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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) astonished onlookers on Wednesday after he gave what some described as an "ignorant" interview on Fox News. Graham joined Fox News host Sean Hannity on his eponymous show, where the two discussed topics ranging from President Donald Trump's efforts to end the war in Iran to Trump's endorsement of Graham's re-election bid....
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President Donald Trump appeared to have trouble keeping his balance while standing for a military salute, according to a video analysis.Progressive political commentator David Pakman flagged the way Trump was swaying back and forth during a ceremony earlier this week. Trump's movement was "disturbing," Pakman said on his show."Trump was swaying and...
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The Texas Senate race has officially been set, between notoriously scandal-plagued state Attorney General Ken Paxton on the Republican side and Presbyterian minister and state legislator James Talarico on the Democratic side.But already, Texas Republicans are sounding off a message of fear, NBC News reported, because of the impending money problems...
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Former White House ethics chief Norm Eisen was beside himself with fury on CNN over news that the Trump administration is pursuing a criminal investigation into former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who claimed President Donald Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.A jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation...
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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt explained he shares some policy ideas with President Donald Trump — but argued he differs significantly on immigration enforcement. While both former reality TV stars appeal to similar constituencies with tough-on-crime platforms, Pratt explicitly opposes ICE raids at restaurants and stores, he said. He...
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Stephen Colbert wrapped up "The Late Show" last week after alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on his parent network, but his replacement isn't exactly filling the gap, according to new reporting. The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew more than 6.7 million viewers, according to reporting by The Daily Beast, which...
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A former Army lieutenant general said on Wednesday that he was alarmed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech at West Point's commencement ceremony over the weekend. Hegseth discussed his usual culture-war topics, such as removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming from the military, during the speech. But it was the Secretary's...
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The Department of Justice's crusade against President Donald Trump's enemies left ex-Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson visibly upset as she spoke about it on CNN."What the hell is the Justice Department doing?" Carlson said, talking about the DOJ's new criminal investigation against E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexual abuse. "What are they...
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President Donald Trump spent roughly 10 minutes of a high-stakes cabinet meeting Wednesday discussing his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation project, instead of focusing on delicate Iran war negotiations. "From 1922 on, it really never worked," Trump told cabinet members, mistakingly referring to the the pool as a "reflecting lake," and an...
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Right-wing podcaster Katie Miller was brutally mocked on Wednesday after she attacked the social media manager for the Democrats online. Miller lashed out at Paulina Mangubat, a 30-year-old who runs "The Democrats" account on X, after the account posted a nasty reply to one of Miller's husband's posts. Earlier in the day, White House Deputy Chief...
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Rodney S. Scott, the head of President Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection, is being ordered to a federal court hearing next month to answer for whether the administration is complying with court orders to issue refunds for the president's tariff scheme.According to The New York Times, "The unexpected demand, issued on Wednesday, hinted at...
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A Colorado man who repeatedly bragged on social media about his participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in connection with a shooting death in Colorado Springs, the Colorado Times Recorder reported on Wednesday.Tim Arvidson "boasted multiple times about taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, posting a photo of...
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper couldn't believe the Department of Justice's excuse for scrubbing documents detailing violence by a January 6 rioter."Just a reminder that we're talking about a guy who pleaded guilty to attacking police with bear spray and a metal whip," Tapper explained. "The Justice Department is painting that guy as a victim of a partisan...
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A super political action committee with a progressive-sounding name but with Republican financial backers that has been meddling in Democratic primaries was further exposed Wednesday by independent journalist Judd Legum as a clear example of a "dirty tricks operation.”Legum's new reporting on the funding behind a mysterious super PAC called Lead...
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Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright confronted right-wing activist Terry Schilling on CNN after Schilling attacked Democratic candidate James Talarico, calling him unelectable against scandal-plagued Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Schilling dismissed the idea that Texas could turn blue, citing conservative demographics and Christian...
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During his hospital visit earlier this week, Trump had the chance to mosey over and visit U.S. soldiers wounded in a war he started.However, CBS investigative journalist Michael Kaplan reported that Trump snubbed 14 soldiers injured in the war in Iran who were staying at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The family of one of those...
