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The Conservative Party has republished the English-language version of its platform after what it says was a "publishing oversight" resulted in the omission of a previous commitment to crack down on "woke ideology" in the public service and federal funding for university research.
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Nationals leader David Littleproud has taken credit for the Coalition's nuclear energy policy and says that opposing the Voice to Parliament was one of the proudest moments of his leadership, speaking at the National Press Club. Follow live.
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What appeared at first glance to Barnard College employees to be a fake text scheme inquiring whether they were Jewish was confirmed Wednesday by school administrators as a legitimate government text message.The eyebrow-raising text message hit the personal cellphones belonging to numerous current and past employees on Monday with a survey link...
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– Finales Angebot: Wie Trump die Ukraine und Europa erneut vor den Kopf stößt, ob die Amerikaner wirklich aus Verhandlungen aussteigen und sich zurückziehen würden und wie Europas Alternativplan für einen Frieden aussieht, besprechen Gordon Repinski und Hans von der Burchard. – Die drei Probleme der SPD: Der Koalitionsvertrag wird von der...
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As Catholics gather in Rome to mourn Pope Francis, those hoping to succeed him are preparing to engage in one of the world's oldest and most intriguing electoral contests. This week's guest knows the inner workings of the Vatican and the key players involved as cardinals gather for the next conclave. Host Anne McElvoy talks […]
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New Republic Columnist Greg Sargent says Republicans are showing a "dark endgame” on Fox News and other right-wing outlets, but Democrats have an opening to fight it--and they'd better.Democrats are leery of appearing on a hostile network and giving a "sheen of legitimacy” to what they consider propaganda but Sargent says not going on lets...
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The Trump administration had been cautioned that they were treading shaky legal ground as they plotted to block eight nonprofits from using $20 billion in Biden-era climate grants that had already been disbursed, according to a new report in Politico.But Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin still plowed forward with the plan...
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Comedian Jordan Klepper is known for his viral interviews with some of President Donald Trump's most diehard MAGA supporters, and recently shared details about some of the scariest — and most insightful — moments from those interactions.On Wednesday, The Daily Show posted a video from Klepper's recent "After the Cut" segment, which shows longer...
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President Donald Trump is finally being battered by the consequences of his own disastrous policy choices, the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in a scathing analysis published on Wednesday evening — and the bubble that is the MAGA media sphere is losing its grip over the situation.One of the nation's most prominent conservative opinion...
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As President Donald Trump prepares to mark the first 100 days of his second White House term, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow shared what she views as the "clear lesson” of the last three months as she dropped news of her own.The primetime host in the opening minutes of her Wednesday show revealed that her 100-day nightly run would wrap at the end of the...
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) may have just announced his retirement, but the bitter battle to replace his leadership position has already taken off on Capitol Hill, according to a new report in Axios. Durbin on Wednesday announced that his decadeslong career in the Senate would come to an end with his retirement in January. And while Durbin's decision...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leapt into proselytizing from the bench on Wednesday — and in doing so, he "revealed his own homophobia" as well as that he didn't understand the basic plot of the children's book he wants to allow parents to force schools to embargo, court watcher Mark Joseph Stern wrote for Slate in an analysis published on...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on his desktop computer in the Pentagon to circumvent poor cell service in the building, according to a new report in The Washington Post, which cited three people familiar with the matter.The Post report said Hegseth "effectively 'cloned' the Signal app on his personal...
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Trump's tariffs "upend constitutional order” and harm state economies, Dem AGs allege by Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror April 23, 2025 A dozen Democratic attorneys general, led by the AGs in Arizona and Oregon, filed a lawsuit Wednesday arguing that President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs were illegally implemented and will cause...
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Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations by Shauneen Miranda, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 23, 2025 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a series of education-focused orders Wednesday related to accreditation in higher education, school discipline policies, historically Black colleges and universities,...
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President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk have caused a mass exodus of experienced staffers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA — just in time for what could be a brutal hurricane season, CNN's Gabe Cohen told anchor Jake Tapper on Wednesday."What are you learning about these cuts to FEMA?" Tapper asked him."We're...
