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U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. from the District of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to make full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments for November to states by Friday.McConnell's Thursday ruling came after administration officials said that partial payments would be sent out in November at an...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has drawn a frenzy of speculation in recent months with a hard turnabout from her longtime conspiracy-tinted, ultra-Trump loyalist posture, striking a tone more critical of her own party, and even demanding the GOP present a solution on the health care subsidies cliff.This has led many figures to theorize she is...
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A federal judge issued a "sharp rebuke" of President Donald Trump's repeated attempts to prevent food assistance money from being distributed to people in need, according to a new report. On Thursday, Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney reported on comments U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island made during a hearing over the Trump...
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Political scientists warn that Republicans' "dummymandering" strategy could backfire after Democratic landslide election results showed a different reality this week. GOP lawmakers have pointed to gerrymandering as a primary way to secure power. President Donald Trump pressured Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to help him secure more GOP seats in...
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The Congressional Budget Office was reportedly hacked by a foreign actor in a "security incident," according to reports Thursday.The incident apparently happened in recent days "potentially exposing the key financial research data Congress uses to craft legislation," according to The Washington Post."Officials discovered the incursion in recent...
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A Republican got in a fiery exchange with a CNN anchor over potential for the government shutdown end and rising concerns for Americans over affordability. CNN anchor Brianna Keilar was interviewing Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) on Thursday when the conversation turned testy over cost-of-living prices, particularly groceries. Steil tried to put blame on...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a scathing dissent after the court issued a ruling on Thursday that she described as a "back-of-the-napkin" approach to solving the problem at hand. In a 6-3 ruling, the high court reversed a lower court order that blocked President Donald Trump's executive order mandating transgender people...
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Members of Parliament will have their first chance to cast a budget-related vote on Thursday when they vote on a Conservative sub-amendment to a Bloc Québécois amendment to the budget bill. The government says it's considering the vote a matter of confidence.
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A Republican senator and President Donald Trump ally snapped at the anchor of a right-wing network who asked about his party's blame for the government shutdown during a live interview. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) got defensive after NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert asked Wednesday night: "How long can you afford this PR crisis?”Marshall was upset...
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As the federal government shutdown enters its 38th day with no end in sight, the Speaker of the House and the House Democratic Minority Leader appear united — on one aspect only: blaming the Senate.Amid reports that a few Senate Democrats might agree to vote to reopen the government if Republicans guarantee a date-certain vote on restoring the...
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Just minutes before a jury returned a not guilty verdict for Sean Dunn's, the famed Sandwich Guy accused of assault for throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol agent, never Trump lawyer George Conway debuted a tribute song.Conway, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, contributed his own voice to the trial that has captured the attention of...
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Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police have closed off several roads after an incident near the U.S. Capitol."MPD is responding to a suspicious package in the 300 block of Constitution Avenue, NW. Several roads are closed. Avoid the area," they reported on X. "300-500 blocks of C Street, NW are closed. Expect delays."The closed off area in question,...
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Sean Dunn, the man who became known as Washington, D.C.'s "Sandwich Guy," was found not guilty of assault by a Washington, D.C. jury Thursday — and onlookers erupted with mockery.Dunn had been accused of assault after he threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent during the President Donald Trump-led occupation of the city.The case grew...
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A federal judge called out Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino for lying as she dealt another legal defeat to President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants.U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered a preliminary injunction granting "complete relief" to Chicago residents and others who accused the Department of Homeland Security of using "extreme...
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A warning by tech billionaire Peter Thiel five years ago about young voters and socialism was resurfaced after this week's election wins by New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and other Democrats.The PayPal co-founder sent a private message in 2020 offering a theory to explain why millennials were more open to socialist ideas than other...
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As the historic government shutdown has people struggling to feed their families, President Donald Trump's daughter was roasted on social media for her tone deaf social media posts, Irish Star reports.Last week, Ivanka Trump attended the Think Health Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas "to discuss the importance of food and how it is connected to...
