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'Not gonna like what he sees': Why CNN legal analyst predicts a 'bad mood' for Trump
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'Not gonna like what he sees': Why CNN legal analyst predicts a 'bad mood' for Trump
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to fix a quote from Elie Honig.President Donald Trump is planning to appear at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday as the high court hears a case over his attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States.Speaking to CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Tuesda...
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UK security officials withhold intel from US as Trump trashes allies: insiders
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UK security officials withhold intel from US as Trump trashes allies: insiders
The U.K. has reportedly ceased a nearly century-long agreement to share intelligence with the U.S., according to inside sources who spoke with The i Paper, citing President Donald Trump's erratic and aggressive behavior, as well as his tendency towards "screwing over allies."In a report published We...
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Trump's reckoning may be coming as even his supporters question his competence: DC insider
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Trump's reckoning may be coming as even his supporters question his competence: DC insider
Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller and comedian Jon Lovett say they’re surprised President Donald Trump’s coalition of young and old MAGA members, and its leading influencers, are finally catching on to a certain truth about the president.“We now even see — even within his coalition, [not just] Thomas Mas...
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Trump just 'unleashed mayhem' with his clemency spree: report
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Trump just 'unleashed mayhem' with his clemency spree: report
Shortly after assuming office for his second term, President Donald Trump issued blanket clemency to the nearly 1,600 people convicted of or awaiting legal proceedings pertaining to offenses related to the January 6th insurrection. Now a report reveals that this clemency spree “unleashed mayhem” wit...
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Trump underestimated Iran’s resilience — and now there is only one way out: scholar
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Trump underestimated Iran’s resilience — and now there is only one way out: scholar
For all their claims of military success in their war with Iran, the United States and Israel have yet to clearly define their rationale for starting the conflict, their goals and their exit strategy.With the Iranian regime having mounted a robust response, the Middle East has been plunged into an u...
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Federal judge delivers 'serious setback' to Trump in bombshell Jan. 6 ruling
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Federal judge delivers 'serious setback' to Trump in bombshell Jan. 6 ruling
With its controversial 6-3 ruling in Trump v. the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court's GOP-appointed hard-right supermajority ruled that U.S presidents enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution for "official" acts in office but not for "unofficial" acts. Donald Trump applauded the ruling. But on T...
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America is in the middle of national emergency — and our gaslighting media is to blame
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America is in the middle of national emergency — and our gaslighting media is to blame
I was triggered by The Atlantic yesterday morning, and simply have to fire back for the record.This screenshot might read as a minor offense, but when piled like kindling onto the red-hot embers of countless other examples of our corporate media soft-pedaling the most dangerous, corrupt regime to ev...
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Bush advisor says Trump's weaponization of Christianity is a 'scam'
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Bush advisor says Trump's weaponization of Christianity is a 'scam'
President Donald Trump and his advisers forget that America was not founded as a Christian nation, a former aide to a different Republican president warned on Tuesday.“The separation of church and state is foundational to American civilization,” Steve Schmidt, who advised President George W. Bush, s...
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Scholar warns Trump is repeating Churchill's worst mistake
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Scholar warns Trump is repeating Churchill's worst mistake
US President Donald Trump is acting like the late UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his prosecution of the Iran war, observed a distinguished scholar on Tuesday — but not in a good way.“Success in President Trump’s war on Iran now appears partly to depend on whether Washington can reopen the St...
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Judge blocks Trump's extortion scheme for the 89th time in bad news for his boosters
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Judge blocks Trump's extortion scheme for the 89th time in bad news for his boosters
Yesterday, U.S. district judge Richard Leon blocked Trump from proceeding with construction of his $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing. This has halted, at least for now, one of Trump’s most visible efforts to reshape the symbolic center of the federal governm...
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Right-wing editor tears into Trump's endless 'national emergency' declarations
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Right-wing editor tears into Trump's endless 'national emergency' declarations
President Donald Trump is displaying nothing short of “narcissistic authoritarianism” when he repeatedly describes various things as being a “national emergency,” according to a right-leading editor.“Much like his notion of what constitutes a ‘national emergency,’ Trump's perception of existential t...
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'Shaking' Trump has 'nowhere to hide' as popularity drops below Jimmy Carter
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'Shaking' Trump has 'nowhere to hide' as popularity drops below Jimmy Carter
CNN reports President Donald Trump may be predicting high gas prices to drop as soon as he pulls out of Iran, but right now the numbers are destroying him.Trump’s self-imposed war triggered the largest four week increases in gas prices since 1991,” said CNN Analyst Hary Enten, and nobody in Trump’s ...
