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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to dodge the $5.8 million payment a New York court ruled he owes E. Jean Carroll was swiftly slapped down Friday as "yet another play for time," court records show. Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who represented Carroll in her sex abuse case against Trump before his return to office, filed a swift rebuttal to...
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Hooray, we're free! Screw you, England!Now what?When Benjamin Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention and said we'd been given "a republic, if you can keep it," is there any doubt he was talking about 2026 America?Taking stock of where we are—on our nation's 250th birthday—we're not exactly knocking it out of the park.The Supreme...
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President Donald Trump faced scornful ridicule Friday night over his perceived jealousy of Taylor Swift's celebrity.The White House posted on X an AI photo of Madison Square Garden signs apparently celebrating Trump. The post went live just ten minutes after pink signs outside the arena announced Swift and Travis Kelce were "JUST&T...
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President Donald Trump faced scornful ridicule Friday night over his perceived jealousy of Taylor Swift's celebrity.The White House posted on X an AI photo of Madison Square Garden signs apparently celebrating Trump. The post went live just ten minutes after pink signs outside the arena announced Swift and Travis Kelce were "JUST&T...
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President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of the nation he leads by blasting out insulting memes at about 2 a.m.Trump took to Truth Social at 2:11 a.m. precisely to make sure American citizens knew for certain he thinks Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) looks like Pee-wee Herman.The president returned at 2:19 a.m. to remind the nation he...
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A former beauty queen who says Donald Trump groped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trump helped funnel young women into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.Beatrice Keul, 55, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, told the Daily Beast's new Punch Up Substack that she believes Ivana...
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America turns 250 this year. If you were around for the bicentennial in 1976 you probably remember it like I do. I was an 11 year-old preteen obsessed with presidents but not yet old enough to understand the experiment called democracy I was celebrating.I remember red, white and blue everywhere. In our neighborhood, every porch or window had a...
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Amid the ongoing review of Canada's fighter jet procurement, a Department of National Defence official has been told to stop using a custom-made business card featuring two Lockheed Martin F-35s after she handed copies out at a recent military trade show.
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Federal officials described President Donald Trump's July 4 celebration as "safe" and "well-prepared" just hours after a record heat wave forced organizers to shut down the Great American State Fair and paramedics rushed to aid attendees, several of whom were reportedly hospitalized.In a joint statement Friday, Freedom 250, the U.S. Park Police,...
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A reporter braving a blistering heat wave at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair described chaos at the event as paramedics raced to save attendees, with seven said to be on "advanced life support" in the hospital.Julian Andreone of Drop Site News was on the ground Friday at the fair detailing what he called a "hectic" scene."It...
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Kylie Jane Kremer, the activist listed as the permit holder for the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the Capitol attack, has floated a new theory about Washington's summer heat: it's sabotage.In a post on X, Kremer claimed someone with an "extreme case" of Trump derangement syndrome "geoengineered" the weather in D.C. She pointed to the cold at Trump's...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday delivered a speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America that drew a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump's vision for the country.Speaking from New York City Hall, Mamdani recounted how his city had long served as a refuge for people from across the...
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Severe weather threatened to put a damper on Friday on President Donald Trump's plans to speak near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, prompting amusement from internet critics who said it seemingly indicated "god is angry."Trump was flying to South Dakota as part of a broader July 4 and America-250 trip, planning to visit the iconic American landmark...
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A clip of President Donald Trump slipping a pair of gold ceremonial scissors into his suit pocket at a ribbon-cutting is raising alarm bells with at least one medical expert, who said the moment may point to something more serious than a souvenir grab.The incident occurred Wednesday at the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library...
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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller kept up his attacks on birthright citizenship with a far-fetched hypothetical on Friday, and critics lined up to ridicule it.Days after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling that struck down President Donald Trump's executive order, Miller posted on X that if you believe a...
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Guards at an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, could see a detainee in his cell with one end of a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and the other tied to the door handle. If they opened the door, the sheet would tighten and strangle him. The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, had been in detention at Camp East Montana for a month by then....
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A Fox News host uncorked a bizarre on-air tirade against Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, calling him a "demon in human skin."Emily Compagno appeared to lose her composure on Friday's edition of "Outnumbered" while discussing Talarico, a 37-year-old state representative now in a statistical tie with embattled Republican nominee Ken...
