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Pam Bondi's attempt to dodge a congressional subpoena on the Jeffrey Epstein case stunned liberal political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, who fumed on his show Wednesday evening she shouldn't be allowed to get away with it."In an update that, albeit predictable, reeks of corruption, the Justice Department has announced that Pam Bondi will not be...
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The fight to replace fired Attorney General Pam Bondi is exposing deep fractures within Trump's coalition, with competing factions of Trump loyalists bringing to the surface "long simmering disputes" as they battle for control of the Justice Department — a department already hemorrhaging credibility and veteran prosecutors.With former Trump...
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Well, 8 PM Tuesday came and went, to paraphrase TS Eliot, "Not with a bang but a whimper.” In the latest episode of Trump's reality show presidency, he decided he'll give Iran "another two weeks” (we'll get to that in a minute) to open the Strait of Hormuz because something something Pakistan something.Some are suggesting it was a predictable...
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It's three days until the Hungarian election, and opposition leader Péter Magyar appears poised to end PM Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule. If that happens, some in the Brussels bubble hope Magyar will take steps to improve Hungary's strained relationship with the EU. But on today's episode, host Zoya Sheftalovich and EU Policy Editor Sarah Wheaton...
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Während die internationale Aufmerksamkeit auf den bevorstehenden Verhandlungen zwischen den USA und dem Iran liegt, bleibt im Baltikum die Sorge vor russischen Aktivitäten unterhalb der Kriegsschwelle groß. Rasmus Buchsteiner begleitet Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner auf ihrer Reise durch Estland und Litauen. Im Gespräch mit dem...
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President Donald Trump posted a late-night screed on Wednesday targeting media outlets like CNN and The New York Times for their coverage of the peace plan for the war in Iran. Yesterday, Trump announced that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire while they negotiated a potential peace plan. Both the New York Times and CNN reported...
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A pair of lawyers were aghast on Wednesday as they discussed living conditions in the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas during a new podcast episode. Lisa Landau and Emerson Argueta from the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law School discussed a recent tour of the Camp East Montana detention facility in El...
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Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly exploded at NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Wednesday after Cuomo delivered a brutal fact-check on air. The two men squabbled over recent comments from IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi about Iran's nuclear capabilities. Grossi recently reported that Iran had up to 60% enriched uranium, but that the IAEA was...
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The arrest of an ex-Army employee accused of leaking classified material to the press sparked outrage on Wednesday night. FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday that the FBI had arrested 40-year-old Courtney Williams of Wagram, North Carolina, for allegedly leaking classified information to a reporter for a book. The indictment adds that...
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MS NOW's Jen Psaki broke down many of Vice President JD Vance's answers to reporters concerned about the details of the Trump administration's "ceasefire" with Iran — and was taken aback by many of his answers, particularly his explanation why the United States was okay with considering a "right to enrichment" of nuclear materials to Iran on some...
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A new report warns someone may have known the Iran ceasefire was coming before Donald Trump told the world, and profited off that knowledge.That's the explosive implication of a new Associated Press report that revealed that at least 50 newly created accounts on the prediction market Polymarket placed massive, well-timed bets on a U.S.-Iran...
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President Donald Trump's apparent surrender on free passage in the Strait of Hormuz has earned him the rage of a new group: oil industry executives.According to Politico, Big Oil officials "are reaching out to the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance to protest allowing Iran to charge tolls through the strategic...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice just gave him the power to destroy his administration's records if courts don't intervene, according to a new analysis. David A. Graham, a staff writer at The Atlantic, wrote in a new newsletter article that an official memo from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the Presidential Records...
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Donald Trump's judicial nominee for Montana has become the first pick of his second term to be declared "not qualified" by the American Bar Association, and the reason was straightforward: she simply hasn't been a lawyer long enough.Katie Lane, nominated to serve as a federal judge in Montana, received a "not qualified" rating from a majority of...
