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Donald Trump has been grilled by political analysts for his choice of pastime while the war in Iran rages on. The president approved a series of strikes on Iran earlier this month, joining Israel in a bombing run on the Middle Eastern country. Trump's contradictory messaging on the state of war and reasons for striking Iran has already inflamed his...
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An astonishing link between Jeffrey Epstein, New Mexico nuclear weapons labs and a major ally to President Donald Trump was unearthed recently in a bombshell report from author, film producer and veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.Using "documented facts all drawn” from public records, Valdes-Rodriguez established a timeline suggesting...
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More than 3,000 No Kings protest events in the United States were bolstered by activists across the world opposing Donald Trump. Rallies against the president were formed across the US, but also in Germany, Italy, and Australia. Protestors in Paris, France, were spotted holding up "Dump Trump" signs while those in the streets of Madrid, Spain,...
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What should the American people, especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling Donald Trump and the crony Trumpsters who are wrecking our government and our economy?These former...
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Bill Maher has taunted Donald Trump over a recent honorary awards win that was handed to the talk show host. Maher, 70, was confirmed last week as the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The announcement at the time was met with firm denial from White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, though it was confirmed a short while...
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In an attempt to tout its policies benefiting farmers, the White House registered a new website domain: "OnlyFarms.gov,” a reference to the user-generated pornography website OnlyFans, and a move that didn't go over well with one Republican lawmaker."Your tax dollars are paying for the [United States Department of Agriculture] to parody a porn...
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In what's being called an "exceedingly rare” move, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of two Black and two female colonels to one-star generals.The New York Times reported Friday that some senior US military officials are questioning whether Hegseth acted out of animus toward Black people and women after the defense...
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A wildcard strategy from Donald Trump in the lead-up to the midterm elections will not work, according to political strategist James Carville. Carville, who has worked as a longtime Democratic Party strategist, believes Trump will likely ruin what little chance the Republican Party has of maintaining its majority in the House of Representatives....
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Friends,Sorry to intrude on you again, but as we reach the fourth week of Trump's war with no end in sight, I want to make sure you are aware of what he said this week, and its implications.After Tehran dismissed his 15-point ceasefire plan, Trump claimed today that Iran is "begging to make a deal,” and that he wasn't the one pushing for...
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Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) took to social media Friday night to complain about having to work late and miss his child's basketball game – and was subsequently dogpiled by a swath of MAGA supporters.The House worked late Friday night to pass its own version of a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has remained...
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Donald Trump could be judged harshly by the world if he breaks a promise at the heart of the American Dream, an analyst has claimed. The president and his administration have cracked down hard on immigration in a way that could undermine the "credibility" of the country, Brent McKenzie argued. The Hill columnist considered the crackdown on...
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A past statement released by former Attorney General Bill Barr came under new scrutiny Friday after famed Jeffrey Epstein reporter Julie K. Brown flagged a series of overlooked remarks from two jail guards who were tasked with monitoring Epstein the night he died.On August 10, 2019, the day Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell,...
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A rift between two MAGA factions could come to pass in the coming weeks over Donald Trump's administrative shortcomings, an insider has claimed. The dedicated Republican Party supporters appear to be fighting over the president's constantly changing comments on the Iran war. An unnamed person familiar with the inner workings of key MAGA groups told...
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The Democratic Party seems to have connected the dots with the Republican Party's midterm election strategy, a political analyst has claimed.A series of special election shortcomings for the GOP may have served as a sign of things to come, but there are a few clues CNN analyst Zachary B. Wolf says that Dem strategists have picked up on. One major...
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Donald Trump has made life harder for his Oval Office successor with a series of changes that will likely be impossible to undo, an analyst claimed.The president's tough stance on geopolitical relations during his second term has hindered the chance of reconciliation under the 48th President of the United States, Salon writer Mike Lofgren argued....
