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Donald Trump may not appreciate the gesture, but the Wall Street Journal editorial board encouraged the president to toss one of his harshest critics a note of gratitude. In a Friday editorial, the Journal argued that Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) forceful defense of presidential war powers during a vote rebuking Trump over U.S. actions in...
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Iran's supreme leader signaled Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters after they screamed from windows and marched through the streets overnight, directly challenging U.S. President Trump's pledge to support those peacefully demonstrating.
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump's Secretary of Labor, is under internal investigation over a complaint that she has carried on an "inappropriate" relationship with a subordinate, the New York Post reported on Friday evening."Chavez-DeRemer, 57, has welcomed her alleged paramour at least three times to her DC apartment and twice into her...
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The Department of Homeland Security and its leader "do not deserve the benefit of the doubt,” according to MS NOW analyst Philip Bump, who argued in a searing op-ed that the agency and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem have developed an "honesty problem.”"You cannot trust the Department of Homeland Security,” Bump wrote Friday, citing data and public...
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A 37-year-old mother was shot dead during a Minneapolis immigration enforcement operation on Wednesday, and legal analysts said the killing wasn't an isolated incident, but rather the inevitable result of a Supreme Court decision that handed the president sweeping immunity powers.Video footage showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent...
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President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new affordability measure aimed at American consumers, proposing in a pair of Truth Social media posts on Friday dramatic changes to credit card interest rates – and touting his second term in the White House as "historic and very successful.”"Please be informed that we will no longer let the American...
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A far-right lawmaker running for governor of Florida was lobbying the IRS to write more favorable rules for cryptocurrency, the same day his wife purchased at least $50,000 in Bitcoin, Notus reported on Friday.According to the report, Rep. Byron Donalds joined 18 other lawmakers urging Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary currently also serving as...
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Gallego calls for ICE reforms as Phoenix braces for possible immigration enforcement sweepby Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror January 9, 2026Arizona Democratic U.S. Senator Reuben Gallego spoke with reporters Friday afternoon ahead of the upcoming legislative session, giving his thoughts on possible impending immigration actions in Arizona,...
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Hoyer departure opens scramble for his seat among Democrats long waiting in the wingsby William J. Ford and Christine Condon, Maryland Matters January 9, 2026Rep. Steny Hoyer's announcement that he will not seek reelection to the 5th District seat that he has held for the last 45 years is expected to make an already crowded race more crowded. Much...
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Internal doubts are quietly swirling inside the Trump White House following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis – an incident that some in the administration worry officials moved too quickly to frame as "domestic terrorism.”That's according to Politico, which reported Friday that the unease centers around public...
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In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie discusses his conversations with President Trump that held off a surge of federal immigration agents in the city, reducing crime and hopes for the future.
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President Trump ignited scrutiny and accusations of market manipulation by posting December jobs figures on Truth Social hours before the official release. The chart revealed private sector gains of 654,000 jobs "since January" 2025, numbers normally under embargo until 8:30 a.m. to prevent market disruption. Economists and journalists flagged the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
A powerful conservative advocacy group is moving to punish Republicans who broke ranks on a high-profile health care vote this week to side with Democrats – a move the organization described as a "gut punch” to its grassroots operation. According to a new report in Politico, Americans for Prosperity is pulling support from GOP lawmakers who...
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly talked about how much oil America will gain as a result of deposing Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro — but experts have said he doesn't have a clear grasp on what he's talking about, Notus reported on Friday.Trump's Venezuela operation captured Maduro, a socialist autocrat who has been wanted for years...
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The Washington National Opera is pulling the plug on its 55-year relationship with the Kennedy Center, marking another shocking rejection of President Donald Trump's makeover of the iconic venue.The opera company's board voted Friday to terminate its affiliation and relocate performances from the Kennedy Center's 2,300-seat Opera House. The move...
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A Democratic strategist is sounding the alarm over President Trump's latest White House ambitions, claiming that after demolishing the historic East Wing for his $300 million ballroom, the West Wing could be next. The strategist points to Trump's long-standing desire to reshape the presidential complex and calls for intervention to preserve the...
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A federal judge threw a wrench in the Trump administration's plan Friday to cut off billions of dollars in funding for child care and social services in blue cities.Judge Arun Subramanian ordered the administration to release the money while a legal battle plays out over the $10 billion freeze, The New York Times reported Friday evening. The move...