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MAGA darling Allie Beth Stuckey roasted President Donald Trump's spiritual advisor on a new episode of her podcast, "Relatable," on Wednesday. Last week, Trump's spiritual advisor, Paula White-Cain, compared the president to Jesus Christ during a speech at an Easter celebration at the White House. Stuckey said White-Cain's comments were not only...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board raked President Donald Trump over the coals Wednesday, for claiming victory over Iran when he has achieved no such thing."Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire is conditioned on Iran's striking a deal, but it sure sounds like the President wants the war over. 'A big day for...
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Political analysts and observers were outraged on Wednesday after President Donald Trump posted an all-caps rebuke of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, on Truth Social. "NATO WASN'T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON'T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!" Trump wrote. Trump...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly criticized Trump-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh for failing to understand the real-world impact of the administration's immigration enforcement policies. Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2009, spoke at the University of Kansas School of Law. She criticized Kavanaugh's concurrence...
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Kristi Noem swore the $70 million luxury Boeing 737 she bought with taxpayer money was all about deporting immigrants, and now that she's been fired, the plane — complete with a queen bed, kitchenette and cream leather seats — will be used by Cabinet members and possibly the first lady.A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed...
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President Donald Trump has spent years championing American steel, slapping tariffs on foreign metals and promising to shield U.S. manufacturers from overseas competition. But a bombshell New York Times report reveals he may have traded a lucrative tariff break for tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for his White House...
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Donald Trump went after a decades-old U.S. military alliance on Wednesday in an all-caps Truth Social tirade, declaring NATO useless and taking a bizarre swipe at Greenland in the same breath.NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte reportedly met privately with Trump on Wednesday, with discussions expected to focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and...
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A federal judge has paused the Trump administration's decision to terminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Ethiopians who came to the United States, ruling that former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem didn't follow the legal procedure for doing so.U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts penned a scathing analysis of the...
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Iranian Parliament Speaker MB Ghalibaf declared the ceasefire and upcoming negotiations as "unreasonable" after accusing the United States of violating Iran's 10-point peace proposal. Ghalibaf cited three specific violations on X, Israeli attacks on Lebanon, an alleged drone intrusion into Iranian airspace, and U.S. denial of Iran's nuclear...
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A new report claims that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s private diaries contain entries about his battles with "lust demons" and ranking his sexual encounters on a scale of 1-10. People Magazine reported on Wednesday that a forthcoming biography of Kennedy Jr., written by New York Post reporter Isabel Vincent, included sordid details...
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President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary may be the next cabinet member to depart the administration, even though he just declared "victory" over Iran, according to one expert.Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a press conference on Wednesday that the U.S. had achieved a "decisive military victory” over Iran. That's despite multiple reports...
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President Donald Trump is heading into the midterms with ruthless fundraising and a huge war chest, both in his own committees and in the super PACs supporting him, that he can use to protect vulnerable Republicans from whatever onslaught is coming their way. But there's a big problem standing in the way, former GOP strategist Tim Miller told MS...
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President Donald Trump's administration is planning to axe protections for one of the most iconic symbols of the West: the American Bison.Bison were once slaughtered to near extinction in the 19th century as part of a campaign of genocide against tribal groups that relied on the wild herds for their way of life. And now, under Trump, the very...
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi received a shot across the bow on Wednesday during a segment on CNN. Bondi has been under fire for attempting to avoid being deposed next week regarding the Department of Justice's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. She was removed from her job last week amid ongoing tensions between the White House and the DOJ...
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President Donald Trump supporters on Truth Social called for him to reconcile with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after Trump attacked her following her criticism of the Iran war. Greene called for Trump's removal after he threatened to obliterate Iran's civilization. Trump responded by mocking Greene on Truth Social, calling her a...
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Pete Hegseth went out Wednesday to sell America on Donald Trump's Iran triumph — and ended up accidentally dismantling it, according to a new analysis.The Defense Secretary insisted that Trump's threat to erase Iranian civilization is what brought Tehran back to the negotiating table. "That type of threat is what brought them to the place where...
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A veteran GOP analyst flagged the "biggest concern" for the Republican Party following Tuesday's special election in Georgia during a new interview on CNN. Ashley Davis, a former official in George W. Bush's Department of Homeland Security, joined Jake Tapper on CNN's "The Lead," where the panel discussed how Republicans should view the outcome of...
