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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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A medical expert issued a bleak assessment regarding the health of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who was recently discovered unconscious at his Washington home and rushed to the hospital."Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for almost three weeks at this point with very little information that has come out about his condition,” said Hilary...
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Thousands of Great American State Fair attendees were ordered to evacuate the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Saturday amid a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but according to The New York Times, hundreds are refusing to follow orders and creating a "chaotic scene.”"Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents,” wrote the Times' Aishvarya...
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Fox News host Mark Levin disturbed onlookers Saturday after expressing disappointment that the Trump administration hadn't authorized a strike on funeral proceedings for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes back in late February."Yesterday, the enemy gathered [en masse] all in one place,” Levin, a close ally...
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On America's 250th anniversary Saturday, The Atlantic republished a decade-old essay that delivered a blistering rebuke of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump – one that was written by now-Vice President JD Vance.Atlantic writer Peter Wehner revisited the July 4, 2016 column Vance wrote just after the release of his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."...
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As dozens of masked men from the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched in the nation's capital Saturday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham floated a theory in an apparent attempt to distance the GOP from the neo-fascist march, a theory that left one former Republican lawmaker floored.On Saturday afternoon, journalist and writer Richie McGinniss...
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Donald Trump's assault on the nation's founding democratic promise has handed the political left a perfect opportunity to reclaim its legacy, argued historian Harvey Kaye in an analysis published in Zeteo on Saturday.Kaye, professor emeritus of democracy and justice studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, wrote that the nation is marking...
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As soaring temperatures continue to rock President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., several state exhibits at the event were forced to shut down Saturday, leaving the pro-Trump network Newsmax wondering whether exhibits had essentially become "hotboxes.”"Looking at the state displays... we're assuming there's no...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith's refusal to answer questions about FBI Director Kash Patel during his first television interview since resigning is raising red flags, journalist Kaitlyn Pierce, who writes under the name "Kait Justice,” argued in an analysis published Saturday.Smith sat down with MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on July 2 for his first...
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A Trump biographer suggested that Trump is sabotaging his own party ahead of the midterms for a selfish reason.On an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Michael Wolff said that he believes Trump's strategy is to lay the groundwork for the Republicans to take the blame for losing the midterms, and his goal is to prove that the party needs him."You...
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Hundreds of members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front descended on Washington DC Saturday morning as the nation's capital prepared to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.Members of the group, wearing masks and carrying Confederate and US flags, rode the DC metro and marched around parts of Capitol Hill...
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President Donald Trump's record-breaking fireworks show slated for Saturday night has a growing number of critics worried about the safety of Washington, D.C. residents, with one commentator offering a particularly disturbing prediction as to how the event could take a turn for the worse.Trump announced the fireworks show in June, and proudly...
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A presidential historian slammed Trump's Independence Day speech as nothing more than "Joe McCarthy Red Scare idiocy."During an appearance on MS NOW on Saturday, Doug Brinkley tore into the speech that Trump gave in front of Mount Rushmore to kick off the Independence Day weekend. In particular, Brinkley found it "deeply offensive" that Trump would...
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Fears are mounting over President Donald Trump's massive Independence Day fireworks display for one simple reason. His administration "couldn't even paint a pool blue."That's the criticism from MS NOW editor Ryan Teague Beckworth in an opinion piece detailing his pending dread of a 40-minute pyrotechnics "stunt" slated for 11 p.m. in Washington...
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Online critics slammed top White House aide Stephen Miller after he implied President Donald Trump's second term was an act of God. Miller praised the Trump presidency in a Saturday post on X. "It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President...
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The wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did something "bizarre" three days after he was hospitalized for a possible heart attack, according to a new report. Elaine Chao, Transportation secretary during Trump's first administration and McConnell's wife since 1993, left the country, the Daily Beast reported Saturday.Chao flew to Beijing to discuss...
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A Justice department whistleblower on Saturday tore into President Donald Trump for what she described as a "staggering" decision to give a fraudster a "second chance."During an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer argued that Trump's pardons were "fundamentally different" from others made in the past. "He has...
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Footage of hundreds of masked men storming Washington, D.C., with Confederate flags spurred an outcry online Saturday.An estimated 400 masked men, whom Reuters reported were with the right-wing extremist group Patriot Front, marching into D.C. on July 4 with Confederate flags, online video shows. On X, the video spurred outrage. Former GOP...
