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Ivanka Trump's story about how she and Jared Kushner seemed to stumble upon the Albanian island where they want to build their $1.4 billion resort has a glaring hole, according to an ex-GOP operative.Steve Schmidt couldn't help but laugh during his podcast and sing "Albania! Albania!" while he broke apart Ivanka's story about discovering the island...
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Pollsters are finding that swing voters are increasingly worried about a trending issue that's being overlooked.Sarah Longwell, a Republican pollster and the publisher of The Bulwark, revealed in a podcast that swing voters are sharing a long list of concerns about AI data centers with pollsters.The issue is "flying under the radar as a big picture...
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The release of heavily redacted FBI records showing that a sheriff's deputy exchanged emails with would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024 shooting — as Raw Story reported — sent MAGA world into overdrive this weekend, with commentators across the political spectrum demanding answers about what those emails said and why...
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A Republican running for governor suffered a brutal on-stage embarrassment as the moderator tore apart a wild claim about Venezuelan gangs.Scott Bottoms, a GOP primary candidate for Colorado governor, walked back his claim that upwards of 50,000 Venezuelan gang members are in the state, in a video posted by local journalist Kyle Clark."You have...
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FBI records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal that a Butler County Sheriff's deputy exchanged two emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks — the gunman who shot and wounded President Donald Trump at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13, 2024 — prior to the attack. The content of those emails remains unknown. The records...
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Greens defence spokesman David Shoebridge says it is "ridiculous" to think Australia's military could defend the nation's global trade lanes, and acquiring nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS only invites Australia to a conflict between the United States and China.
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The wife of a Republican candidate for governor issued an emotional apology for donating to Biden's campaign.Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate Gentner Drummond has been the target of 'heartbreaking' attacks, his wife, Wendy, said in her apology. She recorded her apology and posted it on social media via her husband's accounts."I can't stand by...
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A California Republican operative went viral this week for doing something unusual in her party: publicly fact-checking a right-wing election conspiracy theory — and refusing to back down when Rasmussen Reports pushed back.Elizabeth Barcohana, who works with the Los Angeles GOP, stepped in after Rasmussen posted a claim that a single ballot drop...
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The New York Knicks have to ask fans to show up two hours before the start of Game 3 of the NBA finals, all thanks to Trump.In a social media post, the basketball team laid out security measures at its home court in Madison Square Garden to accommodate Trump, who plans to attend.Attendees are "strongly encouraged to arrive at least two hours before...
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A federal appeals court judge nominated by President Donald Trump is facing misdemeanor criminal charges after allegedly swiping a man's glasses off his face, throwing them across a parking lot, and stomping on them during a dispute over a parking space — and two months later, he is still hearing cases, according to weekend news reports.Judge...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman who built a career railing against government overreach, traveled to Mexico this week to receive a stem cell treatment that the FDA has not approved — and says she thinks Washington should make it legal.Greene told TMZ that she and her fiancé, right-wing media personality Brian Glenn,...
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A judge threw out a Kennedy Center lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd after he canceled a show in protest of Trump's attempt to rename it after himself, according to reports.The Trump-led Kennedy Center sued Redd for breaching his contract, but D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier dismissed the lawsuit on Friday, according to...
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Stephen Miller tried crying foul about a proposed check on the United States power to spy on Americans, only to be brutally mocked and fact-checked online.Congressional lawmakers have been suggesting a requirement for federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to seek approval to spy on Americans from judges from a court set up by the...
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A foreign leader's excuse for outrage caused by Ivanka Trump is raising eyebrows and doubt, according to reporting by The Daily Beast.Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama went to X to attack "all the endless media outlets" covering the hysteria over a luxury resort planned by Ivanka and Jared Kushner."Today's protest has drawn roughly 2,000...
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Friends,Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day — the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. It's referred to as "D-Day” after the military term for a day when a secret combat attack or operation is planned.It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It began the Western Allied effort to liberate western Europe from Nazi Germany.Over...
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President Donald Trump enraged onlookers by spending the 82nd anniversary of D-Day flooding Truth Social with AI-generated videos glorifying himself — riding a camel through a desert, skydiving with a red parachute, walking through cheering crowds in New York — while posting nothing about the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June...
