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President Donald Trump has taken his destruction to another level as he turns Washington, D.C. into the "grimiest swamp of all time," according to one political expert. David Rothkopf, global affairs columnist for The Daily Beast, said on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles that Trump's failed renovation of the Lincoln...
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A political analyst and a conservative columnist got into a heated exchange on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip on Monday. Charles Blow, author of "Blow the Stack" on Substack, and Caroline Downey, a columnist for The National Review, got into an argument over the deal President Donald Trump made with the Iranian regime during a panel...
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Ohio will lose 51,000 jobs and $5.3 billion from the state economy in 2029, according to a new analysis.That's the effect that cuts to Medicaid and food assistance under a massive 2025 spending law will have when they're fully phased in. It's also the consequence of Republicans allowing Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire at the end of the last...
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MS NOW host Rachel Maddow opened her show Monday night with high spirits, gleefully telling viewers she had roughly 10 good-news stories to deliver in a row, a rarity for the program, as legal and political setbacks piled onto President Donald Trump in a single day.Maddow noted that Sunday marked the longest day of the year —and that Trump was...
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A legal expert claimed to have uncovered a "clear admission" by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice that it broke the rules to help convicted sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell get into a minimum security prison. Liz Oyer, a former Obama administration pardon attorney, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump's DOJ deliberately changed...
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An embarrassed conservative columnist admitted that CNN had accurately reported on the details of President Donald Trump's proposed deal with the Iranian regime, even though the columnist refused to believe it. Becket Adams, a conservative columnist for The Hill and National Review Online, wrote in a new op-ed for The Hill on Monday that the...
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President Donald Trump's latest threat to sue a media company over its reporting was swiftly mocked by political analysts on Monday. Trump posted on Truth Social that his administration is preparing a lawsuit against ABC News over its reporting on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has faced significant criticism because of the project's...
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A legal expert was stunned on Monday by reports that one of President Donald Trump's loyalists had begun firing career intelligence officials. Bill Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency and serves as the acting director of national intelligence, reportedly showed up to work a day early to get a list of all of the employees under his...
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President Donald Trump faces an unprecedented constitutional crisis as the Supreme Court, including justices he appointed, prepares to rule against him on multiple key priorities. Legal expert Jeffrey Fisher told The Washington Post the conflict mirrors nothing seen in nearly a century, requiring comparison to the New Deal era. Three major cases...
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MS NOW host Chris Hayes couldn't contain his laughter Monday night as he relayed President Donald Trump's attempt to explain the spiraling saga of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, calling the president's insistence that vandals destroyed his $14 million renovation "insane" and "the most perfect encapsulation" of his administration's approach...
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The recently crowned world's first trillionaire, Elon Musk, threatened Rep. Ro Khanna with legal action on Monday after the California Democrat pointed out the life-ending potential of foreign aid cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency.During an appearance on the "I've Had It” podcast on Saturday, Khanna (D-CA) said that there must...
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Retired Gen. Michael Flynn's conservative nonprofit America's Future is engulfed in chaos as a wave of prominent figures abruptly quit its anti-trafficking arm and offered only cryptic clues about what tore the group apart, according to reporting by The Bulwark's Will Sommer.Flynn, who briefly served as Donald Trump's national security adviser...
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A former FBI hostage negotiator flagged a dark detail in the new Nancy Guthrie ransom note that was delivered to the family on Monday. In the note, Guthrie's abductors claimed that the 84-year-old mother of "Today!" co-host Savannah Guthrie had been "buried with nature now," according to a source close to the investigation who spoke to NewsNation...
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President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he is going to sue ABC News over a report by the network about the renovation to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl reported on the souring conditions at the Reflecting Pool last week, including a shot of him lifting the peeling bottom of the pool. Trump...
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On June 2, in an unsigned 6-3 order buried in the Supreme Court's shadow docket, the conservative supermajority quietly did something it had never done before, declaring the Constitution "colorblind." In doing so, Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern warned that the court gave a permanent constitutional guarantee to those seeking to dismantle civil...