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The Washington National Opera's decision to leave the Kennedy Center after more than five decades set off a political and cultural firestorm – and critics wasted no time framing it as a direct rebuke of President Donald Trump's second-term overhaul of the iconic institution. The New York Times, which broke the story Friday, described the move as...
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott escalated GOP election interference by threatening a state takeover of Houston's elections, drawing attention from Democrats and former Republicans alike. The move follows a complaint about allegedly improper voter registrations and comes as rising Democratic candidates like James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett energize...
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Former George W. Bush administration strategist David Frum told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace that the dismal economic figures released on Friday aren't an accident — they are direct and intentional, a result of President Donald Trump's trade and immigration agenda."The message to drive home for Democrats about prices is Trump did it on purpose," said...
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President Donald Trump was confronted by CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Friday about why his administration blocked Minnesota from being part of the federal investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting of a 37-year-old mom of three in Minneapolis — and his resulting answer, which meandered into attacks on Somali-Americans and...
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MAGA figures Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec sparked outrage Friday by calling for the arrests of multiple Democratic leaders after an ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. On his War Room broadcast, Bannon labeled local and state officials "Bolsheviks” who must be "rolled up,” while Posobiec blamed suburban moms for radicalizing...
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Neil Young is once again not holding back against President Donald Trump and MAGA.The iconic rocker kicked off 2026 with a blistering op-ed on his official website, the Neil Young Archives, and he pulled no punches at the MAGA leader."Wake up, people!” Young declared. "Today the USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit...
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President Donald Trump's sinking approval numbers are a warning sign that cracks are forming well beyond his MAGA base, according to Sarah Longwell, the longtime Republican strategist and publisher of The Bulwark.In a conversation on The Bulwark's podcast out Friday, Longwell laid out a grim picture for Trump, pointing to a series of polls she...
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A far-right Republican stunned observers by initially voting to advance a Democratic plan to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, joining a small group of GOP lawmakers breaking with leadership. The unexpected move sparked speculation about possible retaliation against Trump—but the lawmaker quickly clarified the "yes” vote was accidental,...
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President Donald Trump called up Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in a fury to shout at her over the war powers vote on Venezuela earlier this week, The Hill reported on Friday."According to two sources familiar, a fuming Trump dialed up Collins, the foremost Senate GOP centrist, during the vote aimed at blocking the White House from using military force...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
I want to be clear about what happened in Minneapolis.This was not an "ICE shooting.”This was not a "law enforcement incident.”This was the killing of Renee Good.Words matter. When we soften them, we make it easier to look away.Renee Good was killed during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minneapolis, not far from where...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
A fatal shooting in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer is casting a harsh spotlight on President Donald Trump's frantic push to fast-track 10,000 deportation officers by the end of 2025 — a drive that, according to a bombshell report by The Daily Mail, gutted hiring standards and flooded ICE with dangerously unqualified recruits. Lured...
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Colorado's Democratic Gov. Jared Polis hinted that he may free election conspiracy figure and Trump ally Tina Peters, calling her nine-year prison sentence "harsh" and suggesting he's "looking at" revisiting it — despite pleas from top state officials to keep her locked up.In an explosive CBS Colorado interview late Thursday, Polis mused about...
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David Letterman unleashed a blistering critique of CBS News on Friday, accusing the network where he spent more than two decades on the air of abandoning its integrity and handing control to what he described as "idiots.”The searing criticism from the 78-year-old former "Late Show” host came during an appearance on the Barbara Gaines Show, a...
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Reactions erupted online Friday after CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed President Donald Trump about why he posted new job data early. Collins posed the question while Trump was meeting with American oil executives and taking questions from reporters — following reports that job numbers were lagging."I said post them whenever you get a chance. I...
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Trump's push to lure major oil companies into rebuilding Venezuela's battered industry is faltering, with top firms hesitant and insiders mocking empty promises. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says smaller independent companies are eager, but bigger one are playing it safe, worried about low oil prices and costly risks.Watch the video below. ...
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A CNN anchor got into a fiery exchange Friday with a former Trump administration official over the leaked cell phone video capturing a confrontation in Minneapolis moments before a federal immigration agent fatally shot 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good. CNN's Brianna Keilar pushed back on comments from Chad Wolf, former acting homeland security...
