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As Republicans are pushing back against Trump's attempt to control his dissent in his party, the White House is telling them to stop fighting and accept it. Politico reported that a senior White House official essentially said Republicans needed to accept Trump's dominance over the GOP and "submit.""The quicker they understand that President Trump...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice just signaled its broader plan after unveiling its latest indictment, according to one expert. Melba Pearson, a former prosecutor in South Florida, said during a new episode of the Legal AF podcast that the indictment against Raúl Castro is unlikely to result in Castro's extradition, much less a...
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A GOP congressman had a hard time during an appearance on Newsmax selling the Trump administration's newest moves against a foreign country.Rep. James Comer (R-KY) was trying to convince Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty that the United States needed to take action against Cuba and its former president, Raúl Castro. The Trump administration declared on...
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A pair of college GOP operatives have been banned from the campus of Florida International University, amid the continuing fallout from a scandal involving exposed, slur-filled group chats.According to the Miami Herald, "Abel Carvajal, the creator of the group chat and a third-year law student, was found responsible for an 'affirmative act which...
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Trump taunted a Fox News reporter and her fiancé, a Republican congressman, by suggesting he could oust him through elections."Her husband votes against me all the time," Trump said about Jacqui Heinrich and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) while speaking to a press gaggle on Wednesday. "Can you imagine? I don't know what's with him. You better ask...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has hit on a new way to generate clout for her run for governor: introduce a bill prohibiting naturalized citizens from holding elected office — but she may have forgotten one important detail."If you were not born in America, you should not hold power in our government. End of story," Mace posted to X on Wednesday,...
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A political analyst heard alarm bells on Wednesday after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate during his primary election.Massie lost the election to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who took home more than 57,000 votes, or 55% of the total. While some analysts have described Gallrein's victory as a show of President...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stunned political analysts and observers on Wednesday with one of his answers during a CNN interview. CNN's Paula Reid asked Blanche in an interview whether people who were convicted of hurting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection would be eligible for a payout from the newly created $1.776 fund the...
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President Donald Trump appears to be relying on a strategy that is producing "diminishing returns" in the Iran war, according to a new editorial. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board argued on Wednesday that Trump's continued threats are not being taken seriously by the Iranian regime. They cited his threat to resume a bombing campaign in the...
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Trump gave a bizarre but familiar speech for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony, according to reporting by the New York Times. "I hate good-looking men," Trump said as a cadet greeted him on stage, the Times reported. "I like to see what these guys are like!" Speaking for nearly an hour, Trump boasted that he also delivered the...
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President Donald Trump got another round of bad news on Wednesday, as a poll commissioned by Fox News — which uses a respected nonpartisan surveying firm despite its notorious rightward reporting slant — revealed new approval lows for the president and many of his policies.It's the latest in a string of polls agreeing Trump is at or near a low...
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Jan. 6 rioters, Proud Boys leaders, and Trump allies are racing to stake their claims to President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, and some are already calculating exactly how much they believe they're owed.Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy for his role in planning...
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Vanessa Trump, the president's former daughter-in-law, revealed in a social media post that she was diagnosed with breast cancer, according to reports. "I've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer," she wrote in an Instagram post. "While this isn't news anyone expects, I'm working closely with my medical team on a treatment plan." Vanessa, 48,...
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Senate Republicans are debating restrictions on how President Donald Trump could use his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" as part of their reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement, Punchbowl News reported on Wednesday evening.This comes after widespread outrage about the fund, which was created as a so-called "settlement"...
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CNN anchor Erin Burnett's jaw nearly hit the floor on Wednesday as she reported on a startling admission a Trump voter made during a recent interview. NPR spoke to a Trump voter on Tuesday who claimed that he and his partner had started fasting in order to save money on groceries. The comments came at a time when the Trump administration's economic...
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Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) asked his campaign donors this month to chip in for gas money.In a fundraising email titled "Alaska needs you!!" obtained by Raw Story, Sullivan told donors, "To continue ushering in America's Golden Age and delivering results for Alaska, I'm personally reaching out to you to ask for a grassroots donation of $3, $5, or...
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President Donald Trump's recent prayer rally on the National Mall laid bare the religious right's own Epstein files, and may have jeopardized one of his allies in Congress, according to one political analyst. Trump held an event called "Rededicate 250" at the National Mall on Sunday, which was billed as a celebration of the impact Jesus Christ has...
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The Trump administration has no plans to seek congressional approval for President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot arch near the Lincoln Memorial and is instead relying on a 100-year-old authorization for a completely different project that was never built, according to a report.Administration officials argue that Congress effectively pre-approved...
