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A potential civil war is brewing for the Republican Party in Iowa, as President Donald Trump is pitted against a major faction that usually stands with him.On Friday, Trump took to his Truth Social account to endorse Rep. Randy Feenstra's gubernatorial campaign."A Fourth Generation Iowan, successful Businessman, former Treasurer of Sioux County,...
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Federal weapons charges were dropped against Ori Solomon, a 55-year-old Israeli citizen and property manager, in connection with an illegal biological laboratory discovered at one of his Las Vegas properties.Law enforcement was alerted in January when a cleaner became severely ill after discovering beakers with a red-colored liquid and biological...
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A federal judge ruled that the Kennedy Center should not bear President Donald Trump's name, according to reporting by CNN.U.S. District Judge Casey Cooper ruled that the center's board violated the law by adding Trump's name. Cooper wrote that the law "makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy."Cooper added, "It...
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Bari Weiss, the conservative commentator turned editor-in-chief of CBS, sparked a wave of outrage when she appointed Nick Bilton in charge of the gold standard investigative reporting show "60 Minutes," according to a Page Six report — and many are afraid she'll go even farther.Per the report, Weiss was so confident in her decision that "she...
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House Republicans on the Armed Services Committee released their defense budget proposal this week for fiscal year 2027, which includes more than $1.1 trillion in spending, but buried within the 500-plus-page document is a provision that one foreign policy analyst warned Friday was "unprecedented,” and could reshape the U.S. military...
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has relocated to Argentina as a potential Plan B, fueling concerns given his past remarks about a nuclear apocalypse. The New York Times reports the PayPal and Palantir co-founder maintains a home in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has quietly purchased land in Uruguay near Argentina's eastern border, with observers...
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A growing coalition of Republican senators is breaking ranks with President Donald Trump, threatening his legislative agenda in a narrowly divided chamber where he can ill afford to lose votes on critical issues.Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Rand Paul (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Thom Tillis (R-NC)...
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President Donald Trump celebrated his record this week in endorsing winning candidates – endorsements typically made to oust his perceived GOP enemies – but in doing so, he has "essentially” turned himself into a "lame-duck” president devoid of any real power for the remainder of his term, one GOP Senate adviser has warned.The adviser, who...
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House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) was apparently the only Republican lawmaker attending the interview with former Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday, MS NOW reported.Sources told MS NOW that the atmosphere in the room was tense as Bondi appeared frustrated over the questions during the closed-door, transcribed interview with...
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President Donald Trump has snapped up tens of thousands of dollars in stocks in the parent company of a White House event he's heavily promoting.The president purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 of stock in TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship event he's holding next month on the South Lawn to celebrate his...
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been arrested in Texas on charges related to his actions during President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota.ICE agent Christian Castro was apprehended Friday by law enforcement officials from both states after the Hennepin County attorney's office charged him with four counts of...
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During coverage of the ongoing House Oversight Committee meeting interview with Pam Bondi, The New York Times' Peter Baker claimed there are probably good reasons for the fired attorney general to place all the blame on the man who now sits in her office over the botched release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.With MS NOW's Ken Dilanian joking...
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The Justice Department's (DOJ) botched release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein was front and center Friday during ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi's interview with the House Oversight Committee, during which, a DOJ attorney "intervened" to stop Bondi from answering a direct question about President Donald Trump, one Democratic lawmaker...
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According to a former US senator, the last thing Republican members of Congress want is to participate in a floor vote that would allow the US Treasury to place Donald Trump's face on a new $250 bill at a time when Americans can't afford to pay for food and gas.Appearing on MS NOW on Friday morning, an amused ex-Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) watched...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was criticized Friday after giving what was intended as a motivational speech to a group of Navy sailors.Hegseth joined the military personnel for a workout drill on USS Boxer, which is docked in Singapore, when he stopped to give a pep talk about the ongoing Iran war."The president said 'Iran can either do it the...
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Ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi passed the buck in her closed-door House Oversight Committee hearing on Friday by pinning problems with the Jeffrey Epstein files on the man who took her job.Based upon the release of her opening statement to the committee, a bemused MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian claimed the fired AG did not do acting-Attorney...