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CNN's Erin Burnett was in disbelief on Monday after a new report threw President Donald Trump's previous attacks against former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face. Andrew Kaczynski of CNN's KFile reviewed dozens of media appearances by Trump and other members of his cabinet in which they discussed Obama's Iran deal. Trump was...
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CNN's Tom Foreman reported on escalating absurdities surrounding President Donald Trump's troubled $14 million Reflecting Pool renovation. The project, quickly plagued by algae blooms and deteriorating paint, has resulted in at least five arrests for removing damaged materials from the water. Among those arrested was David Hearn, a U.S. Olympic...
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One member of President Donald Trump's White House holds a "big chip of leverage" that could decide Trump's fate once he leaves office, according to a new analysis. Mark Green, president of the New Democracy Project, argued in a new Substack essay that Vice President JD Vance holds the key to deciding Trump's fate in 2029, after his second...
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President Donald Trump's recent excuse that vandals were at fault for the peeling paint at the bottom of the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool raised red flags for his niece. During a press conference on Monday, Trump denied that the contractors who undertook the roughly $15 million renovation project were responsible for the poor...
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New data from The Washington Post is painting a dire electoral picture for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday that Democrats aren't just riding a wave; they're building one.The Post's analysis of more than 990 House primary races across 25 states found that 12.6 million...
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President Donald Trump's base of supporters is furious with the administration over the deal it is negotiating with the Iranian regime, as illustrated by a devastating supercut that aired on MS NOW's "The Beat" on Monday. Last weekend, the Trump administration and the Iranian regime agreed to a deal that would immediately open the Strait of Hormuz,...
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President Donald Trump's administration is conditioning nearly $1 billion in public safety grants on local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, a move critics argue is designed to exclude Democratic-led cities. Approximately $700 million flows through the existing COPS grant program. NPR reports this new $300 million Model...
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Photographs smuggled out from behind tarp-covered scaffolding at the Kennedy Center reveal what President Donald Trump has spent nine days trying to hide.His name is gone.The images, first obtained by activist group Hands Off the Arts and independently verified by The Washington Post, show two rows of blank square panels on the performing arts...
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Several intelligence professionals were reassigned on Monday, in what CNN reporter Kristen Holmes described as a "pretty stunning" start to the reign of Bill Pulte, the new acting intelligence chief. Holmes reported, citing sources who spoke to CNN, that Pulte had begun firing intelligence professionals on Monday, one of his first acts as acting...
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Iran appears to have identified and systematically exploited President Donald Trump's rapidly decaying cognitive abilities.That's according to Atlantic staff writer and national security scholar Tom Nichols, who joined MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" on Monday. Wallace argued that Trump is operating inside an "artificial...
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A second ransom note in the months-long investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie claims the 84-year-old died and was "buried with nature now," according to a source close to the investigation who spoke to NewsNation reporter Brian Entin on Monday. The note indicated her death was not intentional but offered no direct apology, the source...
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House Republican appropriators are publicly breaking with the Trump White House over what they call a "risky and uncoordinated" strategy to fund the U.S. military, warning that the administration is trying to push critical defense spending through a party-line reconciliation bill that may never reach the president's desk.In an official addendum to...
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President Donald Trump's executive order signing ceremony on Monday left some observers wide-eyed. Trump signed a pair of executive orders to boost America's quantum computing industry during a ceremony in the Oval Office. However, Trump stumbled over a section of one of the orders while reading it to the press, leaving some onlookers genuinely...
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"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg mocked President Donald Trump's threat of 10-year prison sentences for those responsible for damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump claimed vandals illegally placed chemicals in the water and created a 300-foot gash, subsequently arresting five people. Goldberg laughed while responding,...
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The internet questioned President Donald Trump's claims on Monday that someone used a knife or fertilizer to damage the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Trump alleged that someone damaged the algae-plagued fountain at the National Mall, telling reporters at the Oval Office that there was "a 350-foot slit" in the remodeled water feature. Earlier in...
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Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with Jill Lepore, author of "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution," and Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, about our nation's...
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Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump's top White House aides, melted down on Monday after the administration suffered a series of stinging defeats. On Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security had illegally created a new voter verification database using the private...
