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“It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land,” they wrote to senators.

Trump’s former national security adviser is also a big adherent of the QAnon conspiracy theory that claims political elites are involved in satanic rituals and sex trafficking.

Most Americans say President Trump isn’t prioritizing the most important issues facing the country, according to the latest CNN/SSRS poll. In the survey, conducted over the weekend, 63 percent of respondents said Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to today’s problems, compared to 37 percent who said Trump has the right priorities. That’s a slight change…
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President Trump on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal fentanyl and toughening prison sentences for those who traffic the drug. Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act at a White House ceremony, where he was joined by lawmakers and individuals whose family members have died from fentanyl overdoses. The…
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“Release the damn files,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed in an interview Wednesday that Republicans rarely cross President Trump when they disagree with him because they are scared of the president. “Hardly anybody is speaking out because everybody’s afraid,” Pelosi said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “Mornings with Zerlina.” “And there’s real justification for fear because Trump…
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“I’ll say whatever the f**k I want about whatever president is in power,” Andrew Schulz said in a conversation with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna.

Most American voters said they would not consider joining an Elon Musk-founded third party, according to a new poll. When asked in the Quinnipiac University poll if they would “consider joining a third party, if Elon Musk created it, as an alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties, or not,” 77 percent of registered voters…
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Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, a longtime ally of President Trump’s, said in a new interview that she’s concerned that the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case could threaten to “consume” the president’s second term. In an interview Wednesday with Politico, Loomer compared the latest intrigue to the media’s fascination with Russia during the president’s…
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Maine Family Planning filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Trump administration seeking to restore Medicaid funding that is set to be stripped under the president’s sweeping tax and spending package.   A provision in the law bans health care providers that perform abortions and receive more than $800,000 in federal reimbursements from receiving Medicaid funding…
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said President Trump has told him he is not ready to endorse in his contentious GOP Senate primary against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). “I’ve talked to him about it a number of times. He is not ready to make that endorsement,” Cornyn told NBC News on Tuesday. “I think…
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Congratulations, Mr. President.

As he approaches retirement, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis isn’t looking to turn the other cheek.

City dwellers are just as American as those who reside in more rural areas. Here’s why conservative politicians trash-talk them, according to political scientists.

Amid reports that President Trump may attempt to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that it’s unclear if the president has the power to do it.  “Can the president fire Jerome Powell? I’m really not sure,” Johnson, a former constitutional lawyer, told reporters in the Capitol. “I have been not…
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The Democratic Women’s Caucus is demanding an investigation into the treatment of women in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, accusing the Trump administration of “medical neglect” in cases that include the loss of one woman’s unborn child. The Trump administration recently rescinded Biden-era guidance on treatment of migrants in detention, including those detailing…
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The president’s latest Truth Social post suggests he’s digging in and willing to alienate his MAGA supporters.

More than 6 in 10 voters in a new poll (63 percent) disapprove of how the Trump administration handled its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Just 17 percent of voters surveyed in the Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday said they were satisfied with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) conclusions that Epstein kept…
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President Trump will sign legislation Wednesday afternoon that aims to curb the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S. during a bill-signing ceremony. The bill — the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act or HALT Fentanyl Act — will reschedule the opioid as a Schedule I drug, which could result in harsher penalties for…
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) called on a Trump judicial nominee to provide more details about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case as questions persist over the federal investigation into the convicted sex offender. President Trump tapped Emil Bove, the principal deputy attorney general, for a lifetime appointment to the 3rd…
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MAGA conspiracy theorists had to engage in Simone Biles-level mental gymnastics over the years as they have seen countless claims by Donald Trump be debunked or turned into nothingburgers. It turns out Barack Obama was an American citizen the whole time. Osama Bin Laden was actually killed by Navy SEALs. John F. Kennedy Jr. is not coming…
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is seeking to close the distance between himself and President Trump when it comes to the release of the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile financier whose sordid case has rattled the MAGA movement in recent days.  On Tuesday, Johnson said the Trump administration “should put everything out there and…
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With tons of new money and the Supreme Court’s blessing, the United States is making a “global gulag.”

“[It was] a very personal favor, as big as you can get — having to do with death and life,” the president claimed.

Multiple Louisiana law enforcement officials, including two city police chiefs, have been charged following an FBI investigation into an alleged visa fraud and bribery scheme that prevented immigrants from being deported. The U.S. attorney’s office for Louisiana’s Western District said in a news release Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle, Forrest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon…
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