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I went for a run earlier this week under a wind advisory. The gusts were brutal, the kind that make you question the lengths you will go to avoid the treadmill.At one point I passed a construction site, and hovering around it was a thick, low-hanging cloud of dirt. When a gust hit, it didn't drift, it exploded. It rained all over me. It got up in...
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Gordon Repinski nutzt diese Sonderfolge für ein Gespräch mit der Community. Er reflektiert über euer Feedback zu den neuen, längeren Podcast-Formaten, diskutiert die Herausforderungen von 200-Sekunden-Interviews und gibt einen persönlichen Einblick in seine Arbeit als Politikjournalist. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen ab 5...
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A 19-year-old New York man said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, or ICE agents, beat him on a Bronx street on Wednesday before admitting they had targeted the wrong person. Jeury Concepción required stitches and suffered a concussion following the encounter. He recalled how the agents did not identify themselves before the assault,...
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Trump's giant gold statue of himself at his Doral Golf Club in Miami was met with online disgust by people who couldn't believe that anyone would want or applaud such a vanity project. "What's wrong with people," wrote journalist James Surowiecki on X, reacting to video of the statue and a photo of a pastor dedicating it in Trump's honor. Even...
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Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, disputed the authenticity of an alleged suicide note released Wednesday after being sealed for nearly seven years. Mark Epstein told the National Enquirer that if his brother intended to end his life, "he would've written it 'to somebody,' not just a blanket statement saying goodbye." The note was allegedly...
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Trump is reportedly losing patience with his own war that he started in Iran and wants it to end as soon as possible, according to a new report. According to a Friday article by The Atlantic, an outside advisor to Trump said that the president is "bored" with the war. "Others believe he is frustrated at Iran's intransigence," the Atlantic reported....
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Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta had a reality check for Fox News' Jesse Watters, after the latter objected to the former's criticism of President Donald Trump's latest vanity project in Washington, D.C."After Jesse Watters of Fox complained about my story on Trump's ridiculous reflecting pool project, I decided to do a fuller report on many of the...
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Virginia's Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Friday that the state's Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when placing a constitutional amendment on the ballot authorizing mid-decade redistricting. Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote, "This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has gone from being considered a far-left backbencher when she was first elected in 2018, to one of the Democratic Party's most prominent rising stars — and with that has come swirling questions and rumors about whether she plans to seek higher office.Former Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod asked...
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A GOP senator trying to keep his seat in a contentious battleground state was hit with a damning attack ad calling out his connections to sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein."Of all 535 members of Congress, who's taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?" the attack ad opened. "Jon Husted, that's who."The opponent of Sen. Husted (R-OH),...
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Plans to build portions of the border wall in Big Bend National Park are off after bipartisan backlash over the proposed construction, a top U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner.CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said the Trump administration was no longer planning to construct the wall within the national park following...
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Red state officials trying to redistrict their state congressional map suffered a setback in a lower court on Friday. According to Alabama journalist Kyle Whitmire, a three-judge panel denied Alabama a stay, saying that it doesn't have the jurisdiction. Alabama officials have been trying to undo a federal injunction that came out of the case Allen...
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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board threw its weight behind reports that President Donald Trump is planning to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary on Friday, and didn't hold back in explaining why."That would be great news for patients who have been denied access to life-saving therapies on his watch," the board wrote in a hard-hitting...
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American singer Ashnikko publicly banned MAGA hats from her concerts this week after a Trump supporter was jeered at her Orlando show for wearing one."I would just like to reaffirm that MAGA hats are not [expletive] allowed at my shows," Ashnikko told the crowd at her Miami concert, which erupted in cheers.The clip was posted to TikTok on Friday,...
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Emmy award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has hired high-profile litigator Bryan Freedman before her contract with CBS News expires at the end of the month, with little chance of renewal. The departure follows a public clash with newly appointed CBS News head Bari Weiss, who killed Alfonsi's "Inside CECOT" investigation hours...
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President Donald Trump was caught on the back foot Friday when a reporter asked him about the reports his Food and Drug Administration commissioner is set to be fired, not even appearing to understand what was being asked of him."What's going on with Marty Makary?" asked a reporter."Nothing much," said Trump. "He's fine.""Are you going to fire...
