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A former senior Pentagon official sounded the alarm on Sunday over their belief that the Trump administration was likely to bury an internal investigation into an incident that coincided with the launch of the U.S. war against Iran, an incident one Democratic lawmaker described as "one of the most horrific episodes” of the "illegal Trump...
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A corner of the MAGA online world has found a new enemy, and it is not a liberal news organization. It is Reason, the libertarian magazine, which set off a wave of right-wing fury by criticizing outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat.The flashpoint was a Reason piece arguing that Gabbard, on her way out the...
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Joe Rogan thought he was making nervous small talk with the president of the United States about the possibility of a terrorist attack. Donald Trump, by Rogan's account, treated the prospect of their shared demise as no big deal.On a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the podcaster who endorsed Trump's campaign recounted a conversation...
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President Donald Trump threatened to resume the U.S. war against Iran on Sunday with a fiery ultimatum to Iranian officials, warning that if his demand was not met, the United States would "hit Iran very hard.”"Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth...
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U.S. and Iranian officials met in Switzerland Sunday ahead of negotiations to solidify the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran and bring about an end to the U.S. war against Iran, but according to one expert, President Donald Trump and his administration are ignoring a pressing issue that risks blowing up talks before they've even...
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Donald Trump asked the public to celebrate ICE as misunderstood heroes Saturday, and veteran White House correspondent Brian Karem answered with a single word: "LIE."The president had posted what he framed as a poll, declaring that "ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen before." He called the agents "Great Patriots who...
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In one of his most astonishingly oblivious moments, President Donald Trump may have revealed more about himself — his honest, true beliefs regarding his "talents” and place in history — than at any point in his public life. During an interview with Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman for their forthcoming book, Trump proudly offered what he...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who vacated her seat after a failed bid for governor and will leave Congress early next year, recently revealed a new bill she intends on filing, the details of which left critics in disbelief.Labeled the "TRANS MICE Act,” Mace's new bill would prohibit federally funded research "aimed at altering an animal's biological...
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President Donald Trump's bizarre and ongoing spat with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sparked a chorus of laughter on CNN Sunday morning as panelists mocked the president's "childish” behavior and issued him a new nickname.The spat kicked off on Friday after Trump told a local Italian news outlet that he felt "sorry” for Meloni after she...
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Donald Trump's insistence that vandals carved up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool keeps colliding with one stubborn problem his critics will not let go of: if it really happened, where is the footage?After the president announced on Truth Social that "many additional people have been arrested" over the "disgraceful Vandalism" of the pool,...
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President Donald Trump has engaged in something of a martial "arms race” with First Lady Melania Trump, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan revealed in their forthcoming book "Regime Change,” one that involves the president pillaging gold from the White House hallways in his effort to "have the better room,” The Times...
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James Carville has a survival strategy for anyone still working inside Donald Trump's White House, and it boils down to two words: start leaking.On the latest episode of his Politics War Room podcast, the veteran Democratic strategist delivered a blunt appeal to administration staffers, urging them to protect their own reputations before the...
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Friends,To you fathers, and to those of you who have or have had fathers, Happy Father's Day.For the next 135 days, our first and most important goal is to end Republican control of Congress, thereby limiting Trump's reign of criminality, corruption, cruelty, and treachery.This is a moral imperative for every one of us who believes in a decent...
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Donald Trump posted a photograph of a blonde woman to Truth Social late on Saturday night, captioned "Great daughter. My Honor!!! President DJT," and set off an internet-wide guessing game over a simple problem: the woman in the picture does not appear to be any of his daughters.The post showed a woman with blonde hair in a black outfit, lounging...
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If you sat down and tried to invent the worst possible person to put in charge of negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran — and obviously Donald Trump doesn't count — you'd have no recourse but to choose JD Vance.If you didn't know, and he takes every single opportunity to tell you, he's the vice president of the United States. And your...
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The Conservative Party of Canada recently released a political ad that featured AI-generated footage of struggling Canadians. Multiple experts told CBC News it's one of the first times a federal Canadian political party has employed AI-generated footage in its advertising.
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The Trump administration has reached the stage of its Reflecting Pool saga where soldiers stand watch over a pond full of algae, and the internet has decided that image needs no embellishment to be devastating.Video circulating Saturday, licensed through FreedomNews.tv, shows National Guard members in uniform posted along the edge of the Lincoln...
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An ex-GOP lawmaker has heard enough about phantom left-wing saboteurs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and he is pointing at the only suspects who fit the evidence: the people Trump hired to clean it.In a series of posts and a new video, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger dismantled the administration's vandalism narrative by...