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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene erupted Friday after reports suggested Trump's own team suspected she may have tipped off anti-war protesters ahead of a surprise appearance by Donald Trump at a Washington, D.C., restaurant last year—an encounter that reportedly left the former president rattled and ended his pop-in appearances. Greene...
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President Donald Trump dropped a stunning new excuse for why the United States should take over Greenland Friday. Trump was meeting with American oil executives over the military incursion of Venezuela and his goals to shift the country's oil production to benefit the U.S. when a reporter asked about Venezuela and if the country would be considered...
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Mockery erupted Friday afternoon as President Donald Trump read aloud a note from his Secretary of State during a power lunch with big oil titans.Trump held court to convince ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips executives to drop billions on rebuilding Venezuela's neglected energy infrastructure. Trump told the New York Times that Caracas must...
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President Donald Trump's latest global provocations — from backing the ouster of Venezuela's leader to threatening NATO allies over strategic leverage — are, a high-profile author says, textbook Trump distraction tactics meant to pull attention away from a growing crisis he can't spin past: the long-overdue release of the Jeffrey Epstein files....
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Former Republican Party strategist and speechwriter Tim Miller barely held his composure in a video Friday for The Bulwark, as he analyzed newly released cell phone footage from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis mother of three at close range through her open car window."As you can see there, the agent,...
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In the wake of the most recent shooting by federal immigration agents in Oregon on Thursday, the FBI issued a statement on social media describing what it called an "agent-involved shooting” that left "two individuals wounded.”However, that post was soon deleted, with the agency issuing a new revised statement, one with differences that MS NOW...
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An ex-FBI agent Friday raised questions about an ICE agent's account of the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother. Michael Feinberg, former special agent in charge with the FBI, told MS NOW that the leaked video footage from an ICE agent's cell phone that captured the fatal confrontation between Renee Nicole Good, her wife Becca Good...
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Vice President JD Vance immediately triggered outrage this week by falsely claiming that a Minneapolis mother of three shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was a far-left radical who had tried to run him down, and that the officer has "absolute immunity" for any killing done while wearing the uniform.But a new video emerged on...
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Kyle Rittenhouse, a conservative acquitted of murdering two protesters, blamed violence during anti-ICE protests in Minnesota on "drinking too much fluoride."During a Friday interview, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told Rittenhouse that liberals were threatening violence after Renee Nicole Good was shot to death by agent Jonathan Ross."Honestly, I...
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A top economic advisor of President Donald Trump launched into damage control mode Friday, attempting to reframe last month's disastrous jobs report on Fox Business, arguing the numbers aren't as bad as they look — if you squint hard enough.That's according to The Daily Beast, which flagged the comments from Kevin Hassett, director of the...
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President Donald Trump left viewers stunned during a Thursday night Fox News interview when a discussion about Venezuela and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado veered into an awkward bout of self-congratulation, with Trump claiming he had ended "eight and a quarter” wars. Asked whether he would back Machado as Venezuela's future...
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Vice President J.D. Vance used body camera footage leaked from his administration to justify the killing of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jonathan Ross.On Friday, Vance shared the leaked video from Alpha News, which appeared to be taken from the perspective of Ross's body camera.Although the video does not...
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During a press conference in Minneapolis on Friday, the county attorney of Hennepin County left no doubt that an investigation into the shooting of Renee Good at point-blank range by an ICE agent resulting in the 37-year-old mom 's death belongs with her office.Brought on by Mayor Jacob Frey to answer questions about the FBI taking over the case,...
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Democrats are warming up to the idea of impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the wake of shootings by immigration agents in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon.There had been fringe support for impeaching the DHS secretary, but little appetite for the move among Democratic leadership. However, House Judiciary Committee ranking member...
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President Donald Trump apologized to the world's oil companies because he did not yet have a ballroom to host them at the White House."The largest Oil Companies in the World are coming to the White House at 2:30 P.M. Everybody wants to be there," Trump wrote on Friday in a Truth Social post. "It's too bad that the Ballroom hasn't completed because,...
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On Tuesday, after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot in Minneapolis at close range by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee's 5th District didn't wait too long to weigh in with his opinions. If you've been following Ogles, who was first elected to Congress in 2022, you won't be surprised to hear...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
In Minneapolis on Wednesday, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. The shooting occurred on a residential street in the south of the city, less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.Donald Trump claimed that Good "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the ICE agent. Kristi Noem...
