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Brussels faces a narrowing window to strike a deal on its next long-term budget. EU leaders gather in Cyprus this week for a potential clash over the bloc's €1.8 trillion plan — already dividing north and south, farmers and reformers, capitals and Brussels. Council President Antonio Costa wants momentum. But with proposed new EU taxes, […]
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Am Mittwochabend deutscher Zeit sollte die Waffenruhe zwischen den USA und dem Iran enden. Nun hat Trump sie verlängert. Julius Brinkmann von POLITICO in Washington, D.C. gibt ein Update zu den wichtigsten Entwicklungen aus der Nacht und zum Stand von Friedensgespräch in Islamabad. Mehr Informationen dazu auch in unserem Newsletter D.C....
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An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed how the president plans to retain power over the White House once he leaves office. Journalist Michael Wolff, author of the book "Fire and Fury" about the first Trump administration, argued during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna...
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Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera skewered a GOP pundit's defense of President Donald Trump's latest bailout idea during a segment on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip. On Tuesday, Trump was asked about a recent statement made by officials in the United Arab Emirates who said they may seek a bailout from the U.S. because of the war in...
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The "can of worms" that first lady Melania Trump opened up when she held a seemingly unprompted press conference about her ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein may be too much for President Donald Trump to survive, according to two analysts. Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discussed Melania Trump's recent press conference on a new episode...
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Fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement melted down on Tuesday night after voters in Virginia approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's election map. The new map will give Democrats four more seats in the House of Representatives, and was passed at a time when many in the Republican Party are expressing concern about their party's...
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Fresh off Democrats' victory in Tuesday night's referendum in Virginia to retaliate against Republican mid-decade gerrymanders by drawing out four Republicans, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) put out a statement warning Florida Republicans not to try following suit — or they would go all out to break them at the ballot box.Florida...
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US President Donald Trump's war in Iran is costing nearly $2 billion per day, according to a Harvard analysis based on estimates from the Pentagon. The head of the United Nations' humanitarian agency said the money could instead be used to save more than 87 million lives around the world.Tom Fletcher, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian...
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A new poll spells disaster for President Donald Trump — with even much of his own party turning on him.According to the poll, conducted for the Associated Press and NORC, voters disapprove of Trump's job performance 67-33, with near-unanimous Democratic disapproval at 97 percent and independents opposing Trump by a three-to-one margin.The real...
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Comedian Ramy Youssef had a simple response to conservatives melting down over his Sesame Street appearance — take it up with the president.Youssef guest-starred on the children's classic last week as part of Arab American Heritage Month, spending a few minutes with Elmo learning basic Arabic greetings. The segment was not intended to be...
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A Democratic analyst caught a slip-up by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche during a press conference on Tuesday. Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration had indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud for its efforts to infiltrate extremist groups. The indictment was...
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A conservative broadcaster declared Sen. Cory Booker a servant of darkness this week after the New Jersey Democrat delivered a thunderous speech calling on Americans to fight for democracy, all because of one line about grassroots organizing.Booker took the stage at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus Legacy Luncheon last weekend and delivered a...
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered a passionate speech at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus, telling a crowd, "What we need is foot soldiers for our democracy, who in times of trial are willing to stand up. Will you stand for our democracy?" His remarks came as the Trump administration and the Republican Party have expressed concern about the...
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President Donald Trump once again threatened to obliterate the Iranian civilization in a Truth Social post on Tuesday as war negotiations seem to be faltering. CNN reported on Tuesday that Trump's administration has had a hard time identifying a negotiator with decision-making authority inside Iran as it evaluates multiple proposals it has...
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In another blow to President Donald Trump, voters in Virginia on Tuesday night approved a Democratic-backed referendum to pass an aggressive mid-decade gerrymander in retaliation for Republican states engaging in the same.The vote was called by Decision Desk and CNN, with the vote at about 50.3% to 49.7% in favor.Under the map approved by voters,...
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Donald Trump melted down on Truth Social Tuesday in a sprawling tirade that started as an attack on Democratic strategist James Carville and ended with the president torching his own Supreme Court picks as traitors who "totally misrepresented who they were."The post began with Trump dismissing Carville as a "wacko" and "Country Destroying...
