing so, may be putting workers' safety at "risk,” one union leader warned Sunday.The Trump administration is racing to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and selected a...
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President Donald Trump has intensified his retribution campaign against Republican lawmakers who don't toe his line, launching a scathing midnight attack on Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie after a GOP senator lost his race."Tom Massie of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country, is an even bigger insult...
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Back in 2019, Donald Trump pointed at Hunter Biden's brief "cup of coffee” with a Chinese banker during a 2013 ride on Air Force Two and turned it into the single biggest line of attack he ran against Joe Biden for the next five years.The grift! The corruption! The selling-out of America! Oh, the humanity!!!Trump told Fox Business's Maria...
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President Donald Trump took a victory lap after one of his most hated Republican rivals finished last in a three-way GOP primary.Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was among only seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict him over Jan. 6, and the 79-year-old president endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) to unseat him, and state treasurer John Fleming forced...
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President Donald Trump's ballroom project hit a procedural hurdle that may give Senate Republicans the cover they wanted.The Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday night that the GOP majority cannot include $1 billion for the proposed White House ballroom in their bill funding immigration enforcement under the strict rules for reconciliation bills,...
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A Donald Trump-backed candidate for a critical Senate seat in Louisiana will advance to the runoffs, after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) failed to hold onto his seat or even claw enough votes to gain second place. Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) was leading with more than 40 percent of the vote late on Saturday, according to live reporting by CNN. Behind her,...
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A fired Trump administration official and deportation hardliner is turning on his former employers, calling them "swamp creatures."Former Border Patrol "commander-at-large" Greg Bovino slammed the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security, which oversaw his agency, while speaking with Megyn Kelly, in appearance flagged by The...
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President Donald Trump's state visit to China ended with few gains for the United States, according to one of his biographers, and he predicted the president will try to whip up a win the only way he knows how.Author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast's "Inside Trump's Head" podcast that Chinese President Xi Jinping displayed political, economic...
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There's a bleak irony in the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court striking down one of the highest points in American democracy, argued New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie.The conservative majority severely weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, ruling that protecting minority representation in...
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An ex-Republican strategist warned that a critical United States military alliance has already been so damaged by President Donald Trump that it's too late to save it."NATO's on the clock," Rick Wilson said in the latest episode of his podcast. "It's got three, two years left, tops. Even when Trump dies, even when he's gone, the poison he dumped...
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President Donald Trump reacted to Rep. Lauren Boebert's self-deprecating joke about her infamous indiscretion by begging someone to challenge her in a Republican primary.The Colorado Republican joined the 79-year-old president's most hated Republican – Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – for a pair of campaign events Saturday in his home district in...
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A former conservative influencer claims that the State Department under the Trump administration is employing people who encouraged her to pay for cosmetic surgeries and pricey merchandise."I don't think you people understand how these people are at the State Department," said Ashley St. Clair, who worked as a brand ambassador for the conservative...
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One of the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee called attention to a document displayed at a new hearing with Jeffrey Epstein's victims that could potentially reveal the names of his co-conspirators.The panel's Democratic minority held a shadow hearing Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida, where survivors of the well-connected sex offender...
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A former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein appears to have played a much more damning role than Republicans would like to believe, alleged a Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee."Sarah Kellen comes up a lot," said Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) said Saturday on MS NOW, speaking about the Epstein files. "She was essentially a gatekeeper for...
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A former attorney for President Donald Trump slammed his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and plan to create a $1.7 billion fund."It's completely illegal and absurd," attorney Ty Cobb said Saturday on MS NOW. "The case against the IRS is a completely fabricated vehicle for Trump to try to loot the treasury."Trump has said that he plans to drop...
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A former high-ranking intelligence official expressed alarm over President Donald Trump's comments following his high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.Sue Gordon, who resigned as deputy director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace she was concerned with the president's indifferent attitude...
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Hundreds of diplomats are being forced out of their jobs by the Trump administration despite ongoing crises around the world, according to a new report. According to CNN, the State Department finalized the firing of nearly 250 foreign service officers via email on Friday. "Your reduction in force separation will be effective today," the email read....
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Republicans' nationwide redistricting push has been widely viewed as a bid to boost the GOP in November, but one Democratic strategist says it has a more specific target: Black lawmakers, particularly one from South Carolina."They're not going for revamping representation. They're going for Black political extermination,” said Antjuan Seawright,...
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When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told an audience of young Catholics on Friday that he wouldn't recommend his children study or work in the United States right now, ex-Republican strategist Steve Schmidt heard something that ran far deeper than diplomatic friction."The words matter because the speaker matters," Schmidt wrote in his Saturday...
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As was predicted by economists, Trump's war against Iran has sent oil prices surging and squeezed household budgets across the country, including in GOP strongholds like northeastern Colorado where one three-time Trump voter issued the president a particularly scathing nickname, Reuters reported on Saturday."He voted three times for Trump, but like...
