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People are reacting strongly to a video of a constituent dressing down a Republican politician at a town hall — and experts share several key takeaways from the moment.

A former adviser to former President Clinton downplayed Democrats’ hopes of making large gains in Congress in next year’s midterm elections, saying political realities could limit how much they can make up.  Doug Sosnik, who served as a senior adviser to Clinton during his first and second term, said in a memo first obtained by…
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The president opened himself to the governor’s mocking with just two words.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who served in the Clinton administration, warned that President Trump’s personal involvement in the U.S. economy will be his “downfall” and will lead the country toward stagflation. In a Substack post Tuesday, Reich recalled a time when the parties were divided by disagreements over the size of government and support…
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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) invited the Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage to a hearing on Capitol Hill next month to discuss overseas technology laws.  The hearing, titled “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation,” is scheduled to take place Sept. 3.  The committee said the hearing will “highlight how European online…
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During a White House Cabinet meeting, Trump accused Newsom of mishandling California’s wildfire response.

Many were surprised when the disco legend made the list alongside singer George Strait, glam metal band Kiss and actor Sylvester Stallone.

President Trump’s approval rating has gone up by 5 points in the past month, with more than half of the public approving of his handling of crime amid the administration’s federal takeover of Washington’s police force, according to a new poll. The latest survey from The Associated Press/NORC, released Wednesday, found that 45 percent of…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the U.S. taking a 10 percent stake in Intel amid concerns about government interference in the free market. “Chips are a strategic necessity for us,” Bessent told Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday during an appearance on Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria.” “One of the things we learned during COVID was that…
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The president claimed early Wednesday that he amassed the fortune “in various forms and political entities.”

Related video: FIGHT FOR POWER: Explaining The Redistricting Wars | TRENDING In a functioning democracy, people, not politicians, choose their representatives. But as Republicans in Texas have radically redrawn their electoral maps at the command of President Trump, it is becoming painfully clear that our democracy is under siege from within.  We are accelerating toward an autocracy…
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser will give an update Wednesday afternoon on the Trump administration’s takeover of local law enforcement, a day after President Trump floated the death penalty for those convicted of murder in the nation’s capital. Bowser has pushed back on the show of force, citing crime data that shows offenses are at…
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Related video: Sunrise’s Trevor Shirley on Trump’s FIRING of Fed. Reserve’s Lisa Cook | SUNRISE Former Federal Reserve Chair and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen slammed President Trump on Wednesday for moving to fire Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook, calling his actions “unlawful” and “dangerous.” “US President Donald Trump’s claim that he has ‘fired’…
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Related video: Legal GURU Zach Schonfeld Breaks Down ASSAULT Cases As DC CRIME CRACKDOWN Continues | SUNRISE Federal prosecutors failed to secure a felony indictment against a former Justice Department (DOJ) employee accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in Washington amid President Trump’s police takeover, according to multiple news outlets. …
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) over its efforts on racial equity in hiring practices. The Trump administration, in a letter issued Wednesday, said the state environmental agency “may be engaged in employment practices that discriminate … based on race, color, sex, and national origin.” Specifically, it pointed…
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LIVE Video feed from The Associated Press At least two children were killed and two more are in critical condition in a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, officials said. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said 17 people were injured in the shooting, including 14 children. The shooter also killed himself, police said. The…
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House Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ school sports, moving to advance one of the Trump administration’s top priorities.  The measure, titled the Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act, would define “male,” “female” and “sex” by reproductive function in Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination in education.…
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Yet the president seems to be itching to send troops supposedly to help crack down on crime in other American cities.

Democrat Wes Moore mocks Trump’s “absolutely comical” memory of their conversation and notes how the president refers to Moore’s looks.

Related video: FIGHT FOR POWER: Explaining The Redistricting Wars President Trump recently announced that he had directed the Department of Commerce to conduct an unprecedented, mid-decade census of the U.S. population. Like his order for the 2020 Census that was rejected by a federal court, Trump has ordered this new census to exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count.  This order is the latest move to reshape power in the House…
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Just more than a third of U.S. adults support President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos survey. In the survey, conducted last weekend, 38 percent of respondents said the National Guard should be deployed to Washington, while 46 percent said they should not be in the nation’s…
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Most Americans are supportive of the U.S. levying sanctions against Russia’s trading partners to exert pressure on the Kremlin to halt its invasion of Ukraine, according to a new poll. The latest Reuters/Ipsos survey, released Wednesday, found that 62 percent of U.S. adults are in favor of the Trump administration slapping sanctions on Moscow’s trading…
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President Trump will meet Israeli officials at the White House on Wednesday to discuss postwar plans for the Gaza Strip, as negotiations with Hamas on securing a ceasefire have stalled and Israel pushes forward with an expanded military operation. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, said on Fox News Tuesday night that Trump…
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The former Biden White House press secretary shared a series of troubling developments on MSNBC’s “The Briefing.”