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President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan ripped into a heckler who interrupted his address during a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) gathering in Florida on Saturday, saying the unidentified man doesn’t have the “balls” to be an immigration or border officer. “This guy lives in his mother’s basement — the only thing that surprises me, you…
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Former President Obama’s message to Democrats is to “just toughen up” amid frustration with the political landscape under President Trump. “I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said in remarks…
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“President Donald Trump says there’s a TikTok buyer that he’ll reveal in ‘about two weeks,’” read a June 29 CNN headline. The phrase “about two weeks” has become a hallmark of Trump’s communication style — an ever-moving deadline that signals action is imminent but never quite arrives.  Roughly two weeks before that TikTok claim, Trump…
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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, who was a surrogate for former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, criticized Democrats’ approach to political messaging and urged them to move beyond just blaming President Trump. “We pick the wrong pressure points,” Cuban said in an interview on Crooked Media’s “Pod Save America.” “It’s just, ‘Trump sucks.’ That’s the…
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Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who is a staunch ally of President Trump, said Sunday night there should be a special counsel to examine the handling of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Loomer, who has bashed Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of Epstein documents, told Politico’s Playbook newsletter that a special counsel…
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President Trump is touting a “major” announcement on Russia ahead of a meeting Monday morning with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. The meeting comes a day after the president announced the U.S. would sell Patriot missiles to European allies, who could then pass those arms to Ukraine. Trump on Sunday again expressed disappointment with Russian President…
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Former Vice President Mike Pence wrote to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday to commend him for getting a massive reconciliation package that included an extension of the 2017 tax cuts across the finish line. “Our team at Advancing American Freedom is deeply grateful for your conservative leadership in extending the Trump-Pence Tax Cuts, and…
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President Trump is not known as a compassionate man. But if he were, he’d probably be rethinking his decision to gut the federal programs that help families deal with weather disasters. He obviously has no respect for science. If he did, he would finally admit that climate scientists have been correct all along: Fossil fuels…
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is calling on House Republicans to hold a vote demanding the Trump administration release the “FULL Epstein files.” “Why are the Epstein files still hidden? Who are the rich & powerful being protected?” Khanna said in a post on the social platform X over the weekend. “On Tuesday, I’m introducing an…
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Elon Musk, who has revolutionized the auto industry, launched rockets into space and built a global business empire may now be facing his most daunting challenge yet: shaking up the two-party system in American politics.  Put another way, for all of his technological genius, Musk is likely to discover that the same institutional barriers that…
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President Trump will make an unprecedented second state visit to the United Kingdom between Sept. 17 and Sept. 19, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday. Trump formally accepted King Charles III’s invitation, according to the palace, and will visit Windsor Castle along with first lady Melania Trump. Trump is a rare head of state accorded a…
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The newspaper’s conservative editorial board also hit the president with a cold truth about his tariff strategy.

The Oct. 7 Hostage Crisis began long before that dark day in 2023.   In August 2014, my son, Lt. Hadar Goldin, was ambushed and killed during a humanitarian cease-fire brokered by the United Nations and U.S. Hamas terrorists dragged his body into a tunnel and have held him hostage ever since — denying him, and…
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Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer said he was “a bit confused” when President Trump joined the team to receive the trophy for its FIFA Club World Cup win on Sunday. As Chelsea’s Reece James received the trophy, Palmer was jumping directly behind the team’s captain and Trump stood between Palmer and goalkeeper Robert Sánchez. “I knew…
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) raked in over $11.8 million during the first half of 2025, according to her campaign.  Over $4 million of the haul will go to Hochul’s reelection campaign and over $7 million will go to the New York State Democratic Committee, according to a campaign aide.  Hochul ends the period…
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The Trump administration appears to be laying the groundwork for the Fed chair’s removal.

The most obvious explanation for why trust in media is at its lowest point in five decades is that much of what passes for news reporting these days is unreliable — sometimes intentionally so. But there’s an equally credible, though less-discussed, theory for the trust gap: The news industry is rife with unlikeable creeps. Take, for example,…
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The conservative attorney responded to a suggestion from the president.

The GOP’s bill to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding is set to hit the Senate floor this week despite serious — and vocal — concerns among some Republicans over the cuts targeting public broadcasting and foreign aid. Consideration of the legislation comes as GOP lawmakers are staring down a Friday deadline to get the…
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The possibility that President Trump could replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is spinning heads from Washington to Wall Street and beyond.  Senators on both sides of the aisle have thrown cold water on the idea despite rising tension between Trump and Powell over interest rates, and the precedent-breaking move…
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“That’s not the way to win. It’s just not,” said the billionaire.

The president’s daughter-in-law used her questions to praise Trump.

The president has become increasingly exasperated with Vladimir Putin and has repeatedly laid into the Russian leader for prolonging the Ukraine war.

The president took center stage and critics noticed.

Former press aide Sarah Matthews predicted that Trump will try something “very controversial” to change the narrative.