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Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters he was offering them a "controversial statement."Trump was answering questions from reporters, when he was asked if the football team formerly known as the Washington Redskins should change its name back from Commanders."You want me to make a controversial statement?" Trump asked. "I would." He said that he...
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Donald Trump hit his former associate, world's richest man Elon Musk, with a stinging rebuke on Sunday.Trump's comments come after Musk, who split with Trump publicly over the so-called "big, beautiful" bill, announced he was launching a third political party in a move that could harm the GOP.Trump took to his own social media site, Truth Social,...
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Republican lawmakers helped Donald Trump secure a win on his so-called "big, beautiful bill," and now they're facing the consequences, according to a new report.Politico on Sunday published a piece called, "Republicans just cut Medicaid. Will it cost them control of Congress?" in which the authors argue, "Republicans' vote to cut health care...
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Donald Trump was just hit with the worst news he could imagine, and his response will be "ferocious," according to an ex-insider.Lev Parnas, a former insider of the Trump administration who said he "saw how he thinks" and "how he operates," recently called out the president's purported ulterior motives in connection with the Russian war on...
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People are on "pins and needles" as they await news in Texas after severe flooding killed dozens, and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem is making things worse, according to one TV journalist. KSAT Nightbeat anchor Stephania Jimenez launched into an epic rant against Noem and other federal officials from both parties, whom she...
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Rosie O'Donnell faced backlash from conservatives after she blamed President Donald Trump for Texas flood deaths.In a Sunday post on TikTok, O'Donnell blasted Trump for cutting early warning systems before the floods killed over 60 people."When the president guts all of the early warning systems and the weather forecast abilities of the government,...
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In light of Donald Trump's contentious Oval Office meetings with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, foreign leaders and diplomats are looking for a roadmap for how to deal with Donald Trump when they meet with him privately and before the cameras.According to a report from CNN, second-term Trump is far...
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) argued that "people don't feel" climate change after historic flooding left more than 50 people dead in Texas.During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile told Christie that Republicans only made short-term gains by killing climate change initiatives with President Donald...
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A Georgia Republican seeking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026 is doubling down on her assertion that the flash flood that has claimed over sixty lives in Kerr County, Texas was "fake" by promoting a new conspiracy involving $175 million land theft..On Saturday, Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor of Georgia in 2022 with a...
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) lashed out at Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) after he noted that cuts to agencies like the National Weather Service could leave communities unprepared for catastrophic events.In a Sunday morning interview, Castro reflected on recent flooding in Texas that left more than 70 people dead."When you have flash flooding, you know...
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Appearing on MSNBC to talk about Republican party's budget bill that made it to Donald Trump's desk on July 4th for a signing ceremony, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) laughed at the editors of the Wall Street Journal for "one of the dumbest editorials I've ever seen in my life" which happened to defend the GOP.Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Smith called...
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Dalton Rice, the city manager of Kerrville, was called out by a reporter after he fled from a press conference about the deadly floods in Texas.On Sunday, officials in Kerrville offered scant details about the flooding that left more than 50 people dead. Rice said he was ending the press conference after the second question."One of the questions...
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White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett dismissed experts' dire predictions about President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill by insisting that "truth" and "science" were not the same as democracy."There's a consensus that this bill adds tremendously to the deficit. I know that you are so familiar with these numbers," CBS host...
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Outside interest groups hoping to influence Donald Trump are implementing a new strategy in the hopes that it will work where lobbying has failed, reports the Wall Street Journal.And it is not limited to outside groups, but also government agencies.Cognizant that the president is an avid consumer of anything broadcast on television and that he has...
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Fox News pundit Lucy Caldwell slammed the network for using a segment on the Republican budget bill "to carry water for Donald Trump."During a Sunday panel discussion, Fox News host Howard Kurtz noted that Trump had threatened to deport former DOGE administrator Elon Musk after the two billionaires clashed over the so-called One Big Beautiful...
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In a column lauding Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for following his conscience instead of the demands of Donald Trump and the Senate GOP leadership, longtime conservative writer Kathleen Parker had a few things to say about the GOP lawmakers who are fond of calling themselves "Christians."Singling out the putative Christian lawmakers who voted to...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) snapped at Fox News host Shannon Bream after she told him that President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill was a net negative for Americans."Democrats are not fans," Bream said of the legislation. "17 million Americans will lose healthcare, over five million will lose food assistance, and millions...
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Two days after Donald Trump signed a GOP-crafted budget bill that rewards the rich and punishes the poor, CNN's Dana Bash put Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the spot over a Donald Trump promise to not tamper with Medicaid which the bill does.During his appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," where Bessent told the host that the president "is...