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CNN host Jake Tapper accused President Donald Trump of "lying" to Americans in a recent Truth Social post about an alleged "false statement" CNN published on Tuesday. CNN reported that Iranian officials had declared a "great victory" over the U.S. after agreeing to a ceasefire deal. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "authorities" are investigating...
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MAGA has grown increasingly divided over the Iran war and President Donald Trump's decisions — something right-wing influencers have spoken out against even more vocally in recent days, CNN reported on Wednesday. During a live broadcast, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt played a clip from MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly, who openly criticized Trump in a fiery,...
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President Donald Trump's social media site, normally nothing more than a platform for himself to rant and his most avid fans to admire him, is plunging into warfare, as MAGA fans turn on each other over Trump's moves in the Iran conflict.According to The New York Times, "Thousands of users on the social media platform, which Mr. Trump created in...
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Vice President JD Vance was brutally mocked on Wednesday after he claimed not to know a high-ranking official in the Catholic church. Vance was asked at a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, about a report from the Bari Weiss-led publication, "The Free Press," about senior military leaders inviting Cardinal Christophe Pierre, who served as...
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, closed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday despite President Donald Trump's ceasefire agreement requiring the waterway to remain open. Iran cited Israeli strikes in Lebanon as justification, despite Trump insisting Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire deal. BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet reported that,...
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A controversial far-right lawyer in the Trump administration is claiming executive privilege to try to stymie a misconduct investigation, left-leaning elections site Democracy Docket reported on Wednesday."In a wild new legal filing this week, Martin lashed out against the D.C. Disciplinary Counsel, which polices attorney misconduct in the nation's...
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Fashion icon Anna Wintour gave a withering critique of first lady Melania Trump's wardrobe during a new interview on Wednesday. Wintour joined filmmaker Greta Gerwig, actress Meryl Streep, and reporters from Vogue Magazine for a wide-ranging interview about fashion, politics, and the upcoming "Devil Wears Prada" sequel. At one point, Gerwig asked...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt avoided addressing President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iran's entire civilization when challenged by a reporter during Wednesday's briefing. The reporter contrasted Trump's rhetoric with George W. Bush's 2003 Iraq invasion messaging, which targeted the government rather than the people. The...
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) warned that Republicans will have a "tough time" holding the state House in 2026.During the Texas Policy Summit on Wednesday, Patrick devoted a third of his keynote address to the possibility that Democrats could do well in the midterm elections."I can come out here and be rah, rah, rah," the Texas Republican...
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Pardoned Capitol riot participant Bryan Betancur has been arrested for alleged misconduct with women, and it's not the first time he's faced such allegations since getting his Jan. 6 charges wiped by President Donald Trump.A few weeks ago, Betancur was arrested after he allegedly touched multiple women on the D.C. Metro and livestreamed himself...
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Social media influencer Dan Bilzerian shocked TMZ on Wednesday when he used a racial epithet in a conversation about his congressional opponent Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL). Bilzerian has reportedly filed paperwork to challenge Fine in the Florida congressional race and made several comments during a live interview when he was challenged by TMZ executive...
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Journalist David Rohde reported Pentagon lawyers were prepared to refuse approval of target lists involving war crimes had the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire not been announced shortly before President Donald Trump's deadline threatening civilization destruction. Rohde told MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire that military and former military lawyers were...
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Actor Michael J. Fox made it clear on Wednesday that he is very much alive. Fox was responding to a CNN article and video titled "Remembering the life of actor Michael J. Fox" that led to questions about his health and confusion over whether he died, TMZ reported. The post has since been removed. "Michael is doing great. He was at PaleyFest...
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Former Republican operative Rick Wilson suggested that President Donald Trump's ceasefire with Iran could lead to an even more dangerous situation. Wilson, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, described in his Substack on Wednesday how the current halt on military action could reveal what might come next after the president...
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Wisconsin Republicans suffered a major blow on Tuesday evening, with voters choosing the liberal candidate in the state Supreme Court race for the fourth consecutive time — handing a landslide 20-point win to the candidate backed by Democrats that flipped some longtime Republican strongholds and even the literal town where the GOP was founded,...
