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Amid the ongoing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian negotiators have recently enlisted the help of "senior psychologists” to help them navigate what they believe to be a pressing issue involving President Donald Trump, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill claimed Friday, citing Iranian sources."A couple of weeks ago, the...
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Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein were left "appalled” Friday following The New York Times' essay that some said "whitewashed” the reputation of a key Epstein associate, an individual who, according to famed reporter Julie K. Brown, "enabled Epstein over the years.”The Times published a guest essay Thursday about Kathryn Ruemmler, the...
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The Trump administration has considered using settlements from a Justice Department investigation into major banks' account closures to fund compensation for Jan. 6 rioters, according to sources briefed on the matter.The Justice Department is investigating whether some of America's largest banks closed accounts of Jan. 6 defendants and other...
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Daniel Siad, a prominent French modeling scout, was pressed by CNN's Katie Polglase in an interview published Thursday on his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, and appeared to be sweating profusely through his shirt during the tense discussion.Siad is not facing criminal charges, but is named well over 1,000 times in the Justice Department's release of...
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a withering dissent Thursday in a little-noticed Supreme Court decision that once again saw the 6-3 conservative majority rule appear to rule against Congress's clear intent, prompting two legal experts to sound alarms about the court's apparent disdain for the legislative branch.In FS Credit v. Saba Capital,...
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A federal judge expressed doubts that President Donald Trump's slush fund is truly dead, and she's not alone in her skepticism.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a court order Friday blocking the so-called "anti-weaponization" fund and gave the Department of Justice one week to decide whether Attorney General Todd Blanche or another...
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Legendary director Steven Spielberg dropped his first film since 2022 — Disclosure Day — delivering a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration, a film critic revealed on Friday.In a review from Barry Levitt for The Daily Beast, Levitt described how the movie has focused on humanity and the relentless pursuit of truth, drawing parallels between...
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A Utah prosecutor is facing a potential contempt of court charge after appearing on Fox News to discuss evidence in the high-profile Charlie Kirk shooting case, appearing to violate a judge's strict order limiting public statements about the proceedings.According to NBC News, Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard will appear before Fourth...
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Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hurled a shock allegation at President Donald Trump on Thursday involving the federal investigation into Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate the president ahead of the 2024 election.Carlson was interviewed Thursday by Mario Nawal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur and...
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A suspicious judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's slush fund indefinitely.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said she doesn't believe the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund" is truly dead — despite his administration's suggestions — and issued an order blocking it indefinitely, reported CNN."When the President of the United...
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President Donald Trump is poised to celebrate his 80th birthday this Sunday with an unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, but according to Zeteo, the president is still musing about expanding his birthday celebrations to a national scale."As the birthday boy gears up for his party, we feel compelled to remind you of...
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Workers began tearing Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center Friday, carrying out a federal court order his own lawyers had scrambled overnight to block.A federal judge ruled last month that the renaming was flatly illegal. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Trump's hand-picked board never had the authority to put the president's name...
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President Donald Trump could be considering a replacement for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an analyst said Friday.Salon's White House columnist Brian Karem reported that while White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been on leave, the Trump administration has been auditioning different "guest host" Cabinet members in the press...
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The father of a slain white teen used racial slurs against his son's killer in a podcast appearance as soon as a judge lifted a gag order in the murder case.Jeff Metcalf, the father of Texas teenager Austin Metcalf, called 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony a "watermelon felon" after his conviction this week for murder and sentencing of 35 years in...
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A court filing Friday documented the wreckage of President Donald Trump's Kennedy Center vanity project — highlighting fleeing artists, cratering ticket sales, and an Honors broadcast nobody watched.The midnight deadline to scrub Trump's name from the Kennedy Center was still ticking Friday. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and ex officio...
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The man at the center of the Trump administration's flagship coal revival project has no background in energy, no track record in power generation and no profile among the industry insiders his project will need to convince.What Alex Phillips does have is a long history in the fringes of the MAGA movement — and an $18.5 million federal grant that...
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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is facing another catastrophic financial blow after the Washington National Opera filed a $17 million lawsuit against the troubled institution for refusing to release funds the company claims belong to them.According to New York Times reporting, the suit filed Thursday accuses Kennedy Center officials of...
