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A man who was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers over the weekend in Chicago has been deported as the intensifying federal crime and immigration crackdown known as “Operation Midway Blitz” continues around the Chicago area. Ana Miranda told NewsNation on Monday that her father was among those detained by federal…
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(NEXSTAR) – In a matter of hours, the U.S. government could shut down for the first time in seven years amid a standoff over healthcare and spending. The Senate is expected to vote on funding proposals Tuesday night, but, as The Hill reports, efforts are expected to fail to advance. If no agreement is reached…
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President Trump on Tuesday said it would be an insult to the United States if he doesn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize after helping bring an end to seven global conflicts. The president said he is hopeful that the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will end with his 20-point peace plan that Israeli…
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President Trump’s approval rating ticked up 1 point to 43 percent, according to the latest New York Times/Siena University poll. The survey, conducted last week, shows a net 43 percent of registered voters approve and a net 54 percent disapprove of the president’s handling of his job. That includes 29 percent who “strongly approve” and…
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Trump, who is from New York, made the threat to starve the Big Apple of funds should Mamdani win in a blistering Truth Social post on Monday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced that nine arrests were made in Memphis as the Trump administration’s federal crackdown on crime began in the city. “Our operation in Memphis is now underway, and we’re just getting started,” Bondi wrote in a statement on social platform X. “Yesterday, 9 arrests were made and 2 illegal…
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In a speech to U.S. generals and admirals, the president said the cracking down on “civil disturbances” would be a “big thing” for them.

He also described what a submarine is.

Democrats are frustrated.   The party’s donor class is openly questioning whether leadership even has a pulse. After losing the White House and the Senate, and failing to win back the House, they say the party lacks both direction and a message that sticks. One donor put it bluntly in conversation with The Hill, saying,…
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) vented his frustration with President Trump Tuesday after Trump posted a video on social media using artificial intelligence to parody Schumer’s press conference with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) at the White House. The doctored video, which the president posted to Truth Social, depicts Jeffries wearing an animated…
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Democrats are furious over how the Trump administration is treating private companies and demanding compliance and censorship. They vow that when and if they are returned to power, they will — well, treat private companies exactly the same!  Seriously, that’s the plan: Punish anybody and everybody who went along with President Trump, made some decision…
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The defense secretary railed against fat service members and hot yoga, while the president delivered his usual rambling nonsense.

Google searches for “help with mortgage” recently climbed to their highest level since 2009, but that doesn’t mean a housing bubble is about to burst. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) drew attention to the spike earlier this month, replying to a post on social platform X that featured a Google Trends chart, calling it “Donald Trump’s…
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President Trump on Monday set a 10 percent tariff on lumber imports and a 25 percent tariff on furniture, including vanities and kitchen cabinets. Trump ordered an evaluation of lumber imports in March, describing the good as part of a “critical” manufacturing industry “essential” to national security, economic strength and the industrial resilience of the…
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Former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Monday he tried to get the Biden administration to issue a preemptive pardon to President Trump during the investigation into Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. “I called a member of the White House, one of the senior advisers to President Biden. And…
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development plastered a statement across its homepage Tuesday blaming the “radical left” for threats of a government shutdown. “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands,” the website statement…
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President Trump is expected to give an announcement on Tuesday from the White House as his deadline for drugmakers to lower prices arrives. “President Trump is doing more to lower healthcare costs than anyone else in Washington, D.C. While Democrats are threatening to shut down the federal government to subsidize health care for illegal aliens,…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) condemned President Trump for threatening to withhold funding for New York City if Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani wins the general election this November. “Trump wants to withhold money from New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins. Really?” Sanders wrote Monday evening in a post on the social platform X. “Because…
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President Trump on Tuesday told a gathering of military leaders they should use American cities as “training grounds” and described a federal crackdown on crime in major cities as “a war from within.” Trump addressed dozens of top generals and admirals in Quantico, Va., where he said defending the homeland was the military’s “most important…
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American voters’ support for Israel has dropped, according to a new survey from The New York Times/Siena University. In the poll, 34 percent of respondents said their sympathies lie “more” with Israel when it comes to “the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians,” a drop from 47 percent in December 2023. The Times/Siena poll found…
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A federal judge has halted plans by the Trump administration to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America (VOA). The ruling, which came on Monday, flies in the face of a plan by Trump ally Kari Lake to eliminate hundreds of employees at the English-language foreign broadcaster,…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Democratic leaders gave remarks Tuesday morning as Congress stares down a government shutdown. Federal funding is set to lapse at midnight, despite GOP lawmaker’s efforts to pass a continuing resolution that would have kept the lights on until mid-November. Democrats — whose leaders met with President Trump on…
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Last week, President Trump’s relatively pro-Russia Ukraine policy swerved dramatically — at least, on a rhetorical level. He said the Kyiv government “can win all of Ukraine back in its original form, territory Russia has invaded [and] maybe even go further than that.” It was a far cry from his position during his campaign, and…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday told the U.S. military’s senior-most officers that he no longer wants to see “fat generals and admirals” or overweight troops. Addressing a crowded auditorium in Quantico, Va., Hegseth emphasized the need to stick to strict fitness standards, declaring that every service member at every rank is required to take…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) slammed President Trump for a sharing a video Monday that used artificial intelligence (AI) to alter Democratic leaders’ comments ahead of a looming government shutdown. “This is all designed to be a malignant distraction from people who are determined to continue to rip healthcare away from the American people…
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