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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hot mic moment during a dinner with President Donald Trump on Thursday was "quite a moment," according to one analyst. Sara Fischer, media reporter for Axios, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" to discuss the dinner, which was attended by business leaders like Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Microsoft CEO...
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CNN's Kaitlan Collins was stunned on Thursday night by statements made by a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official on her show.Collins interviewed Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, an infectious disease expert, on her show "The Source" about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Experts have...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board slammed the "bare-knuckle tactics" President Donald Trump has used to try and force Harvard University to change its campus antisemitism policies. On Wednesday, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration has violated Harvard's First Amendment rights by conditioning...
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CNN anchor Kasie Hunt snapped at Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on her show "The Arena" on Thursday over his comments about vaccines. Mullin argued that vaccines are ineffective because Americans suffer from higher rates of chronic illnesses today than they did in the 1950s. He also suggested that the prevalence of autism can be linked to the...
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Former President Joe Biden was recently observed to have a bandage on his forehead covering a gash, reported The Daily Beast — and a spokesperson has confirmed it was from surgery to remove skin cancer."Biden, 82, received Mohs surgery, a spokesperson told the Daily Beast, a procedure in which thin layers of skin are cut away until no signs of...
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Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera raged Thursday at the Trump administration's deportation of "family people" alongside criminals who illegally migrated to the United States.Rivera joined Piers Morgan on his YouTube show "Piers Morgan Uncensored" to discuss Trump's immigration policies. Morgan asked him to respond to an earlier interview with...
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President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling a takeover bid of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum — and museum officials aren't on board.Trump is looking into how the federal government could take control of the museum, which has faced questions over its finances and leadership, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing two anonymous White House...
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In an article for Democracy Docket published Thursday, journalist Jim Saksa argued that President Donald Trump is systematically expanding his authority to deploy military force within U.S. cities, and that the lack of sufficient legal or legislative pushback risks making such aggressive domestic deployments routine.Saksa noted that over the past...
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President Donald Trump all but confirmed his well-reported plot to interfere in the New York City mayoral race on Thursday evening, reported Politico's Emily Ngo.Asked by reporters whether he is working on making a candidate withdraw from the race, Trump said, "No, I don't like to see a communist become mayor. I won't tell you that. And I don't...
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President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to sign an executive order to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, a move that was roundly criticized by legal and military analysts. The rebrand speaks to the "warrior ethos" that Trump has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to restore in the military,...
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Legislative push to gerrymander Missouri congressional map advancesby Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent September 4, 2025 If a new Missouri congressional map endorsed by President Donald Trump is put into place, voters living on Kansas City's east side will share a congressional district with people living nearly four hours away in Osage County....
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Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Delia Ramirez on Thursday strongly condemned the Trump administration's deadly attack on a boat allegedly trafficking cocaine off the coast of Venezuela as "lawless and reckless," while urging the White House to respect lawmakers' "clear constitutional authority on matters of war and peace.""Congress has not declared...
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A former federal prosecutor said on Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration is "not even pretending" to provide equal protection under the law with its mortgage fraud investigations into Trump's opponents. The Trump administration has publicly announced that they are investigating Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Federal Reserve Governor Lisa...
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Two judges appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit by President Donald Trump issued a Thursday decision that allows a newly established but already notorious immigrant detention center in Florida, dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, to stay open.Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Miccosukee Tribe of...
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President Donald Trump got yet another smackdown in court on Thursday over his efforts to restrict transgender rights.The controversy stems from President Donald Trump's order that passports must identify a holder's gender at birth, regardless of their current gender identity."A lower court judge ruled in April that transgender plaintiffs were...
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In her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court in October 2020, Justice Amy Coney Barrett told CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell that she wants Americans to "understand the law," which she said is "not just an opinion poll" based on the views of the court's nine justices.
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President Donald Trump will follow through on his plan to revert the Department of Defense back to its former name, Department of War. Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense, a senior administration official told Politico. Trump has said he wants a more neutral name, arguing that "defense" in the name...