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First lady Melania Trump gave Congress a private deadline to pass her signature foster care bill, and she is pursuing it largely outside the usual White House channels, according to a new report in Politico. At a bipartisan roundtable with the House Ways and Means Committee in April, the first lady publicly called foster care legislation a "moral...
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A right-wing influencer got more than he bargained for during a livestream in Philadelphia when a passerby challenged him in a heated, curse-laden exchange.Jack Posobiec was in Philadelphia on Friday outside Independence Hall as the city held its Red, White, & Blue To-Do, a citywide patriotic celebration tied to the July 4 weekend. As Posobiec was...
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Second Lady Usha Vance asked President Donald Trump a simple question about his reading habits on her children's literacy podcast, and the internet surmised she knew exactly what she was doing.In the episode of "Storytime with the Second Lady," posted Friday, Vance asked Trump whether he has any time to read for fun these days. "I end up reading...
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President Donald Trump said Friday he has signed pardons for six people convicted in connection with tampering with vehicle emissions controls, casting their cases as political persecution under his predecessor."It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being...
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An active-duty Air Force major was arrested in uniform on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this week after he stood before cameras and demanded that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance be impeached and removed from office.Jason Watson, a career officer, spoke at a news conference organized by the Removal Coalition, an activist group...
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President Donald Trump's controversial new intelligence chief is clearing house, and career officers warn the man swinging the axe doesn't know what he's cutting.Bill Pulte, Trump's loyal acting director of national intelligence, began notifying dozens of intelligence officials of their terminations Thursday, part of a downsizing Trump ordered when...
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If you're feeling that the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States has been hijacked by a narcissistic, political hack, you're not alone. Instead of a joyous event for all Americans, our holiday has been plagued by vicious attacks on those who haven't drunk the Make America Great Again Kool-Aid. And the results are proof positive...
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Democrats are sharpening their subpoenas, and Donald Trump's own paperwork may hand them the roadmap, according to a new report.The president's 2025 financial disclosure, a 927-page filing released by the Office of Government Ethics, shows Trump pulled in more than $2.2 billion last year, the richest stretch of his life. Crypto ventures that barely...
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The Great American State Fair on the National Mall closed early Friday as a dangerous, record-breaking heat wave gripped the nation's capital, forcing organizers to suspend the event with plans to reopen at 5 p.m., CNN reported.The shutdown comes as Washington, DC, braces for highs near or above 100 degrees for a second straight day, with a heat...
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Resistance is mounting across the United States against the increasing use of surveillance tech company Flock Safety's cameras, with a growing number of cities canceling contracts as the artificial intelligence-powered license plate readers are quietly being installed in thousands of locations nationwide.State and local police departments first...
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Major American corporations that benefited from tax cuts enacted last year by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are donating to the campaigns of GOP lawmakers who made the windfall possible.A report published Friday by Unrig Our Economy spotlights seven House Republicans who voted for the sprawling and unpopular GOP budget...
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Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official turned vocal critic, issued a stark warning to Americans on the eve of the nation's 250th anniversary, arguing the country now faces a fundamental choice about its future under President Donald Trump.In an op-ed published Friday, Taylor wrote that the traditional "pillars" of American democracy...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen marked the United States' 250th anniversary with a scathing essay arguing the nation's defining trait isn't liberty or opportunity, but cruelty, and placed President Donald Trump at the center of that critique.In the essay, Nguyen described Trump as a "would-be American Nero" whose government has...
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"A ce moment-là, je me suis dit 'j'arrête tout'”. Dans cet épisode spécial de Playbook Paris, le podcast de POLITICO, enregistré aux Rencontres économiques d'Aix-en-Provence, l'ancien ministre de l'Economie d'Emmanuel Macron raconte à Anthony Lattier ses campagnes électorales, de ses succès aux législatives aux moments de découragement...
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Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence.According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a "Chinese communist agent” when he released...
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A close call involving performers at the Great American State Fair could land President Donald Trump behind bars, one journalist cautioned on Thursday.Performers narrowly avoided injury Thursday when a section of the stage at the Washington, D.C. event appeared to give way, sending debris crashing down just feet from where they stood. According to...
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Donald Trump Jr. sent a 'groveling' fundraising email instructing recipients to complete a Republican Party questionnaire and "have it back to us by 11:59 p.m.," according to a New York Times column by Michelle Cottle.The email is part of a fundraising style that has become a signature of MAGA world – one that trades polite requests for demands....