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Maybe what happened in Tuesday's election was an anomaly. You could certainly make that case, as many Georgia Republicans have tried to do.It was, after all, an odd-year election, with relatively low turnout, for two low-profile statewide races. So even if the resulting margins were spectacular – Democrats won two seats on the five-member Public...
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) set up a table outside Speaker Mike Johnson's office to push the claim that he was refusing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) because she would be the final vote needed on a petition to release files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.During the Thursday protest, Ansari sat behind a table, which was...
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Sean Dunn, the man who has become known as "Sandwich Guy," has been found not guilty of the federal charges against him. Previously, a Washington, D.C. grand jury refused to indict Dunn on a felony assault count. His was one of several cases where U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office has failed to secure an indictment.Dunn was later charged with...
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In a "mic drop" moment this week, a right-wing justice's comment might have killed President Donald Trump's Supreme Court hopes. Justice Neil Gorsuch's closing remarks and questioning Wednesday in the case challenging Trump's tariffs "was damaging for the administration's case," according to a New York Times opinion conversation published Thursday...
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NPR reports President Donald Trump's policies are clearing out whole sections of the U.S. construction industry and upsetting the Trump voters who work it.Maryland-based plumbing and heating contractor Kenny Mallick says he voted for Trump and agrees with the president's stance that people who have committed crimes should be deported. But he added...
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U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered a preliminary injunction granting "complete relief" to a group of Chicago residents, protesters, journalists, and religious figures who said the Department of Homeland Security used "extreme brutality" to chill First Amendment rights.At a court hearing on Thursday, Ellis repeatedly said she found the...
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Donald Trump was ridiculed Thursday as he claimed to have discovered a "new word" — one that's in common usage but he's suddenly realized the importance of.MSNBC's Steve Benen pointed out the president's sudden obsession with "affordability" — a word that marks a curious shift in his rhetorical strategy, particularly on his social media...
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A former Republican lawmaker says that people are fleeing the GOP in a great migration. The shift started slowly within the party, but now it's picking up speed, according to Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, former U.S. senator, representative and the former U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2022 to 2024, who shared his analysis in an opinion piece for...
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President Donald Trump revealed a top aide's personal health secret while talking to Cabinet members in front of TV cameras Thursday.During a discussion about weight loss medications, President Donald Trump unexpectedly singled out White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, publicly calling him out as a user of "fat drugs" — likely...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was seen fleeing after he noticed a colleague having a medical emergency at the White House.During a Thursday Oval Office event on lowering drug costs, one of the presenters appeared to faint. As the man fell to the floor, Kennedy quickly turned and walked away. Meanwhile, Centers for...
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Mark Carney and his Liberal government have tabled their first federal budget. Join Catherine Cullen, the host of The House on CBC Radio, Canada's most popular political affairs program and J.P. Tasker, a senior politics reporter for CBC News, as they answer your questions live about the new budget and the politics at play.
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The US labor market, which in recent months had ground nearly to a halt, now appears to be entering a downward spiral.As reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, new data from corporate outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that employers in October announced 153,000 job cuts, which marked the highest number of layoffs in that...
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President Barack Obama famously chided Donald Trump in April 2011 during the annual White House correspondents' dinner. The reality show star had repeatedly and falsely claimed that Obama had not been born in the United States and was therefore ineligible to be president.Trump's demands that Obama release his birth certificate had, in part, made...
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Trump officials admitted to making a math error when they drew up plans to cut SNAP funds.After initially announcing plans to cut SNAP benefits by 50 percent as the government entered its second month of a shutdown, the USDA reversed course Wednesday, stating in court that it done its sums incorrectly, and would now be funding 75 percent.A...
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President Donald Trump reiterated his demand for Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as the government shutdown continues setting daily records as the longest in history.Trump has long wanted to nuke the filibuster and seems to have decided the continuing impasse gives him the best opportunity to accomplish his goal, and he warned reluctant...
