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President Donald Trump posted an early morning message on Wednesday suggesting a significant breakthrough in Middle East peace negotiations, with Iran reportedly ready to end hostilities after years of tension, but noted that U.S. armed forces will be "hangin' around" in Iran."A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they've had enough!...
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Trump is tearing America apart with his threats against Iran and comment that domestically, "It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.” He's also succeeded in intentionally pitting Americans of different races, religions, and across the rural/urban divide against each other.As Michael...
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Canada's army is weighing faster timelines for new armoured vehicles while rethinking tanks in light of Ukraine's drone-dominated battlefield. Aging Leopards need replacement, but commanders say technology — including uncrewed systems — will shape decisions, even as other priorities like air defence and long-range strike rank higher.
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PARIS — Les émissions françaises de gaz à effet de serre ont diminué d'1,5% en 2025 par rapport à 2024, évalue le Citepa dans son baromètre annuel paru ce mercredi. La France est loin de la trajectoire qu'elle s'est fixée : pour respecter ses objectifs climatiques et espérer contenir le réchauffement climatique, les émissions devraient...
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Donald Trump macht einen Rückzieher. Ganz knapp vor Ablauf seines Ultimatums verkündete der US-Präsident eine zweiwöchige Waffenruhe mit dem Iran. Unter pakistanischer Vermittlung sollen ab Freitag Verhandlungen in Islamabad starten. Grundlage ist ein iranischer Zehn-Punkte-Plan, der Teheran schmerzhafte Zugeständnisse der USA abverlangt....
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Donald Trump's threats to wipe out Iran's "whole civilization” shocked the world. On the podcast today, host Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart, POLITICO's senior EU politics editor, discuss the European reaction as the conflict in the Middle East spirals. Plus, NATO chief Mark Rutte is in Washington to meet the U.S. president, but what does […]
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President Donald Trump and his allies are not telling the same story as the Iranians about the recently agreed-upon ceasefire deal, according to a new report. Trump announced on Truth Social that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire as they negotiate the end to the war in Iran. Few details about the agreement have been released....
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Clay Fuller, a Trump-backed Republican, is heading to Washington to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after winning a runoff election Tuesday against Democrat Shawn Harris.The Associated Press called the race for Fuller, a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard and former district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial...
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President Donald Trump's Iran strategy has been such a disaster, said MS NOW's Jen Psaki on Tuesday's edition of "The Briefing," that it even has far-right pundits saying the exact thing about the military that, just a few months ago, Democratic lawmakers enraged the Trump administration by saying."After all that bluster, after all that maximalist...
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President Donald Trump's threats to commit war crimes and genocide against the people of Iran, only to back down at the last second and agree to a deal that gives Iran more leverage than they had when the war started in the first place, has been a disaster, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening.In fact, he said, it...
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Gas prices "will rapidly come back down,” as soon as the war against Iran ends, President Donald Trump said during his address to the nation last week.That's not what his Department of Energy said Tuesday.If hostilities in the war were to stop by the end of April, the price of gas at the end of the year would still higher than it was at the start...
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A bipartisan immigration reform bill gaining House sponsors has pitted some MAGA lawmakers against each other in open warfare.The DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act, sponsored by Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX), contains a balanced package of immigration priorities for both parties, toughening up border security and requiring all...
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President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that "authorities" are investigating CNN for allegedly publishing a "false" statement from the Iranian regime. Trump announced that Iran and the U.S. had agreed to a two-week ceasefire agreement in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. CNN reported that Iran had claimed it achieved a "great victory" in...
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Political analysts and observers were taken aback on Tuesday after the initial details of President Donald Trump's announced ceasefire with Iran were released. The New York Times reported that some of the ceasefire provisions include the U.S. agreeing not to attack Iran again and lifting all sanctions on Iranian oil, including those that were put...
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President Donald Trump's threats to obliterate Iran with a total bombing campaign drew fierce condemnation from Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday, who proclaimed, "This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people,” and that "attacks on civilian...
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Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement freaked out on Tuesday after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. "Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic...
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President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire "deal" with Iran with just hours to go before his threatened deadline to wipe the country off the map, essentially proclaiming a set of conditions proposed by Pakistan that Iran had already largely rejected, in exchange for two weeks of paused hostilities to allow shipping traffic to move through the...
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President Donald Trump just handed the Iranian regime a massive "strategic victory" after retreating from his previous threats, according to one expert. Trump announced a two-week ceasefire to the more than five-week-old war in Iran on Truth Social on Tuesday. The announcement came about one hour before Trump's self-imposed deadline for a deal to...