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Lawyers and legal analysts mocked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this week after Bloomberg Law published comments he made about trying to "rebrand" the court's secretive process for releasing controversial decisions.Kavanaugh, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018, told Bloomberg Law that he prefers the term "interim docket" to...
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has strenuously denied in public that he has any plans to abandon his re-election bid — but a New York Times report reveals he is actively considering President Donald Trump's scheme to give him an administration job to bow out of the race."In private, Mr. Adams has told a small group of friends and advisers that he...
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Former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, David Frum, said that if the U.S. Supreme Court hands power to President Donald Trump to wage his trade war, then they're effectively killing the Constitution. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Frum called Trump's tariff actions "the most extreme thing that he's ever done in this...
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A military analyst on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump's decision to bomb an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, who led Army troops in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008, joined The Bulwark's Tim Miller on a new episode of the outlet's podcast, "Bulwark Super Feed," to discuss the strike. Hertling argued that the...
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After years of attacking opponents for their health, physical appearances, and mental capacities, a Republican rival said Thursday that President Donald Trump faces an "apotheosis of karma."Trump, known for his conspiracy theories, attacking his opponents from Hillary Clinton to Ben Carson and challenging former President Barack Obama's birth...
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Longtime President Donald Trump ally and far-right strategist Steve Bannon gave a fiery speech at this year's National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. — but he did so to a crowd of mostly empty seats."Sparse turnout for Steve Bannon at his just-concluded speech at the National Conservatism conference," wrote conservative Washington...
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Speaker Mike Johnson told the Republican caucus this week not to support Rep. Tom Massie's (R-KY) legislation that makes it mandatory for the Justice Department to release all of the information related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Johnson urged GOP members to support a measure coming from the House Oversight and Reform Committee. However,...
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The Department of Homeland Security claimed a "huge victory" Thursday after an appeals court paused the shutdown of one of its most infamous detention centers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a temporary injunction against a lower court's ruling that required DHS to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," a 5,000-bed detention...
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The New Republic reports that President Donald Trump's administration keeps changing its story to justify an unprecedented military strike on an alleged Venezuelan cartel boat transporting drugs.Department of Defense officials privately expressed concerns that the government had changed details of its story about the strike that killed 11 people,...
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President Donald Trump has shown no signs thus far of seriously considering the removal of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., despite months of controversy and despite his increasing attacks on doctors, vaccines, and public health consensus — but veteran analyst Chuck Todd thinks it's just a matter of time before he's...
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) got an earful from CNN anchor Kasie Hunt on Thursday over his claims linking vaccines to the prevalence of autism. Mullin joined Hunt on CNN's "The Arena" to discuss Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate hearing on Thursday, where he made multiple false statements about the efficacy of vaccines. For instance,...
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MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace and Dr. Jeremy Faust, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard University, agreed that something isn't right with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Kennedy appeared before the Senate on Thursday morning to address questions about his firing of top officials at the Centers for Disease...
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ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.The Trump administration has vowed to go after anyone who got lower mortgage rates by claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.President Donald Trump has used it as a justification...
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Calls for the impeachment of Robert F. Kennedy and demands for his resignation escalated on Thursday following a contentious hearing with Senate lawmakers, with even conservative Bill Kristol stating, "I've seen enough."Kennedy, the Health and Human Services Secretary, was criticized by senators over recent moves, including firing Centers for...
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Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, lashed out at Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui after he blasted her office for "too many misfires."In a hearing on Thursday, Faruqui said that the country was "past the point of constitutional crisis" as the government said it would drop the case against a man accused of threatening the life...
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President Donald Trump's administration is scrambling to get the Supreme Court to reverse the decisions of multiple lower courts that held his tariff scheme illegal and invalid — but in the rush to provide a defense, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may have just blown a hole through one of Trump's biggest fabrications about his trade...