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Donald Trump returned to his favorite subject Saturday evening, and his account of the great Reflecting Pool conspiracy grew more elaborate with every sentence. In a lengthy Truth Social post, the president announced that "many additional people have been arrested" over what he called "the disgraceful Vandalism of our beautiful Reflecting Pool,"...
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Larry Sabato is not questioning whether Donald Trump still owns the Republican Party. He thinks the party should just go ahead and put the president's name on the door.Speaking with Alex Witt on MS NOW Saturday, the University of Virginia political scientist and Crystal Ball editor said Trump remains firmly in control of the GOP, which Sabato...
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Democratic socialism appears to be on the rise in the U.S. The progressive ideology gained prominence when New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office. Now, more candidates seem to be gaining momentum in major U.S. cities. Nikole Killion reports.
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Anthony Scaramucci wants people to revisit a single answer Donald Trump once gave a journalist, because in his telling it explains the entire playbook the president has run ever since.The former White House communications director, who lasted around 11 days in Trump's first administration before becoming one of his more relentless critics,...
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A journalist went down to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to see Donald Trump's renovation up close, and the most damning review came from the wildlife. The reflecting pool is "worse than you think" it is, ex-lawyer Aaron Parnas says in a video posted this weekend that drew nearly 40,000 views. "The ducks won't swim in it at all."What the...
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A man was cited by authorities merely for touching Trump's Reflecting Pool, according to a journalist's published video.The Trump administration's defense of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has reached the point where reaching into the water can apparently earn you a ticket. Breaking-news reporter Oliya Scootercaster posted footage Saturday...
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Mary Trump has spent years telling anyone who will listen that her uncle cannot bear to be seen losing. This week she pointed to a tarp draped over the Kennedy Center as her latest exhibit.In the newest edition of her newsletter, the segment she calls "Trump Trolls Trump," the clinical psychologist and niece of the president argued that the...
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The White House is getting a harsh response from numerous observers to its latest claim about the Reflecting Pool.When White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared on X that the press had lost its mind over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, she likely expected applause rather than a fact-check. Sharing a post that ridiculed the...
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Of all the people Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could have compared Donald Trump to, he reportedly landed on the one name engineered to make a Republican flinch: George Soros.According to "Regime Change," the new account of Trump's second term by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Bessent told associates that Trump...
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Democratic strategist James Carville is predicting an upset in deep-red Mississippi, declaring that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is rattled by her Democratic challenger."Cindy Hyde-Smith is as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs," the famed Ragin' Cajun wrote in a fundraising email for Scott Colom, the Lowndes County district...
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A former GOP congressman is calling out a failed Trump administration investigation into voter fraud.Adam Kinzinger described how Trump set out to prove "stolen elections," specifically by looking at voting machines. Ultimately, the investigation failed to dig up any instances of fraud, Kinzinger said.He was referring to a probe that stemmed from a...
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President Donald Trump says the U.S. Park Police have rounded up a ring of vandals who sabotaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The actual arrest record tells a much smaller story: one 67-year-old cyclist who says he reached into the water to touch a piece of paint that had already fallen off.In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump escalated...
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President Donald Trump reportedly spent nearly $15 million painting the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. When the water turned green and the new paint started peeling off, he reached for the explanation he always reaches for: someone did this to him on purpose.In a late-night Truth Social post Friday, Trump wrote that "we've had...
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Online critics are laughing at Trump's convoluted plot to throw off the press by renaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).In a Saturday morning Truth Social post, Trump floated a plan to rename ICE to the "National Immigration and Customs Enforcement," or NICE. He wrote that it would "totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and...
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Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) is demanding the story get wall-to-wall attention after a new investigation revealed that President Donald Trump's Justice Department quietly shut down a federal criminal probe into the coal empire of one of his closest Senate allies."This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America," Levin wrote, sharing...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to muse about who gets to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — and landed on an answer that put the United States, and himself, at the center of it.In a post Wednesday, Trump declared there would be "NO TOLLS in the Hormuz Strait for 60 days" during what he called the "Cease Fire...
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A couple of legal analysts ripped the bizarre rationale in the ruling of a MAGA star on the Supreme Court.On the Legal AF podcast, host Michael Popok and legal analyst Lisa Graves shared how put off they were by Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion in the United States v. Hemani ruling. The case involved a Texas gun owner who was found with marijuana and...
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A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll was published Saturday with fresh data on how Americans are feeling about President Donald Trump and his handling of the economy, and the survey's findings left MS NOW's Alex Witt floored."The numbers for Trump's economy… they are not pretty,” Witt said.According to the poll, just 33% of Americans indicated they...
