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President Donald Trump announced that his administration had reached a "deal" with the Iranian regime that would "reopen" the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global waterway that has been shut down since the early days of the war against Iran. "The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Congratulations...
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President Donald Trump's lawyers made a big mistake in the president's $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, one so big that two legal experts argued on Sunday that it could be evidence of malpractice.Trump initially sued the BBC in Florida in December 2025, claiming the network defamed him by mischaracterizing the...
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An elections expert on Sunday flagged the "unforced error" that could determine which political party controls the Senate following the 2026 midterm election. Democrats have been vying for control of the Senate, as it would give them leverage to potentially convict President Donald Trump if he is impeached after the midterms. The Democrats have...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was one of the lucky Trump administration officials who was asked to go on the Sunday morning news shows, but things apparently didn't go according to plan, according to some political analysts and observers. Hegseth joined CBS News' Margaret Brennan on Sunday, where he was asked about the ongoing negotiations between...
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Political analysts and observers were floored on Sunday after reports indicated that President Donald Trump's signature birthday bash faced a "chaotic" risk that could prevent the event from going forward. The Weather Channel reported on Sunday that Trump's "UFC Freedom 250" event on the South Lawn of the White House could be delayed or canceled...
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President Donald Trump received praise from his own Homeland Security (DHS) secretary on Sunday for apparently not taking the day off on his 80th birthday, which comes as the White House scrambles to seal an interim agreement with Iran to end the president's deeply unpopular war.Markwayne Mullin, who replaced Kristi Noem as DHS secretary, appeared...
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller launched into a tirade Sunday over wind turbines, which he described as "monstrous” and a "visual assault on God's creation.”A social media user on X published a photograph Saturday that showed several wind turbines off the coast of Virginia Beach. The image apparently upset Miller, who on...
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A well-known nemesis of Donald Trump is seizing on the president's birthday.Alex Vindman is trying to give Trump a birthday he won't enjoy.As the president marked his 80th on Sunday, the retired Army lieutenant colonel and key witness in Trump's first impeachment blasted out a fundraising appeal billing himself as the president's "worst nightmare"...
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A grim weather forecast for President Donald Trump's UFC spectacle on the White House South Lawn has handed his critics a gift, and they are not letting it go to waste.After The Weather Channel warned that UFC Freedom 250 could be hammered on Sunday by thunderstorms, 34 mph wind gusts, a triple-digit heat index and "massive swarms of mosquitos and...
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Mark Levin, one of President Donald Trump's most reliable media defenders and a leading hawk on the Iran war, is breaking with the president over the peace deal Trump is racing to sign — demanding to actually see the agreement before it's locked in.In a post on X on Sunday, the conservative radio host pressed for transparency on the memorandum of...
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been hospitalized for an undisclosed medical reason, his spokesperson confirmed on Sunday, NBC News' Julie Tsirkin reported."Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care,” said McConnell's spokesperson David Popp, according to Tsirkin.Formerly the Senate majority...
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President Donald Trump's UFC spectacle on the White House South Lawn may have to contend with one thing his administration can't bully into submission: mosquitos.According to a forecast from The Weather Channel, UFC Freedom 250 is walking into a near-biblical mess on Sunday. Forecasters put the chance of thunderstorms at 60 percent, with heavy...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is accusing his own state Republican Party of selling out the state's voters to serve interests beyond Florida — a barely disguised swipe at President Donald Trump, whose endorsement has turned Rep. Byron Donalds into the runaway frontrunner in the 2026 governor's race.DeSantis never said Trump's name. But the target was...
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Noah Kai Newkirk, a prominent activist and Democratic congressional candidate from Arizona, filed an official complaint with the state's attorney general recently alleging that the state of Israel had interfered in the Arizona Democratic primary election using artificial intelligence (AI)."Just dropped off an official complaint with Arizona...
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President Donald Trump expressed outrage Sunday in a purported phone call with Axios' Barak Ravid over Israel's latest act of defiance, one that risks jeopardizing his long-sought peace deal with Iran that he's shown a "strange insistence” for finalizing on Sunday, his 80th birthday.On Saturday, Trump said that a peace deal between Washington and...
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A wave of anger erupted online this weekend after U.S. military honor guards were spotted taking part in the run-up to President Donald Trump's UFC spectacle at the Lincoln Memorial.The backlash took off after progressive commentator LanaQuest, who posts as RosaSparks, shared video of uniformed service members flanking the memorial's steps as UFC...
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A political columnist is comparing President Donald Trump's gilded redecoration of Washington to the excesses of the French monarchy on the eve of the revolution that toppled it.In a column titled "Caligula on the Potomac," political analyst and longtime federal trial attorney Sabrina Haake argues that Trump is "desecrating the nation's capital...
