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A panel of MAGA pundits on Real America's Voice warned that conservatives would face "mass graves" if President Donald Trump isn't given wide latitude to make Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers into his secret police force."I think part of what we're doing is we're looking at the world and seeing ways law can fix the problems we see from...
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President Donald Trump in recent weeks has vowed to make living in the US more affordable, as polls have consistently shown voters are giving him low marks on both his handling of the economy and inflation.However, Trump undercut this pledge during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday in which he said he wanted—despite a nationwide housing crisis—to...
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A House ethics panel Thursday reportedly found "substantial evidence" that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) has committed conduct that was identified in the indictment against her, according to reports. In a report, a panel of House lawmakers in the investigative subcommittee cited discovering a number of ethics violations, including...
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The GOP appears to be turning its back on President Donald Trump after a damning new poll revealed most Americans don't support the president's policies. The Pew Research Center released a new poll on Thursday showing that just 27% of Americans support all or most of Trump's policies, which is down from 35% at this time last year. The poll noted...
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The Trump administration has felt the fierce public backlash against ICE after the death of two civilians in Minneapolis and the masked agents' aggressive tactics against immigrants — and it could force the White House to change direction entirely, according to analysis Thursday. Although border czar Tom Homan's tone had noticeably shifted during...
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Walmart took a swing at President Donald Trump on Thursday after the president shared false information about their business on his social media. Trump reshared posts to his millions of Truth Social followers that Walmart allegedly planned to close 250 stores in California. The posts were authored by anonymous users, who were trying to chide...
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British Columbia Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists meeting with the U.S. administration and seeking financial backing is an act of "treason," as the issue of national sovereignty loomed over a meeting between the premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney Thursday.
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Canada is the only Arctic nation that doesn't arm its coast guard fleet. The United States, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Russia all operate coast guard fleets that have the capability to defend themselves. The commander of Canada's navy says arming the civilian fleet isn't necessary unless there's a war.
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This week has seen a flurry of promises, partnerships and proposed deals surrounding Canada's multi-billion dollar submarine program. Both rival shipyards are lining up potential Canadian partners and business opportunities as the clock ticks down toward the proposal deadline in March
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A Minnesota man has been arrested after he reportedly entered a federal lockup posing as an FBI agent — and wielding a pizza cutter — claiming he had paperwork to free accused assassin Luigi Mangione.Mark Anderson, of Mankato, faces federal charges for impersonating an FBI agent and was set to make his court appearance Thursday. Sources told...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice was nearly shut out by judges after a federal judge in Minnesota said ICE has defied 100 different court orders. Legal expert Lisa Rubin talked about the ongoing cases with MS NOW anchor Katie Tur, who described Judge Patrick J. Schiltz's statement that "ICE is behaving as if ICE itself is the law."...
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Senate Republicans appear to be inching toward a deal to kick the can on a federal government shutdown over Department of Homeland Security issues — but hardliners in the House beg to differ.Democrats have united behind a demand to add reforms to the DHS bill to rein in the brutal crackdown of Trump administration immigration agents, which has...
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This column was first published by DCReport. The search for scapegoats in Minneapolis is under way once again, even as White House policy over deportation tactics was beginning to show cracks on several fronts.The insistence on finding someone else to blame for the most recent fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis led to an extraordinary federal court...
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries reminded Fox News host Martha MacCallum that her network's polling showed Americans believe Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had "gone too far."During an interview on Fox News, MacCallum asked Jeffries why Democrats would risk a government shutdown over ICE policies."Your own poll has shown that...
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Some of President Donald Trump's most powerful supporters are starting to turn their backs on him after the most recent killing in Minneapolis, according to a new report. Trump ingratiated himself with podcast bros like Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz during the 2024 campaign, who helped him spread his message to their millions of young male followers,...
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A terrified West African mother and her infant were left stranded in a car in Portland, Maine, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents smashed in a window, spraying the child seat with broken glass, and taking away the 38-year-old father driving the car, leaving the other two left in the cold.According to the Portland Press Herald,...
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota were accused of "stealing" a man's car.In a video recorded by Status Coup News on Thursday, an ICE agent allegedly "rammed into a driver's car in Minneapolis—in front of an elementary school—then chased him.""After failing to catch him—they stole his car," Status Coup reported.A...
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President Donald Trump's plan to make the Board of Peace the premier international organization backfired when it inadvertently increased support for the United Nations.According to The Associated Press, Trump had intended for his organization to eclipse the U.N Security Council."In my opinion, the basic responsibility for international peace and...
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A recruit with the New Orleans Police Department is in the custody of federal immigration officials and will be removed from the United States, NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Wednesday.WVUE-TV Fox 8 reports the recruit, whom the police chief did not name, had no criminal background and cleared an E-Verify citizenship background check. He...