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Three Epstein survivors confronted Rep. James Comer (R-KY) in a moment that made the GOP lawmaker visibly uncomfortable, just minutes before a closed-door interview with former Attorney General Pam Bondi was set to question her on Friday about deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.As Comer was taking questions from the press, he was forced to...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was ridiculed for posting a classic fable warning against placing trust in unworthy individuals after his Republican primary loss.President Donald Trump extended a last-minute endorsement to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that tipped this week's runoff election away from Cornyn, who had courted the president's favor...
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Friends,Trump's Department of Injustice Justice has opened a criminal investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll.First, some background:In 2022, Carroll alleged that a chance encounter with Trump in at Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s ended violently — that Trump slammed her against a dressing room wall, pulled...
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Republican lawmakers already on the defensive over Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "slush fund” and his controversial IRS deal approved by acting-Attorney General Todd Blanche have a new "headache,” reported The Hill Friday.The report noted that the GOP faces a new crisis with prominent conservatives publicly condemning the Trump Justice...
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) left critics dumbfounded on Friday after suggesting that James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate from Texas, would engage in religious child sacrifice.The official social media account on X for the Democratic Party promoted Talarico's candidacy this week with a simple message: "James Talarico is the only candidate who...
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Former first lady Jill Biden said it was "just shocking" when her husband, former President Joe Biden, was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. When Rita Braver asked whether a White House physician should've caught it, Biden replied, "I do feel we had amazing care in the White House, but somehow that was missed." Watch more of the interview...
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Stephen Colbert's replacement was hit by a withering review comparing his late-night comedy program to an informercial Friday.CBS canceled "The Late Show," that had been long hosted by Colbert, and turned over the 11:30 p.m. slot to Byron Allen's "Comics Unleashed" — who is paying CBS $15 million a year for the half-hour segment. The Guardian's...
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A foreign national arrested after "illegal biological lab” was discovered in one of their managed properties in Nevada had the charges dropped this week in what Zeteo described as a "remarkable situation,” one in which President Donald Trump was labeled an "active participant."That foreign national is 55-year-old Ori Solomon, an Israeli citizen...
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Federal agents have been interviewing current and former election officials in Milwaukee about the 2020 presidential election, intensifying a nationwide review of voting in swing states that President Donald Trump lost six years ago.The FBI's Milwaukee field office has visited the homes of former election officials in recent weeks and is planning...
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A federal judge has slammed the brakes on President Donald Trump's massive compensation fund for allies who believe they were wrongly targeted by President Joe Biden's government.Virginia-based U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema temporarily blocked the administration from moving forward with plans to establish a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization...
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Fox News' Brian Kilmeade appeared to admit Friday that President Donald Trump's apparent sleeping spells during meetings were real — but mounted a personal defense of the president's frequent snoozing while pleading with viewers to "please stop" drawing attention to it."I've been accused of a lot of things but not cognitive decline — anyone...
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MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski asked her guest, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), to take over for her as she grew tearful talking about horrific conditions ICE detainees are being subjected to in Department of Homeland Security facilities the "Morning Joe" co-host called "concentration camps."A discussion with co-host Jonthan Lemire about threats new DHS head...
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The mood inside the "60 Minutes" newsroom on Manhattan's 57th Street was one of devastation Thursday after CBS News head Bari Weiss purged the program's leadership — ousting beloved executives and announcing an inexperienced tech journalist as the new executive producer, despite the show finishing its season with a massive rating...
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After voting for Donald Trump multiple times, longtime Republicans Ron and Chrissey Kelley turned on the president and his MAGA movement when his second administration's policies threatened their livelihood.Last October, Ron, a 55-year-old construction analyst for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), was furloughed for 43...
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President Donald Trump and his team are taking great care to avoid any public appearances, except in tightly controlled situations, that could result in him being harangued and booed as his approval numbers spiral into record lows, according to a new analysis.MS NOW's Ryan Teague Beckwith noted that the president has made a "striking break” with...
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Another performer has pulled out of the "Freedom 250" festival following widespread backlash over its association with President Donald Trump.Rocker Bret Michaels, of Poison fame, announced on social media Friday morning that the event celebrating the anniversary of America's founding has become politically toxic and had subjected him to a wave of...
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump, has recently set "new roots” in Argentina as a potential "Plan B,” The New York Times reported, fueling widespread panic among onlookers given the billionaire's past remarks about fearing a nuclear apocalypse."Chilling to read in the N.Y. Times article about Peter...
