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President Donald Trump was reportedly shocked after a scandal broke out involving former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's husband, Byron Noem, who has had an alleged fetish for cross-dressing and could have compromised national security, the president told The Daily Mail on Tuesday. The outlet called Trump to ask for his reaction to the...
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The New York Times editorial board had a damning message on Tuesday for President Donald Trump and his decision to pardon about 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters who have since committed other crimes. Unlike past presidents who have waited until their final days in office to issue potentially controversial pardons, Trump has done the opposite. And in doing so,...
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President Donald Trump is considering ending the Iran war without requiring the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blocked since late February. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump and aides assessed that reopening the waterway would exceed his four to six-week timeline. Trump's strategy aims to disable Iran's navy and missile...
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The Supreme Court issued an ominous ruling for LGBTQ rights on Tuesday, siding with an anti-gay counselor in Colorado that the state's law against conversion "talk therapy" is a regulation on speech and therefore subject to strict scrutiny, ordering a lower court that upheld the law to re-examine it with a much harsher framework. However, liberal...
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made an eyebrow-raising claim on air with a far-right talk show host: the U.S. government is not only covering up the existence of extraterrestrials, but breeding them.Gaetz told Benny Johnson that he received this information from an official briefing."I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform,...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at the National Trust after it successfully sued for a preliminary injunction that halted construction of his $400 million White House ballroom."The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a Ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be the finest...
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Republican hopes of unseating Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul took a brutal hit Tuesday after their candidate was denied up to $7 million in matching funds over a pair of filing blunders, leaving him vastly outgunned in an already uphill race.The Public Campaign Finance Board voted 4-3 along party lines to deny Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman...
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According to a NOTUS report, TMZ launched a campaign exposing lawmakers leaving Washington, D.C., during the partial government shutdown while tens of thousands of federal workers remain unpaid. TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin stated the outlet wanted to juxtapose members of Congress enjoying spring break against federal workers losing homes...
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President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. apparently had some concerns over Tiger Woods' DUI arrest as his ex-wife, Vanessa Trump, apparently gave the golf legend and current boyfriend "an ultimatum," Radar Online reported. The former married couple have continued to co-parent their five kids and Woods' crash and subsequent arrest has...
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U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon blocked President Donald Trump from further construction of his White House ballroom project.In a three-page order on Tuesday, Leon granted a preliminary injunction requested by the National Trust for Historic Preservation of the United States. The judge said that administration officials from the National...
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The federal public health agency is taking over administration of a program that compensates people who have been injured by vaccines, months after Health Minister Marjorie Michel ordered an audit of the program following complaints about its administration.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on the Florida House to impeach a Tallahassee judge who briefly released a sex offender onto the streets, resulting in the killing of the man's 5-year-old stepdaughter."To my friends in the Florida House of Representatives, I don't think what you've done is enough,” DeSantis said during a Tampa press conference on...
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President Donald Trump's latest posture to get out of the war he started in Iran without fixing global oil markets has allied nations infuriated, Washington Post foreign affairs correspondent David Ignatius told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Tuesday.This comes as Trump considers dropping the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as a condition for ceasing...
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U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss has permanently struck down President Donald Trump's executive order that attempted to defund NPR and PBS.In a 62-page ruling on Tuesday, Moss said the First Amendment did not allow the president to defund the two private entities because, in Trump's view, "neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or...
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened Tuesday to target American tech and defense companies operating in the Middle East if the U.S. and Israel continue to target Iranian leadership. In a statement released by the government-backed Tasnim News Agency, the IRGC said retaliatory attacks could begin as early as Wednesday evening and...
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The Trump administration's online portal for processing refunds on tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court will only handle approximately 63 percent of 53 million import entries when it debuts, according to a court filing submitted Tuesday.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials told the U.S. Court of International Trade that the system...
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Conservative viewers inundated Real America's Voice with emails opposing the Iran war during Monday's Human Events show, with host Jack Posobiec spending nearly 10 minutes reading viewer mail. The vast majority of President Donald Trump's voters expressed concerns about Operation Epic Fury, with only a minority supporting the conflict. A viewer...
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The White House has called a grassroots movement seeking the impeachment of President Donald Trump "minuscule" despite the rising number of signatures, according to a Newsweek report. Nearly 200,000 people have signed the Change.org petition as of Tuesday, which has nearly doubled since January. The petition cites its main concerns and several...
