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A House Democrat has invited Marimar Martinez to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., after she was shot by Customs and Border Patrol officers five times.In a court filing this week, attorneys for Martinez said Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García had invited their client to Trump's speech, scheduled for Feb. 24 at...
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An expert Thursday warned that President Donald Trump's health has started to rapidly deteriorate as questions increase over his mental capacity and ability to lead, according to reports. Dr. John Gartner, psychologist, psychiatrist, and a former assistant professor at John Hopkins Medical School, told British publication The i Paper that there...
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's attempts to dramatically slash funding for the U.S. Department of Education amid a broader push to dismantle the agency hit a major roadblock this week in the form of bipartisan approval of a spending law that gives the department a small raise.The president signed a measure that funds the department at $79...
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The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a "racist.”Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution....
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White House Press Secretary called Steve Bannon's demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the military be deployed to polling locations a "silly hypothetical," but didn't deny that it could happen."Steve Bannon recently said, quote, 'we're going to have ICE around the polls come November,'" a reporter told Leavitt during...
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President Donald Trump, already facing cognitive health questions, stumbled when he took the stage at Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast, as he showered a fellow world leader with praise — but couldn't remember the man's name."We're joined today by a very, very brave, wonderful man," Trump announced, introducing Democratic Republic of Congo...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) dismissed Rep. Andy Barr's (R-KY) endorsement of an opponent as a "political stunt" to get President Donald Trump's attention."Proud to endorse America First patriot @EdGallrein for #KY04. Ed will fight for the MAGA agenda and will NEVER side with AOC and the radical left against President Trump," Barr wrote in a Thursday...
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President Donald Trump just exposed the religious right's "devil's pact" with his performance at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.In an analysis from David Smith, The Guardian's Washington bureau chief, Smith pointed out how Trump, whose Christian faith and religious life has been questioned in the past, hurled insults at political enemies...
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At least one prominent Republican lawmaker is upset over longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon's demands to use Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to guard polling places.Bannon caused a stir when he claimed on his show, "we're going to have ICE around the polls come November." While Bannon is no longer part of the Trump administration,...
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President Donald Trump stunned observers by admitting his administration may need a "softer touch” on immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, a sharp reversal from his long-defended deportation hard line. The comments, made in an NBC News interview, prompted former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson to suggest on CNN that internal pressure—and...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) isn't losing any sleep over questions about his Alabama residency as the former football coach takes aim at becoming the state's next governor.Tuberville laughed off concerns about whether he meets the state's seven-year continuous residency requirement to run for governor, dismissing critics with a blunt insult."I...
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Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intentions. Some even see dangerous parallels between American efforts to inflame Alberta separatism and the Russian campaign to gin up a separatist movement...
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Speaking at an Ottawa gala late Wednesday, former prime minister Stephen Harper said that Canada must urgently pivot in the face of an erratic U.S. president and reduce its dependence on the American market to protect its sovereignty and the continued functioning of the economy.
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Former prime minister Stephen Harper urged the Liberal and Conservative parties to take on the challenges of our time together as the country stares down potentially two existential threats to its sovereignty: an imperialist president to the south and separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec.
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The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates the federal Defence Department budget will have to increase by $33.5 billion annually in order for Canada to meet NATO's revised defence spending targets. The watchdog also estimates that the higher defence spending could lead to substantially higher federal deficits.
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Pima County Sheriff's Department officials announced a $50K reward Thursday for information around "Today Show" co-host Savannah Guthrie's missing mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, and admitted they still have no suspects. Guthrie went missing sometime overnight at her Tucson home between Saturday and Sunday as the search reached its fifth day...
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The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota notified an appeals court that his office has been crushed by the emergency lawsuits filed by detained immigrations during the Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge in the state.U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen told the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing that his office has been forced to abandon...
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What should Democrats be demanding as a condition of releasing permanent funds for the Department of Homeland Security?Over the last few weeks I've discussed several important conditions: agents must not undertake warrantless searchesuse racial profilingpick up suspected undocumented people from schools, hospitals, courts, or places of worshipor...