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A fired Federal Trade Commission official said Saturday that a recent Supreme Court ruling favoring President Donald Trump will leave billionaires "running wild."During an appearance on MS NOW, Rebecca Slaughter talked about her Supreme Court case against Trump in which she and another former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, both Democratic...
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Hundreds of Confederate flag-bearing men marched into Washington, D.C. on July 4th, according to multiple reports. In a post on X, journalist Mitchell Miller, a reporter for WTOP News, shared a video of what he described as "a group of masked men gathered at Union Station" with Confederate flags and calls for "reclaiming the country and getting rid...
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Almost 1 million people lost more than $3.8 billion investing in President Donald Trump's memecoin, the New York Times reported Saturday. Those are the numbers from the cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen, which just issued its report on Trump memecoin losses through the end of June, according to the report. "The odds were always in his favor,"...
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President Donald Trump received a stark warning from a political analyst Saturday morning. Commentator Molly Jong-Fast took to X on Independence Day to share a less-than flattering editorial on the Trump family from a publication that typically sings their praises. "When you've lost the New York Post," Jong-Fast tweeted. The editorial in question...
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A New York Times editorial published on Independence Day ripped into Donald Trump by drawing a stark comparison between the president and the first man to hold his current office, George Washington. Maureen Dowd spoke with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the Lin-Manuel Miranda...
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The Trump Justice Department stumbled in an Jeffrey Epstein files case with an "embarrassing" excuse flagged by a legal expert on Saturday.In a recent episode of the Legal AF podcast, analyst Michael Popok discussed the DOJ's response to an injunction requiring it to translate foreign-language documents in the Epstein files. The injunction stems...
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A terrified right-winger took to social media on the Fourth of July to warn Americans about what he described as a very serious threat to the nation: a demon.John Daniel Davidson, author of the book "Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come," alerted his fellow citizens about artificial intelligence on X shortly after...
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A blue-state attorney general sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's next moves after a court loss set back his immigration plans.During an appearance on MS NOW, California Attorney General Rob Bonta reacted to right-wing ideas for how to prevent immigrants from giving birth in the United States and warned that Trump could act on some of...
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A conservative former judge warned Americans that they're facing a stark and important choice right now.In a July 4 appearance on MS NOW, ex-judge Michael Luttig said Trump is forcing Americans to decide what kind of country they want for the next 250 years. Trump "could not have presented the choice any more starkly," Luttig added."As we celebrate...
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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to dodge the $5.8 million payment a New York court ruled he owes E. Jean Carroll was swiftly slapped down Friday as "yet another play for time," court records show. Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who represented Carroll in her sex abuse case against Trump before his return to office, filed a swift rebuttal to...
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Hooray, we're free! Screw you, England!Now what?When Benjamin Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention and said we'd been given "a republic, if you can keep it," is there any doubt he was talking about 2026 America?Taking stock of where we are—on our nation's 250th birthday—we're not exactly knocking it out of the park.The Supreme...
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President Donald Trump faced scornful ridicule Friday night over his perceived jealousy of Taylor Swift's celebrity.The White House posted on X an AI photo of Madison Square Garden signs apparently celebrating Trump. The post went live just ten minutes after pink signs outside the arena announced Swift and Travis Kelce were "JUST&T...
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President Donald Trump faced scornful ridicule Friday night over his perceived jealousy of Taylor Swift's celebrity.The White House posted on X an AI photo of Madison Square Garden signs apparently celebrating Trump. The post went live just ten minutes after pink signs outside the arena announced Swift and Travis Kelce were "JUST&T...
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President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of the nation he leads by blasting out insulting memes at about 2 a.m.Trump took to Truth Social at 2:11 a.m. precisely to make sure American citizens knew for certain he thinks Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) looks like Pee-wee Herman.The president returned at 2:19 a.m. to remind the nation he...
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A former beauty queen who says Donald Trump groped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trump helped funnel young women into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.Beatrice Keul, 55, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, told the Daily Beast's new Punch Up Substack that she believes Ivana...
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America turns 250 this year. If you were around for the bicentennial in 1976 you probably remember it like I do. I was an 11 year-old preteen obsessed with presidents but not yet old enough to understand the experiment called democracy I was celebrating.I remember red, white and blue everywhere. In our neighborhood, every porch or window had a...
