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A national security journalist spotted a glaring inconsistency in the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey that she said gives away how political the case appears to be.Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel laid out a side-by-side comparison Monday of four threat cases charged by Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney W. Ellis Boyle in the Eastern District...
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Ever since conservative-leaning commentator Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News, the network has seen anemic ratings and a lurching series of controversies — and now the higher-ups at Paramount-Skydance are talking about sidelining her.This comes in spite of the company's head, David Ellison, being notoriously Trump-friendly.According to...
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President Donald Trump privately demanded that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) fire Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.According to NOTUS, "President Donald Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president's ballroom in a...
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CNN's Anderson Cooper was amazed on Monday after he realized a pardoned rioter who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection may have predicted that he would eventually get a payoff from the Trump administration. Cooper recounted the case against Edward Kelly, who was one of the first rioters to breach the Capitol that day, and another rioter named...
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A legal expert ripped the Supreme Court for "beclowning itself" after some of the justices entertained MAGA rage-bait during a recent oral argument session. Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown University, said during the most recent episode of "The Court of History" podcast on the Legal AF Network that some of the court's justices seemed to...
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Financial analyst Jim Cramer became visibly flustered Monday on CNBC when discussing President Donald Trump's extensive stock-trading activity, spending 10 seconds mumbling incoherently before co-host David Faber reassured viewers there were no technical difficulties. Government Ethics Office disclosures revealed that Trump executed over 3,700...
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Megyn Kelly isn't buying what the Trump administration is selling on Cuba — and she's mincing no words.The conservative host used her Monday podcast to torch the administration over a weekend Axios report claiming Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and discussed attacking Guantanamo Bay, US naval vessels, and Key West."A threat. From...
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Long-time CBS News anchor Dan Rather was floored on Monday by President Donald Trump's latest scheme to give out $1.776 billion to allies who claim they were unjustly prosecuted by the Biden administration. Rather wrote in a new essay for his Substack, "Steady," that Trump's fund is just another example of the president "looting the country in...
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San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria was met with a screaming heckler before he could start talking at Monday evening's press conference on the deadly shooting at the Islamic Center, which is currently being investigated as a hate crime."This is a [expletive] direct result of your leadership!" shouted the heckler. "Our Muslim brothers and sisters have been...
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Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell fired back Monday after the New York Times filed its second lawsuit against the Defense Department in five months, claiming the paper simply wants to get its hands on classified information — and reporters who cover the building immediately returned fire.Parnell posted on X that the Times' lawsuit, which challenges...
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President Donald Trump's hometown of New York City is reminding the public of just how closely tied he is to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a new stunt.According to The Daily Beast, an art gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan "was transformed into the 'Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,' where every...
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President Donald Trump's "Rededicate 250" event on Sunday was the latest example of how the administration is willingly crossing a bright red line as it takes an ax to a central American value, according to one expert. Robert Jones, who has been studying and writing about political extremism for more than two decades, argued in a new essay for his...
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President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image Sunday night depicting himself launching a nuclear strike, drawing alarm from social media users. The image shows Trump pressing a large red button as a massive explosion with a mushroom cloud strikes Earth. The post continues a pattern of controversial generative artificial intelligence, or...
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The New York Times filed a new lawsuit challenging Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's press access policy — and going into extensive detail, using an emoji to indicate the clear intent of the policy was to silence freedom of the press.The policy effectively neutered Pentagon reporters by forcing them, as a condition of receiving Pentagon...
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A former senior National Security Council official is warning that President Donald Trump's Beijing summit left Americans dangerously exposed, and that, unlike Richard Nixon's historic China opening, this one will have consequences that can't be undone."Trump is getting away with this move politically. Geopolitically, he will not. His new stance...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson told a room full of top Republican donors Monday that he expects his party to net seven to eight additional House seats through mid-decade redistricting, a bullish prediction that signals how aggressively the GOP plans to redraw the map heading into the midterms.Johnson made the remarks on a panel at his big-donor retreat...
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President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image Sunday showing himself walking alongside a chained, grey alien figure without any explanation, sparking speculation that he may be hinting at upcoming UFO revelations. The image fueled existing intrigue after Trump's administration released its first batch of previously classified UFO files...