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A historian flagged a hidden message buried in President Donald Trump's "extremely grave" threat to Iran. On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," a thinly veiled reference to the U.S. destroying Iran in response to the country shutting down the Strait of Hormuz....
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President Donald Trump backed down from his prior threats to destroy the nation of Iran in a lengthy post to Truth Social on Tuesday, proclaiming the deadline has been delayed as a result of a deal to get shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz moving again."Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of...
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One of just four House Democrats who voted against constraining President Donald Trump's war powers in response to the escalation in Iran was Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a moderate to conservative-leaning Democrat in a Trump-voting congressional district stretching from San Antonio to Laredo.But with Trump's latest remarks that Iran's "whole...
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Officials said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has boasted how the war in Iran has been successful for the United States and that President Donald Trump has repeated his false claims, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday. This misleading information has concerned insiders who have worried that these statements have contradicted the...
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A pair of Republican lawmakers broke ranks on Tuesday to bash President Donald Trump's latest threat to Iran. Trump threatened to destroy the entire Iranian "civilization" in a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning if the Iranian regime did not agree to a deal to end the war by the 8:00 p.m. ET deadline that Trump set. Trump has said negotiations...
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The Conservatives are calling for an ethics investigation into Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne in regards to the involvement of his partner in the Alto high-speed rail project. Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Champagne, saying the minister followed all of the ethics rules.
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) got in a fiery exchange with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday after she claimed that Iranians broadly support President Donald Trump's genocidal threats. Khanna joined the conservative network's live broadcast after Trump had posted on his Truth Social platform that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be...
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif proposed a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war, requesting that President Donald Trump extend his 8 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline to allow diplomacy to proceed. Via a post on X, Sharif called on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for two weeks as a goodwill gesture and urged all warring parties to observe a...
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A federal judge on Monday denied the appeal of former Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who was seeking to overturn a jury's guilty verdict against her.Dugan was convicted last year of obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts for helping an undocumented man who was appearing in her courtroom go out a side door to evade...
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Former staffers of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts warned a federal court in a new filing that President Donald Trump's scheme to shutter the landmark venue for two years is not just unlawful, but a grave threat to arts and culture.The Kennedy Center closure is the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to shape the...
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The civil rights division of President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is investigating Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump administration staffer who was a star witness in the investigation of the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, for allegedly lying to Congress.According to The New York Times' Michael Schmidt, "The move was a...
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One of President Donald Trump's former national security advisors made a staggering prediction about the president's latest threat to destroy Iran's "civilization" if a deal to end the war is not reached. On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that a "whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran does not...
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President Donald Trump's war with Iran is too much for self-described white supremacist Nick Fuentes to handle. During a new episode of his podcast "America First" on Tuesday, Fuentes reflected on an Easter threat Trump sent to Iran via his Truth Social platform."He said, quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one...
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WASHINGTON — In the days before the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026, a South Carolina woman's account of being sexually abused by President Donald Trump when she was 13 years old was closing in on the front pages of America's newspapers.The FBI had interviewed her four times. The Post and...
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Vice President JD Vance was hit by an on-stage embarrassment Tuesday as he dialed President Donald Trump for a live chat in front of hundreds — and was sent to voicemail.Trump's right-hand man was in Budapest for a rally for Hungary's autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban — when he offered to put the president on speakerphone.Appearing before...
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Corey Lewandowski, a top adviser to now-ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has been accused of direct shakedown attempts against contractors working with the government agency, a report revealed Tuesday.The founder of private prison operator the GEO Group, George Zoley, requested a meeting with Lewandowski a year ago as the group stood to...
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A group of historians has filed suit against the Trump administration over a scheme they fear could be used to give President Donald Trump a free pass to rerun his scheme of removing thousands of documents to his home at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida.According to Lawfare's Anna Bower, "Historians [sued] over [the Office of Legal Counsel] opinion...
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President Donald Trump is aware of a Pakistani proposal for a 2-week ceasefire in Iran in exchange for opening the Strait of Hormuz."Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in [the] near future," Pakistan...
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The Trump White House faces mounting panic over a forthcoming book titled "Regime Change" by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, set to publish mid-June according to reporting by Axios. The book examines President Donald Trump's "Imperial Presidency" and his fundamental alteration of the executive office's nature. Trump's...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Sacramento was launching a probe Tuesday after a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers near San Jose, California.KNTV reported that the Tuesday morning shooting shut down on- and off-ramps on Interstate 5 and Sperry Avenue in...