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The Department of Justice attempted to do damage control after conservative political activist James O'Keefe released a video of a staffer claiming the government would "redact every Republican" from files about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a Thursday post on X, O'Keefe shared a video that he claimed was of a deputy chief at the U.S. Department...
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As a court in Fort Myers, Florida, prepared to hold the first hearing on the legal rights of immigrants detained at "Alligator Alcatraz," the Everglades detention facility that a federal judge ordered to be shut down last month, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday said the Trump administration has found a new prison to house...
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America is at risk of abandoning its founding principle of government, "by and for the people,” in favor of a system older than democracy itself: rule by one man.Pretty much everybody understands that the United States and the old Soviet Union both had governments based on ideology or principle. The main notion of the US was expressed in the...
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With President Donald Trump having deployed the National Guard to patrol Washington, D.C. for weeks as part of his takeover of the district, and lawsuits advancing against it, there is another issue Trump has to contend with, CNN's Jeff Zeleny told anchor Boris Sanchez on Thursday: the rock-bottom morale of guardsmen who were called up only to...
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Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui said Thursday the country was "past the point of constitutional crisis" after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office dropped the case against a man accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump."Why is the government not out of sheer embarrassment and shame seeking to dismiss with prejudice and expunge the...
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WASHINGTON — This week House Republicans formally launched their long awaited new January 6 subcommittee. Unlike the first select committee, which investigated the attack on the Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, the new panel is tasked with investigating the investigators."I want to see all the documents and find out how many lies were told by the people...
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Supporters of President Donald Trump and those who consider themselves part of the MAGA movement melted down Thursday after watching Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. be forced to answer tough questions about his leadership of the department in the few short months he's run it. Kennedy, who had promised never to deny vaccines...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he couldn't hear the question when a Democratic senator challenged him to say what the Health and Human Services Agency would do to keep prices low for seniors.The HHS secretary faced a tough round of bipartisan questioning in a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday, where Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) asked...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped a bombshell Thursday during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee after telling lawmakers what he claimed was the real reason he fired the top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Last week, RFK Jr. fired CDC Director Susan Monarez, a Trump...
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I'm going to talk about Hakeem Jeffries' recent appearance on CNN in which he made another one of his tone-deaf remarks about evil being a distraction from what's important to the American people.But before you say what I know you're going to say, let me say he's not hopeless yet! Leaders can change. They must be pushed. They must be made to hear...
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In an exclusive report from VOX, it was revealed that President Donald Trump's administration buried a study that detailed the impact alcohol has on cancer.Reporter Dylan Scott noted that the alcohol industry is working to ensure "most Americans still don't know that alcohol can cause cancer." Now, however, a major analysis has evidence that there...
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Vice President J.D. Vance angrily responded to what he said were "gotcha" questions faced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Following Kennedy's contentious hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Vance lashed out at senators in a message on X."When I see all these senators trying to lecture and 'gotcha'...
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John Deere stocks have plummeted as President Donald Trump's tariffs have delivered another big blow to U.S. farmers. As farmers see a lowering demand for some crops overseas, the company cites a 15 to 20 percent drop in large agricultural machinery purchases, the New York Times reports. That downward trend is expected to carry into 2026.An...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) hammered Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday during a fiery hearing over his recent moves with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and firing the full panel of the vaccine advisory board. At issue for Warren is that Kennedy repeatedly promised during his confirmation hearing...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was scolded by a Democratic senator during an explosive hearing Thursday as being "not worthy” of a gift they had originally intended to give him, but had changed their mind following his testimony.RFK Jr. testified Thursday in front of the Senate Finance Committee on his experience...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lowered the boom on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy during a hearing on health care costs.Sanders and others in the hearing room Thursday laughed incredulously when Kennedy told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that he had fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) appeared apoplectic during the hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, startling those who frequently see the two men carrying the water of President Donald Trump and his administration. Cassidy and Barrasso both voted to confirm Kennedy to the post,...