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Two reported ransom deadlines have emerged in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, with just hours remaining on the first such deadline. Multiple media outlets, including TMZ and Tucson, Arizona, stations, received unverified ransom demands demanding millions in Bitcoin with a stated...
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Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) was showered with accolades after he stood just feet away from Donald Trump and prayed for God to improve the president's moral failings.The Illinois Democrat and son of civil rights giant Jesse Jackson delivered the intercession Thursday morning at the bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast, where he asked God to open...
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's connections with the former Prince Andrew are "very close,” a biographer of the disgraced British royal said, rejecting Trump's denials and saying evidence of the relationship had been taken out of files relating to investigations of Jeffrey Epstein released by the U.S. Department of Justice."The connections with...
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President Donald Trump walked back his criticism of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's agreement to transfer ownership of a strategically located island to Mauritius.The 79-year-old president has complained that the United Kingdom plans to decolonize the Chagos Islands, including the site of the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, but he said Starmer...
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A new investigation from The Guardian published Thursday has revealed that a friend and donor of President Donald Trump has been using his private jet for deportations. Gil Dezer, a Florida property tycoon and longtime friend of the Trump family, has now twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv, according to the report. Dezer has been a...
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President Trump promoted a New York Post opinion piece attacking Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday morning via Truth Social.Writer by Miranda Devine criticized Jackson's attendance at the Grammy Awards ceremony, where multiple artists used their platforms to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Devine wrote,...
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A Democratic congressman shamed President Donald Trump during a prayer from just feet away.Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) spoke Thursday morning at the bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast, where he cited scripture in his intercession asking God to open the 79-year-old president's heart to greater compassion and to follow Christ's teachings, as Trump...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) had a fiery response to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Thursday on Capitol Hill. Bessent was testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump and his economic policy agenda. "Last week, Trump said 'we have the groceries going down.' Did grocery prices drop in 2025?"...
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The facts are so damning that it's unclear to me why moderate Democrats are being careful about their reaction to them.Renee Good was shot in the face. Alex Pretti was shot in the back. Their deaths were not accidental. They were not the result of poor or insufficient training. They were the result of intent.Why are moderates worried about seeming...
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Republicans in Congress expressed frustration at President Donald Trump after he gave Democrats leverage over Department of Homeland Security funding.Fox News reported that Republicans were "quietly grumbling" over Trump's deal with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to keep the government open by only funding DHS through Feb. 13."Some...
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A newly released email from the Justice Department's Epstein Files reveals that convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be in Palm Beach with "all the trump boys" on Christmas Day 2016 — a month after Donald Trump's election victory.In the December 25 message to Bill Gates' advisor Boris Nikolic, Epstein wrote, "im in palm with...
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Die Bundeswehr zieht Personal aus dem Nordirak ab. Wegen der drohenden Eskalation zwischen den USA und dem Iran wird die Präsenz in Erbil reduziert – nur Tage nach der Verlängerung des Mandats im Bundestag. Der Schritt zeigt, wie schnell sich Auslandseinsätze verändern können und wie stark die Truppe bereits heute belastet ist. Im Gespräch...
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Former Trump official turned critic Miles Taylor Thursday said that the president's spy chief Tulsi Gabbard could have just implicated the president in the fallout over why she was at the FBI raid of an election office in Fulton County, Georgia. In his Substack, Taylor described how Gabbard "over-explained" the reason she was at the Georgia FBI...
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Yale computer science professor David Gelernter defended recommending a young woman to Jeffrey Epstein because he was trying to satisfy the sex offender's "habits."In newly released emails written in 2011, Gelernter told Epstein that he should consider hiring an unnamed alumna described as a "v small goodlooking blonde."On Wednesday, the professor...
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WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration officials have challenged long-held GOP orthodoxy on the Second Amendment in recent weeks — bringing condemnation from gun rights groups but notably not Republicans in Congress.Democrats say this is yet another example of a dangerously divisive hypocrisy that holds the left and right to different standards....
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The Department of Justice said it had arrested an "Antifa terrorist" for allegedly "conspiring and threatening to assault federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis."On Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the arrest of 37-year-old Kyle Wagner of Minneapolis."Conspire and threaten to assault, kill and doxx officers, and...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dared House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) to hold her and former President Bill Clinton's testimony on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in public.After the couple requested that the hearing be public, Comer announced that he would hold depositions behind closed doors in late February."Once it...
