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Senate Republican leaders have delivered grim new warnings to their colleagues: the midterms are shaping up to be a bloodbath beyond what had previously been predicted.An anti-incumbent wave is sweeping the nation on its 250th anniversary, catching Republicans at their most vulnerable moment. Trump's approval ratings have cratered, and GOP...
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A federal judge dealt Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche a new blow Monday, rejecting his bid to close a lawsuit over the Epstein files.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan reviewed Blanche's response to an earlier court order and kept the case alive.Journalist Katie Phang, who sued Blanche for burying documents the law requires him to release,...
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A Trump-endorsed congressional candidate in Arizona is collecting campaign cash from some of the biggest names in sports, according to a report by MeidasTouch's Scott MacFarlane.The candidate is Jay Feely, the former Arizona Cardinals kicker who spent a decade as an NFL analyst for CBS Sports before launching his campaign. Feely, 50, is running in...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stunned the Oval Office Monday into a brief moment of silence after openly admitting to President Donald Trump's meddling in a FIFA World Cup game – an acknowledgement that later elicited awkward laughter from those in the room.Last week, Folarin Balogun, who plays for the U.S. national team, received a red card, a penalty...
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After progressives, including self-described Democratic Socialists, won numerous primary victories in New York and elsewhere, President Donald Trump launched a whopper of a lie, even by his crazed standards. He declared that the "communist” Democratic Socialists are "the biggest threat to our nation there is, maybe since our founding…. That...
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Donald Trump may not be taking his luxury Boeing 747 home with him.The president has made clear his intention to claim the Qatari-gifted jumbo jet as a parting souvenir when he leaves office, envisioning it as the crown jewel of his planned presidential library in downtown Miami. But that plan is facing serious obstacles—and Democrats are...
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President Donald Trump is facing a fresh round of outrage Monday after new reporting revealed that at least $90 million in national park entry fees had been diverted to pay for the president's Washington, D.C. beautification projects."Just your daily reminder that Trump is looting the Treasury!” wrote independent journalist and historian Lori...
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President Donald Trump is headed to meet with NATO allies in Turkey this week to try to strategize an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine — but CNN data guru Harry Enten has some sobering numbers that should make Trump think twice about whether his presence will do much at all."How much sway does he have with the Ukrainian public?" anchor Sara...
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A Fox News reporter lashed out at the "complete and utter mess" unfolding at the World Cup after President Donald Trump intervened in a FIFA ruling.Fox News correspondent Jonathan Hunt was reporting live from Lumen Field in Seattle, describing the dispute surrounding FIFA's decision to lift U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's one-game red-card...
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The Supreme Court's ruling upholding birthright citizenship has triggered a wave of extreme proposals from MAGA figures aimed at restricting pregnant women from entering the United States, and one writer argued Monday that the reaction revealed something deeper about the movement's psychology.Sarah Posner, an author and journalist for Talking...
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A three-time Trump voter says it's "insulting" that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's son-in-law is even running for Congress.Meg Ellefson, a Wisconsin podcaster and former drive-time radio host, has lived in the district for 20 years and voted for President Donald Trump three times. Now she's one of the loudest Republican voices against his...
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Vice President JD Vance got a brutal tongue-lashing by James Ball of the British media outlet The i Paper in a new column released Monday."As his boss was trying and failing to hold a spectacular 250th birthday celebration for America," wrote Ball, highlighting the string of disasters that ruined Trump's Great American State Fair, "Vice President...
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President Donald Trump's interference in FIFA to un-suspend red-carded American footballer Folarin Balogun has triggered a firestorm of outrage in the European Union.Generally, a red card, issued for severe misconduct in play, triggers an automatic one-game suspension. However, Trump's behind-the-scenes call to FIFA President Gianni Infantino...
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President Donald Trump's near-decade-long fixation on crowd sizes resurfaced over the weekend as the president inflated attendance at his July 4th address multiple times; however, unlike past instances, his strongest defenders didn't bother rushing to his defense."It's nearly 10 years since Donald Trump had his first meltdown over crowds on the...
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In interviews with MS NOW's David Noriega over why they have abandoned Donald Trump, members of the "Leaving MAGA” organization explained why they got involved in the movement before fleeing what one called a "cult.”Admitting that they found acceptance within the Trump-can-do-no-wrong movement, Ron Kelley stated he left when he removed himself...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political analyst Paul Krugman ran over the latest numbers on just how many people fell for President Donald Trump's self-enrichment scams — and came up with an astonishing figure.This follows a New York Times report that details the losses to investors from Trump's cryptocurrency "meme coin" issued around his...
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LINCOLN — Outgoing Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen said he's baffled by a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate a provision in state law that allows U.S. citizens who've never lived in the country to vote in Nebraska elections.Republican National Committee sues Nebraska over state election lawLate last month, a federal judge ruled the Trump...
