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A Trump administration official tasked with proving debunked election-rigging conspiracy theories tried to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states — and failed spectacularly when he couldn't produce a shred of evidence to back it up.Reuters reported Thursday that White House adviser Kurt Olsen asked the Commerce Department to...
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has a new item on his holiday wish list: the firing of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.In a wide-ranging interview with Politico Magazine published Friday, the retiring North Carolina Republican made clear he wants Hegseth gone before he leaves the Senate at the end of the year — and he didn't mince words about why."I'd...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to complain about the "absolute fortune” he allegedly forewent by dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded settlement designed to compensate those claiming to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden...
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A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh is drawing crowds — and comparisons to the leader of the free world.The animal, currently housed in Paikpara, Narayanganj, earned the nickname Donald Trump thanks to a flowing golden mane that locals say bears a striking resemblance to Trump's signature hair. Videos of the buffalo have since spread widely...
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Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued President Donald Trump a blunt reality check on Friday that he may face "the most miserable two years” of his life should Republicans perform poorly in the upcoming midterm elections — a warning that apparently didn't sit well with Trump.The president quickly took to social media to lash out at the North...
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The Republican Party is well on track for a devastating midterm defeat in November and, "if history is any guide,” President Donald Trump is likely to "set his sights abroad” with a plan to "satiate his almost limitless appetite for power," an ex-Homeland Security official warned Friday, "The odds are now that he loses the US House,” wrote...
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Despite having a razor-thin majority, House Republicans continue to be plagued by absent members — including one GOP representative who's missed 100 votes during a "mysterious” 77-day absence — and those absences now risk handing the president a "high-profile defeat" as soon as next month, Punchbowl News reported Friday.On Thursday, House GOP...
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If Donald Trump doesn't make radical changes to his inner circle soon, he will be trapped in a living hell during the last two years of his administration.That is the opinion of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), given in a surprisingly candid interview with Politico in which he revealed he has a better relationship with the president than it appears on the...
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A "Morning Joe” segment that was supposed to be about Donald Trump appearing to demur from attending the wedding of Don Trump Jr, went briefly off the rails over the 79-year-old president's tendency to sit during his press availabilities in his second term.Co-host Mika Brzezinski was the first to bring up the "optics” of the sitting president...
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Journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, whose reporting has uncovered a number of previously unknown revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, said on Thursday she will be "fleeing the country” after claiming her home was targeted in "attacks" by those she believes are "unhappy about" her Epstein reporting.Valdes-Rodriguez's reporting has largely centered...
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CBS News head Bari Weiss suffered an embarrassing public blow on Sunday when Anderson Cooper, one of the most recognized news anchors in the world, was allowed to deliver thinly veiled criticism of her leadership — catching her completely off guard.According to media watchdog Status, the already embattled Weiss was not given advance notice of...
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A task force launched by U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to "end weaponization" has fallen apart after "drama" triggered by a memo it circulated that spread false claims — made by a January 6 rioter — against a CIA employee and a former Capitol Police officer. The group's collapse was detailed in testimony submitted to a U.S. Senate...
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President Donald Trump has reached a new "all-time low” among Republican voters on several key issues according to the latest Fox News poll — and a growing number of Senate GOP lawmakers have reached what Punchbowl News described on Friday as a "Trump breaking point.”"Eventually, Senate Republicans were going to prioritize their own political...
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Democrats, already confident that they will take control of the House after the midterm elections, are now eyeing the seat of Rep. Tom Kean Jr (R-NJ), who has mysteriously stopped showing up for work.According to a report from Politico, there was already a belief that Kean's seat was in play before he went AWOL, and his failure to represent his...
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A bizarre brag by President Donald Trump suggested he has lost track of what month it is.The 79-year-old posted a three-month-old New York Post front page to Truth Social early Friday, captioning it with the barely coherent "Have it!!! Great. President DJT." But the cover he shared, headlined "Trump wins gold," praised him for his "'winning'...
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President Donald Trump delivered a bitter 2 a.m. screed against Stephen Colbert Friday, just hours after the late-night comedian delivered a star-studded final performance to a massive audience."Colbert is finally finished at CBS," Trump wrote. "Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could...
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I met David Letterman twice. Once when he first began his show, walking up 53rd Street. Such an approachable guy. And once again, after he'd left, at a Starbucks in my apartment building.He said he remembered meeting me 30 years ago. Of course, he was kidding.I love Dave, and was sad to see him go, and let out a meh when Stephen Colbert was named...
