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A comprehensive study released on Wednesday has revealed that the popular social media app TikTok may have helped tilt the 2024 election in President Donald Trump's favor, The Guardian reported."In an environment where margins are thin, systematic differences in the kind of political information recommended to tens of millions of young voters are...
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Fox News London correspondent Alex Hogan was repositioned to Portsmouth, Virginia, just in time to cover an FBI raid on a Democratic politician who led redistricting efforts that could help her party take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.In a social media post on Wednesday, Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin noted that...
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A Washington Post satellite imagery analysis found Iranian airstrikes damaged or destroyed 228 structures and equipment pieces at 15 Middle East bases since the war started on February 28, significantly exceeding previous media reports.The Post identified 217 damaged structures and 11 destroyed equipment pieces.The total is substantially more than...
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I have newlywed friends in their 20s who recently bought a small house and then added spacious dining and family rooms. When I jokingly asked how they could afford such lavish renovations, the husband was quick to reply, "Her dad paid. When it comes to his baby girl, he spares no expense.”When I heard the news yesterday that Senate Republicans...
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Former "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Nene Leakes spoke about her complex relationship with President Donald Trump — her former coworker. In an interview with Vulture for its interview series featuring reality television powerhouses, Leakes described what it was like working with Trump in 2011 when she was cast for...
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Federal agents have raided the office of a Virginia Democratic legislator who was instrumental to her party possibly picking up four additional congressional seats.The FBI served multiple search warrants at the office of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth as part of what sources described as a major corruption investigation, and MS NOW's...
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The internet was stunned by White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett's comments on Wednesday as he bragged about how credit card spending on higher-priced gasoline was "through the roof." Hassett made the remarks in an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday morning where he discussed the ongoing Iran war, the continued closure of the Strait of...
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Backlash over his controversial JD Vance-inspired ideological shift has forced a conservative think tank leader to step down, according to a report on Wednesday. The Bulwark's Joshua Tait described how John A. Burtka IV has resigned as president of Intercollegiate Studies Institute after "rebranding itself around JD Vance style pugnaciousness." The...
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two protesters during a social rights demonstration in 2020, was hospitalized on Wednesday after a venomous spider bite. He shared a photo of himself in a hospital and where the apparent bite was located on his body. "The communists couldn't take me out and i'll be damned if I let a brown recluse take me out,"...
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Das Interview mit Björn Höcke im Podcast „ungeskriptet by Ben" erreicht Millionen. Aber kritische Nachfragen fehlen. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler über die Stellen, an denen man hätte einhaken müssen: von Höckes familiärer Prägung durch Propaganda von Holocaust-Leugnern über geschichtsrevisionistische Zahlen bis hin zu seiner...
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Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) astonished critics with his over-the-top praise of President Donald Trump in the wake of Tuesday's primary elections.The 79-year-old president extracted his revenge when at least five incumbent GOP state legislators lost against Trump-backed candidates in Indiana after they failed to pass a mid-decade...
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A GOP-backed bill that would criminalize blowing whistles to alert people to immigration agents, a tactic embraced by activists in Minnesota earlier this year, was rejected on Tuesday. But that failure is likely to be temporary, and the measure may still land on the governor's desk.The proposal would create a new state crime called "unlawful...
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House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) was peppered with questions about why he let a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet give a deposition on Jeffrey Epstein without video recording it, while refusing the same opportunity to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.On Wednesday, Comer spoke to reporters...
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Vice President JD Vance stumbled during a speech at an Iowa manufacturing facility while campaigning for Representative Zach Nunn (R-IA).Nunn faces a competitive reelection bid this November, according to PBS. Vance discussed the Trump administration's efforts to lower fertilizer costs for farmers and increase ethanol sales, dismissing the war with...
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The FBI is reportedly investigating an Atlantic journalist who wrote a "deeply unflattering" report on Director Kash Patel's drinking habits.Two sources familiar with the investigation confirmed to MS NOW that the "highly unusual" investigation was looking into the leaking of material that embarrassed Patel for alleged drinking and absences from...
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Renowned CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour took a swipe at Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison for the chaos at CBS News under his leadership — in anticipation of him moving to control CNN as well.According to The Daily Beast, "The veteran chief international anchor, 68, faces life under Trump-friendly nepo baby Ellison, 43, after Paramount...
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The chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee is ignoring widespread public dissatisfaction with Donald Trump's unpopular war and skyrocketing gas prices, instead urging voters to exercise patience and still cast their ballots for Republicans in November.Despite polling showing heavy dissatisfaction with Republicans' slim House...
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Matilda Munro, the niece of convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, resigned from her oversight role at a British public school after the Justice Department's release of Epstein-related files revealed a letter she had sent a New York City federal judge on behalf of her aunt, the Daily Mail uncovered in its report...
