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Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk broke her silence on a security incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner by suggesting that her own life was in danger.Dressed in all black on "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Wednesday, the widow painted suspect Cole Allen's alleged attack on the dinner as a battle against evil."These people have perverted the...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's evasive and smirking answers to questions about his firing respected military officials at the Pentagon earned him a dressing down Wednesday from Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), a retired Air Force officer.Under questioning about the Pentagon purge initiated by the former Fox News weekend host, who was tapped by...
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The Department of Justice removed a key claim from its legal filings regarding the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, contradicting its initial probable cause affidavit.The original weekend affidavit stated Secret Service Officer V.G. was shot in the chest and protected by a ballistic vest when Cole Allen allegedly fired at security...
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Nearly 20 House Democrats demanded last week that FBI Director Kash Patel take and share the results of an Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test by Tuesday amid accusations of excessive drinking, but as of Wednesday, Patel has yet to respond to the lawmakers' request, a House Judiciary Democrats spokeswoman confirmed to Raw Story.On April 21,...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got defensive when questioned by a Democratic lawmaker about his close adviser Timothy Parlatore.Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) asked the Pentagon chief about Parlatore's role at the Department of Defense, and he expressed surprise multiple times when Hegseth was unable to answer some of his questions about President Donald...
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In an interview with Australia's "60 Minutes,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) revealed new details this week about alleged child abuse at Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico property after having reviewed unredacted Epstein-related files at the Justice Department (DOJ) headquarters.Epstein's New Mexico property was known as Zorro Ranch, a sprawling...
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House Oversight Committee Democrats filed contempt charges against former Attorney General Pam Bondi after she refused to comply with a subpoena for a deposition regarding the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files. Ranking Democrat Robert García (CA) explained Bondi, "illegally defied our committee, skipped her deposition, and...
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A Democratic lawmaker accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of lying to President Donald Trump during a heated congressional hearing on Wednesday. Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a former Army Ranger who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, raised questions about attorney Tim Parlatore and a potential conflict of interest. He pressed Hegseth during...
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Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) triggered outrage from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he called President Donald Trump's war in Iran a "quagmire.""Secretary Hegseth, you have been lying to the American public about this war from day one, and so has the President," Garamendi said during a House Armed Services Committee budget hearing on Wednesday....
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The Republican chair of the House Armed Forces Committee did not allow Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to respond to accusations that he is incompetent as he reached for his microphone after a Democratic lawmaker gave him a tongue-lashing on Wednesday.After Hegseth earlier complained to Rep. John Garamendi (D-CSA) about his reference to the Iran war...
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A California Democrat mocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to his face for mixing up dialogue from the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction" with a biblical passage.The self-styled "secretary of war" repeated an air rescue group's prayer based on Ezekiel 25:17 and borrowed from a monologue delivered in the film by actor Samuel L. Jackson during a recent...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was visibly upset as a Democratic lawmaker questioned the cost of the Iran war during the first hearing since the conflict started.Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), an Iraq war veteran, asked Hegseth if he advised President Donald Trump to attack Iran during the House Armed Services Committee hearing. "I'm just asking what...
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Donald Trump's turn towards attacking religious leaders who have parted ways with him on issues such as war and the treatment of immigrants has created a crisis of faith between the president and a key segment of his base, according to an expert's analysis.According to evangelical scholar Rob Schenk, writing for Mother Jones, the crack-up between...
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Biographer Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Melania Trump has become a significant problem within the White House, citing her recent Amazon-backed film and press conference denying ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Wolff stated administration officials view "the Melania situation" as problematic, raising questions about the couple's marriage, how she...
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CNN's Harry Enten was so worked up over "mind-blowing" new polling on President Donald Trump and the economy that his voice cracked.Inflation remains the top concern for American voters, just as it was when they elected the 79-year-old president to a second term in 2024, but polls show Trump's approval on the issue has sunk to a historic...
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Fox News host Bill Hemmer stopped Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) cold after the lawmaker smeared former FBI Director James Comey by listing alleged crimes that he had not been charged with.A day after the former FBI director was charged with threatening President Donald Trump's life with a photo of seashells, Jordan spoke to Hemmer about the case."So this...
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Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) sided with Democrats Tuesday to defeat a House rule advancing the annual farm bill after Republican leadership rejected her amendments. Boebert filed non-controversial amendments to support rural Coloradans, which Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) submitted to the Rules Committee for floor consideration. However,...
