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President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to take over Washington, D.C., on a federal basis if democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins next week's Democratic primary for mayor. Trump told Oval Office reporters he wouldn't like it if Lewis George prevails, reported The Washington Post. Currently, Lewis Georg is leading the polls. "We are not...
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Trump's lawyers urged a federal judge to reject an effort to reopen the dismissed lawsuit that led to the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, according to a new court filing.Attorneys for Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization argued in the Southern District of Florida filing that a group of 35 former federal judges have "no standing" to...
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A GOP group failed to prove a university violated its First Amendment rights by banning it for alleged antisemitism, the New York Times reported.The University of Florida College Republicans were banned by the school from its Gainesville campus in March after a photo circulated showing two people giving a Nazi salute, the Times reported. Members...
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The White House quietly elevated Chris Klomp to chief of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, counselor in February, effectively installing him as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handler to prevent the vaccine-skeptic from derailing GOP midterm prospects. Democratic senators suspect Klomp was promoted to babysit RFK because the White House...
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Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings embarrassingly lost his attempt to defend Trump as his name came off the Kennedy Center."Are we upset that the president of the United States took an interest in the Kennedy Center?" Jennings asked while on a CNN roundtable."A lot of people are upset about that, yes," CNN host Abby Phillip responded. "Why?"...
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Insider editor Michael Weiss cautioned that any Iran deal President Donald Trump signs based on leaked details would constitute a "major humiliation" for the president. According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, the proposed agreement grants Iran $300 billion in reconstruction money and $24 billion in cash — half before negotiations begin — while...
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Trump's announcement of killing the leader of a Venezuelan gang carries a "chilling" detail, according to a legal expert.According to Trump, the U.S. military launched a "swift and lethal" strike against the leader of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that was a hot topic during the 2024 presidential election. Ryan Goodman, a chaired professor at...
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The U.S. launched a military strike against the leader of a Venezuelan prison gang, Trump announced in a Truth Social post."At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua," Trump wrote.Tren de Aragua was at the center of...
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Annette Dombrowski and Chris Tackett, three-time Trump voters from Ohio, expressed deep disappointment with the president during interviews with MS NOW's Alex Tabet on Friday, citing economic struggles and unfulfilled campaign promises. The interviews came as a Conn-Selmer manufacturing plant in Eastlake, Ohio, announced closure, with Trump ally...
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The Texas Republican Party created a viral moment in all the wrong ways at their convention when they brought a live elephant out to promote Gov. Greg Abbott's re-election campaign — and it began to urinate loudly and dramatically on the floor.The incident prompted a predictable round of mockery from commenters on social media."Governor Abbott...
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A furious GOP Senate aide fired off at Trump for ignoring the issues that matter ahead of the midterms, the conservative Daily Mail reported Friday."People are p— the f— off that prices are too high and things are too expensive," a senior GOP aide told the Mail. "I'm just not sure the president really cares or if he's really in tune with what's...
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Ben Domenech, the husband of Meghan McCain and opinion editor at the right-wing Daily Wire, told The New York Times' John Guida in an interview published Friday that the GOP should be a lot more concerned about losing Senate races, and particularly that they are too quick to take the Maine race for granted.This comes after progressive oysterman and...
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World Cup audiences showed their anger with the United States by booing renditions of the Star-Spangled Banner.Canadian spectators at a watch party jeered nonstop during the U.S. National Anthem at the opening of the U.S. versus Paraguay match in Los Angeles, according to a social media video.Those boos followed heckling and hissing as the U.S....
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) fired back at President Donald Trump after losing her South Carolina gubernatorial primary race, vowing revenge by leaving office in January 2027. Mace lost to Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pam Evette, reported The Hill.Mace posted on X, "People keep asking me: 'Will you get revenge on Trump for ending your political career?' The...
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Mark Zuckerberg's $14 billion AI gamble hit a wall, and his own employees are losing it on internal calls.One Meta worker interrupted a livestreamed presentation to thousands of colleagues this week, blasting the company over an open mic and demanding the call's leaders pass along a personal message to a Meta AI executive: "Tell him that he's a...
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Trump lost his last-minute effort to stop the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center, according to CNN.The DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's emergency stay request to delay the removal, CNN reported. The decision came as crews were already removing the lettering on the Kennedy Center.According to CNN, the appeals...
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A federal judge in Massachusetts scorched President Donald Trump's Interior Department on Friday for orders to remove all exhibits pertaining to race, sexuality, and climate from national parks — and issued an order to reverse all of it.U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, went into painstaking detail...