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Experts and political commentators were stunned on Friday when a Trump official referred to a looming nuclear threat as "exciting times ahead."Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum spoke with CNBC about the Iran war and argued that Americans would ultimately be better off for it."President Trump truly has set up America for an age of abundance —...
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Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance are expecting their fourth child, and Fox News host Brian Kilmeade already has a name in mind – one he pitched to colleagues Friday and sparked an awkward silence.According to USA Today, Vance and Usha have yet to decide on a name for their child, a boy who's expected in July. Friday morning, Fox...
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A pair of three-time Donald Trump voters from Ohio had little good to say about the president when speaking with MS NOW's Alex Tabet Friday, complaining about the state of the economy and all of Trump's broken promises.Prior to the clip that ran on "Morning Joe," co-host Jonathan Lemire reported that a Conn-Selmer plant in Eastlake, Ohio is being...
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A new "litmus test” appears to have emerged for Democrats already musing about President Donald Trump's exit from the White House — one that puts the president's White House ballroom project at the center of a pivotal question, NOTUS reported Friday."Should a Democratic president bulldoze Trump's ballroom?” the report asks, noting it had...
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A bipartisan group of Congress members sat grounded on a runway for more than an hour Thursday — all because of an airshow rehearsal for Trump's White House UFC fight.Politico Playbook's Adam Wren reported the delegation was stuck aboard a Delta flight from Washington to Detroit. Among the stranded passengers: Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Rashida...
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President Donald Trump lashed out Friday following the reported leak of details on the latest deal to end the Iran war, insisting the purported details bear "no relation to the truth,” while also attacking Iranian negotiators as "very dishonorable people.”"The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that...
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's plan to scuttle a damaging ruling backfired when a federal judge smacked her down for a second time.Pirro — the former Fox News host tapped by President Donald Trump as Washington's top federal prosecutor — had asked Chief Judge James Boasberg to wipe his own ruling from the record, arguing the case was moot....
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A former staffer from President Donald Trump's first term recalled an anecdote from his very first week in office that has echoed in his mind for years.Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, published a new piece for The i Paper calling back a story – which he said probably never even happened –...
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Two Republican senators took their fight over the SAVE America Act public Thursday, with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) telling Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) bluntly that he doesn't have the votes.The exchange, which played out in a series of posts on X, pitted Lee — the bill's chief Senate sponsor — against Cornyn, a co-sponsor who lost his Texas primary to...
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An announcement by Donald Trump that he is on the verge of a peace deal with Iran that preempted what was expected to be a major bombing campaign was not greeted with universal approval by members of his MAGA base.Late Thursday, the president took to his Truth Social platform to write, "Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic...
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According to branding expert Donnie Deutsch, Donald Trump's desire to be the central topic of every day will lead him to deny his MAGA crown to either Secretary of State Marco Rubio or Vice President JD Vance.Deutsch, a former friend of Trump's going back to their Manhattan days, told the hosts of MS NOW's "Morning Joe” that the president will...
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Amid unprecedented bipartisan backlash, President Donald Trump ditched his original nomination for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Thursday and named a new replacement – an announcement that's sparked "Trump-induced chaos” for Senate GOP leaders, Punchbowl News reported Friday."As always, the timing around here matters,” said...
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Embattled "60 Minutes" executive editor Nick Bilton attempted to stanch the bleeding at CBS's popular newsmagazine by offering a popular executive editor his job back after he was fired by CBS News head Bari Weiss — only to be turned down.According to media watchdog Status, Bilton — struggling to right the ship after Weiss's catastrophic purge...
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The mayor of a Pennsylvania borough defended his use of the N-word during a confrontation with children and young adults at a local park — despite outrage from local parents.Daniel Berard, a registered Republican and mayor of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, told Raw Story via a phone call about an April 17 incident at the Second Street Playground...
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Should a desperate Donald Trump sign off on the latest deal with Iran that led him to call off a major attack late Thursday, he would suffer a "major humiliation” based on leaked details.That is according to Insider editor Michael Weiss, who appeared on MS NOW's "Morning Joe” on Friday morning and claimed that the president has come to the...
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A chorus of Senate and House Republicans broke sharply with President Donald Trump Thursday over his escalating threats to Iran, with one loyalist invoking the specter of Vietnam and others warning the conflict will cost them in the midterm elections.The complaints grew louder within hours after Trump threatened to seize Kharg Island, a critical...
