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In letters sent to 14 countries, including Japan and South Korea, President Trump said they could face anywhere from a 25% to 40% tariffs. Meanwhile, the president is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Ed O'Keefe has the latest.
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This week on "Face the Nation," days after President Biden's disastrous debate performance, Democrats Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut join "Face the Nation," along with potential Republican vice-presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" erupted on Monday night after a GOP strategist tried to defend President Donald Trump's tariff policy. Earlier in the day, Trump announced new 25% tariffs against South Korea and Japan, two of America's largest trading partners. GOP strategist Brad Todd joined the panel to argue that the tariffs are...
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The Internal Revenue Service promulgated a set of new rules on Monday that allow churches to endorse and donate to political candidates, The New York Times reported on Monday. The new rules were created at a time when religion had slowly become a staple in American politics. President Donald Trump has surrounded himself with religious figures to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended temporary protections Monday for nationals from Nicaragua and Honduras, opening up roughly 76,000 people to deportations by early September.The move is the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to wind down legal statuses, such as Temporary Protected Status, amid...
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President Donald Trump's new fragrance line shouldn't be viewed as any other product release. Instead, it should be seen as a warning sign, according to a new op-ed on MSNBC.com. Trump's fragrance line, deftly named 'Victory 45-47,' is the president's latest business venture since he entered office for a second term. He has also launched a...
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President Donald Trump has staked much of the credibility of his "big, beautiful bill" of tax cuts on Kevin Hassett, a right-wing economist long hitched to Trump's movement who insists in the face of all evidence that hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts aren't actually Medicaid cuts, wrote Jonathan Chait in a searing analysis for The...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's decision to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on trade partners South Korea and Japan met swift condemnation from the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board. The board penned an op-ed on Monday that argued Trump is spoiling the "economic mood" following the signing of his landmark "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act." The...
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"I must say,” Donald Trump commented, "I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation's governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place nationwide in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a...
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President Donald Trump's administration controls the fate of migrants it has deported to other countries like El Salvador, officials claimed in a court filing on Monday. The claims contradict the Trump administration's position that it has no authority to return the migrants once they've been sent elsewhere. That was the argument they used to try...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Tesla Motors' stock has suffered ever since billionaire owner Elon Musk married himself to President Donald Trump's movement — and now the two have had a falling out, it has only gotten worse and more macabre for shareholders, CNN's Erin Burnett said on Monday."Tesla shares tanking, closing down nearly 7 percent for the day," said Burnett....
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Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, became the latest Trump administration official to come under fire Monday night after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or that a so-called "client list" exists. Bongino, a MAGA influencer before being tapped for the FBI, made...
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Ever since his legal troubles began in 2023, President Donald Trump has reaped great financial and political benefit from convincing his base of supporters that he's about to be victimized by vengeful governments. One scholar may have come up with a new term that could serve as a catch-all way of describing this phenomenon.Psychology-focused news...