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Trump's social media platform is struggling as it just reported more than $400 million in losses during the most recent quarter, according to recent reports. Truth Social, run by the Trump Media and Technology Group, reported a net loss of more than $400 million and less than $1 million in total sales during the first three months of 2026,...
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MS NOW's Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off Friday night's edition of "The Weeknight" by contrasting America's economic malaise with President Donald Trump's obsession with lavish spending on renovations in Washington, D.C.Many of these renovations appear to have shady details under the hood, including Trump steering the contract to redo the...
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The president of UFC tried to create some space between himself and President Donald Trump, a well-known friend of his, during a recent podcast interview. "Everybody has friends they disagree with," Dana White said during an appearance on the podcast, The Breakfast Club, on Friday. "I consider myself right down the middle, a little liberal, to be...
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Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor warned Friday that President Donald Trump may invoke a secret "Doomsday Book" containing pre-drafted executive orders hidden in a secure White House location. Created under the Eisenhower administration to maintain government continuity following a nuclear attack, the book grants presidential...
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A top White House official has become so frustrated with seeing details of the Trump administration leaked to the press that she's begun cracking down internally, according to a new report. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles sent an email across the Executive Office of the President telling staff to stop leaking information to the press,...
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was forced onto social media Thursday to reassure the tech industry after her own National Economic Council director went off-script and publicly floated FDA-style government approval requirements for new AI models — touching off nearly a day of anxiety across the sector, according to Politico.Kevin Hassett,...
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A New Jersey man was body slammed and arrested at a packed township meeting this week after speaking out against a proposed AI data center — part of a growing national backlash against Trump's $500 billion push to build AI infrastructure across the country.The confrontation unfolded Thursday at an Andover Township Committee meeting in Sussex...
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President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro made a massive blunder in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting case, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday — and it could cause huge problems down the road.Specifically, she is not going to recuse herself from the case, despite having...
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Alabama officials have filed an emergency motion to the Supreme Court, asking for it to lift a federal court order that prohibits the state from redistricting until the next scheduled Census.The motion goes specifically to Justice Clarence Thomas, a far-right jurist who oversees such requests when they come from within the 11th Circuit.In its prior...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) thinks she's cracked the case on extraterrestrial life — and the answer, she says, is in scripture.As President Donald Trump released his long-teased "UFO Files" on Friday, the firebrand Republican offered her own theory on what the government may actually be tracking: fallen angels."God is the creator of the universe....
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Emmanuel Saez, the UC Berkeley economist who designed California's proposed billionaire wealth tax, accused the Washington Post and owner Jeff Bezos of publishing "misinformation" about the measure. Saez criticized a Post editorial board piece arguing the tax would cost California billions in lost revenue due to a billionaire exodus, claiming the...
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The GOP is walking into an embarrassing trap by stumping for one of Trump's vanity projects, said an ex-GOP political operative on Friday."This is one of the stupidest political traps I've ever seen somebody walk themselves into," said former Republican political strategist Rick Wilson during an appearance on MS NOW. "I want Republicans to vote for...
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New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman delivered a blunt assessment of one of the GOP favorites to win the Republican nomination for president in 2028."What is going to happen in the next couple of years will impact whether JD Vance becomes president," Haberman said during an appearance on CNN on Friday. "His fate is tied to President Trump."CNN...
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A grand jury in Oklahoma uncovered evidence that Gov. Kevin Stitt pulled strings behind the scenes to get a political donor released early from prison, KOSU reported on Friday."In 2023, Sara Polston was driving in Norman with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit. While traveling 66 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone, she crashed into...
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Washington Post readers launched a wave of criticism Friday after the Jeff Bezos-owned publication published a Mother's Day column attributed to Melania Trump.Titled "Mothers are America's strength," the piece prompted hundreds of comments expressing skepticism about authorship, with readers questioning if President Donald Trump wrote the column...
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Republican businessman and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is once again facing criticism and mockery for remarks that cast doubt on his authenticity.Ramaswamy, an ally of Trump who ran for president alongside him in 2024 and helped him craft the Department of Government Efficiency project, was born in Cincinnati — but had constantly...
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Fox Business host Dagen McDowell warned that Americans had "every right to be upset" because President Donald Trump's second term had "gone the wrong way."During a Friday panel discussion, McDowell agreed with contributor Steve Forbes that Trump was right to pursue fraud within the government. Still, she insisted that alone was not enough to turn...
