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People were mocking President Donald Trump's bizarre attack on his longtime foe Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Saturday. Trump took to his Truth Social platform and posted an exaggerated illustration of Pritzker eating a smorgasbord, with a cheeseburger in one hand and a pizza slice in another, surrounded by a giant nacho plate, large milkshake,...
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New information was revealed on Saturday about how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to respond to the American passengers who have been stranded on a luxury cruise ship amid the hantavirus outbreak, according to reports.A CDC control crew was slated to meet with the 17 Americans who have been on board a cruise ship where the...
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A former Trump administration insider on Saturday signaled that a cabinet member facing a rash of controversies could be on his way out. Miles Taylor, who served as Homeland Security Chief of Staff in the first Trump administration and is now a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, told MS NOW anchor Alex Witt that FBI Director Kash Patel's...
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A recent series of "bizarre" moves by First Lady Melania Trump might not make sense to most, but a White House biographer explained that she's simply setting herself up for life post-Trump."This is the new Melania, and the new Melania is brand 'Melania,'" said veteran journalist Michael Wolff on Saturday while appearing on The Daily Beast podcast....
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has fueled speculation about whether he's planning to launch a 2028 presidential bid after he was seen DJing at a family wedding and entertaining reporters with rap lyrics, an analyst reported on Saturday. The Atlantic's Matt Viser described how Rubio's disposition and recent activities have raised questions over his...
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As the Trump administration tries to fall in the good graces of the first American Pope, an ex-GOP operative is shaking his head at the fact that he employs what he called one big 'anti-Catholic bigot' in particular. "Donald Trump is surrounded by anti-Catholic bigots," ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt said on his podcast on Saturday....
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First Baptist Church senior pastor Robert Jeffress, a strong ally of President Donald Trump, argued on Fox News Saturday that he believed Trump to have a better understanding of biblical teachings than Pope Leo XIV.Jeffress' claim comes amid Trump's ongoing feud with the head of the Catholic Church, prompted by Pope Leo's generic criticism of war....
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) took to the right-wing network Real America's Voice on Saturday to lob a series of unsubstantiated claims regarding COVID-19 vaccines, claims that left several onlookers taken aback.For "years,” Johnson – a close ally to President Donald Trump – has spread "conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the...
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A person was killed at Denver International Airport after trespassing onto a runway and being sucked into a Frontier Airlines jet engine Friday night — just hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on Fox News to promote a family road trip reality series he'd been secretly filming for seven months while running the Department of...
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A Virginia Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a voter-approved redistricting referendum has set a dangerous new precedent — and the Democrats whose voters were disenfranchised are barely putting up a fight, according to a scathing new analysis.Last month, Virginia voters approved a new congressional map that would have left Republicans with a...
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week on May 14, with the two nations expected to discuss ways of stabilizing U.S.-China relations, but as the summit draws closer, "the more urgently Washington” races to "freeze the Iran crisis,” lest Trump arrive with a "weakened” hand, journalist...
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President Donald Trump's war against Iran – along with the resulting blockade imposed by both Tehran and Washington – has sparked fear among experts that the supply of the world's "most-consumed chemical” may soon reach a "critical” shortage, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.That chemical is sulfuric acid, which is relied upon in...
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Sean Hannity and a former Marvel mogul are lobbying the president to hand Florida's term-limited governor one of the most powerful jobs in Washington.Some of Donald Trump's closest allies want him to tap Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the next attorney general — despite him being a bitter enemy during the run up to the last general election.Fox...
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By Christopher Niezrecki, Director of the Center for Energy Innovation, UMass Lowell; Ben Link, Deputy Director of the Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and Zoe Getman-Pickering, Program Director of the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind, UMass AmherstThe U.S. is in a bizarre...
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Donald Trump has a problem with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. For over 150 years, its French Second Empire granite has stood elegantly next to the White House. I've been in that building numerous times. To me and many others, it's an architectural marvel.But Trump looks at that historic stone and sees a flaw. He wants it painted white,...
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US President Donald Trump's Justice Department moved Thursday to settle a Biden-era antitrust lawsuit against the analytics firm Agri Stats, proposing an agreement that critics say would effectively give the stamp of federal approval to meat industry price-fixing schemes.The Justice Department—now headed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche,...
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In March 2025, President Donald Trump's administration made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act, the bedrock environmental law estimated to have prevented thousands of premature deaths. All they had to do...
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Despite the Justice Department (DOJ) being in a state of "turmoil” due to its aggressive push to prosecute James Comey, the former FBI director who's drawn President Donald Trump's ire, the agency is now "weighing whether to seek” a third indictment, The Washington Post reported Saturday.The DOJ first indicted Comey last year on charges related...