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A three-time Olympic athlete was arrested for touching the detached paint of the renovated Reflecting Pool, according to the Washington Post.Olympian David Hearn, who competed three times in the canoe slalom, stopped by the Reflecting Pool on Friday after a bike ride to see how it looks since Trump's $14 million renovations, the Post reported. The...
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Vice President JD Vance is facing online mockery after a boast about the recent Iran deal backfired.Vance went on Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday morning to tout Trump's new Iran deal. He told the Fox program, "My understanding, talking to Steve and Jared this morning, is that things are going well," referring to Steve Witkoff and Jared...
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In an apparent attempt to "jump on the World Cup bandwagon,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published what Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan described as an "anti-immigrant” social media post, but in doing so, "completely undermined” its own "far-right message,” as well as a core claim frequently made by President Donald Trump.The 2026 FIFA...
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First Lady Melania Trump fought against Trump's overhaul of the White House and lost, according to commentators.During an episode of the Daily Beast Podcast, host Joanna Coles and Hugh Dougherty, the executive editor of The Daily Beast, went over more revelations in the book Regime Change, an account of the Trump White House by journalists Maggie...
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President Donald Trump floated a plan Saturday that he hoped will "totally discombobulate” journalists and make them "go totally crazy” – a plan he asked his supporters for feedback on in a post on social media.That plan, as Trump explained, would be to rename Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the "National Immigration and Customs...
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Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Donald Trump, lashed out at Fox News host Mark Levin Saturday over Levin's continued criticisms of the tentative peace deal the Trump administration had agreed to with Iran, going as far as to suggest he was working on behalf of a foreign government.Previously a "Never Trump” conservative, Levin has...
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Trump's poll asking his followers to fine-tune his insults against Democrats is drawing mockery.On Friday, Trump took to Truth Social to poll his followers on whether he should go with "Dumocrat or Dumbocrat." He explained that "you simply exchange the 'e' for 'u,'" and added his oft-repeated note, "Many people don't know, or assume, that DUMB ends...
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The Department of Justice is refusing to swear that the Trump slush fund is dead in a new court filing flagged by a legal analyst.Last week, federal judge Leonie Brinkema indefinitely blocked the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund, which critics worried would have paid Trump allies, and gave the DOJ until June 19th to file a declaration...
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Just hours after the Strait of Hormuz was closed again as the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran crumbles, President Donald Trump asked his followers Saturday to weigh in on what he called a "very important matter”: whether he should insult Democrats with the nickname "Dumocrats” or "Dumbocrats.”"POLL: Which do you prefer,...
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A right-wing Italian paper went after Trump with a vulgar name amid his spat with the country's prime minister."Sorry to say it, but I can't find, and perhaps there isn't, another way to say it," a translation of the Italian article from the Libero Quotidiano reads. "Donald Trump is an a—."The article uses the Italian term "coglione," even using...
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Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, whose reporting has exposed a number of previously unknown revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, had her attempt to flee the United States thwarted by the Trump administration, she claimed on Saturday.In May, Valdes-Rodriguez claimed that her home was targeted in "attacks” by those she believed were...
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President Donald Trump's coveted peace deal with Tehran was dealt a devastating blow Saturday after Iranian officials announced they would, again, be closing the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping vessels.In a message from the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces operational headquarters, Iranian military officials announced that the strait – a...
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One of Trump's own cabinet members compared him to his liberal nemesis, according to a new report.In the book Regime Change, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is revealed to say that Trump is the same as billionaire liberal donor George Soros, according to reporting by The Guardian."Trump reminded him...of his old boss, the legendary investor and...
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Political strategist and commentator Keith Edwards claimed Friday that he was paid a visit by the FBI over comments he made online – more specifically, comments about President Donald Trump's botched $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued with algae and peeling paint just days after completion.On...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) struggled to defend President Donald Trump's Iran agreement during a tense interview on CNN's "First of All with Victor Blackwell" on Saturday, as the host repeatedly pressed her and cut her off on contradictions between the deal and the war's stated goals.Blackwell played a clip of Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
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Many of us have spent years convincing ourselves that President Donald Trump was one scandal away, one slip of the tongue, one fall on Air Force One, one essential predicate from ouster based on a buffet of underlying reasons, any one of which would take down a normal president.Fair warning, but here comes another prediction, and this one promises...
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President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday last Sunday with an unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on White House grounds, but by Friday onlookers were stunned when photos emerged showing the damage left behind on the Ellipse, often referred to as President's Park South."The UFC event has destroyed the grass on the Ellipse...