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A Republican lawmaker has spoken out against President Donald Trump's threats to wipe out Iranian civilization."The United States of America must always be prepared to use overwhelming military force when necessary to defend our national security interests and protect Americans at home and abroad," Rep. Nate Moran (R-TX) posted to X on Tuesday....
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President Donald Trump was warned by military leaders that a war with Iran would risk seriously depleting U.S. weapons inventory — but went ahead with it anyway, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.One of the principal voices warning Trump about this was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan...
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Donald Trump's early morning threat to wipe out an entire civilization was terrifying — but the White House's response was even more so, Mother Jones columnist Noah Lanard wrote.Lanard made several calls to Trump's representatives Tuesday, shortly after the president warned on Truth Social, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be...
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Former Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. John Gartner warned that President Donald Trump is developing an addiction to war, deriving pleasure from frightening the world and destruction. Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast hosted by Joanna Coles, Gartner characterized Trump's mental state as "rapidly declining," with increasingly "inflamed"...
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An intense new round of reporting from The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan revealed that Vice President J.D. Vance was the most intense naysayer over invading Iran in President Donald Trump's inner circle, often going against the positions of everyone else to warn the idea could be a disaster."Nobody in Mr. Trump's inner circle...
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Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly insisted that she wouldn't vote for a Democrat even if President Donald Trump decided to deploy a nuclear weapon."All I think about when I think about the Democrats is those very unattractive people in Minneapolis," Kelly said on a podcast this week. "That's when I think Democrat, that's what I think.""That's...
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Canada's military operations commander has temporarily removed the officer in charge of the country's biggest overseas deployment. The decision by Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin comes after Col. James Smith was charged by military police with prejudice to good order regarding compensation irregularities while he commanded Task Force Latvia.
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Interim Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that he had no idea why President Donald Trump had fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi.During a Tuesday press conference, Blanche was asked to square his pledge to root out weaponization at the Department of Justice with Trump's demand that his enemies be prosecuted."You had [people in] this...
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Vice President JD Vance has taken multiple hits from President Donald Trump — and might not realize that the joke is at his expense, an analyst suggested. Dana Milbank, a NOTUS columnist, described in a New York Times opinion guest column published Tuesday how Trump has continued to embarrass Vance as the MAGA coalition has cracked."At a...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office, delegating the role to his Vice President JD Vance.On his Substack, Kurgman argued Trump recognizes the Iran war as "an epic strategic defeat" but refuses to accept the failure, instead threatening escalatory actions....
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested on Tuesday that if he were ousted from his role in the Department of Justice (DOJ) – much like his predecessor, Pam Bondi, was last week – his only response would be to communicate his love for his boss, President Donald Trump.Blanche, who was named acting attorney general in the wake of Bondi's...
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A number of congressional Democrats were raising concerns and demanding that it was time to invoke the 25th Amendment on Tuesday after President Donald Trump raised a serious threat to permanently damage Iran and its people. Trump said via his Truth Social platform that if Iran did not meet his negotiation deadline by 8 p.m. ET, "a whole...
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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.Eighth graders Alexis Rodriguez and Dominic Wolbert spent the week before a recent Philadelphia Board of Education meeting getting ready.They had taken hours to write their speeches and get feedback on them from their teachers at...
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A key tactic of President Donald Trump's "dating back to early in his real estate career” was proven last week to no longer be effective, The New Republic's Ross Rosenfeld argued on Tuesday, and largely due to "no one of consequence” being "intimidated by him” anymore.Trump became the first sitting president in history to attend oral...
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Just hours before President Donald Trump's deadline for ending the civilization in Iran, the country was organizing human shields at power plants on the U.S. targeting list.This week, Iran's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Alireza Rahimi, called on Iranians to form human chains at power plants at 2:30 p.m. local time.Trump has extended his...
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The Conservatives are calling for an ethics investigation into Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne in regards to the involvement of his partner in the Alto high-speed rail project. Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Champagne, saying the minister followed all of the ethics rules.
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MAGA influencers Steve Bannon and Eric Bolling warned that Democrats would "rain hell down" if President Donald Trump's war in Iran leads to defeat for Republicans in the midterm elections.During his Tuesday War Room podcast, Bannon cautioned that it could be "one of those days" after Trump threatened to destroy Iran's civilization in a single...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson faces "healthy amount of anger," from Republicans after what Punchbowl News described a "cardinal sin" — Johnson abandoned a position he forced his members to support. Johnson initially rejected a Senate GOP-Democratic compromise to fund DHS after 52 days of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, directing...