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A federal judge in Massachusetts fired a warning shot at a lawsuit filed by far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office against the Democratic Party fundraising platform, ActBlue.According to Texas-based political reporter Bayliss Wagner, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns "ruled that ActBlue's countersuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton is...
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said during a public conference this week that the so-called Trump Accounts established under the GOP's 2025 budget law represent a viable path toward Social Security privatization—something the Texas lawmaker described as a "dirty little secret.”During a panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference in...
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The Department of Justice wants to strip a dozen Americans of their citizenship, including a former United States ambassador and National Security Council official, as it moves forward with denaturalization, according to a new report.According to a report by The Hill, the DOJ announced on Friday that it is seeking to "denaturalize" 12 U.S....
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President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever, according to a New York Times investigation published Friday.Trump gave the contract to...
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President Donald Trump responded angrily to ABC News senior correspondent Rachel Scott's question about his focus on renovation projects in Washington, D.C., during an ongoing war in Iran and rising gas prices. Scott asked, "Why focus on all these projects as gas prices soar?" Trump defended the work, stating, "I want to keep our country beautiful...
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Funds from a proposed settlement to end a lawsuit against TikTok could go directly towards building Trump's triumphal arch rather than the child victims the lawsuit was meant to protect, according to a new report.The social media company TikTok expects to pay $400 million to end the 2024 lawsuit, which came after the Department of Justice "alleged...
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President Donald Trump and his allies have been banking hard on the belief that his tariff policy conveys a "populist" message to American workers and shores up his coalition. But time and time again, he has been proven wrong, conservative writer Dan McLaughlin argued for the National Review in an article published on Friday — and there's a...
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A red state lawmaker quietly called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, but plenty of people are calling out the stunning remark. "Say what now?" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kyle Whitmire wrote on X, reacting to comments from Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter on Friday. The GOP state Speaker told local media,...
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The United States is on the path to becoming more like an apartheid state, a legal expert warned, as he saw a recent decision by the Supreme Court as validating racism. "The effect of what the Supreme Court has done is that we are going to look more and more like apartheid South Africa," lawyer and legal commentator Andrew Weissmann said on a...
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Republicans in Iowa are moving to restrict the governor's emergency powers, signaling concern that Democratic state auditor Rob Sand could become the state's first Democratic governor in two decades. Sand is campaigning on economic struggles, population decline, and health crises, arguing Republican leadership has failed Iowans, according to The...
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Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has submitted her resignation to Gov. Spencer Cox (R) following allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship, which may have ultimately resulted in a redistricting map that benefited Democrats."Today, Gov. Cox received a letter of resignation from Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen," Cox's office...
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A panel of three federal judges has rejected a lawsuit brought after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) halted ongoing state elections in an effort to gain Republican House seats through redistricting.In a filing late last month, Democratic House candidate Lindsay Garcia sued Landry and other state officials on behalf of "similarly situated voters and...
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Former TV personality Kari Lake, who has become a fixture in Donald Trump's orbit despite a track record of electoral failure, is actively searching for a new government position after being repeatedly passed over by the president and forced out of her previous role.According to Vanity Fair, Lake was recently overheard at the aborted White House...
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A New York man said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents admitted that they had the wrong person after he was beaten on the street in the Bronx.Jeury Concepcion, 19, told WNBC that he had to get stitches and suffered a concussion after his encounter with ICE on Wednesday."They didn't identify themselves as ICE," Concepcion recalled with...
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Over five dozen grand jury transcripts from the Georgia criminal case against President Donald Trump were publicly released on Thursday, announced Lawfare's Anna Bower on X. The 61 transcripts include previously unseen testimony from prominent Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and Cleta Mitchell. Fulton County District Attorney...
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon that there will be a brief pause in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, effective this weekend."I am pleased to announce that there will be a THREE DAY CEASEFIRE (May 9th, 10th, and 11th) in the War between Russia and Ukraine," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "The Celebration in Russia is...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
President Donald Trump has "signed off on a plan" to oust Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, sources told the Wall Street Journal.According to Friday's report, Trump has clashed with Makary over the speed at which flavored nicotine vapes are being approved. The president has also had disagreements with the FDA commissioner on...
