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Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, defunding the organizations, expired.The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025, but, due...
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The Supreme Court surprised a legal expert last week by rejecting an application from one of President Donald Trump's sordid allies. Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who has faced extensive allegations of sexual misconduct, appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate a more than $8 million judgment he was awarded from...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, got a quick history lesson on Sunday after he made what some described as an "embarrassing" claim about an old English pub. DeSantis reshared a post on X from an account named "No Context Brits" that contained a picture of The Old Ferry Boat Inn, a pub in Hollywell that was allegedly established in the year...
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President Donald Trump's top health care chief revealed during a recent Fox News interview that he apparently doesn't know how health insurance works, according to one political analyst. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, discussed his efforts to combat alleged health care fraud...
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Hunter Biden stunned political analysts on Sunday with a scorched-earth rant about the Trump family corruption. Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trumps had made more than $2.4 billion during their first year in office, a figure that shocked ethics experts. The Trump family is also positioned to reap financial windfalls from a...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to unveil the winner of Canada's submarine competition before heading to the NATO summit, selecting either Germany's TKMS or South Korea's Hanwha Ocean. The decision will reshape Canada's naval future, industrial strategy and defence partnerships while committing Ottawa to a program worth more than $100...
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At least one political analyst left President Donald Trump's July 4 celebration feeling a little let down. Trump had spent months ginning up a story that his July 4 bash would be the biggest in American history. However, the event was marred by extreme heat, long lines, and a weather delay, which caused many people to leave the National Mall before...
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A legal expert was flabbergasted by a recent ruling handed down against the Trump administration, calling it a "high-stakes judicial intervention" that could preserve many Americans' right to vote. Last week, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration's attempt to choke off mail-in...
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President Donald Trump reportedly intervened in the FIFA World Cup on behalf of Team USA in a way that had political analysts and sports fans holding their sides. Team USA is scheduled to play in a high-stakes match against Belgium on Monday night, one where the Americans could advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002. Initially,...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt scrambled Sunday to defend her recent comments attacking young Americans for being "raised with silver spoons in their mouths” and "getting everything handed to them,” but in doing so, only exacerbated MAGA's outrage.Speaking with Fox News' Jesse Watters last week, Leavitt claimed that young...
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U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's attempts to blame a sea of reflecting pool troubles on D.C. vandals instead of D.C. incompetence left one Republican sputtering. Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, took to X Sunday afternoon to share his views on a tense CNN interview that saw Burgum snapping at anchor Dana...
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A U.S. Senator faced accusations Sunday that he'd lost his grip on reality after he repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Democrats were responsible for a white supremacist march in Washington D.C. on Independence Day.Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) took to X to share numerous posts of the Patriot Front members, who wore white masks and carried...
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The Supreme Court may have granted President Donald Trump an unprecedented form of immunity for official acts, but that won't shield him from a potential flurry of lawsuits from nearly a million people, former State Department official Richard Stengel argued Sunday."There's been corruption of some types in the Oval Office before, but the scale of...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took to social media to defend a controversial interview she gave to Fox News that spurred an immediate backlash. Leavitt, 28, blamed "bad faith actors" she said took her comments on Jesse Watters Primetime on Thursday "out of context" when they reported she accused fellow members of her generation of...
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President Donald Trump warned of the end of the Republican Party Sunday in a frantic social media post after recently learning of a new plan hatched by Democratic lawmakers.Last month, Politico obtained a resolution drafted by a number of progressive Democratic House members that called for a major overhaul to the Supreme Court, including the...
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A GOP lawmaker and close ally to President Donald Trump took to Fox News Sunday to issue House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a blistering condemnation after the House GOP leader, again, sent lawmakers home on recess after facing pushback from his own party.Johnson currently holds the record for the most failed special rule votes as leader of the...
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President Donald Trump's MAGA base is furious that they faced storms, extreme heat, shoving crowds and armed guards as their leader appeared to sleep, according to a new report. The Daily Beast analysis of Trump's July 4 fireworks display found a community in an uproar and an 80-year-old president in apparent denial. "Best fireworks show, EVER!”...
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As President Donald Trump's controversial voter identification bill continues to stall in the Senate, the president took to social media Sunday to promote an op-ed from a conservative outlet hammering GOP leadership for "sloth."Trump's proposed bill, the SAVE Act, would require all Americans to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote, a...
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President Donald Trump's record-breaking fireworks show, which kicked off just before midnight Saturday, prompted concern among weather officials, who on Sunday issued an air quality alert citing 'residual holiday firework smoke' as a contributing factor, Fox 5 reported."Hazardous firework-induced smog continues to hover over Washington D.C. this...