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A former top GOP strategist says that he can barely recognize a senator, who is one of his former clients, after Trump surprisingly endorsed his opponent right before a primary."John Cornyn is just such a sad case," Stuart Stevens said on the latest episode of Harry Litman's podcast. "I now look at him, and I don't recognize him."Cornyn (R-TX) is...
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President Donald Trump's "awkward fail" during his speech at the Congressional picnic on Tuesday night caught the eye of one political analyst. Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, spoke at the event, held on the South Lawn of the White House, and intended for Congressional lawmakers and their families to spend time with the president in a...
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President Donald Trump has been on a tear knocking out lawmakers in primaries for perceived disloyalty, most recently taking down Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). But that is not necessarily going to serve his party well, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace argued on Wednesday.In fact, she said, it may only be causing his party to...
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CNN legal analyst Elie Honig was stunned by the Trump administration's decision to create a $1.8 billion fund that could be used to compensate right-wing rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, and what that could mean for two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol that day and have now filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.The former federal...
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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) became the first Republican member of Congress to formally demand information from the Justice Department about President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "anti-Weaponization" fund, which he created as a settlement with his own administration after dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for failing to secure his...
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A high-ranking Democratic leader delivered a scathing response to two of President Donald Trump's federal judicial nominees during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told judicial nominees Matthew A. Schwartz, a third Trump personal attorney who the president has nominated to a circuit court seat, and former...
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A former Republican political operative ripped the new level of corruption that Trump has reached with a "MAGA Congress" backing him all the way."There are no examples of corruption that are even in the same galaxy as this," Steve Schmidt said in an episode of his podcast. "It is truly, truly incredible, mind-boggling, and yet it rolls on, and it...
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A MAGA influencer lashed out at pop culture podcast host Alex Cooper on Wednesday during her podcast over Cooper's recent pregnancy announcement.Allie Beth Stuckey, host of the "Relatable" podcast on BlazeTV, said during a new episode that Cooper's pregnancy announcement showed how the podcast host had "abandoned her old way of life that she is...
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A federal judge quoted author George Orwell in a recent ruling against the Trump administration that orders White House staff to preserve records. U.S. District Judge John Bates granted a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that requires most White House employees to preserve presidential and vice presidential records. The 54-page decision opened...
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President Donald Trump hinted on Wednesday that a Republican lawmaker who crossed him and sided with the president's foe Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) could be next on his revenge list.Trump revived his threats against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), "an 'America First' firebrand who broke with the president by pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files...
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YouTube journalist Coffeezilla says a data vulnerability on TrumpMobile.com exposed customer information and indicated that the company's reported sales figures are likely fiction.In a video posted Tuesday, Coffeezilla, whose real name is Stephen Findeisen, said he was among the customers whose personal data was exposed by the security flaw,...
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MAGA-aligned former sheriff and Arizona Congressional candidate Mark Lamb faces allegations he sent women nude pictures and inappropriate text messages — then attempted to use the law enforcement powers of his office to keep it all under wraps from the public."Dozens of exchanges, explicit chats and sexual images ... appeared to come from Lamb's...
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Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) primary loss on Tuesday was another example of President Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party, according to some political experts. But a new analysis suggests that Massie may get the last laugh against Trump before all is said and done. Ben Jacobs, a political reporter for Slate, wrote in a new column that Massie...
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Canada's spy agency says its ability to keep pace with threats and contribute to intelligence alliances will be at risk if the government's latest attempt to pass a lawful access bill fails — a warning that comes as momentum against the Liberals' Bill C-22 grows.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised eyebrows this week on his government podcast, "The Secretary Kennedy Podcast," when he veered into an unsolicited observation about the mental health of teenage girls — and how often he's apparently around them."I'm around a lot of young girls all the time, and they all seem, like, really crazy at...
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and his agency are touting a major federal law enforcement presence at this summer's FIFA World Cup — even as new data suggests the tournament may be headed for an economic disappointment.ICE and Homeland Security Investigations will work alongside Customs and Border Protection to combat...
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blamed the Make America Healthy Again movement — at least in part — for soaring beef prices heading into Memorial Day weekend, telling Fox Business that Americans are eating more beef thanks to the MAHA-driven health craze."But this is also combined with Make America Healthy Again — people are eating more...
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President Donald Trump only has the funds to keep the Iran war going for around three more months, a key Republican lawmaker said.Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, "says the Pentagon will run out of money for Iran by 'probably August' and Congress is 'running out of time' to process an Iran supplemental," according...