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A considerable uproar from President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters forced the president to "quietly” back off an endorsement plan in a key Senate race, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, with MAGA already claiming responsibility for successfully browbeating the president.In Texas, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is vying for a fifth term in...
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When the news popped up on our phones during an early dinner with friends on Thursday night that Donald Trump's signature will go on U.S. paper currency, it drew guffaws, grrrs, and plenty of expletives around the table.As someone who worked in PR for 30 years, I usually view Trump's stunts through the lens of perception. So when I read the...
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Das Land braucht Reformen und einen Ausweg aus der Energiepreis-Falle des Iran-Krieges. Über die zwei aktuell drängendsten ökonomischen Baustellen spricht Rixa Fürsen in dieser Sonderfolge mit dem Präsidenten des Kiel Instituts für Weltwirtschaft (IfW), Moritz Schularick. Erneut findet sich Deutschland in der Rolle des Zaungasts wieder:...
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The House on Friday narrowly passed a Republican-led plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security, setting up a standoff with the Senate, where the measure is expected to stall.In a 213-203 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republicans approved a short-term bill that would fund DHS for eight weeks, including border and immigration...
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President Donald Trump is facing mockery after floating the idea of renaming the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important shipping lanes, after himself – or the United States. At an investor forum in Miami Friday night, Trump referred to the waterway as the "Strait of Trump” before correcting himself and insisting the remark was...
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As Gov. Ron DeSantis approaches his last months in office, Florida law enforcement officials are openly rebelling against his aggressive immigration enforcement.Once his strongest supporters, Republican sheriffs and police chiefs expressed concerns at a State Immigration Enforcement Council meeting about detaining non-criminal unauthorized...
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Justice Department lawyers admitted in court this week that a key defense used to justify immigration arrests was based on false information, stunning legal analysts and raising the possibility of serious consequences.According to Slate's Amicus podcast, DOJ attorneys acknowledged they had made a "material mistake” while defending Immigration and...
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A new analysis warns that once-controlled childhood diseases could come roaring back if vaccine access declines – including diphtheria, a historic killer known as the "strangling angel.”Researchers modeled what could happen over 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella, and diphtheria became unavailable, according to ProPublica. While...
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In an exceedingly rare split over guns, the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association filed a court brief Friday opposing Attorney General James Uthmeier's new push to arm non-dangerous felons, the Florida Phoenix has learned.The organization accused Uthmeier of using strained logic to justify his election-year decision to try to reverse a...
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Republicans in Georgia have been getting blown out in the counties that make up the Atlanta metropolitan area — so they have a new idea to try to stop it, reported the Associated Press: eliminate party labels for local elections there."The Republican-majority Georgia House on Friday gave final passage to a bill that would require nonpartisan...
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Senate Democrats signaled opposition to a House Republican continuing resolution aimed at ending the partial government shutdown Friday. The Republican-controlled Senate earlier approved a bipartisan bill funding most Department of Homeland Security operations while excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but House GOP leadership rejected it...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio lost his cool at a G7 foreign ministers meeting Friday after the European Union's top diplomat publicly called him out over the Trump administration's failure to pressure Russia over Ukraine — then lied to reporters about it afterward, according to a report that cited sources who witnessed the exchange.EU foreign...
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Longtime Donald Trump ally Ric Grenell, a social media troll who has held many hats in the administration and recently stepped down from his role overseeing the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, that the people who ran the venue before Trump took office should go to jail...
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Emails obtained through a public records request show a Trump administration official urged federal agents to use violence against protesters during unrest tied to immigration crackdowns, according to a new report. The messages, shared with the Los Angeles Times, involve Joseph Mazzara, a State Department employee who previously served as acting...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education is moving out of its Lyndon B. Johnson headquarters building, the department announced Thursday, in another step toward dismantling the agency.The Education Department said its "chronically underutilized” building is roughly 70% vacant and estimated the relocation — slated for August — would...
