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by Andrew MARSZALHollywood studio Universal Pictures on Wednesday teased new movies from Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan, while showcasing footage from its upcoming sequels "Jurassic World Rebirth" and "Wicked: For Good" at the CinemaCon event.Spielberg "is currently shooting a film that promises to be a return to form, in the spirit of his...
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by Max DELANYRattled US allies will press Secretary of State Marco Rubio Thursday to lay out Washington's plans for NATO and Ukraine, but his first visit to the alliance risks being overshadowed by a growing trade war.President Donald Trump has rocked the foundations of Western security by casting doubt on NATO's collective defence vow, reaching...
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by Daniel AVISPresident Donald Trump's tariff announcement on Wednesday was widely panned by US business lobbying groups, who voiced concern about the impact of the sweeping new duties on their operations.During a speech in the White House's rose garden, Trump unveiled a baseline 10 percent tariff against almost all US trading partners in the world...
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Senate GOP budget resolution sets stage for raising debt limit by as much as $5 trillion by Jennifer Shutt, Daily Montanan April 2, 2025 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans released an updated budget resolution Wednesday that sets a May 9 deadline for more than a dozen committees to approve their slice of the massive package that will...
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The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board hit President Donald Trump on Wednesday over the steep tariffs he enacted across the globe, warning the MAGA leader that "remaking the world economy has large consequences, and they may not all add up to what Mr. Trump advertises as a new 'golden age.'"Trump enacted sweeping tariffs, announced...
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Elon Musk may have dumped $20 million-plus in Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election — and warned the race had implications that could determine "the future of America and Western Civilization" — but his resounding loss late Tuesday hasn't deterred him one bit.Musk donated millions to support conservative candidate Brad Schimel in the race,...
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow treated viewers on Wednesday evening to a world tour of some of the stranger places that President Donald Trump slapped with tariffs.The tariffs, part of Trump's so-called "Liberation Day," tax foreign goods from 10 to 49 percent from just about every other country — but, Maddow noted, they also apply to a few places that...
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Analysts at JPMorgan Chase warned that the impact of President Donald Trump's new set of tariffs could take the economy "perilously close to slipping into recession.”The gloomy economic forecast was released hours after Trump rocked the global financial markets with his announcement of sweeping tariffs in a Rose Garden ceremony on Wednesday –...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) hit back at Pam Bondi on Wednesday over the attorney general's recent attacks on Fox News, which Crockett derided at a House hearing as "Faux News."In recent appearances on Fox News, Bondi criticized Crockett for her remarks about Elon Musk and Tesla, accusing Crockett of using dangerous rhetoric that could incite...
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Less than two weeks ago there was SignalGate, the Trump administration's national security scandal that potentially endangered the lives of U.S. service members, and risked exposing military plans, by using an insecure channel to discuss, map out, and announce progress of an attack in Yemen. Then there was the Trump administration's passwords...
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President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" reciprocal tariffs plan was slapped together over a matter of a couple days, CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported on Wednesday evening.The plan, which puts sharp new taxes on imports from around the world, even from remote and uninhabited islands, has prompted a massive plunge in stock futures and even has some...
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During the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump insisted that he knew nothing about Project 2025 —the Heritage Foundation's 920-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency. But now that President Trump is actually serving his second term, a key part of the Project 2025 agenda — a dramatic restructuring of the federal workforce — is being...
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Syria on Thursday condemned deadly Israeli strikes across the country as a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty, after Israel said it struck "military capabilities".Syrian state media said the strikes hit close to a defence research centre in Damascus, among other sites, while a war monitor reported four dead in the latest Israeli attack on...
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by Nina ISENI / Théo MARIE-COURTOISGlobal financial markets were rocked on Wednesday by Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs, targeting China and the European Union in particular, with the risk of undermining the international economy.The US president laid out the new measures after Wall Street stock markets had closed. But his...