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A member of President Donald Trump's cabinet lost his cool in front of hundreds of thousands of CNN viewers Sunday morning when faced with tough questions from anchor Dana Bash. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum snapped at Bash as she questioned him about a sensitive issue for the president — his failed $14 million effort to turn the Lincoln...
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Mount Vernon, the home of our nation's first president, is the most-visited historic house in the U.S. But what do Americans visiting Mount Vernon – on the occasion of our country's 250th anniversary – think about what George Washington represents? And today, would the Founding Father recognize the nation he helped create? "Sunday Morning"...
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The Supreme Court has radically expanded President Donald Trump's executive power, but its latest ruling may have inadvertently handed Democrats and progressives a powerful weapon against the GOP, legal columnist Jason Willick argued in a Sunday op-ed.That ruling was the court's decision last week in Trump v. Slaughter, which significantly expanded...
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MAGA millionaire Don Huffines' race for Texas comptroller got easier last week after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to the newly vacant post and left one famed journalist stunned. Why? Huffines has ties to an infamous property once owned by Jeffrey Epstein.Huffines was exposed in February after his wife was revealed to have been the...
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A quietly released new study from Johns Hopkins reveals the stunning reason many Americans choose to throw their support behind President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, according to a new report. Salon writer Mike Lofgren on Sunday published a thorough analysis of the Agora Institute study he argues directly undermines the liberal political...
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The team at MS NOW's "The Weekend” was sent into 'delirious' laughter Sunday morning after the network played a video montage of President Donald Trump touting his administration's "fair” system of justice and supposed end to political prosecutions.The montage was queued to provide context on a recent interview of former special counsel Jack...
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With Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) health status still unclear after his latest medical incident, multiple journalists have offered a stunning theory for why his office and fellow Republicans have remained largely silent.McConnell was rushed to the hospital in mid-June for an undisclosed medical reason, with his spokesperson David Popp issuing a...
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President Donald Trump drew scorn from conservatives and liberals alike for a July 4 stumble that threw his patriotism, and his education, into question. Trump addressed the nation on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with stern, and inaccurate, words for his opponents."And as our Declaration of Independence...
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Hundreds of people died last month across Europe from the heat; they're a symptom of a larger problem that governments around the world have failed to address — that goes far beyond simply global warming — and that the Trump regime is making far worse.Its foundation is one of the most troubling aspects of human nature called predation: while...
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A New York Times columnist on Sunday named the one man he believes could take on Donald Trump and come out on top. There's just one problem.The 22nd Amendment. "I don't want to see the 22nd Amendment repealed," wrote Ezra Klein. "But I'll admit to some frustration that it has denied us the campaign America needed: a direct contest between Barack...
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Fox News captured a surreal moment Saturday night after broadcasting live footage of President Donald Trump watching himself watch the same Fox News broadcast, and critics were quick to note the absurdity of the bizarre visual loop."The last decade in a nutshell,” noted Nick Mark, a critical care doctor and podcast host, responding to a...
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A judge has slapped down President Donald Trump's latest attempt to dodge the $5.8 million payment a New York court ruled is owed to writer E. Jean Carroll, court records show.New York federal court judge Lewis Kaplan on Saturday denied Trump's motion to stall in Carroll's sex abuse case and ordered the cash to be paid on Tuesday, according to...
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MAGA is raging about Trump "losing” after the Supreme Court voted to strike down his racist and xenophobic birthright citizenship ban. They're also big mad at Melania Trump for not hating transgender women nearly as much as they do. The Red Hat Death Squad is so in love with their hate, and they hate it whenever they're forced to face the truths...
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Today, we're bringing you a special bonus episode from our colleagues at WELT. Originally released in German, Ernstfall is now available in English. What if Russia attacked NATO? How would Germany respond? And where are our weaknesses? We wanted answers. In a wargame, we simulate an attack on NATO's eastern flank. Politicians, former military...
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A surreal moment unfolded on Fox News Saturday when a panel of hosts spent roughly a minute begging President Donald Trump to wave – only for cameras to catch him standing near-motionless, apparently fixated on the same broadcast playing on a television in front of him.Recording from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Fox News panel...
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Paul Pelosi, the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), could face criminal charges over a vehicle incident that occurred Friday in Northern California, The New York Times reported Saturday.According to a news release from the Napa County Sheriff's Office, Mr. Pelosi is under investigation as the driver of a vehicle that struck a parked vehicle...
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As thousands of Great American State Fair attendees "wander the streets” of Washington, D.C. in an apparent attempt to wait out severe weather, a tense exchange occurred that involved a man wearing "a patriotic t-shirt” calling for another's deportation, The New York Times reported Saturday.Fair attendees were ordered Saturday evening to...