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Even as President Donald Trump's war with Iran and tariffs on foreign goods are hammering working-class Americans, a new report shows that members of the US elite have never had it better.As The Financial Times reported on Thursday, attendees at the annual Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills this week were living in "blissful ignorance”...
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Editors of newspapers like to say that they cover the newsworthy events "without fear or favor.” Sure. But how can they cover events without the requisite curiosity, without deeply feeling for the public's right to know, and without breaking through their "comfort zone”?Maybe you can help explain the following examples of editors and reporters...
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Late-night host Bill Maher took a sharp dig at President Donald Trump Friday night as he continues to face an onslaught of attacks from the president, a dig that suggested the language in Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note bore a striking resemblance to Trump's own writing style.While its authenticity was disputed by Epstein's own brother, the...
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University of Michigan professor Justin Wolfers on Friday joined a growing number of economists and other critics casting doubt on what he called "the Pentagon's lowball $25 billion estimate” for the cost of President Donald Trump's illegal war on Iran.While testifying before Congress last week alongside US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,...
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Vice President JD Vance spoke at a "packed rally” last Tuesday in Des Moines, Iowa, touting the Trump administration accomplishments on the economy — but according to the Iowa Starting Line, some of those attendees may very well have been paid to be there."I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des...
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The Trump administration is actively being pushed to launch a major attack on Iran's energy infrastructure by Israeli officials, The New Arab reported Saturday, citing an "informed” Israeli source whose claim was shared on Israel's Channel 12."According to the report, Israeli officials believe Iran's energy infrastructure could be destroyed...
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Here's what happened this week.— While the FAA was collapsing, the Transportation Secretary was filming a reality show. Former B-lister reality TV and Fox star Sean Duffy revealed Friday on Fox & Friends — the same way he announces most things — that he and his wife, Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy, spent seven months shooting a road-trip...
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Trump's Iran war accidentally sparked a global renewable energy revolution — handing a big win to an industry he openly despises, an analyst wrote Saturday.Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran has triggered what energy experts are calling the worst oil supply crisis in recorded history — and in a twist the president almost certainly...
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Karnya Shuliak, Jeffrey Epstein's "last partner and main heiress,” was exposed Friday by veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez for "likely" engaging in an illegal scheme – one that involved smuggling 50 human teeth into the United States.In a report published on her Substack Friday, Valdes-Rodriguez detailed a peculiar email hidden within...
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Donald Trump is souring on Vladimir Putin as the Russian president's grip on power weakens and his war in Ukraine drags into an embarrassing stalemate, according to a new analysis.The shift comes as Trump prepares for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, a meeting that has left Putin nervously watching from the sidelines, Sarah...
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Wyoming attorney and rancher Karen Budd-Falen, who President Donald Trump appointed to serve in a senior role at the Department of the Interior, made remarks at an event last December that some experts said could amount to an admission of violating federal law, The Washington Post reported Saturday.Budd-Falen was speaking at a Congressional Western...
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A leaked threat from Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles warned she'd fire West Wing staff members who discussed the president's administration outside of a very close circle, Politico reported.The internal warning told insiders they could be hit with immediate termination if they spoke to reporters.Wiles, who caused a recent firestorm...
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Republican lawmakers and candidates are growing increasingly anxious in the lead up to the 2026 midterm elections as President Donald Trump continues to stay quiet on whether his super PAC, MAGA Inc., has any plans to use its $300 million was chest to help bolster Republicans at the ballot box."There is an expectation funds are coming soon,” said...
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I went for a run earlier this week under a wind advisory. The gusts were brutal, the kind that make you question the lengths you will go to avoid the treadmill.At one point I passed a construction site, and hovering around it was a thick, low-hanging cloud of dirt. When a gust hit, it didn't drift, it exploded. It rained all over me. It got up in...
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Gordon Repinski nutzt diese Sonderfolge für ein Gespräch mit der Community. Er reflektiert über euer Feedback zu den neuen, längeren Podcast-Formaten, diskutiert die Herausforderungen von 200-Sekunden-Interviews und gibt einen persönlichen Einblick in seine Arbeit als Politikjournalist. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen ab 5...
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A 19-year-old New York man said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, or ICE agents, beat him on a Bronx street on Wednesday before admitting they had targeted the wrong person. Jeury Concepción required stitches and suffered a concussion following the encounter. He recalled how the agents did not identify themselves before the assault,...
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Trump's giant gold statue of himself at his Doral Golf Club in Miami was met with online disgust by people who couldn't believe that anyone would want or applaud such a vanity project. "What's wrong with people," wrote journalist James Surowiecki on X, reacting to video of the statue and a photo of a pastor dedicating it in Trump's honor. Even...