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by Beiyi SEOWAfter weeks of anticipation, US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs on trading partners Wednesday, calling it a "declaration of economic independence."A fresh "baseline tariff" of 10 percent will apply to economies around the world, with steeper rates tailored to those that Washington deemed as bad actors.What are the...
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A key figure in the Trump administration is urging other countries to hit the pause button on hitting the United States with tariffs, CNN reported — even though President Donald Trump just went nuclear with tariffs on virtually the entire rest of the world.The tariffs, which are part of an intended global economic realignment Trump calls...
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Tuesday night's election results in Florida and Wisconsin have Republicans on Capitol Hill growing increasingly nervous that the "shock and awe” ushered in by President Donald Trump's second-term administration will hand the GOP a midterm shellacking.That's according to a new report in Politico, which detailed the internal struggle among...
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WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. senators are shrugging off the party's punishing defeat in Wisconsin Tuesday, with some coming to Elon Musk's defense despite the billionaire becoming a lightning rod many credit with tilting the state supreme court race away from the GOP."No. He was helpful,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Raw Story the day after...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political commentator Paul Krugman was completely aghast at President Donald Trump's new round of so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs, which impose new import taxes ranging from 10 to 49 percent on essentially every country's imports — and even a handful of random, remote islands with tiny populations and...
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The mayor of North Dakota's fourth largest city is out of a job after he accidentally texted the female city attorney a video of him performing a sex act on himself – which he intended as a "sexy video” for his girlfriend, the Daily Beast reported Wednesday.Tom Ross, 60, resigned as the mayor of Minot, population 50,000, effective Monday, after...
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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had a broad conversation about the special elections on Tuesday, and the firehose of news is drowning out its importance. "I think it has really been a significant 24 hours," said Whitehouse. He began mentioning the 25-hour filibuster by Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ), and the win in the...
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A Republican senator all but begged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to back off his key economic policy — widespread tariffs.President Donald Trump enacted new tariffs Wednesday, announcing at a Rose Garden speech a baseline 10 percent tariff on all imports from every country, effective Saturday. Trump also announced reciprocal tariffs...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
When President Donald Trump announced his "Liberation Day" imposition of "reciprocal tariffs" of 10 to 49 percent on essentially every foreign import in the world, market futures reacted by going into freefall. But Trump also triggered widespread mockery over his extensive list of countries and regions subject to the new tariffs — which included...
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Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) doubled down on his insults of a terminated government employee who went viral after the lawmaker reacted to his termination by telling him he "probably deserved it…because you seem like a clown.” The confrontation unfolded on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Mack Schroeder, a former Department of Health and Human Services worker,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's announcement of new tariffs on what he is calling "Liberation Day" has already sent stock futures into a tumble.The president's new tariffs, which come after aggressive further rounds of trade barriers on a number of other countries including allied nations the U.S. has trade deals with, include 34 percent new tariffs on...
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday over a move by the state of South Carolina to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood because the reproductive health organization provides abortions.South Carolina's Republican governor Henry McMaster issued an executive order in 2018 cutting off reimbursements to the two Planned Parenthood...
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Elon Musk's rise as President Donald Trump's all-powerful wingman was as rapid and unstoppable as one of his SpaceX rockets. But reports Wednesday are fueling speculation that the billionaire's political career may be coming back to Earth.Politico and ABC News quoted unnamed sources saying Musk could step away from an unprecedented role in which he...
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Nervous US allies at NATO are scrambling to keep President Donald Trump engaged by upping defence spending, vowing to take the reins on Ukraine and queueing for face time at the White House.But as his administration savages Europe, undercuts Kyiv and warms to Russia, Western diplomats fret that even if the alliance is salvaged it runs the risk of...
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Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) fought back against a Fox News host on Wednesday when debating the cuts to government funding and staff. Martha MacCallum parroted accusations from tech billionaire Elon Musk that Social Security was riddled with "waste, fraud and abuse," even though the claim that millions of dead people have gotten checks has been debunked...