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President Donald Trump made a wildly condescending admission about the sort of people he likes to surround himself with during an event in Miami shortly after the signing of his executive order to move money around to pay Transportation Security Administration officials in the absence of a congressional deal to reopen the Department of Homeland...
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President Donald Trump praised himself for constructing a $400 million ballroom while addressing farmers affected by his tariff policies at a White House event Friday. Trump told the gathered farmers he had "given" them $12 billion in aid to offset tariff fallout, then shifted focus to admire the ballroom under construction. He declared the project...
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Washington Post reporters got an eyebrow-raising surprise when calling the White House this week: some phones labeled the number as "Epstein Island.”"It was not a wrong number,” the outlet reported Friday. "That's what the phone displayed when some Washington Post journalists called the White House switchboard.”The strange label appeared on...
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The wife of Eric Trump is being raked over the coals for posting a picture with, and thanking, ICE agents, of herself at Newark Liberty International Airport, without a word about the TSA agents who are not being paid.On X, Lara Trump paid tribute to the ICE agents, who have been criticized for getting paid to do nothing that helps alleviate the...
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Far be it from me to suggest that Russian President Vladimir Putin owns Donald Trump.So let's call this just a happy coincidence.According to new reporting from the Telegraph in London, analysts estimate Putin is raking in roughly $760 million a day as the war in Iran drives global oil prices higher. That figure — drawn from analysis by the Kyiv...
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Donald Trump's rumored endorsement of Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) looks to be dead, leaving Texas Republicans to watch the incumbent to continue to slug it out with scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.According to Politico, the grassroots MAGA faction is "taking a victory lap" despite the serious risk of losing the Senate seat to...
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The Department of Justice confirmed that Iran-backed hackers from the Handala Hack Team successfully breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account, publishing stolen photographs and his purported resume online. The group declared Patel would "now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." Reuters reviewed what...
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The New York Times profiled a Wisconsin dairy farmer who has been a Republican for decades — but is disillusioned with his longtime party over President Donald Trump's war against the very migrant workers his farm and his community depends on."Immigrant workers are the lifeblood of the O'Harrow farm, a four-generation family enterprise with 1,600...
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A key air traffic control facility serving the Washington, D.C. region was suddenly evacuated Friday, forcing the Federal Aviation Administration to halt flights to several major airports, according to CNN aviation correspondent Pete Muntean.Muntean said on-air Friday that early information suggests smoke may have triggered the evacuation, though...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson said the lower chamber would vote "as soon as possible" on its own plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security after the Senate-approved legislation to fund most of the department, including the TSA, faced major hurdles in the House. Nikole Killion has the latest.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Donald Trump could be facing a total collapse of his administration should he make one wrong move, an expert has warned. Describing the president as a "bad gambler," defense expert Chris Hughes suggested Trump could be taken down a worrying path during the war with Iran. Writing in The Mirror, Hughes outlined a scenario in which the US would not...
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Ten American servicemembers were wounded Friday after an Iranian strike hit a key Saudi airbase, according to multiple U.S. and Arab officials.At least one missile struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, injuring 10 U.S. troops – including two who officials said were seriously wounded, The Wall Street Journal reported. The servicemembers...
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board tore into President Donald Trump over his new stunt to try to get around the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security."Before adjourning for a two-week recess, the Senate very early Friday morning reached a deal to fund DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border...
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A Republican lawmaker is calling for a change in Senate leadership amid escalating tensions on Capitol Hill over the ongoing government shutdown.Rep. John Rose (R-TN) said Senate Majority Leader John Thune should step down, according to Newsmax's Todd Starnes."We should call on Thune to step aside,” Rose said.The remarks come as divisions grow...
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, that Trump administration officials fear potential prosecution and indictment if Democrats win the 2028 election. "Everybody's afraid that the next administration, if we don't win, we're going to all be investigated and indicted," said Blanche,...
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The White House is forcefully pushing back on a report that Immigration and Customs Enforcement's acting director was hospitalized amid pressure from the Trump administration, calling the claims "inaccurate trash” – and even using profanity to blast the story. According to Politico, ICE chief Todd Lyons was so stressed from carrying out...