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A Reuters photographer Evan Vucci zeroed in on a Trump Cabinet secretary's notes scribbled with a message to himself. "Resilience," read the top of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's notes during an eventful meeting on Wednesday. Bessent was sitting in a meeting that featured Trump threatening to bomb U.S. allies and Department of Homeland Security...
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Newly released documents from February reveal that a U.S. magistrate judge denied five search warrant requests from the Trump administration related to the Cities Church FACE Act prosecution, which most famously led to charges against former CNN reporter Don Lemon.The issue involved a group of protesters who disrupted a gathering at a St. Paul...
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FBI Director Kash Patel fired Deputy Assistant Director Emily Morales last Friday, escorting her out by security in what FBI sources describe as part of an ongoing politically motivated purge of nonpartisan agents who drew disfavor from President Donald Trump and Republicans. Morales' apparent offense was her involvement in investigating James...
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President Donald Trump seems to be denying a key reality in the war in Iran, and it's costing him at the negotiating table, according to one columnist. Bob Kagan, a columnist and neoconservative scholar, discussed the war in Iran on a new episode of "The Bulwark Podcast" with host Tim Miller on Wednesday. Kagan argued that Trump doesn't seem to...
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents privately admitted to each other how horrific the conditions were in their section of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, Courthouse News reported on Wednesday — including the proliferation of dangerous diseases in the facility."At the height of ICE's immigrant detention campaign in New York City last...
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was hit with a "damning" ethics complaint on Wednesday, according to reports.The complaint was filed by several legal groups — Lawyers Defending American Democracy, Democracy Defenders Fund, and Lawyers for the Rule of Law — against the ousted Trump administration member with the Florida Bar Association. The...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio boasted in this week's Cabinet meeting of the United States' deportation agreements with other countries — but a prominent immigration expert slammed his remarks as a bald falsehood."One of the things we've achieved is we have 20 countries around the world who have signed agreements to allow us to deport people to...
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During a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump threatened to blow up Oman, a United States ally near Iran, and people couldn't quite believe their ears.Trump was answering questions from reporters about whether he would accept a deal to end the war in Iran if it meant giving over control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and Oman. He turned down the...
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Department of Homeland Security leader Markwayne Mullin dodged responsibility for a senator being pepper-sprayed outside an immigration detention facility, saying it was the senator's own fault, according to reporting from inside a recent Cabinet meeting."Now you have one of the senators who complained because he got splattered with a pepper...
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CNN analyst Paul Begala dismissed conservative commentator Scott Jennings's criticisms of Rep. James Talarico (D-TX), who is challenging Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for a Senate seat in November. Jennings attacked Talarico's positions on transgender identity, theology and diet. And Begala responded, "You know what I'm smelling, Scott?" he...
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A legal expert floated a disturbing theory on Wednesday about why former Attorney General Pam Bondi is returning to President Donald Trump's administration. Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor and host of the "Justice Matters" podcast, said in a new reaction video that Bondi's return is another way for the Trump administration to continue...
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The Democratic National Committee didn't reach for a policy argument when White House senior adviser Stephen Miller deliberately misgendered Texas Senate nominee James Talarico on Wednesday. They went straight for the jugular.After the DNC posted a photo of Talarico — a cisgender man — declaring it was "time to take back Texas," Miller fired...
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A group of 35 former federal judges has filed legal action to try to forcibly reopen the Trump v. IRS lawsuit, as a means of shutting down the president's "settlement" with his own government that creates a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization" slush fund.President Donald Trump previously filed the suit, seeking $10 billion from his own tax agency...
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The Department of Justice awarded a $106 million contract to Elliott Broidy, a GOP fundraiser whom Trump pardoned in 2021, according to new reporting by the Guardian. Broidy lists himself as the founder and CEO of LEO Technologies, a company that won a contract from the DOJ's Bureau of Prisons last month, according to the Guardian. The DOJ is...