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President Donald Trump in a speech at this year's National Prayer Breakfast roasted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for saying grace at meals.The 79-year-old president spoke Thursday morning at the bipartisan gathering of U.S. and international political leaders, including El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, and he drifted from topic to topic in...
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New York Times columnist David French recently outlined a strategy that could prevent President Donald Trump from undermining the midterm elections.In recent columns, French has sounded the alarm about "all of Trump's threats against American elections.""Trump has filled his administration with cronies and true believers, and his attorney general...
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Dramatic new polling results have revealed that Americans want Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fired and a majority oppose ICE's actions, according to CNN's data guru Thursday. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten described the attitude among voters towards ICE's harsh immigration tactics and specifically the high dissatisfaction against the...
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Layoffs hit their highest total last month since the Great Recession nearly two decades ago, according to a new analysis, and employers don't look to be adding jobs soon.U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for January, up 118 percent from the same period a year ago and 205 percent from December, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray...
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President Donald Trump does not hesitate to lash out at people who criticize him, even those who have supported him for years — but he has maintained an eerie silence about one person who is turning on him, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin told MS NOW on Thursday: Ken Griffin.Griffin, who heads up the powerful Citadel hedge fund, is a longtime GOP...
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) laid down on MS NOW Thursday why he opposes a proposed Republican bill that would put draconian new restrictions on voting, including a requirement to produce proof-of-citizenship documents to register to vote — something that goes drastically beyond even most GOP-controlled state's voter ID laws, and...
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President Donald Trump drew incredulous jeers with his response to a question about a potential Republican loss in this fall's midterm elections."NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas scored a sit-down interview with the 79-year-old president, and he asked if he would trust the results if the GOP lost their congressional majorities in November, and...
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President Donald Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday that he needed to win a second term because he was still burning with resentment over not getting one in 2020 — bragging about his "big ego" while continuing to push conspiracy theories about his prior election loss."They rigged the second election," said Trump. "I had to...
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Donald Trump's grip on power could be slipping and that makes him much more dangerous, according to a political analyst. The president has thrown his weight around when it comes to Greenland, Venezuela, and recently suggested the Republican Party should assume control of election cycles in 15 states. This, among other reasons, makes it a troubling...
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The U.S. Justice Department unit tasked with prosecuting misconduct by law enforcement officers has dwindled away dramatically and has been ordered to scale back investigations of excessive force during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, reporting suggests.The Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division has lost two-thirds of its...
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Spectators of the AEW Dynamite wrestling match in Las Vegas this week started up a furious chant against Immigration and Customs Enforcement before the main event began.On the TBS broadcast, the crowd could clearly be heard chanting "F--- ICE! F--- ICE!" for a period of several seconds.This comes amid nationwide protests and resistance against...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," as Iran and Israeli strikes continue for the third day, Holly Williams and Debora Patta have the latest from the Middle East. Plus, Sen. Alex Padilla joins days after he was briefly detained by Homeland Security officers.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, joins to discuss President Trump's trip to a Federal Reserve facility with Fed Chair Jerome Powell ahead of his departure for Scotland. Meanwhile, The Ohio State University President Ted Carter joins to explain how he's...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," the president's mission to shrink the federal workforce intensifies, and his foreign policy dealmaking reaches a critical juncture. We'll speak with President Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and more.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Senate Majority Leader John Thune joins to discuss the GOP's priorities with President-elect Donald Trump coming into the White House, while House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi discusses the legacy of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack with the House set to count the electoral votes again.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," after a whiplash week of on-again, off-again tariff announcements, Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman joins to discuss the costs and consequences of a trade war. Plus, former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill discusses President Trump's diplomatic pivot on Ukraine.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," as fallout continues from the unprecedented Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Margaret Brennan speaks to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, GOP Reps. Mike Turner and John James and Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," as the U.S. launches airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, Margaret Brennan speaks to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Plus, President Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, joins.