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The Department of Justice charged one of its former prosecutors after she allegedly tried to steal a sealed report about an investigation into President Donald Trump by disguising it as a cake recipe. According to reporting by Politico, the DOJ is accusing Carmen Lineberger, 62, of trying to send herself copies of an unreleased volume of special...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) lit into Republican witnesses at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, erupting in frustration after struggling to get three GOP-invited witnesses to acknowledge that the Proud Boys and Neo-Nazis are white supremacist organizations.The fireworks came during a hearing Republicans titled "The Southern Poverty Law...
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A furious congressional lawmaker slammed a prosecution by the Trump administration as racist and "an effort to criminalize dissent" during a hearing on Wednesday.Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) described the Department of Justice's criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center as being all "about white nationalism and a direct attack on Black...
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A Republican fired off a strong criticism of President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded anti-weaponization fund, saying he and other lawmakers have plans to fight back against it.In an interview with MeidasTouch chief Washington correspondent Scott MacFarlane on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said legislative...
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A GOP senator said on Wednesday that Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund "doesn't pass the smell test."Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) appeared on CNN to react to Trump's fund, created as part of a lawsuit settlement with the IRS. Anchor Dana Bash noted that Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he's "not a big fan" of the $1.8 billion fund,...
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A former Turning Point USA leader and mother to one of Elon Musk's 14 children revealed that MAGA influencers are most afraid of one progressive influencer.Ashley St. Clair, an ex-MAGA influencer turned critic of the right wing, was a guest on the podcast "Mean But True" with Suzanne Lambert on Tuesday and described how Hasan Piker has quietly...
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A Florida Republican congressman warned Cuba poses a unique and urgent threat to the United States as President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military action against the communist regime just 90 miles from American shores.Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), the only Cuban-born member of Congress, pushed back hard during a Fox News appearance on...
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The New York Times highlighted a telling detail about President Donald Trump's intent for his $1.776 billion political slush fund.The newspaper's editorial board published a scathing opinion column Wednesday blasting the Justice Department's establishment of the fund as part of a settlement of the president's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue...
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Speaking with host Antonia Hylton on Wednesday afternoon, MS NOW's Mychael Schnell pointed out that many Republicans who voted to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) were woefully ignorant about the reasons for voting for his opponent and cast their votes purely based on the president's endorsement.Reporting from Kentucky about the pivotal election that...
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Meta employees reported Wednesday that in the company's offices on the day mass layoffs hit thousands of their colleagues, fliers were taped to walls urging workers to sign a petition in support of stopping the company's new artificial intelligence data tracking program—which CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted late last month as a way for its new AI...
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A Democratic candidate who said she wants to turn an ICE facility into a "prison for American Zionists" was prompting outrage among Democrats who are scrambling to figure out how to isolate her amid allegations that a Republican-linked group could be funding her campaign, according to an Axios report on Wednesday.Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist...
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House Democrats have quickly stepped up their pressure on officials involved in setting up President Donald Trump's massive fund to pay off allies who say they were politically targeted by previous administrations.Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, moved to subpoena acting Attorney General Todd...
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There could not be a worse time for Donald Trump's pick to take over as chair of the Federal Reserve from Jerome Powell, with economic indicators trending towards a possible interest rate increase at a time when the president expects cuts.That is according to Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who wrote on his Substack on Wednesday that...
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House Democrats are opening an inquiry into the "massive slush fund" established by the Department of Justice to pay off President Donald Trump's allies.The DOJ announced the $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" as part of a settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, and House Democrats notified Treasury...
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A CNN fact-checker called out President Donald Trump's false claims that the presidential elections in 2016, 2020 and 2024 were "rigged" against him in a rant to reporters on Wednesday.Trump was speaking to press at Joint Base Andrews when a reporter asked him if he saw himself in Spencer Pratt, a MAGA-backed Los Angeles mayoral candidate. The...
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President Donald Trump has ushered disgraced filmmaker Brett Ratner into his inner circle, and his former biographer offered an explanation.The 57-year-old director accompanied the 79-year-old president to China last week ostensibly to scout filming locations for "Rush Hour 4," a franchise reboot Trump helped greenlight last year, and author...
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The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon has become the latest symbol of the Trump administration's chaotic approach to election investigations after sending a records demand to the wrong office in her attempt to investigate Detroit's 2024 election results.According to Talking Points Memo, the controversial Dhillon...
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) came armed with gotcha questions at Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center — and walked away empty-handed after civil rights attorney Maya Wiley repeatedly deflected his attacks by pointing to one inconvenient fact: the donors don't care.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche used the...