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MAGA had plenty to say on Wednesday after reports surfaced that two of President Donald Trump's enemies were vacationing together in Costa Rica.In an image shared by TMZ, vocal critic Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) poses for a photo in the sand next to former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and their respective significant others. Massie, who...
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More than 700,000 children have lost access to food stamps in 12 states with available data since President Donald Trump signed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" into law — and experts warn the true national toll is far worse.A new analysis published Wednesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that 728,492 children lost SNAP...
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin proposed stopping international flight processing at airports in Democratic-led sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with the administration's immigration enforcement. Speaking on Fox News, Mullin said the administration was "drawing up plans" to block international flights from cities where "local...
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Former Vice President Mike Pence offered a blunt take on his strained relationship with his former boss in a recent interview."What's your relationship with him like now?" local news anchor Roop Raj asked Pence at the Mackinac Policy Conference this week. "When's the last time you picked up the phone and said, 'Hi, President Trump, it's...
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President Donald Trump's new Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, is now actively floating the idea of stripping international airports in liberal cities of Customs and Border Protection officers, paralyzing their ability to accept international flights until they agree to roll back "sanctuary" laws limiting local police cooperation with...
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A Texas congressman dodged questions about Ken Paxton's scandals on Wednesday, pivoting to culture war attacks on the Democrat who will face the newly minted GOP Senate nominee in November.The confrontation came on the Charlie Kirk Show, where host Andrew Kolvet pressed Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) to respond to critics — including New York Times...
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A husband and wife in Boston who allegedly hurled racial slurs and death threats, attacking a group of people dining at a restaurant, including a child, were facing civil rights violations, according to a NBC10 Boston report on Wednesday.Arielle Raso, 37, and Gregory Raso, 39, who live next door to Tertulia's Cafe on Porter Street in East Boston,...
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The Liberal government says it will amend its hot-button lawful access legislation — which would make it easier for police and spies to tap private communications — as it faces blowback from critics who argue the bill would actually put cybersecurity at risk.
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Former first lady Jill Biden said she was "frightened" by her husband Joe Biden's performance at the 2024 presidential debate. "As I watched it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's having a stroke.' And it scared me to death," Biden told Sunday Morning's Rita Braver in an interview airing Sunday.
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Ken Paxton didn't just beat John Cornyn in Tuesday's Texas Senate primary — he may have put Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on notice.That was the takeaway on the Charlie Kirk Show Wednesday, where hosts Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff broke down what Paxton's crushing victory means for the broader MAGA movement — and which Republican senators should...
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A three-judge federal panel, including two President Donald Trump appointees and one Former President Bill Clinton appointee, blocked Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map, finding it deliberately diluted Black voting power. The court ordered Alabama to adopt a replacement map, allowing Black voters to elect their preferred candidates,...
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The head of the Department of Homeland Security is trying to land his wife a plush government job, according to Washington insiders who spoke out in a new report on Wednesday.DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, whom Trump appointed earlier this year, keeps suggesting that his wife, Christie Mullin, should have a job with his department, four insiders...
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Former reality TV star and current Los Angeles mayor candidate Spencer Pratt described why he might share some ideas in common with President Donald Trump — but there is one big difference between the two, according to an exclusive Vanity Fair interview published on Wednesday.Pratt told Vanity Fair that although both he and Trump share a reality...
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As Israel launched a new bombardment of Lebanon on Tuesday, its far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, suggested that it was trying to derail ongoing peace negotiations between US President Donald Trump and Iran.During a press briefing on Tuesday, the influential politician railed against the possibility of a deal to end the war as it neared...
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Republicans have indicated they intend to portray Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico as a "freak," but he pushed back strongly against his GOP rival in Texas, Ken Paxton.The Donald Trump-endorsed Texas attorney general Paxton slurred the state legislator as "Tala-freako" in his victory speech after beating Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a...
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Trump biographer Michael Wolff predicted Tuesday that Donald Trump's presidency could end abruptly and without warning, citing Trump's "sense of the dramatic" and desire for historical significance. Speaking on the podcast "Inside Trump's Head" with Daily Beast chief content officer Joanna Coles, Wolff said, "There's a very good chance that it just...
