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A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently...
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A little-known Donald Trump appointee with no prior diplomatic experience has emerged as a central figure in the administration's outreach to Central Asia — drawing scrutiny over what critics describe as a business-first approach to American diplomacy.Sergio Gor, who serves simultaneously as U.S. ambassador to India and as the president's envoy...
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President Donald Trump's longstanding feud with Pope Leo XIV may reach new heights as the leader of the Catholic Church convenes with cardinals from across the globe Friday and is expected to issue a message "likely to further raise tensions” with the president, Politico reported Friday.After the gathering, Pope Leo is expected to issue new...
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A new report from the Commerce Department on Friday delivered a decisive blow to what has been among President Donald Trump's chief promises while on the campaign trail.According to the report, the U.S. goods trade deficit had widened to its highest point in more than a year as of June, with U.S. exports shrinking by 5.4% when compared with May and...
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Former National Park rangers are organizing a national pushback against an order from President Donald Trump that has stripped dozens of historical exhibits from federal land, launching a public education campaign just as the country prepares to mark its 250th anniversary.The effort traces back to Elizabeth Kerwin, a former exhibit planner at West...
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A social media post by the wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller took center stage on MS NOW on Friday morning as part of a discussion over a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.On "Morning Joe,” the panel was discussing the majority opinion from Justice Sam Alito, who wrote that he saw nothing racist in Trump's outrageous...
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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is dealing with another political headache related to President Donald Trump.The prime minister is scrambling to contain domestic political fallout after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte described her country's support for U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as "massive," which she says badly mischaracterizes Italy's...
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President Donald Trump's crowd-size anxiety exploded back into view when his Great American State Fair kickoff event drew a strikingly thin turnout.The 80-year-old president claimed 45,000 people showed up on the National Mall to watch Lee Greenwood and the FBI director's girlfriend perform, but media accounts estimated about 1,000 attendees –...
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Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's 34-year-old executive assistant whose closeness to the president unsettled the White House, was revealed Thursday to have become estranged from multiple family members after proposing to lie about her father's death, her "secret brother" told the Daily Mail."She doesn't call me. I've accepted that's the way it...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built much of his public health platform around exposing what he calls regulatory failures in the American food system, but that crusade appears to be running into an unexpected complication.Among his targets is the "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation, a mechanism that allows food...
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Donald Trump's deliberate vandalization of DC, along with our democracy, has reached a tipping point where even his most loyal cultists are questioning his motives. Just not enough of them…yet. Senate Republicans are starting to break ties with Trump over his full capitulation to Iran in Versailles. The Senate approved a House-passed resolution...
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A new book from two New York Times reporters has exposed a number of President Donald Trump's secrets, though one claim in particular has the president especially enraged, a senior Trump official revealed Friday.Published earlier this week, "Regime Change” was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and had already rattled...
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Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump's new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president's cognitive fitness.The "Tonight Show" host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as part of America's 250th...
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A conservative commentator yelped with delight over the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government's policy of turning back asylum seekers before they can reach the border, and a fellow CNN panelist calmly dismantled his argument.The justices ruled 6-3 that a policy adopted in response to a surge of Haitian immigrants did not...
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Reports that embattled CBS News head Bari Weiss is searching for a sympathetic ear among journalists for an interview to clear her name have some in the executive suites in a bit of a panic.According to media watchdog Status, Weiss is eager to launch a media counter-offensive. She's been in talks with the New York Times' Michael Barbaro about...
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Comments made by Vice President JD Vance at the Richard Nixon Library on Thursday earned him a thrashing on MS NOW after he blamed Nixon's Watergate scandal on the "deep state.”As "Morning Joe” co-host bluntly observed, Nixon's use of the FBI, CIA and Washington insiders — which brought down his presidency — was the very definition of the...
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The first day of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" did not go to plan, after a power outage knocked out the food hall on the National Mall, according to The Daily Beast.The Thursday blackout left dessert vendors watching their stock melt, Fox 5 DC reporter Homa Bash reported on X, writing that the hall still had food but that all...