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he had "conflicting feelings" because some people lived after experiencing deadly floods in Texas over the weekend.In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Cornyn reacted to the floods that killed more than 50 people, including campers enjoying the holiday weekend."It's a very sad time, but it's also a time when 850-plus...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that President Donald Trump's tariffs resulted in "price increases."During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Shannon Bream told the Trump official that "a JPMorgan Chase Institute analysis finds a critical group of U.S. employers would face a direct cost of $82.3 billion from President Donald Trump's...
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Edward D. Vargas, Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University; Jason L. Morín, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Northridge; Loren Collingwood, Associate Professor of political science, University of New Mexico.Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a series...
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On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-hosts Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Capehart laughed at the predicament Donald Trump has put himself in as his tariff deadline looms on Tuesday and the 200 deals he claimed he had in the bag are nowhere to be found.Host Capehart began, "Some in the administration claimed they would make 90 deals in 90...
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) argued that the government should be cut in response to the deadly flooding in Texas over the weekend.In a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Lisa Boothe asked Roy if there was "blame to be assigned" for the deaths of more than 50 people."Yeah, I mean, in classic Washington, D.C. fashion, everybody wants to politicize...
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Over two years, Rebecca Atkins filed more than 250 job applications, and felt like every one was going into a gaping chasm -- one opened by the highest unemployment rate for recent college graduates in the United States in more than a decade."It was extremely dispiriting," said the 25-year-old, who graduated in 2022 with a degree in law and justice...
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The husband of a Canadian national who has been living in the U.S. since she was a child is furious with Donald Trump's administration for arresting his wife on immigration charges while admitting he voted for the current president because he "wanted change."According to a report from the Guardian, self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera of...
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Concentration camps are often compared to prisons, but that comparison is inaccurate. In the United States, inmates arrive in penitentiaries only after they have been convicted of serious crimes, under processes constrained by the US Constitution. Starting with probable cause (which brown skin is not); then arrest (you have the right to remain...
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Elon Musk on Saturday announced his plan to create a new political party, and he got some unlikely offers from his enemies.Musk worked hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump's administration in his capacity as the mastermind of DOGE, a purported cost-cutting program. That relationship ultimately blew up, and now Musk has vowed to create his own...
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There is agreement among Democrats that the party had a problem on immigration and border security in the 2024 election, but there's no consensus on how to fix it. Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, describes how the party got here.
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As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson spoke with documentarian Ken Burns about his new film on the American Revolution and the importance of telling the story of American history.
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Donald Trump's megabill is "astonishing" in how it will target rural and red state voters, according to the mayor of Kansas City Saturday.Mayor Quinton Lucas appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the potential impacts of the so-called "big, beautiful" bill, which the president recently signed into law.According to Lucas, the measure is...
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Donald Trump already has a plan in place to "rig" the next election, according to a former associate who says he did the president's "dirty work."Lev Parnas, who worked with Trump and those close to him on issues related to Ukraine during the president's first term, wrote a piece on Substack Saturday called, "Trump's Plan to Rig the Next Election...
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A Republican lawmaker on Saturday said his daughters have safely returned home after being evacuated from a deadly flood zone in Texas, where about 30 people have lost their lives.President Donald Trump's administration has faced some blame in the wake of the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 30 deaths....
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Elon Musk on Saturday announced the formation of a new political party, which many saw as a move that could substantially hurt the Republican party.The richest man in the world announced over the weekend that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike. Tech CEO Elon Musk had teased several times the...
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President Trump celebrated the Fourth of July with a White House military jet flyover and by signing his massive, controversial budget bill into law. The legislation narrowly passed the House on Thursday, 218-214, with two Republicans opposing it.
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More people will die in Ukraine, and that will be President Donald Trump's fault, according to a former ambassador to Russia.Michael McFaul, the former United States Ambassador to Russia under President Obama, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Trump's recent steps regarding Russia's onslaught on Ukraine.Contradicting the president, McFaul...
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Donald Trump and the media insist on one version of events, but a former Trump associate insists there's more to the story.Trump recently completed a phone call with Putin, which the media has reported led to no progress in halting the war on Ukraine. A follow-up call with Ukraine's leader was reported as having featured Trump offering some...
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The richest man in the world officially announced on Saturday that he has officially formed a new political party to challenge Republicans and Democrats alike.Tech CEO Elon Musk has teased several times the creation of a new party, even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea. Musk had said on the Fourth of July holiday,...
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U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the wake of a devastating fatal flooding tragedy in Texas introduced a bill that is being seen as big win for conspiracy theorists.Donald Trump's administration has faced some blame in the wake of the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 27 deaths.Without...