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The Kennedy Center continued its court-ordered purge of Trump's name by removing his name from the online logo."The Trump Administration has changed the logo of the Kennedy Center's LinkedIn page," Aaron Parnas, an attorney and legal writer, pointed out the change in a post on X. "The new logo no longer includes the President's name."An image of...
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Anthony Scaramucci, who served as White House Communications Director for 11 days in 2017 before being fired, is back with unsolicited but specific advice for anyone who has to deal with his former boss — and he has a case study.In a video clip posted to X this week, Scaramucci laid out three rules: never take Trump's call on his terms, don't...
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The Trump Department of Justice hasn't seen the worst of the blowback coming in response to one of its more controversial moves, a legal expert predicted.Adam Klasfeld, a legal journalist, said in an interview that the DOJ's defense of Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund could lead to a Florida judge declaring "fraud upon the court, which...
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President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of AI-generated images on Truth Social Saturday, targeting a federal judge blocking his White House construction plans, mocking Rosie O'Donnell with a transphobic jab, and taking a shot at Barack Obama's presidential library.The most substantive post concerned U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who has...
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Pete Hegseth's decision to strip the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of its Christian designation in the Pentagon's new religion classification system has ignited a rare cross-aisle pile-on, with Republican lawmakers, conservative commentators and Democratic senators lining up to call it a mistake.As Raw Story reported, Sen. John Curtis...
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A pair of GOP senators is warning the Trump administration about a "significant" gap in "critical" foreign intelligence collection."We write with regret to ask that you plan for a potential significant gap in foreign intelligence collection," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Marco...
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A top White House advisor on AI is looking for the exit after insiders say that Trump admitted people don't recognize him, according to reporting by the Washington Post.Tech investor Sriram Krishnan told Trump administration officials that he plans to quit his role as the White House senior policy advisor for AI by the end of the month, insiders...
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Trump sees his slate of D.C. vanity projects a "welcome distraction" from an ongoing affordability crisis, but MS NOW slammed the idea."Newsflash, it's not working," MS NOW reporter Jake Traylor said.Traylor quoted a former White House official who said that Trump saw his reflecting pool, various fountains, and other projects as "a welcome...
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The New York Times on Saturday added significant new detail to a bombshell report first published by NBC News — and covered by Raw Story — revealing that the Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to "critical," its highest level.The most striking addition: a senior U.S. official's characterization of what...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to announce the completion of work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — and used the occasion to both thank himself by name and note that a stretch of the historic monument's grounds would henceforth bear his name. "Thank you President Trump, thank you Department of the Interior,"...
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A heckler was removed from a Turning Point USA event on Friday after shouting insults at Erika Kirk during an address, insults that some suggested were a reference to Kirk's support of President Donald Trump, whose administration has been accused of "covering up” portions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein."Erika Kirk protects pedophiles! Erika...
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Rep. Nancy Mace's attempt to leap from the House of Representatives to the governor's mansion in South Carolina has more difficulties than Donald Trump ignoring her and endorsing opponent Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.As part of a Politico interview with the controversial lawmaker, who still considers herself "MAGA” despite the president turning his...
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An amused Democratic strategist and an appalled Republican Party strategist agreed on MS NOW that Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, hurt both her own image and damaged the Trump administration with a decision to boast about the purchase of an island when Americans can't fill their gas tanks.In a clip from the David Senora podcast earlier in...
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Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) lashed out Saturday at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office over a "significant change” it instituted regarding the classifications of religions, one he argued was "unacceptable” and that he was actively working to correct.This week, the Department of Defense announced that it had significantly reduced the number of...
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Lawyers representing immigrants being swept up by the Department of Homeland Security are raising the alarm that federal authorities are deploying new tactics to fast-track deportations.According to New York Times reporting, federal officials have begun pushing dozens of additional cases onto court dockets on specific days to rapidly process asylum...
