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New York Times columnist Bret Stephens dropped the hammer on Donald Trump for "betraying” conservatives like himself who were encouraged that he took on Iran — only to capitulate when his war stalled out because he miscalculated the enemy.To make his point about the president's lack of courage, Stephens brought up the way the president avoided...
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) grilled President Donald Trump's budget office nominee, warning that his confirmation would enable "anti-American" policies.Slotkin zeroed in on Hal Duncan, Trump's pick for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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President Donald Trump canceled the hearing for his own nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, in a dead-of-morning Truth Social post on Wednesday — but at least some Senate Republicans are signaling they plan to go forward anyway.Clayton is nominated to succeed Tulsi Gabbard, who is resigning from office this month....
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) gave a remarkably blunt assessment of the intra-party chaos sparked by President Donald Trump's "bombshell” he dropped early Wednesday morning - that he would be "cancelling” a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing – and shrugged his shoulders when asked to speculate on Trump's reasoning.At around 4 a.m. Washington...
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Das Foto und ein kurzer Videoclip von CDU-Fraktionschef Guido Heuer und AfD-Spitzenkandidat Ulrich Siegmund in Sachsen-Anhalt sorgt weiter für Diskussionen um die Brandmauer. Während die AfD-Spitze im Hintergrund auf eine Spaltung der CDU oder ein Bündnis mit dem BSW für eine künftige Regierungsübernahme hofft, gibt sich die Alternative nach...
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President Donald Trump startled onlookers with a profane outburst when he was asked about former President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran.The 80-year-old Trump has been fixated on proving the agreement to end his war in Iran is stronger than the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – which he withdrew from in May 2018, during...
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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance is sounding the alarm that the right of women to vote, long treated as untouchable, could erode along the country's current political path, after watching conservative women publicly declare they would happily surrender it.In her Civil Discourse newsletter, Vance pointed to a recent Turning Point USA Women's...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who lost his re-election bid after President Donald Trump endorsed his GOP primary opponent, confused onlookers Tuesday night after sharing an image online depicting a Senate GOP colleague sitting atop a throne made of human skulls."My favorite Senator [Susan] Collins (R-MA) picture,” Cornyn wrote Tuesday evening in a...
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As Iran festered and inflation rose earlier this month, Donald Trump talked about a far more urgent matter. The Reflecting Pool.It's inexplicable why Trump pays so much attention to his ballroom, his arch and the Reflecting Pool. Maybe, as he watches his approval ratings plummet to historic lows, he is turning to real estate since he thinks that's...
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President Donald Trump's "Freedom250" UFC match on the White House lawn was a massive display of weakness, Salon's Amanda Marcotte argued in an analysis published on Wednesday — and it reveals the true insecurity of the MAGA psyche.The whole movement, she said, is "run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Wednesday while in France when pressed on the tentative peace deal his administration reached with Iran last weekend, the supposed details of which, while not officially released, have leaked and sparked outrage among hawkish figures."No, it's not final, it's a memorandum of understanding!” Trump is...
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President Donald Trump's move to pull the hearing for his own Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton at the last minute was driven by fury over Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Politico's Meredith Lee Hill reported on Wednesday.This comes as Republicans are eager to get Clayton confirmed before current DNI Tulsi Gabbard...
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The Department of Justice made an unusual concession to six protesters arrested during an immigration crackdown in Chicago that experts say shows how "desperate" government lawyers are to make the failed prosecution go away.Defense attorneys for the "Broadview Six" have asked U.S. District Judge April Perry to appoint an independent special counsel...
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The Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take up a case that "we should all be worried" about, Alexis Romero wrote for Slate on Wednesday — and it concerns a power the Trump administration has long sought, and lower federal courts have long curtailed.Specifically, the case could decide just how long the federal government is allowed to hold...
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A Fox News host blamed Vice President JD Vance — and not President Donald Trump — for a deal with Iran that he deemed too weak.Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade made the remarks Wednesday during an interview with Alex Gray, who served as chief of staff of the White House National Security Council under Trump."It doesn't look like Iran's been...
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At the end of a segment on Donald Trump's Iran deal, which is being highly criticized across the board as a disaster, MS NOW host Willie Geist made a point of holding up in the front page of Wednesday's edition of the New York Post featuring a blaring headline criticizing the president.Prior to Geist's display, each member of the "Morning Joe'...
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President Trump's carefully cultivated aura of political invincibility took another hit Tuesday when his handpicked Georgia gubernatorial candidate crashed in the Republican primary—marking a stark reminder that his endorsements no longer guarantee a victory, Politico is reporting.Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Trump's chosen candidate for Georgia's open...
