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A former Republican strategist slammed what he described as a "fascist PR stunt" in Louisiana by President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday. On Friday, Trump's Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino, who leads Customs and Border Patrol, toured the streets of Kenner, Louisiana, according to a report by NOLA.com. Bovino's visit elicited a "mixed...
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President Donald Trump's latest move to restrict immigration from 18 nations is being widely criticized by advocates for leaving several newcomers in limbo. After two National Guard troops were shot in Washington, D.C., Trump announced that his administration would be restricting immigration from countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Syria. The...
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Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as "masculine leadership” to the US.In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called "three strikes” anti-crime law to...
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Republicans appeared to undercut President Donald Trump in a key part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, according to a new report. The recently released NDAA, a 3,000-page bill that directs more than $900 billion in spending on various defense programs, reflects "bipartisan concerns" that the Trump administration could significantly...
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Outgoing MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed the moment she decided she could no longer support President Donald Trump in an interview on Sunday. Greene, who is retiring from Congress in January 2026, has become one of Trump's loudest critics within the Republican Party over the last several months. She discussed her...
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During Barack Obama's presidency, the dismissive "OK, Boomer" meme emerged among Millennials who viewed some Baby Boomers as clueless about the economic realities of the 21st Century. If a Boomer, for example, failed to understand why home ownership was a struggle for so many Millennials, they would dismissively tell them, "OK, Boomer."The "OK,...
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A spokesperson for Russia's Kremlin praised President Donald Trump on Sunday for presenting a vision of the world that is "largely consistent" with Russia, according to a new report. Dmitriy Peskov, the Kremlin's press secretary, said on Sunday that the "adjustments" Trump has made are praiseworthy, according to a report by Politico's European...
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President Donald Trump made a stunning claim about a mega media merger that was announced last week during a brief question-and-answer session during The Kennedy Center Honors event on Sunday. Trump took questions from the red carpet as he and First Lady Melania Trump arrived at The Kennedy Center on Sunday. A couple of reporters asked him about...
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As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline and the Iowa Concern hotline — where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need — are increasing.This fall, the Iowa Concern hotline saw four to five times the number of calls it had in the same months last year, said Tammy...
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A political analyst was stunned on Sunday after President Donald Trump attacked a Democrat he recently pardoned. On Sunday, Trump wrote a Truth Social post where he attacked Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), who was convicted of money laundering charges before Trump pardoned him last week. The attack followed comments by Cuellar on Fox News that he would...
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) bashed President Donald Trump's administration in a new podcast interview on Sunday over what he described as "hypocrisy beyond belief." Warner joined veteran GOP analyst Bill Kristol, editor at large of The Bulwark, on a new episode of "Bulwark Takes" on Sunday to discuss the The Trump administration's strikes against...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) upbraided President Donald Trump for his continued attacks against Somali-Americans, calling his rhetoric "completely disgusting" and "dehumanizing" in a new interview on Sunday. Omar joined CBS News' Margaret Brennan on "Face The Nation" on Sunday to discuss Trump's most recent attacks on the Somali community. Trump has...
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President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, seems unlikely to face any accountability for the strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters, according to one analyst. Since taking office, the Trump administration has conducted over 20 strikes against alleged drug boats, killing more than 80 people, according to media...
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By Michelle Lynn Kahn, Associate Professor of History, University of Richmond How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That's a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and 90s — and it hasn't gone away.Decades before artificial...
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On Saturday afternoon, December 6, The Bulwark's Adrian Carrasquillo reported that President Donald Trump, according to three sources, is considering replacing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem."For weeks," Carrasquillo explained, "a rumor has been circulating in political circles that Noem may soon be on the outs. It briefly surfaced in a...
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Two of Donald Trump's closest friends became embroiled in a public feud on Sunday as the MAGA influencers dueled over a third right-wing voice's ties to Qatar.It started when the so-called Trump Whisperer, Laura Loomer, took a shot at ex-Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. She said, "In case you don't see what's happening here, Carlson is getting...
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President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he has "other ways" of charging tariffs against foreign countries regardless of what the Supreme Court says in an upcoming opinion. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision this upcoming week regarding Trump's authority to unilaterally impose tariffs against foreign countries. Trump has...