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A commercial airline pilot received a baffling response from the FAA after Trump's UFC lights blinded them while landing, MeidasTouch reported.The pilot spoke anonymously about how powerful lights from the UFC octagon on the White House South Lawn filled the cockpit during a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was "10 times...
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Florida Democrats got a surprise bit of good news on Friday: they're running unopposed in a heavily Hispanic, Orlando-area state House district currently held by the GOP — because the incumbent Republican failed to file her paperwork properly.According to Gabrielle Russon of Florida Politics, "Rep. Paula Stark failed to qualify for re-election in...
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Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson alleged Thursday that President Donald Trump ordered the FBI to shut down its investigation into Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate the president in 2024. In his Thursday interview with Mario Nawal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur and prominent podcast host, Carlson...
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A long-simmering rift inside Florida's Republican Party erupted into open warfare on Friday, as far-right activist Laura Loomer unleashed a barrage of social media posts accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis of recruiting a fringe candidate to sabotage Trump-endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds.In a series of posts on X, Loomer trained her fire on James Fishback, a...
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Paramount Skydance's greenlight to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery will lead to a major shakeup at CNN, warned a political strategist.The upheaval coming for CNN will make recent events at CBS look like peanuts, political strategist Chai Komanduri said on MS NOW. While Paramount awaited approval from the Trump administration for the Warner Bros....
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Nobel Prize-winning economist turned liberal political commentator Paul Krugman broke down for MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday evening why the SpaceX IPO valuation that just made tech tycoon Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire stinks to high heaven.'You make several critiques," said Melber. "I wonder if you could start with kind of what I've...
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A young woman missing for nearly 11 years has resurfaced in Jeffrey Epstein's files, her name pitched to the convicted sex offender by an alleged recruiter now under investigation in France for human trafficking.A Der Spiegel and ZDF investigation published Friday identifies the woman only as Michele — her last name withheld at her family's...
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Federal regulators recently looked into why former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is sitting on $14.5 million in campaign funds, despite not having run a campaign for office in years.According to NOTUS' Mark Alfred, "The Federal Election Commission reached out in April to Nunes' mom, Toni Dian Nunes, who is also his campaign committee's treasurer, for...
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Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reported that Iranian negotiators have enlisted senior psychologists to assess communications intended for President Donald Trump during ongoing peace talks with Washington. According to Iranian sources, negotiators believe Trump is legitimately mentally ill and is operating in an impaired mental state,...
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A veteran "60 Minutes" producer is bolting after clashing with CBS News boss Bari Weiss over a "white genocide" story, per a new report.Michael Gavshon worked alongside correspondent Anderson Cooper on a story that debunked Trump's claim of "white genocide" in South Africa, which left him exasperated, according to an exclusive by The New York Post....
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The Trump Department of Justice approved a major deal that's expected to shake up the entertainment industry, according to reporting by NBC News.Paramount Skydance now has a clearer path to acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery for $110 billion, a person familiar with the deal told NBC News. A formal announcement is expected soon, NBC added. The Trump...
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An American oil hub that dubs itself "the pipeline crossroads of the world" is running dangerously low amid Trump's Iran war, CNN reported.Cushing, Oklahoma, usually stores about 40 million barrels of oil and has a capacity to carry up to 75 million. However, Cushing is holding just over half that amount as it reports a current inventory of 21.6...
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Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, was mocked on Friday after he announced that a batch of UFO videos and materials had been released to the public.Miller shared the government news in a post on X: "New tranche of UFO files and videos just dropped."Miller's post comes amid a broader Trump administration push to release UFO files...
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The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin faced criticism after attacking New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a press conference.Mullin said neither gets along, and added, "It's shameful, and hopefully people in New York will wise up and get a true leader in there in a few years."Critics quickly highlighted the irony of an...
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The Trump administration has filed an appeal of the order to take President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — and legal experts immediately noticed the filing was so vitriolic and unprofessional that the president himself likely had a hand in writing it."Without the name, 'Trump' on the Building, our fundraising...
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New details were revealed in "24" actor Kiefer Sutherland's alleged attack and threat to kill an Uber driver, TMZ reported on Friday. In a new lawsuit filed by Rafael Manvelyan, who said he speaks limited English and his languages are primarily Russian and Armenian, claimed that "Kiefer got 'agitated' when the actor was struggling to understand...