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Independent journalist Justin Glawe flagged a telling remark from Secretary of State Marco Rubio made this week, one seemingly made to compliment President Donald Trump's cognitive abilities – but ended up making "the opposite point,” Glawe wrote in an analysis published Saturday on his Substack.Testifying before the House Foreign Relations...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is facing criticism for strategic incompetence and playing it safe by concentrating its political resources on Republican primary races already destined for victory while ignoring endangered GOP candidates in crucial battleground...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to share a music video celebrating himself and the global 'love' he inspires – a video that one journalist called "deranged" and prompted onlookers to wonder aloud how such behavior from a sitting U.S. president had ever become "normalized.”The song featured in the music video is simply...
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A CNN panel discussion on the dilemma Democrats are facing with the candidacy of Graham Platner, who is running to oppose Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), turned into a shouting match that led to charges that Donald Trump is a racist.On CNN's "Table for Five,” host Abby Phillip noted there is a growing debate about "purity tests” within the...
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Former U.S. Army Major and Intelligence Officer Harrison Mann issued a grave warning Saturday over a "ticking time bomb” he argued President Donald Trump was ignoring, one that if not addressed would undoubtedly lead to an "unmistakable recession” – or worse."At this point, it's hard to ignore the evidence that Trump's lack of urgency to sign...
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Former Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center corrections officer Tova Noel testified before the House Oversight Committee last month offering new details about the night Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019—but left unanswered questions about a cryptic image captured on surveillance footage that has fueled conspiracy theories, ABC News is...
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state's GOP Senate nominee, had spent years as the state's top law enforcement officer "waging war on Democratic and Latino-led groups” amid his amplification of false claims of widespread voter fraud, but in doing so, may have created a powerful obstacle in his bid for higher office, The New York Times...
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I had a great uncle who was notorious for sleeping sitting straight up in his chair. His eyes would glaze over as family conversations swirled around him. Inevitably, his eyes would shut, and whether it was a dream or the shrill sound of his wife's laugh, his eyes would pop open.He was always teased about his frequent chair napping, and he always,...
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Violent clashes between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Newark's Delaney Hall detention facility forced the Trump administration to deploy its top immigration official for emergency de-escalation after newly appointed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin made the situation dramatically worse.According to Politico...
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The White House dismissed a report published Friday night in which two U.S. officials claimed that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat level from a top U.S. ally to "critical,” the "highest level,” according to NBC News.Two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official, speaking with NBC News under the condition of anonymity,...
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It sounds like a plot twist from HBO's "Veep": the invitation to a high-stakes board meeting that would decide the fate of one of America's most storied cultural institutions landed in a congresswoman's spam folder.For Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), the 76-year-old lawmaker who has waged a monthslong legal war over the John F. Kennedy Center for the...
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Donald Trump is confronting a bitter irony as he seeks to extricate himself from the Iran war he initiated: reaching a peace agreement may require exactly the kind of financial concessions to Tehran that he spent years attacking the Obama administration for making.According to Wall Street Journal reporting, the central obstacle to resolving the...
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A Gold Star family was left "devastated and embittered” after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who at one point "appeared” interested in helping the family get to the bottom of the 2012 death of their family member, "ghosted” them, The Washington Post reported Saturday.While in Afghanistan, Cmdr. Job Price, a Navy SEAL commander, was found...
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The federal government would still be looking at a fleet of 72 to 88 U.S.-made F-35s, even if it moves forward with Saab's Gripen, sources tell CBC News. Several sources said Ottawa is exploring a purchase of 72 Gripens, which would create up to 9,000 jobs and would be the largest industrial project in Canada.
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So on Tuesday, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche – a misnomer if ever there was one, as the man is "acting” nothing like an actual Attorney General – admitted defeat in declaring the nearly $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund” (better known by sane adults as the "slush fund”) permanently dead. Deceased. Scrapped. Gone. Sayonara.And...
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Ein Tagestrip nach Montenegro an einen malerischen Yachthafen bildet für Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz den Abschluss einer außenpolitischen Woche, die er sich vermutlich anders vorgestellt hätte. Die historische Niederlage bei der Wahl um den Sitz im UN-Sicherheitsrat wirft Fragen auf: Wie konnte Deutschland das Rennen gegen Österreich und...
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The new chairman of the Federal Reserve is already expected to have a tough time following through on one of Trump's main demands, according to the Wall Street Journal.Trump tapped Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell in January, but the economy back then looked a lot different, the Journal noted. What hasn't changed is Trump's expectation for...