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This week on "Face the Nation," during a critical week for President Biden's reelection campaign, moderator Robert Costa speaks to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who has worked closely with Mr. Biden, as well as Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a loyal supporter of former President Donald Trump. Plus, NATO Secretary...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) received sharp criticism on Monday for traveling abroad during yet another natural disaster to impact his home state. Cruz was spotted in Athens, Greece, by tourists over the weekend, The Daily Beast reported. Cruz's office confirmed the trip in a statement to The Daily Mail, calling it a "preplanned family vacation." While he...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Donald Trump seems to be doing everything possible to show his contempt for ordinary working people, many of whom voted for him last fall. Just after signing his big bill, which gave massive tax breaks to the rich while taking away health care insurance for 12 to 17 million people, Trump announced that he will hit workers with one of the largest...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
The internet erupted in cheers Monday over reporting that the Transportation Security Administration quietly reversed a decades-old security check long reviled by travelers.The TSA began encouraging passengers to take off their shoes at airport security checkpoints beginning in February 2002, following an attempted shoe bombing by Richard Reid two...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
A business owner in Denver is calling on President Donald Trump to reconsider his administration's use of tariffs. Masaru Torito, who has owned the casual Japanese restaurant Kokoro for 39 years, made the comments on CNN's "The Lead With Jake Tapper." They happened just a few hours after Trump announced new 25% tariffs on countries like South Korea...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Global leaders hit back Monday at a series of threats issued by President Donald Trump in posts on Truth Social, the social media network Trump owns. Trump posted 13 letters written to countries ranging from Thailand to Serbia and Tunisia threatening each of them with additional tariffs unless they corrected "many years" of trade imbalances with...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
The Trump administration is trying to investigate an incident in which the official Department of Government Efficiency Veterans Affairs account sent an angry personal message to an outspoken critic of tech billionaire Elon Musk.According to Politico, "James Fishback, the anti-DEI investor who recently launched FSD PAC — a super PAC aimed at...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
I dropped out of high school. Got my GED. Worked as a general contractor in East Tennessee. Built things with my hands. Fixed busted systems. Lived paycheck to paycheck. That was my life, and for most of it, hope meant something real. Hope that a decent day's work would pay the bills. That a roof over your head and a future for your kids wasn't too...
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Los Angeles residents lobbed profane insults at U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Monday after they swept through the city's MacArthur Park.Los Angeles-based news station KTLA reports that masked, heavily-armed federal agents were in the park as "part of an apparent immigration raid" although exact details about the operation are not...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
CNN's resident Donald Trump supporter Scott Jennings went out of his way to mock the smaller countries on the receiving end of the president's tariffs, as Trump announced yet another delay in full implementation."Today, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked if there's any concern that world leaders will not take these new tariff...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is not just exiting his friendship with President Donald Trump over the tax break megabill — he appears to be cutting ties with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as well.According to The Daily Beast, Musk has unfollowed Johnson, who shepherded Trump's "big, beautiful bill" through the House and then whipped the caucus...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was called out Monday on CNN after dodging a question earlier that day on whether President Donald Trump would follow through on his pledge to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of the deadly Texas flood."Not really answering the question there,” said Kristen Holmes, CNN...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump slapped a series of tariffs on several more countries Monday afternoon as the deadline for his "90 Deals in 90 Days" pledge approaches. Trump, who penned several letters sent to leaders of Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, and South Africa, issued another list a few hours later. Posting to his Truth Social platform, Trump...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump defended the FBI on Monday in a post on the social network that he owns, Truth Social, following uproar from the MAGA faithful.Trump's MAGA base descended into furor after Attorney General Pam Bondi closed the Jeffrey Epstein case and said there was no "client list" that would be released. This came months after Trump hosted...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A Washington Post opinions editor came down hard on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other Texas officials for decades of failures to protect children who attended Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River. Laura McGann posted on social media in response to a clip of Cruz brushing off "weather modification" as a cause of the flooding."To the best of my knowledge,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Donald Trump announced nearly 15 new tariffs that will take effect Aug. 1, as the countries have not been willing to make a deal with the United States.July 9 was the initial deadline for Trump to reach 90 trade deals in 90 days, but he's looking to push that deadline back after it became clear the president couldn't meet his "deals"...
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The American tourism industry is being brought to its knees by President Donald Trump.According to NBC News, foreign travel to the United States has fallen by 10 percent since Trump took office, and it's already having measurable effects on the U.S. economy."Oxford Economics estimates spending among international visitors to the U.S. will fall $8.5...