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Onlookers were shocked on Monday after a new image of President Donald Trump's bruised hand began circulating on social media. Trump has consistently downplayed the bruising on his hands, often suggesting it is from all the handshakes he gives to supporters and political dignitaries. The president has also tried to hide the bruising on his hand by...
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A federal judge has blocked the body that oversees state judicial elections in Georgia from issuing ethics criticism against a pair of liberal state Supreme Court candidates, in a sudden new twist in the emerging drama in the race set to take place this week.According to Atlanta News First, "In a temporary restraining order, U.S. Chief Judge Leslie...
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Airline industry executives are bracing for a worst-case "Armageddon" scenario under President Donald Trump as the Iran war is threatening critical shortages of jet fuel — and they expect that if things get worse, the industry could see more liquidations similar to what happened to Spirit Airlines earlier this year.According to the Daily Beast,...
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One of President Donald Trump's ambassadors has been linked to a scandal-ridden movement in Canada because of his involvement with a right-wing voting group, according to a new report. Pete Hoekstra, Trump's ambassador to Canada, has been linked to a separatist group in Alberta that has coordinated with a right-wing group in Michigan called...
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Two suspects and three victims have died at a shooting at the San Diego Islamic Center on Monday as more details emerged. Investigators shared additional information about the shooting at 7050 Eckstrom Ave, just west of the 805 Freeway.Here are five things to know about the fatal shooting.1. Two suspects, who died of self-inflicted gunshots and...
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A conservative kingmaker appears to be sitting idly by as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) continues to battle MAGA firebrand Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, in the state's heated primary runoff, a sign that President Donald Trump's signature movement is on the fritz, according to a new report. Leonard Leo has a deep history within Republican...
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The Department of Justice, or DOJ, announced the creation of a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded compensation fund for President Donald Trump's allies, including Jan. 6 rioters, who claim political targeting by previous administrations. Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization agreed to drop their $10 billion IRS lawsuit in...
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The former Republican governor of Maryland warned on Monday that the antidote to his party's loss of sanity is getting further away as President Donald Trump's grip on the party tightens. Larry Hogan told the Washington Post that he has left Trump's Republican Party behind as he enters what he calls his "Zen era." That comes after Hogan was unable...
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The leader of Turning Point USA in a key battleground state called President Donald Trump's Iran war "distasteful" as young MAGA voters who helped elect the president have started to show signs of frustration, according to a Politico report on Monday.Some of the youngest members among the MAGA coalition have cited skyrocketing gas prices, concerns...
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A Florida congressman went on Real America's Voice on Monday and unleashed a kitchen-sink attack on fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — the latest GOP lawmaker to fall in line behind President Donald Trump's all-out campaign to oust the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian in Tuesday's primary.Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), appearing with host Eric...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused Iran war responsibilities Monday to campaign in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District primary on behalf of President Donald Trump's favored nominee Ed Gallrein, who is running against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Hegseth flew to Hebron for an America First Works event with the former Navy SEAL, marking an...
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Multiple people are reportedly dead in a shooting at the San Diego Islamic Center, according to MS NOW's Ayman Mohyeldin, citing a report directly from the leader of the mosque.Based on a preliminary investigation, police believe that two men found near the mosque — dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds — were the suspects, two law...
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Jeanine Pirro was in the middle of a tough-on-crime press conference Monday when a reporter blindsided her with a question about a nearly $1.8 billion fund that could send taxpayer money to the same kind of rioters she'd spent the morning condemning.The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia had just finished threatening to prosecute the...
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President Donald Trump's pick to be the top federal prosecutor in Wyoming committed grand jury misconduct that voids charges against several criminal defendants, a federal judge ruled on Monday — just hours before that prosecutor is set to face a confirmation vote in the Senate to serve in that role permanently.According to Bloomberg Law, "Darin...
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A former lawmaker and critic of President Donald Trump slammed the president's Iran war decisions following his announcement on Monday to stop a planned military attack amid "serious negotiations" and telling the military to be ready "on a moment's notice."Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) told CNN that Trump's Truth Social post announcement...
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When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas' gerrymandered congressional map to take effect in December, its conservative majority wrote that a lower court had "improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign” when it blocked the map more than three months before the election.Now, the Supreme Court is the one upending elections.For the...
