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President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly cancel a bill-signing ceremony on Wednesday for a widely popular piece of legislation raised red flags for one political analyst. Trump announced on Truth Social that he was canceling the signing event for a bipartisan housing affordability bill, and said it won't be signed until the SAVE America Act is...
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A Republican senator who attended Wednesday's closed-door lunch with President Donald Trump recalled the discussion that reportedly led to yelling.Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told Semafor the exchange was memorable — and not in a good way."It was not a good discussion," Marshall said. "Sometimes two guys just have to get it off their chest."The...
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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Wednesday delivered a blunt fact check for a Republican defending President Donald Trump's plot to interfere with elections.Keilar was talking to Rep. John Rose (R-TN), one of the co-sponsors of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, when the conversation got fiery over tensions within the GOP and Trump's refusal to sign...
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Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has spent months telling voters that the state constitution is under threat from "out-of-state special interests” using ballot initiatives to bypass the Republican-controlled legislature and enact major policy changes. The measures have included legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding Medicaid and restoring abortion...
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Senate Republicans unveiled annual farm legislation this week that would do nothing to address the worsening nationwide hunger crisis spurred by President Donald Trump and the GOP's unprecedented assault on federal food aid.The draft bill introduced Tuesday by Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, omits a...
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President Donald Trump cancelled a scheduled signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing affordability bill Wednesday.According to reports by NPR, Trump postponed the ceremony until members of Congress agreed to pass his polarizing voter ID bill, or the SAVE America Act. Trump posted on Truth Social, "Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is...
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U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston permanently banned President Donald Trump's first executive order on elections, converting a preliminary injunction into a permanent ban that effectively ends his attempt to overhaul voting procedures nationwide. Judge Casper rejected Trump's argument that the lawsuit filed by Democratic state...
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Reactions were mounting after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump's Iran agreement.Waltz claimed the Iran deal was a success, despite conflicting reports about the terms of the negotiations."The Iranian regime is absolutely desperate. I think no president has ever...
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A New York Times reporter detailed how good the Trump administration is at keeping secrets.Jonathan Swan, who co-wrote the book Regime Change with fellow NYT reporter Maggie Haberman, explained during an appearance on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" that the Trump administration even kept secrets from senior officials."There is this phrase that...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), gubernatorial candidate for his state, called former President Barack Obama "a crook" during a Real America's Voice appearance Tuesday Tuberville demanded, "Let's put him in jail."The Alabama senator also publicly vouched for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be imprisoned for allegedly lying to the American people. His comments...
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Pro-Trump influencers lit into a federal appeals court Wednesday after it refused to force Michigan to hand over the personal data of every registered voter in the state.In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Justice Department cannot compel Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to produce the state's unredacted...
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President Donald Trump's "giant miscalculation" on Europe's nationalist right just backfired, a conservative New York Times columnist warned.David French, an Iraq War veteran and longtime conservative writer, laid out the diagnosis on MS NOW on Wednesday. Trump assumed Europe's nationalist leaders were his natural allies. French said that the...
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WASHINGTON — White House aides tend to shield President Donald Trump from opinions that diverge from his own worldview, but this afternoon, he got chewed out by one of his fellow Republicans at the U.S. Capitol.After four Senate Republicans bucked the president last night and voted to limit his ability to wage war against Iran without...
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A Supreme Court watcher was alarmed after a series of decisions handed down by the High Court shredded a long-standing myth about the body. Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate, argued in a new article that four decisions the Supreme Court handed down on Tuesday were a "blunt reminder that the GOP appointees remain in total control of the...
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A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration has no legal right to demand voters' private data, dealing a fresh blow to its unlawful bid to control American elections.The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the 2-1 decision Wednesday, siding with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D-MI), who refused to turn over the...
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President Donald Trump took a swing at defiant Republicans following a reported clash between himself and a scorned GOP lawmaker.Trump was attending the Senate GOP lunch after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill and claiming he needed Republicans to back the Save America Act. During the event, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) apparently confronted...
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Political analysts criticized President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair after FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, was announced as a featured performer at the June 24 kick-off rally. Wilkins announced via X she would perform at the event. Political reporter Sara Higdon questioned whether paying Patel's girlfriend with...