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Ein Leak sorgt für Wirbel in Berlin. Die Rentenkommission diskutiert hinter verschlossenen Türen angeblich über ein Stufenmodell, das das Renteneintrittsalter bis in die 2060er Jahre schrittweise auf 70 Jahre anheben und das Rentenniveau absenken soll. Während die Koalitionäre hektisch zurückrudern, wird klar: Die Demografie und die...
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President Donald Trump seemed poised to lead the charge in regulating artificial intelligence this week, until some of his business buddies intervened, according to a new report. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump reversed course on his planned executive order regulating AI at the eleventh hour after receiving pushback from his AI...
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The Supreme Court revealed that a principle it used to rule on election cases was pure "legal fiction," according to one lawyer. Marc Elias, a lawyer and lead plaintiff in multiple recent redistricting cases, said during a new episode of his "Democracy Docket" podcast that the Supreme Court has relied on the Purcell Principle to adjudicate election...
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A local GOP candidate is bragging about her election victory this week despite running unopposed. The New York Post reported that Tiffany Henyard won her GOP primary race for a commissioner's seat in Fulton County, Georgia. However, as the Post noted, she ran unopposed. "Thank you, Fulton County! We did it," Henyard wrote on Facebook. "Support the...
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WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar package to fund immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump's term faced new delays Thursday as Senate Republicans showed a rare split with the president over his new "anti-weaponization” fund.The administration dispatched Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to Capitol Hill to meet with...
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As Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and former health secretary Wes Streeting jostle for influence in the Labour party, host Sascha O’Sullivan looks at what it takes to turn around a party’s fortunes mid-term. Former John Major aide Daniel Finkelstein explains how the Conservative Prime Minister managed to win the 1992 elections against...
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Transcripts from the Department of Justice's prosecution of the "Broadview Six" anti-ICE protesters have left experts who read them shocked. The Broadview Six were a group of protesters federally charged after demonstrating outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Illinois in 2025.On Thursday, Judge April Perry,...
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An MS NOW panel on Thursday evening was floored by the meltdown of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as Trump alienated them with his "Anti-Weaponization Fund" and demanded politically toxic votes from them.Anchor Chris Hayes began by turning to Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez. "There's ... this sense, I mean, today it was, again, I say the...
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Texas Republicans are facing an unprecedented challenge this year — with new polling giving them a flashing warning sign about one of the state's most important demographics.According to Newsweek, "President Donald Trump's inroads with Latino voters, a voting bloc that historically leaned toward Democrats, helped carry him to victory in the 2024...
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Days after the U.S. Senate took a pivotal step that could end the war in Iran, Arizona veterans gathered at the state Capitol to urge Congressional Republicans to coalesce behind that effort.On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-47 to advance a War Powers Resolution that could block President Donald Trump from engaging in further military conflict...
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There's an ominous backdrop to this year's GLOBSEC forum in Prague as the war in Ukraine strays into the skies over NATO's Eastern flank. The last few weeks have seen an increasing number of drone incursions in the Baltics — Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — across EU airspace. And there are questions over America's commitment...
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A 57-year-old Republican lawmaker who has gone missing for 77 days broke his silence for the first time on Thursday. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who is running for re-election in a highly contested swing seat, confirmed he plans to continue in the race for a third term and vowed to soon disclose more information about his health and an illness. Since...
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President Donald Trump's latest apparent glitch astonished a political analyst on Thursday. David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, reacted to a video of Trump speaking with reporters ahead of his trip to give the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy. During the clip, Trump seemed to freeze up when a reporter tossed him...
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MAGA is having another meltdown over a Hollywood casting choice, this time concerning an adaptation of a classic cartoon. The latest meltdown is sparked by news that Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson will star as Betty Boop in a live-action film, according to reporting by the Daily Beast. MAGA accounts called it "race swapping,"...
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A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt a blow to the Department of Justice's efforts to collect sensitive voter roll information, according to reports. U.S. District Judge Lance Walker, a Trump appointee in Maine, ruled against a DOJ lawsuit demanding the state's voter rolls, according to reporting by All Rise News. "Comity between coequal...
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In what More Perfect Union described as a "new level of corruption” for the Trump administration, an investigation by the progressive news outlet revealed how members of the president's inner circle are cashing in on the Department of Homeland Security's purchase of warehouses for immigrant detention.It was reported earlier this year that under...
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) broke with a number of his Republican congressional colleagues to enthusiastically endorse President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out $1.776 billion to his allies who believe they were unfairly persecuted by the government — but when a reporter asked him about whether January 6 rioters would be...
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In a reversal of his past position and what critics are calling yet another betrayal of his "Make America Healthy Again” campaign pledge, US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his administration is loosening limits on so-called "super pollutant” hydrofluorocarbons used in air conditioners and refrigerators at the expense of the...