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Nevada Republican Senate Minority Leader, Dr. Robin Titus, began a Monday legislative committee meeting by claiming that Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, a Republican, was "locked" out of the chamber at the end of the 2025 legislative session.KTNV broadcaster Steve Sebelius wrote on X that the "chaos" particularly when it comes to the "shifting" of "the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem received plenty of backlash Monday after appearing on Fox News to express her shock at the floods that killed more than 90 people in central Texas over the weekend. During an appearance on Monday's episode of "Fox & Friends," Noem said she "can't wrap my head around" how the flooding became so...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went back and forth with CNN's Dana Bash on Monday over whether President Donald Trump made the "90 deals in 90 days" he promised.Trump had paused his tariffs for 90 days, during which he was supposed to negotiate with China, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries. But with just a couple of days to go, "The...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
In a new article for The Bulwark, conservative writer William Kristol hypothesized how Donald Trump's late attorney and fixer, Roy Cohn, has guided the president from beyond the grave and helped him tally a spate of achievements in the White House.Of the "big, beautiful bill" that finally landed on his desk after months of posturing, Kristol...
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MAGA television personalities speculated that "cloud seeding" could have caused the deadly floods in Texas while lashing out at criticism of "climate deniers."Right-wing journalist Ben Bergquam brought up the topic of cloud seeding at a press conference on Monday."Now, I did ask the question this morning, Steve, because — and again, this, to some...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was reportedly in Greece sightseeing while the flood waters rushed through Texas hill country, killing at least 89 people so far, including young people at Camp Mystic. After a Daily Beast report dropped about the ill-timed vacation, Cruz's communications director lashed out on X."A bulls--- piece published by a bulls--- rag...
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In a new article for MSNBC, political analyst Steve Benen advised that it may finally be time to "come to terms" with the fact that the "moderate" wing of the Republican Party "simply doesn't exist."Benen cited the case of Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who was touted recently by The New York Times as somewhat of a unicorn in a Republican Party not afraid...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
A former CIA attorney who goes by the moniker "Secrets and Laws" revealed on X that the CIA ordered another report related to Russian involvement in the 2016 election. President Donald Trump has maintained there was no Russian intervention to help him win in 2016 and frequently repeats the phrases "no collusion" and "witch hunt" about the matter....
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones feared that Donald Trump's presidency could spin out of control over Jeffrey Epstein's missing client list, which he worried could result in Democrats sending him to prison.On Monday, Jones devoted his three-hour show to covering reports that the Department of Justice had claimed there was no Epstein client list after...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
An attorney with President Donald Trump's Department of Justice walked back claims Monday that the First Amendment applies to legal residents, defending the Trump administration's efforts to arrest and deport legal immigrants for pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy.Victoria Santora, a trial attorney in the DOJ's Office of Immigration, is...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump posted several letters he sent to the leaders of Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, and South Africa, telling them that as of Aug. 1, he will increase the tax on goods coming into the United States from their countries from 25-40%. "If for any reason you decide to raise your tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Six major medical organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleging he is putting American children at "grave and immediate risk" because of his policy on vaccines.The plaintiffs in the lawsuit—including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
CNN host Boris Sanchez gave a harrowing description of the conditions along the Guadalupe River where recovery efforts have been underway for those still missing in the massive flooding that hit Kerr County, Texas.According to The Washington Post, at least 90 people have been killed, 27 of whom were children and counselors from Camp Mystic.CNN's...
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass confronted a number of federal agents congregating near the city's downtown area Monday in an apparent raid, demanding that they disperse immediately."They need to leave, and they need to leave right now!” Bass told reporters at the scene. "They need to leave because this is not acceptable! Just wait and see, they...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department suffered a setback on Monday as a judge denied their initial effort to dismiss Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation lawsuit.This follows U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis giving a DOJ lawyer a brutal dressing down about how they have handled the case.According to CBS News, Xinis "said...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was spotted visiting the Parthenon in Greece while deadly floods tore through his state, according to a new Daily Beast report. When Texas was suffering under a deadly freeze in February 2021 that left millions without power, Cruz skipped town with his family to Cancún. This time, he was in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on...
