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Trump-appointed judge trashes administration for 'unimaginable cruelty'
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Trump-appointed judge trashes administration for 'unimaginable cruelty'
U.S. district Judge Gary Brown of the Eastern District of New York has blasted ICE's detainment of an honors student who was swept up in a raid despite his Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status. Honduran national Hester Asaf Garcia Lanza, who came to the U.S. at age 9, lived and worked lawfully in...
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Trump’s defenders already 'in trouble' over the Iran invasion
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Trump’s defenders already 'in trouble' over the Iran invasion
Prominent conservative, William Kristol — who was one of the most vocal, influential proponents advocating for the overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the 2003 Iraq War to remove him — says advocates for President Donal Trump’s war in Iran are already on shaky ground.“Why did we go to war f...
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DOJ lawyer starts argument with judge at his own contempt hearing
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DOJ lawyer starts argument with judge at his own contempt hearing
Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen and a representative of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were summoned to court on Tuesday, where a judge will decide whether or not Rosen should be held in contempt of court. The first half of the morning proceedings, however, involved the attorney getti...
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Noem refuses to look at citizens brutalized and arrested by DHS
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Noem refuses to look at citizens brutalized and arrested by DHS
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was confronted by three U.S. citizens during her hearing before the Senate on Tuesday, as one official demanded answers about why Americans were being snatched by Homeland Security agents, brutalized and arrested under trumped-up charges. The consistent answer...
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MAGA erupts in anger over Georgia school shooter verdict
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MAGA erupts in anger over Georgia school shooter verdict
Late Tuesday morning, March 3, the news broke that Georgia resident Colin Gray — the father of school shooter Colt Gray — had been convicted on murder and manslaughter churches.According to CNN reporters Eric Levenson and Maxime Tamsett, the case is "testing the limits of who is responsible for a ma...
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The truth about Roundup
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The truth about Roundup
Mark Twain supposedly once said, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,” but there is a difference between a good story told in fun and a story (supposedly backed by independent scientific research) that people are led to believe because, well, science is supposed to be true. And so we...
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Outrage erupts as Trump admin abandons Americans trapped in Israel
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Outrage erupts as Trump admin abandons Americans trapped in Israel
The US Embassy in Jerusalem sparked outrage on Tuesday when it said it was unable to help Americans stuck in Israel leave the country amid an escalating regional conflict with Iran.In a message posted on social media, the embassy said it “is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly ass...
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Trump now burying these 5 'domestic controversies'
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Trump now burying these 5 'domestic controversies'
On Tuesday morning, March 3, MS NOW's Ana Cabrera reported that President Donald Trump's military strikes against Iran had "engulfed" 12 different countries as the conflict escalated and a list of Middle Eastern nations became involved "in some capacity." The conflict has been dominating the headlin...
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Nobel economist: How Trump just made life worse for America’s poor
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Nobel economist: How Trump just made life worse for America’s poor
During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump vowed to protect Social Security, Medicare and other safety-net programs. But since returning to the White House, his policies have defunded the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Obamac...
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Trump becoming more erratic as desperation grows
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Trump becoming more erratic as desperation grows
Early Saturday morning, February 28, Americans woke up to the news that U.S. forces, on orders from President Donald Trump, were carrying out military strikes against Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Shiite fundamentalist dictator since 1989, was killed. And since then, the conflict has escalate...
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Trump eyes strategic reserves as he scrambles to fix skyrocketing oil prices
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Trump eyes strategic reserves as he scrambles to fix skyrocketing oil prices
Donald Trump is reportedly scrambling for solutions as his escalating war with Iran causes oil prices to skyrocket, per a report from Axios, threatening the affordability message he needs to deliver ahead of the midterms.Over the weekend, the U.S. began a joint military assault on Iran alongside Isr...
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US soldiers say commanders are telling them they're fighting for 'Armageddon'
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US soldiers say commanders are telling them they're fighting for 'Armageddon'
People are growing increasingly uneasy as President Donald Trump's attacks on Iran are looking more and more like they could be part of a right-wing religious fanatic's fantasy for the apocalyptic. The Cradle Media's Jonathan Larsen wrote that American soldiers were given a pep-talk about the war in...