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FBI Director Kash Patel got some bad news on Tuesday, as a federal judge threw out his lawsuit against legal commentator Frank Figliuzzi.Patel sued Figliuzzi, himself a former FBI official who has done legal commentary for MSNBC — since renamed to MS NOW — for claiming that Patel has "been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the...
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FBI Director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic over a bombshell story alleging he has frequently been drinking on the job, absent from work, and increasingly paranoid about getting fired from the administration.But his denial of a key part of the story is already contradicted, noted All Rise News' Adam Klasfeld on X — by what he admits in his own...
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CNN's Kristen Holmes reported on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration is wading through chaos in its efforts to end the war in Iran because it is struggling to identify who is leading the talks for the Iranian regime. Trump and the Iranians have been negotiating a settlement to the war since agreeing to a ceasefire earlier this...
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Texas can enforce a state law requiring public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.A majority of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Texas officials' favor after hearing arguments over the law in January. All 17 active judges on the court listened to the case — Rabbi...
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, appeared on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday to defend the president's war against Iran. Waltz slipped on air and revealed a shocking admission, according to analyst Will Saletan. When pressed by host Kristen Welker about targeting civilian infrastructure, Waltz initially began saying...
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President Donald Trump raged at one of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board writers on Tuesday in a new Truth Social post. Trump directly addressed Elliot Kaufman of the WSJ's editorial board in the post and a recent op-ed he wrote titled "The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker." He argued that the war in Iran has been effectively won because...
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President Donald Trump's neglect of domestic issues as he pursues a deeply unpopular new war in Iran is dragging his numbers down to record lows, MS NOW's Ari Melber said on Tuesday, and turning some of his former most loyal disciples against him."The public has spoken, and they continue to speak against Trump," said Melber."Sometimes our words...
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President Donald Trump's latest "scam" shows his administration is being run like a "going out of business sale," according to one lawyer. Trump is reportedly in talks with the IRS to secure a large settlement after the agency released part of his tax returns to a Congressional committee during his first administration. Michael Popok, a lawyer and...
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper pushed Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) to answer his questions, with the longtime journalist pressing the Trump administration's claims over its objectives in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. As President Donald Trump announced an extended ceasefire as the current deadline was set to end, Flood told Tapper during a live broadcast on...
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A Republican strategist urged another of President Donald Trump's cabinet secretaries to resign during a CNN segment on Tuesday. Shermichael Singleton, who hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, said during a segment on "The Lead" with CNN's Jake Tapper that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should resign from the administration for being too much...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday the military will end its annual flu vaccine requirement, criticizing the mandate as "absurd, overreaching" and claiming it "weakens our war-fighting capabilities." Hegseth explained the policy change respects individual choice, adding, "your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable."...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice sent chills down the spines of political analysts and observers on Tuesday after it indicted a prominent advocacy group. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the Trump DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud related to...
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A federal district judge in Oregon overturned Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s directive that said health care facilities providing gender-affirming care to minors are barred from Medicare and Medicaid.U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, in a scathing opinion filed Saturday, called Kennedy's Dec. 18 directive "one of a...
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) made a surprising remark on Tuesday during a CNN live broadcast about how he couldn't access an explosive report about FBI Director Kash Patel in The Atlantic, complaining about the publisher's paywall. CNN anchor Kasie Hunt asked the GOP lawmaker, whose net worth is by some estimates about $20 million, if he had read the...
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A Tennessee man who menaced No Kings protesters with an illegal firearm last year faces new charges — this time for possessing illegal abuse images of children.According to NewsChannel 5's Phil Williams, "A federal grand jury in Nashville recently returned a superseding indictment against Elijah Millar, 20, adding two additional firearms charges,...