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The internet was left with questions after an unusual interview with Fox News and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) aired on Monday.Collins spoke with the conservative outlet for the first time since her opponent, Democratic candidate Graham Platner, took the lead in the upcoming Maine Senate race.Media and political experts were left stunned by the...
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President Donald Trump humiliated his Energy secretary in front of the full cabinet, cutting him off mid-sentence with "nobody cares."Energy Secretary Chris Wright had barely launched into a story about Albert Einstein when Donald Trump interrupted him. The remarks came as Donald Trump signed executive orders directing federal agencies to...
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This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump's politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione. The polite translation is "idiot.” The translation that George Conway and half of social media...
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President Donald Trump appeared angered by a reporter's suggestion on Monday that his negotiation tactics with Iran may be giving the regime leverage over him. Trump held a press gaggle in the Oval Office after he signed an executive order to support America's quantum computing industry. While he was taking questions, one reporter asked Trump if he...
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President Donald Trump snapped at a CBS reporter on Monday after he claimed someone took a knife to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Ed O'Keefe, CBS News' senior White House and political correspondent, asked Trump during an Oval Office press conference if he would share a photo or proof that the incident had happened. Trump responded with...
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Republican congressional candidate Michael Carbonara falsely claimed FBI Director Kash Patel had confirmed felony convictions against former FBI Director James Comey, labeling it "MASSIVE for accountability." Comey has not been convicted of any crimes; he was indicted in April on two felony counts by President Donald Trump's Justice Department over...
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A former MAGA firebrand who helped build the movement now says it's going to "collapse under its own weight."Pedro Gonzalez, a writer and former New Right activist who broke with Trump, made the prediction in a Vox piece published Monday by journalist Zack Beauchamp."When your movement revolves around taboo-breaking and boundary-stepping, but then...
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A former GOP operative argued President Donald Trump "is drowning in his own failure" in a video on Monday.Anti-Trump conservative Steve Schmidt described how Trump's failed Iran war, struggling economy and blunders around the algae-ridden reflecting pool have further damaged the United States. He suggested the next move would be the Trump cabinet...
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Comedian John Oliver warned Sunday that President Donald Trump's profane attack on Barack Obama is going to come back to haunt him.On "Last Week Tonight," the HBO host zeroed in on Trump's G7 appearance in France, where the president, seated beside Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, mocked Obama's 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump tore up in his...
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ABC is calling on its army of "The View" fans to check President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission, according to reports on Monday.The network released a new video urging viewers of the long-running talk show to fight back against the Trump administration and agency, which has launched a probe against the talk show, The Daily Beast...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned damage from President Donald Trump's failed Iran war will outlast his presidency, leaving America diminished globally for years. In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed Trump's victory claims as detached from reality and deemed Iran the...
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That subhead of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump (Trumped, Trumped)? I mean, twice already and who really knows what's to come?Here's the question nobody seems to be asking right now, though: What country will Donald Trump attack next? Yes, at the...
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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar was stunned after a federal judge scolded the Trump administration in a scorching new ruling on Monday.Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota blocked the Justice Department's efforts to subpoena Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and other Democratic officials in an...
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Alan Dershowitz is scheduled to sit down with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 20 as part of its sprawling investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and the government's handling of his case, according to Politico."I asked to be allowed to set the record straight and correct various misconceptions," Dershowitz said in a text...
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A veteran federal prosecutor's grand jury misconduct is so pervasive that the Justice Department now expects to review more than 100 cases she handled going back to 2007.A court filing in the Northern District of Illinois names the collapsed prosecution of the "Broadview Six" as the case that started it all. News reports identify the lead...
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Former NBC journalist Chris Hansen of "To Catch a Predator” fame delivered a pointed quip in a video published Monday after a man swept up in a child exploitation sting arrived wearing a shirt prominently featuring President Donald Trump.The sting was carried out by the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana late last year in...
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Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as the White House communications director during President Donald Trump's first term, credited the President with exceptional political instincts in navigating cultural conflict. Scaramucci, now a fierce Trump critic, compared Trump to Napoleon on a Sunday post, arguing he intuitively grasps issues from...