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President Donald Trump's newly-minted Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, vowed on Wednesday morning to find nearly half a million "unaccounted for" kids, based on an internet conspiracy theory that misinterpreted a number about migrant minors.We're setting up a special department that's going over especially kids," Mullin told Newsmax's...
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I'm old enough to have been politically cognizant, admittedly less so for a couple of the earliest, of 13 presidents (14 if you count one of them twice). Through all of those decades and all of those administrations nothing comes close to the way the current regime takes up ALL THE AIR IN THE ROOM! In fact, dare I say, no one has ever seen anything...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was facing scrutiny on Wednesday after a new Politico report revealed he was receiving overlapping payments, raising questions about his past as a political operative. Lawler's advocacy and political groups paid more than $720,000 to Checkmate Strategies, the consulting firm he co-founded and sold last year for up to...
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Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown, whose reporting on Jeffrey Epstein won a Pulitzer Prize and helped lead to the disgraced financier's arrest in 2019, was the victim of an apparent hacking scheme, Brown revealed on Wednesday, and one that she questioned whether the social media platform X was "willfully” allowing."On Saturday, my X account...
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The unrelenting flow of statements about the state of the war with Iran, with positions and plans changing from hour to hour depending on who is speaking, has the White House "flailing” to come up with a coherent message for a deeply skeptical US populace, according to analysts.On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump was on Truth Social claiming the...
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Pope Leo XIV rejected an attack by President Donald Trump ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit.The 79-year-old president accused the 70-year-old pope of "endangering" his fellow Catholics by supporting Iran's right to possess nuclear weapons, but Leo told reporters there was nothing further from the truth, reported The Guardian."The...
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WASHINGTON — Get off the train at Union Station, walk outside and gasp at that iconic view of the Capitol dome in front of you.Cross the street and the first thing you run into is a construction site surrounding walled-off Columbus Circle. On the wall is a huge poster of President Donald Trump wearing a hard hat (and a coat and tie)."Thank you,...
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White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett crowed about "through the roof" credit card spending on higher-priced gasoline.During a Wednesday interview on Fox Business, host Maria Bartiromo noted that President Donald Trump had "paused" Project Freedom, an attempt to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz despite a threat from Iran."Well,...
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The Pentagon's official estimate of the direct financial cost of the US war on Iran is a nearly threefold undercount of the actual price tag of the war, according to an expert analysis published Wednesday.Stephen Semler, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, produced the new cost estimate for the Popular Information newsletter....
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A superclip of Donald Trump in the Oval Office jumping from topic to topic — some of them inappropriate — while surrounded by children, drew amused and incredulous looks from the co-hosts of "Morning Joe” on Wednesday morning.It left co-host Mika Brzezinski sputtering and almost speechless.In the clip, the president is heard rambling about...
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President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project, long touted as being funded exclusively with donor money, could now potentially get a $1 billion boost from Senate Republicans, as a provision for it was slipped into their new reconciliation bill that's meant to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the remainder of...
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The U.S. Supreme Court's right-wing majority unraveled more than a half-century of corrective action and cleared the way for a return to American apartheid, according to a New York Times columnist.The court's conservatives – three of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump – have chiseled away at the landmark Voting Rights Act, which was...
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President Donald Trump's favorability on one key issue has reportedly fallen so sharply that one pollster was forced to amend his organization's chart format just to accommodate the president's historically low performance.That key issue is how favorable Americans are with the president's handling of gas prices, which, according to...
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A comprehensive Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery reveals that Iranian airstrikes have inflicted far more extensive damage on U.S. military installations across the Middle East than publicly acknowledged, destroying or damaging at least 228 structures and pieces of equipment at 15 bases since the war began on Feb. 28.The scale of...
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President Donald Trump suggested a possible deal might be on the table to end the war in Iran.The 79-year-old president sent out a Truth Social post Wednesday morning following a flurry of developments this week, such as the start and quick end to Project Freedom, an effort to ensure safe passage for commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz,...
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A new survey commissioned by The Washington Post adds to the ever-growing pile of rock-bottom polls for President Donald Trump — and reveals across-the-board disgust at one of his recent controversies in particular, with even strong majorities of Republicans rejecting his behavior."Americans are deeply uncomfortable with recent religion-related...
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In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times, political science Professor Robert Pape pointed out that acceptance of political violence is today higher than it's been in generations. Tens of millions of Americans, his research shows, are now accepting of things as extreme as assassination as a way to change politics.This follows the third...
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch lobbed a subtle jab at Congress over its increasing tendency to cede its own power, and in turn, offload responsibilities to the nation's highest court during an interview published Wednesday in The New York Times.The Times' David French sat down with Gorsuch for a lengthy interview coinciding with the...