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LE MENU DU JOUR — Vrais et faux prétendants à l'Elysée : ils étaient (presque) tous là à manœuvrer. — Bardella ou Le Pen, Le Pen ou Bardella : ce qu'en pensent les Aixois. — Les dessous de la mégafiesta de l'ambassade américaine, qui ferait (presque) de l'ombre aux ReAix. BLM AU CONFESSIONNAL. "Une campagne, c'est […]
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Federal officials described President Donald Trump's July 4 celebration as "safe" and "well-prepared" just hours after a record heat wave forced organizers to shut down the Great American State Fair and paramedics rushed to aid attendees, several of whom were reportedly hospitalized.In a joint statement Friday, Freedom 250, the U.S. Park Police,...
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A reporter braving a blistering heat wave at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair described chaos at the event as paramedics raced to save attendees, with seven said to be on "advanced life support" in the hospital.Julian Andreone of Drop Site News was on the ground Friday at the fair detailing what he called a "hectic" scene."It...
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Kylie Jane Kremer, the activist listed as the permit holder for the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the Capitol attack, has floated a new theory about Washington's summer heat: it's sabotage.In a post on X, Kremer claimed someone with an "extreme case" of Trump derangement syndrome "geoengineered" the weather in D.C. She pointed to the cold at Trump's...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday delivered a speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America that drew a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump's vision for the country.Speaking from New York City Hall, Mamdani recounted how his city had long served as a refuge for people from across the...
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Severe weather threatened to put a damper on Friday on President Donald Trump's plans to speak near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, prompting amusement from internet critics who said it seemingly indicated "god is angry."Trump was flying to South Dakota as part of a broader July 4 and America-250 trip, planning to visit the iconic American landmark...
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A clip of President Donald Trump slipping a pair of gold ceremonial scissors into his suit pocket at a ribbon-cutting is raising alarm bells with at least one medical expert, who said the moment may point to something more serious than a souvenir grab.The incident occurred Wednesday at the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library...
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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller kept up his attacks on birthright citizenship with a far-fetched hypothetical on Friday, and critics lined up to ridicule it.Days after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling that struck down President Donald Trump's executive order, Miller posted on X that if you believe a...
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Guards at an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, could see a detainee in his cell with one end of a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and the other tied to the door handle. If they opened the door, the sheet would tighten and strangle him. The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, had been in detention at Camp East Montana for a month by then....
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A Fox News host uncorked a bizarre on-air tirade against Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, calling him a "demon in human skin."Emily Compagno appeared to lose her composure on Friday's edition of "Outnumbered" while discussing Talarico, a 37-year-old state representative now in a statistical tie with embattled Republican nominee Ken...
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First lady Melania Trump gave Congress a private deadline to pass her signature foster care bill, and she is pursuing it largely outside the usual White House channels, according to a new report in Politico. At a bipartisan roundtable with the House Ways and Means Committee in April, the first lady publicly called foster care legislation a "moral...
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A right-wing influencer got more than he bargained for during a livestream in Philadelphia when a passerby challenged him in a heated, curse-laden exchange.Jack Posobiec was in Philadelphia on Friday outside Independence Hall as the city held its Red, White, & Blue To-Do, a citywide patriotic celebration tied to the July 4 weekend. As Posobiec was...
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Second Lady Usha Vance asked President Donald Trump a simple question about his reading habits on her children's literacy podcast, and the internet surmised she knew exactly what she was doing.In the episode of "Storytime with the Second Lady," posted Friday, Vance asked Trump whether he has any time to read for fun these days. "I end up reading...
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President Donald Trump said Friday he has signed pardons for six people convicted in connection with tampering with vehicle emissions controls, casting their cases as political persecution under his predecessor."It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being...
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An active-duty Air Force major was arrested in uniform on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this week after he stood before cameras and demanded that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance be impeached and removed from office.Jason Watson, a career officer, spoke at a news conference organized by the Removal Coalition, an activist group...
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President Donald Trump's controversial new intelligence chief is clearing house, and career officers warn the man swinging the axe doesn't know what he's cutting.Bill Pulte, Trump's loyal acting director of national intelligence, began notifying dozens of intelligence officials of their terminations Thursday, part of a downsizing Trump ordered when...
