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Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has been pummeled with criticism since leaving the Trump administration on Sunday, and on Tuesday, disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) piled on, mocking Bongino's failed Senate campaigns and drawing a fierce response.Bongino had his last day at the FBI on Sunday, having left the administration amid...
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) uncorked a stunning call Tuesday for Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro to possibly face execution following his capture and subsequent move to New York to face trial on drug trafficking charges. The GOP firebrand didn't mince words in a piece on Breitbart, declaring he'd like to see Maduro killed for flooding...
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Vice President JD Vance vowed to track down alleged left-wing terror "networks," which he insisted were purchasing bricks to throw at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.On Tuesday, Vance told conservative podcast host Scott Jennings that his family was doing well after a man "attacked" their house with a hammer while they were away."I guess...
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Internet critics sounded off Tuesday after President Donald Trump was caught in an unflattering press photograph while delivering a speech to House Republicans at the Kennedy Center. The picture, taken in the middle of a rant about transgender women athletes, caught him pantomiming a woman weightlifter struggling to compete; he is seen flailing his...
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine checked into prison Tuesday at the same high-security Brooklyn facility as ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, saying he'd love to have a dance with him. The American rapper, also known as Daniel Hernandez, told TMZ that he hopes to see Maduro during his three-month stay there after violating the terms of his...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada stands by the Venezuelan people's "right to decide and build their own future in a peaceful and democratic society" after U.S. President Donald Trump announced American forces captured Venezuela's president early Saturday morning.
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Johana Scott is one of more than 20 million Americans who turned the calendar page to a health care crisis after her enhanced tax credits expired Jan. 1 for the Affordable Care Act.The Texas woman, who was diagnosed with Stage 3 endometrial cancer in February, logged into her health insurance account on Dec. 3 and found her usual premium of about...
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The White House used the fifth anniversary of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, to publish an alternate history of the events, which insisted that President Donald Trump did not attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election by inciting violence.White House Communications Director Steven Cheung promised "all the facts" as he announced the new...
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sought to keep a low profile on the 5th anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots despite raising a fist in solidarity with the rioters in 2021.On Tuesday, Hawley told HuffPost's Igor Bobic that he had no plans to meet with the pardoned rioters who were marching to the Capitol."My longstanding position is, if you're violent, you...
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The short-term plan Donald Trump has for Venezuela has been denounced as a "mess" by a climate expert. While the president has made it clear that oil is a leading factor in the U.S. strike on Venezuela, the administration may have trouble putting together its immediate plans for the country. The U.S. would capture President Nicolás Maduro too,...
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One fashion brand has divulged it's a bit embarrassed that President Donald Trump's MAGA allies are wearing the popular designs — and quietly speaking out about it. From the White House to Fox News, the brand Tuckernuck has been worn by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, second lady Usha Vance, and other...
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During rambling remarks on Jan. 3, President Donald Trump announced that the United States had bombed Venezuela, "captured” President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and gained control of that country's oil reserves.Now what? Trump has no idea, but historical precedent portends disaster.Dubious legal basisAs with his bombing of alleged...
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Conservative media personality Megyn Kelly urged President Donald Trump Tuesday to launch a lawsuit against his former presidential opponent Hillary Clinton over an online post she made condemning the president for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.Trump was impeached for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and later indicted on criminal...
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One of the central claims the Trump administration has used to justify the overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and describe his government as "illegitimate” is the allegation that he is the leader of a multinational narco-terrorist organization known as "Cartel de los Soles.”But now that the Department of Justice (DOJ) must prove...
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A Republican lawmaker and doctor was slammed Tuesday after commenting on how the childhood vaccine schedule should still be followed — despite voting to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long claimed vaccine mandates should be lessened for American kids.Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) declared that pediatric vaccines should be followed...
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President Donald Trump responded to the dwindling lead of GOP congressional leaders in his address to the Republican Party on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Jeff Zeleny, CNN'S chief national affairs correspondent, told anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that Trump now has a more difficult challenge in the 2026 midterms following news of the sudden...
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President Donald Trump publicly predicted that he would be impeached if Republicans lost the House in the 2026 midterm elections.During a House GOP retreat on Tuesday, Trump begged Republicans not to lose the midterms."But you got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be — I mean, they'll find a reason to...
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President Donald Trump mocked Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) by suggesting he had plastic surgery on his ears.At a House GOP retreat on Tuesday, Trump noted that Jordan was a former wrestler."The first time I met Jim, I looked at him, I said, it's a tough-looking guy," the president recalled. "But I noticed the ears, they were a little rough. They were a...
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Five years ago today we were transfixed by the surreal spectacle of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The violence and horror of that day was made more bearable when the insurrectionists were arrested and the election results they tried to overturn were certified.But now they're back, pardoned by President Donald Trump and released from prison and...