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The declining approval rating of Donald Trump will affect his family businesses, a Nobel Prize winner has claimed. Paul Krugman believes the negative effects of the president's approval ratings will cause a collapse in the crypto market, which received a surge in the post-election space. Trump had backed a cryptocurrency, $Trump, and has taken...
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As people testified before Congress on Tuesday about the brutality and violence they'd suffered at the hands of ICE, that massive paramilitary organization was shopping for giant warehouse-style facilities they can retrofit into what they euphemistically call "detention centers.”Cable news people call them "prison camps” or "Trump prison...
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GOP lawmakers believe a blue wave is on the way but what they do not know yet is how high the wave will be. Speaking anonymously, a collection of Republican Party members believe they are set for a rough time in the midterms, irrespective of voter turnout. History has shown the party in opposition can make major gains against the party in power, as...
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President Donald Trump and his allies continue to push a claim that he secured $18 trillion in foreign investment into the United States — but MS NOW analyst Steve Rattner brought down the reality hammer on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe.""So the president loves that $18 trillion figure, Steve," said anchor Willie Geist. "But as you point...
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President Donald Trump's spy chief Tulsi Gabbard has set off alarms among former intelligence officials and election law experts by attending an FBI raid of an election facility in Georgia.The director of national intelligence and the White House confirmed the president had dispatched her to Atlanta for the search, but intel veterans and legal...
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A former US State Department employee has outlined what a "worst-case scenario" would look like following the expiry of the New START deal. The treaty was a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the US and Russia, which expired today (February 5). Donald Trump claimed that, should the deal expire, the administration would move to put another one...
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The cryptocurrency industry has been coasting toward favorable regulation thanks to a degree of bipartisan support on Capitol Hill — but that consensus appears to be grinding to a halt as Democrats start asking questions about just how much President Donald Trump's family is personally benefitting from all this, reported Politico."Even as the...
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An attempt by Karoline Leavitt to explain away an outlandish Donald Trump comment has backfired and made her look foolish, a political commentator has suggested. The White House Press Secretary had been asked to explain what the president meant when he called for the Republican Party to "nationalize the voting" in 15 states. The specific states...
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Republican leaders in Congress understand the dire situation their party faces going into the midterms as the public turns against them on everything from the economy to immigration crackdowns, analyst David Drucker told MS NOW's "Morning Joe" on Thursday."Those polls that we just ran through are brutal," said anchor Jonathan Lemire. "They're...
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The investigation and release of Jeffrey Epstein's files is only just beginning according to a Democratic Party representative. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) says the prolonged release of the files warrants further investigation, despite Donald Trump calling for people to focus on other political matters. The president slammed the release of the files...
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Some Democratic Colorado lawmakers are demanding answers after reports that "death cards" were left in the vehicles of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and over claims that immigration agents used fake traffic stops to detain them.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene once said Donald Trump told her his "friends will get hurt” if the Epstein files were released. It might be the most unselfish thing he ever said. Then again …Whether they were friends or not, many very rich and powerful men have been more smeared than hurt by revelations in Epstein releases so far. That is the problem...
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Jimmy Kimmel has questioned the Department of Justice and its choice to redact certain names and email addresses from Jeffrey Epstein's files.In the opening monologue of his talk show, Kimmel asked what reason there was for redacting information about who sent and received emails relating to Epstein's parties. Kimmel said, "Look at the emails, you...
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Nancy Pelosi has warned the First Amendment is being crushed by Donald Trump and his administration. The former Speaker of the House spoke to journalists at an annual dinner for reporters covering Congress and urged resilience in the face of trying times under the Trump administration. Pelosi said, "Let's make no mistake: we are living in a time...
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An attorney has criticized the rollout and redactions of Jeffrey Epstein's files, as well as the reaction of United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, accused Blanche of carrying out a cover up of the files and...
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The Trump administration is clearing the way to discipline or fire senior career officials across government, according to a new report.The U.S. Office of Personnel Management plans to issue a rule Thursday that creates a new category for high-ranking career employees tasked with executing administration policies, which the Wall Street Journal...
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Some Democratic Colorado lawmakers are demanding answers after reports that "death cards" were left in the vehicles of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and over claims that immigration agents used fake traffic stops to detain them.
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