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Chad Bianco, the pro-Trump sheriff of Riverside County, California, was ordered by the California Supreme Court to stop a voter fraud investigation, according to reports on Wednesday. A court order issued on Wednesday stated that Bianco's office must immediately "halt its investigation and preserve all seized election materials pending further...
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MB Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's Parliament, declared a ceasefire and upcoming negotiations "unreasonable" after he accused the U.S. of violating a newly minted agreement.On Wednesday, Iran reportedly again shut down the Strait of Hormuz after Israel attacked Lebanon. For his part, President Donald Trump insisted that Lebanon had never been part...
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Historian Douglas Brinkley expressed shock that Vice President JD Vance actively campaigned for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, described as Vladimir Putin's puppet, all the while the U.S. faced potential Iran war escalation. Brinkley characterized Vance's support for Orbán as "utterly nutty," criticizing the Trump and Vance...
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A prominent political analyst warned Wednesday that President Donald Trump's stranglehold on the Republican Party is about to face one of its most consequential tests, and the outcome could ripple across his entire second term.Writing in the Washington Post, Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, argued that Trump's...
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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones declared President Donald Trump's war in Iran to be a "fiasco" after concluding that a ceasefire was "falling apart."During a Wednesday interview with conservative author Michael Savage, Jones noted that Trump's approval ratings were plunging amid the war in Iran."But admitting this is a big defeat so far...
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A new report flagged the "curious excuse" used by ousted former Attorney General Pam Bondi to blow off a scheduled deposition over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.The former attorney general, fired last month, is now using her termination as justification to skip a scheduled April 14 deposition with the House Oversight Committee...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back after a reporter wondered how the U.S. could claim the moral high ground after President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate Iran's entire civilization."So, regarding the President's rhetoric, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush said in a message to the Iraqi people that the...
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Political analysts expressed shock at the terms of President Donald Trump's announced two-week ceasefire with Iran, reached just one hour before his self-imposed deadline. According to the New York Times, ceasefire provisions include the U.S. agreeing not to attack Iran again and lifting all sanctions on Iranian oil, including those imposed during...
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday welcomed news of a two-week ceasefire in Iran as a step back from the brink of catastrophe, but said the war's aggressors—the US and Israel—deserved no praise for the temporary reprieve."Ceasefires are always good news. Especially if they lead to a just and lasting peace,” Sánchez wrote on...
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Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly blasted President Donald Trump for threatening to end Iran's civilization despite saying she would vote for Republicans even if he dropped a nuclear bomb."I am sick of this," Kelly said a day after Trump threatened Iran's civilian population. "Can he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the...
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Famed actor George Clooney condemned President Donald Trump on Wednesday over his recent threat to destroy Iran's entire civilization – a threat he ultimately backed down from – but in doing so, ignited fury from a top White House official.On Tuesday, Trump warned that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,”...
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Supporters of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who also back Donald Trump's America First policies, took to Truth Social on Wednesday to implore the president to set aside his differences with the Georgia Republican after he attacked her once again.Greene has been harsh in her criticism of Trump's war on Iran and has called for him to be removed...
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A new rule proposed by the Trump administration purportedly designed to bolster "American workers' retirement accounts” is expected to be finalized later this year, but one financial expert is warning that, in actuality, the rule is a "massive greed grab for Wall Street,” and one at the expense of Americans' retirement savings."Not for a second...
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a ceasefire that required the waterway to remain open.Iran had threatened to close the strait again on Wednesday morning due to Israeli strikes in Lebanon. For his part, Trump insisted that Lebanon had never been part of...
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On Saturday, March 28—No Kings Day in the US—an estimated 50,000 people marched in the streets of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico to protest plans for "Esencia,” a proposed huge, gated, luxury ocean-side development in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The protest was spear-headed by Defiende a Cabo Rojo, a coalition of community, scientific, and cultural...
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Democrats achieved significant electoral victories Tuesday in Wisconsin and Georgia, described by Politico as "one of their best election nights since President Donald Trump returned to the White House." In Wisconsin, Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor won a state Supreme Court race with nearly a 20-point margin in a state Trump carried in...