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The conservative National Review editors criticized the Trump administration's response to the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent Wednesday, directing particular criticism at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.While supportive of the agent, identified as Jonathan Ross, for acting in self-defense because he...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith was expected to provide testimony in a live hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, reporting suggests.The live hearing could take place as early as February, according to CBS News. Smith's prosecution of Donald Trump was shuttered after the president was re-elected in 2024."Even with many hours of private...
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An aircraft specifically designed to survive a nuclear disaster and carry President Donald Trump was seen landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Thursday night — and reports indicate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and MAGA influencer Laura Loomer were apparently on it. The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post "Doomsday plane"...
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Reacting to JD Vance's bellicose attack on the people of Minneapolis at a White House press conference on Thursday, "Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski jumped on the vice president's defense of the ICE agent who shot 37-year-old Renee Good in the face.Noting the reporting that the shooter, identified as Jonathan Ross, was injured months ago...
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President Donald Trump raised suspicions of market manipulation by offering a sneak peek at Friday's jobs report on social media.The president posted a chart Thursday at 8:20 p.m. on Truth Social that included figures from the December employment report due out the next day showing the private sector added 654,000 jobs "since January,” which...
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President Donald Trump's cage fighting match on the White House lawn is forcing the rescheduling of a planned international gathering.France announced it will delay this year's Group of 7 summit to avoid a scheduling conflict with the mixed martial arts event planned June 14 at the White House, two officials with direct knowledge of the planning...
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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson Friday responded to a bleak new jobs report and how he expected President Donald Trump to react to the news.The Lincoln Project co-founder warned in his Substack that Trump and his administration would attempt to spin the report, which showed the worst year for job gains outside of recession since 2003. "If...
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An analyst Friday called out MAGA and "the narrative being spun by the lies" after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis this week. The MAGA world has pretended to play victim — both before the fatal shooting and after — Salon's Amanda Marcotte wrote in an opinion piece. "This attitude has been endemic...
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Becca Good, the wife of Renee Nicole Good, released a statement following her killing at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jonathan Ross.In remarks to MPR News, Becca Good described her wife as "made of sunshine.""On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns," she wrote.Read the...
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Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL), a close ally of President Donald Trump, openly cheered the toppling of the Cuban government on Thursday, posting an image on social media of the Caribbean nation plastered with the logos of American companies like Walmart, Exxon Mobil and McDonald's, leaving onlookers stunned."When the inevitable happens in Cuba & the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
One of the most disturbing things about the Trump administration's response to the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis isn't just that they're lying. It's how easy the lying seems to be. It starts at the top, with the liar-in-chief, and trickles down through a dishonest and delusional cabinet.They didn't hesitate. They didn't hedge....
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As President Donald Trump continues to threaten to attack Iran should it harm protesters, its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, issued a grave prediction Friday that Trump's downfall was fast approaching.Sparked by an ongoing economic crisis, demonstrations have erupted across Iran, and in turn, Khamenei has vowed to crack down on protesters he accused...
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MAGA influencers Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon called for the arrests of Democrats after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good to death."These people are Bolsheviks," Bannon told Posobiec on his Friday War Room broadcast. "We've got to take a stand now. We got to lance the boil. I mean, start, [Gov....
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A Republican lawmaker broke ranks ahead of the weekend to oppose a former Rose Bowl tight end that Donald Trump chose to represent the nation abroad despite him being embroiled in a masculine toilet scandal at the time.There was substantial pushback when Trump named his new NATO ambassador to be Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
The deadly shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer Wednesday is the ninth shooting by an immigration officer in just the past four months, and all of them involved firing at people in vehicles, according to a New York Times report. Video of the incident shared with the Reformer shows masked ICE officers approaching a Honda Pilot stopped...
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A proposed military action against Greenland would "crumble alliance" with NATO nations and spells disaster for public approval, a veteran has warned. The White House has suggested acquiring Greenland is a matter of national security, and that they would move to take over the country. This has been met with opposition from both Greenland's...
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The Democratic Party is set to hone in on one message in particular ahead of the midterms this year. Party insiders believe the affordability crisis across the country will hit best with voters, and representatives are already shifting the conversation to the cost-of-living crisis. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer confirmed affordability will...
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