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Ticket sales for the Kennedy Center's annual performance of "The Nutcracker” have plummeted under the new leadership of President Donald Trump, who took over as the organization's chairman earlier this year, CNN reported Saturday.According to internal sales data obtained and reviewed by CNN, ticket sales for the Kennedy Center's performance of...
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In a newly released 33-page document called "the National Security Strategy of the United States of America," the Trump Administration details its foreign policy objectives — including its views on Europe, which Trump officials claim is in danger of "civilization erasure."Salon's Andrew O'Hehir analyzes the document in an article published on...
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By SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Politics, University of Virginia.When the framers of what became the U.S. Constitution set out to draft the rules of our government on a hot, humid day in the summer of 1787, debates over details raged on.But one thing the men agreed on was the power of a new, representative...
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Donald Trump's recent attempt at political "bribery" has backfired, and is now causing the public to see the president's major weakness, according to a former senior advisor to Obama Sunday.Dan Pfeiffer, former senior advisor to Obama and current host to Pod Save America, recently predicted a clip featuring Trump will make its way into about a...
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The White House came out hard Sunday against a new report from The Bulwark that suggested Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem might be on the outs in the Trump administration, and in such a fierce manner that one prominent critic couldn't help but point out what they characterized as an overly-defensive rebuttal."Anonymous former staffers...
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During Donald Trump's second presidency, many of his critics, both left and right, are warning that he is failing to respect Congress as a "coequal branch of government." But New York Times columnist David French, a Never Trump conservative and scathing Trump critic on the right, dislikes that phrase — arguing that the U.S. Constitution gives...
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Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee melted down Sunday in defense of a top White House official, who Rep. Illhan Omar (D-MN) compared to "Nazis” earlier on CBS News.Omar was asked to comment on a recent social media post made by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in which he warned that "migrants and their...
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Vice President JD Vance recently implied that it was "totally reasonable” for Americans to want their neighbors to speak the same language as them, remarks that were pounced on Sunday by critics who pointed to Vance's own extended family, many of whom likely speak English as a second language, if at all."You have, let's say, a family of five that...
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One Republican lawmaker told CNN that President Donald Trump is wrong about "issue number one." Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) appeared on the news network in a video released over the weekend. The host asked Fitzpatrick if it would be a mistake for Republicans not to seize on the issue of "affordability" and attempt to fix it.He confirmed that,...
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Republicans are about to run face first into a "brick wall" after a "strategic misstep" is leaving them in a no-win scenario as they take on former prosecutor Jack Smith, according to a lawyer.The GOP has targeted Smith for his work in prosecuting Donald Trump in multiple cases, including a federal case over purported attempts to undermine the...
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Somalis are garbage! Deport a college student during a trip home for Thanksgiving! Pardon the Honduran ex-president convicted of drug peddling! Kill survivors from an unarmed boat the Navy has bombed in the Caribbean! Turn against Canada, our number one ally! Threaten to take over Greenland! Sell out the Ukrainians to the Russian invaders!And...
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Donald Trump made a comment on Sunday that numerous observers say showed the president's intention to bribe a congressman.Trump this weekend lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat,...
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) made a startling admission Sunday on NBC News that at no time during his briefings on the potentially "illegal” strike last month on a suspected drug-carrying sea vessel was he provided proof that the boat was actually headed toward the United States.According to a whistleblower, the Trump administration approved a...
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A leaked memo written by US Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Department of Justice to compile a list of potential "domestic terrorism” organizations that espouse "extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment.”The memo, which was obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein, expands upon National...
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President Donald Trump's outburst Sunday morning at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was proof that the president knows his party is in for a dramatic loss next year in the midterm elections, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) asserted Sunday on MS NOW.Earlier this week, Trump pardoned Cuellar, who was indicted last year on bribery, acting as a foreign agent, money...
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White House Communications Director Steven Cheung took to social media Saturday evening to gush over President Donald Trump's work ethic with remarks that quickly drew the attention of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose press office swiftly delivered a brutal response.Aside from heading White House communications, Cheung is also Trump's assistant,...