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President Donald Trump appointed Bill Pulte, a wealthy housing finance official and PulteGroup founder's grandson, as acting director of national intelligence without any prior security clearance or vetting process. CNN reported that three sources confirmed Pulte had no evidence of even the lowest-level security clearance before being named to...
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A clip from President Donald Trump's Friday agriculture roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, spread quickly online, with critics saying it showed the president struggling to recall the name of the Washington Monument.The video, shared by liberal account Acyn, shows Trump holding up a picture of his Reflecting Pool renovation."It was going to...
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Internal government documents reveal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, plans to distribute a "flawed" facial recognition app called the ICE Task Force Module to over 1,200 local police departments across 32 states. The technology scans faces against a database of 250 million Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, and State Department...
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles put out a statement on X on Friday in reaction to reporting from the Daily Mail that she was expected to leave the Trump administration soon."After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail," wrote Wiles. "To be...
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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has endured a brutal week of reporting on his personal history and unsavory interactions with women — issues that have left many people wringing their hands over the state of the race. However, MS NOW's Chris Hayes, who interviewed Platner earlier in the week, noted that Maine voters on the street...
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated he is installing "roadblocks" within the Justice Department to prevent Democrats from prosecuting President Donald Trump after his presidency ends. In an exclusive NewsNation interview with Katie Pavlich surfaced by journalist Aaron Rupar, Blanche expressed concern about the actions some Democrats might...
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Trump cut short an interview with NBC News as the sound of rain on a barn's metal roof kept interrupting, journalists shared.Gabe Gutierrez, a senior White House correspondent for NBC News, revealed that the interview took place inside a Wisconsin barn "at the request of the White House," Gutierrez noted, but "rain repeatedly was hitting the metal...
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The House passed a spending bill Thursday night that included $141 million in cuts to the WIC program, which provides fruit and vegetable assistance to women, infants, and children. The narrow 213-210 vote would not have passed without support from four House Democrats: Donald Davis (D-NC), Adam Gray (D-CA), Vicente González (D-TX), and Marie...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday, claiming the Democrat had halted a renovation of golf courses at Joint Base Andrews and framing the move as an attack on the U.S. military.In a Truth Social post, Trump said Moore "has put a halt to all work" on a project to convert the base's two ageing courses into "World...
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A former GOP operative predicted that Todd Blanche should expect a double blow to his career on the horizon. "I'm going to make a prediction," Steve Schmidt said during an interview with former CNN anchor Jim Acosta. "Todd Blanche will not be confirmed as Attorney General, and I'll even lean into it more."Blanche faced another uncomfortable hearing...
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President Donald Trump has a reputation for bending Republicans to his will, but a political scientist said Friday there's a quiet trick Republicans use to kill his priorities — without ever casting a vote against him.In a New York Times conversation, Good Politics/Bad Politics writer Jonathan Bernstein laid out the strategy political scientist...
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White House officials have responded to reports that Susie Wiles is planning to ditch her role as Trump's chief of staff. "Total bull—," wrote the official White House Rapid Response account. "Another fake hatchet job from a wannabe reporter peddling anonymous sources who don't actually know anything."The Daily Mail reported that Susie Wiles is...
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An influencer couple who shared a heartbreaking decision to terminate a pregnancy online has revealed they now keep a loaded gun at their bedside because of the death threats they have received.According to TMZ, Jesse and Ashley Ridgway of New Jersey say that the hate has come thick and fast "since announcing they terminated a pregnancy because...
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It's billed as the hottest ticket in Washington — but the celebrities aren't biting, according to a new report.President Donald Trump's $60 million birthday event, a UFC cage fight on the White House South Lawn set for June 14, has the capital's power players competing for seats, Vanity Fair reports. Donors, lobbyists, and members of Congress...
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WASHINGTON — A Louisiana detention center that houses roughly 1,500 immigrants failed to ensure sanitary conditions, properly store perishable food, properly notify use-of-force incidents and maintain medical records of detainees, according to a report published Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog.The findings stem...