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President Donald Trump's team will throw their weight behind a Supreme Court immigration case, an analyst has suggested. A case set to appear before the legal body on April 1 will hear whether the president's executive order restricting birthright citizenship can remain in law. Scott Titshaw, a professor of law, and Stephen Yale-Loer, a retired...
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In yet another legal blow, a federal judge has dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit trying to overturn Minnesota's policy of giving in-state tuition rates to certain immigrants without legal status.The case, heard by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez, argued that Minnesota's policy is pre-empted by the federal Illegal Immigration...
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The internet reacted with uproar on Friday after Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News, saying the Trump administration has focused on "citizenship fraud." Bondi spoke to Fox News about the Trump administration's immigration policies and the escalating "aggressive denaturalization efforts," prompting a number of responses. "Being a...
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Frustration is mounting among U.S. allies in the Gulf as the Iran war drags on, with officials privately questioning President Donald Trump's strategy and long-term goals, according to a new report in Bloomberg.Officials are becoming increasingly worried that Trump could strike a deal with Tehran that leaves them exposed. They fear any agreement...
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Iran has discovered Trump's vulnerability — and it's exploiting it relentlessly. According to Slate columnist Ian Prasad Philbrick, Tehran's leadership is weaponizing the president's own playbook to keep him perpetually off-balance as he searches for an exit from the war.The strategy is simple, ruthless, and devastatingly effective: study Trump's...
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U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel issued a scathing 69-page preliminary injunction against ICE's detention practices at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota, ordering restoration of detainees' access to attorneys, phone calls, and legal materials. Brasel severely criticized ICE's legal team for submitting a brief containing...
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called out MAGA followers and President Donald Trump, ripping into the president's war in Iran and the people supporting it. Gaetz spoke Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas when he made the statements distancing his views from the Trump administration and the MAGA base, The Daily...
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was erupting on Friday as pressure mounted to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the government shutdown while new bipartisan legislation headed to the House. Johnson rejected a DHS funding bill passed overnight in the Senate and called it a "joke." The legislation would exclude federal...
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The Democratic Party may feel bolstered by a special election result where they gained ground from the GOP in Donald Trump's backyard. Such a result at Mar-a-Lago, which tipped to Democratic candidate Emily Gregory over Republican Jon Maples, could give the party some hope of success in Florida ahead of the midterms. The Hill columnist Liz Peek...
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Golf legend Tiger Woods has been arrested for driving under the influence following a rollover crash on Jupiter Island, Florida.According to TMZ, "The accident happened around 2 PM ET. A pickup truck was turning into a driveway on a two-lane street when the Land Rover roared down the street at a high speed, according to the Sheriff. Law enforcement...
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Last week's South Australian election has left the Liberals in the grip of what one analyst described as an "existential crisis". As the Liberals seek to learn the lessons of the past, they should bear in mind the example of their once mighty namesakes, who ruled Britain for decades before their party turned to dust.
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House Republicans are growing scared of the prospect of President Donald Trump deploying ground troops in Iran — warning that such an expansion of an already-unpopular war would send their party into midterm freefall.According to Politico, "Nearly every GOP lawmaker has voted to green-light Trump's military campaign. But a growing number,...
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats tore into President Donald Trump on Friday over his push to stamp his name onto official U.S. dollar bills, blasting what they see as his latest self-promotional move.Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) told Raw Story he tried during the COVID-19 stimulus negotiations to block any president from signing checks, arguing Trump...
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White House Communications Director Steve Cheung lashed out at biographer Michael Wolff after the Daily Beast published accounts of President Donald Trump's closest associates privately questioning the president's intellectual capabilities. Wolff recounted conversations with Sam Nunberg, Trump's longtime confidant known as the "Trump whisperer," in...