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Ordinarily, an election in an area as conservative as Tennessee's 7th Congressional District isn't a major story. That district, which Donald Trump carried by 22 percent in 2024, typically goes hard-right — and a GOP victory comes as no surprise. But on Tuesday, December 2 in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, political strategists paid very...
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A prosecutor who beat a DOJ indictment hit back on Saturday, saying that President Donald Trump has done nothing to improve the dangerous fentanyl situation in the U.S., choosing instead to "pardon a drug kingpin."New York Attorney General Letitia James hit back against Trump, who sought her indictment for alleged mortgage crimes apparently in...
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George Retes, a 26-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, is speaking out five months after he says he was assaulted and wrongly detained by ICE on his way to work near Los Angeles. Retes is now the face of a new $250,000 ad campaign from Home of the Brave, a nonprofit highlighting what it calls the "catastrophic harm” of President Donald...
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While President Donald Trump has struggled to successfully counter Democrats' recent messaging strategy around affordability – which has handed the party a series of blowout victories in last month's off-year elections – his attempts are now being challenged "even in places that once functioned as Trump's best bulwarks,” Salon reported...
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A MAGA lawmaker's own base rejected her this weekend after she posted a Christmas-themed seasonal photo without saying, "Merry Christmas."U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), 48, reportedly "set the world on fire" on Saturday by releasing a photo of herself that some have said suggests she is pregnant. That photo led to confused comments from...
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Don't be fooled. The only people undermining the American military's chain of command are the president and his secretary of defense.How?Specifically, by blaming the admiral who was in charge of the boat bombing in the Caribbean in September. More generally, by lying and acting cowardly. Leaders who stand by their decisions and take responsibility...
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Michael Leavitt, the brother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, attacked the Washington Post Sunday as his and the White House's official narrative on a lengthy custody battle and immigration arrest was challenged by the outlet's reporting.In 2014, Michael Leavitt had a child with Bruna Ferreira, a migrant who obtained a work permit...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Sunday after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat, decrying it as "such a lack of loyalty.”Cuellar, among the most right-wing Democratic lawmakers in Congress, and...
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Donald Trump's character made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, where he crashed a Pete Hegseth press conference and was awoken from a dream about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.After Hegseth's character gave a presser in which he mocked the "nerds" and "dorks" in the media while clamoring for an alcoholic beverage, James...
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In late November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent instructions to US diplomats, directing them to sell Trump's immigration policies to allies who don't want them. In a barely reported move, Rubio instructed diplomats in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada to start "raising concerns” about "immigrant crime” with foreign leaders, while...
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NBC came out with a bombshell exclusive report on the Trump administration's controversial "double tap" boat strike, prompting experts to express shock.In a Saturday night article called "Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets," the outlet reported, "Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had...
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A judge on Saturday hit Donald Trump's DOJ with a negative ruling, giving some positive news to a well-known critic of the president.As Politico reported, "A federal judge dealt a setback Saturday to the Justice Department's effort to re-indict former FBI Director James Comey, blocking prosecutors' access to key evidence from email accounts and a...
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A new report Saturday shows one Donald Trump Cabinet official will be fired "really soon."Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem won't be around for long, according to the Bulwark's reporting this weekend."For weeks, a rumor has been circulating in political circles that Noem may soon be on the outs. It briefly surfaced in a CNN report a few weeks...
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A new report about a military cover up had one former GOP lawmaker calling the debacle "absolutely incredible and wrong."Melissa Corrigan and David Shuster, the latter having previously exposed GOP corruption as an Emmy-winning anchor at MSNBC and CNN, reported in an article called "EXCLUSIVE: US Navy Deleted Video of October Boat Attack...
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The internet erupted in ridicule on Saturday after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made an odd comparison to a conservative legend.Hegseth over the weekend made a simple comment when he said, "If you look at actual policies, Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan."The statement didn't go over well with critics.Attorney Danny...
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"I don't give a damn," said a top Democratic leader in response to Donald Trump's newest attack.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who recently said that people are driving by his home, rolling down their windows and yelling a slur for developmentally disabled people, mimicking Trump after he used the derogatory term to attack him, weighed in on Saturday...