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There's scant evidence to support claims by tech billionaires and the Trump administration that local backlash against massive data centers is being orchestrated by China and other foreign nations — and those conspiracy theories have only served to embolden opponents, according to a report.Kevin O'Leary, the Canadian billionaire and "Shark Tank"...
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Jimmy Kimmel delighted in the unraveling of President Donald Trump's massive party for America's 250th birthday, a celebration that has devolved into what the late-night host called a monument to MAGA incompetence.The event, organized by Freedom 250 and scheduled for the National Mall from June 27 to July 10, was billed as a nonpartisan...
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President Donald Trump's planned celebration of the nation's 250th birthday was dealt a crippling blow as the headliner of a planned concert became the latest to pull out.Country star Martina McBride scrapped plans to lead the Great American State Fair, claiming she agreed to perform without knowing the MAGA links to the massive event in...
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Almost 250 years ago, our Founding Fathers survived a brutal war and established a new nation where all could live free from the oppression of the King of England. We take time every July 4th to remember what the early settlers lived through to create a new nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all of us are created equal. ...
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At the local elections, the Conservative Party lost hundreds of councillors and dozens of seats across England, Scotland and Wales, but Kemi Badenoch declared a comeback. So this week, Sascha O’Sullivan goes inside the Conservative Party’s hopes for a renewal. She speaks to Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride in Solihull and James Cowling of Next Gen...
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Für die Bundesregierung steht in New York viel auf dem Spiel. Deutschland will wieder einen der begehrten, nichtständigen Sitze im UN-Sicherheitsrat für die Jahre 2027 und 2028. Aber aus der Bewerbung ist ein knallharter Postenpoker geworden: Weil sich neben Deutschland auch Portugal und Österreich bewerben, droht kommende Woche eine...
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The Justice Department, or DOJ, is intensifying efforts to identify anonymous social media users who have criticized immigration enforcement policies. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Washington is issuing grand jury subpoenas to Reddit and X demanding names, addresses, and banking information, according to reports by Bloomberg. The subpoenas target...
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President Donald Trump's latest midterm gaffe was his most revealing yet, and it signaled that we are headed for a "very messy moment," according to one of his biographers. Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, discussed the president's recent comments about the approaching midterm elections during this week's cabinet...
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A legal expert was stunned on Thursday after a federal judge tried to save President Donald Trump's Department of Justice from legal peril in a case involving transgender children. Liz Dye, a legal commentator, discussed the Trump DOJ's scheme to get medical records of transgender youths from a hospital in Rhode Island on a new episode of the...
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Ryan Fournier, co-founder and chairman of Students for Trump, was arrested early Tuesday in Washington D.C. on domestic violence charges, marking his second assault accusation in less than two years. The Metropolitan Police Department charged Fournier with simple assault and attempted threats to do bodily harm, following an incident Monday night at...
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Is the EU finally ready to get serious about China? That's the question increasingly dominating conversations in Brussels as fears grow that Europe is being squeezed by Beijing's industrial machine. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by Sander Tordoir from the Centre for European Reform, Grzegorz Stec from MERICS and POLITICO's Jordyn Dahl to discuss the...
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The White House posted an anti-immigrant video that's making people cringe or dismiss it as a distraction from Trump's real issues.The official X account for the White House posted a video, which seems AI-generated, that shows a UFO lifting someone over a border wall and came with a link for ALIENS.GOV, which further attacked...
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A MAGA congressman and frontrunner for a Georgia Senate primary race lied about having high-profile campaign endorsements, according to multiple reports. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) lied on his campaign website about having the endorsement of Georgia sheriffs, commissioners, and other local officials, according to reporting by The Daily Beast. He even...
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reiterated Thursday his threat to withdraw Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, agents from airports in sanctuary cities that restrict local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. When asked if this would halt international flights to major hubs like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New...
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) lashed out at her Democratic opponent Graham Platner's military service, in a video posted Thursday night by the right-wing Maine Wire — in particular responding to Platner's remarks that she "sent him" to Iraq."First of all, he not only enlisted twice after the war was started, but he also went to work for a security...
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CNN data guru Harry Enten couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the latest figures showing President Donald Trump's declining favorability among a group that helped him return to the White House.During a segment about Trump's planned UFC fight on the White House South Lawn, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan and Enten looked at numbers reflecting how young...