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Sen. John Cornyn briefly shared a post calling Donald Trump the "Commander-in-Cheat" on Tuesday — then deleted it — in a stunning moment of apparent candor from a Republican incumbent fighting for his political life one week before a Trump-backed primary runoff.As first reported by The Federalist's Sean Davis, Cornyn retweeted a post from...
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A woman who was Jeffrey Epstein's "main girlfriend" for about seven years and has remained silent due to a 2008 plea deal could have to face lawmakers in an investigation, according to a report from The BBC this week.Nadia Marcinko, who was an assistant pilot for the late financier and convicted child sex offender's private plane and visited him at...
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The former congressman was politically engaged until the end. As GBH reports, Even in hospice, Frank was actively working to spread the message of his forthcoming book, "The Hard Path to Unity: Why We Must Reform the Left to Rescue Democracy."
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Two of the most recognizable police officers from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to kill the Trump administration's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" before it can pay out a single dollar to the rioters who beat them.Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel...
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A former police officer arrested by Tennessee officials for making a Facebook post about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's murder will receive $835,000 as part of a wrongful incarceration settlement, CNN reported on Wednesday."Under the deal announced Wednesday, Larry Bushart, agreed to drop the five-month-old case alleging that his constitutional...
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The in-studio audience for Tuesday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC burst into cheering and raucous applause after the host shared a clip of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) putting acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his place earlier in the day.According to Kimmel, it was "perfect.”In the exchange, the combative Blanche, who landed his...
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Jeff Bezos tried Wednesday to thread a needle that's gotten increasingly hard to thread — insisting he's no Trump lackey while simultaneously heaping praise on the president — and it showed.In a wide-ranging live interview on CNBC's Squawk Box from the Blue Origin Rocket Factory in Merritt Island, Florida, the Amazon founder and world's...
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Kentucky's Thomas Massie, a provocateur libertarian and professional pain-in-the-butt to House leadership and Donald Trump, lost his primary yesterday. That was a foregone conclusion given how Trump's endorsements have won primaries almost across the board.Those endorsements are going to come back and haunt the GOP in November, but that's another...
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President Donald Trump uncorked an unfocused, rambling attack on Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico on the tarmac on Wednesday morning to reporters."He believes in six genders, he takes hits at Jesus Christ, he's wearing a mask six months ago. Anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn't get it," said Trump. "And he's a vegan! He's a...
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CNN's Harry Enten found evidence to suggest Democrats have a real shot at picking up a Senate seat in deep-red Texas.President Donald Trump announced his endorsement Tuesday of state attorney general Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a May 26 runoff election, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that Republicans were right to question the...
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Trump aide Stephen Miller went on X this week to torch Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky for voting against President Donald Trump's signature border bill, but the video drew a reaction Miller almost certainly didn't see coming. Some of the loudest voices in the far-right corner of the MAGA movement turned the attack right back on him.In...
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MS NOW host Joe Scarborough began shouting about Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "slush fund” on Wednesday morning and hammered Republican lawmakers for saying nothing about handing out cash to Jan 6 insurrectionists who "beat the hell out of cops.”Using Vice President JD Vance's comments on Tuesday defending the president's so-called...
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A Florida man who once ran a notorious "ex-gay" ministry has been arrested in a sting operation for soliciting someone he thought to be a 14-year-old boy.According to WESH, "Alan Chambers, 54, faces charges of solicitation of a minor via computer, transmission of material harmful to minors, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device,...
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In a "major loss" for outgoing Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a woman charged with voting illegally in the state has been acquitted based on an entrapment defense.According to Signal Ohio, "A guilty verdict would have led to up to 18 months in prison for Maria Dearaujo, 63. But Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Chris Brown sided with the...
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Former prosecutors who built criminal cases against the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters are sounding the alarm over a Trump administration fund that would compensate people convicted in the attack — including those found guilty of assaulting police officers.The administration has set aside $1.776 billion in taxpayer money for what it calls victims of...
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Citing Donald Trump's collapsing support, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, longtime political observer John Heilemann observed on Wednesday morning that Republican Party will not only lose in the November midterms, but it is increasingly looking like they will lose big.Appearing on MS NOW's "Morning Joe,” Heilemann claimed there...
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The Liberal government has nominated Canada's top military commander, Gen. Jennie Carignan, to be the next chair of NATO's military committee — the alliance's senior military advisory post. The move comes as NATO wrestles with political friction, war in Ukraine and growing pressure over allied defence spending and cohesion.
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Donald Trump's string of big primary wins on Tuesday, where his hand-selected candidates took out some of his biggest critics in the Republican Party, was undercut by his endorsement of controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is now expected to be the nominee in place of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.Appearing on MS NOW's "Morning Joe,”...
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