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A former Capitol Police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection sued a MAGA media outlet on Tuesday, alleging that she was defamed during one of their "nonsense" investigations.Shauni Kerkhoff, who now works in the CIA, sued Blaze Media over a theory the outlet concocted about her being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber and for refusing to retract...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department has charged a prominent watchdog of extremist groups with fraud, alleging that their use of paid informants to obtain intelligence on extremist activity actually funded the very hate groups they fight.According to CNBC, the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center "was returned Tuesday by a...
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MAGA commentator Scott Jennings had a stinging response to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's comments that he was regretful for supporting President Donald Trump. CNN anchor Kasie Hunt asked Jennings to comment on Carlson's remarks that he would be "tormented" by his decisions to endorse Trump, which led to a heated exchange between the two...
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MAGA Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) predicted that "more changes" are coming to the Trump administration during a new interview on CNN. Kennedy joined CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena" on Tuesday, where the two discussed the recent departure of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer following allegations of impropriety by DeRemer and her husband. DeRemer is...
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The nonprofit watchdog group Democracy Forward filed a Freedom of Information Act, or FIOA, request Tuesday demanding the FBI produce internal records within 20 days regarding allegations against FBI Director Kash Patel of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. The Atlantic published a report last week citing FBI and Justice Department...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice submitted — and then quickly rescinded — a subpoena for one of the president's perceived political foes, according to a new report. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that U.S. prosecutors working to determine whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress rescinded a recent subpoena...
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A GOP senator said he would like to vote to confirm the nominated chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, but demanded the Department of Justice first back off. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Warsh during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday that "the only thing I've found the least bit odd about you is you've never watched an...
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Friends,The fog of war is getting thicker.According to the Washington Post, a "U.S. delegation was expected to depart Tuesday for a second round of face-to-face peace talks with Iran” but "was delayed for 'additional policy meetings' involving Vice President JD Vance.”So, the reason for the delay was additional policy meetings in Washington?Not...
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LindellTV reporter Alison Steinberg got an earful from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she pressed her for details about her finances.While Omar was waiting outside an elevator at the Capitol on Tuesday, Steinberg approached the lawmaker about "discrepancies" on her financial disclosures."The last time I told you said that I was stupid for asking you...
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Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) has crafted a bipartisan immigration compromise bill, and is fighting to get the GOP to back it — but the more she fights, the greater opposition she gets from her own colleagues, reported NOTUS on Tuesday."Salazar has been promoting her Dignity Act, a bill she introduced with Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar,...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visibly lost his temper in a congressional hearing this week, as a lawmaker confronted him about his bizarre penchant for collecting dead animal parts.According to The Hill, Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA) hit the secretary with the question amid discussion about the next fiscal year's HHS budget."I...
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The Trump administration issued conflicting accounts Tuesday regarding Vice President JD Vance's whereabouts and departure for Pakistan. President Donald Trump told The New York Post early Tuesday that Vance was "heading over now" to Islamabad for a second round of Iran peace negotiations. However, CNN's Alayna Treene reported Vance was spotted at...
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A political analyst was outraged on Tuesday when a giant Trump-aligned security company urged the U.S. government to reinstate the national draft. Krystal Ball, co-host of the "Breaking Points" podcast on YouTube, discussed several points from Alex Karp's book, "The Technological Republic," in which the CEO of Palantir called for Americans to share...
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President Donald Trump received a stern warning from a journalist covering the war in Iran during a segment on CNN on Tuesday. Barak Ravid, a journalist and Middle East expert for Axios, warned Trump during an interview on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt that Trump had just given his leverage away in negotiations to end the war in Iran by...
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Friends,I've long assumed that Samuel Alito was the worst.Alito — who authored the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), the case that ended constitutional abortion rights by merely asserting that the high court's prior opinion in Roe v. Wade (1973) was wrongly decided; who accepted a 2008 luxury fishing trip to...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is looking for a way into President Donald Trump's administration, Axios reported — and he's interested in a number of different positions."President Trump has told confidants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is 'begging' for a job in Trump's administration — including attorney general," said the report. The firebrand...
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The internet reacted on Tuesday to news that Steak 'n Shake had named its first "Chief MAHA officer."The fast food chain revealed its newest executive hire in a post on X, claiming the company "believes that burgers, fries, and shakes should be made from real ingredients families know and love.""Michael Boes joins SnS in this new executive role,...