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The Department of Justice's, or DOJ, decision to investigate writer E. Jean Carroll, who successfully proved President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, has drawn criticism from DOJ insiders and legal experts. Reporter Ken Dilanian characterized the potential perjury case as "the latest example of Donald Trump's Justice Department...
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A federal judge delivered an embarrassing response to a Department of Justice lawyer who was defending Trump from a lawsuit, according to a new report by Politico. The lawsuit stems from the firing of Maurene Comey, the daughter of the former FBI Director, who's been targeted by two Trump DOJ indictments. Maurene Comey was a DOJ prosecutor who had...
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A federal judge rejected the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to block a city law that limits cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Trump administration sued Boston to secure an injunction against one of the city's ordinances restricting ICE cooperation, the type of law that Trump says belongs to "sanctuary" cities....
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Fox News personality Jesse Watters on Thursday treated the viewers to a lengthy rant about Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, mocking him as part of a coordinated GOP messaging strategy to make him look effeminate."I have questions that I'd like local reporters to ask Low-T Talafreako," said Watters, who has a long and controversial...
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An untold number of Ugandans, Congolese and South Sudanese nationals who were already in Canada when the federal government brought in Ebola virus-related travel restrictions for residents of those three countries have had their visas suspended, CBC News has learned.
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Political analysts and observers were shocked on Thursday by new reporting on the draft peace plan that U.S. and Iranian negotiators are discussing. The New York Times reported that part of the deal on the table includes a $300 billion investment fund to help rebuild Iran at the end of the war. The report was published at a time when the Trump...
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Right-wing journalist John Solomon predicted Thursday, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will make a dramatic exit by releasing evidence claiming to prove foreign interference in the 2020 election. Solomon, who works closely with Gabbard on declassifications, spoke with Bannon on the "War Room" podcast. "Tulsi is gonna go out...
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Democratic political strategist James Carville warned that more stories about corruption by the Trump administration are coming, even as the topic is already becoming more prominent."We're just getting warmed up on these corruption issues," Carville said on the latest episode of his show, Politics War Room. Plenty of stories are already front and...
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Cities contracting with Flock Safety to run networks of license plate reader cameras are growing increasingly alarmed about the company's involvement with the Trump administration's mass deportation schemes, to the point that some are now covering their own cameras in trash bags, a new report revealed.According to 404 Media, one city bagging up its...
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Vice President JD Vance cancelled a scheduled speaking event in Denver Thursday afternoon.The cancelation was abrupt and Vance provided no explanation, according to Denver's GOP announcement on social media, Axios reported. "The high-profile visit would have been a rare stop for a top Republican leader in solid-blue Colorado," according to...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's defense on Thursday of slapping President Donald Trump's face on a $250 bill ahead of America's 250th birthday appalled a political analyst. During the daily press briefing, Bessent was challenged by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about whether putting the president's face on a new currency is appropriate, given the...
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An expert in Middle East affairs shared a startling prediction about President Donald Trump's latest peace plan for the region during a new podcast interview on Thursday. Trump has demanded that more Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East sign on to the Abraham Accords, a bilateral agreement the first Trump administration struck with some...
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A retired judge ridiculed Trump's anti-weaponization fund during her appearance on CNN.CNN anchor Jake Tapper read a quote by a January 6 rioter who wants Trump's fund to "allow him to retreat into a quieter life. I think I've earned my peace."Shira Scheindlin, a retired judge of the Southern District of New York, laughed at the statement, saying,...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department has opened a federal criminal investigation into the legal funding for E. Jean Carroll, the writer who successfully sued Trump for defamation after accusing him of rape, and the investigation could reportedly expand into whether Carroll committed perjury when she discussed the source of her legal fees.But...
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Fox News commentator Harris Faulkner went all in on Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's ongoing threat to pull customs officers out of airports in sanctuary cities — a plan that, if enacted, could cause widespread collapse of the national air traffic system and mass flight cancellations."The latest DHS list of sanctuary cities includes...
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While applying to renew its licenses, ABC dug into a Trump official for his "assault" on speech and TV stations, per a new report. ABC filed applications for eight TV stations and blasted an order by Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to begin an early license renewal process for ABC, according to reporting by...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son, Philip Alito, has been working as a political appointee attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the General Counsel since the early months of President Donald Trump's second administration, raising serious conflict of interest concerns.According to reports by NOTUS, Philip Alito's presence was...
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