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event slated to be held at the White House on Sunday is underwater with a majority of Americans, many of whom have bombarded its promotional posts with references to Jeffrey Epstein, Axios reported Friday.According to a survey of more than 9,200 adults conducted by YouGov, 51% of Americans either...
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The White House quietly installed a "babysitter" to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr in check amid terror the vaccine-sceptic is about to help tank the GOP's midterm performance, a report claimed Friday.The secretary of health and human services' most powerful aide has been installed to keep Kennedy from going off the rails, several Democrats told...
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A prominent psychologist is sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump's increasingly erratic behavior, warning that his fixation on Washington construction projects is a sign of significant mental decline.Dr. John Gartner, a clinical psychologist and former Johns Hopkins University Medical School professor, told the Daily Beast that Trump's...
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ICYMI, the Republican Party has been heavily invested in trying to control the American population by controlling women's reproductive rights for decades. I will forever contend that no government has the right to micromanage the bodies of its constituents, and I also will never understand how the GOP was ever allowed to turn any of our bodies into...
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The Canberra Liberals and the ACT Greens issue their responses to the ACT budget, criticising the government's fiscal plan, principally around cost of living, transport and overall management of the territory's finances.
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A series of sobering warnings about the prospect of war in Europe have emerged over the last few weeks. Germany's defence minister and senior military leaders say Russia could be ready to threaten a NATO member by 2029. The warning comes as intelligence points to a rapid Russian military buildup, Europe scrambles to rearm and Washington signals it...
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Donald Trumps aggressive Iran-Rhetorik sorgt für Nervosität an den Märkten und treibt die Ölpreise sowie die Inflation nach oben. Damit manövriert sich der US-Präsident mitten in ein wirtschaftspolitisches Dilemma: Eigentlich fordert er vor den Midterms im November dringend Zinssenkungen, doch der anhaltende Inflationsdruck zwingt die...
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The head of the Department of Homeland Security is getting an earful after he told New Yorkers to "wise up."During a press conference, Markwayne Mullin went after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his constituents."He and I don't get along," Mullin said about Mamdani. "It's shameful, and hopefully people in New York will wise up and get a true...
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For years, the Northern Territory government has been locked in a legal battle with Claravale Station over allegations its owners cleared hundreds of hectares without a permit. But it is not the first time the government has announced the settlement deal.
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A Republican election expert slammed one of the top MAGA demands as impossible and "asinine in the extreme."In a recent interview, Stephen Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder and a fellow at the Cato Institute, tore apart the idea of hand counting ballots.Legal reporter Adam Klasfeld asked Richer if the "loudly demanded" idea from election...
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Forty years ago, on June 12, Spain formally anchored its future to the European Union. As the tremors of the 1979 energy crisis subsided and our new institutions dismantled decades of isolation, the European project was met with fierce optimism. For a generation born under a dictatorship but coming of age in freedom, integration unlocked […]
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A GOP candidate for governor in Colorado doubled down on his shocking promise to hire a MAGA podcaster with anti-Semitic views.Republican Scott Bottoms claimed on the debate stage last week that he would hire MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann, who called for the executions of the "Synagogue of Satan Jews" running Colorado. Bottoms said it wouldn't be a...
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Across Europe, political instability, fragmentation and polarization are increasingly becoming the norm. But how are governments tackling these tensions? On this episode of the Brussels Playbook Week Ender, host Sarah Wheaton and her guests hone in on three countries: France, Greece and Denmark. Dialing in from Paris and Athens are our colleagues...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) lashed out on social media at a longtime right-wing activist notorious for his voter registration drives."Just had a conversation with Senator John Cornyn at the airport," wrote Scott Presler on X. "I was very gracious & asked him to pass the SAVE America Act" — referencing a package of draconian voter restrictions pushed...
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President Donald Trump reversed course Thursday on his Intelligence Chief pick, nominating former SEC chairman Jay Clayton as permanent director of national intelligence hours after the House failed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The abrupt shift came days after Trump insisted to House Speaker Mike Johnson...
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President Donald Trump's coalition is falling apart in earnest as more and more of his voters start to break away, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Thursday evening."You know that feeling ... when you buy a cute pair of shoes or something like that you saw on Instagram, and then they show up and you wear them for a day or two, and they're just not what...
