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Washington Post readers launched a wave of criticism Friday after the Jeff Bezos-owned publication published a Mother's Day column attributed to Melania Trump.Titled "Mothers are America's strength," the piece prompted hundreds of comments expressing skepticism about authorship, with readers questioning if President Donald Trump wrote the column...
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Republican businessman and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is once again facing criticism and mockery for remarks that cast doubt on his authenticity.Ramaswamy, an ally of Trump who ran for president alongside him in 2024 and helped him craft the Department of Government Efficiency project, was born in Cincinnati — but had constantly...
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Fox Business host Dagen McDowell warned that Americans had "every right to be upset" because President Donald Trump's second term had "gone the wrong way."During a Friday panel discussion, McDowell agreed with contributor Steve Forbes that Trump was right to pursue fraud within the government. Still, she insisted that alone was not enough to turn...
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A federal judge in Massachusetts fired a warning shot at a lawsuit filed by far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office against the Democratic Party fundraising platform, ActBlue.According to Texas-based political reporter Bayliss Wagner, U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns "ruled that ActBlue's countersuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton is...
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said during a public conference this week that the so-called Trump Accounts established under the GOP's 2025 budget law represent a viable path toward Social Security privatization—something the Texas lawmaker described as a "dirty little secret.”During a panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference in...
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The Department of Justice wants to strip a dozen Americans of their citizenship, including a former United States ambassador and National Security Council official, as it moves forward with denaturalization, according to a new report.According to a report by The Hill, the DOJ announced on Friday that it is seeking to "denaturalize" 12 U.S....
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President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever, according to a New York Times investigation published Friday.Trump gave the contract to...
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President Donald Trump responded angrily to ABC News senior correspondent Rachel Scott's question about his focus on renovation projects in Washington, D.C., during an ongoing war in Iran and rising gas prices. Scott asked, "Why focus on all these projects as gas prices soar?" Trump defended the work, stating, "I want to keep our country beautiful...
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Funds from a proposed settlement to end a lawsuit against TikTok could go directly towards building Trump's triumphal arch rather than the child victims the lawsuit was meant to protect, according to a new report.The social media company TikTok expects to pay $400 million to end the 2024 lawsuit, which came after the Department of Justice "alleged...
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President Donald Trump and his allies have been banking hard on the belief that his tariff policy conveys a "populist" message to American workers and shores up his coalition. But time and time again, he has been proven wrong, conservative writer Dan McLaughlin argued for the National Review in an article published on Friday — and there's a...
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A red state lawmaker quietly called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, but plenty of people are calling out the stunning remark. "Say what now?" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kyle Whitmire wrote on X, reacting to comments from Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter on Friday. The GOP state Speaker told local media,...
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The United States is on the path to becoming more like an apartheid state, a legal expert warned, as he saw a recent decision by the Supreme Court as validating racism. "The effect of what the Supreme Court has done is that we are going to look more and more like apartheid South Africa," lawyer and legal commentator Andrew Weissmann said on a...
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Republicans in Iowa are moving to restrict the governor's emergency powers, signaling concern that Democratic state auditor Rob Sand could become the state's first Democratic governor in two decades. Sand is campaigning on economic struggles, population decline, and health crises, arguing Republican leadership has failed Iowans, according to The...
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Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has submitted her resignation to Gov. Spencer Cox (R) following allegations that she had an inappropriate relationship, which may have ultimately resulted in a redistricting map that benefited Democrats."Today, Gov. Cox received a letter of resignation from Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen," Cox's office...
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A panel of three federal judges has rejected a lawsuit brought after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) halted ongoing state elections in an effort to gain Republican House seats through redistricting.In a filing late last month, Democratic House candidate Lindsay Garcia sued Landry and other state officials on behalf of "similarly situated voters and...
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Former TV personality Kari Lake, who has become a fixture in Donald Trump's orbit despite a track record of electoral failure, is actively searching for a new government position after being repeatedly passed over by the president and forced out of her previous role.According to Vanity Fair, Lake was recently overheard at the aborted White House...
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A New York man said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents admitted that they had the wrong person after he was beaten on the street in the Bronx.Jeury Concepcion, 19, told WNBC that he had to get stitches and suffered a concussion after his encounter with ICE on Wednesday."They didn't identify themselves as ICE," Concepcion recalled with...
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Over five dozen grand jury transcripts from the Georgia criminal case against President Donald Trump were publicly released on Thursday, announced Lawfare's Anna Bower on X. The 61 transcripts include previously unseen testimony from prominent Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and Cleta Mitchell. Fulton County District Attorney...
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon that there will be a brief pause in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, effective this weekend."I am pleased to announce that there will be a THREE DAY CEASEFIRE (May 9th, 10th, and 11th) in the War between Russia and Ukraine," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "The Celebration in Russia is...