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Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) had to fight for speaking time during a contentious confrontation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday morning, at one time having to exclaim, "Whoa, whoa, whoa,” to get the Donald Trump appointee to hush.As the ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee, Smith got the first shot at the...
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President Donald Trump's communications director Steven Cheung escalated a feud with a Senate staffer using an ableist slur to attack her on social media, according to reports on Wednesday. Steven Cheung, Trump's "top spin doctor," got into a clash with Rachel Cohen, communications director for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Senate Intelligence...
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The Republican Party is facing down a brutal polling figure which could mark the beginning of the end for their midterms cycle, an analyst has claimed. Simulations of the midterm election had the Democrats coming out on top with a House majority, The Economist's Marie Segger wrote. A recent redistricting effort in Virginia has been noted by Segger...
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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to voting rights by striking down struck down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana.The 6-3 decision was split along ideological lines, and conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion finding that Louisiana's voting map amounted to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander,...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has lost his legal battle to try to throw a Democratic rival off her primary ballot.According to The Journal News, Lawler, who is facing one of the most difficult re-elections of any Republican in Congress this year, sought to have Effie Phillips-Staley, a progressive local trustee of Tarrytown, disqualified from the ballot...
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WASHINGTON — U.S. senators across the aisle pushed back Tuesday against President Donald Trump's proposal to eliminate funding for programs serving disadvantaged students.Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended those and other proposed cuts to her agency outlined in Trump's fiscal 2027 budget request, which calls for $75.7 billion in new...
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A retiring Republican congressman trashed the State Department's plan to issue passports honoring President Donald Trump.An agency official said Americans who renew their documents in Washington, D.C., will be issued passports with the 79-year-old president's face and his signature printed in gold on the inside cover, and CNN's John Berman asked...
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The court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, but the decision all but guts a landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson billed taxpayers for two trips that included party fundraisers, discussions with disaffected National Barnaby Joyce, a Gina Rinehart event and return flights to connect the senator to her private jet to Florida, sponsored by her major donor, Mrs Rinehart.
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A new poll from Emerson College released on Wednesday gave Democrats in Congress a jaw-dropping advantage going into the midterm elections this fall.The poll, which showed a 50-40 advantage for Democrats on the generic congressional ballot among a sample of likely voters, triggered an immediate reaction from analysts."Emerson poll shows Democrats...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing on MS NOW on Wednesday morning for holding a press conference to announce criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey for posting a picture of seashells that the DOJ maintains was a threat to Donald Trump.According to Blanche, the photo of shells spelling...
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In its latest legal filings, the Department of Justice removed a claim that a Secret Service officer was shot when Cole Allen allegedly tried to breach the White House Correspondents' Dinner with firearms on Saturday.The Department asserted in its probable cause affidavit over the weekend that Allen "approached and ran through the magnetometer...
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The Supreme Court handed down its hotly anticipated decision in Callais v. Louisiana, weakening — but not completely eliminating — Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which regulates the drawing of districts based on race.The case came about as a result of lower-court rulings that had forced Louisiana to draw a second majority-Black district,...
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have filed contempt charges against former Attorney General Pam Bondi after she failed to comply with a subpoena to give a deposition on the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.On Wednesday, Oversight Committee ranking Democrat Robert Garcia (CA) said Bondi "illegally defied our committee,...
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The Senate Education Committee debated legislation Tuesday that would prevent further review of transgender athletes participating in high school and collegiate sports.Sponsored by state Rep. Brian Seitz, a Republican from Branson, the bill aims to remove the current end date of a 2023 state law requiring transgender students to participate in...
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The editorial board of The Washington Post hammered Donald Trump late Tuesday as his Department of Justice launched yet another attempt to convict ex-FBI Director James B. Comey — an effort many called frivolous.And the paper's leadership warned "the country and maybe even the Republican Party will pay a price" for what the editors called a...
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The Trump administration has been aligned in the narrative it's promoted surrounding the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) shooting last Saturday, particularly with how it has painted the suspected gunman, Cole Allen, but on Tuesday, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein dismantled that narrative as nothing more than a concerted effort to...
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A conservative commentator faced pushback from fellow panelists on "CNN This Morning" for justifying the second indictment against former FBI Director James Comey and the federal investigation of TV stations that broadcast Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show.The Department of Justice secured an indictment against Comey for a social media post...