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President Donald Trump announced that he was extending a ceasefire with Iran just hours after he threatened to bomb the country if negotiations stalled."Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) went to bat for President Donald Trump's leadership in the Iran war during a Tuesday MS NOW segment — but anchor Katy Tur refused to relent as she poked holes in his arguments."First question, do you think the war with Iran is going well?" asked Tur."On the whole, I do," said Lawler. "The Ayatollah, the clerics, the...
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Roger Stone, who has influenced the Republican Party since Richard Nixon's presidency, has apparently pushed Republicans to remove Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) from office. The longtime advisor to President Donald Trump reportedly told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that it was time for Mills to step down, The Daytona News Journal reported. While...
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President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, pleading with Iran's leadership to release eight women he believes will be executed, framing the release as a positive step toward negotiations.Trump expressed hope that a delegation, likely led by Vice President JD Vance, would negotiate a "great deal" with Iran during talks in...
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U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin argued that Washington, D.C., DEI policies were to blame after he refused to comply with an arrest warrant for Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).Last year, the Metropolitan Police responded to the report of a domestic assault at Mills' apartment. Although no arrest was made at the time, a warrant was later forwarded to the D.C....
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Alan Dershowitz announced Monday he is leaving the Democratic Party after 67 years and Democrats couldn't be happier to see him go.The Harvard Law professor emeritus wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he is registering as a Republican, citing the Democratic Party's stance on Israel as a bridge too far. He acknowledged he still disagrees with...
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A Republican candidate for state senate in Colorado has been arrested in Key West, Florida, on suspicion of felony child neglect, after he left his 4-year-old daughter unattended in a pool while he purchased liquor, nearly causing her death.According to The Colorado Sun, "Frederick Alfred Jr., a 38-year-old who lives in Commerce City, is running to...
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A Senate Republican refused to get on board with a vote to approve hundreds of Coast Guard promotions as a way to force the Trump administration to resolve an issue with an anonymous Florida shipbuilder. Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida blocked a vote on Tuesday that would immediately approve the promotion of a tranche of Coast Guard...
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President Donald Trump's former attorney Jeffrey Clark testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill, with Republicans giving him a platform to challenge former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, an MS NOW analyst reported. Ken Dilanian, MS NOW justice and intelligence correspondent, pointed out how Clark, who played a key role in Trump's attempt to...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren interrogated President Donald Trump's Federal Reserve nominee, Kevin Warsh, during his confirmation hearing Tuesday.Senator Warren focused on the nominee's $100 million in undisclosed financial holdings, as reported by CNBC, and potential conflicts of interest. Warsh holds two individual assets each worth more than $50...
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Right-wing podcaster Shannon Joy concluded that President Donald Trump was a "predator" after speaking to former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about her fallout with the commander-in-chief.In a Tuesday interview with Joy, Greene recounted how Trump had attacked her after she pushed for the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein. "The behavior of...
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Speculation swirled Tuesday as the Trump administration offered conflicting accounts of Vice President JD Vance's whereabouts, with President Donald Trump saying he had already left for Pakistan for peace talks with Iran, only for the White House to later contradict him.Early Tuesday morning, Trump told The New York Post that Vance was "heading...
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A Florida Democratic congresswoman facing a mountain of federal charges and ethics violations resigned from Congress Monday just hours before the House Ethics Committee was set to announce sanctions against her.Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's chief of staff confirmed the resignation to NOTUS, which came after months of mounting pressure from both...
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WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress appeared to be on the same page Tuesday about how to fund immigration activities for the next three years as they released a party-line measure that will pave the way for a special process known as budget reconciliation.But they weren't unified about another problem — when to clear a bipartisan...
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President Donald Trump has removed three Cabinet secretaries in less than four weeks, signaling a White House in crisis as the administration struggles with the Iran war, collapsing approval ratings and soaring gas prices.Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer became the latest casualty Monday afternoon when she was summoned to the White House and...