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Let us project forward. It's early 2028, and the unofficial campaign for the federal election, due in May, has well and truly begun. Pauline Hanson is helping rule Victoria and has done well in NSW. Will she ride the wave into the Lodge?
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted six words Tuesday and walked straight into accusations of Nazi rhetoric.The post, published on X, read: "Change the voters, change the country.""Just straight up Nazi rhetoric from husband and wife today," journalist and commentator Mehdi Hasan wrote on X. "Totally mainstreamed in Trump's GOP...
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A Florida Republican's defense bill amendment summary went viral after its text revealed the office had submitted AI output — complete with a chatbot label — without editing a word.Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) used Anthropic's Claude to draft the amendment summary. The document that circulated contained a timestamp, garbled filler text, and...
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President Donald Trump was reportedly "fascinated” with the gory details regarding Israel's Operation Grim Beeper, the 2024 attack that saw thousands of pagers explode simultaneously and brutally maim thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah members and civilians alike, including children, according to a new book."Trump 'regaled' his guests with horror...
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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly bewildered by President Donald Trump's relationship with his executive assistant Natalie Harp, 34.According to reports by The Daily Beast, Trump told his inner circle, Harp will never leave him. "When Trump was in quasi-exile at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Harp joined...
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Just as Donald Trump entered a luncheon with Republican Senators to air out their grievances with each other over the SAVE America Act, designed to create roadblocks to voting, a federal judge delivered a massive blow to a voting rights executive order that had similar aims. According to Associated Press reporting, U.S. District Court Judge Denise...
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) started yelling at President Donald Trump at a Senate GOP luncheon on Wednesday, according to reports from insiders at the event.Trump had vowed earlier Wednesday to block a bipartisan affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, declining to sign the bill and fueling panic from lawmakers....
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There's a peculiar dialect spoken only at Donald Trump rallies, one where "winning" and being "loved" mean roughly the same thing, observed a new column.The Bulwark's Andrew Eggers pointed out how the 80-year-old president, greeting supporters this week at a factory in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, declared "I won this place so much," attacked...
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pressed Konstantinos Ligris, President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Attorney General, during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday after discovering the Department of Justice hopeful had posted several social media attacks on lawmakers.Whitehouse mentioned the comments during the nominee's testimony before...
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As federal workers race to transform the National Mall for President Donald Trump's Freedom 250 celebrations, Washington, D.C. locals and visitors are growing frustrated with the constant construction and disruptions to daily life."That's been really annoying and it just looks ugly,” said 20-year-old Tristan Monahan, a student at George...
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President Donald Trump drew criticism on social media Tuesday after mocking a female weightlifter during a speech at a Mack Trucks assembly plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania. While discussing women in sports, Trump shared a convoluted story and made groaning gestures in front of the crowd. The moment sparked reactions across social media platforms....
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was put on the spot on Wednesday afternoon when Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a highly anticipated signing ceremony for a housing bill that Republicans were counting on to stop their slide in the polls.As workers were setting up chairs and GOP lawmakers began showing up for the signing of the 21st Century ROAD...
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One of President Donald Trump's nominees, who was up for the federal job of funding police departments across the country, refused Wednesday to apologize for calling cops "dumb as dirt."Konstantinos Ligris, Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs, faced a barrage of questions at his Senate Judiciary Committee...
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Tucker Carlson has publicly broken with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, and a religious scholar analyzes the "potent symbol" he has adopted that suggests he intends to lead the MAGA movement deeper into Christian nationalism.The former Fox News host still holds considerable sway over the conservative movement, which could make him...
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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) arrived at Statuary Hall expecting to watch the president sign a landmark housing bill and found workers dismantling the stage instead.President Donald Trump pulled the plug Wednesday morning without warning, posting on Truth Social that the signing was "hereby cancelled" until Congress passes the SAVE America Act. Nobody...
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In an unprecedented move, President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to block an affordable housing bill Congress had given final passage to the night before, sparking panic and shock from onlookers across the political spectrum."We saw glimpses of this during Trump's first administration, but never in my lifetime have I seen a president so...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver's attorneys are set to appear before a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday morning in Wilmington, Delaware.Her legal team seeks to overturn her federal assault charges stemming from a May 2025 confrontation at Newark's Delaney Hall migrant detention facility, according to New Jersey Monitor's Sophie Nieto-Muñoz....