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Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tells "Face the Nation" that although far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently visited Moscow, "that doesn't change the common decisions" the alliance has made regarding Ukraine, After President Biden's disastrous debate performance last...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
President Donald Trump unveiled a policy he called the "Gold Card," which allows wealthy foreigners to effectively purchase residency in the United States for $5 million. It's a policy intended to replace the existing EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign entrepreneurs to apply for a U.S. work permit if they either invest...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona took aim at his own party Sunday, criticizing what he described as its undying allegiance to President Donald Trump, whom he described in an op-ed as the GOP's "North Star.”"Extreme partisanship has infected both parties, but it plays out differently,” Flake said in an op-ed published in The New York...
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The Justice Department was dodging straight answers when lawyers appeared before Judge Paula Xinis on Monday in the case involving Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland man sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador due to "clerical error," ABC News reported. Xinis hammered the Justice Department during the morning session, pressing lawyers for answers on...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on June 27, 2025, created in President Donald Trump an American fascist dictator.The decision in the case Trump v. CASA, Inc. did not seem momentous. It declared only that Federal District judges could no longer issue "universal” injunctions to foreclose nationwide harm; they could now grant relief only to a...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed Monday on a new Department of Justice and FBI report concluding there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, kept a "client list” of powerful figures for blackmail purposes."There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was...
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Judge Paula Xinis probed the U.S. Justice Department over a timeline that doesn't add up in the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador by accident. A DOJ prosecutor previously told the judge that Ábrego was deported as a result of a "clerical error," ABC News reported in April. Politico legal...
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"Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter...
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"The View" Republican — and "Never Trumper" — host Ana Navarro warned First Lady Melania Trump that her citizenship could be removed if President Donald Trump is allowed to strip others of it.Speaking on Monday's episode of "The View," the co-hosts were talking about Elon Musk's new political party and the reasons that he isn't the best poster...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged that Democrats had blamed President Donald Trump for the recent deadly flooding in Texas.During Monday's White House press conference, Leavitt lashed out at Trump's critics."Unfortunately, in the wake of this once-in-a-generation natural disaster, we have seen many falsehoods pushed by Democrats...
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President Donald Trump has declared his intention to campaign on the deeply unpopular "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which one analyst said should be an ominous sign for how he views next year's midterm elections.Both the president and the domestic policy legislation he pressured Republicans to pass are unpopular with voters, but Salon columnist...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
The Republican budget measure that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase, a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same...
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Attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell were fined this week for submitting court documents generated with artificial intelligence that contained "nearly thirty defective citations."In a 20-page ruling on Monday, U.S. District Judge Nina Wang said attorneys Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster would be fined $3,000 each.At an earlier...
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Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. broke down Monday while on CNN to talk about the deadly Texas flood that has claimed the lives of at least 89 people, with dozens more missing."I think everyone in Kerrville, everyone in Kerr County wishes to God we had some way to warn them, to warn those people,” a visibly emotional Herring told CNN. "I've lost...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
The Social Security Administration was called out by an analyst for passing along a blatantly inaccurate claim about the Republican domestic policy bill.President Donald Trump and other Republicans have spent months making false claims about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that narrowly passed last week, as well as equally bogus warnings about what...
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell suggested that donations to Texas flood victims should be redirected to the purchase of his products.Lindell reacted to the recent flood deaths in a Monday appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room program."You guys, we're helping out the flood victims here in Samaritan's Purse," the pillow executive explained. "So just know...
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In what some critics describe as an example of "cancel culture,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent—a high profile official in the Trump administration—is calling for an apology or the firing of a private citizen: Larry Summers, a Democrat who, coincidentally, once held Bessent's current position and later served as president of Harvard...
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An Indiana church is urging the Trump administration to "execute" members of the LGBTQ community because "the Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death," according to WISH-TV 8 in Indianapolis.In a sermon titled, "Pray the Gay Away," Stephen Falco, an evangelical preacher with the Sure Foundation Baptist Church, yelled from the pulpit,...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Weijia Jiang speaks with Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York and the director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, in the aftermath of President Trump's newly signed "big, beautiful bill.” Meanwhile, search and rescue operations are ongoing in central Texas after devastating...