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A U.S. Marine was detained at a Southern California airport after Transportation Security Administration agents discovered a live explosive round inside his checked baggage, according to a report by The Guardian.The device was uncovered Monday during routine screening of checked luggage at Palm Springs International Airport, the Palm Springs Police...
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Anti-abortion Republicans expressed outrage after the White House said it was restoring Biden-era Planned Parenthood grants.White House officials told conservative outlet The Daily Wire that the funding was being restored due to legal challenges. According to the report, funds were expected to be provided to Planned Parenthood through next year....
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Donald Trump's obsession with proving that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him apparently has some limits, the Wall Street Journal is reportingAccording to the Journal's report, the White House has been pursuing an elaborate investigation into alleged 2020 election improprieties, centered around campaign lawyer Kurt Olsen, who led...
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As reported by Daily Mail, defense attorneys for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, filed a court claim on Friday indicating Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or ATF was unable to match the bullet recovered from Kirk's autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to the murder. The filing sparked online speculation and fueled...
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Prominent conservative lawyer George Conway made a bold prediction on Tuesday that in the "coming weeks and months,” an "accelerating tide” of MAGA supporters would turn on President Donald Trump as his favorability among Americans continues to sink to historic lows.Conway's prediction was prompted by an admission from Scott McConnell, the...
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The White House was pushing to reaffirm its support for troubled surgeon general nominee Casey Means on Tuesday after President Donald Trump suggested he could withdraw her nomination.Trump said this weekend that he would be open to pulling his support for Means, who is the sister of Calley Means, a White House senior adviser, The Hill...
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What began with surprise US and Israeli strikes on Iran one month ago has hardened into a grinding stand-off, with no clear way out.The conflict's opening blows on February 28 killed senior leaders in Tehran, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – prompting retaliatory missile and drone attacks on Israel, US bases and Gulf infrastructure.Years...
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The U.S. Army suspended the crew of two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters after a video went viral over the weekend of MAGA-aligned musician Kid Rock waving to a helicopter hovering outside his mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, NBC News reported Tuesday.The suspension came after the U.S. Army opened a probe into the incident on Monday, with NBC News...
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As reported by ProPublica, Attorney General Pam Bondi's DOJ shuttered over 23,000 criminal cases in its first six months, abandoning investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and nursing home abuse. February 2025 alone saw nearly 11,000 declinations—the highest monthly total since at least 2004. The department declined nearly 5,000...
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was reportedly "devastated" to learn that her husband, Bryon Noem, had an alleged fetish for cross-dressing.A spokesperson responded to the New York Post after the Daily Mail reported that the former Trump official's husband was obsessed with a "bimbofication" fetish scene."Ms. Noem is devastated. The...
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Three private investigators believed to possess "critical evidence” related to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged crimes have been hit with new demands from lawmakers to provide access to that material, Rep. Robert Garcia said on Tuesday."Epstein's private investigators have been holding hard drives with critical evidence on them for decades,” Garcia...
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A new book by a former employee of Alex Jones claimed the conspiracy theorist once faked a beheading by disguising a reporter as a member of ISIS.In his book, The Madness of Believing: A Memoir from Inside Alex Jones' Conspiracy Machine, Josh Owens recalled spending four years as a video editor at Infowars. "In Jones' world, it was all about making...
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President Donald Trump's preferred candidate in Alabama is bucking "conventional wisdom" by trailing badly in Republican primary.The president endorsed former state GOP chair John Wahl for lieutenant governor in January, but a new poll released Monday shows him in third place behind Secretary of State Wes Allen and state Agriculture and Industries...
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TMZ tracked down Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday traveling to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the latest politician traveling and enjoying spring break as the government shutdown hits its seventh week. The outlet has been reporting on lawmakers who have fled Washington, D.C. while tens of thousands of federal workers have gone unpaid. Cruz was the latest...
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are facing federal court action over a systematic campaign to purge the bureau of perceived political enemies, according to a lawsuit filed in D.C. District Court, reports CBS News.Three seasoned FBI investigators — Jamie Garman, Blaire Toleman, and Michelle Ball — have sued after being...
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The Pentagon is weighing whether to deploy a powerful anti-drone laser system near a Washington military base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live after reports of unusual drone activity in the area, according to a report from The New York Times.The Army is considering placing the system — known as LOCUST...
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) undermined MAGA host Benny Johnson's segment on an alleged Democratic sex scandal by admitting he would have slept with a Chinese Spy.During an interview on Tuesday, Johnson sought to smear Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a candidate for California governor, by claiming he slept with an alleged Chinese spy named Fang...
