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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee alleged that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Washington, D.C., under the leadership of outgoing police Chief Pamela Smith, manipulated crime statistics.  The new report, released Sunday, accuses Smith of pressuring department employees into falsely reducing crime classifications to intermediate offenses in order to lower the number of…

Several Republican lawmakers publicly rebuked President Trump on Monday for suggesting that the reason director Rob Reiner was killed alongside his wife, Michele, this weekend was because of Reiner’s disdain for the president — what Trump terms “Trump derangement syndrome.” The GOP blowback came largely from swing-district members, as well as from Republicans who have…

“I don’t think Donald Trump is physically able,” the strategist said on MS NOW’s “The Weekend.”

Trinidad and Tobago’s government announced on Monday that it would open up its airports to U.S. military aircraft in the coming weeks as tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. escalate. Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign ministry said it has “granted approvals” to U.S. military jets to transit the country’s airports, adding that the U.S. has advised…

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said her son, a U.S.-born citizen, was targeted by ICE agents on Saturday after he stopped at a Target store. She said her son was pulled over but then was allowed to move on after he provided his passport. “Yesterday after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled…

The now-president co-wrote the 1987 book with Tony Schwartz years before he ran for the White House.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) rebuked President Trump on Monday for suggesting acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner was killed this weekend because of his political opposition to the president — what Trump calls “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” In a post on the social platform X, Greene pushed back on Trump’s statement, calling the deaths of…

The post was condemned on a bipartisan level.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) slammed President Trump on the social platform X on Monday after he made remarks about recently deceased Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.  “Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected…

Some prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill called out the president for his sick post about the murder of a beloved director.

A JetBlue pilot said a “midair collision” was avoided near Venezuela in an incident the commercial pilot is blaming on the pilot of a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control obtained by NewsNation….

The director and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home less than 24 hours ago.

Fewer self-identifying MAGA Republicans say in a new poll that they “strongly” approve of the job President Trump is doing in office, even as his support from the group remains high. In the NBC News survey, released on Sunday, 70 percent of those who consider themselves MAGA Republicans say they strongly approve of the president’s…

The New York Times editorial board blasted President Trump over his administration’s handling of military issues and foreign policy in a piece published on Sunday. In the editorial, the Times wrote that under Trump, “well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s…

The House and Senate return to Washington for the last week before the long holiday recess, and the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies will take center stage once again. The House is expected to vote on the Republicans’ health care proposal, as well as an ObamaCare subsidies extension amendment. The Senate will take up the…

The California governor even tweaked “Jingle Bells” to stay in the holiday spirit. Sort of.

Trump is sending a dangerous message to Beijing: trade with China comes before anything else, including America’s security commitments to its allies. 

Trump figures to close the year with a steady erosion in his poll numbers, many of which are now at the lowest point in either of his terms.  

It is time — actually, well past time — for members of Congress to hitch up their Big Boy and Girl pants, red as well as blue, to do something about this. 

“MAGA Christianity is a cult,” one former church member said. “I know because I was in it.”

It’s “significant, certainly, if that’s something you start seeing across the board,” said the NBC News chief data analyst.

Florida will be hit harder than any other state if ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the year, which is looking increasingly likely as Republicans in Congress struggle to unite behind a plan to extend the tax credits. More than 1.5 million Floridians could lose healthcare as monthly payments skyrocket. Average premium costs could…

A growing number of Muslim candidates are seeking office following Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s stunning success in New York City last month. Last week, an Arab and Muslim American co-founder of the “Uncommitted” movement, which urged Democrats to cast 2024 protest votes over the Israel-Hamas war, launched a bid for state office in Michigan. And this…

The president also fawned over a woman who looked just like his daughter, Ivanka, during a decidedly not-so-merry speech at a White House Christmas reception.

The president’s remark was slammed as “embarrassing.”