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"TRUMP WASN'T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT, according to Pollsters,” Trump posted after Tuesday's election blowout, not naming the pollsters.Yet the media obediently repeated Trump's words, as if they were news.They aren't news. They're postures. His words and thoughts add nothing to...
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A key voting bloc that helped elect President Donald Trump is expressing doubt about life in America under his leadership and according to a new report, they're "increasingly pessimistic" about him.Nearly two out of three Latinos say it's a "bad time to be Latino" in the U.S., according to a new Axios/Ipsos Latino poll published Thursday.The poll...
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Peter Riera, 44, opened fire in Port St. Lucie, Florida, during an argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay, according to witnesses.Master Sergeant Dominick Mesiti told WPBF that Riera fired four shots from a .45-caliber Glock at three people who he thought were trying to con him outside Harper's Pub early Tuesday morning. "The shooter...
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The right-wing Heritage Foundation's president, Kevin Roberts, is facing "open revolt" from his members and allies over his defense of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his handling of the controversy around the think tank's Project 2025 blueprint.Roberts infuriated many in the conservative movement for posting a video defense of Carlson, who...
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Following what Politico deemed the Republican "party's worst electoral drubbing in at least six years," GOP senators made it clear they had plans to "blow Trump" off as the president enters the "dawn of his lame duck era."After President Donald Trump hosted Senate Republicans Wednesday for an election night post-mortem, he demanded they get rid of...
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Ein Jahr nach dem Ende der Ampelregierung blickt das Berlin Playbook Update auf die politische Lage: Kanzler Friedrich Merz und Vizekanzler Lars Klingbeil führen seit einem halben Jahr die schwarz-rote Koalition – ein Bündnis, das Stabilität versprechen wollte, aber zunehmend unter Druck steht. Rixa Fürsen spricht mit Rasmus Buchsteiner über...
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Former FBI Director James Comey is about to get a huge dump of court-ordered information that could allow his legal team to destroy the criminal charges against him, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe."The case, brought by President Donald Trump's newly-installed acting U.S. Attorney in...
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Several House Republicans have reportedly heard from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein documents are especially compromising for President Donald Trump.That's according to reporting from former MSNBC, CNN and Fox News reporter David Shuster, who posted to his X account on Wednesday that there is "speculation/rumors...
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President Donald Trump is being exploited by scheming aides who capitalize on the fact that he doesn't absorb essential information, his biographer said.Michael Wolff — who spent nine months embedded in the White House in 2017 — told the Daily Beast he quickly discovered that the president doesn't have any interest in learning what he needs to...
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CNN's Harry Enten pointed to data showing Republicans are in "big, big trouble" in states where President Donald Trump is unpopular.Democrats thumped Republicans and Trump-backed independents in Tuesday's elections, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that a polling analysis shows the president hurt the party's chances in the off-year contest."I...
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President Donald Trump reacted to Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) decision to retire by calling her "evil.""The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America," Trump told Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy on Thursday. "She was evil... Corrupt... And only focused on bad things for our country.""She was rapidly losing control of her party. And...
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After his resounding election victory on Tuesday night, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's most prominent billionaire antagonist immediately pivoted to kiss the ring of the man he has spent the last more than half-year portraying as an existential threat to the city and the country.Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman poured over $1.75 million...
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President Donald Trump was slapped with a fact-check after claiming that prices for Thanksgiving dinner were substantially lower this year.The president posted Thursday morning on Truth Social that this year's holiday meal would be 25 percent lower than last year, under then-President Joe Biden, as his approval rating sags to its lowest depths ever...
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President Donald Trump's beating in the elections this week is just the beginning of a long string of problems he's about to face, David Rothkopf argued in an analysis for The Daily Beast published on Thursday.Trump, he wrote, "has managed through the greatest of all his cons, his election to the presidency, to amass power that allows him to bury...
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President Trump blamed the Republican election losses on Tuesday in part on the government shutdown, which is now the longest in U.S. history, saying, "the shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans, that was a big factor." Democrats have demanded a deal to end the shutdown to include an extension of ACA subsidies. CBS News' Weijia...
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