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Climate change, Palestine, Brexit, the Iraq War. Westminster has seen it all when it comes to protests, and the inhabitants of Parliament are largely desensitised to the angry cries at the gates. This week on Westminster Insider host Sascha O’Sullivan asks: what’s the point of marching on Whitehall? Peter Tatchell, career protestor famous for...
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A new poll of Ohio is a "canary in the coal mine" for Republicans, legendary political analyst Charlie Cook wrote in his Substack on Thursday.The poll of 1,015 registered voters, commissioned by Fox News, suggests "far greater danger for Republicans in November than was previously evident," wrote Cook, the founder of the eponymous Cook Political...
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A Department of Justice division claimed it had no records related to President Donald Trump's IRS settlement, a watchdog reported.According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the DOJ's Civil Division came up empty-handed when responding to a request for records related to the settlement that led to Trump's $1.8 billion...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shot back at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying she would get "revenge" after the president turned on her, The Hill reported. Mace, who lost her primary race for South Carolina's governor against a Trump-backed candidate, had a sharp response to the president. "People keep asking me: 'Will you get revenge on Trump for...
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Bud Light branding appeared on the White House South Lawn ahead of UFC Freedom 250, a seven-fight card celebrating President Donald Trump's 80th birthday on June 14. The temporary arena covering the South Lawn displays logos for Ram, Morgan & Morgan, Bud Light, and Crypto.com, reports Anchorage Daily News. The sponsorship drew immediate ridicule...
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President Donald Trump no longer has the mental faculties to truly understand what he is doing day to day, let alone perform the functions of a president, said his "Art of the Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz on MS NOW Thursday.This comes after a week consumed by reporting about the Iran war, Trump's slush fund for his political allies, and additional...
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A MAGA congressman faced online roasting after he went on a bizarre rant about President Donald Trump being a "very special baby."Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) told a reporter, "Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a hundred years," but his flattery didn't stop there."He was born a very special baby," Nehls said. "I bet the doctors...
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Trump raged against Congressman Jamie Raskin (D- MD) while endorsing a congressional candidate from Palm Beach.In a lengthy Truth Social post about Raskin, Trump called him a "loser in life," adding that Republican lawmakers should "EXPEL THE BUM." He wrote that Raskin "failed" to impeach him during his first term."Congress can never be great with...
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Over a year after President Donald Trump returned to office, the Justice Department hasn't just been twisted to serve his own political goals, but hollowed out to the point it can barely function, The Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday's edition of "Deadline: White House."This comes amid reporting that...
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Under conservative editor Bari Weiss's eight-month leadership at CBS News, the top-rated "60 Minutes" program has lost seven of its 10 correspondents and seen its editorial independence severely compromised through alleged political interference. On May 28 — dubbed "Black Thursday" by staff — Weiss fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and...
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A man from Grimes County, Texas has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk, and FBI agents.According to the arrest affidavit, Peter James Bloomfield of Iola is accused of operating an X account of the name @fenrisL18223, which the FBI was alerted to earlier this month after it posted a...
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A prominent clinical psychologist revealed that President Donald Trump's rambling tangents could indicate something disturbing ahead, according to a report on Thursday.Dr. John Gartner, former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, told The Daily Beast that Trump's "lengthy monologues about his construction projects" show...
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The husband of former Trump cabinet secretary Kristi Noem asked his dominatrix for "one last hoo-ha" as stories about his scandal broke, the model said.The Daily Mail reported earlier this year that Bryon Noem carried on a years-long relationship with dominatrix Shy Sotomayor, who performs under the name Raelynn Riley. In a recent interview with...
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A former prosecutor this week raised a red flag about Trump's new strikes against Iran and the "legal fiction" used to authorize them.CNN anchor Anderson Cooper pointed out on Wednesday that the Trump administration can't carry on a military campaign without approval from Congress because of limitations set by the War Powers Resolution."The Trump...
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Yet another one of Trump's golf clubs has been hit with health code violations, according to reporting by NOTUS.The culprit this time is the Trump National Golf Club Hudson Valley in Hopewell Junction, New York. The club was flagged for a "critical violation" at its restaurant by a Dutchess County health inspector in April, according to NOTUS,...
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) signaled he will condition his support for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation on guarantees that Blanche aggressively restricts access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Blanche already faces a treacherous confirmation path with Democrats and Republicans angered over his backing of President Donald Trump's...