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The 2026 midterms are still months away, but the fight to land a seat on Congress's two most powerful tax-writing panels is already underway, Politico reports, with dozens of lawmakers in both parties angling for a spot on the House Ways and Means Committee or the Senate Finance Committee."A wave of departures" is opening the door, according to the...
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Newly revealed documents show just how badly states were left in the dark about the budget and planning for President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" — and how much they had to scramble for answers.This comes after several states simply refused to send delegations to the fair at all, leaving empty booths.According to NOTUS, behind the...
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The online "troll” credited with manufacturing support for Donald Trump is upset that the right-wing discourse on social media surrounding the agreement to end the war in Iran appears to be manufactured — and not by him.Alex Bruesewitz, a 29-year-old social media strategist who now works for one of the president's political action committees,...
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While the Trump administration has gone all in on an emerging technology, a leaked internal report from the Treasury Department revealed Monday that officials are well aware of the "significant risk” it poses, a risk that could "send shockwaves throughout the entire economic system,” NOTUS reported.That emerging technology is generative...
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A disturbing detail emerged from behind closed doors at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals: one of the court's newest judges appointed by Donald Trump was keeping a provocative political image on his phone.Judge Emil Joseph Bove III, who transitioned from Trump's personal lawyer to a high-ranking DOJ appointment to a lifetime federal judgeship in...
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Donald Trump is heading to NATO's summit in Ankara, and European leaders are holding their breath.The president will touch down in Turkey on Tuesday following a grueling week of Independence Day festivities and public relations setbacks, involving his disastrous Great American State Fair. He'll meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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With House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) having sent lawmakers home on recess last week, time is "truly running very short” to enact any of President Donald Trump's remaining priorities, which, due to an ongoing "crisis” within the party, are at risk of imploding, Punchbowl News reported Monday."Republicans are in a state of chaos, unable to open...
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The "cavalry" isn't arriving, and Republicans are freaking out, according to a new report.With the midterm election four months away, GOP candidates and their campaign advisers expressed alarm that Donald Trump shows no inclination to spend the approximately $350 million sitting in his MAGA Inc. super PAC. While the money is there, Trump may not...
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Alicia Keys turned the nation's 250th birthday into a flashpoint over women's constitutional rights on Saturday — and MAGA world erupted.The singer marked July 4th with an Instagram video highlighting that women still "don't have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution.""Can you believe that? I couldn't even believe that...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took to social media Sunday evening to show off an image of the administration's Trump Gold Card, the visa program for wealthy immigrants, but was soon swarmed with reminders of his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Posting on the social media platform X, Lutnick shared a single image of who appears to be President...
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DELBARTON, WV — On 10 days each month, Lilly Hall reports to Delbarton Town Hall for an 8-hour workday, doing whatever town officials ask. On a given day, she organizes files, takes out the trash or keeps the town's restrooms stocked with toilet paper and paper towels.Hall, 59, doesn't get paid money for her work. She's doing it to keep getting...
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President Donald Trump's inner circle mobilized within minutes of a red card to keep the United States' leading scorer on the field at the World Cup, according to Politico, which reconstructed four days of lobbying stretching from the Oval Office to FIFA's Zurich headquarters.Striker Folarin Balogun was sent off in the 64th minute of the Americans'...
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I've never been much of a gambler. I think it's a waste of time, and I just don't enjoy it. Money has never gotten my pulse up. And if I'm honest, the times I've proverbially thrown the dice, I've always lost.Every time I've sat down at a table telling myself this is the round I get ahead, I've walked away further behind than when I started. So I...
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On today's episode, we take a closer look at the busy life of António Costa's right-hand man, Pedro Lourtie. The European Council President's head of cabinet was recently thrust into the limelight for opening backchannels with Moscow on his boss's behalf. Zoya Sheftalovich and Nick Vinocur dig deeper into who this man is and how he does his...
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Das Kabinett beschließt heute den Bundeshaushalt 2027. SPD-Chef Lars Klingbeil versucht, die massiven Schulden im ARD-Sommerinterview als Erfolg zu verkaufen. Gordon Repinski und Rasmus Buchsteiner analysieren die abenteuerliche Haushaltskosmetik, für die selbst in die CO2-Rücklagen gegriffen werden muss. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview kritisiert der...
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Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, defunding the organizations, expired.The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025, but, due...
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The Supreme Court surprised a legal expert last week by rejecting an application from one of President Donald Trump's sordid allies. Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who has faced extensive allegations of sexual misconduct, appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate a more than $8 million judgment he was awarded from...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, got a quick history lesson on Sunday after he made what some described as an "embarrassing" claim about an old English pub. DeSantis reshared a post on X from an account named "No Context Brits" that contained a picture of The Old Ferry Boat Inn, a pub in Hollywell that was allegedly established in the year...
