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Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer who became a conservative folk hero after brandishing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters, told his Jan. 6 clients he's back in the fight, just weeks after quietly withdrawing from their cases citing "personal reasons."The reason for that withdrawal: A serious medical diagnosis."I was diagnosed with a...
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The Trump administration forced a Michigan coal plant to stay open, citing an "energy emergency," which has now led to hazardous emissions, according to The New York Times on Friday.Michigan and environmental groups have decided to take the Energy Department to court, claiming Secretary Chris Wright's emergency order keeping a decades-old coal...
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President Donald Trump is threatening to fracture his party by deliberately trying to set up a succession rivalry within his own Cabinet, longtime GOP analyst and focus group expert Frank Luntz told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Friday.Keilar played a clip of Trump — who at least for now seems to have abandoned his dreams of an illegal third term —...
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Newly unearthed 2009 court records reveal an Epstein survivor accused President Donald Trump of having "knowledge of finances and [Epstein's] sexual desire for minor girls," wrote veteran journalist Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez. In her Substack, Valdés-Rodríguez explained that the accusation appeared in written legal responses filed in a Palm Beach...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) revealed on Friday that the House Ethics Committee has a backlog of misconduct allegations under investigation, according to Axios.The wave of misconduct claims has put additional pressure on lawmakers to make sure they can hold members accountable, but several leaders are arguing they need additional resources to...
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Democrats are about to lose a key piece of their electoral power and won't be able to win it back with gerrymandering, a new analysis warned. "The loss of Black representation in the South cannot be offset with a few more liberal white representatives from Wisconsin," Elie Mystal, The Nation's justice correspondent, wrote in a Friday piece. "The...
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U.S. allies are rattled by seeing Trump going wobbly on his position on a critical defense deal for a tense region. Axios reported on Friday that Trump told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that "he's unsure whether he would greenlight a planned $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan." Axios noted that Trump's cold feet have "alarmed" one of the key U.S....
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A former Republican strategist admitted that a GOP mayoral candidate and former reality TV star might not win his election, but the "AI-generated Gotham-grade dystopia" he's created has "changed the game" for future political ads.Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, described in his Substack on Friday how...
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Iranian hackers are believed to have compromised U.S. gas tank readers, according to CNN."The hackers responsible have exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online and unprotected by passwords," said the report. This doesn't let them modify fuel levels, but in certain cases let them "tinker with display readings on the...
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CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil faced another setback covering President Donald Trump's China visit when a Taipei hotel forbade him from using his room as a broadcast studio due to his on-air commentary of Taiwan. Dokoupil was already reporting from Taiwan after failing to secure a Chinese visa, forcing him to cover the Beijing summit from...
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The campaign of embattled Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) lashed out at Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday for his changes to primary rules, which he contends make it harder for unaffiliated voters to participate.This comes after Landry already caused a firestorm of controversy by suspending the state's primaries after early voting began — throwing out 45,000...
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The 57 confirmed bombings of boats that the Trump administration has carried out so far since last September have shattered families and communities across Latin America, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and US Southern Command never acknowledging the identities of the at least 192 people they've killed, beyond declaring them...
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) has been targeted with violent and antisemitic voicemails from multiple people, according to TMZ.Moskowitz, who is Jewish, is well-known for trolling President Donald Trump's allies in congressional hearings."TMZ has obtained several voicemails from people who called Congressman Jared Moskowitz's Washington, D.C. office...
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A former GOP governor was brutally snubbed by a Rock n' Roll legend who refused to high-five him in front of a packed Thursday night crowd.Bruce Springsteen was sharing the love with his fans as he walked through the audience of one of his concerts. When "The Boss" came to Chris Christie, the one-time Republican governor of Springsteen's home state...
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Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D) gave viewers of Fox News' sister network a lesson in the dangers of white supremacy after his state wiped out its only majority-Black congressional district with the hope of retaining Republican control of the U.S. House.In a Friday interview on Live Now from Fox, host Christina Evans pointed out that...
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Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao reaffirmed controversial remarks he made during an October 2024 Senate debate when questioned by Rep. Chrissy Houlahan during a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday. Houlahan cited Cao's statement, "What we need is alpha male and alpha females who are going to rip out their guts, eat them, and ask...
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Hosts of ABC's "The View" called attention to President Donald Trump's decision to include disgraced Hollywood director Brett Ratner in his China delegation, even though he was named in the files on Jeffrey Epstein.During Friday's program, co-host Joy Behar noted that Epstein was still "looming large over this administration" after survivors...
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Six months after dramatically departing the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to escape President Donald Trump's takeover of the institution, the Washington National Opera is experiencing unexpected success — expanding its artistic reach and attracting a groundswell of new support from donors nationwide.The opera company's departure...
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Vice President JD Vance prompted second-hand embarrassment online after his applause line fell flat.The cringeworthy moment came Friday during a speech at the Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service as part of National Police week, but the 41-year-old vice president failed to land what seemed to be intended as an applause line decrying...