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Donald Trump's administration is picking up some of the blame for recent deaths from flooding in Texas.Trump's team already faced a fact check in connection with the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 27 deaths.Now, the Daily Beast is reporting that "officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather...
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A Georgia woman seeking a Republican nomination to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives is receiving an avalanche of criticism for responding to the tragic loss of life in Texas due to a flash flood as "fake."Kandiss Taylor, a MAGA adherent who recently ran to be Georgia's governor, took to X on Saturday and wrote, "Fake...
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The Supreme Court ruled last week that Trump can continue to break the law — both US and international law — by having his secret police agents snatch people off American streets, "disappear” them into immigration prisons, then deport them to foreign concentration camps.Lacking national injunctions, this cruel and inhumane process can now...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's attempt on X to promote Donald Trump's response to the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 27 deaths earned her a response from Elon Musk's "Grok" chatbot.Saturday morning, Trump finally got around to acknowledging the tragedy, with the president or one of his...
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Rescuers were on Saturday searching for more than 20 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed 24 people -- with more rain on the way."At this point we're at about 24 fatalities," Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told an evening press conference on Friday, as...
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A complaint by far-right conservative Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) about his budget vote had the entire panel on MSNBC's "The Weekend," laughing on Saturday morning.Co-host Jonathan Capehart provided the set-up by remarking, "This is too rich," before running audio of a bitter quote from Van Orden about his upcoming budget vote when he snapped,...
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In an extraordinarily long and comprehensive editorial from the New York Times, the editors raised the red flag that Donald Trump's FBI is no longer up to the task of defending the interests of the U.S.Basing their observations on interviews with former FBI officials, the editors warned right from the start, "Mr. Trump's playbook for the F.B.I. is...
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Donald Trump's twin obsessions of wanting to be center stage all the time combined with his desire to be linked to popular sporting events may put him on a collision course with his most rabid MAGA supporters.That is according to Politico which is reporting that the Trump administration is bending over backwards to accommodate the 2026 World Cup...
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As treacherous as he is, you cannot entirely blame Donald Trump for this one.Last Oct. 7, CBS's 60 Minutes aired a relatively uneventful interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, who of course was Trump's presidential opponent. Nothing special — or so it seemed.Trump's team noticed that a Harris answer aired on 60 Minutes — about the...
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During a review of how the Republican Party will defend cuts to Medicaid in the budget bill that Donald Trump signed on the 4th of July, questions were raised about how aware the president is over what is transpiring.Add to that, the official White House statement on the fate of Medicaid contained a glaring omission as one MSNBC host pointed out on...
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now in a bitter back-and-forth with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, after the world's richest man announced his intent to follow through on his plan to launch a new third party to compete with Republicans.According to a Friday report in the Daily Beast, Bannon tore into Musk over his proposed...
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According to a White House insider who is deeply involved in talks with U.S. trading partners, Donald Trump's tariff threats are not to be taken seriously because they are just a "theatrical show" being put on by the attention-obsessed president.According to a report from Politico, as Trump's 90-day window on getting trade deals done before onerous...
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Republicans in Congress have just passed Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill.” Widely dubbed the cruelest piece of legislation in US history since the Civil War, it will:Remove over $1 trillion from Medicaid, which will leave 12 to 14 million Americans without health careAdjust Medicaid payments so most rural hospitals will have to closeSlash food...
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On multiple occasions, President Donald Trump has floated the idea of deporting naturalized U.S. citizens, including during a recent visit to a Florida detention camp for immigrants. But that policy could end up being used against his own family.That's according to former MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid, who recently interviewed Rep. Pramila Jayapal...
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Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris came under fire from Donald Trump's allies on Friday, after a simple holiday comment.Harris, who lost to Trump in 2024, took to X on the Fourth of July holiday to write, "This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect.""Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get...
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President Donald Trump's administration withholding federal money Congress appropriated to blue states can present a unique opportunity for Democratic-controlled state governments, according to two Democratic state legislators from blue states.In a Friday segment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David...
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Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday gave Donald Trump the gavel used to pass the Republicans' so-called "big, beautiful" spending megabill, resulting in mockery.After Trump signed into law the package, which includes Medicaid spending cuts, Johnson said, "This is the gavel we used to enact the big, beautiful bill, and I want you to have that," the GOP...
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One career prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) who worked on cases involving defendants who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was recently fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Before leaving his position, the prosecutor wrote a scathing letter that fired several parting shots at President Donald Trump's administration.NBC...