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A Massachusetts lawmaker slammed President Donald Trump's secretary of Defense on Wednesday afternoon as unserious following revelations he turned a room in the Pentagon into a makeup studio for TV spots.Pete Hegseth ordered a makeup studio to be installed in the building, converting a green room next to the press briefing room into a space...
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One of Trump's wealthiest supporters has turned on him.Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of the Citadel hedge fund, told Gina Chon of Semafor at the D.C. World Economy Summit that Trump has made the country 20 percent poorer and "eroded" the brand of U.S. Treasury bonds, an asset that until now was unassailable."We put that brand at risk,” said...
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A special VIP tour of the White House or even an exclusive dinner with President Donald Trump can be yours – for a price.The Trump-owned company that unveiled the president's official meme coin just before his inauguration announced Wednesday that top holders of the cryptocurrency would be selected to attend a private dinner with the MAGA leader,...
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Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News weekend co-host tapped by Trump to lead the Department of Defense, lashed out Wednesday evening after revelations he signed off on installing a makeup studio in the Pentagon for TV appearances.Hegseth approved thousands of dollars in spending for a room where he can apply makeup before TV appearances, CBS News...
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The most valuable private prison companies are GEO Group and CoreCivic, at $4 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively. In a 2023 report, GEO Group noted Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts accounted for 43 percent of its revenue; for CoreCivic that number was 30 percent. The day after Donald Trump was reelected, the companies' stock prices...
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The White House on Wednesday didn't deny reports that a debate between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the IRS commissioner erupted into a shouting match.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed the Oval Office explosion between two of President Donald Trump's top MAGA allies in brief comments to...
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Disclosures filed this week show that lobbying firms with close ties to U.S. President Donald Trump's White House have seen business surge at the start of 2025, with one group that used to employ Trump's chief of staff and attorney general more than doubling its first-quarter revenue compared to last year.Ballard Partners, a firm led by a Trump...
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President Donald Trump proved successful in the 2024 election by convincing young men he was their guy. But that has changed less than 100 days into his second term, recent polls show. MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her second hour by citing Peter Tuchman, known as the "Einstein of Wall Street," who spoke to New York Magazine, stating that Trump...
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by Shaun TANDONThe head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency called Wednesday on Iran to explain tunnels built around a nuclear site but voiced optimism that US-Iran talks would land a deal.The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington think tank, released satellite imagery on Wednesday that it said showed a new, deeply buried...
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by Andréa BAMBINOProsecutors opening Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault retrial described Wednesday how he ignored his victims' pleas to stop and abused his position to make them "feel small."The trial, which began with jury selection last week, will force survivors who helped spark the "MeToo" movement to testify against...
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Celebrated rocker Carlos Santana was forced to postpone several tour dates after testing positive for Covid-19, his manager said Wednesday.The 77-year-old guitar icon "experienced dehydration" before canceling Tuesday's show in San Antonio, and "out of an abundance of caution" is doing the same for Wednesday's performance in Sugar Land, Texas, his...
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YouTube on Wednesday celebrated more than 20 billion videos being uploaded to the platform since the first clip debuted two decades ago.The online video-sharing platform has evolved from a dinner party lark into a modern lifestyle staple poised to overtake US cable television in paid viewership.PayPal colleagues Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed...
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by Beiyi SEOWUS President Donald Trump on Wednesday played up prospects of a "fair deal" on trade with China, but his top officials offered few details of how Washington might de-escalate its damaging tariff war with Beijing.Trump told reporters his country would have a "fair deal with China," adding that "everything's active" when asked if...
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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Wednesday that he reaches out to Fox News frequently, asking if they'd have him on to discuss many issues, including President Donald Trump's accidental deportation of a Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador. Instead, they snub him.MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline White House" asked Goldman what Democrats are...
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Far-right legal activist and former Neil Gorsuch law clerk Mike Davis assured longtime Trump ally and webcaster Steve Bannon on his "War Room" show that at some point soon, Trump's Justice Department will begin arresting law enforcement officials from former President Joe Biden's administration."I just had several meetings at the Trump Justice...