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A former GOP operative Thursday called out Republicans for the party's complete about-face and acceptance of surveillance under the Trump administration. Rick Wilson, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, questioned in his Substack why "constitutional purists" have not pushed back on ICE, its use of warrantless arrests and the...
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The Trump regime started the week by telling lies about Alex Pretti's murder in Minneapolis. Now, Donald Trump has pivoted back to telling lies about the economy in order to change the subject. Trump lies like other humans breathe.Trump's year back in office has been filled with lies and broken promises. We're in the gravitational pull of the...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department went out of its way to send a prosecutor he appointed to Georgia to handle a raid on the Fulton County Board of Elections."One of the many mysteries about the federal raid of Fulton County's election system is why a federal prosecutor from Missouri is listed on the warrant," the Atlanta...
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White House border czar Tom Homan on Thursday sparked alarm when he used terminology associated with overseas war to describe federal immigration operations taking place in Minnesota.During a press briefing, Homan was asked about the number of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents operating in...
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President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed why he closes his eyes during long cabinet meetings — he was bored. Trump maintained that he wasn't sleeping, but instead, he was just closing his eyes during the cabinet meeting and press conference at the White House, The Daily Beast reported."The last time we had a press conference, it lasted for...
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A defiant Georgia official vowed to fight back against the Trump administration on Thursday after the FBI raided an elections center in Fulton County. President Donald Trump has continued to claim that election fraud in Fulton County cost him the 2020 presidential election. Fulton County Chair Rob Pitts spoke during a press conference in Atlanta...
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LUBBOCK — Thirty years ago, Suzanne Bellsnyder was a budding young Republican working in Austin, far from her home in the Texas Panhandle. She was on a mission to push Republicans — the likes of John Cornyn and Greg Abbott — into power.Now, she's returned to the Panhandle and is a known hellraiser for the same Republicans she helped elect....
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Seven Republicans voted against a massive spending bill a day before the government is set for a partial shutdown.The funding package stalled Thursday after six GOP senators – Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ashley Moody (R-FL), Rand Paul (R-KY), Rick Scott (R-FL) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) – voted no, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune...
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When Donald Trump was elected to the presidency in 2024 after being found liable for sexual abuse, his political victory set in motion another comeback — for director and producer Brett Ratner. Ratner, who has directed films including the "Rush Hour” movies, "X-Men: The Last Stand” and "Tower Heist,” was all but cast out of Hollywood after...
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Federal prosecutors have notified President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Minneapolis U.S. attorney's office they are considering mass resignations to protest the Department of Justice response to the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.Two officials familiar with the office told the Washington Post that at least one prosecutor in...
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President Donald Trump used Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) tribute to Alex Pretti in an attempt to smear the slain 37-year-old nurse.In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump shared a video of what was thought to be Pretti getting into an altercation with DHS agents days before his death."Caring for people was at the core of who he was," Warren...
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MAGA loyalists were furious Thursday after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced that the Trump administration has pulled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from its surge in Maine. Collins said that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed her the administration was backing off its enforcement operation amid bipartisan backlash...
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The FBI conducted what a legal analyst described as a "highly unusual" search of an election office in the Georgia county where President Donald Trump and his allies were indicted for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.Fulton County commissioner Mo Ivory challenged the warrant as "incorrect legally” seeking all ballots from that...
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The Department of Justice filed criminal charges against Anthony Kazmierczak, a fan of President Donald Trump, for an alleged attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)According to documents obtained by CBS, Kazmierczak was charged on Wednesday after Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance at a town hall event on Tuesday night."On or about January 27,...
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The Trump administration Thursday gave an explanation over why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was at the FBI raid at an election office in Georgia, but it is laughable, according to one expert.The FBI Wednesday raided an elections center in Fulton County, Georgia. President Donald Trump has continued to insist that election fraud...
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Vor Südspanien, im Militärhafen von Rota, startet das größte NATO-Verlege-Manöver des Jahres. Rund 10.000 Soldaten, mehr als ein Dutzend Schiffe, der Weg führt von Südeuropa bis nach Deutschland und weiter Richtung Osten. Das Ziel: zeigen, wie schnell die Allianz im Ernstfall reagieren kann. Rixa Fürsen berichtet vom Deck des spanischen...
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CNN's Harry Enten predicted a brutal critical reception for Melania Trump's documentary when it's released this week."Melania" premiers Friday and so far advance ticket sales have been in single digits for many theaters for the film that Amazon MGM studios paid $40 million to produce and spent $35 million marketing, but the chief data analyst told...
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A Scottish lawmaker railed against US President Donald Trump on Wednesday over the American military's seizure of an oil tanker and detention of its two top officers earlier this month in waters between Iceland and Scotland.Ross Greer, a member of the Scottish Parliament and co-leader of Scotland's Green Party, said that two people—tanker captain...
