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Rahm Emanuel, who is publicly mulling a presidential run, told conservative media host Megyn Kelly in a new interview that a man can’t become a woman, breaking with most Democrats on the divisive issue of transgender rights. “Can a man become a woman?” Kelly asked Emanuel, former President Biden’s ambassador to Japan, on her SiriusXM…
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Trump’s Putin-friendly director of national intelligence wants to prosecute Obama officials for pointing out the facts of what Trump did.

The president’s cringy comments from long ago reemerged as his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein comes under closer scrutiny.

The Wall Street Journal engaged in “fake and defamatory conduct,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged.

Democratic strategist James Carville said in a new opinion piece for The New York Times that the current Democratic Party is “a cracked-out clown car.” “Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not…
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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on Monday called President Trump’s remarks about the Washington Commanders team “petty” and “evasive.” In Monday’s broadcast of ESPN’s “First Take,” Smith said the president is trying to “distract” from people’s frustrations by calling on the D.C. football team to change its name back to the “Redskins,” which is commonly understood…
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When Trump took office in January, he signed an executive order to declassify records related to King as well as John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

The White House is banning the Wall Street Journal from traveling with President Trump during an upcoming trip to Scotland over the outlet’s reporting on the president’s alleged relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein. “The Wall Street Journal or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the…
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Hunter Biden took aim at President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in a new interview, calling both of them dictators. The remarks were part of a lengthy interview in which President Biden’s son made a number of colorful remarks about Democrats and Republicans alike. In the case of Bukele, Biden demanded that the leader…
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Big news breaking over the weekend: In the final days of his presidency, Barack Obama pushed intelligence officials to exaggerate the evidence for Russian malfeasance in the 2016 presidential election and collusion with the Trump campaign.   That’s according to current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. She has released documents from that time period…
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem blamed New York City’s “sanctuary city policies” for the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer over the weekend. Noem said in a statement Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have “caught” a second suspect connected to the shooting early that…
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It’s the irony of all ironies: How could President Trump put his credibility on the line with his hard core MAGA supporters over Jeffrey Epstein?  Trump has survived a felony conviction and was twice impeached and acquitted. He was found liable by a judge of sexual assault, owes potentially millions of dollars in libel suits for his actions and avoided possible prosecution and…
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A woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually assaulting her says she told the FBI twice to look into President Trump, The New York Times reported Sunday. The woman, Maria Farmer, told the Times that she asked the FBI, along with the New York City Police Department, to broadly examine people in Epstein’s circles, including…
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President Trump posted a fake video to Truth Social on Sunday night showing former President Obama being arrested in the Oval Office with the song “Y.M.C.A.” playing in the background. The video of Obama, which seemed to originate from TikTok before being reposted by the president, appears to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI). It…
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The Kremlin is sticking to its war demands, even as President Trump makes new threats of sanctions that would go into effect if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine in less than 50 days. “Russia is ready to move swiftly. The most important thing for us is to achieve…
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It’s just six months into President Trump’s second term, and speculation is swirling about the fate of his Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell. Headlines pulse with the drama of his impending firing, and pundits are debating the consequences — as if such an act were merely a question of presidential will.   Yet beneath the spectacle…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized leakers in response to a Wall Street Journal story that said he personally sought to talk President Trump out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The president slammed the report Sunday. Bessent was asked Monday on CNBC if the Journal story was real and if he had…
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The president is trying to play hardball with the football team.

The Trump administration is very good at ignoring the law. Now it is encouraging pastors and churches to do the same.   Earlier this month, the Trump IRS announced in a legal filing that churches can endorse political candidates. That is directly contrary to federal law, which states that tax-exempt nonprofit groups, including churches, can’t use those tax-exempt…
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Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who once represented disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, says his former client’s longtime co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, “knows everything” about the Epstein case and should be offered immunity to testify before Congress. The comments come as the Trump administration, which had pledged full disclosure and transparency on the Epstein files, is…
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More than half of Americans — 57 percent — said in a new survey that they think the GOP’s sweeping package extending tax cuts and slashing welfare services will increase their health-care costs. Thirteen percent in the CBS/YouGov poll released Sunday said that the “big, beautiful bill” will lower their health-care costs and 33 percent…
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how President Trump has handled inflation — one of his key campaign promises — a poll has found six months into his second term. The CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday also found that half of U.S. adults think the Trump administration’s policies have made them “financially worse off,” and…
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Jeffrey Epstein died in prison in August 2019 and left a legacy of unanswered questions. He had been part of America’s service economy, but there is controversy as to just was the nature of his services. Certainly, much of it was sex trafficking with underage girls. But he apparently rendered financial services as well. Epstein…
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Congress is pushing toward its summer recess this week, putting the focus on government funding amid the swirling saga of Jeffrey Epstein. Monday marks two weeks since the Justice Department and FBI issued a memo stating the disgraced financier and sex offender kept no “client list” and that he died from suicide in 2019. A…
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Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver, two of the biggest names in current events-focused comedy, expressed dismay at the decision by CBS to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “It’s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy,” Oliver said during a recent event in Erie, Pa., adding that he is “partly excited to see”…
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