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President Donald Trump's obsessive push to revamp Washington D.C. was born during a motorcade ride to face election interference charges, according to a former campaign official who was with him that day.On August 3, 2023, Trump was riding to the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse for arraignment on four counts tied to his effort to overturn the 2020...
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President Donald Trump, who turned 80 last month, made only three public appearances in Washington before 11 a.m. during the entire month of June, according to a Daily Beast analysis of his official schedule and White House pool reports published Friday.The Daily Beast's review found that the president's "shockingly lazy” schedule listed...
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Trump administration officials reportedly believed that the Israeli government intended to assassinate Iran's top negotiators—including the country's foreign minister—during peace talks with the US in an effort to sabotage diplomatic progress.The New York Times reported Thursday that "American concerns about the targeting of two particular...
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's inner circle apparently had to fight to keep from cracking up during his very first phone call with Donald Trump — because the American president veered wildly off-script into a bizarre theory about wildlife.According to Starmer's former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, the conversation started normally...
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WASHINGTON — Ever throw a party only to have no one show up? Awkward. Lonely. Embarrassing.Welcome to President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, where even the baptism pool was empty in Friday's 100-degree heat as two men waved large flags to a crowd of two and a half — a little boy danced to soulless piano playing to the massive...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) torched what was left of her relationship with President Donald Trump on Thursday after new financial disclosures showed he personally pocketed $2.2 billion during his first year back in office, The New York Times reported Friday. "The Republican Party hijacked MAGA," Greene wrote on X, the Times...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) committed to block House floor proceedings unless House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) inserts the SAVE Act into a must-pass piece of legislation, Punchbowl News reported on Friday.Luna has pressed for the SAVE America Act – a bill that mandates voter ID and citizenship checks while adding new restrictions on mail-in...
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This column grimly spent a spring predicting a dark summer of possible chaos and violence, an administration on the move, power grabs at every turn, one preparing for an unpredictable but authoritarian fall season. We would endure a lot of hot weather, late nights, some dangerous dynamics, and Kalshi had odds at 40% that Portland would be ashes by...
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LE MENU DU JOUR — Power 40 : notre classement des 40 personnalités les plus influentes en 2026 (source : nous-mêmes). — Des allées du parc Jourdan à la soirée POLITICO, all eyes on PLF. — Que faire, qui voir et quoi entendre dans et en dehors du parc aujourd'hui. DEUXIÈME ROUND. Votre infolettre vous […]
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An ex-GOP operative flagged how Trump is killing what he once touted as his "best" deal at the expense of his supporters.During an episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller described Trump's plans concerning the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump negotiated and boasted about during his first term."The Trump administration decided...
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A CNN panel had a good laugh as a GOP pundit twisted himself in a "pretzel" defending the Trump family.While discussing recent revelations about how much money Trump and his family made since returning to office last year, conservative podcaster Ben Ferguson had everyone around him in stitches.Ferguson, the host of "The Ben Ferguson Show," argued...
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A MAGA congressman's attempt to defend his wing from accusations of racism backfired after online critics laid into him.Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) took to X with a post that featured a picture of him with a serious expression and one of his quotes pulled and in bold."The left has one debate tactic: call you a racist and pray you shut up," the quote...
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With England through to the knockout stages of the World Cup and hopes rising that football might finally be coming home, Westminster is watching nervously — and closely. The beautiful game shapes the national mood like little else. For politicians, that creates both huge opportunity and huge risk. This week, Patrick Baker speaks to football...
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The Department of Labor's latest economic report revealed concerning trends despite a declining unemployment rate of 4.2%. Job creation fell sharply to just 57,000 over three months, down from 129,000 in the previous report, according to the survey released Thursday morning. CNN senior business reporter David Goldman highlighted red flags in...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith stunned online viewers by revealing how he prepared for prosecution by the Trump administration.During an appearance on MS NOW, Smith spoke about hiring lawyers when he left his job as a federal prosecutor because he led two criminal investigations into Donald Trump, including for his efforts to overturn the 2020...
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Trump's plans for a massive fireworks display on July 4 triggered an emergency air pollution warning, according to a new report.According to MeidasTouch News, an emergency warning went out across Northern Virginia alerting the public about health impacts from Trump's upcoming fireworks show for the 250th anniversary of the United States.An...