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In the lead up to Jeffrey Epstein's second criminal indictment in 2019, the disgraced financier had "frantically” tried to turn his secretive compound in New Mexico into a "private municipality with its own governance structure and potentially its own law enforcement jurisdiction,” journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez exclusively reported on...
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Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson discovered never-before-seen photographs of Jeffrey Epstein on an old hard drive while preparing to move to Europe, years after believing the images had been destroyed. Anderson photographed Epstein at his New York City townhome for a story that was eventually spiked, Vanity Fair reported. Epstein's...
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Former Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), tapped by President Donald Trump to oversee a Justice Department (DOJ) probe into his false 2020 election fraud claims, is using generative artificial intelligence to pursue a theory rejected by Trump's own FBI, The New York Times reported Friday.Retiring from Congress in 2024, Bishop was among those who refused to...
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MAGA strategist Steve Bannon pushed red states to plow forward with redistricting efforts because he said that if Democrats win the House by a single vote, "they're gonna run it like they got a 50-seat majority."During a Friday interview with GOP adviser Caroline Wren, Bannon insisted he couldn't "get excited" about Republican redistricting efforts...
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A federal court's own appointed attorneys filed a blistering brief Wednesday arguing that Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS may be flatly unconstitutional — because, as Trump himself put it, he's essentially suing himself."This case is unprecedented," the court-appointed lawyers wrote in a 24-page filing this week. "A sitting...
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President Donald Trump's Cabinet members and nominees have had to pass a loyalty test and often debase themselves publicly to keep their jobs — it's what an analyst has dubbed "the Costanza presidency."In a Substack post published Friday, Tom Schaller, professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, detailed just...
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's attempt to play kingmaker in the state's Republican Senate primary, aggressively "strong-arming" donors and party insiders to support Donald Trump's preferred candidate, is backfiring and alienating fellow Republicans who view his interference as an abuse of power.On Saturday, Louisiana Republicans head to the polls to...
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President Donald Trump has put Republicans in a tough spot ahead of midterm elections — and GOP insiders are starting to acknowledge it behind closed doors, according to reports on Friday.In a new episode from The Daily Blast, The New Republic's podcast from host Greg Sargent, he reported new polling results have revealed that Trump "is literally...
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Newly unearthed court records reveal that in 2009, a woman accused President Donald Trump of having "knowledge” of Jeffrey Epstein's "sexual desire for minor girls,” veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote — an accusation she noted had been "available to law enforcement for 17 years.”The accusation was discovered in a set of written...
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President Donald Trump stunned onlookers Friday by hurling "treason" allegations at reporters during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One.The president spoke with reporters after departing from a two-day summit in China, and Trump lashed out after New York Times reporter David Sanger asked him about his war with Iran."I had a total military...
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Friends,Words matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight.Over the last 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that we should use different words to describe these people than we've used to describe all previous administrations.To begin with, they shouldn't be...
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A prominent psychiatry professor who signed a statement with 35 other medical experts raising concerns about Donald Trump's mental fitness is now highlighting alarming changes in the president's cognitive abilities — including what he characterizes as a dangerous linguistic regression and compulsive repetition patterns.According to the Daily...
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CNN's Harry Enten hunted high and low — and was unable to turn up even the faintest sliver of good news in polling for President Donald Trump Friday.The president's approval ratings have been drooping since his return to the White House at the start of last year, and the data analyst to "CNN News Central" said that he couldn't find a single...
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The Trump administration's Justice Department filed a reply brief Wednesday that reads less like a legal document and more like a late-night tweet storm, accusing the National Trust for Historic Preservation of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and declaring the proposed $400 million White House ballroom "a gift to the People of the...
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) took aim at President Donald Trump on Friday with an unfavorable comparison to former President Barack Obama that sent Fox News' Maria Bartiromo into a furious on-air rebuttal.While asking Khanna about Trump's recent visit to China, Bartiromo made an offhand reference to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better...
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An Epstein survivor whose name was inadvertently exposed in Justice Department files is living in fear that a potential Trump pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell could put her life in danger — and is questioning whether Maxwell is actually incarcerated following her conviction.In WhatsApp conversations with journalist Josie Ensor of The Times in the...
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President Donald Trump appears ready to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in exchange for a $1.7 billion settlement – an arrangement that left former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in disbelief on Friday."How is this not the biggest scandal in the United States right now?” Hasan asked in an analysis published...
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CNN's John Berman struggled to make sense of Donald Trump Friday as the president rambled into a wide-ranging news conference aboard Air Force One.Trump held a press gaggle upon departure from a state visit in China, and reporters peppered him with questions about his talks with Xi Jinping on Iran, Taiwan and other major topics."[He] made something...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blindsided Pentagon officials and European allies by suddenly canceling a long-planned deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland — an abrupt reversal that has observers scratching their heads about what comes next. According to Politico, the surprise decision caught both sides of the Atlantic completely flat-footed as...