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Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) attempt to showcase Republican diversity by posting photos of the only four Black House Republicans was undermined by their collective departure from Congress. Reps. Wesley Hunt of Texas, John James of Michigan, Byron Donalds of Florida, and Burgess Owens of Utah are all leaving Capitol Hill, with no Black Republican...
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Justice Samuel Alito wrote the conservative majority's opinions in two of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in recent years: 1) Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—overruling Roe v. Wade; and 2) Louisiana v. Callais—neutering the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In both cases, Alito recited and relied on asserted "facts” that...
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President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at limits on toxic "forever chemicals" in Americans' drinking water — a move likely to deepen anger among his Make America Healthy Again allies, NOTUS reported Monday.The EPA announced Monday that it wants to scrap legally enforceable nationwide drinking water limits on four...
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President Donald Trump's Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, was briefly stopped by Chinese security during the administration's trip to the country last week, The Daily Beast reported on Monday."Footage circulating online appears to show Scott Bessent being stopped outside the Great Hall of the People, one of the Chinese Communist Party's chief...
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Vice President JD Vance laughed about President Donald Trump's particular taste over which socks and jackets his cabinet members wear — prompting the internet to mock the attempted joke.Vance was speaking to a crowd at a manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri, to address the rising cost of living ahead of midterm elections, when he tried...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a video of himself playing the banjo with some other musicians to his campaign account on Monday, ahead of a primary in which he is fighting for his political life."Pickin and grinnin!" said the post.The Right Wing Watch social media account flagged the identity of the figure Massie was playing with."The guitar...
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A consultant for Rep. Tom Kean Jr. — the New Jersey Republican who has been missing from Congress for 74 days — decided Monday that the real scandal isn't his boss's 2 1/2-month disappearance, it's the journalist asking about it.Kean last cast a vote in the House on March 5 and has since missed 68 votes, been out of the public eye, skipped the...
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A Democratic congressional staffer flagged an eye-popping provision in the massive fund established by the Department of Justice to pay off President Donald Trump's allies.DOJ set aside $1.776 billion in taxpayer funds to compensate Trump allies, including Jan. 6 rioters already pardoned by the president, who say they were unfairly targeted by...
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President Donald Trump plans to dig up the South Lawn and install a permanent helipad, marking the latest in a series of extensive White House renovations. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Trump has already paved over the Rose Garden, installed black granite walkways, redesigned the Oval Office, added flagpoles, and demolished the East...
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Vice President JD Vance has a fashion confession — and it involves a pair of shamrock socks, the Irish prime minister, and a very unamused Donald Trump.Speaking in Kansas City on Monday, Vance regaled the crowd with a cautionary tale about dressing for the boss after complimenting Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on his blazer."If you...
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Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL and GOP congressional candidate hand-picked by President Donald Trump to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), lashed out at The Daily Caller after the outlet reported that he may have inflated his military record during his campaign."This lie-filled story is nothing but a desperate attempt by Thomas Massie and his...
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Friends,On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy's vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol.Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who have stood...
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One of Wall Street's most recognizable gurus, Jim Cramer, became notably tongue-tied on Monday after President Donald Trump's recent stock-trading spree entered into a televised conversation with his colleagues on CNBC.Disclosures published by the US Office of Government Ethics last week revealed that Trump, in the first quarter of 2026, carried...
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Rev. Franklin Graham delivered a pre-recorded video message at President Donald Trump's Rededicate 250 prayer event Sunday at the National Mall in D.C., describing America as "morally rotten" and "completely sick with sin." Graham cited "transgenderism" and "opening women's locker rooms to men" as a couple of examples of America's alleged moral...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unusual stop along the campaign trail in the Kentucky congressional race might signal he could be considering a run for president in 2028, an analyst reported on Monday.Associated Press White House reporter Michelle Price told CNN anchor Dana Bash and a panel of political experts that Hegseth's speech supporting...
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With no end in sight to the Strait of Hormuz crisis caused by President Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran, the head of the International Energy Agency warned Monday that global energy supplies are running dangerously low.IEA executive director Faith Birol told reporters in Paris that the world only has weeks' worth of oil reserves left, raising...
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Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson described a major shortcoming that Republicans have missed — and have been ignoring — since President Donald Trump entered the White House.The co-founder of The Lincoln Project wrote in his Substack on Monday how Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-LA) "original sin" against Trump in his vote to impeach the president during...