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MS NOW's Jen Psaki kicked off "The Briefing" Thursday night with a rundown of the utter failure of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" on the National Mall — and highlighted one moment in particular she thought was incredibly bizarre."This was the scene on Tuesday, when there were actually more in the band on stage than there...
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A security expert warned about the impact of Trump's latest move to send hundreds of FBI analysts to Georgia.CNN law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller broke down Trump's decision to send 260 intelligence officials to Georgia to investigate the 2020 election results. Miller said the move is "very concerning," especially as Trump...
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro became defensive during a press conference Thursday when a reporter questioned the prosecutorial disparity in her office's handling of cases. While announcing a federal indictment against Olympic athlete David Hearn, who faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly touching detached paint on the Lincoln Memorial...
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An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that first lady Melania Trump has concocted a "preposterous" new way to try and silence him. Michael Wolff, co-host of the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, said during a new episode that Melania Trump's legal team has moved to...
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President Donald Trump's "rant" and the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on Wednesday sparked fresh health concerns for one political analyst. David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, said in a recent video that Trump's speech at the opening ceremony for the new presidential library raised all kinds of red flags. Not...
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Donald Trump Jr. has a stake in a company that stands to profit massively from a potential federal rule change by the Trump administration to allow guns to be sold entirely over the internet, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.The issue involves the company GrabAGun, an online firearms retailer that has billed itself as "the Amazon of Guns,"...
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European astronomers have appealed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC, to reject SpaceX's plan to launch 1.7 million satellites into orbit, warning the massive installation would have "devastating consequences for astronomy." The European Southern Observatory, or ESO, study found 100,000 is the maximum number of faint...
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A legal expert pulled apart the Trump administration's prosecution of a U.S. Olympian accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool.During an appearance on CNN, Ryan Goodman, a former Pentagon lawyer and the editor-in-chief of Just Security, said that the case, led by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, "smells really bad."Goodman blasted Pirro's claim that...
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President Donald Trump stunned his critics on Thursday with a remark he made about his kids during an interview on CNBC. Trump was asked by CNBC's Joe Kernen about allegations that his children are using insider information to gain favorable business deals. The president recently disclosed that he earned more than $2 billion during his second term,...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board is alarmed by President Donald Trump's hints he'll give F-35 fighter jets to the Turkish government — which, despite being a NATO ally on paper, has disconcerting ties to Russia.This comes after Trump recently said that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a notorious autocrat who has...
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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been indicted on 16 criminal charges by a grand jury in New Orleans.According to The Times-Picayune, jurors "handed up the indictment at New Orleans' criminal courthouse ... The attorney general faces eight felony counts of malfeasance and another eight felony counts of intimidation."The charges stem from...
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Vice President JD Vance inadvertently revealed sensitive strategic calculations by disclosing President Donald Trump instructed Iran peace negotiators to "use the [memorandum of understanding] to refill the world's oil economy, refill some stocks and then to see where the hand is." Writing for Salon, political analyst Heather Digby Parton...
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A legal expert shared a sobering warning on Thursday about President Donald Trump's continued efforts to dismantle birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court rebuffed his latest attempt. Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, told Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of "The Intersection" podcast, on a recent episode...
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James Carville confessed he's rethinking his most famous phrase because of a new threat posed by Trump.During an episode of Politics War Room, Carville revisited his 1992 quote, "It's the economy, stupid," which he coined during the Bill Clinton campaign to hammer home what issue mattered the most. However, Carville said he now regrets the phrase...
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Former three-time Olympic canoeist David Hearn faces felony charges after being arrested for allegedly touching a piece of partially detached paint from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hearn, 67, claims he was merely curious about the paint and had no intent to vandalize. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro was expected to hold a press conference...
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President Donald Trump tapped two prosecutors with experience in warrantless surveillance to go after protesters, a new report flagged.According to reporting by The Lever, the Trump Department of Justice hired two prosecutors with histories of using warrantless surveillance to helm a unit tasked with cracking down on "anti-Americanism."Prosecutors...
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A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's legal strategy for detaining longtime undocumented residents without bond hearings is "a complete fantasy."The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, 2-1, the release of three men who had been locked up without any hearing to contest their detention.The three — Ignacio...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith has been a constant target of fury and legal threats by President Donald Trump, dating back to even before the election, when the famed prosecutor was helming a pair of federal criminal cases against him.But Smith doesn't dwell much on the possibility that Trump's Justice Department will fabricate some charges...
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