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President Donald Trump's top health care chief revealed during a recent Fox News interview that he apparently doesn't know how health insurance works, according to one political analyst. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, discussed his efforts to combat alleged health care fraud...
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Hunter Biden stunned political analysts on Sunday with a scorched-earth rant about the Trump family corruption. Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trumps had made more than $2.4 billion during their first year in office, a figure that shocked ethics experts. The Trump family is also positioned to reap financial windfalls from a...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to unveil the winner of Canada's submarine competition before heading to the NATO summit, selecting either Germany's TKMS or South Korea's Hanwha Ocean. The decision will reshape Canada's naval future, industrial strategy and defence partnerships while committing Ottawa to a program worth more than $100...
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At least one political analyst left President Donald Trump's July 4 celebration feeling a little let down. Trump had spent months ginning up a story that his July 4 bash would be the biggest in American history. However, the event was marred by extreme heat, long lines, and a weather delay, which caused many people to leave the National Mall before...
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A legal expert was flabbergasted by a recent ruling handed down against the Trump administration, calling it a "high-stakes judicial intervention" that could preserve many Americans' right to vote. Last week, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration's attempt to choke off mail-in...
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President Donald Trump reportedly intervened in the FIFA World Cup on behalf of Team USA in a way that had political analysts and sports fans holding their sides. Team USA is scheduled to play in a high-stakes match against Belgium on Monday night, one where the Americans could advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002. Initially,...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt scrambled Sunday to defend her recent comments attacking young Americans for being "raised with silver spoons in their mouths” and "getting everything handed to them,” but in doing so, only exacerbated MAGA's outrage.Speaking with Fox News' Jesse Watters last week, Leavitt claimed that young...
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U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's attempts to blame a sea of reflecting pool troubles on D.C. vandals instead of D.C. incompetence left one Republican sputtering. Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, took to X Sunday afternoon to share his views on a tense CNN interview that saw Burgum snapping at anchor Dana...
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A U.S. Senator faced accusations Sunday that he'd lost his grip on reality after he repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Democrats were responsible for a white supremacist march in Washington D.C. on Independence Day.Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) took to X to share numerous posts of the Patriot Front members, who wore white masks and carried...
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The Supreme Court may have granted President Donald Trump an unprecedented form of immunity for official acts, but that won't shield him from a potential flurry of lawsuits from nearly a million people, former State Department official Richard Stengel argued Sunday."There's been corruption of some types in the Oval Office before, but the scale of...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to defend a controversial interview she gave to Fox News that spurred an immediate backlash. Leavitt, 28, blamed "bad faith actors" she said took her comments on Jesse Watters Primetime on Thursday "out of context" when they reported she accused fellow members of her generation of...
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President Donald Trump warned of the end of the Republican Party Sunday in a frantic social media post after recently learning of a new plan hatched by Democratic lawmakers.Last month, Politico obtained a resolution drafted by a number of progressive Democratic House members that called for a major overhaul to the Supreme Court, including the...
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A GOP lawmaker and close ally to President Donald Trump took to Fox News Sunday to issue House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a blistering condemnation after the House GOP leader, again, sent lawmakers home on recess after facing pushback from his own party.Johnson currently holds the record for the most failed special rule votes as leader of the...
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President Donald Trump's MAGA base is furious that they faced storms, extreme heat, shoving crowds and armed guards as their leader appeared to sleep, according to a new report. The Daily Beast analysis of Trump's July 4 fireworks display found a community in an uproar and an 80-year-old president in apparent denial. "Best fireworks show, EVER!”...
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As President Donald Trump's controversial voter identification bill continues to stall in the Senate, the president took to social media Sunday to promote an op-ed from a conservative outlet hammering GOP leadership for "sloth."Trump's proposed bill, the SAVE Act, would require all Americans to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, a...
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President Donald Trump's record-breaking fireworks show, which kicked off just before midnight Saturday, prompted concern among weather officials, who on Sunday issued an air quality alert citing 'residual holiday firework smoke' as a contributing factor, Fox 5 reported."Hazardous firework-induced smog continues to hover over Washington D.C. this...
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A member of President Donald Trump's cabinet lost his cool in front of hundreds of thousands of CNN viewers Sunday morning when faced with tough questions from anchor Dana Bash. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum snapped at Bash as she questioned him about a sensitive issue for the president — his failed $14 million effort to turn the Lincoln...
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Mount Vernon, the home of our nation's first president, is the most-visited historic house in the U.S. But what do Americans visiting Mount Vernon – on the occasion of our country's 250th anniversary – think about what George Washington represents? And today, would the Founding Father recognize the nation he helped create? "Sunday Morning"...