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President Donald Trump dipped back into the long-running debate surrounding the renaming of the Washington Commanders, which the NFL team retired five years ago.Trump on Wednesday called the name change that Native Americans protested for decades "degrading to the Indian population,” while taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office."And...
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There is an "anything you can do, I can do better" vibe to the defence policies of both the Liberals and the Conservatives, but a trio of national security and military experts say each of the parties are missing — or avoiding — the fundamental national security issue at stake in this election.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pitched First Nations leaders with what he called practical solutions to create economic prosperity on Tuesday, but he reiterated concerns around the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its potential impact on resource development.
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The White House appears to have altered its messaging around the trade war with China, and it seems China views it as a "win" for them. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, saying that there should be a "de-escalation" of the tit-for-tat tariff increases.Bessent promised that "America First" didn't...
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President Donald Trump has vehemently denied any plans to get rid of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — but that resolve already appears to be cracking, former NBC anchor Chuck Todd told a CNN panel on Wednesday evening, as the scandals continue to mount and his position becomes less and less tenable.Hegseth faced a fresh wave of pressure to...
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to law enforcement Wednesday stating that he won't stop them from enforcing a temporarily blocked state immigration law that led to the arrest of a U.S. citizen last week. Uthmeier's letter states that he doesn't believe law enforcement has to abide by the order from a federal judge in Miami...
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"Abbott signs first bill of session into law, creating a Texas DOGE" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter that keeps readers up...
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Abbott signs first bill of session into law, creating a Texas DOGE By Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune April 23, 2025 "Abbott signs first bill of session into law, creating a Texas DOGE" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,...
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President Donald Trump's key advantage with voters has eroded in new surveys, as the whole nation begins to fret about the economic path he has put the nation on, Aaron Blake wrote for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Wednesday.Trump's numbers have been in steady decline ever since he took office — but, Blake wrote, it's his...
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The Trump Administration, with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), continues to target a wide range of federal government agencies for mass layoffs — from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Critics of...
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President Donald Trump blinked in his trade war with China, a CNN reporter said in a blunt assessment Wednesday.The financial markets are showing optimism after Trump indicated a possible "U-turn on messaging" around trade with China, said Jeff Zeleny, the network's chief national affairs correspondent.However, it prompted questions after White...
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Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders — who was once President Donald Trump's White House press secretary — is now urging him to reverse his administration's denial of her disaster relief request.Rolling Stone reported Wednesday that Sanders' initial request for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...
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Former first lady Michelle Obama isn't going high just to make other people feel better anymore.Obama on Wednesday opened up for the first time about her much-talked-about snub of President Donald Trump's second inauguration on an episode of her podcast, "IMO With Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson,” according to a report in USA Today. In the...
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Pete Buttigieg, who served as Secretary of Transportation under Joe Biden, had some advice for Democratic Party leaders before the 2026 midterms.Buttigieg appeared on comedian Andrew Schulz's "Flagrant" podcast — known for its part in the pro-Trump manosphere — where he called out Republicans for not having any answers to some of the most...
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was taken down a peg over his promotion of a long-debunked 9/11 conspiracy theory that he espoused on a far-right podcast Wednesday. Johnson appeared on The Benny Show to discuss his desire for hearings on 9/11, specifically the destruction of Building Seven, which collapsed hours after terrorists flew jumbo jets into the...
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued that his calls for tougher border security are about stemming the flow of dangerous drugs like fentanyl into the United States. But one new policy he's implementing could end up making the problem even worse.That's according to a Wednesday article in the Daily Caller — a prominent conservative news...
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President Donald Trump has lost no time since taking office in disappearing immigrants into an infamous Salvadoran megaprison with little to no due process — and it's time for Democrats to confront him head-on before he ramps up efforts to do the same to U.S. citizens, Jonathan Chait wrote for The Atlantic on Wednesday.Indeed, he continued, far...
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A Tesla investor and wealth manager expressed skepticism over claims that Elon Musk's promise to spend less time in Washington will bolster his Tesla electric vehicle brand and encourage sales.After Musk got involved with President Donald Trump and took charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, Tesla vehicles and Cybertrucks became...
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Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must "submit" to men.During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump's second term in office."God is moving mightily, and what's so exciting to me?" White...
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