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If you're feeling that the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States has been hijacked by a narcissistic, political hack, you're not alone. Instead of a joyous event for all Americans, our holiday has been plagued by vicious attacks on those who haven't drunk the Make America Great Again Kool-Aid. And the results are proof positive...
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Democrats are sharpening their subpoenas, and Donald Trump's own paperwork may hand them the roadmap, according to a new report.The president's 2025 financial disclosure, a 927-page filing released by the Office of Government Ethics, shows Trump pulled in more than $2.2 billion last year, the richest stretch of his life. Crypto ventures that barely...
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The Great American State Fair on the National Mall closed early Friday as a dangerous, record-breaking heat wave gripped the nation's capital, forcing organizers to suspend the event with plans to reopen at 5 p.m., CNN reported.The shutdown comes as Washington, DC, braces for highs near or above 100 degrees for a second straight day, with a heat...
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Resistance is mounting across the United States against the increasing use of surveillance tech company Flock Safety's cameras, with a growing number of cities canceling contracts as the artificial intelligence-powered license plate readers are quietly being installed in thousands of locations nationwide.State and local police departments first...
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Major American corporations that benefited from tax cuts enacted last year by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are donating to the campaigns of GOP lawmakers who made the windfall possible.A report published Friday by Unrig Our Economy spotlights seven House Republicans who voted for the sprawling and unpopular GOP budget...
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Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official turned vocal critic, issued a stark warning to Americans on the eve of the nation's 250th anniversary, arguing the country now faces a fundamental choice about its future under President Donald Trump.In an op-ed published Friday, Taylor wrote that the traditional "pillars" of American democracy...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen marked the United States' 250th anniversary with a scathing essay arguing the nation's defining trait isn't liberty or opportunity, but cruelty, and placed President Donald Trump at the center of that critique.In the essay, Nguyen described Trump as a "would-be American Nero" whose government has...
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"A ce moment-là, je me suis dit 'j'arrête tout'”. Dans cet épisode spécial de Playbook Paris, le podcast de POLITICO, enregistré aux Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, l'ancien ministre de l'Economie d'Emmanuel Macron raconte à Anthony Lattier ses campagnes électorales, de ses succès aux législatives aux moments de découragement...
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Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence.According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a "Chinese communist agent” when he released...
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A close call involving performers at the Great American State Fair could land President Donald Trump behind bars, one journalist cautioned on Thursday.Performers narrowly avoided injury Thursday when a section of the stage at the Washington, D.C. event appeared to give way, sending debris crashing down just feet from where they stood. According to...
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Donald Trump Jr. sent a 'groveling' fundraising email instructing recipients to complete a Republican Party questionnaire and "have it back to us by 11:59 p.m.," according to a New York Times column by Michelle Cottle.The email is part of a fundraising style that has become a signature of MAGA world – one that trades polite requests for demands....
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President Donald Trump's obsessive push to revamp Washington D.C. was born during a motorcade ride to face election interference charges, according to a former campaign official who was with him that day.On August 3, 2023, Trump was riding to the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse for arraignment on four counts tied to his effort to overturn the 2020...
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President Donald Trump, who turned 80 last month, made only three public appearances in Washington before 11 a.m. during the entire month of June, according to a Daily Beast analysis of his official schedule and White House pool reports published Friday.The Daily Beast's review found that the president's "shockingly lazy” schedule listed...
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Trump administration officials reportedly believed that the Israeli government intended to assassinate Iran's top negotiators—including the country's foreign minister—during peace talks with the US in an effort to sabotage diplomatic progress.The New York Times reported Thursday that "American concerns about the targeting of two particular...
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's inner circle apparently had to fight to keep from cracking up during his very first phone call with Donald Trump — because the American president veered wildly off-script into a bizarre theory about wildlife.According to Starmer's former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, the conversation started normally...
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WASHINGTON — Ever throw a party only to have no one show up? Awkward. Lonely. Embarrassing.Welcome to President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, where even the baptism pool was empty in Friday's 100-degree heat as two men waved large flags to a crowd of two and a half — a little boy danced to soulless piano playing to the massive...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) torched what was left of her relationship with President Donald Trump on Thursday after new financial disclosures showed he personally pocketed $2.2 billion during his first year back in office, The New York Times reported Friday. "The Republican Party hijacked MAGA," Greene wrote on X, the Times...
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