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President Donald Trump's midnight rant attacking four top Republican Senators appeared to reveal the President's first big tariff test is off course, and may ultimately fail.Democrats have proposed legislation to block Trump's tariffs on Canada, one of America's largest and oldest trading and military partners, by declaring Trump's stated "national...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's Rose Garden remarks as he touted his "liberation day” tariffs on Wednesday were littered with falsehoods, according to CNN's in-house fact-checker Daniel Dale, who fired off a stinging fact-check just moments later. "It was not even close to accurate,” Dale said of Trump's comments regarding Canadian dairy...
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Eight-point-seven billion. Four-hundred million. One-hundred-seventy-five million. These are just some examples of the money the federal government has withheld or is threatening to withhold from various colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Harvard University. That $8.7 billion figure was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters he can edit federal spending and revenue baselines as the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. "As Budget Chairman, under section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act, I have the authority to determine baseline numbers for spending and revenue. Under that authority, I have determined that current policy...
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Mack Schroeder, a Department of Health and Human Services employee who was unceremoniously fired as part of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts, appeared on CNN to hit back at a senator's reaction to his plight.Schroeder took part in protests on Capitol Hill Wednesday when he approached Sen Jim Banks (R-IN) as the Republican made his way toward a congressional...
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Joe Biden's former White House chief of staff Ron Klein, who reportedly said he believed the former president was "out of it” ahead of his disastrous presidential debate with rival Donald Trump, is being criticized for not disclosing this information during the campaign.According to a new book, Klain, who returned to Biden's side to help prepare...
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President Donald Trump is weighing a new proposal on how to get short-form video social media platform TikTok in compliance with a federal law requiring it to divest from Chinese ownership or face an effective ban in the United States, CNN's Kayla Tausche reported on Wednesday.Trump, who originally tried to force the divestiture of TikTok in the...
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Democratic state legislators in Georgia walked out en masse as their Republican colleagues advanced measures that would end gender-affirming care for state prisoners, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein reported Wednesday.The Republican-backed legislation also bans state healthcare facilities and physicians from providing...
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President Donald Trump got a thorough roasting on social media Wednesday after claiming that a lack of tariffs caused the country to spiral into the Great Depression in 1929. Trump made the remarks during a Rose Garden appearance touting his "liberation day" tariffs as the hand-picked audience that included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) pushed back after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued judicial injunctions against President Donald Trump's executive orders meant that Democrats "hate Democracy."Cruz made the claim during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday."Democrats today hate democracy!" Cruz exclaimed. "Now that their efforts to indict...
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President Donald Trump's administration officials have used over 20 Signal chats to give updates on various crises worldwide, according to a new report.Politico reported Wednesday that the practice of setting up Signal chats to discuss highly sensitive national security information is more frequent than previously known. Staff for National...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) used state Sen. Randy Fine's "underperformance" in Florida's special election to revive the war of words between the two men, according to Politico. Fine, who serves as a Florida state senator, defeated progressive Josh Weil (D) by 14 points to become the newly-elected Representative for Florida's 6th District. DeSantis...
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Trump-aligned Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is reeling from a bruising loss after voters in his state — which typically backs Republicans by comfortable margins — categorically rejected a series of amendments he pushed to overhaul the state constitution in the GOP's favor, reported The Advocate."After a string of successes, Landry suffered his...
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Óscar Arias Sánchez, the former president of Costa Rica who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987, has had his visa revoked without explanation this week.The New York Times reported that Sánchez has been a "vocal critic" of President Donald Trump and that the rescission of his visa "appears to be the most high profile in a string of...
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The White House has examined a menu of options to avert a TikTok ban deadline set for Saturday. One proposal — letting TikTok's Chinese owner lease the algorithm to a TikTok spinoff in the U.S. — would probably face resistance from China hawks in Trump's party.
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Democrats achieved their biggest gains to date in the second Trump era, winning a fiercely contested State Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, while also landing relatively strong showings despite losing two Florida special elections. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, describes what the results mean for...