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Donald Trump's allies baffled onlookers on Saturday by calling on the president to make what one analyst called a "screeching J-turn" on his current policies.Former Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the controversial figure Trump named to be his White House national security adviser, spoke to Steve Bannon on the latter's internet show. Both MAGA allies insisted...
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are throwing one man under the bus for the "double tap" order on a purported drug transport ship, according to a reporter Saturday.MS NOW reporter Jake Traylor reported over the weekend about how Trump and Hegseth have both morphed their responses to the recent scandal in ways that point the finger at Admiral Frank M....
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One MAGA congresswoman "set the world on fire" over the weekend by releasing a photo of herself that some of said suggests she is pregnant.U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), 48, has been a consistent ally of Trump except in her push to release files related to the disgraced child sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein. She is known for dominating...
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Donald Trump has a "tone deaf" video circulating on right-wing networks, and it's "already catching up to him," according to a GOP insider on Saturday.Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MS NOW over the weekend to talk about a video of Trump promoting his line of watches. In late November, Buck...
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By David Higgins, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Dec. 5, 2025, to stop recommending that all newborns be routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus — undoing a 34-year prevention...
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Dick Morris, the well-known political consultant who helped former President Bill Clinton win his 1996 re-election bid, came to President Donald Trump's defense Saturday by launching into a racist rant directed at Muslims, who he said immigrate to the United States to "open up colonies” and take "over the country.”"We see this situation in...
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Donald Trump on Saturday posted a panicked plea aimed at fellow Republicans who are standing in the way of his latest power grab.The president took to Truth Social over the weekend to target GOP lawmakers who might vote against his proposed plan to amend maps in Indiana to give Republicans extra seats. Trump one day earlier wrote, "Congratulations...
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Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted by two of the foremost American artists of the 20th century, Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. No one is around to see them. They are on the walls of the...
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The New York Times says the Supreme Court is giving their favorite president passes he doesn't deserve."The justices … seem friendlier to claims of executive power under [President Donald] Trump than they were under President Joe Biden. They blocked Mr. Biden's efforts to use his authority to forgive student loans and manage the Covid-19...
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President Donald Trump launched into a lengthy tirade Saturday in defense of professional baseball player Roger Clemens, who he argued has unfairly been denied proper recognition due to unproven "rumors and innuendo,” fueled in part by the Obama administration."The Baseball Hall of Fame Committee is voting on admitting new Members TOMORROW, and...
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"There was never that much distance between the Establishment and the extremists of the right, even in [William F.] Buckley's era; now they are even closer,” reports Intelligencer Senior writer Sarah Jones.In October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts publicly cast his lot in with entertainer Tucker Carlson hours after Carlson had a...
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National Security attorney Bradley Moss and international affairs specialist Tom Nichols took turns dumping on what they characterized as the mounting idiocy of officials working under President Donald Trump as the administration closes out its first year in office.Moss was particularly furious that the administration was dumb enough to order a...
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You might think that when you are a US citizen, you cannot have that status taken away. You would be wrong, it turns out. And behind that fact is a long and often ugly history.Last Sunday, President Donald Trump said that he would "absolutely” denaturalize American citizens if he could. It comes after a wave of harsh rhetoric directed toward...
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly boasted that revenue from his tariffs will be so substantial that it could fund $2,000 rebate checks for Americans and even eliminate income tax altogether, though even under the rosiest scenarios, economists are saying Trump's promises are "impossible.”"We are talking complete fantasy here,” said Daniel...
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The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow was correct when he said Donald Trump was involved in as many as 60 "catch and kill” operations during the 2016 presidential election in which Trump first won power, former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said."I never actually added them up, but I wouldn't dispute what Ronan is saying,” Cohen told the...
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President Donald Trump's decision to pardon entertainment titan Tim Leiweke this week may have been sparked by a recent "round of golf” with Leiweke's attorney, who reportedly brought up his client's case to the president between swings, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.Leiweke was indicted in July related to a felony charge for...
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Republican megadonor Hal Lambert squirmed Saturday when pressed on the Trump administration's potentially "illegal” boat strikes in September that critics say may have constituted a war crime, refusing to answer a direct question multiple times during an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five.”"They hit the boat the first time, and they're...