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Revealed: 'Mass confusion' gripped staff amid Trump admin’s botched airspace closure
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Revealed: 'Mass confusion' gripped staff amid Trump admin’s botched airspace closure
Troves of messages between staffers and officials obtained by NOTUS have revealed the chaos and "mass confusion" that resulted from the Trump administration's botched decision to shutter airspace over El Paso.Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration, suddenly and with little reasoning at the ...
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US military officials privately refute Pentagon chief’s spin to reporters
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US military officials privately refute Pentagon chief’s spin to reporters
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is in spin mode about the U.S. soldiers killed in Kuwait as part if the new war with Iran, military officials are telling CBS News. According to the report, the soldiers who died were in "a makeshift office space" in a tactical operations center at the Shuaiba port ...
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Rubio scrambles to contain GOP revolt
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Rubio scrambles to contain GOP revolt
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in an effort to head off a potential “revolt” from lawmakers angered by the Trump administration’s decision to attack Iran without notifying Congress — let alone without seeking its authorization — a move critics say violates...
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Marco Rubio inflames bitter infighting among 'angry MAGA elites'
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Marco Rubio inflames bitter infighting among 'angry MAGA elites'
During his second presidency, Donald Trump has taken a much more hawkish and interventionist turn than he favored in the past — from the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to military strikes against Iran first reported early Saturday morning, February 28. The Middle Eastern confl...
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Florida voter slams GOP governor hopeful in brutal letter to the editor
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Florida voter slams GOP governor hopeful in brutal letter to the editor
A voter has accused Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback of antisemitic rhetoric in a letter to the Sun-Sentinel media outlet published today.Fishback called Israel’s Western Wall “stupid” in a February speech at the University of Central Florida. He stated that he had no interest in t...
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Alarm raised over mutual incentives driving US-Iran conflict toward wider war
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Alarm raised over mutual incentives driving US-Iran conflict toward wider war
As U.S. and Iranian officials continue negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, President Trump has ordered a buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers. “This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate,” says Trita Pa...
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Trump's obviously winging it — and it may be his undoing
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Trump's obviously winging it — and it may be his undoing
Trump said Monday that the United States would continue attacking Iran for “whatever it takes.”But what’s the “it” in that sentence? He also said: “We’re destroying Iran’s missile capability” and “annihilating their navy” and ensuring that “this sick and sinister regime” in Iran “can never obtain a ...
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Trump keeps losing in court as lawsuits 'hold the line' against tyranny
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Trump keeps losing in court as lawsuits 'hold the line' against tyranny
Under Donald Trump's second term, lawsuits are proving to be "one of the only ways to hold the line" against his tyrannical impulses, according to a new analysis from The Bulwark, with the administration continuing to fail in court and seeing its war against law firms crumble.Per The Bulwark Tuesday...
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about 12 hours ago
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Former Trump insider explains why the Epstein files 'won’t knock him out'
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Former Trump insider explains why the Epstein files 'won’t knock him out'
Anthony Scaramucci is among the conservative Republicans who served in Donald Trump's first Trump administration but later became an outspoken critic of him and rooted for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the United States' 2024 election. In Scaramucci's view, Trump was unfaithful to...
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It’s a ridiculous idea
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An idea almost as awful as the lunacy Republicans started in Texas
It’s a ridiculous idea
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about 12 hours ago
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Members of Congress sued the government over the policy from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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Judge blocks Trump admin policy in yet another win for Democrats
Members of Congress sued the government over the policy from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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about 13 hours ago
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Let me tell you just whom I feel bad for
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President-from-Hell Trump brings us one step closer to the point of no return
Let me tell you just whom I feel bad for
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about 13 hours ago
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Trump is in a panic.
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Documents show Trump's election theft scheme is already in motion
Trump is in a panic.
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about 13 hours ago
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A result driven by a huge surge in Democratic voter participation
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'Holy cow': Swing state's early voting surges in 'intriguing development'
A result driven by a huge surge in Democratic voter participation
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about 14 hours ago
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Another blow for House GOP as former Trump Cabinet secretary announces retirement
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Another blow for House GOP as former Trump Cabinet secretary announces retirement
Before Monday, 51 US House members and nine senators had announced they were not seeking reelection this year, 35 of whom are Republicans. As of Monday, there is now a thirty-sixth retiring Republican, President Donald Trump’s own former interior secretary."I have made the decision to leave office a...