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Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, disputed the authenticity of an alleged suicide note released Wednesday after being sealed for nearly seven years. Mark Epstein told the National Enquirer that if his brother intended to end his life, "he would've written it 'to somebody,' not just a blanket statement saying goodbye." The note was allegedly...
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Trump is reportedly losing patience with his own war that he started in Iran and wants it to end as soon as possible, according to a new report. According to a Friday article by The Atlantic, an outside advisor to Trump said that the president is "bored" with the war. "Others believe he is frustrated at Iran's intransigence," the Atlantic reported....
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Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta had a reality check for Fox News' Jesse Watters, after the latter objected to the former's criticism of President Donald Trump's latest vanity project in Washington, D.C."After Jesse Watters of Fox complained about my story on Trump's ridiculous reflecting pool project, I decided to do a fuller report on many of the...
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Virginia's Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Friday that the state's Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when placing a constitutional amendment on the ballot authorizing mid-decade redistricting. Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote, "This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has gone from being considered a far-left backbencher when she was first elected in 2018, to one of the Democratic Party's most prominent rising stars — and with that has come swirling questions and rumors about whether she plans to seek higher office.Former Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod asked...
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A GOP senator trying to keep his seat in a contentious battleground state was hit with a damning attack ad calling out his connections to sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein."Of all 535 members of Congress, who's taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?" the attack ad opened. "Jon Husted, that's who."The opponent of Sen. Husted (R-OH),...
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Plans to build portions of the border wall in Big Bend National Park are off after bipartisan backlash over the proposed construction, a top U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner.CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said the Trump administration was no longer planning to construct the wall within the national park following...
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Red state officials trying to redistrict their state congressional map suffered a setback in a lower court on Friday. According to Alabama journalist Kyle Whitmire, a three-judge panel denied Alabama a stay, saying that it doesn't have the jurisdiction. Alabama officials have been trying to undo a federal injunction that came out of the case Allen...
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The Wall Street Journal's editorial board threw its weight behind reports that President Donald Trump is planning to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary on Friday, and didn't hold back in explaining why."That would be great news for patients who have been denied access to life-saving therapies on his watch," the board wrote in a hard-hitting...
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American singer Ashnikko publicly banned MAGA hats from her concerts this week after a Trump supporter was jeered at her Orlando show for wearing one."I would just like to reaffirm that MAGA hats are not [expletive] allowed at my shows," Ashnikko told the crowd at her Miami concert, which erupted in cheers.The clip was posted to TikTok on Friday,...
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Emmy award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has hired high-profile litigator Bryan Freedman before her contract with CBS News expires at the end of the month, with little chance of renewal. The departure follows a public clash with newly appointed CBS News head Bari Weiss, who killed Alfonsi's "Inside CECOT" investigation hours...
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President Donald Trump was caught on the back foot Friday when a reporter asked him about the reports his Food and Drug Administration commissioner is set to be fired, not even appearing to understand what was being asked of him."What's going on with Marty Makary?" asked a reporter."Nothing much," said Trump. "He's fine.""Are you going to fire...
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Trump's social media platform is struggling as it just reported more than $400 million in losses during the most recent quarter, according to recent reports. Truth Social, run by the Trump Media and Technology Group, reported a net loss of more than $400 million and less than $1 million in total sales during the first three months of 2026,...
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MS NOW's Symone Sanders-Townsend kicked off Friday night's edition of "The Weeknight" by contrasting America's economic malaise with President Donald Trump's obsession with lavish spending on renovations in Washington, D.C.Many of these renovations appear to have shady details under the hood, including Trump steering the contract to redo the...
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The president of UFC tried to create some space between himself and President Donald Trump, a well-known friend of his, during a recent podcast interview. "Everybody has friends they disagree with," Dana White said during an appearance on the podcast, The Breakfast Club, on Friday. "I consider myself right down the middle, a little liberal, to be...
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Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor warned Friday that President Donald Trump may invoke a secret "Doomsday Book" containing pre-drafted executive orders hidden in a secure White House location. Created under the Eisenhower administration to maintain government continuity following a nuclear attack, the book grants presidential...
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A top White House official has become so frustrated with seeing details of the Trump administration leaked to the press that she's begun cracking down internally, according to a new report. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles sent an email across the Executive Office of the President telling staff to stop leaking information to the press,...
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was forced onto social media Thursday to reassure the tech industry after her own National Economic Council director went off-script and publicly floated FDA-style government approval requirements for new AI models — touching off nearly a day of anxiety across the sector, according to Politico.Kevin Hassett,...