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The security of the US grows weaker by the day as some of the highest-profile members of Donald Trump's cabinet are spending too much time playing to the MAGA crowd for "clicks' and adulation, and not taking their jobs seriously.Appearing on MS NOW with host Ali Velshi, former Naval College professor Tom Nichols, who has called for Defense...
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The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American "neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox."Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keating. It's also clear in Trump's habit of...
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A Somali immigrant who aggressively campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2024 is severing all ties with the president over his recent remarks where he referred to Somali migrants as "garbage,” condemning them as "racist” in an appearance Saturday on CNN."It was very dehumanizing and very un-presidential coming from the commander in chief to...
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was raked over the coals on Saturday morning for changing his tune on the Washington, DC, pipe bomber after spending years spreading conspiracy theories that have now fallen flat after an arrest.As a podcaster, the now-senior FBI official claimed the attempted attack was an "inside job,” telling his fans, "It is a...
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Lourdes Ubieta, a conservative radio host from Miami, Florida and major backer of President Donald Trump, said recently that if it took sending U.S. troops – which may include her own son and cousin – to Venezuela to enact regime change, then the Trump administration should "go for it.”"If to free Venezuela and for the best interest of the...
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On Tuesday, the President of the United States chaired a meeting of his busted cabinet that would have been impossible to believe just 10 years ago. I had no intention of watching this North Korea-like, state-run propaganda, but once I'd bumped into it, I found I couldn't take my eyes off it.It was a train wreck wrapped in a dumpster fire, and in a...
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With a series of critical cases still to be heard, the six conservative justices seated on the Supreme Court were admonished by the New York Times editorial board that they need to listen to one of their own and rein in Donald Trump.In an editorial published Saturday morning, the board pointed out that the lower courts have done a better job of...
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Donald Trump is facing increasing sniping from members of his own party that he is ignoring the mood of the country when it comes to the economy and voters turn on him.According to a report from the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid, the president is now faced with a "new reality” that he can no longer convince even some of his most ardent...
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Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning by flipping out on the hosts and producers of Fox and Friends for booking a guest who pushed back at the president's insistence that he has turned the economy around.The president, who stayed in snowy Washington, DC, this weekend, took to his Truth Social account to complain about the appearance of...
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President Donald Trump snapped at CNN's Kaitlan Collins Saturday morning over being asked about the price tag of his White House ballroom, the cost of which has increased by at least $100 million since first announced."Caitlin Collin's of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now offering new details of conversations she had with President Donald Trump pertaining to deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.CBS' 60 Minutes teased its interview of Greene in a post to X on Friday. In the clip, reporter Lesley Stahl is seen asking the Georgia Republican about behind-the-scenes...
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"Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?”That's what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported Thursday on the National Park Service's recently announced free admission days for 2026."That has become a day of service throughout the country as...
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The latest South Park episode nailed it: When "Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town's annual holiday race, he declares it an "Antifa uprising” and calls out the troops to crush it. While armed forces assemble their AK-47s, Hegseth struts around filming himself for well-coiffed social media content, unaware that his...
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The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to get involved in what they called a "boondoggle" of a liquefied natural gas project in eastern Africa.The project is run by the French company TotalEnergies, and backed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank — but there are numerous red flags that have...
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The Trump administration's odd social media boast lit up the internet on Friday, as bewildered critics wondered whether the economic brag was meant as satire.The Treasury Department's official account claimed that U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020 and that investors who had "confidence and faith in President Trump's economic...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services took Admiral Rachel Levine's name off her portrait in the Humphrey Building, according to National Public Radio.Levine, a former director of the Public Health Corps under former President Joe Biden who became the first transgender person to serve in a Senate-confirmed executive role,...
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A federal judge said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to hold immigrants at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba before shipping them out for deportation, The New York Times reported.U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, did not immediately order the...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fessed up on Friday over who was responsible for the Trump administration's brazen defiance of a court order.In March, the Trump administration made the controversial decision to transfer Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador despite a judicial order temporarily blocking their removal. The move ignited a...
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