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A UFC fighter on President Donald Trump's White House birthday card once allegedly called his Black opponent a "human gorilla" — and he's far from the only fighter on the bill with baggage.Trump requested veteran heavyweight Derrick Lewis for the card after watching Josh Hokit, 28, battle Lewis' future opponent at UFC 327 in April. Hokit was...
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The Texas Republican Party decided to parade a fully grown elephant through the hall of their party convention on Friday — and it didn't go well.According to a video shared by New York Times Texas political correspondent Lauren McGaughy, the elephant "took a giant pee" on the floor just as it was passing the press area, prompting shouts of...
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Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has gotten himself disinvited from the Sunshine State Showdown, a key primary debate for the GOP, after he was caught violating party rules.According to the right-wing outlet Florida's Voice, Fishback's removal from the event came as a result of his agreeing to participate in another...
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Elon Musk's net worth surged past $1 trillion on Friday as SpaceX—the rocket company he founded and controls—made its debut on the public market, prompting global revulsion and calls for an aggressive wealth tax to rein in out-of-control inequality."Musk became the world's first trillionaire because our tax system shields the wealth of the...
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Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard faces potential contempt of court charges after appearing on Fox News in April to discuss evidence in the high-profile Charlie Kirk shooting case, allegedly violating a judge's gag order. Fourth District Judge Tony Graf Jr. is expected to determine if Ballard's media appearance breached court...
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Despite costly renovations touted by President Donald Trump, the Reflecting Pool is already dirtied with a layer of green muck.According to reporting by Politico, workers are struggling to remove algae from the surface of the Reflecting Pool. Layers of algae keep floating to the top of the World War II Memorial side of the Reflecting Pool, Politico...
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Renowned political analyst Larry Sabato told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Friday that the public could be sleeping on a key Senate race that might help Democrats take the majority: Alaska."Larry, do you think that there is a race out there right now that people aren't talking quite enough about?" asked Hylton, noting that plenty of other races, like...
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After the Republican Party's decision to terminate subsidies that had significantly reduced healthcare costs under the Affordable Care Act for 22 million people, the White House is considering a new way to—officials claim—"help” Americans who face massive medical bills, either due to high-deductible plans that don't cover routine costs or...
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Workers were tearing President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center on Friday as onlookers nearby chanted and cheered.Thousands tuned in on livestreams from ABC 7, WUSA9, Reuters, Fox 10, the Associated Press, Forbes, and MS NOW to watch it happen in real time. A crowd assembled outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as...
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Workers began removing President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center on Friday, executing a federal court order the administration's lawyers attempted to block overnight. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the renaming unconstitutional, stating Congress created the Kennedy Center and only Congress can rename it. Rep. Joyce Beatty...
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WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump plans to make history this weekend when he hosts the UFC at the White House, Mixed Martial Arts history has already been made in Washington in recent years.At the start of this 119th Congress, there were two former MMA fighters in Congress before one, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), became Department of...
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People online on Friday were criticizing the UFC fight to mark Donald Trump's 80th birthday — an event that has been touted as the country's 250th birthday celebration.The mixed martial arts event this weekend on the White House's South Lawn will be a historic first, and more than 100,000 people are expected to attend, CNN reported. Trump has...
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President Donald Trump's administration is quietly folding on a major policy to attack the development of renewable energy in the United States.According to Heatmap, the Justice Department this week "filed a motion ... to dismiss its appeal of a federal court's December decision vacating the order to halt offshore wind projects." The motion still...
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President Donald Trump has been ordered by a federal court to yank his name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, losing his last-ditch appeal, and giving him no choice but to acquiesce.The moment is symbolic, Brookings Institution senior fellow Elaine Kamarck told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Friday — and she even compared it to one of...
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Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said that Elon Musk — the world's first trillionaire — is "a danger to every single American," in a video on Friday.The Lincoln Project co-founder called the SpaceX leader and Trump administration ally "a Nazi" and raised concerns about his influence on American and worldwide political extremism....
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Amid the ongoing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian negotiators have recently enlisted the help of "senior psychologists” to help them navigate what they believe to be a pressing issue involving President Donald Trump, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill claimed Friday, citing Iranian sources."A couple of weeks ago, the...
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Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein were left "appalled” Friday following The New York Times' essay that some said "whitewashed” the reputation of a key Epstein associate, an individual who, according to famed reporter Julie K. Brown, "enabled Epstein over the years.”The Times published a guest essay Thursday about Kathryn Ruemmler, the...