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A New Jersey man was body slammed and arrested at a packed township meeting this week after speaking out against a proposed AI data center — part of a growing national backlash against Trump's $500 billion push to build AI infrastructure across the country.The confrontation unfolded Thursday at an Andover Township Committee meeting in Sussex...
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President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro made a massive blunder in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting case, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday — and it could cause huge problems down the road.Specifically, she is not going to recuse herself from the case, despite having...
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Alabama officials have filed an emergency motion to the Supreme Court, asking for it to lift a federal court order that prohibits the state from redistricting until the next scheduled Census.The motion goes specifically to Justice Clarence Thomas, a far-right jurist who oversees such requests when they come from within the 11th Circuit.In its prior...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) thinks she's cracked the case on extraterrestrial life — and the answer, she says, is in scripture.As President Donald Trump released his long-teased "UFO Files" on Friday, the firebrand Republican offered her own theory on what the government may actually be tracking: fallen angels."God is the creator of the universe....
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Emmanuel Saez, the UC Berkeley economist who designed California's proposed billionaire wealth tax, accused the Washington Post and owner Jeff Bezos of publishing "misinformation" about the measure. Saez criticized a Post editorial board piece arguing the tax would cost California billions in lost revenue due to a billionaire exodus, claiming the...
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The GOP is walking into an embarrassing trap by stumping for one of Trump's vanity projects, said an ex-GOP political operative on Friday."This is one of the stupidest political traps I've ever seen somebody walk themselves into," said former Republican political strategist Rick Wilson during an appearance on MS NOW. "I want Republicans to vote for...
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New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman delivered a blunt assessment of one of the GOP favorites to win the Republican nomination for president in 2028."What is going to happen in the next couple of years will impact whether JD Vance becomes president," Haberman said during an appearance on CNN on Friday. "His fate is tied to President Trump."CNN...
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A grand jury in Oklahoma uncovered evidence that Gov. Kevin Stitt pulled strings behind the scenes to get a political donor released early from prison, KOSU reported on Friday."In 2023, Sara Polston was driving in Norman with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit. While traveling 66 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone, she crashed into...
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Washington Post readers launched a wave of criticism Friday after the Jeff Bezos-owned publication published a Mother's Day column attributed to Melania Trump.Titled "Mothers are America's strength," the piece prompted hundreds of comments expressing skepticism about authorship, with readers questioning if President Donald Trump wrote the column...
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Republican businessman and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is once again facing criticism and mockery for remarks that cast doubt on his authenticity.Ramaswamy, an ally of Trump who ran for president alongside him in 2024 and helped him craft the Department of Government Efficiency project, was born in Cincinnati — but had constantly...
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Fox Business host Dagen McDowell warned that Americans had "every right to be upset" because President Donald Trump's second term had "gone the wrong way."During a Friday panel discussion, McDowell agreed with contributor Steve Forbes that Trump was right to pursue fraud within the government. Still, she insisted that alone was not enough to turn...
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A federal judge in Massachusetts fired a warning shot at a lawsuit filed by far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office against the Democratic Party fundraising platform, ActBlue.According to Texas-based political reporter Bayliss Wagner, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns "ruled that ActBlue's countersuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton is...
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said during a public conference this week that the so-called Trump Accounts established under the GOP's 2025 budget law represent a viable path toward Social Security privatization—something the Texas lawmaker described as a "dirty little secret.”During a panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference in...
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The Department of Justice wants to strip a dozen Americans of their citizenship, including a former United States ambassador and National Security Council official, as it moves forward with denaturalization, according to a new report.According to a report by The Hill, the DOJ announced on Friday that it is seeking to "denaturalize" 12 U.S....
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President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever, according to a New York Times investigation published Friday.Trump gave the contract to...
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President Donald Trump responded angrily to ABC News senior correspondent Rachel Scott's question about his focus on renovation projects in Washington, D.C., during an ongoing war in Iran and rising gas prices. Scott asked, "Why focus on all these projects as gas prices soar?" Trump defended the work, stating, "I want to keep our country beautiful...
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Funds from a proposed settlement to end a lawsuit against TikTok could go directly towards building Trump's triumphal arch rather than the child victims the lawsuit was meant to protect, according to a new report.The social media company TikTok expects to pay $400 million to end the 2024 lawsuit, which came after the Department of Justice "alleged...
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President Donald Trump and his allies have been banking hard on the belief that his tariff policy conveys a "populist" message to American workers and shores up his coalition. But time and time again, he has been proven wrong, conservative writer Dan McLaughlin argued for the National Review in an article published on Friday — and there's a...
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A red state lawmaker quietly called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, but plenty of people are calling out the stunning remark. "Say what now?" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kyle Whitmire wrote on X, reacting to comments from Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter on Friday. The GOP state Speaker told local media,...
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