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A prominent Republican House member was left "scared" after getting a first look at a new technology during a recent "closed-door demonstration,” Punchbowl News reported Friday — technology that the lawmaker warned most of their colleagues failed to comprehend the ramifications of.That technology was Claude Mythos, the latest large language...
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A 37-year CBS News veteran is preparing to torch his former employer in a tell-all memoir, and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is squarely in his crosshairs.Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of "60 Minutes" who quit the program last April over what he described as corporate interference, calls CBS "the worst-run media company in the...
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The headlines out of the Supreme Court came at us in waves Thursday morning, like a barrage of punches to the gut:Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at BorderSupreme Court Allows Trump to End Deportation Protections for Haitians and SyriansSupreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii Gun Restriction Limiting When, Where People Can Carry...
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It could have been a messy transition, but the ease with which Andy Burnham has returned to Westminster appears to be the product of many months of careful planning. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy delve into the details of how Burnham’s expected coronation has been managed - and why Louise Haigh has emerged as a […]
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Der Takt für die Steuerreform: Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz, das Spitzentreffen am Wochenende und der Koalitionsausschuss. Diese Termine entscheiden, ob die Koalition handlungsfähig bleibt. Die SPD will spürbare Entlastungen für kleine und mittlere Einkommen, die Union pocht auf Subventionsabbau. Mit Rasmus Buchsteiner geht's um die Stimmung...
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A Republican lawmaker attacked the idea of Medicaid with comments that had online critics questioning if he knew how it works.Rep. Rich McCormick criticized Medicaid while speaking at a town hall and argued that it amounted to giving away "free money" in his full-throated speech."To the point of Medicaid, the worst thing I can possibly do is give...
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Basil Zempilas has had his first brush with the political truism "disunity is death" after MP Jonathan Huston quit the WA Liberal Party, but he's unlikely — at this stage at least — to be the one left in a political grave.
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Veteran journalist Dan Rather is warning that legislation that Trump is trying to push through threatens women's right to vote.In a recent piece titled "The War on Women," Rather tried to lay out how the Trump administration is going after women's rights. "Trump's campaign promise to protect women, 'whether the women like it or not,' has become...
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Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, President Donald Trump's ambassador to Italy and owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets, has angered Venice residents by planning to bring his $450 million superyacht to the city. The billionaire began a weeks-long Italian coastal tour on June 13 to mark America's 250th anniversary, with stops planned in Naples, Genoa,...
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A CNN pundit snapped at a right-wing panelist during a debate on immigration that turned into a shouting match.During an appearance on CNN on Thursday night, Keith Boykin, a former Clinton White House aide, lost his cool while poking holes in an argument by Caroline Sunshine, a former Trump White House staffer.Sunshine argued in favor of a Supreme...
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After four and a half years of war, Ukraine's physical destruction is easy to see. But the psychological damage caused by occupation, displacement and loss is much harder to measure — although just as urgent to repair. David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and a former British foreign secretary, joins Sarah […]
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President Donald Trump claimed the crowd was incredible at the Great American State Fair kickoff rally Wednesday night held in the National Mall.He continued on Truth Social, "At least 45,000 people were there, with a huge Television and online audience."However, independent media estimates contradict his claims. NBC News estimated attendance at...
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The Greater Manchester mayoralty made Andy Burnham famous. Now he’s hoping he can take the approach he developed in the city to the whole country. This week on Westminster Insider, host Sascha O’Sullivan speaks to four serving mayors — and one former one about whether the role will prepare Burnham for the highest office in […]
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A White House insider unloaded after a GOP presidential hopeful went after one of its own, according to a new report.The Daily Mail reported comments from an anonymous White House insider who responded to attacks by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) against Trump's Iran deal.Cruz has criticized the Trump deal to end a war with Iran and open the Strait of...