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Just days to go before the Senate primary in Maine, Democratic candidate Graham Platner insists he won't drop out of the race despite a new report from The New York Times in which three women who dated Platner detailed behavior they found "unsettling." It's the latest issue facing the fledgling political hopeful. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
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U.S. employers added 172,000 jobs in May, according to the Labor Department, a better-than-expected jobs report. But in the heart of Wisconsin's farm country, many farmers are facing a different reality as they struggle with tariffs and rising fuel and fertilizer costs amid the Iran war. Nikole Killion has more.
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With the primaries over, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand said Thursday his general election approach will remain focused on bipartisanship and finding "reasonable” solutions for Iowans as he faces off against businessman Zach Lahn in November.Sand spoke at the Iowa Association of Business and Industry conference in Coralville. The...
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A red state governor declared a disaster in hundreds of counties as the spread of a flesh-eating parasite poses an "imminent threat," according to local reporting.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced "a state of disaster" for all 254 Texas counties as New World Screwworm threatens the state's wildlife and livestock industry, according to Texas...
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Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will soon quit her high-level White House post, insiders told the Daily Mail.Wiles is preparing to quit because she was "vehemently" opposed to the promotion of Bill Pulte from the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to the role of acting Director of National Intelligence, three White House insiders told...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a prominent ally of President Donald Trump, has been dogged throughout his campaign for governor of Alabama by claims that he secretly lives in Florida and may have even illegally voted there. So his campaign has released a series of records to prove his residency in Alabama.However, according to Lagniappe, those...
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A Justice Department lawyer told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit the Trump administration could demolish the Statue of Liberty before anyone could sue to stop it. Judge Patricia Millett pressed the government's lawyer on the implications, asking if there would be legal recourse if the government moved too fast, reports ABC News."If...
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Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks.The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced in a news release on Wednesday that most of the people reported being sick after drinking raw milk from two different milking operations in North Idaho and southern Idaho. The...
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An ex-MAGA insider named which top Trump aide is involved in coordinating media campaigns with right-wing influencers through group chats.Ashley St. Clair said in an interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that deputy White House chief of staff James Blair is working with MAGA influencers on "incredibly coordinated and sophisticated" media...
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With California continuing to count the results in major races, Republicans continue to cling to second place in the gubernatorial primary and the mayor of Los Angeles, but the gap is narrowing as disproportionately Democratic late mail ballots continue to be processed, raising the possibility that Republicans could eventually slip to third and be...
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Right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes mocked his followers after they were interviewed for a CNN segment, the network reported on Friday.CNN senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan interviewed two men in Miami named Rich and John, who are Groypers — young, white men who are followers of white supremacist Fuentes."These men have come to see themselves...
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Jeremiah Schofield, a 25-year Social Security Administration veteran, disclosed that the Trump administration planned to classify 2.7 million living people — including U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, and teenagers — as dead using the agency's Death Master File. The database, used by banks and government agencies to verify living...
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A CNN reporter pointed out that President Donald Trump seemed displeased ahead of his event Friday night in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.Jeff Zeleny, CNN's chief national affairs correspondent, was traveling with the president and other reporters and commented that Trump was not too thrilled as he headed to the Midwest battleground state to discuss his...
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A new White House webpage starts like a horror movie trailer, according to New York Times columnist M. Gessen — glowing green letters against a dark backdrop, the words "aliens" and "declassified," and the promise of a 60-year government secret about to be revealed.Then comes the twist, Gessen wrote: the "aliens" aren't extraterrestrial. They're...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department made a claim in court this week that left CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams stupefied.During a hearing about the validity of the White House ballroom project, DOJ lawyers explained that the work had been done so quickly that there was nothing courts could have done to reverse it — and when the judge...
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A tense confrontation outside Newark's Delaney Hall immigration detention facility escalated Friday when a red sedan slowly drove into a line of protesters blocking a facility exit, pushing them backward until someone hurled an object that left two large shatter marks in the vehicle's front windshield.Video shared on X by @Patrick_Nealis showed the...
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A CNN anchor was shocked by a senator's description of the lewd antics of an embattled candidate."Glad my children aren't old enough to watch this show," CNN host Kasie Hunt said as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) described his understanding of the scandal surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.Platner is in hot water ahead of the...
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