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The Trump administration has considered using settlements from a Justice Department investigation into major banks' account closures to fund compensation for Jan. 6 rioters, according to sources briefed on the matter.The Justice Department is investigating whether some of America's largest banks closed accounts of Jan. 6 defendants and other...
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Daniel Siad, a prominent French modeling scout, was pressed by CNN's Katie Polglase in an interview published Thursday on his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, and appeared to be sweating profusely through his shirt during the tense discussion.Siad is not facing criminal charges, but is named well over 1,000 times in the Justice Department's release of...
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a withering dissent Thursday in a little-noticed Supreme Court decision that once again saw the 6-3 conservative majority rule appear to rule against Congress's clear intent, prompting two legal experts to sound alarms about the court's apparent disdain for the legislative branch.In FS Credit v. Saba Capital,...
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A federal judge expressed doubts that President Donald Trump's slush fund is truly dead, and she's not alone in her skepticism.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a court order Friday blocking the so-called "anti-weaponization" fund and gave the Department of Justice one week to decide whether Attorney General Todd Blanche or another...
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Legendary director Steven Spielberg dropped his first film since 2022 — Disclosure Day — delivering a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration, a film critic revealed on Friday.In a review from Barry Levitt for The Daily Beast, Levitt described how the movie has focused on humanity and the relentless pursuit of truth, drawing parallels between...
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A Utah prosecutor is facing a potential contempt of court charge after appearing on Fox News to discuss evidence in the high-profile Charlie Kirk shooting case, appearing to violate a judge's strict order limiting public statements about the proceedings.According to NBC News, Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard will appear before Fourth...
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Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hurled a shock allegation at President Donald Trump on Thursday involving the federal investigation into Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate the president ahead of the 2024 election.Carlson was interviewed Thursday by Mario Nawal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur and...
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A suspicious judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's slush fund indefinitely.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said she doesn't believe the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund" is truly dead — despite his administration's suggestions — and issued an order blocking it indefinitely, reported CNN."When the President of the United...
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President Donald Trump is poised to celebrate his 80th birthday this Sunday with an unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, but according to Zeteo, the president is still musing about expanding his birthday celebrations to a national scale."As the birthday boy gears up for his party, we feel compelled to remind you of...
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Workers began tearing Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center Friday, carrying out a federal court order his own lawyers had scrambled overnight to block.A federal judge ruled last month that the renaming was flatly illegal. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Trump's hand-picked board never had the authority to put the president's name...
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President Donald Trump could be considering a replacement for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an analyst said Friday.Salon's White House columnist Brian Karem reported that while White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been on leave, the Trump administration has been auditioning different "guest host" Cabinet members in the press...
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The father of a slain white teen used racial slurs against his son's killer in a podcast appearance as soon as a judge lifted a gag order in the murder case.Jeff Metcalf, the father of Texas teenager Austin Metcalf, called 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony a "watermelon felon" after his conviction this week for murder and sentencing of 35 years in...
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A court filing Friday documented the wreckage of President Donald Trump's Kennedy Center vanity project — highlighting fleeing artists, cratering ticket sales, and an Honors broadcast nobody watched.The midnight deadline to scrub Trump's name from the Kennedy Center was still ticking Friday. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and ex officio...
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The man at the center of the Trump administration's flagship coal revival project has no background in energy, no track record in power generation and no profile among the industry insiders his project will need to convince.What Alex Phillips does have is a long history in the fringes of the MAGA movement — and an $18.5 million federal grant that...
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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is facing another catastrophic financial blow after the Washington National Opera filed a $17 million lawsuit against the troubled institution for refusing to release funds the company claims belong to them.According to New York Times reporting, the suit filed Thursday accuses Kennedy Center officials of...
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Experts and political commentators were stunned on Friday when a Trump official referred to a looming nuclear threat as "exciting times ahead."Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum spoke with CNBC about the Iran war and argued that Americans would ultimately be better off for it."President Trump truly has set up America for an age of abundance —...
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Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance are expecting their fourth child, and Fox News host Brian Kilmeade already has a name in mind – one he pitched to colleagues Friday and sparked an awkward silence.According to USA Today, Vance and Usha have yet to decide on a name for their child, a boy who's expected in July. Friday morning, Fox...
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A pair of three-time Donald Trump voters from Ohio had little good to say about the president when speaking with MS NOW's Alex Tabet Friday, complaining about the state of the economy and all of Trump's broken promises.Prior to the clip that ran on "Morning Joe," co-host Jonathan Lemire reported that a Conn-Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio is being...