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The Supreme Court has radically expanded President Donald Trump's executive power, but its latest ruling may have inadvertently handed Democrats and progressives a powerful weapon against the GOP, legal columnist Jason Willick argued in a Sunday op-ed.That ruling was the court's decision last week in Trump v. Slaughter, which significantly expanded...
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MAGA millionaire Don Huffines' race for Texas comptroller got easier last week after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the newly vacant post and left one famed journalist stunned. Why? Huffines has ties to an infamous property once owned by Jeffrey Epstein.Huffines was exposed in February after his wife was revealed to have been the...
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A quietly released new study from Johns Hopkins reveals the stunning reason many Americans choose to throw their support behind President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, according to a new report. Salon writer Mike Lofgren on Sunday published a thorough analysis of the Agora Institute study he argues directly undermines the liberal political...
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The team at MS NOW's "The Weekend” was sent into 'delirious' laughter Sunday morning after the network played a video montage of President Donald Trump touting his administration's "fair” system of justice and supposed end to political prosecutions.The montage was queued to provide context on a recent interview of former special counsel Jack...
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With Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) health status still unclear after his latest medical incident, multiple journalists have offered a stunning theory for why his office and fellow Republicans have remained largely silent.McConnell was rushed to the hospital in mid-June for an undisclosed medical reason, with his spokesperson David Popp issuing a...
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President Donald Trump drew scorn from conservatives and liberals alike for a July 4 stumble that threw his patriotism, and his education, into question. Trump addressed the nation on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with stern, and inaccurate, words for his opponents."And as our Declaration of Independence...
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Hundreds of people died last month across Europe from the heat; they're a symptom of a larger problem that governments around the world have failed to address — that goes far beyond simply global warming — and that the Trump regime is making far worse.Its foundation is one of the most troubling aspects of human nature called predation: while...
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A New York Times columnist on Sunday named the one man he believes could take on Donald Trump and come out on top. There's just one problem.The 22nd Amendment. "I don't want to see the 22nd Amendment repealed," wrote Ezra Klein. "But I'll admit to some frustration that it has denied us the campaign America needed: a direct contest between Barack...
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Fox News captured a surreal moment Saturday night after broadcasting live footage of President Donald Trump watching himself watch the same Fox News broadcast, and critics were quick to note the absurdity of the bizarre visual loop."The last decade in a nutshell,” noted Nick Mark, a critical care doctor and podcast host, responding to a...
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A judge has slapped down President Donald Trump's latest attempt to dodge the $5.8 million payment a New York court ruled is owed to writer E. Jean Carroll, court records show.New York federal court judge Lewis Kaplan on Saturday denied Trump's motion to stall in Carroll's sex abuse case and ordered the cash to be paid on Tuesday, according to...
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MAGA is raging about Trump "losing” after the Supreme Court voted to strike down his racist and xenophobic birthright citizenship ban. They're also big mad at Melania Trump for not hating transgender women nearly as much as they do. The Red Hat Death Squad is so in love with their hate, and they hate it whenever they're forced to face the truths...
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Today, we're bringing you a special bonus episode from our colleagues at WELT. Originally released in German, Ernstfall is now available in English. What if Russia attacked NATO? How would Germany respond? And where are our weaknesses? We wanted answers. In a wargame, we simulate an attack on NATO's eastern flank. Politicians, former military...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (2 days ago)
A surreal moment unfolded on Fox News Saturday when a panel of hosts spent roughly a minute begging President Donald Trump to wave – only for cameras to catch him standing near-motionless, apparently fixated on the same broadcast playing on a television in front of him.Recording from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Fox News panel...
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Paul Pelosi, the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), could face criminal charges over a vehicle incident that occurred Friday in Northern California, The New York Times reported Saturday.According to a news release from the Napa County Sheriff's Office, Mr. Pelosi is under investigation as the driver of a vehicle that struck a parked vehicle...
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As thousands of Great American State Fair attendees "wander the streets” of Washington, D.C. in an apparent attempt to wait out severe weather, a tense exchange occurred that involved a man wearing "a patriotic t-shirt” calling for another's deportation, The New York Times reported Saturday.Fair attendees were ordered Saturday evening to...
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A number of journalists reporting on the ground at the Great American State Fair have shared video of chaotic scenes unfolding after an evacuation order was issued due to severe weather, chaos sparked by "several hundred” attendees who refused to leave the National Mall."Look, look, it's a stampede, they're jumping over the things, people are...
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Following the severe weather evacuations at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump remained defiant and vowed to continue festivities – which include a massive fireworks show and a speech by Trump – even if it means waiting until "2 o'clock in the morning.”"We will wait it out, I don't care if it's 2:00...
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