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Postmaster General David Steiner admitted Wednesday that he wants a rule allowing his agency to block mail-in ballots from states that refuse to hand over their voter rolls.The concession came under questioning from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing — one ostensibly about the U.S....
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CNBC had an accidental blunder during a live interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday.The television network was interviewing the long-time Democrat about President Donald Trump abruptly canceling the signing of a bipartisan housing bill and the economic fallout during Trump's second administration when the mix-up...
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Former Trump advisor and MAGA influencer Steve Bannon revealed a plan for the midterms as President Donald Trump's approval ratings sink, according to a report Wednesday.Political correspondent Farrah Tomazin wrote for The Daily Beast's Substack, The Swamp, that Bannon spoke to an audience at a far-right conference and "called for ICE agents and...
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A last-minute Donald Trump decision to cancel the signing ceremony for a popular housing bill that sailed through both chambers of Congress with unusual bipartisan support is yet another blow to Republicans who have been looking for any good news as they face a midterm blowout.Mid-Wednesday morning, the president took to his Truth Social platform...
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President Donald Trump's appointee Andrea Lucas might not be well known to the public, but she has caused major repercussions in American life with a series of aggressive moves, an analyst argued on Wednesday.Bryce Covert wrote in an opinion piece for The i Paper about how Lucas has enacted some of Trump's harsh policies after the president took a...
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A former Trump administration official says the president's allies are no longer absorbing his bullying in silence — but that carries new risks of antagonism.President Donald Trump publicly declared British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's resignation this week a full day before Downing Street confirmed it, and former Homeland Security chief of...
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A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade.U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump's illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for...
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have feuded over decor in the White House, according to reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and they confirmed some of the most dramatic details of their apparent grudge match.The 80-year-old president and his 56-year-old wife maintain separate bedrooms, the New York Times reporters...
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The New York Times has identified the author of a shocking letter in Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book that stumped reporters for nearly a year after conducting "nearly two dozen interviews" with Epstein's childhood friends.The House Oversight Committee publicly released Epstein's 50th birthday book last September, revealing countless disturbing...
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The House gave final passage to a housing affordability bill on Tuesday, but on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he would be cancelling the bill's signing ceremony until lawmakers pass his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act."Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the...
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A firm staffed by former President Donald Trump's campaign insiders has collected $500,000 lobbying for pardons, even as the White House brands such profiteering "detestable."Mo Strategies — run by longtime Trump campaign strategist Marty Obst — has been lobbying the White House and the Department of Justice on behalf of a Virginia immigration...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Wednesday to demand Republican lawmakers fall in line with his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, advance his agenda and get "everything Republicans have ever dreamed of,” adding that he'll be "watching” them "with tears in [his] eyes.”"Get the bad Republicans to approve it or,...
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Former college football coach turned U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is facing a fresh firestorm over new in-depth revelations that he failed to make good on his promise to donate his Senate salary to veterans groups.According to a report from Lagniappe, a deep dive into whether the controversial MAGA senator resides in Alabama as he makes a...
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Courtroom No. 2B in the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, will take center stage Wednesday, with attorneys for Rep. LaMonica McIver scheduled to appear before a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel there in a bid to get her federal assault charges thrown out.The court hearing comes nearly 14 months after a confrontation...
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President Donald Trump has adorned the Oval Office with gold trophies, vases, trimming and other ornaments, and the authors of a new book revealed what his aides said was behind his bedazzling spree.The 80-year-old president has leaned hard into his former career as a real estate developer and hotelier to apply what he describes himself as "Trump...
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Trump International Golf Club in Dubai still has its fountains, its skyline views, and racks of "Make America Great Again" hats. What it doesn't have anymore, judging from conversations at the clubhouse bar on a recent evening, is many Trump fans.Patrons sipping beers there told the Washington Post that President Trump's decision to go to war with...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is slated to meet with the GOP House caucus Wednesday in an effort to shore up support for a massive spending bill chock-full of spending cuts backed by President Donald Trump, though several Republicans are already expressing concern, Punchbowl News reported.Due to the GOP's slim congressional majority, the bill,...