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A woman was allegedly issued a citation and escorted away from the reflecting pool on Monday after dipping her hand into the water, TMZ reported.Members of the National Guard, U.S. Marshals, and police officers were seen questioning her at the location, according to TMZ. She declined to speak with TMZ after the incident.The Washington, D.C....
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CNN's Tom Foreman sounded surprised at his own reporting as he provided an update on the ongoing Reflecting Pool saga.President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for the problems that have plagued his $14 million renovation of the pool, which turned green with an algae bloom once it was refilled following a paint job that is already deteriorating. At...
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A federal judge has upended Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's campaign to "retaliate" against Minnesota Democrats who refused to help enforce President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota quashed all six grand-jury subpoenas Monday targeting Gov. Tim Walz,...
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A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration's revamped voter-citizenship database, ruling that federal agencies broke the law by building a centralized system that swept up the private data of millions of Americans and wrongly flagged U.S. citizens as non-citizens.In a sharply worded opinion, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L....
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President Donald Trump had a very public falling out last week with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but the rupture had been building for months.Trump told an Italian journalist that Meloni had "begged" him for a photo at the recent G7 summit in France — a claim Meloni called "totally invented" – and a political scientist at a university...
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A photograph shared by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani sparked controversy over security protocol violations. The image, posted Sunday during U.S. and Iranian peace talks in Switzerland, shows Vance seated at a laptop with Jared Kushner standing behind him. A Common Access Card, or CAC, used by U.S. defense...
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The internet mocked President Donald Trump on Monday after he threatened anyone who vandalized the reflecting pool with 10 years behind bars.Trump unleashed a rant on his Truth Social platform, making several unfounded claims."Of the MANY Statues and Fountains that we rebuilt, renovated, cleaned, and fixed, the only one that was Vandalized was the...
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Whoopi Goldberg couldn't stop laughing at President Donald Trump on Monday after he threatened a 10-year prison sentence for anyone who vandalized the reflecting pool. "The View" co-host responded to Trump's Truth Social post in which the president claims that people who attempted to "destroy" his vanity projects, including the algae-ridden...
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Republican congressional candidate Michael Carbonara of Florida took to social media Monday to laud the Trump administration's "massive accountability" push – only to be immediately fact-checked for a blatant falsehood in his post."Wow: [FBI Director] Kash Patel CONFIRMS felony convictions against James Comey,” Carbonara falsely wrote, as was...
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President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social Sunday he inspected the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and consequently blamed its seriously vandalized conditions on sick, deranged people. He also announced work would immediately begin to fix it. Trump's renovation project, allegedly aimed at restoring Washington, D.C., exceeded its proposed $14.2...
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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has a new problem: it's reportedly starting to smell.Washington, D.C., freelance photographer Joe Flood posted a photo on X on Monday of the pool being actively drained. "As they drain it, the Reflecting Pool is starting to smell," he wrote.President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Saturday that the...
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The once tight bond between Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and MAGA ally Mike Davis has fractured, offering a personal window into the broader rift between the Trump administration and the justices it helped appoint.Gorsuch once nicknamed Davis "the general" for the leading role he's taken in his career, first by helping him secure his first...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has "pretty much killed" a cousin's political future, former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy said.Patrick Kennedy — a longtime mental health advocate — made the admission in a NOTUS interview Monday. He is one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s last remaining family allies."Many Kennedys say...
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Republicans have signs of trouble ahead of the midterm elections after President Donald Trump has "failed to deliver on his economic promises," an analyst argued on Monday. In a column for The Guardian, journalist and author Steven Greenhouse pointed out how the GOP will have to face this growing problem among white, blue-collar voters in the...
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The Justice Department is dangling nearly $1 billion in public safety grants in front of cities and police departments nationwide — but with a condition that critics say is designed to freeze out Democratic-led communities.The grants announced this month comes with a catch requiring local officials to work with federal immigration officers as...
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Voting rights advocacy groups warned last week that a North Carolina House bill proposing extensive changes to state election laws is "harmful” to voting rights.Representatives from Common Cause North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina, Forward Justice, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, and North Carolina Black Alliance gathered outside...