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For the third time, President Donald Trump reinforced his version of events Saturday as it pertained to his bizarre spat with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who accused the president of fabricating a story about her begging for a photograph.Trump told an Italian news network that during the Group of Seven summit in France, Meloni had...
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A report published Friday reveals how President Donald Trump's policies have jacked up prices for a host of potential Father's Day gifts this year.Overall, the analysis by Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive economic think tank and advocacy group, finds that prices for popular Father's Day gifts have risen by nearly 19% on average over the last...
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In public, President Donald Trump has frequently boasted about the tentative peace deal his administration reached with Iran, but behind closed doors, the president has furiously "complained” to officials about fears of the war restarting, an adviser close to Trump told Zeteo for its report Friday."He's swearing a lot about it,” the adviser...
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For the first time in 53 years — and for the first time in many of our lifetimes — the New York Knickerbockers are world champions.They achieved the ultimate goal in sports and now stand alone atop basketball's Mount Olympus.This gritty, ridiculously talented, never-say-die bunch won 13 straight playoff games, tying an NBA record before finally...
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President Donald Trump suffered a severe humiliation this month when the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was finally ordered by a federal court to remove Trump's name from the side of the building, clarifying that Congress only allowed Kennedy's name to be on the facility.Now, days later, tarps are still covering the spot where Trump's name...
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A Republican town official in New Jersey with a colorful history that includes ties to the mafia and a 14-year prison sentence for murder told constituents he was now on the straight and narrow — but now he's been arrested again.According to the New Jersey Globe, John Alite, who was appointed to serve on the Englishtown council last year, "made...
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President Donald Trump is hemorrhaging support from a key business community as they express "buyer's remorse," according to a new report. NBC News reported on Friday that support for Trump from Latino business owners has seemingly fallen off a cliff during his second term. Latino voters were one group that swung heavily in favor of Trump during...
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The recently released Broadview Six transcripts revealed a stunning pattern of behavior by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, raising multiple red flags for a legal expert. Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor, said during a new interview on "All Rise News" with Adam Klasfeld on Friday that the federal prosecutors who brought...
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President Donald Trump has talked a lot about the strength of the stock market recently, and a new analysis suggests that his recent surge in trading activity may be a motivating factor. The New York Times published an analysis of Trump's stock trading activity on Friday that found the president's brokerage account has placed about 3,600 trades in...
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Republican strategist Doug Heye is alarmed by the rift between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a right-wing leader who was initially close with Trump but is now on the outs with him.Tensions came to a head on Friday as Meloni posted a public video raging about Trump's false claim that she had "begged" to get a...
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Vice President J.D. Vance's comments about Israel have sparked an ugly, public brawl of words among two of the Florida GOP's most controversial figures.This comes after Vance lashed out at Israel for publicly opposing President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran to end the war that has been raging over the last three months."If I...
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A former U.S. ambassador to Russia was shocked to read some of the proposals included in President Donald Trump's recent deal with the Iranian regime, according to a new essay. Michael McFaul, who was the ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, wrote in a new Substack essay that Trump's 14-point memorandum of understanding, signed...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparked mockery on Friday after he uncorked what some analysts described as an "absolutely insane" claim about what Kennedy referred to as the "most consequential crime" in American history. On Thursday, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on her professional X account that...
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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo admitted some bad news on Friday — his pet referendum will not make it onto the ballot.According to The Nevada Independent, Lombardo stated on social media that his ballot question restricting participation of transgender athletes in school sports will not go to voters this year, because "legal delays and uncertainty...
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Reporters received exclusive tours of the new Air Force One, a former Qatari jet reported to have "gold plating throughout" to match the design requests of President Donald Trump.The tours offered the public their first look inside the plane.The aircraft, designated the VC-25B Bridge, arrived Friday at Joint Base Andrews after a $400 million...
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President Donald Trump seemed mildly taken aback when a pair of Air Force officers got a bigger round of applause than he did, while speaking about the unveiling of the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Friday."That's pretty good. That's the best hand. You got a bigger hand than I did," said Trump. "That's the end of your job. I don't like...
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It's a "precarious day for our country," MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace said in her opening of "Deadline: White House" — because President Donald Trump got his chosen partisan loyalist in charge of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence."Donald Trump's personal political attack dog, Bill Pulte, officially assum[es] the role of acting...
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Fox News's seemingly lone liberal host, Jessica Tarlov, stunned a political analyst after she humiliated Vice President JD Vance during a recent appearance on "The Five."David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, described Vance's recent appearance on Fox News during a new episode as an "unfortunate stop" on his book tour because...
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