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A legal expert called out the irony in the majority opinion of a Supreme Court decision upending immigration protections for thousands.Leah Litman, a veteran legal analyst, spoke about the Supreme Court decision in Mullin v. Doe during an appearance on MS NOW. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in a decision that sided with the Trump administration and...
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One Trump administration insider offered an unsettling warning about the president, according to a new report. President Donald Trump has been seemingly weathering a barrage from all sides, according to a report from The Atlantic. He's faced mounting bipartisan criticism over the deal he struck with the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, inflation is up,...
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Elon Musk to sit for a deposition in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona women who claim his political action committee, America PAC, deceived them into surrendering personal information. Musk promised at an October 2024 Pennsylvania town hall, America PAC would award $1 million daily to a...
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Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard seemed to depart from the Trump administration without a peep, but one psychologist argued on Thursday that she represented a "deeply troubling" pattern of officials who may not be working in the best interest of the American people. The Washington Post recently published a bombshell...
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Iran has discussed plans with Middle Eastern neighbors and China to establish permanent tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Wall Street Journal reporting. According to reports by the Wall Street Journal, Iranian officials estimate charges for security, safety, and environmental services could generate $40 billion annually for participating...
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MS NOW host Michael Steele erupted on Thursday's broadcast of "The Weeknight" while discussing what he described as the Trump administration's "claptrap" about the 2026 midterm elections. Steele discussed the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate mail-in voting with panelists Angelo Carusone, CEO of Media Matters, and Janai Nelson of the...
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The third-ranking official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is stepping away, according to the Washington Post.Gregg Phillips is on leave after he was "asked to step away from his role because of concerns about how he's publicly perceived," a person familiar with the situation told the Washington Post in a new report. Phillips claimed...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, baffled analysts on Thursday after he uncorked a series of wild claims during an interview on Newsmax about the Trump administration's efforts to combat health care fraud. Oz was interviewed by Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren about a...
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Trump White House aide Stephen Miller went on a rant about immigrants that's drawing scorn from online critics.Miller claimed during an interview with Fox News anchor Will Cain that immigrants in cities like New York City come from countries that "would have never developed the combustion engine or airplanes" if it weren't for contact with "the...
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lost his temper during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Thursday, calling Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) a hypocrite and telling her she should be "put in her place." The confrontation erupted when DeLauro, the panel's ranking member, invoked former President Donald Trump's family separation policy...
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The Trump Department of Justice's stonewalling with a judge keeps backfiring with each new filing, according to a legal expert.Michael Popok, a legal analyst, said during an episode of All Rise News that the DOJ's refusal to kill Trump's $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund isn't swaying Judge Leonie Brinkema from the Eastern District of...
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President Donald Trump is backing down on his holdout on signing a popular, bipartisan housing bill that he's held hostage for the last 24 hours after a "lengthy" meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to a new report. Johnson went to the White House on Thursday to talk to Trump about his abrupt decision to cancel the signing ceremony...
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that courts can force the Justice Department to release Epstein files that the Trump administration has fought to keep hidden.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued the ruling in Washington, D.C., siding with independent journalist Katie Phang in the first lawsuit ever brought to enforce the Epstein Files...
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An audio recording reveals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured an Iowa congressional candidate to withdraw from the 2nd District race to protect Republican House control. Obtained by The Washington Post, the recording exposes the conversation between the Health Secretary and Libertarian congressional candidate Rick Stewart. On the...
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Vice President JD Vance's commentary about former President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, comparing the moment to President Donald Trump, raised eyebrows online after he delivered public comments in Orange County Thursday.Vance was speaking at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, when he described his thoughts about the nation's...
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MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace likened Supreme Court dissents to a "primal scream" after a spate of decisions.Wallace was highlighting parts of Justice Elena Kagan's dissenting opinion in immigration cases that end legal protections for recipients of temporary protected status."The justices to put so much storytelling in a dissent does feel like a...