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The FBI's Wednesday raid on an elections center in Fulton County, Georgia is raising alarms about President Donald Trump's plans to disrupt the 2026 midterm elections.Shortly after FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operations center to search for materials related to the 2020 presidential election, Fulton...
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When President Donald Trump's border adviser Tom Homan spoke to the press about his plans for assuming control of the deteriorating situation in Minneapolis, he struck a balance between suggesting that a "draw down" is possible if local officials cooperate with him, and remaining adamant that the administration will not "surrender" to...
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Melania Trump's eponymous documentary flopped in its London debut.UK cinema chain Vue's will premier "Melania" at 3:10 p.m. at its flagship Islington theater in London, but so far only one person has bought a ticket and just two tickets have sold for a 6 p.m. showing – undercutting President Donald Trump's hype claims, reported LBC."MELANIA, the...
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President Donald Trump has taken a series of blows in the last month and instead of bowing out of the fight, he and his inner circle will come back even harder, an analyst predicted Thursday. David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, described why the people closest to him are spooked by the reality that if Trump is out of power then they...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon warned that Bruce Springsteen's new song protesting against President Donald Trump's immigration policies could embolden the resistance.In his song "Streets of Minneapolis," released this week, Springsteen laments the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti."King Trump's private army from the DHS / Guns belted to their...
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President Donald Trump's border adviser Tom Homan kicked off his assumption of responsibility for the crackdown in Minnesota with a press conference on Thursday. He tried at times to sound conciliatory, saying, "I have staff from CBP and from ICE working on a draw down plan," but in other ways doubled down on the Trump administration's operations,...
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President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan was grilled by reporters in Minnesota after announcing a shift in tactics for federal immigration agents.The president dispatched Homan to the state and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demoted Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino following the fatal shootings of two citizen observers...
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There is something deeply unsettling about Abraham Lincoln's famous phrase "four score,” meaning 80 years. It's roughly the length of a human life, but is also the interval at which the United States repeatedly collides with crisis and is forced to decide, again and again, what kind of nation we will be.Historian Neil Howe explores this pattern...
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President Donald Trump's Homeland Security officials are running into a brick wall in federal courts as they try to justify all the people they are snatching off the streets, MS NOW legal expert Lisa Rubin told Willie Geist on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe.""When it comes to immigration detention hearings in Minnesota federal courts ... of the...
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A top US military official has warned Donald Trump may prolong the end of the war in Ukraine. Colonel Jonathan Sweet explained how the president could bring the conflict between Russian and Ukraine to an end, but that it would rely on military intervention and the help of NATO. He wrote in The Hill, "Trump has the cards to end the war, but those...
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President Donald Trump hammered an early morning screed attacking Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.The central bank held interest rates steady on Wednesday despite Trump's public pressure on Powell – who claims a criminal probe against him by Trump ally Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is part of that pressure...
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President Donald Trump's White House is looking to negotiate on Department of Homeland Security reforms to resolve the stalled funding bill as Senate Democrats' front against a blank check for more Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids has all but guaranteed a partial government shutdown at the end of the week, Politico reported on...
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President Donald Trump is receiving a warning from his most fervent supporters, The Washington Post reported: don't back down on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown — or we might not be there at the polls in November.For the moment, the report noted, Trump's moves to "de-escalate" in Minnesota following multiple deaths at the hands...
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Donald Trump posted a series of conspiracy theories, jabs at California Governor Gavin Newsom, and praise for himself in a late night Truth Social firestorm. The president reiterated a bogus claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him among reshares of Fox News clips and claims of ties between the Barack Obama administration and Russia....
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New evidence has emerged that Alex Pretti was known to federal agents more than a week before he was gunned down, and a veteran columnist made a case that the government officers who killed him committed first-degree murder.CNN reported that Pretti suffered a broken rib about a week before his death when federal officers tackled him in an earlier...
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A Republican Party representative has said the party will struggle in the months ahead as public mood shifts over recent ICE shootings. Jose Arango, the Republican chair of Hudson County, New Jersey, says the GOP is not offering an image close to relatable given Donald Trump's administration actions in Minneapolis. Arango, speaking to Politico,...
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The Trump administration has pulled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from its surge in Maine, according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).The Republican senator said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told her the administration was backing off its enforcement operation amid bipartisan backlash against ICE tactics following the fatal...
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Donald Trump's economic policies will leave Americans poorer in the long term, a Nobel Prize winner has claimed. Paul Krugman believes there is a measured decline unfolding in the US, with many set to feel the burden of the president's policy. Writing in his Substack, the award-winning economist suggested the longer-term economic traditions are at...
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ICE agents have been given new orders to stop engaging with "agitators" as they carry out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.The new guidance marks a change in the broad sweeps that have provoked clashes that have resulted in a pair of fatal shootings in Minnesota, and the directive also orders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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