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about 21 hours ago
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MAGA confusion 'off the charts' as Trump does anything but release Epstein files: ex-GOP rep
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MAGA confusion 'off the charts' as Trump does anything but release Epstein files: ex-GOP rep
President Donald Trump said he was going to expose the deep state and end America’s regular warmaking, and yet according to a former Republican congressman, Trump is supporting the deep state and waging unconstitutional wars.“If you're a Trump supporter right now, you're a Trump voter right now, you...
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about 22 hours ago
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MAGA cries 'discrimination' after Smoothie King employee refuses to serve pro-Trump couple
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MAGA cries 'discrimination' after Smoothie King employee refuses to serve pro-Trump couple
A Michigan minor who refused to serve customers whose clothing expressed support for President Donald Trump says those same adults filmed her without her consent.Janiyah Williams claimed she “refused service to Trump supporters, who recorded me as a minor without permission,” according to a GoFundMe...
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about 22 hours ago
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Trump’s doctor blames 'very common cream' for neck rash that will 'last for a few weeks'
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Trump’s doctor blames 'very common cream' for neck rash that will 'last for a few weeks'
President Donald Trump was photographed from the side during a medal ceremony on Monday, showing a large red mark that some observers said looked like a rash of some kind. The redness was so noticeable that the word "shingles" was number one in the X trends in the News section mere moments after his...
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about 23 hours ago
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'Warning shot': Inside MAGA’s scheme to destabilize Canada
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'Warning shot': Inside MAGA’s scheme to destabilize Canada
For many years, Canada and the United States — both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 1949 — were close allies and trading partners. But U.S./Canada relations took a turn for the worse when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened its northern neighbor with steep tariffs a...
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The 'callous' Trump remark that will make MAGA turn on him: analysis
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The 'callous' Trump remark that will make MAGA turn on him: analysis
Donald Trump doomed himself with just one "callous" sentence, with a new analysis from The i Paper's James Ball predicting that his MAGA base will "viciously" turn against him as a result.On Saturday, the U.S. military joined with Israel in a joint operation against Iran, launching strikes initially...
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'Tone deaf' and 'exhausted' Trump ripped talking about ballroom drapes during Iran speech
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'Tone deaf' and 'exhausted' Trump ripped talking about ballroom drapes during Iran speech
Editor’ Note: This story has been updated.While making his first remarks to the nation from the White House about his military attack on Iran that began on Saturday, President Donald Trump came under fire for taking time to discuss his $400 million ballroom and drapes.“We have a lot of great service...
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Trump Justice Department’s motion to take Michigan voter rolls misspelled 'United States'
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Trump Justice Department’s motion to take Michigan voter rolls misspelled 'United States'
The Justice Department filed an emergency motion at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday against the state of Michigan over its refusal to share voter rolls without personal information redacted. According to voting rights lawyer Marc Elias, the DOJ had some serious problems with typos in th...
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'Mind-blowing' frustration from MAGA as even Blackwater’s Erik Prince slams Trump 'chaos'
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'Mind-blowing' frustration from MAGA as even Blackwater’s Erik Prince slams Trump 'chaos'
President Donald Trump has campaigned for the past decade on "America First" and promising "no new wars." The breach of that promise may not be a shock to Trump foes, but to his supporters, a new war is not what they were promised. Monday's Bulwark chat with Sam Stein and Will Sommer noted the MAGA ...
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Trump allies 'nervous' as he betrays issues that MAGA voters care about
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Trump allies 'nervous' as he betrays issues that MAGA voters care about
Allies of Donald Trump are increasingly "nervous" that he is betraying the issues that actually matter to voters, per a new report from The Atlantic, as he runs the risk of alienating MAGA supporters who backed him for his "America First" priorities.For a piece published Monday morning, reporters fr...
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Trump 'made the crisis even worse' by launching war from glitzy fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago
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Trump 'made the crisis even worse' by launching war from glitzy fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago
During the February 28/March 1 weekend, nerves soared in the Middle East when U.S. President Donald Trump launched a series of missile strikes against Iran and Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei — the fundamentalist Shiite cleric who had run the country since 1989 — was killed. Iran quickly retaliated ...
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Epstein files fiasco creates 'trust gap' that makes prosecuting crimes even harder
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Epstein files fiasco creates 'trust gap' that makes prosecuting crimes even harder
Retired Lt. Diane Goldstein spent 21 years with the Redondo Beach, California Police Department, which she joined in 1983. But these days, Goldstein is executive director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) — a nonprofit that focuses on criminal justice policies and includes police, jud...