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New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson has not committed yet to visiting President Donald Trump at the White House, according to reports on Thursday.The NBA champions were invited to visit Capitol Hill, and James Dolan, the team's "Trumpy owner," had accepted the offer — but Brunson said the team still had to talk about it, The Daily Beast...
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran to President Donald Trump for help with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) after she hijacked the House and derailed his agenda.Luna has frozen all floor votes until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — Trump's elections overhaul that has stalled for months. Johnson met with Trump at the...
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A pair of immigration rulings sparked a clash among Supreme Court Justices on Thursday. Following his 6-3 decision announcement on both cases, Justice Samuel Alito accused liberal colleagues of blindsiding on the Court bench. The tension began after Alito announced the first ruling, which adopts a narrow interpretation of what constitutes arrival...
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A legal expert said on Thursday that a recent spate of decisions published by the Supreme Court made some of the liberal justices "incandescently angry" because the majority opinions read like "gaslighting."The court published opinions on a range of cases, from one that protects chemical giant Monsanto from lawsuits over cancer-causing chemicals in...
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The internet slammed a Minnesota Republican after his remarks about assimilation at a conservative town hall on Thursday.Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) was among several GOP leaders speaking at the event hosted by conservative advocacy group Faith & Freedom Coalition when he described his thoughts about immigration."Minnesotans are so afraid that you're...
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President Donald Trump torpedoed his own Republican Party's moment this week by abruptly canceling the signing of a major housing bill that could have boosted the GOP ahead of midterms, The New York Times reported Thursday.Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, revealed that the growing ruptures between Trump and Republicans...
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) made clear Thursday that the alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a subject President Donald Trump has fixated on for days, is nowhere on his list of priorities.Asked whether his committee would hold hearings into the "reflecting pool vandals," Comer said no. "We're going...
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy faced backlash for making politically charged remarks during a warm-up speech at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on the National Mall on Wednesday. While praising the Marine Band and performers Lee Greenwood, Christopher Macchio, and Alexis Wilkins, Duffy insulted musicians who canceled their...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was rushing to the White House to "unsnarl the knot" on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump canceled signing a bipartisan housing bill and signaled it was "leverage" to pressure Republicans to pass his elections legislation, according to The Washington Post.Trump told Republican senators they should...
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One of the only two felony convictions won by federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's vaunted Chicago deportation operation is now falling apart.Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez, a 27-year-old Lyons man, pleaded guilty in April to a felony charge after striking a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle during Trump's Operation Midway Blitz last fall. His...
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A Slate legal analyst said Thursday the Supreme Court's conservative majority delivered a seismic blow to multiple areas of American law in a single morning, expanding President Donald Trump's power in the process.Appearing on a panel Thursday, Mark Joseph Stern, co-host of Slate's Amicus podcast, walked through three 6-3 rulings the court handed...
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Americans were not buying the White House's claims about President Donald Trump's health, according to reports on Thursday.A shocking new Quinnipiac poll revealed a whopping 59 percent of Americans, about 6 in 10 voters, do not think the Trump administration has been transparent about the president's physical or mental health, The Daily Beast...
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A Supreme Court watcher sounded the alarm on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that the expert described as "freewheeling." Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer for Slate, argued in a new article that the Supreme Court's decision in Wolford v. Lopez, a gun rights case that arose out of Hawaii, was another "ad hoc nullification of any...
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Onlookers were shocked on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that some people called "inhumane."The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants who fled political violence in their home country. The 6-3 decision from the court's conservative...
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Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona women who say his political action committee,...
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After musician after musician pulled out from Trump's "Freedom 250” concert, he was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a couple of military bands, and Kash Patel's girlfriend. The anthem that made Greenwood a star, "God Bless the USA,” was written in 1985 during the height of the Cold War. It begins with the specter of loss— "If...
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Iran has discussed plans with its neighbors to extract billions from the global economy by setting up permanent tolls in the Strait of Hormuz—a direct result of President Trump's disastrous war that handed Tehran unprecedented leverage over the world's most critical oil artery.According to the Wall Street Journal reporting, Iranian officials are...