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CNN analyst Harry Enten highlighted how a contentious Virginia redistricting measure could shift control of the House of Representatives to Democrats in the 2026 midterms. The proposed redistricting would redraw Virginia's congressional map to favor Democrats in 10 of 11 seats. Enten explained mid-decade redistricting efforts across multiple states...
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Any hope that fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem may have about returning to her home state of South Dakota to pick up the pieces and run for office again one day likely expired on Tuesday.According to South Dakota News Watch reporting on polling conducted by the Chiesman Center for Democracy, roughly 3 in 4 South Dakotans approve of President Donald...
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In a public records request filing submitted on Tuesday, the nonprofit watchdog group Democracy Forward gave the FBI 20 days to produce internal records as part of its investigation into FBI Director Kash Patel, who's been accused of frequent bouts of "excessive drinking” and "unexplained absences.”Last week, The Atlantic published a bombshell...
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Prediction markets have started taking bets on the next Trump cabinet member to be removed, according to reports on Tuesday. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer was the latest to leave the administration and now the third woman to exit President Donald Trump's circle in recent weeks, The Daily Beast reported. Chavez-DeRemer's ousting followed...
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One of the key figures in President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan openly cheered a blog post by a known anti-Semitic and racist social media account Monday, according to a report.The Daily Beast reported that former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino shared an April 9 article from the blog American Greatness that argued "mass arrests are...
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday legalizing natural medicines to treat veterans with serious mental health challenges.The President drew criticism for bragging about the quality of his signature, diverting the focus of the ceremony. Among those attending were administration officials and podcaster, Joe Rogan. David Pakman,...
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President Donald Trump misunderstood what drove voters to reelect him as his MAGA base fractures, an analyst explained on Tuesday. The Guardian's Moira Donegan described how Trump's most recent publicity stunt revealed how his "fixation on culture-war grievances is a colossal misreading of voters who just want prices to come down." In a recent...
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called out former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark after Clark insisted that details surrounding a letter aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election were legally privileged.During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Whitehouse questioned Clark about the letter he had drafted while working for the...
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A longtime employee who worked for a division of the conglomerate that owns the Reuters News Agency claims she was dismissed from her job for raising the alarm within the company that it was providing services to the Department of Homeland Security that were being used illegally.According to NPR reporting, Billie Little, who worked in legal...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth loosened the requirement for U.S. troops to receive an annual flu vaccine, and critics questioned his decision.The Pentagon chief and former Fox News host announced Tuesday that the military would end its mandate requiring the vaccine, which called an "absurd, overreaching" order that serves only to "weaken our...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pressed President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve on his financial holdings and ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Fed nominee Kevin Warsh faced questions Tuesday during his confirmation hearing about undisclosed holdings of two individual assets worth more than $50 million each, and his wife Jane Lauder,...
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On Monday renowned attorney Lisa Blatt, who has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other woman in American legal history, defended a Maryland hospital system before the court. The case centers on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which limits federal courts from overturning state court decisions, according to Courthouse News Service....
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President Donald Trump's pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Kevin Warsh, repeatedly dodged questions Tuesday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, refusing to acknowledge the president's election loss in 2020.During the hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the top Democrat on the committee, cited...
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Die Straße von Hormus bleibt blockiert, die Ölkrise verschärft sich und ein Ausweg aus dem Krieg mit dem Iran ist nicht in Sicht. Kurz vor dem Ende der Feuerpause reist JD Vance nach Pakistan, um einen Deal auszuloten. Doch die Fronten bleiben verhärtet: militärisch geschwächt, politisch stabil zeigt sich das iranische Regime weiter...
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Appearing on MS NOW, Bloomberg reporter Jeff Mason lightly laughed when discussing a Monday interview with Donald Trump and admitted the president became abusive when cornered on his Iran difficulties.During a segment on the on-again, off-again Iran war negotiations that has the president scrambling for good news, co-host Willie Geist pressed Mason...
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was forced to explain what "sarcasm” was Tuesday following a barrage of attacks from right-wing figures over a remark he'd made about the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.On Monday, multiple reports revealed that more than two dozen Iranian vessels bypassed the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical...
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