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The Washington Post obtained over 25,000 memos and documents revealing former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's political actions were directed by Chris Butler of the Science of Identity Foundation.The documents show Butler provided directives on legislation, policy positions, and television conduct, with memos instructing what...
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Critics pounced on Vice President JD Vance Monday over what some alleged to be "operational security” failing captured on camera during the ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations in Switzerland.Vance was photographed Sunday working on a laptop while sitting beside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, who in the photograph...
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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) suggested on Monday that pardons issued by former President Joe Biden should be declared "null and void," prompting a wave of reactions online.The Chairman of the House Oversight Committee appeared on Fox Business to discuss pardons, including the preemptive pardon issued by Biden for Dr. Anthony Fauci. In an explosive new...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned the damage from President Trump's failed war in Iran — and his broader approach to governing — will outlast his presidency, leaving the U.S. diminished on the world stage for years to come.In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Sen. John Cornyn spent years voting as President Donald Trump's demanded, cheering the president's speeches, and trying to rename a Texas highway after him. He lost his Senate seat anyway. Now he's done toeing the line for Trump and the Republican Party.The four-term Texas Republican was ousted in May by Ken Paxton, whom President Donald Trump...
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Referring to the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, Minnesota governor Tim Walz commented on X: "Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn't listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.” (Walz could have added: "blamed others...
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The Washington Post's bombshell report Sunday that revealed Tulsi Gabbard may have been guided throughout her political career by a "cult guru” cemented the Trump administration's legacy for the worse, argued Zeteo's Martin Pengelly, who noted how the revelation made clear that the federal government had transformed into a full...
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) unloaded on trillionaire Elon Musk Monday morning over his tenure in the Trump administration – namely, his time leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the initiative's federal spending cuts that are projected to cause millions of preventable deaths.Khanna recently appeared on the progressive podcast...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to warn Americans against vandalizing his beautification projects in Washington, D.C., threatening those who "even attempt” to destroy "such things” with a decade behind bars."Of the MANY Statues and Fountains that we rebuilt, renovated, cleaned, and fixed, the only one that was Vandalized was...
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A pair of President Donald Trump's appointees raised eyebrows by floating conspiracy theories about the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency.Pardon attorney Ed Martin marked the 54th anniversary of the June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in that set in motion the chain of events that led up to Nixon's resignation two years later by...
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A majority of Americans – including Republicans – believe that President Donald Trump was desperate to end his war in Iran regardless of whether his goals were accomplished.The president signed a memorandum of understanding last week to negotiate an end to the war he launched Feb. 28, and CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that showed...
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Fox News host Brian Kilmeade lost it, calling for President Donald Trump to replace JD Vance as Iran negotiator — blasting his Israel criticism as "ridiculous."On Fox & Friends, Kilmeade unloaded on Vice President JD Vance after Vance warned Israeli cabinet members Thursday that Trump is "the only powerful ally" they have "anywhere left in the...
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President Donald Trump has spent the better part of a decade trying to outrun the ghost of Herbert Hoover — and last week, he brought him up twice in two days."I never want to be the late, great Herbert Hoover," Trump told Marc Caputo on "The Axios Show." Days earlier, at a G-7 press conference in France, he'd said almost the same thing: Of all...
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Amid the ongoing negotiations in Switzerland between Washington and Tehran, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani shared a photograph of himself and Vice President JD Vance on social media, and an odd detail in the image sparked a wave of speculation among onlookers.Posted Sunday night on X, the photograph shows a...
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As the internet spent the weekend trying to decode why Donald Trump posted a photo of a blonde stranger and called her his "great daughter," progressive host David Pakman walked through the leading theories on his show, including one he noted was "absolutely insane."In a segment posted Sunday titled "What we know so far about Trump's mystery 'great...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski expressed shock over a new report exposing the decades-long influence of Tulsi Gabbard's religious mentor over her political career.Gabbard recently stepped down as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence after serving as a Democratic congresswoman, but the Washington Post reported...
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