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'The big one is coming soon': Trump tells Jake Tapper he’s ramping up Iran attack
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'The big one is coming soon': Trump tells Jake Tapper he’s ramping up ​Iran attack
The bombing campaign against Iran has just begun, President Donald Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday. Tapper said that he spoke with the president Monday morning about what's to come in the war against Iran and Trump told him things are just getting started.In the nine-minute phone interview, h...
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Trump gives 4 different plans for Iran — and 2 different timelines — in 24 hours
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Trump gives 4 different plans for Iran — and 2 different timelines — in 24 hours
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters upon landing at Andrews Air Force Base late Sunday night after his weekend at Mar-a-Lago. What was noticeable is that he appears to give several different ideas and contradictory visions on the future of his war in Iran, the New York Times pointed out. "He s...
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Trump 'throwing spaghetti at the wall’ as he workshops war goals with journalists
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Trump 'throwing spaghetti at the wall’ as he workshops war goals with journalists
President Donald Trump has communicated to the American people through multiple channels about the objectives of his “Operation Epic Fury” — the large-scale military campaign now underway against Iran — though critics contend those objectives continue to shift.According to The Economist's Middle Eas...
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Former U.S. attorney: Trump tried his best to break democracy and failed
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Former U.S. attorney: Trump tried his best to break democracy and failed
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said Tuesday that for all his threats to democracy, President Donald Trump has revealed something about it.Speaking at NewSouth Bookstore in Montgomery to promote her book “Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy,” Vance said that she worrie...
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'We hate you': Concerns grow that Trump will ruin the World Cup
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'We hate you': Concerns grow that Trump will ruin the World Cup
The United States enjoyed a major victory when Philadelphia was chosen as a 2026 FIFA World Cup City. Soccer fans from all over the world will be visiting Philly for a series of matches in June and July, which coincide with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence — the document...
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Call grows to impeach 'the most dangerous man on the planet'
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Call grows to impeach 'the most dangerous man on the planet'
After the unprovoked bombing of Iran over the weekend by the United States—strikes that included the unlawful assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei—the call for US President Donald Trump to be impeached and removed from office has grown as the straightest path to hold the US ...
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Scambling Texas Republicans worry Trump is hurting them: report
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Scambling Texas Republicans worry Trump is hurting them: report
The Texas primary is fast approaching, and the Republican Party is now scrambling, worried that President Donald Trump is going to hurt their plot for a hostile takeover. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that all three-way primary races are likely to head to runoffs after Tuesday's election. ...
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Trump condemned for 'flimsiest excuse for initiating a major attack' in decades
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Trump condemned for 'flimsiest excuse for initiating a major attack' in decades
Senior Trump administration officials attempted during a briefing with reporters on Saturday to make their case for the joint US-Israeli military assault on Iran that has so far killed hundreds and plunged the Middle East into chaos.According to experts who listened to the briefing, which was conduc...
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Bettors make huge profits from suspiciously timed wagers on Iran war
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Bettors make huge profits from suspiciously timed wagers on Iran war
Bettors on the prediction platform Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28, the day President Donald Trump announced a bombing campaign against the Middle East nation.Bloomberg reported that six accounts on Polymarket, all newl...
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The two most dangerous men on earth are totally out of control
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The two most dangerous men on earth are totally out of control
This week, two old power-hungry, greedy, lawless men are in the process of killing countless hundreds and thousands of innocent human beings, while destabilizing a world they most likely won’t be living in a decade from now.Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and the United States’ Donald Trump have proven ...
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CNN staffers filled with 'dread' over possible MAGA takeover
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CNN staffers filled with 'dread' over possible MAGA takeover
Although President Donald Trump often attacks CNN as "fake news," one CNN contributor he holds in high regard is GOP strategist Scott Jennings — a strident defender of Trump and the MAGA movement. Jennings worked with his share of traditional conservatives in the past, including former President Geo...
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Trump’s 'clown car' may be his reckoning: analysis
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Trump’s 'clown car' may be his reckoning: analysis
During his first presidency, Donald Trump famously clashed with a long list of traditional conservatives he appointed — including a secretary of state (Rex Tillerson), two U.S. attorneys general (Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr), a national security director (John Bolton), a White House chief of staff (Gen...
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