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A new national NBC News poll published Sunday spelled trouble for Republicans as the midterm elections approach, with one GOP pollster who helped conduct the survey reacting to the news with concern."These are rocky numbers for Republicans,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff with Public Opinion Strategies, speaking with NBC News, noting...
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President Donald Trump publicly chided Israel on Sunday over a morning airstrike on Beirut, warning that the attack threatened to derail the Iran peace deal he is trying to sign on his 80th birthday."This morning's attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran," Trump wrote...
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Despite the White House's claim that the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) posed "no conflict of interest” regarding President Donald Trump, a new development directly undercut that claim and established a firm connection between the event and the "Trump family's financial interests,” The Guardian reported Sunday.As revealed by UFC...
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Conservative firebrand Mark Levin and British broadcaster Piers Morgan reignited their long-running feud this weekend, trading insults on X over the Iran war and each other's credibility.The latest round flared after Levin, one of the most hawkish defenders of U.S. involvement in the conflict, blasted Morgan as "the lowest of the low" and accused...
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Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child. They talked with "Sunday Morning" national correspondent Robert Costa about family, his conversion to Catholicism, and his book, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith." The vice president also defends the Trump administration's war with Iran, which has put Vance at...
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tore into Republicans this week over a measure that would help private jet owners dodge taxes, drawing a pointed contrast with the everyday costs squeezing American households."Gas prices are soaring. Grocery prices are skyrocketing. Utility prices are increasing," Lieu wrote in a post on X. "What are Republicans and Trump...
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Celebrity birthday wishes poured in for President Donald Trump as he turned 80 on Sunday – but many doubled as brutal condemnations of the president's global impact, with one columnist declaring Trump's legacy to be one of "mass immiseration and death.”"Dear Number 47. You're aging fast, Mr President, plagued by bruising, memory holes, verbal...
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Top Trump administration officials are gripped by fear that two reporters got their hands on audio recordings of meetings inside the White House Situation Room — one of the most secure rooms on the planet — for a forthcoming book, according to Axios.The outlet reported White House officials believe New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and...
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As President Donald Trump turns 80 years old, an expert in politics and government sounded the alarm Sunday over what they say is making the president "even more dangerous,” and predicted that Americans had a "frightening” two years ahead of them.Trump has faced growing scrutiny over what some critics argue are signs of his cognitive decline,...
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White House correspondent April Ryan says the court-ordered removal of President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center is the single most painful defeat of his second term — a humiliation that cuts to the core of a man who built his entire identity on his brand.Speaking on MS NOW Sunday, Ryan argued that the episode was uniquely wounding...
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An MS NOW host sounded the alarm early Sunday over one of the stranger wrinkles of President Donald Trump's UFC takeover of the White House: the administration handing a private company control over which journalists are allowed on the grounds.Pointing to a Washington Post report, Jonathan Capehart noted that the White House press corps will be...
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The Wall Street Journal exclusively reported recently that President Donald Trump is actively working with allies to "void” his two impeachments, an effort that inadvertently revealed that the president felt "disgrace and embarrassment” over his past conduct, a top Democratic congressman argued Sunday.Citing anonymous inside sources, the...
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As Donald Trump becomes increasingly untethered to the reality that every regime can fall, that his followers are not necessarily forever in support such that he need not ever worry about a thing — from Epstein to insider trading — he now confidently takes his vanity to new levels in bringing a new stage and spectacle to the White...
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A peace deal between Washington and Tehran – one that President Donald Trump has shown a "strange insistence” on being finalized Sunday, his 80th birthday – is at risk of collapse after a key Iranian demand was violated Sunday morning, Al Jazeera reported.Iran has demanded that Israel halt its bombardment of Lebanon as a non-negotiable...
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Friends,Tonight, Trump is throwing an 80th birthday bash for himself (he says it's in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States) with a "Freedom250” Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the South Lawn of the White House at 8 p.m. ET.It will be a bloody gladiator fight taking place inside a 600-ton, 154-feet-tall skeletal structure...
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President Donald Trump is set to celebrate his 80th birthday Sunday night with an unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight on the White House South Lawn, and "for once, [he] is hoping for calm” as a "risk of thunderstorms” threatens to disrupt the event, The Hill reported Sunday."Organizers say they can cope with heavy rain,...
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A pro-Trump influencer is getting mercilessly mocked after pushing a voter-fraud claim about former reality star Spencer Pratt that collapsed over a single fatal detail: the location doesn't exist.The account Paul White Gold Eagle, a prolific conspiracy-minded influencer, posted what he billed as "BREAKING" news this week: "675 ballots for Spencer...