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After having been under seal for nearly seven years, Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note was made public on Wednesday, but on Friday, Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, claimed the note was nonsense and alleged it to be a "forgery.”"I've known Jeff all my life. If he was going to kill himself, if he was going to write a suicide note, he would've...
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Expressing both bemusement and concern at the same time, former Undersecretary of State Richard Stengel stated on MS NOW on Friday morning that a bombshell CIA report that Iran still has the ability to stand up to the U.S. is bad news, but it is even worse that it caught the White House by surprise.Citing the Washington Post report, host Anna...
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In January, a Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility from what the Trump administration alleged was an attempted suicide, but another detainee calls his death suspicious. An immigrant detained at the same facility claims that he "heard” the Cuban immigrant being "choked to death,” but that he was threatened by an...
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President Donald Trump met Friday's news that the Virginia Supreme Court had struck down a voter-approved redistricting referendum with delight — but many questioned the ruling as unjust.The court ruled 4-3 that the state's Democratic-led legislature had violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot...
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Critics hounded the Trump administration on Friday after the White House released its 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy report earlier that morning, which onlookers immediately noticed was riddled with typos and grammatical errors."This entire document looks like something written by an intern,” wrote author and foreign policy analyst Kabir Taneja...
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ABC has filed an aggressive defense against Federal Communications Commission regulatory action, accusing the agency of violating the network's free speech rights and creating a chilling effect on political content. The filing, made public Friday, represents the network's most forceful pushback since President Donald Trump began pressuring media...
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Former Fox News contributor Sean Duffy revealed that he spent seven months making a reality show while serving the country as Secretary of Transportation.In a Friday interview on Fox News, Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, announced their new program called "The Great American Road Trip.""Rachel and I actually met on a road...
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Friends,Last Thursday, populist Democratic candidate Graham Platner shook up the Democratic establishment when his primary competitor, Maine Governor Janet Mills, suspended her Senate campaign amid polls showing her badly trailing Platner, an oyster farmer who had come out of nowhere to win a national following.Platner is the latest example of the...
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Emmy award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has retained a prominent litigator as her tenure at the prestigious CBS News program heads for an abrupt end — the result of a public clash with newly appointed CBS News head Bari Weiss that has escalated into legal threats.Alfonsi's contract with the network is set to expire at the...
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently celebrated the removal of food stamps from 4.5 million Americans.During an interview with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty this week, Rollins seemed jubilant about her success in moving people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)."It's a supplemental program. It's only supposed to last...
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President Donald Trump was dubbed an "economic serial killer" for killing off companies and entire industries with his policies.Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at The Bulwark and an anchor at MS NOW, published a column Friday questioning the 79-year-old president's priorities after his administration paid out $2 billion in taxpayer funds to...
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As he struggles to force Iran's capitulation, US President Donald Trump issued what seemed to be yet another threat to commit an act of mass destruction against the country through nuclear warfare.When negotiations have faltered in recent weeks, Trump has on multiple occasions defaulted to genocidal threats—including that the "whole...
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Virginia's Supreme Court struck down a redistricting referendum approved by voters in a special election.The court ruled Friday that Democratic lawmakers violated procedural rules when they referred a constitutional amendment to the ballot to draw up a new congressional map that would likely have given Democrats four additional seats, reported...
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It didn't take long on Friday for readers of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post to lash out at the once venerable Washington institution for publishing a column purportedly written by Donald Trump's wife, Melania.Going into the Mother's Day weekend, Melania, who gave birth to Trump's fifth child, Barron, extolled the virtues of being a mother in...
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In the middle of the most unpopular war in over 75 years—one that has created a political disaster for the Trump administration—the White House had to use the precious time of its Secretary of State to send him to the Vatican yesterday to do damage control.Think about that. The Vatican isn't a country with a military, nor is it some massive...
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Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor issued a dire warning Friday about a secret instruction book hidden in a "secure location” at the White House that contains a catalog of pre-drafted executive orders that would allow the president to do "extraordinary things” — powers that Taylor feared President Donald Trump may soon...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cautioned that a redistricting attempt in South Carolina could backfire because of the state's large Black population."I would recommend that everybody look at the map and see if it's a net positive [for Republicans]," Graham told SCETV News in an interview this week. "It's up to the state legislature to do this, but in...
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