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An Arizona Republican candidate who has sung the praises of President Donald Trump's tariff policy quickly scrubbed his campaign merch website from the internet after reporters uncovered items on it that weren't made in America.According to the Phoenix New Times, Jay Feely, the former NFL star now running for Arizona's 1st Congressional District,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (24 hours ago)
Blackwater founder Erik Prince revealed that he warned President Donald Trump against going to war in Iran.At the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas on Friday, Prince had a sobering message about Operation Epic Fury."I counseled as loud as possible against doing this in the first place," he explained. "We face an extremely...
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A Minnesota state lawmaker who recently compared Democrats to drunks has been arrested for drunken driving.State Rep. Elliott Engen, who is currently running for Minnesota state auditor, helped found a chapter of the right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA at Hamlin University before being elected to the legislature, where he has made fraud...
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Steve Bannon sparked fresh concerns about President Donald Trump remaining in office past the end of his second term.The right-wing podcaster and former White House strategist spoke to MS NOW from an event in Greenville, South Carolina, where he claimed that Trump allies were exploring various avenues where the 79-year-old president could serve a...
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The Bulwark flagged a stunning revelation shared by popular political influencer Maria Comstock, one that laid bare the vast disparity in scale between conservative and liberal political influence campaigns.Comstock, who's amassed millions of followers across several social media platforms, revealed in a social media post recently that, in the...
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TMZ called out a pair of Senate Republicans for hitting the road and leaving Washington, D.C., without a TSA deal on Friday. House GOP lawmakers on Friday rejected a DHS funding bill passed overnight in the Senate, which would exclude federal immigration enforcement agencies from the major spending bill. The move left House Republicans fighting...
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The Senate advanced a major spending bill directing tens of billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security at 3 a.m. Friday, with only five senators present, sparking criticism on social media. The bill would fund most DHS operations, excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, moving lawmakers...
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to once again demand that Senate Republicans eliminate the filibuster rule."The Republicans should TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, and VOTE!" wrote Trump. "Haven't they had enough of this nonsense from the Radical Left Lunatics that are looking to destroy our Country?"The president is...
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Golf legend Tiger Woods has reportedly been involved in another car crash.According to Fox News, Woods was in Jupiter, Florida, on Friday when his car was seen rolled onto its side.The Martin County Sheriff's Office was investigating the crash, Fox News reported. A press conference was scheduled for 5 p.m. ET.His condition wasn't immediately known.
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Liberal MP Michael Ma's apology for confronting an academic witness about whether her evidence on Chinese aluminum supply chains could be "hearsay" coincides with a highly sensitive moment in Canada's trade war with the Trump administration. The U.S. included Canada in its recent tariff investigation to crack down on countries suspected of turning...
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Brandon Straka, a Jan. 6 participant who was sentenced to three years of probation, slammed the "leader worship" of President Donald Trump.During a Friday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Straka began by advising that "the right is not all right." He noted that while he was being prosecuted for his actions on Jan. 6,...
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Final preparations are underway for NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission around the Moon for more than 50 years. Four astronauts, three men and one woman, will spend 10 days aboard the Orion spacecraft, going further into space than any other humans as they orbit the Moon and return to Earth.Issues caused by a fuel leak while testing...
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An administrative policy rolled out by Donald Trump's team will affect everyone living in the United States, according to a Nobel Prize winner. Economist Paul Krugman likened the economic policies of the president and his team to their tough stance on immigration, with both dealing financial blows across the country. Writing in his Substack, the...
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Organizers of the third round of No Kings protests against President Donald Trump say they expect Saturday will be the single largest day of American political protest in history, with more than 3,000 events planned across the nation, including nearly 70 in Arizona.An estimated 7 million people showed up to rally against the Trump administration in...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) were at odds Friday after the Senate passed its DHS bill overnight to try to end the ongoing partial government shutdown. Johnson announced on Friday that he would set forward his own legislation, which does not have enough support to pass, after the Senate bill passed, and called it "a...
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