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A federal judge in Florida appointed by President Donald Trump just nine months ago seethed at the administration in a new ruling, accusing them of cooking up a flimsy excuse to bypass his own judgment in favor of a career official within the administration itself.Judge Kyle Dudek's ruling concerned the immigration detention case of Dmitrii...
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President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed he would take over Washington, D.C. if the mayoral candidate he doesn't want to win gets elected, according to The Washington Post. Trump made it clear for the first time that he was opposed to democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George winning the Democratic primary next week. "One of the two leading...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) got a tongue-lashing from The Bulwark's Joe Perticone on Thursday for going after one of the most beloved and fiercely-guarded programs in America: Social Security."The reason we're in trouble is because over seventy-four percent of federal spending is on autopilot — mandatory spending, that is your entitlement...
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President Donald Trump called "Fox & Friends" to discuss the Iran war, boasting about dropping $250 million of bombs on Iran and claiming the country is in submission. He complained media coverage suggested the strikes were not hard enough and claimed Iranian officials appreciate American journalists' assistance, according to journalist Aaron...
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New Mexico's top environmental official warned lawmakers Tuesday the Trump administration could curtail the state's ability to oversee federal facilities around the state — especially at Los Alamos National Laboratory.At a Santa Fe presentation before the Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Materials interim committee, state Environment Secretary...
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Billionaire tech giant Elon Musk was mocked with a giant, unflattering inflatable doll in the middle of New York City's Times Square, according to multiple reports. The 40-foot effigy had "SPACEX's GROK MAKES AI CHILD PORN" written across Musk's shirtless belly, and under his sagging cleavage, Reuters photos show. His back had the same protest...
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CNBC's Jim Cramer had strong words for President Donald Trump while talking about the economic pressures brought on by the Iran war."Is the president stepping it up in order to end the war? Or is he just stepping it out because he's had it?" Cramer asked during an appearance on "Squawk on the Street," where he spoke about inflation from the...
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Political observers never believed President Donald Trump's cancellation of his "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was sincere, especially after new reporting revealed the administration plotted to continue it secretly, correspondent Scott MacFarlane told Nicolle Wallace on Thursday.A big reason why, he said, is that DOJ attorneys are being asked in court...
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Federal investigators swarmed the National Mall Thursday after a massive "86 47" marking appeared etched into the grass near the World War II Memorial.U.S. Park Police and members of the National Guard responded to the scene, collecting grass samples for testing. The numerals — visible only from height, such as the top of the Washington Monument...
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Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Oregon have publicly declined to send official delegations to President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on the National Mall, opening June 25. Three additional states remain uncommitted two weeks before the grand opening, according to reports by NOTUS. The boycotts follow a...
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President Donald Trump's team has reportedly planned under-the-table tactics to effectively still go through with the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay off his allies who have been charged with crimes. But this is taking a huge risk, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman told MS NOW's Erielle Reshef on Thursday.The scheme, considered a slush fund by critics,...
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President Donald Trump trashed two close Republican allies during a press conference Thursday.Trump was speaking to reporters from the Oval Office when he tore into Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) after the longtime GOP lawmakers opposed the SAVE America Act — a package of new restrictions on voting that Trump has...
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President Donald Trump's economic polling looks so bad that CNN's Harry Enten wondered whether he was engaged in self-sabotage.The president blurted out "I love the inflation" when asked about the last month's 4.2 percent spike in costs, and the data analyst said that certainly won't help Trump or his Republican allies on the most pressing issue...
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Golfing legend Phil Mickelson has been banned from the golf club near where he lives, following allegations of unwanted physical contact with a female employee.Several sources have confided to Golf Digest that Mickelson "is no longer a member at The Farms Golf Club outside San Diego after a female club employee accused the six-time major champion...
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MS NOW host Jonathan Lemire reported President Donald Trump has become isolated within his own White House, citing reports from The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's forthcoming book. Lemire noted that Vice President JD Vance and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles retreated to the Situation Room with Trump's inner circle, but excluded the...
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President Donald Trump won't attend the signing of his own Iran peace deal — the White House has a UFC fight scheduled for the same weekend.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump announced he had canceled planned strikes against Iran after negotiations reached the "highest level of Iranian leadership." The deal, he said on...
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