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President Donald Trump has "signed off on a plan" to oust Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, sources told the Wall Street Journal.According to Friday's report, Trump has clashed with Makary over the speed at which flavored nicotine vapes are being approved. The president has also had disagreements with the FDA commissioner on...
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After having been under seal for nearly seven years, Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note was made public on Wednesday, but on Friday, Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, claimed the note was nonsense and alleged it to be a "forgery.”"I've known Jeff all my life. If he was going to kill himself, if he was going to write a suicide note, he would've...
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Expressing both bemusement and concern at the same time, former Undersecretary of State Richard Stengel stated on MS NOW on Friday morning that a bombshell CIA report that Iran still has the ability to stand up to the U.S. is bad news, but it is even worse that it caught the White House by surprise.Citing the Washington Post report, host Anna...
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In January, a Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility from what the Trump administration alleged was an attempted suicide, but another detainee calls his death suspicious. An immigrant detained at the same facility claims that he "heard” the Cuban immigrant being "choked to death,” but that he was threatened by an...
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President Donald Trump met Friday's news that the Virginia Supreme Court had struck down a voter-approved redistricting referendum with delight — but many questioned the ruling as unjust.The court ruled 4-3 that the state's Democratic-led legislature had violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot...
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Critics hounded the Trump administration on Friday after the White House released its 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy report earlier that morning, which onlookers immediately noticed was riddled with typos and grammatical errors."This entire document looks like something written by an intern,” wrote author and foreign policy analyst Kabir Taneja...
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ABC has filed an aggressive defense against Federal Communications Commission regulatory action, accusing the agency of violating the network's free speech rights and creating a chilling effect on political content. The filing, made public Friday, represents the network's most forceful pushback since President Donald Trump began pressuring media...
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Former Fox News contributor Sean Duffy revealed that he spent seven months making a reality show while serving the country as Secretary of Transportation.In a Friday interview on Fox News, Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, announced their new program called "The Great American Road Trip.""Rachel and I actually met on a road...
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Friends,Last Thursday, populist Democratic candidate Graham Platner shook up the Democratic establishment when his primary competitor, Maine Governor Janet Mills, suspended her Senate campaign amid polls showing her badly trailing Platner, an oyster farmer who had come out of nowhere to win a national following.Platner is the latest example of the...
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Emmy award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi has retained a prominent litigator as her tenure at the prestigious CBS News program heads for an abrupt end — the result of a public clash with newly appointed CBS News head Bari Weiss that has escalated into legal threats.Alfonsi's contract with the network is set to expire at the...
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently celebrated the removal of food stamps from 4.5 million Americans.During an interview with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty this week, Rollins seemed jubilant about her success in moving people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)."It's a supplemental program. It's only supposed to last...
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President Donald Trump was dubbed an "economic serial killer" for killing off companies and entire industries with his policies.Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at The Bulwark and an anchor at MS NOW, published a column Friday questioning the 79-year-old president's priorities after his administration paid out $2 billion in taxpayer funds to...
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As he struggles to force Iran's capitulation, US President Donald Trump issued what seemed to be yet another threat to commit an act of mass destruction against the country through nuclear warfare.When negotiations have faltered in recent weeks, Trump has on multiple occasions defaulted to genocidal threats—including that the "whole...
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Virginia's Supreme Court struck down a redistricting referendum approved by voters in a special election.The court ruled Friday that Democratic lawmakers violated procedural rules when they referred a constitutional amendment to the ballot to draw up a new congressional map that would likely have given Democrats four additional seats, reported...
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It didn't take long on Friday for readers of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post to lash out at the once venerable Washington institution for publishing a column purportedly written by Donald Trump's wife, Melania.Going into the Mother's Day weekend, Melania, who gave birth to Trump's fifth child, Barron, extolled the virtues of being a mother in...
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In the middle of the most unpopular war in over 75 years—one that has created a political disaster for the Trump administration—the White House had to use the precious time of its Secretary of State to send him to the Vatican yesterday to do damage control.Think about that. The Vatican isn't a country with a military, nor is it some massive...
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Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor issued a dire warning Friday about a secret instruction book hidden in a "secure location” at the White House that contains a catalog of pre-drafted executive orders that would allow the president to do "extraordinary things” — powers that Taylor feared President Donald Trump may soon...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cautioned that a redistricting attempt in South Carolina could backfire because of the state's large Black population."I would recommend that everybody look at the map and see if it's a net positive [for Republicans]," Graham told SCETV News in an interview this week. "It's up to the state legislature to do this, but in...
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The architect of California's wealth tax proposal called out The Washington Post and its multibillionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on Thursday for peddling what he said is "misinformation” to readers.Emmanuel Saez, a French economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was tapped by California's largest union to...