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The Justice Department has a new $1.776 billion fund, designated to pay people who allege that politics played a role in their prosecutions under the Biden administration. It's a settlement without precedent, drawn up by the president's own appointees after he sued the government. Weijia Jiang has more details.
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Veteran journalist Dan Rather sees potential good that can come out of the GOP's "never-ending trainwreck" playing out before him. In his latest Substack piece, Rather wrote that infighting between Republicans and Trump will "be good for the country" if it manages to nix some of the president's more outrageous plans. Rather observed how Republicans...
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Angry demonstrators in Greenland converged on a newly-built U.S. consulate on Thursday to protest the activities of President Donald Trump's special envoy to the island, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.According to The Hill, "Hundreds of Greenlanders took to the streets Thursday to protest the opening of the U.S. Consulate, chanting that the Americans...
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President Donald Trump has hit rock bottom with several key voting blocs ahead of the 2026 midterm election, and it reveals "what could be to come," according to one political expert. Paul Rieckhoff, host of the "Independent Americans" podcast, told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" on Thursday that Trump is losing ground with independent voters —...
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The House GOP canceled a key upcoming vote on President Donald Trump's war in Iran to save the president from a staggering rebuke, according to reports. The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on a resolution on Trump's war powers this week, but a slew of Republican absences prompted the party to reconsider the move, Bloomberg reported....
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President Donald Trump's new taxpayer-funded "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay out allies who claim to have been victims of "lawfare" horrified GOP pundit Erick Erickson, who tore into Trump on Thursday for losing focus on issues that matter — and trying to hold his majorities in November."You're not going to like it, but here's the harsh truth:...
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday defended his decision to commute the prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a day after the Colorado Democratic Party voted to censure him over the decision.Peters, an election denier and prominent ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted in 2024 for her role in a breach of her office's...
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As EU ministers gather in Brussels to debate the bloc's competitiveness, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has highlighted Europe's urgent need to protect its energy security, shield consumers and preserve industrial competitiveness. Separate from the conflict in the Middle East, the EU is on the cusp of knowingly exacerbating its...
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A political analyst was stunned on Thursday after one of President Donald Trump's federal fraud investigators refused to answer a reporter's question. Colin McDonald, an assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement, spoke at a press conference announcing criminal charges against 15 organizations in Minnesota that have allegedly...
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New York lawmakers want the Trump administration to know they're not scared as they doubled down on restrictions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a new report. "Tom Homan can shove it," Democratic New York state Sen. Andrew Gounardes told reporters in reference to Trump's border czar, according to reporting by...
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CNN anchor Kasie Hunt was stunned on Thursday as the Democratic Party's long-awaited report appeared to withhold a serious detail. In her opening, Hunt questioned the Democrats' autopsy of the 2024 election and what prompted President Donald Trump to win and defeat Vice President Kamala Harris, when she raised a revelation that hadn't been...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is continuing to campaign in the primary runoff after President Donald Trump dealt a crushing blow by endorsing his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — but his latest stunt is meeting a wave of ridicule."Stopped by @DairyQueen in Sealy, Texas, otherwise known as the 'Texas stop sign,' to sample some of their...
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Onlookers were outraged on Thursday after one of President Donald Trump's top aides made some remarkable claims about the president's fund to pay allies. This week, the Trump Department of Justice established a $1.776 billion fund that will compensate people who claim they were wrongfully prosecuted by the federal government. Trump allies like...
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A 57-year-old Republican lawmaker who has gone missing for 77 days broke his silence for the first time on Thursday. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who is running for re-election in a highly contested swing seat, confirmed he plans to continue in the race for a third term and vowed to soon disclose more information about his health and an illness. Since...
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A former GOP senator predicted that a "great migration" will begin where Republicans start to move away from supporting Trump."This is kind of a perfect storm," former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said during a Thursday appearance on Meet the Press NOW. "It may be that you can point to it and say, 'This is when the great migration begins.'"The "perfect...
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) erupted at his own party Thursday after Republican leaders cut a backroom deal with Democrats that he says blocked GOP amendments to a sprawling $580 billion infrastructure bill."We got rolled by our own party and cut a deal with the Democrats. This is why we will be in the Minority," Burchett posted on X alongside a video...
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President Donald Trump has signaled plans for an "endgame in the Iran war," infuriating a key ally, according to a report from The Atlantic published Thursday.Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and contributor to The Atlantic, described how a Trump administration insider revealed that during a phone call on Wednesday with...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) skipped a White House meeting Thursday — and sources say it wasn't an accident.Two aides familiar with the cancellation told reporter Pablo Manríquez that Johnson flatly refused to attend, marking what may be the first time the Speaker has said no to Donald Trump.That's no small thing. Since taking the gavel in...