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Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul admitted he was startled that Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the war with Iran over at a time when hostilities continued and no agreement is in place in particular with regard to future nuclear capabilities.Speaking with the hosts of "Morning Joe,” McFaul noted Rubio's remark that "The...
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The sound of construction machinery filled the air as Kylie Nidever walked past properties ravaged months earlier by floodwaters.Nidever's home was among those in her Bumble Bee Hills neighborhood untouched by last year's July 4 flood, one of the deadliest disasters in Texas history. The 35-year-old understood the draw of the tranquil Kerr County...
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An offhand comment about the war in Iran by Vice President JD Vance during a speech in Iowa on Tuesday set off a chorus of harsh criticism on MS NOW on Wednesday morning.The vice president spoke at a manufacturing facility during a rally to boost the candidacy of Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Joni Ernst (R)...
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Thirty-six prominent mental health professionals entered a stark warning published into the Congressional Record, declaring President Donald Trump mentally unfit for office and presenting "a clear and present danger" to the nation and world.The letter, entered by Senators Whitehouse and Reed of Rhode Island on April 30, represents an unusually...
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With the estimated cost of the White House ballroom project doubling from $200 million to $400 million – alongside a separate $1 billion funding request from GOP lawmakers tied to the effort – President Donald Trump took to social media Wednesday to defend the escalating price tag, as well as to lash out at the press over its coverage of the...
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They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern.Then, without warning, their systems began to shut down. A 7-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures. An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped...
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Based on the latest dreadful poll numbers for Donald Trump, it appears that his once-diehard MAGA base might be splitting at the seams like Trump's cankle-filled socks.Trump is hanging by a thread as the untouchable golden idol of the red-hatted MAGA devotees, but that gold aura now only exists in his gauche Oval Office. He has spent much of the...
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco squirmed Tuesday night in a televised California gubernatorial debate after denying a past remark attributed to him, only to ultimately concede that he had likely said it when pressed by CNN's Kaitlan Collins."You've actually had some harsh words for your fellow Republican [GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve...
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Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump's third nominee for surgeon general, has deleted numerous social media posts in which she publicly criticized the administration's handling of major health issues, including measles elimination, vaccine policy and the 79-year-old president's own health transparency.Just two months before her nomination in...
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The Department of Homeland Security is axing a program put in place under fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem that accelerated the training of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an effort to get them swiftly out on the street, rounding up undocumented immigrants.According to a report from Politico's Myah Ward, Jordain Carney, and...
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Republicans may have gerrymandered themselves into a blue wave, according to a legal analyst.President Donald Trump boasted last week that Republicans could remain in power for 50 years if they could get rid of the Senate filibuster, and legal analyst Michael Propok said that public statement revealed an alarming truth about GOP intentions now that...
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After Watergate, Congress tried to curtail the role of money in politics. But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the bud. Years later, new details are emerging on how wealthy Americans were conferred with a "right to spend” on elections.
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After hiring an alleged ISIS recruiter, Ontario's largest electricity provider tried to bring in a much more intensive security screening process to protect its grid — but a labour arbitrator has found Hydro One's national security background checks were "intrusive" and "unreasonable."
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On the eve of a hugely significant set of local and national elections - who has the momentum and who is staring into an electoral abyss? Sam and Anne pore over the final voting intention polls before the elections - covering England, Scotland and Wales. Have the latest headlines for Reform and the Greens done […]
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The European Commission is unveiling its new anti-poverty strategy today. The only problem is … it doesn't include any new cash. On the pod, Zoya and Ryan discuss how the EU executive is justifying the lack of new funding in this plan. They also look at how likely the bloc is to reach its target of eradicating poverty by 2050 (spoiler […]
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Ein Jahr Regierung Merz. Statt Feierstimmung herrscht massiver Zeitdruck. Bis zur Sommerpause müssen Mammutprojekte wie die Steuerreform, das Rentenpaket und der Haushalt 2027 erledigt werden. Gordon Repinski analysiert mit Rasmus Buchsteiner, ob die schwarz-rote Koalition die Kraft für einen „großen Wurf" hat oder ob die fundamentalen...
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority has quietly abandoned one of its own legal doctrines — and it did so in the middle of an ongoing election, in the dead of night, and without explanation, according to two lawyers.The so-called Purcell principle, which the Court has invoked repeatedly over the past several years to protect the rights of...
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President Donald Trump's legacy hinges on an issue he has no interest in addressing, according to one of his biographers. Journalist Michael Wolff argued during a new episode of the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast, co-hosted by Nico Hines, the Daily Beast's global editorial director, that Trump's war in Iran is shaping up to end a lot like the oil...
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President Donald Trump's latest glitch at a small-business event stunned a political analyst on Tuesday.On May 4, Trump attended a small business event in the East Room at the White House, accompanied by Kelly Loeffler, his Small Business Administration secretary. During the event, Trump appeared to nod off while Loeffler was speaking, and at one...