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A number of journalists reporting on the ground at the Great American State Fair have shared video of chaotic scenes unfolding after an evacuation order was issued due to severe weather, chaos sparked by "several hundred” attendees who refused to leave the National Mall."Look, look, it's a stampede, they're jumping over the things, people are...
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Following the severe weather evacuations at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump remained defiant and vowed to continue festivities – which include a massive fireworks show and a speech by Trump – even if it means waiting until "2 o'clock in the morning.”"We will wait it out, I don't care if it's 2:00...
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A medical expert issued a bleak assessment regarding the health of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who was recently discovered unconscious at his Washington home and rushed to the hospital."Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for almost three weeks at this point with very little information that has come out about his condition,” said Hilary...
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Thousands of Great American State Fair attendees were ordered to evacuate the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Saturday amid a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but according to The New York Times, hundreds are refusing to follow orders and creating a "chaotic scene.”"Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents,” wrote the Times' Aishvarya...
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Fox News host Mark Levin disturbed onlookers Saturday after expressing disappointment that the Trump administration hadn't authorized a strike on funeral proceedings for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes back in late February."Yesterday, the enemy gathered [en masse] all in one place,” Levin, a close ally...
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On America's 250th anniversary Saturday, The Atlantic republished a decade-old essay that delivered a blistering rebuke of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump – one that was written by now-Vice President JD Vance.Atlantic writer Peter Wehner revisited the July 4, 2016 column Vance wrote just after the release of his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."...
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As dozens of masked men from the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched in the nation's capital Saturday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham floated a theory in an apparent attempt to distance the GOP from the neo-fascist march, a theory that left one former Republican lawmaker floored.On Saturday afternoon, journalist and writer Richie McGinniss...
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Donald Trump's assault on the nation's founding democratic promise has handed the political left a perfect opportunity to reclaim its legacy, argued historian Harvey Kaye in an analysis published in Zeteo on Saturday.Kaye, professor emeritus of democracy and justice studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, wrote that the nation is marking...
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As soaring temperatures continue to rock President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., several state exhibits at the event were forced to shut down Saturday, leaving the pro-Trump network Newsmax wondering whether exhibits had essentially become "hotboxes.”"Looking at the state displays... we're assuming there's no...
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Former special counsel Jack Smith's refusal to answer questions about FBI Director Kash Patel during his first television interview since resigning is raising red flags, journalist Kaitlyn Pierce, who writes under the name "Kait Justice,” argued in an analysis published Saturday.Smith sat down with MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on July 2 for his first...
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A Trump biographer suggested that Trump is sabotaging his own party ahead of the midterms for a selfish reason.On an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Michael Wolff said that he believes Trump's strategy is to lay the groundwork for the Republicans to take the blame for losing the midterms, and his goal is to prove that the party needs him."You...
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Hundreds of members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front descended on Washington DC Saturday morning as the nation's capital prepared to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.Members of the group, wearing masks and carrying Confederate and US flags, rode the DC metro and marched around parts of Capitol Hill...
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President Donald Trump's record-breaking fireworks show slated for Saturday night has a growing number of critics worried about the safety of Washington, D.C. residents, with one commentator offering a particularly disturbing prediction as to how the event could take a turn for the worse.Trump announced the fireworks show in June, and proudly...
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A presidential historian slammed Trump's Independence Day speech as nothing more than "Joe McCarthy Red Scare idiocy."During an appearance on MS NOW on Saturday, Doug Brinkley tore into the speech that Trump gave in front of Mount Rushmore to kick off the Independence Day weekend. In particular, Brinkley found it "deeply offensive" that Trump would...
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Fears are mounting over President Donald Trump's massive Independence Day fireworks display for one simple reason. His administration "couldn't even paint a pool blue."That's the criticism from MS NOW editor Ryan Teague Beckworth in an opinion piece detailing his pending dread of a 40-minute pyrotechnics "stunt" slated for 11 p.m. in Washington...
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Online critics slammed top White House aide Stephen Miller after he implied President Donald Trump's second term was an act of God. Miller praised the Trump presidency in a Saturday post on X. "It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President...
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The wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did something "bizarre" three days after he was hospitalized for a possible heart attack, according to a new report. Elaine Chao, Transportation secretary during Trump's first administration and McConnell's wife since 1993, left the country, the Daily Beast reported Saturday.Chao flew to Beijing to discuss...
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A Justice department whistleblower on Saturday tore into President Donald Trump for what she described as a "staggering" decision to give a fraudster a "second chance."During an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer argued that Trump's pardons were "fundamentally different" from others made in the past. "He has...