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We surely can't diminish the clear threat of nuclear destruction that Trump has made, posting this morning that a "whole civilization will be wiped out tonight” if Iran doesn't accept his "deal.” This followed his deranged 1.5 hour press conference yesterday that showed how much of a lunatic he's become, ending with "We want Greenland.”Trump...
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The far-right Freedom Caucus is openly defying Donald Trump by rejecting his endorsed two-step funding plan for the Department of Homeland Security — a stunning rebuke that exposes the fracturing Republican Party and leaves Speaker Mike Johnson, once again, scrambling to hold his caucus together.According to The Hill's Emily Brooks, the Freedom...
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Now that Donald Trump has broken the ice by abruptly firing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and then Attorney General Pam Bondi, everyone's job is reportedly on the line as the president shakes up his embattled administration.According to political strategist Max Burns writing for MS NOW, Trump is making a fundamental...
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Along with cutting environmental, housing, and health programs and proposing an increase of nearly $500 billion in military spending, President Donald Trump's new budget proposal shows how the White House "wants to use taxpayer dollars to spy on those who oppose its extremist agenda,” one Democratic congresswoman said Monday evening.Rep. Mary Gay...
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Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warned that President Donald Trump's serious threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" in his latest escalation of the Iran war would lead to lasting damage for the United States. In his Substack on Tuesday, Krugman suggested "the civilization we destroy may be our own" and that Trump had made a...
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President Donald Trump's gambit to force Iran to negotiate has reportedly backfired."A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump warned on Tuesday in a Truth Social post.Wall Street Journal national security reporter Alex Ward revealed that Iran had reacted by cutting off direct communication with the Trump...
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Continuing the assault on transgender people that President Donald Trump launched as soon as he returned to power last year, the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights rescinded portions of settlements intended to protect trans students at five school districts and one college.The department framed the move as "freeing schools” from...
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President Donald Trump issued a stark threat Tuesday, then declaring on a Truth Social post, "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" unless Iran lifts restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. EST. Critics globally condemned the threat as genocide. Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan characterized Trump's statement as...
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"A whole civilization will die tonight.” Is this something Jesus would have said?At a White House Easter event last week, Donald Trump's spiritual advisor, Paula White-Cain, compared him to Jesus Christ, invoking betrayal, false accusations and even a kind of political "resurrection.” The remarks were blasphemous. So was Trump's own doomsday...
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President Donald Trump called Fox News' Bret Baier Tuesday morning to affirm that he would be "sticking to” his threat to permanently destroy Iranian civilization by Tuesday night, and that plans were already "moving forward.”"I just got off the phone with the president,” Baier said. "He called, and I said 'listen, if you were to put odds on...
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Die Uhr tickt: Wenige Stunden vor Ablauf von Donald Trumps Ultimatum spitzt sich die Lage im Nahen Osten dramatisch zu. Die Straße von Hormus bleibt blockiert, über der wichtigsten Ölregion der Welt steigen Rauchwolken auf und beide Seiten bereiten sich auf den nächsten Schritt vor. Im Gespräch mit Ibrahim Naber (WELT), der aus Erbil im […]
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The Donald Trump White House is bracing for impact from a potentially devastating new book set to publish mid-June. New York Times correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — two of the most wired reporters in Washington with a proven track record of explosive Trump administration disclosures — have spent a lot of time investigating...
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MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson called on members of the White House and the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump if he tries to commit war crimes in Iran."Unless somebody puts the brakes on right away, we're going to wind up in a place that we can't even imagine," Carlson warned on a podcast this week. "And so that means, because this...
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America First leaders of the MAGA movement called on President Donald Trump to be removed from office after he threatened to destroy Iran's civilization."A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump wrote on Tuesday in a Truth Social post.Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called on cabinet secretaries to use...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was put on the spot by CNN's John Berman Tuesday after refusing to directly address President Donald Trump's threat to permanently destroy Iran's civilization, and instead, attempted several times to downplay the threat's severity.In a statement issued Tuesday morning, Trump warned that "a whole civilization will die...
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Vice President JD Vance had no idea President Donald Trump had escalated the war in Iran until reporters tipped him off during a press conference in Hungary on Tuesday, according to reports. A Washington Post reporter recommended Vance check his phone as he was on a stage with Trump ally Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, just after Trump had sent...
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