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MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen once believed that President Donald Trump's stated desire to take over Greenland was all hot air — but now he's not so sure.In his latest column, Cohen — who is of no relation to the former Trump attorney of the same name — points to new evidence that the president is deadly serious about acquiring the large...
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Republican pollster Frank Luntz issued a warning to Donald Trump just hours before the president was set to announce his "liberation day" tariffs that experts say threaten to drain Americans' bank accounts as they shop for everyday items. Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNBC Wednesday that Trump's sweeping...
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President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that yet another major law firm has caved to his threats and has agreed to perform $100 million in pro bono work on behalf of his administration.Writing on his Truth Social page, Trump revealed that Milbank LLP not only agreed to do the free work, but it had also agreed to "not engage in illegal DEI...
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Starbucks was facing another lawsuit over a spilled hot drink Wednesday, just weeks after a court ordered the coffee giant to pay $50 million to a man who was injured by a cup of tea.A lawsuit lodged in California claims Sabrina Michelle Hermes was seriously hurt when hot liquid tipped into her lap at a drive-through in Norwalk, near Los Angeles,...
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On the Canadian city of Sarnia, on the Canada-US border, residents say they are exhausted and exasperated over once again being held hostage by President Donald Trump's policies.In the morning, John Perz likes to come with a coffee to the banks of the river that separates the two countries, where the Canadian and American flags flutter. But today,...
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They haven't had much to celebrate lately, but Democrats are hailing a trio of off-cycle US elections -- plus the beginnings of a fightback in Congress -- as the first glimpse of blue skies over a sea of troubles.Since being booted from control of Washington's institutions of power in January, the party has been despondent over its inability to...
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A California man who flew across the country with a plan to assassinate a conservative US Supreme Court judge will plead guilty to the attempted killing, lawyers said Wednesday in a court filing.Nicholas Roske, 29, was arrested in June 2022 outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house in a Maryland suburb of the US capital carrying a semi-automatic...
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Two grandchildren of the partner a top law firm is named after told the CEO to keep their late grandfather's name out of his mouth. In a letter to Brad Karp, the CEO of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Amy and Nina Rifkind said they'd watched as President Donald Trump targeted legal companies — and they're not happy about the response....
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As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."
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Republicans are having a hard time cobbling together a coherent message on the Trump administration's response to the measles outbreak spreading across the country.Health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials have tried to downplay the escalating outbreak, which has killed a child and infected nearly...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed a report that said President Donald Trump told his cabinet that billionaire Elon Musk would soon be stepping back from his role as DOGE administrator.Politico's Rachel Bade first reported that Trump "told his inner circle & members of his Cabinet that [Musk] will be stepping back in the coming...
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U.S. farmers who are desperately awaiting congressionally appropriated funds to pay their bills have been told by the Trump administration that they first need to remove "diversity aspects or make other revisions to better align" their clean energy projects "with President Donald Trump's agenda."A new report in The Washington Post said farmers...
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In a late-night tirade against top Senate Republicans, President Donald Trump—repeating a claim he made earlier in the week—insisted that smuggled fentanyl can be subjected to tariffs, drawing widespread ridicule, including from conservatives. He offered no explanation for how such a policy would work, nor did he clarify whether traffickers are...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has publicly raged in recent weeks about the protests being lodged against his flagship electric car company, and Mother Jones writer Timothy Murphy believes that the demonstrations have been successful beyond their organizers' wildest dreams.Murphy in particular points to a recent rant from Musk demanding that billionaires whom...
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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is proposing security training for president Donald Trump's administration officials.The New York Democrat is introducing the Operational Security (OPSEC) Act of 2025 on Tuesday to establish a new office to train Trump officials in security protocols and to identify counterintelligence operations after...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley said she is "not looking forward to working with” Judge Susan Crawford, who was elected Tuesday to serve on the state Supreme Court."I think the way Judge Crawford ran her race was disgusting...I'm not looking forward to working with her," Bradley told reporters on Tuesday night following the...
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