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Judge Randolph Moss has issued an emergency ruling deciding to transfer the case involving the deportation of eight men to war-torn South Sudan. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a previous decision saying that the U.S. could deport migrants to third-party countries. President Donald Trump seeks to deport the men, who are not from South Sudan, to a...
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Donald Trump has signed into law the so-called "big, beautiful" spending bill that cuts Medicaid and other services.Chris Cameron of the New York Times reported, "President Trump signed his signature policy bill at a Fourth of July celebration event at the White House.""Accompanied by a flyover of B2 bombers, the warplanes used in the recent...
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A firefighter is one of multiple people injured in an "accidental detonation" of fireworks in Utah on the Fourth of July, according to a report.Fox 13 reported Friday, "West Wendover officials confirm multiple people were injured, including a firefighter, after fireworks were accidentally detonated Friday morning."The report continues:"According to...
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Donald Trump just precipitated a "brutal" and deadly attack abroad, according to the president's former "trusted operative" Friday.Lev Parnas, a former insider of the Trump administration who said he "saw how he thinks" and "how he operates," published an article on Independence Day called, "BREAKING: Putin Bombs Kyiv After Trump Call."Parnas began...
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When it comes to President Donald Trump, the "worst is yet to come," according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.Political strategist Steve Schmidt on Friday published an article called "Let us remember who we are" on Substack, in which he argues that "Trump's cause is the antithesis of...
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A frequent target of Donald Trump on Independence Day highlighted a worrying observation about MAGA.Former Republican lawmaker Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans who served on the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, published a piece on Substack called, "No Kings: What the Fourth of July Really...
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If we think about the economic effects of President Donald Trumps big taxing and spending and domestic policy bill, we can roughly sum it up in one line. It goes something like this: We will make many big tax cuts permanent and pay for those tax cuts by cutting Medicaid and a few other things and also...by borrowing money. A lot of money. Even more...
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Reflecting on a disappointing jobs report this week that was a setback for Donald Trump's administration, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that prospects don't look much better in the coming months.In a week of wins for the president in the courtroom and in the GOP-controlled Congress, the stunning job report was a black cloud that, according...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) is one of three Republicans who won districts where former Vice President Kamala Harris also won in 2024. Now he's being forced to defend cuts to Medicaid using political spin. Speaking to CNN's Dana Bash, Lawler tried to claim that there weren't going to be Medicaid cuts because the 2026 budget bill will only kick some...
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Donald Trump's decision to snipe at former President Joe Biden at what was supposed to be a non-partisan appearance at the Iowa State Fair earned him a potshot on Friday morning on MSNBC.According to MSNBC's Ali Vitali, Trump was not attending a MAGA rally when he told the crowd he "hates Democrats" and suggested "They hate America," when he lashed...
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While President Donald Trump was once predictable for world leaders, one international security expert explained that the persuasion-through-flattery method no longer appears to be working. This week, the Defense Department announced that it was withholding aid to Ukraine, claiming that providing the equipment could compromise U.S. readiness. NBC...
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Today I want to talk about the real meaning of patriotism.It's the exact opposite of the version peddled by Donald Trump and his white Christian nationalists — that the nation is losing its whiteness or its dominant religion, that too many foreigners are crossing our borders, that men are competing in women's sports or children are using school...
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A proposal by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on the speeding up the census for political purposes is likely going nowhere despite the enthusiastic backing of Donald Trump.According to a report from MSNBC, the controversial Georgia Republican took to social media and proposed accelerating the national census –– scheduled for 2030 –– by...
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Republican Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (TN) attempted to justify his support for the 2026 budget bill, which includes cuts to Medicaid, as ultimately benefiting his state. Speaking to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Fleischmann said that if Republicans can "grow the economy" with President Donald Trump's tax cuts, it can trickle down to the poor. "We have a...
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Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.CNN is reporting that the president's DOJ has been examining ways to expand the scope of a law that will allow them "to target a much broader...
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Fully aware that the conservative-leaning Supreme Court is going to extremes to hand Donald Trump multiple victories by use of the so-called "shadow docket," judges in the lower courts are fashioning some of their rulings to work around the nation's highest court.According to a report from Politico, the Supreme Court has been handcuffing the lower...
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With sweeping tariffs on friend and foe, US President Donald Trump has roiled financial markets and sparked a surge in economic uncertainty -- and tensions are mounting days before a fresh volley of higher duties are due to kick in.Here is a rundown of what Trump has implemented in his second presidency, with levies on dozens of economies set to...
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Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is warning that President Donald Trump could make the difference between whether a Democrat has a chance in the Texas Senate race. Writing Friday, Will pointed out that Trump only "carried Texas by 13 points," which is "less than his margin in 19 of the 31 states he won."He argued that Texas will...
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