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'Not the owner!': Bush judge slaps down Trump's ballroom
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'Not the owner!': Bush judge slaps down Trump's ballroom
President Donald Trump must stop demolishing the White House’s East Wing in his effort to build a ballroom, ordered a judge appointed by one of Trump’s fellow Republican presidents.“The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is n...
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Trump escalates ‘increasingly weird glorification campaign’
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Trump escalates ‘increasingly weird glorification campaign’
President Donald Trump’s “increasingly weird glorification campaign” has become a “ridiculous crusade” that does nothing to flatter the Republican leader.Quoting The Washington Post, MS NOW’s Steve Benen wrote on Tuesday that the “increasingly ridiculous crusade” reached its recent apex after Trump ...
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Alex Jones turns on Trump: ‘The brain’s not doing too hot’
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Alex Jones turns on Trump: ‘The brain’s not doing too hot’
On Tuesday, longtime MAGA pundit Alex Jones had some hard words for supporters of President Donald Trump: “He’s gone, and that’s it.” While Jones has been an avid Trump backer since his first campaign for office, he now says that the president’s health, polls, and actions in Iran make him unfit for ...
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Trump Presidential Library meets unstoppable force
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Trump Presidential Library meets unstoppable force
President Donald Trump paused his management of the war in Iran to promote his new designs for his presidential library on Monday night. By Tuesday, people who've been in Miami questioned the safety of a building so tall.The new library looks remarkably similar to his New York Trump Tower, with a go...
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Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon faces her 'starkest test yet'
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Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon faces her 'starkest test yet'
When former special counsel Jack Smith was prosecuting two separate criminal cases against Donald Trump, he dealt with two very different federal judges: Tanya Chutkan with his election interference case, and Trump appointee Aileen Cannon with the Mar-a-Lago/classified documents case.Chutkan was nev...
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Former Trump official 'devastated' by reports of husband’s 'cross-dressing double life'
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Former Trump official 'devastated' by reports of husband’s 'cross-dressing double life'
According to new reporting from the Daily Mail, Bryon Noem — husband to former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — has been leading a double life as a crossdresser with a “bimbofication” fetish. When the allegations emerged, a spokesperson for former Secretary Noem revealed she w...
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US Army suspends crew members who flew helicopter outside Kid Rock’s home
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US Army suspends crew members who flew helicopter outside Kid Rock’s home
On Saturday, March 28, pro-MAGA musician Kid Rock posted a video of a military helicopter flying outside of his home in Nashville. The video drew a lot of criticism and calls for an investigation. Now, according to NBC News, the crew is facing a suspension.In an article published on March 31, NBC Ne...
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Key MAGA ally could face humiliating defeat
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Key MAGA ally could face humiliating defeat
Far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is up for reelection on Sunday, April 12, and he has received a glowing endorsement from U.S. President Donald Trump. Many other MAGA Republicans are rooting for Orbán as well, from "War Room" host Steve Bannon to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.Or...
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Trump’s war brought 'strategic defeat of the United States': WSJ foreign affairs chief
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Trump’s war brought 'strategic defeat of the United States': WSJ foreign affairs chief
Since launching the war on Iran over one month ago, President Donald Trump has faced growing criticism as the consequences of the conflict have become apparent. Now following a flurry of confused messaging from Trump on Tuesday in which he suggested that the U.S. could withdraw and leave its allies ...
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Trump’s base starts asking the questions he hates most
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Trump’s base starts asking the questions he hates most
Supporters of President Donald Trump want to know where their money is. It has been a little over a year since he's been in office, and MAGA is questioning why he hasn't solved the affordability crisis. Bloomberg News spoke to conservatives at a conservative conference over the weekend, where no one...
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Trump's pardons cause 'mayhem' as recipients go on 'crime spree': NYT
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Trump's pardons cause 'mayhem' as recipients go on 'crime spree': NYT
The New York Times editorial board on Tuesday tore into President Donald Trump for his corrupt and rapid-fire use of pardons, breaking down the "crime spree" that his recipients have gone on and the "mayhem" they have created as a result.In the past, despite some questionable instances, presidents h...
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Trump tells aides he’s done with Iran: WSJ
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Trump tells aides he’s done with Iran: WSJ
Reports last week revealed that President Donald Trump was growing "bored" with his war in Iran and now he's telling aides he's over it. The notoriously distractible president posted on Truth Social Tuesday morning that if Europe, specifically NATO countries, want to buy oil from Iran, then they sho...