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Moments after the Supreme Court sided with a Christian counselor on Tuesday in her challenge to a Colorado law banning attempts to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity, MS NOW's Lisa Rubin claimed Associate Justice Elena Kagan provided a road map for other states to avoid a similar fate.In an 8-1 decision, with Justice Ketanji...
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President Donald Trump has signaled he is likely to retreat from the ongoing Iran war, a former White House insider said on Tuesday. Bill Kristol, conservative analyst and editor-at-large for The Bulwark, shared what he thinks Trump and his administration will do next as the war now reaches the fifth week. "Where he's heading is toward the exits,"...
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Der Konflikt im Nahen Osten spitzt sich weiter zu: US-Bodentruppen werden in die Region verlegt, die Straße von Hormus bleibt blockiert, Israel weitet seine Operationen im Libanon und im Westjordanland aus. Gleichzeitig versuchen internationale Akteure wie China und Pakistan, die Lage diplomatisch zu entschärfen – bislang ohne Durchbruch. Im...
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President Donald Trump has sunk to historic lows in his approval rating, and CNN's Harry Enten sees "no sign" that he can turn things around.The 79-year-old president has been underwater in approval for more than a year now, and his war in Iran has driven up fuel costs around the world and made consumer costs even higher, which has driven down his...
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A prominent conservative journalist and commentator was taken aback by President Donald Trump's latest rant Tuesday morning, going as far as to say that the president's remarks marked "the beginning of the end of the U.S. empire.”Earlier on Tuesday, Trump erupted at the United Kingdom over its refusal to join the United States in its war against...
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Vice President JD Vance faced backlash online after encouraging people to pre-order his new Christian book."I've been writing this book for a long time, and I'm honored to finally be able to share the full story with you all," Vance explained in a social media post on Tuesday. "Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was the latest person in the Trump administration to demand photographers remove a photo she deemed unflattering, according to reports on Tuesday. Leavitt was apparently unhappy with an image of herself, a turkey and her son around Thanksgiving and disliked it so much that she reached out to the agency...
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According to Financial Times columnist Ed Luce, Donald Trump spent an inordinate amount of time during their Monday interview grasping for clues on how to bring his war on Iran to a close.Calling into MS NOW's "Morning Joe,” Luce elaborated on more details from his chat with the embattled president who reportedly jumped from topic to topic....
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A growing number of lawmakers have been spotted fleeing Washington, D.C. as tens of thousands of federal workers continue to go unpaid amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, and TMZ has developed a "new obsession” of exposing them, NOTUS reported Tuesday."It outraged us so much we wanted to use our platforms to show how Congress – Dems...
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In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace.The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened...
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As energy and finance officials from across the European Union prepared to review energy supply levels amid the US-Israeli war on Iran on Tuesday, campaigners from a leading climate action group renewed their call for officials to go further than just releasing oil reserves in order to keep costs down.Oil giants that have benefited from the growing...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided an update on the war with Iran, but he failed to reassure many observers that he and President Donald Trump had a strong plan.The 79-year-old president told CBS News that he's not ready "quite yet" to give up on forcing Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, although he posted on Truth Social that he wants...
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A coalition of more than two dozen environmental and health groups sued the Trump administration on Monday for repealing Environmental Protection Agency rules that curbed dangerous chemical pollution from coal-fired power plants.As part of President Donald Trump's efforts to dramatically expand the use of coal, the EPA last month finalized the...
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After giving a rah-rah speech about the US war on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was put on the spot by a reporter from the Daily Caller to reassure his MAGA base with rumors of a possible land invasion hanging in the air.Toward the end of his Pentagon press conference, Hegseth was asked by conservative journalist Reagan Reese about the...
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The attorneys for the man accused of assassinating right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk last year lobbed a "bombshell” claim in court on Friday, the Daily Mail reported Monday, and one that sparked an online frenzy and fueled speculation about the case."I am NOT a conspiracy theorist but [what the f---] is going on here?” asked prominent liberal...
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Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, made a series of telling remarks last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas that journalist Anthony Fisher said revealed him to be "arguably the most eager-to-please attack poodle in Trump's kennel,” writing in an op-ed published Tuesday in MS NOW.Carr...
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With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments on Wednesday about President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship guaranteed under the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, "Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough challenged far-right Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to stand up for constitutional precedent.Speaking...