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CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil's disastrous attempt to cover Donald Trump's state visit to China hit yet another wall Thursday — this time as the MAGA-friendly network got out of their makeshift broadcast studio by hotel management unhappy with the on-air coverage of the China-Taiwan conflict.Dokoupil had already been forced to report on...
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President Donald Trump apparently departed China with his head buzzing with the splendor he encountered on his state visit.As he sat on Air Force One on his way home, the president trumpeted his plans to build a National Garden of American Heroes alongside the Potomac River to honor historic and celebrated figures such as George Washington, Elvis...
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The White House is bizarrely floating the idea of Donald Trump pardoning 250 people on June 14th, a number sinisterly tied to America's 250th anniversary, a date that also happens to fall on Flag Day.And what a stunning coincidence that June 14th is also the day Donald J. Trump turns 80 years old.The idea that this is supposedly to celebrate...
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Während US-Präsident Donald Trump zum „Gipfel aller Zeiten" mit Xi Jinping in Peking eintrifft, sucht die schwarz-rote Bundesregierung händisch nach einer gemeinsamen Linie. Kanzler Friedrich Merz liebäugelt mit neuen Abkommen, Außenminister Johann Wadephul (CDU) fährt einen harten Kurs gegenüber Taiwan und Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina...
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President Donald Trump's late-night Truth Social posting sprees reveal a pattern that mental health professionals might say warrants serious concern, according to one of the president's biographers. Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, discussed Trump's social media habits on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a...
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A heated exchange on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip devolved into a shouting match on Thursday evening when a political analyst lost his composure after a Republican pundit deflected criticism of President Donald Trump's trip to China by invoking former President Joe Biden. The segment quickly spiraled into a clash between John Avlon, a...
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Attorney Stephen Descano pushed back Thursday against House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan's (R-OH) allegations that Fairfax County, Virginia, has a policy against prosecuting undocumented immigrants who commit crimes. Jordan repeatedly pressed Descano about changes to his campaign website, citing a statement that his office would "take...
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With Keir Starmer fighting for his political life after the most perilous week of his premiership, the prime minister and his inner circle have been engaged in a desperate rearguard effort to shore up his position. This week on Westminster Insider, host Patrick Baker lifts the lid on what life is really like inside Number 10 […]
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Welcome to the very first edition of the Brussels Playbook Week Ender. Anne McElvoy travels to the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, an annual event that brings together defenders of democracy in the Danish capital. As U.S. President Donald Trump visits China and the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran remain unresolved, how is Europe grappling with crises...
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A conservative writer at The Bulwark unloaded on House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday, casting his entire tenure as a study in surrender and branding it with one cutting word: "impotence."In a piece titled "Mike Johnson, Lollygagger of the House," reporter Joe Perticone argued that the Louisiana Republican stands apart from his recent...
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Republicans were dealt a severe setback as the top Senate rule keeper called foul on an immigration enforcement funding package.Migrant Insider reported that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough "delivered a significant blow" by stopping the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol reconciliation package, which Republican...
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Far-right Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback lost a prominent campaign volunteer in spectacular fashion after word got back to her that he had called her an obscure internet slur.According to the Miami New Times, "Gianna Tagliarini had returned home after a day of campaigning for far-right Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback...
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CNN's Kaitlan Collins made Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) squirm during a segment on "The Source" on Thursday after she threw his words about gas prices back in his face. Collins reminded Jordan of how critical he was of the Biden administration when the price of gasoline topped $3 per gallon during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jordan, a staunch ally of...
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A Texas law that would allow state and local police to arrest people suspected of having crossed the southern border illegally is once again halted, a day before it was supposed to take effect.Senate Bill 4, passed in 2023, makes the illegal crossings of the Mexico-Texas border a state crime. It also requires state magistrate judges to order those...
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FBI Director Kash Patel snorkeled at the USS Arizona Memorial in August without public disclosure, according to government emails obtained by the Associated Press.The memorial, which entombs over 900 American sailors and Marines killed in the 1941 attack, is nearly entirely off-limits to the public.Patel extended his Hawaii trip two additional days...
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A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Colorado claims that thousands of members of the Venezuelan transnational criminal gang Tren de Aragua are operating in the state — but dozens of law enforcement officials beg to differ.According to 9 News, state Rep. Scott Bottoms "said Colorado is under siege from a 'foreign criminal army' of 45,000 to...
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The internet erupted on Thursday after a new report revealed President Donald Trump's plan to create a billion-dollar fund to pay his allies. ABC News reported that Trump is considering dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the release of his tax returns during his first administration, in exchange for creating...
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President Donald Trump is expected to drop his massive, $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, but not for reasons some might expect, according to a new report. ABC News reported on Thursday that Trump plans to drop the lawsuit in exchange for creating a $1.7 billion fund that he can use to pay allies who claim they were...
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Democrats are fretting as several members of their caucus were absent for a crucial vote on President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran, Axios reported on Thursday."Any lawmaker could have tipped the outcome — and half a dozen were absent," noted the report, with Democrats privately raging and one member telling Axios, "People cannot miss...
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