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No amount of moon landings can protect Trump from his failures: analysis
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No amount of moon landings can protect Trump from his failures: analysis
President Donald Trump's NASA is launching a rocket to the moon this week, but that isn't likely to distract Americans from his failures. "The i Paper's" Jonathan Singh explained in a Tuesday column that Trump has desperately wanted to go back to the moon under his presidency, thinking that it would...
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How Trump is using civil rights agency to push a MAGA obsession with white people
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How Trump is using civil rights agency to push a MAGA obsession with white people
Established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was among the many achievements of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. The EEOC has existed under 11 different U.S. presidents, including Donald Trump — whose critics argue that the agency,...
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Karoline Leavitt freak out gets 'unflattering' photo pulled
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Karoline Leavitt freak out gets 'unflattering' photo pulled
An unflattering photo of Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pulled from circulation this week, per a report from Status, after the White House made its displeasure known.While the report about its removal first emerged on Tuesday, the photo itself dates back to a press briefing in late Novem...
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Republicans engulfed in 'bitterness' and 'bickering' as GOP enters civil war
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Republicans engulfed in 'bitterness' and 'bickering' as GOP enters civil war
Republicans in the House and Senate are taking shots at each other as a new civil war erupts with the party over a new funding bill, per The Hill, with lawmakers descending into "bitterness" and "bickering" with no deal in sight.In a report from Tuesday morning, The Hill detailed how the two GOP-con...
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Trump posts Iran bombing video as aides feed him 'stuff blowing up' to keep him happy
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Trump posts Iran bombing video as aides feed him 'stuff blowing up' to keep him happy
On Monday night, March 30, U.S. President Donald Trump posted, on his Truth Social platform, a video of a bombing attack against an ammunition depot in Isfahan, Iran. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the video's authenticity. Trump's aides, according to the Daily Beast's Will Neal, are supplying hi...
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"It’s obvious why Carr, a hyperpartisan culture warrior, would consider these 'wins.'"
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Top Trump official ‘said the quiet part out loud’ about MAGA takeover
"It’s obvious why Carr, a hyperpartisan culture warrior, would consider these 'wins.'"
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How a 200-year-old Danish folktale perfectly captures MAGA buyers' remorse
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How a 200-year-old Danish folktale perfectly captures MAGA buyers' remorse
In mid-March, an activist group in Rutland County, Vermont, held its usual weekly rally protesting the actions of US president Donald Trump. One protester, Marsha Cassel, led the crowd, dressed as an unclothed Trump wearing a crown and holding a staff. Cassel was followed by another protester holdin...
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Celebrity website is now stalking elected officials on vacation to shame them
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Celebrity website is now stalking elected officials on vacation to shame them
The celebrity rag with a pro-Donald Trump slant is now sending its paparazzi to follow lawmakers on break during Holy Week. The two-week vacation began on Friday for the House of Representatives after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced he would not allow the House to vote on the bill. The U.S. S...
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'I don't think I can vote Republican anymore': Trump agenda killing support in red state
, "It would be a mess."
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Why are they so gleefully putting our country, and themselves, through all this unnecessary pain and hurt?
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The uncomfortable truth about who's really responsible for this mess
Why are they so gleefully putting our country, and themselves, through all this unnecessary pain and hurt?
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The president who once said space wasn't important now wants to remake it in his image
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The president who once said space wasn't important now wants to remake it in his image
President Trump is positioning the upcoming Artemis II moon mission as a potential centerpiece of his second-term legacy, according to a New York Times report by Peter Baker. The mission, scheduled to launch this week, will send four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans have traveled since ...
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That omission isn't an accident. It’s the result of a thirty-year Republican strategy to bully the press into docility, and it’s long past time for Democrats to fight back using the exact same playbook.
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Republicans just revealed a secret weapon —against Trump
That omission isn't an accident. It’s the result of a thirty-year Republican strategy to bully the press into docility, and it’s long past time for Democrats to fight back using the exact same playbook.
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Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.
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Inside Trump's plan to remake the world — as Americans foot the bill
Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.
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The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a na
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Why Trump's DOJ quietly dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including terrorism and fraud
The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a na
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'You’re making all this up': DC insider dismantles Trump's claims of victory
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'You’re making all this up': DC insider dismantles Trump's claims of victory
Mr. Trump, may I have a word?Bad enough for you to insist — in the face of all evidence to the contrary — that you won the 2020 election. But it’s another thing for you to pretend — in the face of mounting deaths and injuries, ballooning expenses, and rising prices — that you won, or are winning, th...