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A GOP congressman had a blunt assessment of why Trump's party will start pushing back against him more, especially on two major asks from the president.Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who will retire next year, admitted during a Thursday appearance on CNN that Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund "looks bad," considering "you have the president...
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The Trump administration this week created a $1.8 billion fund to dole out taxpayer dollars to the president's political allies, and declared that Mr. Trump is immunized from tax audits. Our chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak, explains how these legally questionable moves test the Constitution's limits on the president's power.
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After publicly freezing a historic Canada-U.S. defence forum earlier this week, senior Pentagon officials sharpened their criticism Thursday, accusing Ottawa of failing to produce a credible NATO spending plan and dragging out a politically charged review of the F-35 fighter purchase, further straining bilateral relations.
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President Donald Trump got a bit of good news for his plans to reshape Washington, D.C. on Thursday as a commission full of his own appointees voted to advance his so-called "victory arch" project, creating a new, Trump-envisioned monument at a key entrance to the nation's Capitol, right on the other side of the Potomac River from the Lincoln...
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Vice President JD Vance made demonstrably false and misleading claims about manufacturing job growth in speeches on Monday and Tuesday, according to a fact-check of his statements.On Monday in Missouri, Vance claimed the first quarter of 2026 saw "the biggest growth in manufacturing employment last quarter that we have seen in this country since...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused President Donald Trump of rigging the election against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — using the same "stolen election" language Trump deployed for years to dispute his own 2020 loss.Speaking with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on The Alex Jones Network on Thursday, Greene unloaded on Trump after...
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The Department of Homeland Security is warning that a prankster set up a fake tipline to expose people who are trying to report immigrants. Nashville-based comedian Ben Palmer set up a parody website where people could supposedly turn in immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to reporting by the Guardian. DHS, which is...
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Democratic political strategist James Carville said that now is the time for Democrats to launch an "aggressive party-switching operation" that could crack the solidly Republican South."I'm calling for a new Democratic Southern strategy," Carville said on the latest episode of his Politicon podcast. "Southern Democrats, particularly in places like...
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With President Donald Trump establishing a $1.776 billion compensation fund for people who have supposedly faced "weaponization" of federal law enforcement, MAGA allies are lining up and chomping at the bit to get a cut of the pie — but they're not the only ones.According to NBC News, Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and now a...
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Sarah Kellen, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal assistant, told the House Oversight Committee on Thursday that she was repeatedly raped and abused by the convicted sex offender — and handed lawmakers the names of three previously unknown alleged offenders.Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) announced the development after Kellen's...
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President Donald Trump's push to create a $1.8 billion fund that could compensate Capitol rioters has become deeply unpopular among lawmakers, with many showing signs that they plan to reject it altogether, a reporter told MS NOW on Thursday.Scott MacFarlane, chief Washington correspondent and anchor at MeidasTouch, told MS NOW anchor Chris Jansing...
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A Trump administration official refused to answer a reporter's question about President Donald Trump's pardons for fraudsters on Thursday.Colin McDonald, the assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement, spoke at a joint news conference for the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services at which he announced the...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) brought a dramatic visual aid to a congressional hearing Wednesday — two jars of brown, murky water — as she pressed a Trump EPA official over the administration's push to fast-track data center construction at the expense of clean drinking water.During a hearing of the Oversight and Investigations...
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A leading billionaire right-wing donor and tech evangelist raised eyebrows during a podcast appearance this week with a blunt explanation for why he believes artificial intelligence is superior to human workers.The past few months have seen a wave of tech industry layoffs that companies have acknowledged were driven wholly or in part by AI: From...
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The Productivity Commission was not asked to model how changes to capital gains tax would impact Australia's economy. Business groups say Treasurer Jim Chalmers must explain how the government concluded its tax changes would ultimately be a boon to productivity.
ReadAustralian Broadcasting Corporation - Politics (20 hours ago)
The renewables project's chief executive, Dennis Barnes, received $323,000 in bonus pay on top of his $1.69 million salary last financial year, while four other senior executives received about $919,000 in "variable pay".
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The Senate will go on recess without voting on a reconciliation bill tied to the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion weaponization fund, according to reports on Thursday.PunchBowl News reporters Jake Sherman and Andrew Desiderio reported that Sen. John Thune (R-ND) told senators that the bill would be left unfinished while the lawmakers returned...
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A meeting between Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Senate Republicans Thursday went disastrously, according to reports. The meeting was held to discuss Trump's $1.7 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. People familiar with what happened behind closed doors called it a "s---show", according to a Semafor reporter.Mediaite noted that Republican...
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