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President Donald Trump poured more than $14 million into a Reflecting Pool renovation that was completed earlier this month, but its refilling has been plagued by an intense algae bloom, and CNN wanted to get to the bottom of it.The 300,000-square-foot pool has turned an increasingly murky shade of green, and the Department of Interior has sent...
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The Trump administration appeared to scramble Wednesday morning after CNN obtained new details on the tentative peace deal between the United States and Iran, with one White House official dismissing it as inaccurate, and another urging people to not "read too much into the language.”The 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached between...
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CNN's Audie Cornish tried to rein in a MAGA pundit after he derailed a political debate with his own personal obsession.Arch-conservative billionaire Rick Jackson defeated Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia's GOP gubernatorial primary Tuesday, and Cornish showed "CNN This Morning" panelists a campaign ad Jackson aired that showed him...
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When discussing the legacy President Donald Trump is likely to leave behind regarding his deeply unpopular war against Iran, the cast of MS NOW's "Morning Joe” pivoted Wednesday to another legacy project of the president's, one that host Mika Brzezinski said Trump had been exhibiting "strange behavior" over since last week.The legacy project in...
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While the Senate had planned to confirm Jay Clayton as the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as soon as Wednesday, President Donald Trump derailed those plans overnight after announcing he was "cancelling” the confirmation hearing, thereby creating a "disaster” and "living hell” for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), some...
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A conservative legend has a "prediction" for November, and it is the opposite of what nearly every forecaster is seeing.In an email sent on behalf of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, former House speaker Newt Gingrich told his supporters that Republicans are headed for a banner midterm that will leave Democrats reeling."When the votes...
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Donald Trump had a team of recruiters roaming Trump Tower searching for women for him to have sex with, according to an explosive FBI interview buried in the Epstein files.In a 2021 interview, a woman told agents she was approached in the 1990s as she sat in the public atrium at the base of the Fifth Avenue skyscraper in New York City.Two men asked...
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President Donald Trump left analysts stunned on Wednesday after dropping what Punchbowl News described as a "bombshell,” with critics suspecting the announcement was tied to the president's false claims of election fraud.After facing unprecedented bipartisan backlash, Trump backed off his controversial nomination of Bill Pulte for Director of...
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New details from a so-called peace deal between the U.S. and Iran have leaked, but the document shows few specific agreements to end the nearly four-month-long conflict.CNN has obtained the 14-point memorandum of understanding reached by negotiators for the two nations, and senior White House correspondent Kevin Liptak informed "CNN This Morning"...
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Fox News didn't just cheer on President Donald Trump's war with Iran. It helped goad him into it, according to a blistering column from political analyst Sabrina Haake.Writing in her latest Substack, The Haake Take, the longtime federal trial attorney argues that the network and its hawkish hosts pushed Trump toward military force in Iran through...
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President Donald Trump has pronounced the Strait of Hormuz open for business with his much ballyhooed peace agreement with Iran, declaring "ships of the world, start your engines.""Well," reported NPR. "Not so fast."The 80-year-old president's declaration is running into the messy reality of post-conflict shipping. After announcing a peace...
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President Donald Trump says he is canceling a scheduled hearing Wednesday for his nominee to serve as director of national intelligence, saying that Republican lawmakers fell into a legislative "trap."The 80-year-old president announced on Truth Social at 3:54 a.m. EST that he would not allow the hearings to proceed for DNI nominee Jay Clayton,...
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I don't know much, but I'm starting to think that maybe this Trump Administration isn't so honest. Do you think it's possible they're being (gasp) less than straight with us?Mercy.Take this whole Iran thing. Call me suspicious, but it doesn't sound to me like Trump and Veep JD Vance and all of their partners in crime got everything they were...
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With just 24 hours until polling day, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy preview three pivotal by-elections that could reshape British politics. The duo assess the contests in Makerfield, Aberdeen South and Arbroath & Broughty Ferry, exploring: Away from the campaign trail, Anne brings the latest intelligence from the UK-EU summit as political tensions...
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Ursula von der Leyen is only a year and a half into her second term, but Brussels is already whispering about a third. Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart examine what is fueling the speculation — from her sweeping overhaul of the European Commission to concerns that more power is being concentrated at the top. Then, […]
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A MAGA lawmaker's rambling warning about the Knicks celebrations confused critics online.Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) said on Fox Business, "I'm worried" after seeing footage of the New York Knicks celebrations on Saturday. Fox Business played a video on repeat of a person swinging a scooter into a bus after the Knicks won their first NBA...
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A conservative pundit's attempt to defend Trump's diplomacy backfired as a CNN roundtable jumped on him.Tony Kinnett, a conservative podcast host, tried to explain how Trump has been negotiating with Iran and the new dubious deal whose details are hidden from the public."What happens after a certain deal falls through?" Kinnett said. "There's a...