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The Department of Justice announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund of taxpayer money that would be used to pay off President Donald Trump's allies, including Jan. 6 rioters, who say they were politically targeted by previous administrations.The 79-year-old president, his two elder sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the family-owned...
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr got an unexpectedly sharp grilling from CNBC's Sara Eisen on Monday, who openly questioned the "suspicious" timing of his agency's escalating attack on Disney-owned ABC — pointing directly to President Donald Trump's recent demand that Jimmy Kimmel be fired.Carr, who has emerged as one of the most aggressive enforcers in...
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Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark and longtime GOP pollster, sharply criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for what she characterized as obsequious behavior during a Meet the Press interview Sunday. Graham claimed Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-LA) primary loss was beneficial for the Republican Party, prompting Longwell to describe the interview as...
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A conservative lawmaker cautioned that President Donald Trump's political attacks on Republicans who have challenged him could tank GOP candidates in midterm elections this fall.Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who has opted not to seek re-election in 2026 and will retire at the end of his term in 2027, described his thoughts about Sen. Bill Cassidy's (R-LA)...
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says the Minnesota Republican Party has shut him out of a major gubernatorial debate — and he's not staying quiet about it."They have a big GOP endorsement where they have this big debate, and I'm not allowed to come," Lindell told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast. "They've shut me out because the establishment...
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TOPEKA — Retired Air Force Col. Chris Carmichael believes he can defeat Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Estes in the 4th District congressional race, even though the incumbent won the seat by a 30-point margin two years ago.A Democrat hasn't represented the Wichita-area district since Dan Glickman lost his reelection bid in 1994.But Carmichael, an...
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New reporting on President Donald Trump's age-related decline opened fresh questions about his leadership of the Republican Party.The Atlantic published a new report detailing how the president's team has adjusted to his limitation, and reporter Jonathan Lemire discussed his findings Monday while co-hosting MS NOW's "Morning Joe.""There are some...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused Iran war duties on Monday to take on President Donald Trump's Republican foe, according to reports.Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who has served seven terms in the House of Representatives for Kentucky, has been a frequent critic of Trump. And now, Hegseth has made a rare move to try to influence the upcoming race...
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President Donald Trump's free eight-hour Rededicate 250 prayer event held at the National Mall in D.C. Sunday drew a notably sparse crowd, with Reuters photos capturing numerous empty seats. The White House-backed gathering was described as a "National Jubilee Of Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving," according to The Daily Beast. House Speaker Mike...
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President Donald Trump shared a bizarre image Sunday that depicts himself walking alongside an alien figure – and without explanation or additional context – sparking widespread speculation Monday that the president may be hinting at something to come."Something is coming because this level [of] trolling and distraction is off the hook,”...
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President Donald Trump on Monday concocted a cartoonishly unrealistic Iran surrender scenario to complain about media coverage of his war.The 79-year-old president had accused reporters of treason for their unfavorable coverage of the war he launched Feb. 28 and has imperiled the global economy after Iran shut down the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and...
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President Donald Trump is plotting yet another overhaul of the White House grounds — this time digging up the storied South Lawn to install a permanent helipad, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Sunday night.The helipad would mark the latest in a dizzying string of renovations Trump has imposed on the people's house since...
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A Republican congressman was accused of trying to bait his estranged wife's attorney into a fight earlier this month during a courthouse confrontation.Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is embroiled in a bitter divorce proceeding, and ex-wife Emily Moreno's legal team alleged that he approached her attorney Andrew Zashin following a May 7 pretrial hearing as...
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A Republican Minnesota state Senate candidate who was endorsed by GOP leaders was arrested and charged with domestic assault in 2009 after his former fiancée told authorities he had slammed a car door on her legs and strangled her until she lost consciousness, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported on Monday.Court filings show that Aaron Brutger was...
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Desperate to get a handle on rising property insurance costs driven by natural disasters, some state lawmakers are opening up a new line of attack in the effort to force oil companies to bear the cost of climate change effects.In three states, Democratic lawmakers introduced bills this session that would allow insurance companies or state attorneys...