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The internet was in a frenzy on Thursday after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lost his temper — while holding a pink stress ball — when he was grilled by a Democratic congresswoman. Mullin interrupted ranking member Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and told her she should "be put in her place," exploding at the longtime lawmaker at a...
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President Trump claimed a "fantastic" turnout at the kickoff rally for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall Wednesday night, a figure that sharply diverges from independent estimates of the crowd size.A widely shared video clip shows a steady stream of people walking away from the stage area during the president's speech, and multiple...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says a lengthy conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump went well beyond NATO, covering Iran, Middle East security, Arctic defence and Canada's military spending plans. Carney also predicted Canada will hit four per cent of GDP spent on defence by 2029, ahead of NATO's planned review.
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Disgusting, vile, repugnant, supremacists.I can think of more attributes along these lines to describe the six conservative justices, who handed down three rulings today that, taken together, reveal the naked, ugly face of what this court has become - disgusting, vile, repugnant supremacists. All wearing white robes, with corporate, special...
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QAnon believers have turned on President Donald Trump, and despite an attempt from the White House to win them back, it has backfired among the president's former allies, an analyst reported on Thursday.Will Sommer, senior reporter at The Bulwark, described how the Trump administration dropped a "bizarre QAnon-themed social media campaign" this...
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President Donald Trump's ambassador to Italy has angered residents of his host country with plans to bring his $450 million superyacht to Venice during one of the city's most significant annual festivals, in a trip he has branded "coastal diplomacy."Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, a hospitality mogul who owns the NBA's Houston Rockets, began a...
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MAGA followers rebuffed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday after he spoke out against the Trump administration following a Supreme Court ruling that ended temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians.Lawler wrote in a post on X that he thinks the situation in Haiti is a "humanitarian and political disaster and continues to warrant an...
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio stammered out an explanation when cornered by reporters about the presence of President Donald Trump's son-in-law at a high-level meeting with foreign officials.Michael Boulos, the husband of the president's younger daughter Tiffany Trump, sat beside the secretary of state during a meeting on Wednesday with UAE...
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In her dissent from one of the Thursday Supreme Court decisions on immigrant rights, Justice Elena Kagan made sure Donald Trump's litany of racist remarks would be a forever part of the court's historical record.The liberal justice used her dissent in a case where the conservative majority gave the president the legal authority to strip Temporary...
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Alexis Wilkins, 27, a country music artist and girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, performed the national anthem at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on Wednesday night before a sparse crowd on the National Mall.Wilkins announced the gig one day prior, when her top Spotify track had approximately 520,000 streams, according to...
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A newly obtained audio recording shows that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally pressured a Libertarian congressional candidate in Iowa to abandon a competitive House race, urging him to step aside to protect Republican control of Congress.The Washington Post obtained a recording of the 12-minute call in which Kennedy told Rick...
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A poll worker in Syracuse, New York said she was left unsettled after a pair of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at her polling place to tell her to delete Instagram content calling for the indictment of the agent who shot Renee Good in January.The worker, Paigelynne Gonyea, was in the middle of her shift during Tuesday's...
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lost his temper at a Democratic congresswoman, calling her a hypocrite to her face Thursday and telling her she should be "put in her place" during a congressional oversight hearing.The blowup came at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, where Mullin was testifying on the Department of Homeland...
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A decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor to take 12 minutes of the court's time on Thursday to read her dissent in a 6-3 ruling that makes it significantly harder for asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico and South America to enter the US provoked Justice Sam Alito to take an unseemly potshot at her, which stunned court regulars.According to MS...
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House Republican leaders scrapped Friday's scheduled votes as an internal party standoff threatened to derail the chamber's legislative agenda, according to a notice sent to members Thursday.The impasse stemmed from GOP hard-liners blocking action over the stalled SAVE America Act, an elections bill currently stuck in the Senate, Politico...
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