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Footage of hundreds of masked men storming Washington, D.C., with Confederate flags spurred an outcry online Saturday.An estimated 400 masked men, whom Reuters reported were with the right-wing extremist group Patriot Front, marching into D.C. on July 4 with Confederate flags, online video shows. On X, the video spurred outrage. Former GOP...
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A fired Federal Trade Commission official said Saturday that a recent Supreme Court ruling favoring President Donald Trump will leave billionaires "running wild."During an appearance on MS NOW, Rebecca Slaughter talked about her Supreme Court case against Trump in which she and another former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, both Democratic...
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Hundreds of Confederate flag-bearing men marched into Washington, D.C. on July 4th, according to multiple reports. In a post on X, journalist Mitchell Miller, a reporter for WTOP News, shared a video of what he described as "a group of masked men gathered at Union Station" with Confederate flags and calls for "reclaiming the country and getting rid...
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Almost 1 million people lost more than $3.8 billion investing in President Donald Trump's memecoin, the New York Times reported Saturday. Those are the numbers from the cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen, which just issued its report on Trump memecoin losses through the end of June, according to the report. "The odds were always in his favor,"...
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President Donald Trump received a stark warning from a political analyst Saturday morning. Commentator Molly Jong-Fast took to X on Independence Day to share a less-than flattering editorial on the Trump family from a publication that typically sings their praises. "When you've lost the New York Post," Jong-Fast tweeted. The editorial in question...
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A New York Times editorial published on Independence Day ripped into Donald Trump by drawing a stark comparison between the president and the first man to hold his current office, George Washington. Maureen Dowd spoke with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the Lin-Manuel Miranda...
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The Trump Justice Department stumbled in an Jeffrey Epstein files case with an "embarrassing" excuse flagged by a legal expert on Saturday.In a recent episode of the Legal AF podcast, analyst Michael Popok discussed the DOJ's response to an injunction requiring it to translate foreign-language documents in the Epstein files. The injunction stems...
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A terrified right-winger took to social media on the Fourth of July to warn Americans about what he described as a very serious threat to the nation: a demon.John Daniel Davidson, author of the book "Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come," alerted his fellow citizens about artificial intelligence on X shortly after...
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A blue-state attorney general sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's next moves after a court loss set back his immigration plans.During an appearance on MS NOW, California Attorney General Rob Bonta reacted to right-wing ideas for how to prevent immigrants from giving birth in the United States and warned that Trump could act on some of...
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A conservative former judge warned Americans that they're facing a stark and important choice right now.In a July 4 appearance on MS NOW, ex-judge Michael Luttig said Trump is forcing Americans to decide what kind of country they want for the next 250 years. Trump "could not have presented the choice any more starkly," Luttig added."As we celebrate...
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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to dodge the $5.8 million payment a New York court ruled he owes E. Jean Carroll was swiftly slapped down Friday as "yet another play for time," court records show. Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who represented Carroll in her sex abuse case against Trump before his return to office, filed a swift rebuttal to...
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Hooray, we're free! Screw you, England!Now what?When Benjamin Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention and said we'd been given "a republic, if you can keep it," is there any doubt he was talking about 2026 America?Taking stock of where we are—on our nation's 250th birthday—we're not exactly knocking it out of the park.The Supreme...
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President Donald Trump faced scornful ridicule Friday night over his perceived jealousy of Taylor Swift's celebrity.The White House posted on X an AI photo of Madison Square Garden signs apparently celebrating Trump. The post went live just ten minutes after pink signs outside the arena announced Swift and Travis Kelce were "JUST&T...
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President Donald Trump faced scornful ridicule Friday night over his perceived jealousy of Taylor Swift's celebrity.The White House posted on X an AI photo of Madison Square Garden signs apparently celebrating Trump. The post went live just ten minutes after pink signs outside the arena announced Swift and Travis Kelce were "JUST&T...
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President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of the nation he leads by blasting out insulting memes at about 2 a.m.Trump took to Truth Social at 2:11 a.m. precisely to make sure American citizens knew for certain he thinks Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) looks like Pee-wee Herman.The president returned at 2:19 a.m. to remind the nation he...
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A former beauty queen who says Donald Trump groped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trump helped funnel young women into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.Beatrice Keul, 55, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, told the Daily Beast's new Punch Up Substack that she believes Ivana...
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America turns 250 this year. If you were around for the bicentennial in 1976 you probably remember it like I do. I was an 11 year-old preteen obsessed with presidents but not yet old enough to understand the experiment called democracy I was celebrating.I remember red, white and blue everywhere. In our neighborhood, every porch or window had a...
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