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Michael Avenatti, disgraced former lawyer of Stormy Daniels, was released from prison this week while facing a mountain of debt and still not completely out of custody, TMZ reported on Wednesday. Avenatti represented the adult film actress and director in her hush money payment case against President Donald Trump and also represented women who...
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Donald Trump claims to have reached a successful but still evolving ceasefire agreement with Iran, but National Review editor Jim Geraghty has a different assessment: the president has been completely outmaneuvered and is poised to capitulate on nearly every significant demand.According to Geraghty's scathing analysis, Trump and Iran are describing...
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Congressional Democrats called for invoking the 25th Amendment Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran missed his 8 p.m. ET deadline. A number of Democrats reacted to the president's threats. Representatives called for the impeachment of Trump and his...
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After years of failed negotiations between the states and decades of negligent water management, we now have just months for federal officials to decide how to divide up the ever-shrinking flow of the Colorado River between the seven river basin states that share it — and the 40 million people relying on the river for drinking water, including...
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A Democratic lawmaker sounded the alarm on Wednesday that it was time for Democrats to proceed ahead with impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) explained to CNN anchor Pamela Brown why he has called for Trump to be removed from office for threatening war crimes against Iran — criticizing his Republican...
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This story was originally published by Mississippi Today.Billionaire Tommy Duff, a likely candidate for governor, and his brother James Duff are being sued by California-based attorneys on behalf of the federal government alleging the men and their companies improperly obtained over $6.7 million in federal pandemic loans. The lawsuit, which was...
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked outrage among Trump allies by raising questions that suggest President Donald Trump could be the anti-Christ, as interpreted by critics. Carlson asked rhetorically, "Could there be a spiritual component to this? Could it be something bigger?" adding "Is it possible what you're watching is a very stealthy...
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A Supreme Court Justice has criticized a colleague appointed by Donald Trump for failing to grasp the severity of the administration's immigration policy. Justice Sonia Sotomayor hit out at her colleague, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during an event yesterday (April 7). Sotomayor, appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama, criticized the September 8...
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President Donald Trump and his administration are presenting a different proposal for the Iran ceasefire deal than Iranian officials', according to the Associated Press. The AP reported Iran's Farsi-language version of its 10-point ceasefire plan includes the phrase "acceptance of enrichment" for its nuclear program, language conspicuously absent...
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By The Conversation.In early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime.Iran and its sympathisers responded to the strikes by flooding social media with outdated war footage allegedly from the current...
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When he asked the White House whether President Donald Trump was considering using nuclear weapons against Iran, officials refused to deny it, Mother Jones columnist Noah Lanard reported. Trump had threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran didn't open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. ET Tuesday....
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President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at media outlets over their coverage of the two-week ceasefire agreement his administration reached with Iran, which has been heavily scrutinized for the concessions the United States would make to the Middle East nation.On Tuesday, Trump announced that "authorities” were investigating CNN for having...
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President Donald Trump's longstanding intimidation tactic, effective during his real estate career and first term, has now become largely ineffective, according to New Republic analyst Ross Rosenfeld. Trump attended Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship, having previously attacked justices as "dumb" and "embarrassments," yet the...
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President Donald Trump ended a call with PBS reporter Liz Landers after she asked if he regretted threatening Iran's entire civilization.Following a press briefing with Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, Landers said she had contacted the president by phone."I asked about Lebanon still being hit and if he'd seen that," the reporter recalled."Yeah, they...
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President Donald Trump's comments on Truth Social amid the Iran war revealed how this conflict would potentially play out, a former Defense Department official said on Wednesday. Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, told MS NOW host Alex Witt that Vice President JD Vance referred to these talks as "fragile" and discussed...
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During an appearance on MS NOW on Wednesday morning, noted historian Douglas Brinkley expressed surprise that Vice President JD Vance has chosen to ally himself so closely with Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán as he seeks re-election.While the US was prepping for a massive escalation of the war in Iran, which was averted at the last moment after...
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