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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance says the officials carrying out President Donald Trump's agenda could face criminal investigation once he leaves office — though she framed it the way a career prosecutor would, not as a foregone conclusion.Vance, the former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, laid out her thinking in a...
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Well, it's June 14, and we all know what that means. That's right, it's the day that we curse President Donald Trump's father for not having used a condom some 80 years and nine months ago.Happy 80th Birthday, Mr. President. You made it to eight decades. Not that many of us were necessarily rooting for it. But unlike you and your savagely corrupt...
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In a rare move, four provincial parties denounced a gathering in Shawinigan, Que., captured in a photo, during which more than a dozen masked white nationalists held a banner that read, "I remember a white Quebec.” But some observers say the province's climate in recent decades has helped fuel this type of behaviour.
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Eine neue europäische Gemeinschaftsstudie zeigt: Das Endstadium von Putins Kriegswirtschaft hat begonnen. Der nationale Vermögensfonds ist aufgebraucht, das Haushaltsdefizit für das gesamte Jahr 2026 wurde bereits im ersten Quartal gerissen und die versteckte Staatsverschuldung über das Bankensystem klettert auf bedrohliche 50 Prozent des BIP....
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In a bonus episode of Westminster Insider, host Sascha O'Sullivan sits down with Jack Blanchard to find out who is the real Andy Burnham. Jack talks through the journey Burnham has made from loyal minister in the new Labour years to the man he is today — and the most pivotal moments that have shaped […]
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If a nightmare election-day scenario plays out under Trump, Democratic Attorneys General have a counterattack ready, according to one AG.During a recent interview, California Attorney General Rob Bonta described how fellow Democratic AGs have been preparing in case the Trump administration deploys military force in response to a GOP election...
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A flier for a fundraiser headlined by President Donald Trump set off a round of online ridicule this weekend once it revealed the price of admission: $1 million per person.The invitation, shared on X by Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Leary, advertised a "candlelight dinner" featuring Trump as the "special guest speaker" at Trump National Golf...
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The main airport for D.C. has been grounding flights, and Trump's UFC event is suspect number one, according to reporters.MeidasTouch journalist Aaron Parnas reported on Saturday night that the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was "currently on a ground stop and has been temporarily closed 'for an event,'" via an X post."Planes set to land...
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Conservative media host Grant Stinchfield is suggesting that left-wing saboteurs are behind the algae that turned the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool green, barely a week after President Donald Trump's multimillion-dollar overhaul of the landmark.In a video posted to X, Stinchfield stood beside the murky, green-tinted water and...
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A Republican strategist argued on MS NOW this weekend that President Donald Trump's planned UFC fight at the White House is such a flop that he is racing to sign a weak deal with Iran just to knock it out of the headlines.Susan Del Percio, a GOP strategist and MS NOW political analyst, made the case on "PoliticsNation" with Rev. Al Sharpton on...
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Candidates vying for House seats in battleground districts are confounded by a new hot-button issue, according to a Politico report.AI data centers are turning out to be a "political slog" for House hopefuls from both parties, according to Politico. About 1,500 data centers are planned or being built in 232 congressional districts, with a near even...
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors are marking Trump's 80th birthday with a pointed gesture that he will not want to see.Marina Lacerda and Andrea Sterling called out Trump's ties to Epstein as his 80th birthday present in a recent interview with journalist Aaron Parnas. The two women walked Parnas through a space filled with the voluminous Epstein files...
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A well-known former GOP insider dropped an ad that criticizes Donald Trump for his medical status, and raises the prospect of the president being held accountable in a criminal court.George Conway, a former Republican who used to pal around with Trump but is now running for Congress as a Democrat, teased the president over the repeated cognitive...
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A sweeping defeat of Trump's immigration policies will likely end up in the Supreme Court, a legal expert flagged.Last week, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down four Trump policies that froze immigration benefits for nationals from 39 countries, attorney Rachel Cohen said on Legal AF. Cohen is now expecting that challenge to land in the...
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Mary Trump, the president's niece and a frequent critic, drew on her own family history this week to argue that her uncle is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about masculinity.In the latest edition of her newsletter, "Trump Trolls Trump," the clinical psychologist took aim at the spectacle of Republicans posturing over who counts as...
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A crew stripped President Trump's name from the front of the Kennedy Center overnight, after a federal judge rejected the administration's efforts to keep the signage in place. The removal followed a separate ruling that paused a presidential directive to remove signs and exhibits at national parks that cast the U.S. in a "negative light." Olivia...
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) reacted with open disbelief this week to President Donald Trump's plan to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn while his family hawks commemorative coins off the spectacle."Wait, is this for real?" Merkley wrote in a post on X, accusing Trump of spending $60 million to host the bout and then "selling UFC coin to line...