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The Department of Defense released what it called a "UFO" website Friday, but critics labeled it no more than a distraction.In a Truth Social post in February, President Donald Trump said he would "be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report for the month of April on Friday, and Fox News' Cheryl Casone quickly hailed the figures as "better than expected” – only to be immediately undercut by an economist who pointed to weaker underlying data beneath the headline numbers."We got a much better than expected jobs report for the...
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Just hours before the Trump administration conducted what it claimed were "self-defense strikes” against "Iranian military facilities,” The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency concluded that "Iran can survive the US naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic...
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MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski derailed an interview with two Democratic lawmakers Friday with her reaction to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche blithe dismissal of concerns about ICE agents hanging around polling locations."What's the risk?” the lawyer asked.The "Morning Joe" co-host immediately pounced on the Donald Trump appointee's...
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The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision that gutted racial protections for voting rights under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act rests on misleading claims about voter turnout, according to a new analysis.Justice Samuel Alito claimed in his majority opinion that Black voter turnout had exceeded white voter turnout in two of the previous...
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Donald Trump was accused by both MS NOW host and a former high-ranking Pentagon official of a cover-up after a skirmish between US forces and Iran on Thursday.On "Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough excoriated the president, who dismissed the firefight as a "love tap” — leading retired Rear Admiral John. Kirby to make his bold...
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Following The Atlantic's bombshell report last month about FBI Director Kash Patel's alleged excessive drinking habits, the FBI director has been hit with a wave of negative press coverage over the past seven days, which Zeteo's Andrew Perez described Friday as a "week from hell.”And the reported suspected that it may be one of the Cabinet...
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are leading the charge to eradicate state artificial intelligence laws that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs say are stifling, but there's a problem: There's still no federal AI law to replace local tough-on-AI measures.As Senate Commerce Committee chair, throughout this Congress, Cruz has...
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Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law whom he named as a special peace envoy, is representing the United States in ongoing negotiations with Iran while also "apparently planning to hit up” foreign governments for "billions in funding for his private equity firm” — conduct one legal expert flagged on Friday as a "five-alarm...
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Always one looking to make a splashy deal, Donald Trump is giving serious consideration to allowing China to make a massive investment in the U.S. — against the advice of some of his closest advisors, an expert warned Friday.In a column for the New York Times, conservative economist Oren Cass reported the president, "May be on the verge of tying...
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Republicans are making moves in Iowa to limit the next governor's powers in what has been seen as an acknowledgement that a Democrat might hold that role in the deep red state for the first time in decades.Democratic state auditor Rob Sand is campaigning for governor by highlighting economic struggles, population decline and health crises in the...
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Peace negotiations between the United States and Iran continue as both countries exchange fire, with President Donald Trump pushing to end a conflict that has proven far more entrenched than anticipated — and has sent his approval ratings to a historic lows.Current talks center on a preliminary memorandum that would establish a framework for...
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Democratic Party stalwart James Carville is crowing as he watches Donald Trump's once devoted fans cave in their support for the MAGA movement.Speaking on his Politicon podcast Thursday with co-host Al Hunt, the famed 81-year-old Democratic strategist described watching Trump's hardcore backers drop their allegiance to the president — and it left...
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Critics immediately condemned the $1 billion request related to the White House ballroom project included in Senate Republicans' $72 billion spending package unveiled earlier this week and, as of Friday, a growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined in damning the proposal as being "too politically toxic,” Punchbowl News reported."A...
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It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal, has...
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The Liberal government is preparing to give the new Defence Investment Agency broad authority to sidestep normal military procurement rules in cases tied to national and economic security. Proposed legislation would sharply expand exemptions for sole-source contracts while extending the agency's influence into industrial policy, innovation and...
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Germany's cyber warfare commander says allied nations face relentless digital attacks from Russia and other adversaries as rearmament accelerates across Europe and North America. Vice-Admiral Thomas Daum told CBC News that cyber intrusions increasingly target defence industries, supply chains and even ordinary citizens — with human error...
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On the same day the prime minister named Louise Arbour as Canada's next governor general, the Liberals voted to restore proposed legislation that includes Arbour's recommendation to strip the Canadian military of its power to investigate and prosecute sexual offences. Critics say the move ignores survivors, and could even represent a conflict of...
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In dieser Folge spricht Rixa Fürsen mit Rasmus Buchsteiner über den Streit um die Diätenerhöhung im Bundestag. Ab 1. Juli stehen knapp 500 Euro mehr im Monat für jedes Mitglied des Bundestags an. Jetzt ringen Union und SPD darum, ob sie das stoppen und wenn ja, wie und bis wann. Außerdem: Bundesfinanzminister Lars Klingbeil ist […]
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