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The First Amendment explicitly prohibits Congress from establishing an official state religion – a cornerstone of what Thomas Jefferson called the "wall of separation between church and state" – and yet on Sunday, Trump appeared to take direct aim at that wall, seeking to "blow it to bits," Zeteo's Martin Pengelly argued in an analysis...
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) thought he had a slam dunk. He posted a photo collage of the only four Black Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and declared, "This is NOT the party of Jim Crow." There's just one problem: every single one of them is leaving. Reps. Wesley Hunt of Texas, John James of Michigan, Byron Donalds of Florida, and...
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This story was originally published by CalMatters.Last year, California lawmakers backed off on a plan to do something about surveillance pricing, the practice of using someone's personal information to determine what they pay.This year — with voters across the country facing rising inflation and an affordability crisis — lawmakers in...
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A former MAGA congresswoman slammed Vice President JD Vance for his public criticism of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).Massie is fighting for his political life in Tuesday's historically expensive Republican primary against President Donald Trump-endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein, and Vance criticized the Kentucky congressman as disloyal to the GOP."It's...
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A federal agency faced criticism for sharing an explicitly Christian social media post.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted a Bible verse Sunday afternoon as thousands gathered on the National Mall for an evangelical-style worship service called "Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving" and endorsed by...
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President Donald Trump sparked concern among onlookers Sunday night into Monday morning after sharing what appears to be an image created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) depicting him launching a "nuclear strike.”Trump has shared controversial images that appear to have been created with GenAI in the past, including last year when...
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A new CBS News poll finds seven in 10 Americans say they're frustrated about President Trump's approach to the economy. Two-thirds of Americans think the president's policies are making it worse and 77% say incomes aren't keeping up with inflation. Ed O'Keefe reports.
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U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has fundamentally transformed the role of the nation's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, according to a longtime court correspondent, abandoning the traditional norms of the office to embrace a confrontational, MAGA-aligned advocacy style that has proven remarkably effective with the court's conservative...
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Holding an American flag attached to a microphone, Democrat Lexy Doherty tells her social media followers that flipping the House seat in Georgia's 10th congressional district is within reach. "You can help me flip a seat from a MAGA Republican by boosting this video,” Doherty says to her TikTok followers."If this district swings in 2026 as much...
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President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of suspending federal taxes on gasoline in an effort to combat skyrocketing gas prices sparked by his unpopular war against Iran, but CNN's Matt Egan, looking at a new analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, broke down on Monday exactly why the president's idea was nothing more than a...
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The Justice Department (DOJ) faced heavy scrutiny after its botched release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files earlier this year, largely for failing to properly redact victim-identifying information – but on Sunday, veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez flagged one redaction in particular that suggested, she argued, something more troubling...
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President Donald Trump's free, day-long event to "rededicate" America to God drew a notably sparse crowd at the National Mall on Sunday — with a recycled video message from the president himself airing to rows of empty seats, the Daily Beast reported.The eight-hour Rededicate 250 gathering, billed as a "National Jubilee Of Prayer, Praise and...
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President Donald Trump, now approaching his 80th birthday, is displaying behavioral changes that have raised questions about his fitness for office, even as his White House dismisses mounting concerns about his age and mental acuity.Unlike former President Joe Biden, whose physical decline became visibly apparent as he aged, Trump hasn't faced the...
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MS NOW's Joe Scarborough wondered if President Donald Trump's advanced age explained his increasingly erratic policies.The president will turn 80 years old next month, the "Morning Joe" host said reacting to a newly published piece in The Atlantic by co-host Jonathan Lemire that highlighted growing concerns about Trump's age-related decline."Any...
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A coalition of more than 60 conservative allies is calling on President Donald Trump to require mandatory testing and government approval of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems before they reach the public.The letter, organized by Humans First — a conservative group that advocates for technology serving people rather than replacing...
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While President Donald Trump has frequently quarreled with members of his own party, he's increasingly lashed out at GOP lawmakers known as being among his strongest supporters, and to such an extent that prominent Democratic strategist Mike Nellis was left stunned Sunday night over what he called the president's "crash out.”Among Trump's biggest...
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And now, he's paving the way for you and me and all taxpayers to foot the bill for the enemies of democracy.You know how the "president” filed that lawsuit in January seeking $10 billion in damages from the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department for the purported damage inflicted by his tax returns getting leaked? Well, as ABC News...
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