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Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler berichten exklusiv über ein Foto aus dem Jahr 2020, das den AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneten und Landeschef in Sachsen-Anhalt Martin Reichardt zeigt und in Bedrängnis bringen könnte. Auf der Aufnahme ist zu sehen, wie Reichardt den Hitlergruß zeigt, was nach Zeugenberichten bei der feierlichen Übergabe eines...
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There was a rare and highly contentious disagreement between "Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough and MS NOW contributor Donny Deutsch on Wednesday morning as the two battled over the influence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Following Tuesday's election, when Mamdani-endorsed candidates won stunning victories, Deutsch raised the alarm...
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One hundred and one former judges have asked the New York State Bar to investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for ethics violations — and legal experts say this complaint is different from the ones that went nowhere against his predecessors.The complaint, filed by Democracy Defenders Fund and Lawyers Defending American Democracy,...
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Alan Dershowitz, who previously served as President Donald Trump's lawyer during his first impeachment trial, appeared to be captured on video in New York City Tuesday night threatening to sue a passerby for pressing him on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.In the video, which as of 7:30 a.m. Wednesday had been viewed nearly 900,000 times, Dershowitz...
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Analysts were left stunned Wednesday morning after a trio of progressive congressional candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept Tuesday's Democratic primary elections in New York, many of whom drew comparisons to the late 2000s Tea Party movement that reshaped the Republican Party."CLEAN SWEEP FOR ZOHRAN!!!” wrote progressive...
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The ongoing saga of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a "hilarious reminder" of President Donald Trump's incompetence, according to a columnist who argues that the debacle underlines his MAGA base's powerful attachment to his failings.The pool, recently repainted under Trump's direction, has turned murky and algae-covered, with the...
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says it's been floored by momentum following a call to action from former President Barack Obama — and new data from political experts may explain the excitement."WOW, we're blown away!" the DCCC wrote to supporters Tuesday, citing analysis from the Cook Political Report showing Democrats are on the...
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An announcement by influential podcaster Tucker Carlson that he is done with the Republican Party as the midterm election looms is bad news for both Donald Trump and GOP as the splintering of the MAGA movement casts an even bigger cloud over efforts by the party to hold onto majority control of both chambers of Congress, an analysis argues.In an...
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President Donald Trump rang in the new year at his Mar-a-Lago winter home featuring a multimillion dollar painting auction and high-profile members of his Cabinet dancing and singing along to rap songs, according to a newly released book about Trump's second term in office.New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan open their...
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A trio of progressive Democratic congressional candidates swept their respective races in Tuesday's New York primary elections, and a number of right-wing figures – including Fox News' own Sean Hannity – were said by critics to be experiencing a full-on "freakout.”"Incumbent congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY), who was just banned from a New York...
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has sided with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in her public dispute with President Donald Trump.The feud erupted over the weekend after Trump claimed Meloni had "begged" him for a photograph at a recent G7 meeting and accused her of using their relationship for domestic political gain. Meloni pushed...
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President Donald Trump is willing to hold back disaster aid to blackmail states into complying with changes to election law that congressional Republicans have not been willing to pass.The Department of Homeland Security said it is considering whether to use grant funding allocated to states — and the threat of withholding it — to advance what...
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The billionaire owner of the venerable Los Angeles Times, who has steered his news organization toward a more Donald Trump-friendly direction, has been falling behind on his bills, raising eyebrows about the paper's future.According to a report from Oliver Darcy's Status, Patrick Soon-Shiong — who made his fortune in biotech — is finding, like...
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President Donald Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate major oil companies in a midnight tirade, accusing them of failing to pass along falling crude oil costs to consumers at the pump.In a Truth Social post published shortly after midnight, Trump wrote that oil companies were not dropping pump prices in line with the sharply...
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Hey, wanna see a cult that's been fully triggered by a public display of basic human goodness and decency? Head on over to Twitter or Threads, where all of MAGA is short-circuiting over their guy's last few days of global embarrassments, which began with his UFC slapfest birthday party tanking in the ratings, then continued with his weak and...
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