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The officials running Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's prison dodge questioning from visiting congressional staff, according to reporting by Politico.Maxwell transferred from a prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Politico noted that Democrats have wondered whether her transfer to a "cushier" facility...
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Political analysts and observers were astounded on Tuesday night after one of the candidates President Donald Trump backed in the Georgia Republican Senate primary race won. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) defeated Republican Derek Dooley, a former football coach, in the red state's primary on Tuesday night. That puts Collins in line to face off against...
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President Donald Trump's status as a kingmaker in Republican primaries got a setback on Tuesday, as Georgia GOP voters rejected his choice for the governor's race.Businessman Rick Jackson, defeated Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who had Trump's endorsement as well as the endorsement of outgoing Gov. Brian Kemp, according to the Associated Press and CNN.Jones...
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Former Vice President Mike Pence joined the chorus of concern by turning against President Donald Trump's murky Iran war deal.During an appearance on CNN with Kaitlan Collins, Pence spoke about the deal, which is already being attacked by GOP senators and experts alike, and described it as "much bigger than a mistake."Pence decried that Trump gave...
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Georgia Republicans have chosen the Trump-endorsed candidate, Congressman Mike Collins, to face off in the Senate contest against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff, rejecting Gov. Brian Kemp's pick of former coach Derek Dooley. But they may come to regret that decision soon, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Tuesday's edition of "The Briefing.""As a member...
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A former State Department official said on Tuesday that one detail of the deal President Donald Trump struck with the Iranian regime over the weekend makes her "very afraid." Former Biden deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman said during an appearance on CNN that she's worried that Trump is so focused on getting oil flowing into the market again...
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A pair of young MAGA influencers got arrested at one of Washington's most prestigious clubs on Friday, Will Sommer wrote for The Bulwark — and the bizarre tale of how it happened underscores a "fake-it-till-you-make-it ethos" that has become fashionable under the Trump administration.Ryan Fournier, one of the co-founders of Students for Trump,...
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CBS must pay an undisclosed amount to Lee Mendelson Film Productions after Stephen Colbert intentionally played the "Linus and Lucy" theme from Peanuts during The Late Show finale. The segment discussed the production company's strict copyright enforcement on the Vince Guaraldi Trio composition, reports The Daily Beast. Colbert's "pre-planned...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put a baffling spin on Trump's Iran War deal, but he didn't get off scot-free.Although details of Trump's Iran War deal remain murky, it's already being criticized for reportedly giving up a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Graham told reporters on Tuesday, however, what he believed the deal achieved."If this thing goes...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department is headed into illegal territory with their latest move to prosecute 15 protesters from Minnesota for interference with immigration authorities, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Tuesday.Weissmann has a number of questions about how this was conducted — which would...
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President Donald Trump's controversial Iran deal may already be about to hit a brick wall — and it's all thanks to rules Trump and his own congressional allies put in place.According to Punchbowl News, Trump's State Department "triggered a provision in the 2024 Ukraine-Israel supplemental funding bill that prevents the president from removing the...
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The internet mocked President Donald Trump after photos and video footage showed him wandering off the stage among world leaders at the G7 summit in France on Tuesday.Trump was in Évian-les-Bains discussing the Iran agreement and during a family photo, he appeared to be somewhat disoriented, moving away from the group of dignitaries who tried to...
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Sending Vice President JD Vance to defend Trump's baffling remarks on inflation was the "worst possible strategy," a political expert said on Tuesday.Paul Rieckhoff mocked the very idea while speaking on a CNN panel on "Erin Burnett OutFront." However, during Vance's appearance on "The View," he found himself defending Trump's "I love the...
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) defended her vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh despite his role in overturning Roe v. Wade, stating she does not regret the confirmation. When confronted by reporters about the decision during her re-election campaign, Collins said she disagreed with Kavanaugh's abortion vote but pointed to justices she...
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The Trump administration is quietly relaxing standards for how immigration detainees can be treated in lockup — and one of those changes may run afoul of the 13th Amendment's prohibition on "slavery or involuntary servitude."According to The Washington Post, Geo Group, a private prison contractor in charge of many of the detention facilities,...
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The Trump administration's green light for an industry-shaking deal will gut a deep blue state's economy, a former GOP operative warned.Paramount Skydance plans to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, and the $110 billion deal has the approval of Trump's Department of Justice. Steve Schmidt warned in his podcast about how the deal and moves by Paramount...
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The Royal Canadian Navy's sweeping modernization plans hinge on a challenge that can't be solved in a shipyard. Vice-Admiral Dan Charlebois says the service must grow by as much as 40 per cent to crew a new fleet of destroyers, submarines and support vessels now taking shape.
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