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A Czech musician who attended graduate school in the United States and has returned several times to perform said he was detained by ICE and forced to return home, leaving him "shaken to the core," according to reporting in The Columbus Dispatch.Jaroslav Skuta, a clarinetist from Prague, was scheduled to perform several free concerts, including at...
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The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Annex reported an active shooter Monday morning with the gunman pronounced dead at the scene, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin."Three federal and TX law enforcement sources tell me an active shooter with a rifle and tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon signaled outrage at President Donald Trump's Justice Department after officials suddenly declared that Jeffrey Epstein did not have a "client list."Bannon reacted to the news on Monday during his War Room podcast."On top of everything else going on this weekend, I just don't even understand the timing of this," the host...
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President Donald Trump told staffers that he wanted even more punitive measures against top universities, according to newly revealed communications.NOTUS reviewed a March 18 email chain titled "Funding yanked from San Jose State + UPenn" that included high-ranking White House officials. It surfaced in court documents as part of a case challenging...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's former prison chief is sounding the alarm on Florida's new migrant detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz,” warning the facility is unsafe and logistically unworkable.With an estimated cost of $450 million per year, Alligator Alcatraz was proposed to help ease the burden on local law enforcement by housing as many...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem admitted that she struggled to deal with the recent historic flooding in Texas that left over 80 people dead.During a Monday interview on Fox & Friends, Noem said she turned to God to help her understand the emergency."I can't get over it," she told Fox News. "I really can't wrap my head around...
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President Donald Trump's decision to shutter a long-running worldwide wheat aid program has left farmers in Kansas reeling, The New York Times reported on Monday.It's one of a number of programs that faced the chopping block when tech billionaire Elon Musk established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force to root out what he...
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Millions of international travelers who are turned off by President Donald Trump's policies on everything from tariffs to immigration are choosing to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere — and it's costing the U.S. economy up to $29 billion, according to reporting in Forbes.The report cited a study from the World Travel & Tourism Council that...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested God had allowed more than 80 people to die after historic flooding hit Texas.During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, host David Brody asked Cruz why "God doesn't make sense" in light of the flooding deaths."Why does God allow bad things to happen to young children?" Cruz opined. "I don't know that I have...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (18 hours ago)
With all the fawning coverage of Jeff Bezos' storybook $50 million Venetian wedding, the news media lost sight of fact that Bezos—the third-richest person in the world—is hardly worthy of veneration. He's been exploiting Amazon workers for years.Historians have drawn parallels between the Gilded Age of the late 19th century and what we are...
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President Donald Trump took time on Monday to lament the trial of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president, on charges of money laundering, criminal conspiracy related to undeclared diamonds and an attempted coup."I have watched, as has the World, as they have done nothing but come after him, day after day, night after night, month after month,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
If you're wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ridiculed, education crippled, and hatred valorized, take a look at Preston Damsky, racist, antisemite, and top law student at the University of Florida.Damsky's now notorious for receiving a "book award” as the best...
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Elon Musk announced over the weekend that he's forming a third political party after falling out with Donald Trump, but CNN's Harry Enten said his chances of success are capped by his deep personal unpopularity.The president's former "first buddy" introduced the America Party on his X platform as an alternative to what he calls a "one-party...
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Under pressure from the Trump administration, the University of Virginia's president of nearly seven years, James Ryan, stepped down last week, declaring that while he was committed to the university and inclined to fight, he could not in good conscience push back just to save his job.The Department of Justice demanded that Ryan resign in order to...
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Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring agencies tasked with studying and predicting such weather catastrophes, as well as his ongoing attacks on disaster preparedness and relief.Though local National Weather...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
"Photos: After Texas Hill Country flood, grief and recovery take hold" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter that keeps readers...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it's shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it's funding detention centers such as...
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