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A new "litmus test” appears to have emerged for Democrats already musing about President Donald Trump's exit from the White House — one that puts the president's White House ballroom project at the center of a pivotal question, NOTUS reported Friday."Should a Democratic president bulldoze Trump's ballroom?” the report asks, noting it had...
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A bipartisan group of Congress members sat grounded on a runway for more than an hour Thursday — all because of an airshow rehearsal for Trump's White House UFC fight.Politico Playbook's Adam Wren reported the delegation was stuck aboard a Delta flight from Washington to Detroit. Among the stranded passengers: Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Rashida...
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President Donald Trump lashed out Friday following the reported leak of details on the latest deal to end the Iran war, insisting the purported details bear "no relation to the truth,” while also attacking Iranian negotiators as "very dishonorable people.”"The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that...
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's plan to scuttle a damaging ruling backfired when a federal judge smacked her down for a second time.Pirro — the former Fox News host tapped by President Donald Trump as Washington's top federal prosecutor — had asked Chief Judge James Boasberg to wipe his own ruling from the record, arguing the case was moot....
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A former staffer from President Donald Trump's first term recalled an anecdote from his very first week in office that has echoed in his mind for years.Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, published a new piece for The i Paper calling back a story – which he said probably never even happened –...
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Two Republican senators took their fight over the SAVE America Act public Thursday, with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) telling Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) bluntly that he doesn't have the votes.The exchange, which played out in a series of posts on X, pitted Lee — the bill's chief Senate sponsor — against Cornyn, a co-sponsor who lost his Texas primary to...
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An announcement by Donald Trump that he is on the verge of a peace deal with Iran that preempted what was expected to be a major bombing campaign was not greeted with universal approval by members of his MAGA base.Late Thursday, the president took to his Truth Social platform to write, "Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic...
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According to branding expert Donnie Deutsch, Donald Trump's desire to be the central topic of every day will lead him to deny his MAGA crown to either Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Vice President JD Vance.Deutsch, a former friend of Trump's going back to their Manhattan days, told the hosts of MS NOW's "Morning Joe” that the president will...
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Amid unprecedented bipartisan backlash, President Donald Trump ditched his original nomination for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Thursday and named a new replacement – an announcement that's sparked "Trump-induced chaos” for Senate GOP leaders, Punchbowl News reported Friday."As always, the timing around here matters,” said...
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Embattled "60 Minutes" executive editor Nick Bilton attempted to stanch the bleeding at CBS's popular newsmagazine by offering a popular executive editor his job back after he was fired by CBS News head Bari Weiss — only to be turned down.According to media watchdog Status, Bilton — struggling to right the ship after Weiss's catastrophic purge...
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The mayor of a Pennsylvania borough defended his use of the N-word during a confrontation with children and young adults at a local park — despite outrage from local parents.Daniel Berard, a registered Republican and mayor of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, told Raw Story via a phone call about an April 17 incident at the Second Street Playground...
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Should a desperate Donald Trump sign off on the latest deal with Iran that led him to call off a major attack late Thursday, he would suffer a "major humiliation” based on leaked details.That is according to Insider editor Michael Weiss, who appeared on MS NOW's "Morning Joe” on Friday morning and claimed that the president has come to the...
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A chorus of Senate and House Republicans broke sharply with President Donald Trump Thursday over his escalating threats to Iran, with one loyalist invoking the specter of Vietnam and others warning the conflict will cost them in the midterm elections.The complaints grew louder within hours after Trump threatened to seize Kharg Island, a critical...
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event slated to be held at the White House on Sunday is underwater with a majority of Americans, many of whom have bombarded its promotional posts with references to Jeffrey Epstein, Axios reported Friday.According to a survey of more than 9,200 adults conducted by YouGov, 51% of Americans either...
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The White House quietly installed a "babysitter" to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr in check amid terror the vaccine-sceptic is about to help tank the GOP's midterm performance, a report claimed Friday.The secretary of health and human services' most powerful aide has been installed to keep Kennedy from going off the rails, several Democrats told...
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A prominent psychologist is sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump's increasingly erratic behavior, warning that his fixation on Washington construction projects is a sign of significant mental decline.Dr. John Gartner, a clinical psychologist and former Johns Hopkins University Medical School professor, told the Daily Beast that Trump's...
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ICYMI, the Republican Party has been heavily invested in trying to control the American population by controlling women's reproductive rights for decades. I will forever contend that no government has the right to micromanage the bodies of its constituents, and I also will never understand how the GOP was ever allowed to turn any of our bodies into...
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