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Elon Musk has "renewed his bromance" with President Donald Trump and dropped his plans to create a third party. The richest man in the world has been quietly cutting checks for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and appears to be moving back to politics, The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday. "On New...
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One of President Donald Trump's top billionaire donors, who has spent the past several months backing a push for regime change in Venezuela, is about to cash in after the president's kidnapping of the nation's president, Nicolas Maduro, this weekend.While he declined to tell members of Congress, Trump has said he tipped off oil executives before...
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President Donald Trump appeared to take a shot at Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) during a House Republican retreat on Tuesday.The president began by praising House Speaker Mike Johnson."I want to thank the man who has been central to so many of our triumphs," he said of Johnson. "He's always working. And he's a nice person. He's a very nice, he's a high...
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Speaking at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump openly criticized Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro – whom his administration had arrested just days prior in an unprecedented attack – for allegedly copying his dance moves, while also claiming Maduro had "killed millions of people.”"[The Democrats] have been after...
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Dan Bongino, who left his role in the FBI as its deputy director on Sunday, returned to social media Monday to "declare war” on MAGA 'grifters,” but critics weren't buying his newfound "tough guy” attitude in the wake of his botched handling of his agency's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein."Dan Bongino quit the FBI because they made him...
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President Donald Trump revealed that his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, was apparently not aware that former President Franklin D. Roosevelt used a wheelchair."And my wife, by the way, my wife hates when I do this," Trump said of his dancing at rallies during a House GOP retreat on Tuesday. "She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right?...
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Donald Trump's domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago today, to his incursion into Venezuela last weekend, to his current threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland — undermine domestic and international law. But that's not all.They threaten what we mean by civilization.The...
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer cut away from President Donald Trump's rambling remarks to House Republicans.The 79-year-old president spoke to GOP lawmakers Tuesday morning for the first time since his administration's capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, but he touched on a variety of topics — both related and unrelated to the extraordinary...
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President Donald Trump fired off a 310-word rant on social media Monday attacking Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and endorsing his GOP challenger, and the following day, Massie shrugged off the tirade with a dismissive remark."I ain't reading all that,” Massie wrote Tuesday in a social media post on X, referencing the popular meme often used to...
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A California Republican has died suddenly after serving more than two decades in political office.House GOP leadership announced Tuesday that Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) died aged 65, reported NBC News."Doug was a loving father and husband, and staunch advocate for his constituents and rural America,” said Majority Whip Tom Emmer, (R-MN), the...
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Following a tantrum thrown Monday by the Department of Homeland Security over its immigration agents being denied rooms at a Minneapolis Hilton hotel, the hotel chain announced Tuesday that it would be reprimanding the local franchise owner by removing the location from its system."A recent video clearly raises concerns that they are not meeting...
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President Donald Trump's private comments to MS NOW's Joe Scarborough could blow up the prosecution of Venezuela's former president Nicolás Maduro.The "Morning Joe" host revealed Tuesday morning that he'd spoken to the president the previous day, and he told viewers that Trump boasted that the U.S. was going to take over the South American...
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President Donald Trump proclaimed himself "Mr. Tariff" as he took credit for a bullish stock market Tuesday.Stocks rose Monday following the U.S. attack on Venezuela over the weekend, with energy leading the way on expectations that oil companies could benefit from rebuilding the South American country's infrastructure. Trump fired off a 99-word...
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The "strongman" image Donald Trump has curated for himself has now "backfired," according to a political commentator. A recent appearance at Mar-a-Lago from the president has highlighted the dissonance between the "strongman" rhetoric and his physical health, according to Salon columnist Chauncey DeVega. Growing concern over Trump's physical and...
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When Donald Trump and the buffoons who surround him invaded Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro, they broke with almost a century of American-led respect for the international rule of law and, instead, nakedly embraced the Putin Doctrine.There was a brief, shining moment when Russia was a democracy. I visited there at the time. Starting with...
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Donald Trump is being "manipulated by underlings," according to a political analyst who says his Cabinet can sense a "decline". The president's health has come under scrutiny yet again, with both cognitive and physical worries aired by political commentators. Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte believes these suggestions of ill health are emboldening...
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Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) was put on the spot Tuesday during an appearance on CNN when, after defending the Trump administration's unprecedented attack and takeover of Venezuela, he was made to listen to his own past remarks about Congress holding the sole authority to declare war."One last thing I want to play for you: it's you, you were here on Dec....
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The central "myth of America" has just been cleanly exposed by President Donald Trump — but it's been staring onlookers in the face for centuries, a New York Times columnist wrote Tuesday.Americans genuinely believe their nation operates as a country governed by law, where justice remains impartial. However, the reality dating back to the Civil...