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FBI Director Kash Patel's war on reporters has exposed a troubling pattern: his FBI has exclusively targeted female journalists who have reported damaging stories about his tenure with investigations — while ignoring similar exposés from male counterparts at major publications.According to Salon columnist Sophia Tesfaye, three female journalists...
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Panic spread Saturday as reports suggest that the "next supply-chain headache” could reach the United States soon – one sparked by President Donald Trump's war against Iran that may risk causing widespread shortages of a critical product used regularly by most Americans.That product is motor oil, an essential lubricating fluid required to keep...
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Donald Trump's return from Beijing without any provable examples of successful negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping was yet another sign that, whatever lofty plans he had in store for the second year of his second term, they are easier to boast about than achieve.According to analysis by the Washington Post's Michael Birnbaum and Isaac...
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Donald Trump's reported desperation to end the Iran war is allowing Tehran's leaders to take a harder negotiating line — and a candid admission the president made on Fox News this week handed Iranian negotiators a significant strategic gift.According to MS NOW's Zeeshan Aleem, during an interview with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on Thursday,...
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ICE agents turned a protester's violent arrest at gunpoint into a social media campaign, which a federal judge has now called a "vindictive effort" to punish him, The Guardian reported on Friday.Christian Cerna, 28, a carpenter from Boyle Heights and United States citizen, was targeted by ICE agents after he attended a protest against the...
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A cloud of dread has descended upon CBS News as controversial editor-in-chief Bari Weiss prepares to overhaul "60 Minutes" when the show returns next season — with network insiders warning changes are coming that will upend the venerable Sunday night institution.According to the Guardian, the current season concludes on Sunday, after which the...
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On Thursday, President Donald Trump disclosed a "flurry” of financial transactions he'd made earlier this year, but on Saturday, Bloomberg correspondent Josh Wingrove unpacked those transactions in greater detail, and in doing so, sparked outrage among critics.The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made "at...
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A significant schism is emerging within the Republican Party over the extent to which the United States should support Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — with a substantial number of MAGA voters showing unwavering loyalty while non-MAGA conservatives increasingly question America's commitment to the longtime ally.According to...
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If you've ever been to Pearl Harbor, you know that the area around the USS Arizona is revered. It is not a recreational dive site. It's not some playground for pampered, spoiled, and pompous buffoons.It is a military cemetery. Hundreds of American sailors and Marines are entombed beneath its rusted hull at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, where they...
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Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) had to directly answer frustrated voters during a live C-SPAN broadcast on Friday.A caller named Roger, an independent voter from Lawrenceville, Georgia, pressed the Republican lawmaker to explain why Republicans were continuing to repeat President Donald Trump's continued messages, including Trump's comments around...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday after she criticized the Trump administration for its labor policies, while also issuing the Democratic governor a backhanded offer to help.The feud between Trump and Hochul was sparked by the closure of the Long Island Rail Road after workers went on strike early Saturday...
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President Donald Trump's war against Iran has already hit Americans at the gas pump, but farmers told Axios that a potentially more devastating impact is still coming – and soon."There's going to be fewer farmers next year than this year,” said Mark Mueller, an Iowa farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, speaking with Axios...
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The Trump administration's Justice Department (DOJ) is "finalizing a deal” to secure a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded settlement from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ABC News reported on Saturday, but a new detail flagged by ABC News' Katherine Faulders has left some onlookers stunned.The deal stems from a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed...
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Appearing on MS NOW early Saturday morning, the frustrated secretary of state of Colorado bashed her fellow Democrat, Gov. Jared Polis for deciding to commute the sentence of former election official Tina Peters, one of the nation's most notorious MAGA-aligned election deniers.Speaking with the hosts of "The Weekend," Jena Griswold, who oversees...
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President Donald Trump has drawn intense scrutiny over his alleged plan to secure a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded settlement, but another White House proposal – one with a price tag more than 880 times larger – has gone largely ignored, journalist Ken Klippenstein argued on Friday.That proposal is the $1.5 trillion in defense spending for fiscal...
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MS NOW's Jen Psaki used her Friday night show to fact-check Eric Trump in real time after the president's son threatened to sue her and the network over coverage of his business ties during Donald Trump's state visit to China."Today, the adult son of the President of the United States, Eric Trump, came after us on social media and accused us of...
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FBI Director Kash Patel has once again blurred the lines between personal and professional conduct, bringing his country singer girlfriend to a closed-door meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to discuss combating fentanyl trafficking — raising eyebrows about his judgment and priorities.According to the New York Times, in...
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A travel company declined to sponsor Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's family road trip after determining that sponsoring the venture amounted to buying access to a sitting cabinet secretary — raising fresh ethical concerns about the "reality-TV-tinged" odyssey.According to POLITICO, at least one would-be sponsor balked at the ethical...
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House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the leader of the GOP – President Donald Trump – appears to have already "resigned to losing,” The Wall Street Journal...
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