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Two Democratic candidates for California governor traded blows as one tried to ask him questions that the other said sounded like "MAGA talking points." Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was asked to respond to comments made by his fellow Democratic candidate Matt Mahan that "suggested that you're interested in growing the...
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Democratic strategist James Carville sounded an urgent alarm about New Hampshire's Senate race, calling it essential to Democratic control of the chamber. Democrat Chris Pappas leads Republican John Sununu by just one point — 45-44 — a margin Carville describes as a tied race being overlooked while national attention focuses on Georgia and...
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A GOP candidate for California governor proudly stood by his past ties to the Oath Keepers, a far-right American militia that was involved in the January 6 Capitol riots."You're an Oath Keeper. We all know that," former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said while railing against Republican Chad Bianco, the Sheriff for Riverside County.Rather...
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Rahm Emanuel, the former ambassador to Japan, melted down on Tuesday during a panel debate about the direction the Republican and Democratic parties are headed before the midterms. Emanuel was joined by Glenn Youngkin, the former governor of Virginia, at the Miliken Institute for the panel. While the two former officials fielded questions about the...
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) spoke to Fox News during a campaign stop at a food bank on Tuesday and her condition left people on the internet stunned and starting to question her physical fitness for office.Asked by reporter Paul Steinhauser whether her Democratic opponent, harbormaster and oyster farmer Graham Platner, would be too far left for the...
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The California Governor Primary Debate on CNN got heated on Tuesday after a fed-up Democrat gave a Republican an earful over his plan to lower energy prices. Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, has claimed that he will lower the price of gas to $3 per gallon within a year if he is elected governor. His plan includes releasing the state's...
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A billionaire real estate magnate demanded that the ultra-rich be "praised and thanked" in an earnings call reported by Politico on Tuesday — and compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's calls to "tax the rich" to racial slurs."I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — quote tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt...
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A red state sparked backlash after announcing that it will offer an alternative version of advanced history classes meant to combat the "woke." Historian Kevin Kruse warned on Bluesky that Sunshine State students could have "to suffer through the Florida Man version" of Advanced Placement U.S. History, and called out a curriculum that frames...
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One of President Donald Trump's in-laws was roasted on Tuesday night after she gave a "weird" interview on Fox News. Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump's son Eric, joined Laura Ingraham on "The Ingraham Angle," where the two discussed last night's Met Gala, which was hosted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his second wife, Lauren Sanchez....
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A reporter called out omissions in a congressman's response to sexual harassment allegations after he failed to deny key details. Axios congressional reporter Kate Santaliz noted that in a Tuesday article about Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), he made glaring omissions in his denial of allegations he summed up as a "shovel of horses---.""Nowhere in this...
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President Donald Trump's niece on Tuesday flagged a potentially catastrophic consequence of his war with Iran.Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, argued in a new Substack essay that the disruptions to the global fertilizer market caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will have a much more devastating impact on the world than the spike in...
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CNN commentators flagged the loss of an established Republican congressman to a Trump-backed contender during primaries on Tuesday as a "significant sign" of who's the boss in the GOP.The race for an Indiana state senate seat was called in favor of Blake Fiechter on Tuesday. Trump threw his support behind Fiechter, a real estate agent, to beat...
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board once again tore into the Trump administration's Health and Human Services officials for continuing to obfuscate why promising treatments were quashed by the Food and Drug Administration, while shuffling around people involved with that decision through important public health roles."Good news: Vinay Prasad on...
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Political analysts and observers mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he abruptly ended his new war initiative. Trump announced on Truth Social that he was pausing "Project Freedom," an initiative launched on Sunday to guide the ships from "innocent and neutral" countries out of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said he implemented the plan...
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The White House will try to pressure two Supreme Court justices to leave the bench and make way for long-term conservative replacements before the midterms, a legal expert predicted. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito should expect the Trump and the executive branch to "do everything in its power to entice them off the bench," Sarah Isgur, a...
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A former U.S. government worker engaged in a heated shouting match with Russian "Merchant of Death" arms dealer, Viktor Bout, during an appearance on The Alex Jones Show. The caller from Kansas, identified as Lee, confronted Bout about Russia's four-year war in Ukraine, questioning when Russian leadership would pressure Vladimir Putin to end the...
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Pope Leo XIV poses a huge problem to far-right Christian elements who have fallen in with the MAGA movement, University of Pennsylvania religious studies professor Anthea Butler told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday — not just because he opposes much of Trump's war and immigration agenda, but because he sets an example for Christianity that...
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Several Indiana Republicans who defied Trump's redistricting push may lose their primaries Tuesday night as the president's revenge campaign claims its first scalps — but at least one was projected to hold on.State Sen. Greg Goode, a conservative Republican and one of the more outspoken lawmakers against the plan to delete two Democratic seats,...
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