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President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons for those involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot may end up inadvertently applying to the individual accused of planting pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC national headquarters, something the Justice Department is reportedly "worried” about, Politico reported Tuesday.The man accused of planting bombs in...
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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his administration had launched a new "fraud investigation” into California, railing against California Gov. Gavin Newsom as leading a state "more corrupt than Minnesota.”"California, under Governor Gavin Newscum, is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that's possible???” Trump wrote on his social...
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President Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney is raising ethical concerns from his current perch on a federal appeals court.After Inauguration Day, Emil Bove jumped from being Trump's personal lawyer to a top position at the Department of Justice, and then ascended to the bench on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in September. Legal...
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado joined Fox News' Sean Hannity Monday night to shower President Donald Trump with praise in the wake of the attack on her own country that killed at least 80 Venezuelans — and critics pounced on what some described as the "deeply sad and pathetic” display.Machado is among the most prominent leaders of...
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Marco Rubio got hammered Tuesday for his part in the Venezuela strike, with one Democratic Party representative saying the Secretary of State has undergone a "full MAGA-lobotomy".Senator Chris Van Hollen (D- MD) blasted Rubio for doing what President Donald Trump "wants him to do," while fellow Democratic Party Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) called the...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough spoke to Donald Trump for the first time in months after the attack on Venezuela — and the president doubled down on controversial remarks he had made nearly a decade ago.The "Morning Joe" host said he'd spoken to the president about a half dozen times since his return to the White House last year, but their conversation...
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Five years after Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol amidst a blizzard of lies, with the president and his associates falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen, January 6th may be a story Americans no longer care to hear.Homegrown, a documentary that tracks three members of the neo-fascist street gang the Proud Boys from the...
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An attack on Venezuela orchestrated by Donald Trump's administration is the "opening move" to a much larger rival, a political commentator has claimed. Writing in The Guardian, Owen Jones suggested the strike on Venezuela earlier this week, and subsequent capture of President Nicolás Maduro, is part of a longer game plan which would see Trump...
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Renaming the Kennedy Center the Trump-Kennedy Center is just the beginning of renaming buildings and landmarks after one of the greatest presidents in US history. Here are the current plans according to the administration's new Monumental Renaming Department — plans which, honestly, fell off the back of a truck and landed on Raw Story's doorstep....
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Donald Trump's niece says the physical, cognitive, and mental health of the president is in decline, and has made for a "perfect storm".Contrasting the "loud" and "quiet" of presidents Trump and Joe Biden, Mary Trump believes many are confusing the current president's outbursts and pushback against reporters as strength. That is not the case,...
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Jon Stewart has blasted Donald Trump's administration for what he called an "oil heist" on Venezuela.Speaking in the opening monologue of The Daily Show, Stewart broke down the reasons for the United States to enter Venezuela following the president's claim that the administration would "run" Venezuela.After a clip of Howard Lutnick speaking about...
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The Starmer drama continues as the PM is warned by the Scottish Labour leader to stay away ahead of a crucial set of local elections - so, how popular is Keir Starmer across the board? Well, not very, according to the first weekly check-in on the state of the polls in 2026, as ‘Never Here […]
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Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel used his first show of 2026 to rip into Donald Trump's Truth Social posts.The president made nearly 100 posts in the middle of the night yesterday (January 5) and posted hundreds more over the holiday period. Kimmel's team highlighted Trump's more than 550 posts in the two-week break for Christmas, with two Christmas...
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Im Kanzleramt kommt es zu einem überraschenden Einschnitt. Friedrich Merz trennt sich von seinem langjährigen Büroleiter Jacob Schrot. Der Schritt wirft Fragen auf, weil er nicht nur etwas über die Personalie selbst sagt, sondern auch über die Lage des Kanzlers. Nach einem Jahr als außenpolitisch präsenter Regierungschef steht Merz unter...
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President Donald Trump may have already undermined the pretenses under which the U.S. captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and flew him to the U.S. to stand trial on narco-terrorism and weapons charges, according to one expert. Early Saturday morning, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were arrested by U.S. authorities at the Venezuelan...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's latest bid to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for his role in a video instructing active-duty troops to refuse unlawful orders was raked over the coals by analyst David A. Graham in a scathing write-up for The Atlantic published Monday.Hegseth has previously threatened to recall Kelly into active duty to...
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Dan Rather, the former longtime anchor of CBS Evening News, tore into President Donald Trump on Monday night, calling the president an "unhinged, amoral man with a massive ego" after his brazen capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.In a piece for his news site, "Steady," Rather and his team penned a piece chiding Trump titled, "Fire, Aim,...
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Mockery abounded on Monday night after the new favorite CBS News anchor of some MAGA fans stumbled during a live broadcast. Tony Dokoupil, the new host of CBS Evening News, completely fumbled a transition between segments on Monday night, mixing up a story about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). He also steamrolled a health care...
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