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Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates says Jeffrey Epstein should never have been able to do what he did, arguing that the American justice system failed at every turn.In an interview with The Guardian, French Gates delivered a blunt verdict on how authorities handled the late financier and sex offender. "The justice system didn't do its...
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MAGA influencer Riley Gaines is facing ruthless ridicule after a new video showed her asking what her core beliefs are.The reportedly leaked video shows Gaines asking her sponsors from the MAGA-friendly Patriot Mobile what the "pillars" are of her beliefs and counting on her fingers, as she says, "the First Amendment, the Second Amendment.""There's...
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The Reflecting Pool's new murky, green color is leaving onlookers disgusted and angry after a costly renovation."The Reflecting Pool is VERY green and VERY disgusting," posted Brianne Chapman, who runs the left-wing political X account Anarc-y princess. "Even on the worst days, I never saw it look this bad before."Algae has left the Reflecting Pool...
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Sen. Ted Cruz is openly defying President Donald Trump in two marquee Republican primaries, a move that doubles as an early test of whether the Texas Republican can carve out room for himself in a party Trump has dominated for a decade, new reporting suggests.According to Axios, Cruz this week threw his support behind candidates running directly...
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The super agent who inspired HBO's "Entourage" is behind Trump's tough-guy image and UFC spectacle, according to an MMA writer.Ari Emanuel, the brother of former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, is known as the basis for Jeremy Piven's character Ari Gold. Behind the scenes, he's also been bankrolling a yearslong effort to give Trump "macho cred,"...
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President Donald Trump reportedly refused to let his own staff strategize around his age as he barrels toward his 80th birthday, according to his longtime biographer Michael Wolff.Speaking on the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast, Wolff said the question of how to handle the milestone has become a touchy subject inside Trump's orbit. He described it as...
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The voters who powered Donald Trump back into the White House are increasingly unable to explain why they did it — and pollsters who sit in on focus groups say the war in Iran is what finally broke the spell.Molly Murphy, a Democratic pollster who worked on Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign, told The New York Times that the turn against the president...
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One of President Donald Trump's longtime pollsters is warning that the working-class white voters who built his political movement are turning on him — and that their disillusionment could cost Republicans control of Congress this fall.John McLaughlin, who has polled for Trump for years, told The New York Times that those voters are fed up with...
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Susie Wiles is running out of patience with Trump amid mounting White House turmoil, a couple of political experts said.Dean Blundell, a Canadian political commentator, detailed what insiders had told him about the Trump White House Chief of Staff during an interview with ex-GOP operative Steve Schmidt. Wiles was rumored to be looking for the exit,...
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The Supreme Court is expected to gut a century-old legal precedent and expand Trump's power over independent agencies, per a legal expert.Lisa Graves, a legal investigative researcher and Chief Justice John Roberts biographer, warned in a recent piece about how SCOTUS will rule in Trump v. Slaughter later this month. She fears the court will...
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Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger tore into President Donald Trump over his handling of the war with Iran on Saturday, accusing the president of buying his way out of the conflict and walking away with almost nothing for it."Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over," Kinzinger wrote in a post on X that accompanied a...
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Ex-Trump cabinet secretary Kristi Noem proved her poor geography skills on live TV, and online commentators let her have it.During an interview, the former Department of Homeland Security chief flubbed as she answered NEWSMAX anchor Greta Van Susteren's question, "Who is our best friend in South America at this point?"Noem responded, "We've worked...
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Megyn Kelly spent the better part of a year positioning herself as one of the loudest cheerleaders for the Make America Healthy Again movement. She showed up at RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing. She hosted pro-MAHA guests on her podcast week after week. She called his Senate confirmation "monumental" and said she felt "so hopeful" about the whole...
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President Donald Trump announced Saturday that a deal to end the U.S. war against Iran would be signed Sunday – a timeline Iranian media described as his "strange insistence" – and onlookers think they know why."Is this idiot trying to settle this foreign policy debacle Sunday, just so he can announce it on his birthday tomorrow during the UFC...
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President Donald Trump shocked onlookers Saturday after issuing a vague threat directed toward Iran, one that observers widely interpreted as a threat to use nuclear weapons if ongoing peace negotiations between Washington and Tehran collapse."Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn't, we have the...
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A group of Democratic members of the US Congress on Friday condemned President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers' attempts to influence the results of Colombia's upcoming presidential runoff, calling it an "insult” to the Colombian people's sovereignty."We see actions by US President Donald Trump and other members of Congress to endorse,...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to champion the peace deal being negotiated between Washington and Tehran – claiming it was on track to be finalized Sunday – while warning that if talks collapse, the U.S. may resort to an "ultimate alternative.""The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is...
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