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Turn on your local billionaire-funded right-wing media (it's ubiquitous, after all) pretty much any day of the week and you'll hear a similar rant, uttered with the same grinning certainty:"ICE is going to surround the polls this November, and there's nothing you can do about it.”They're not floating it as an idea or something up for debate....
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President Donald Trump challenged U.S. allies who opted out of his war on Iran to "go get your own oil" as the global economy braces for fuel shortages.Fuel costs have soared since Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz in response to the joint U.S.-Israeli military option, but Wall Street Journal reported that Trump has suggested that reopening the...
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested he was caught off guard by Iran's response to the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation, and that has placed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under scrutiny.Sources have said the self-styled "secretary of war" downplayed the risks of Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and launching counterstrikes...
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Comments made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the future relationship between the US and NATO that hint at a break with the peace-keeping coalition received a thorough –– and critical –– examination on MS NOW early Tuesday morning.In an interview with Hashem Ahelbarra of Al Jazeera, the Donald Trump appointee criticized the NATO...
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President Donald Trump erupted at France on Tuesday morning over what he perceived to be a major snub, and vowed that the United States would "remember” its actions going forward.Trump claimed that France refused to allow U.S. military cargo planes en route to Israel to use French airspace, a claim that as of Tuesday morning has yet to be...
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Reacting to a Politico report that group of Jan. 6 insurrectionists have filed a lawsuit in Florida against the Capitol police officers they assaulted in Donald Trump's name, "Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough went on a furious rant on Tuesday morning that concluded with a long, drawn-out obscenity.After co-host Mika Brzezinski noted the...
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President Donald Trump erupted at the United Kingdom Tuesday morning over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran, issuing the European nation a notice that the United States would no longer be offering it "help.”"All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which...
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has his "back up against the wall” as a growing number of Republicans – including President Donald Trump – take shots at the GOP Senate leader for having worked with Democrats to end the ongoing partial government shutdown, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday."To put it bluntly, Thune feels like he's been...
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President Donald Trump has shackled Republicans with a "huge challenge" heading into the midterm election cycle, according to a former White House official.The U.S. labor market has experienced no growth or net private-sector job creation over recent months, despite the 79-year-old president's promises during his 2024 re-election campaign, and...
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The partial break in the Department of Homeland Security shutdown has paradoxically worsened Trump's negotiating position. By paying airport screeners, the administration eliminated the crisis that was supposed to force Democrats to capitulate — and now neither party sees reason to move.According to Politico, both Democrats and Republicans have...
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A longtime federal public servant says she's become "collateral damage" as her department clears its backlog of Phoenix payroll issues so it can test replacement software — and in doing so introduced an error to her file, refused to fix it and is now clawing back hundreds of dollars per paycheque.
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The Nebraska Democratic Party has denounced William Forbes, 79, a pastor running for Senate as a Democrat, calling him a "Republican Party plant." Forbes has voted for President Donald Trump in multiple elections, attended a GOP-backed leadership summit in January, and opposed abortion access. The party chair provided screenshots from Forbes's...
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Conservative media personality Mark Levin delivered a Saturday night monologue on Fox News, vouching for U.S. military deployment to Iran to seize uranium supplies, following President Donald Trump's social media endorsement. Critics argued that Levin's remarks could damage Republicans in the 2026 midterms and harm Trump's legacy. Levin omitted...
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Europe is facing another potential energy shock — and this time, Brussels is starting to float something politically tricky: using less fuel. Host Zoya Sheftalovich is joined by POLITICO's senior EU politics editor Ian Wishart to break down a warning from Brussels that points to a possible need to cut fuel use, as fears grow […]
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Heute vor vier Jahren wurde Butscha befreit. Die Bilder von gefesselten, getöteten Zivilisten haben sich als Synonym für russische Kriegsverbrechen in das Gedächtnis eingebrannt. Aber Gerechtigkeit ist ein Marathon: Während in Kiew der Butscha-Gipfel läuft, analysiert Hans von der Burchard vor Ort die juristischen Hebel. Kann ein...
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A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll reveals President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to 33%, with 62% disapproving — potentially his worst rating to date. Despite the polling, the president continues to promote an unconstitutional third-term bid. Analysts warn his approval could plummet further if he authorizes a ground...
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President Donald Trump's administration just crossed a "tipping point" where other authoritarian regimes have failed, according to one expert.Over the weekend, more than eight million people participated in the nationwide "No Kings" protest, one of the largest public demonstrations in U.S. history. The total number of demonstrators who attended the...
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