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A New Hampshire Republican tried to stack a local Holocaust remembrance board with a Nazi apologist who has been convicted of public lewdness at a children's playground.According to NPR, at a January meeting of the New Hampshire Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education, state Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière "proposed an amendment to add a...
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Donald Trump's effusive praise for the Secret Service after a would-be assassin stormed the White House Correspondents' Dinner last weekend is creating stress at the Department of Justice, where officials are leery of contradicting him.Reacting to new reporting that the FBI has been unable to turn up the bullet fragment that struck a Secret Service...
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In dieser Woche analysieren Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler den strategischen Umbau der AfD zur „Regierungspartei". Ist die AfD personell und inhaltlich überhaupt bereit für die Macht oder droht ein Kollaps bei der Personalgewinnung? Zudem geht es um die Recherche zum Lebenslauf eines AfD-Abgeordneten im Verteidigungsausschuss. Sie...
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Amid a convergence of challenges this week, House Republicans have become "the epitome of discord and dysfunction” as a major priority appears "destined to fail,” Punchbowl News reported Wednesday, making the House GOP "look like amateurs” and putting them in a particularly difficult spot."There's constant grumbling inside House Republican...
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CNN's Elie Honig poured cold water all over the latest federal indictment of former FBI Director Jim Comey.The Department of Justice secured a second indictment against Comey, a longtime political foe of President Donald Trump, for a social media post that prosecutors allege amounted to an assassination threat, but Honig told "CNN News Central" the...
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King Charles III has been praised by onlookers for an unlikely comparison made between President Donald Trump and a moment in US history. During a speech given at a state dinner, the visiting King noted the long-running relationship between the US and the United Kingdom. King Charles said, "You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not...
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CNN's Audie Cornish perked up her ears at a comment made by one of her panelists about what she's hearing from Republican senators.King Charles III visited Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, and the "CNN This Morning" host asked her panelists about the stakes of that diplomatic stop as President Donald Trump attacks Britain and other allies during his...
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Distractions over implementing President Donald Trump's immigration policy are causing issues for vital services, a former Secret Service agent has claimed. Trump's administration has prioritized mass deportations, workplace raids, and expanded detention operations targeting undocumented immigrants across the nation. The Trump administration has...
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The case against the man who burst through security at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner to attack Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet may not be as cut and dried as the Justice Department is making it out to be.Appearing on MS NOW's "Morning Joe,” former US Attorney Joyce Vance claimed that a missing piece of evidence will make...
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Republican Party candidates are hesitant to align themselves with Donald Trump and his cabinet in the run-up to the midterm elections, an analyst has claimed.Trump had previously put the Republican Party under pressure with a push to introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Key provisions of the SAVE Act include ending...
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CBS Evening News is experiencing a catastrophic collapse in viewership under Bari Weiss's leadership and veteran television executives are sounding the alarm that the controversial Free Press founder's editorial direction — marked by flagrant Trump support delivered by handpicked anchor Tony Dokoupil — is driving longtime viewers away in...
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The Office of the Inspector General announced recently that it will be initiating an audit of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a systematic review that one legal expert and former state attorney said could be used against the Trump administration should Democrats take back control of the House in...
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President Donald Trump convened oil and gas executives Tuesday at the White House to address energy market disruptions caused by the Iran war and related issues.The unprecedented supply disruption in the Middle East is simultaneously creating opportunities and challenges for the energy industry. Axios reported that Chevron CEO Mike Wirth attended...
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President Donald Trump issued Iran a warning Wednesday by demanding that they "better get smart soon” as it relates to reaching a deal with the United States on de-nuclearization, posting an image of himself appearing to have been created with generative artificial intelligence holding an AR-15-style rifle in front of a barrage of...
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The first lady's war on "corrosive” rhetoric has a massive blind spot — it's her husband, the king of corrosiveness.On Monday, Melania Trump took to X to demand that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel because he told a joke about her having the "glow of an expectant widow.” His words, she fumed, were "corrosive.” He was spreading hate. He was dividing...
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The power shift in Budapest hasn't happened yet — but Brussels is already engaging with what comes next. Péter Magyar arrives in Brussels as Hungary's incoming prime minister, skipping the usual waiting period and heading straight into talks with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. His aim: unlocking billions in EU funds frozen over...
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