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President Donald Trump celebrated the victory of his hand-picked Senate candidate on Wednesday – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – who he endorsed over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), but in doing so he's grown an army of GOP "apostates” i Congress perfectly poised to undercut his agenda.The dynamic was highlighted Wednesday in an...
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President Donald Trump spent roughly 10 minutes of a high-stakes cabinet meeting on Wednesday — convened amid delicate negotiations to end the U.S. war with Iran — ranting about his efforts to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, falsely claiming predecessors wasted "hundreds of millions" on the landmark and repeatedly comparing it to...
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis presented himself as a martyr to free speech after the state Democratic Party censured him for springing an election denier from jail before her sentence ended.The Democratic governor granted clemency to former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted in 2024 for allowing unauthorized individuals to access her...
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Approximately 15 minutes into Donald Trump's rambling televised Cabinet meeting, MS NOW host Chris Jansing and her producers pulled the plug and called out the president for his boasts and lies about his direct-to-consumer drug program.As the president jumped from topic to topic, the he eventually boasted, "You remember, some of you were at the...
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A controversial agreement granting Donald Trump immunity from IRS audits may ultimately prove worthless, according to University of Baltimore School of Law Professor Kim Wehle, who argues in a new column that it may not stand up to legal scrutiny under what are called "creative crimes."As part of a settlement with Trump over a leaked tax return...
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after President Donald Trump removed her from the Justice Department in early April. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took over her role.Bondi, 60, underwent treatment and is recovering, according to Axios. Katie Miller, wife of Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller,...
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was in no rush to make a deal with Iran, claiming that despite the country's attempts to coerce him into securing negotiations ahead of elections "I don't care about the midterms" — something the internet disagreed with him about.Trump was speaking to his cabinet during a meeting at the White House when...
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FBI Director Kash Patel has purged another longtime senior official, triggering a fresh wave of fear throughout the bureau as employees brace for what appears to be another politically motivated purge of nonpartisan agents who have drawn disfavor from President Donald Trump or Republicans.According to MS NOW's Ken Dilanian, Deputy Assistant...
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Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS News has effectively pushed her out after she refused to alter her explosive report on the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison — and stood her ground against network boss Bari Weiss.Alfonsi's contract expired earlier this month, and...
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President Donald Trump had his third hospital visit in 13 months on Tuesday – purportedly for a medical and dental checkup – but despite declaring himself to be in "perfect" health after the exam, prominent physician Vin Gupta flagged a telling omission in the president's lab results on Wednesday that raised questions about his condition."What...
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One recent Sunday, I recently watched "The Inquisitor,” the Independent Lens documentary about Barbara Jordan, the groundbreaking Black congresswoman who was a champion of many constitutional principles.I then turned to "60 Minutes” and watched Gov. Jeff Landry say 45,000 Louisiana absentee ballots being discarded was "not a big deal.” His...
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President Donald Trump's decision to endorse Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas primary runoff could help Democrats secure a win in the red state with James Talarico and show how "the president weakened his hold over the GOP," an analyst reported on Wednesday.Salon's Amanda Marcotte described how Trump's move could backfire on...
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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump's health is declining and the White House is concealing the reality through a coordinated cover-up. In his Substack post, "Trump Is Dying," Wilson compared the deception to Edith Wilson forging her husband's signature in 1919, citing "memos," claims of "excellent...
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Americans already grappling with elevated gas prices face another inflation squeeze as severe weather, trade policy and geopolitical conflict could send consumer costs surging just before November's midterm elections.Grocery prices rose in April by the most in nearly four years, and experts warn the pressures will only worsen through 2027, when the...
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The Trump administration launched an unprecedented effort Tuesday to bar federal workers from sharing "non-public" information, and on Wednesday, former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor warned that the move bore all the hallmarks of a tactic Trump employed in the private sector, one Taylor described as "creepier than you think.""Federal...
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee spent months calling Ken Paxton corrupt, adulterous, and incompetent. Then he won — and the receipts started disappearing.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a Republican Senate runoff Tuesday, making Cornyn the first Republican senator from Texas to lose his...