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'MAGA is dying': Young Republicans 'eager' to ditch Trump
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'MAGA is dying': Young Republicans 'eager' to ditch Trump
Younger members of the conservative political movement think that "MAGA is dying," according to a new report from the New York Times, and many of them are ready for the GOP to get past President Donald Trump, arguing that the biggest divide in the party right now is generational.In a report publishe...
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Trump in 'danger' as he 'loses control' of supporters: conservative editor
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Trump in 'danger' as he 'loses control' of supporters: conservative editor
President Donald Trump is “losing control” of his own MAGA movement because of lingering high prices and his unpopular wars, according to the editor of a conservative publication.“I think the risk for Trump here is twofold,” Sam Stein, managing editor at The Bulwark, said during an appearance on MS ...
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'That seems so insane': Katie Couric walks through weird facts of Epstein death
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'That seems so insane': Katie Couric walks through weird facts of Epstein death
Questions around the death of trafficker Jeffrey Epstein just got a huge boost of recognition by veteran reporter Katie Couric. Couric welcomed dogged Epstein reporter Julie K. Brown from the Miami Herald onto her Slack videocast where the two talked about the more curious details that surround the ...
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Trump’s mental decline bad enough to 'take away his car keys': analysis
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Trump’s mental decline bad enough to 'take away his car keys': analysis
President Donald Trump's signs of mental and physical decline are becoming more pronounced as time goes on, and according to a new analysis published by The Guardian, his same level of degradation might lead a family to "take away his car keys" if he were a normal person and not the leader of the fr...
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Ex-Republican official indicted on money laundering charges
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Ex-Republican official indicted on money laundering charges
A campaign accountant who served as the Maryland Republican Party comptroller since 2017 has been indicted, court records unsealed on Monday show. The Baltimore Banner reported James Appel's name is no longer included on the GOP's website, and the details aren't immediately viewable online, but the ...
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'Alarm bells' as Trump turns to civil war white supremacists in Supreme Court case
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'Alarm bells' as Trump turns to civil war white supremacists in Supreme Court case
The Trump administration is turning to Civil War-era white supremacists in its challenge to a more than one century-old ruling, based on the 14th Amendment, that states that most children born in the United States are U.S. citizens.Over a century ago, Confederate officer and Louisiana attorney Alexa...
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Rural Pennsylvania towns hung out to dry by Trump’s federal overhaul
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Rural Pennsylvania towns hung out to dry by Trump’s federal overhaul
In contrast to states that are reliably Democratic or reliably GOP, Pennsylvania continues to act like the consummate swing state. Pennsylvania presently has a moderate Democratic governor (Josh Shapiro), a conservative Republican U.S. senator (Dave McCormick) and a Democratic U.S. senator who somet...
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Trump war plan 'total incoherence': Economist defense editor
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Trump war plan 'total incoherence': Economist defense editor
Monday morning, the Department of State posted a video of Secretary Marco Rubio laying out what he asserts are the “clear objectives” of the war on Iran. According to Economist defense editor Shashank Joshi, however, the statement only makes the “total incoherence” of the war’s intentions more obvio...
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New poll reveals devastating reality for North Carolina Republicans
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New poll reveals devastating reality for North Carolina Republicans
Things are not going well for Republicans in North Carolina as they desperately try to hold onto a U.S. Senate seat that has been reliably Republican under Sen. Thom Tillis (R) since he nabbed the seat in 2014. The Carolina Journal cited a new survey from Healthier United, a health care advocacy gro...
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Walmart Recession Signal points to 'sharp economic downtown': Wall Street insider
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Walmart Recession Signal points to 'sharp economic downtown': Wall Street insider
Jim Paulsen, a veteran economist and former chief investment strategist for the Leuthold Group (a Minneapolis-based investment research company), is known for operating the Walmart Recession Signal. The WRS is used to measure the economy's well being, and according to Business Insider's Jennifer Sor...
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How Target lost its nerve — and then lost its business
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How Target lost its nerve — and then lost its business
In May 2023, I received a surprise phone call from a top Target executive. It was after the close of business, so I knew it was serious.“I wanted to give you a heads up,” the executive said. “Tomorrow, we will be announcing that we will be pulling from Target stores some items from our annual LGBTQ+...
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