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A federal judge in Boston who sided with Harvard University and ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants delivered a "gutsy challenge" to the U.S. Supreme Court and Trump, calling on lower courts to "safeguard academic freedom."In the 84-page order, Judge Allison Burroughs calls the government's use of...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy shouted at each other during a contentious hearing on Thursday.While appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Warren challenged the secretary about earlier claims that he would not restrict access to vaccines."So last November, while you are under...
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Sen. Ron Wyden tore into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday ahead of his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, calling attention to his past ties with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid his supposed dedication to serving children."Mr. Kennedy calls himself a 'protector of children',” Wyden...
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A Jeffrey Epstein survivor who voted for Donald Trump hit out at the president after he dismissed victims' experiences as a "Democrat hoax." Speaking on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, Jena-Lisa Jones passionately challenged Trump's response to the ongoing Epstein files controversy.Jones, who was 14 when she was abused by the...
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Don't despair as authoritarianism marches around us. There is a thing that comes next. And it may come soon, as the realization spreads that blue states contribute the lion's share of resources funding Trump's mad theater of destruction.As Democratic leaders consider how best to respond to a president's unprecedented and unconstitutional efforts to...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to the U.S. Senate for a contentious hearing on Thursday after he fired top officials at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the director was forced out. MSNBC cut from the first hour of the Senate hearing to call in medical doctors to fact-check the claims from Kennedy's...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questioned the independence of Dr. Stephen Miran, President Donald Trump's nominee to be a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.At a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday, Warren presented Miran with what she said was an "easy question to show that you have some independence from the president.""Did...
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Sen Maria Cantwell (D-WA) fired back at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday after being interrupted by the Trump appointee during a high-stakes hearing at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., deriding him as a "charlatan.""You cancelled $500 million in research [on] mRNA technology, [which] is about continuing the...
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Sen. Michael Bennett (D-CO) got into a heated exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his views on vaccines against Covid, measles and other preventable illnesses.MSNBC interrupted a commercial to join the Colorado Democrat's showdown with President Donald Trump's pick to oversee public health, and Bennett...
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The top adviser to the Supreme Court's Chief Justice John Roberts defended his boss's cautious approach to political disputes, emphasizing the critical importance of preserving judicial independence during a potentially contentious political environmentSpeaking at the 6th Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dow, described...
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It's a well-worn cliche in the legal world that prosecutors have so much clout in the grand jury room that they could indict a ham sandwich. The currency of this quote only soared in value when the man who first uttered it, a New York State top judge named Sol Wachtler, was subsequently indicted himself.And maybe the US Justice Department still...
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Pro-MAGA host David Brody of Real America's Voice and Christian Broadcasting Network slammed President Donald Trump for calling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal a "Democrat hoax."On Thursday, Brody told Real America's Voice co-host Jake Novak that he was frustrated because Trump seemed to dismiss Epstein survivors who spoke out this week."President...
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Nearly a dozen currently serving federal judges criticized the U.S. Supreme Court from behind the cloak of anonymity.The federal judges went on background to speak with NBC News about the court's increasingly frequent habit of overturning lower court rulings involving President Donald Trump's policies with little or no explanation, and some of them...
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Former Trump associate Lev Parnas suggested Tuesday that even the president's inner circle — and possibly his family — may be in the dark about his health, fueling speculation after his recent silence from social media and absence from the world stage. Parnas said the secrecy surrounding Trump's condition signals that "something is definitely...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy was interrupted by a protester who accused him of "killing people."During a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, the protester spoke out just seconds after Kennedy began his opening remarks."In just half a year, we've taken on food dies," the secretary said, "baby formula contamination,...
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A Trump golfing buddy scrambled Monday to prove a widely shared photo of the former president was real after social media users claimed it was AI-generated and evidence he was secretly ill or even dead. The denial came as speculation over Trump's health hit a fever pitch, fueled by hashtags like #TRUMPISDEAD and his unusual silence before a...
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President Donald Trump's Justice Department is using the information it dug up on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to launch a formal investigation, and subpoenas have been issued, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.It comes after the Trump-appointed director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, dug up information on Cook's...
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