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A far-right congressional candidate backed by President Donald Trump exchanged racist jokes with a vigilante border militiaman, according to The Arizona Republic.Mark Lamb, the former sheriff of Pinal County, made the exchanges on a 2016 campaign social media account with Nick Steele of Border Narcotics Intelligence, a private extremist group that...
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday unleashed an attack on a longtime Democratic lawmaker who was unseated in a primary runoff in Texas — after the president pressured state leaders to redistrict.Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was defeated on Tuesday in a "rare incumbent-on-incumbent" Democratic runoff in Texas' 18th Congressional District, NBC News...
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A key official for the Kennedy Center argued to a federal judge this week that the famed venue would see a collapse in donation revenue if President Donald Trump's name were to be removed from the building.The filing, part of a lawsuit brought against Trump by Kennedy Center boardmember and Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty, was flagged on...
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Germany's bid to build Canada's next-generation submarines promises a massive economic windfall, with up to 50,000 jobs over five years and an $86-billion boost to GDP, CBC News has learned. The proposal ties Arctic defence to NATO integration, while offering major investments in shipbuilding, critical minerals, missiles, ports and energy...
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A Trump administration official's proposal to punish Democratic-led cities was met with harsh criticism.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin appeared on Fox News late Tuesday to discuss plans to stop processing international travelers and cargo at U.S. airports in cities that refused to cooperate with the administration's immigration...
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A 79-page opinion written by two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges and one put in place by former President Bill Clinton has put the Supreme Court on the spot to make clear how the nation's highest court, with its conservative majority, justifies race-based gerrymandering.On Tuesday, the panel blocked Alabama from using its 2023 congressional...
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A Fox News correspondent got an earful—live on air—while reporting from outside a New Jersey immigration detention center Tuesday afternoon.Alexis McAdams was reporting for Will Cain's 4 p.m. show outside Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark when a protester unleashed on her mid-broadcast. McAdams had just warned Cain that the scene could...
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after President Donald Trump removed her from the Justice Department last month, according to Axios.Bondi, 60, underwent treatment and is recovering, a source told the outlet. The diagnosis came weeks after Trump ousted her as AG in early April — a departure he framed...
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A report from Groundwork Collaborative reveals how fossil fuel companies are not merely scoring windfall profits from President Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran, but also using that money to reward shareholders rather than providing relief to consumers.The price of gas has soared since Trump attacked Iran without any congressional authorization...
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On Tuesday, Texas GOP voters elected to nominate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his bid for Senate, but on Wednesday, political data strategist John Hagner flagged a telling marker buried within the election data that may spell disaster for Republicans in the midterm elections.In March, Texas held its primary election, during which around 2.3...
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Questions about President Donald Trump's health and fitness have gotten urgent as he nears his 80th birthday, and Americans are increasingly concerned that he might not be up to the task.The 79-year-old president went Tuesday to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his third checkup in 13 months, sparking new speculation about his...
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Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of federal subsidies that helped people buy Obamacare plans.Under federal law, immigrants who are in the country illegally are not eligible for federally...
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Am Wochenende beschließt die AfD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Grimmen ihr Programm für die Landtagswahl im September. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler haben den Entwurf analysiert: Während inhaltlich bei Migration die harten Töne dominieren, gibt sich die Partei im Vergleich zu Sachsen-Anhalt auffällig moderat und regierungsfähig. Die...
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A prominent legal expert is warning that President Donald Trump's policies are directly responsible for a wave of deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities.According to ABC News, "An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by suicide since President Donald Trump took office in...
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President Donald Trump boasted Wednesday about his success in endorsing winning candidates following the victory of Texas' controversial attorney general Ken Paxton, but according to a new poll, the president may end up regretting his endorsement in that race.Conducted by the Democratic Party-affiliated polling firm Public Policy Polling, which was...
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Donald Trump loves the words sleazebag and scumball, so much so that he's surrounded himself with the very definition of those two offensive terms. And it's hard to be more offensive than Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, unless you're Donald Trump, of course.Last night, Paxton, impeached, indicted, accused of bribery, and credibly alleged to...
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