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Our country is poised to take health coverage away from millions of low-income Americans largely based on the findings of a flawed and flagrantly misleading study. President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill recently produced the largest cut to Medicaid health insurance in its 60-year history. Claiming to reduce “fraud and abuse,” it will cut essential medical services…
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and as more detention facilities may pop up around the U.S. “There, at some point, is going to be a reckoning for all of this,” Ossoff told MSNBC…
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The number of immigrants lacking permanent legal status in the United States hit an all-time high of 14 million people in 2023 amid a surge that followed the COVID-19 pandemic and policy shifts from the Biden administration, according to a new independent analysis. The Pew Research Center, using the most recent numbers available for meaningful…
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Democrats joined together to vote “no” on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with one senator calling it “bad for our country” and “bad for our families.” But is that an accurate critique?  While the legislative package signed into law by President Trump on July 4 traces its lineage to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, this updated version goes…
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Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) defended Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook and expressed concern about President Trump’s call for her resignation amid mortgage fraud allegations. “What makes me concerned about this ongoing effort to pressure the Federal Reserve is that President Trump has recently demonstrated that, when he doesn’t like the numbers, he…
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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said in a Wednesday Substack post that the Trump administration is “about to ICE the economy” with its immigration crackdown. “I worry, as everyone should, about how a huge expansion of this deeply un-American organization may be used as a tool of presidential power and repression,” Krugman said in a Substack…
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President Trump on Thursday promised “interesting times ahead” as he raised the prospect of Ukraine launching an offensive against Russia, amid signs that the Kremlin could be slow-walking progress on a peace deal. In a post on the Truth Social platform, the president seemed to justify a hypothetical offensive against Russia and criticized the Biden…
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Thursday that he doesn’t expect President Trump to extend the timeline on doubling tariffs on India as a penalty for buying Russian oil beyond next week. Trump is set to hit India on Aug. 27 with a 50 percent tariff, which includes a 25 percent penalty for the…
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The Justice Department (DOJ) is demanding confidential patient information from hospitals that provide gender-affirming health care to minors, including their birth dates, Social Security numbers and home addresses, according to a subpoena made public in a court filing this week.  The subpoena to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, sent in June and first reported by The…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued layoff notices to hundreds of employees Wednesday after a federal judge last week shielded some but not all offices within the agency. “I can confirm that roughly 600 CDC employees were let go,” an American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) spokesperson said in a statement to…
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Nobody is getting under MAGA’s skin quite like California Gov. Gavin Newsom. And it’s not just comical — it’s effective. Every cable news channel is talking about him, weekly if not daily.   Newsom, who many believe is a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, has taken a page straight from Donald Trump’s…
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A panel of judges said the verdict, which stood to cost Trump more than $515 million, was “excessive.”

A White House adviser who is leading President Trump’s review of content at the Smithsonian Institution’s museums in Washington defended the move as shifting the focus to progress, rather than dwelling on past mistakes. “The fact our country was involved in slavery is awful — no one thinks otherwise,” Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to…
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A New York appeals court threw out the roughly $500 million civil fraud penalty against President Trump on Thursday, but it declined to toss the case entirely. It deals a significant blow to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) sprawling case against the president and his business.   In a deeply divided decision, the court upheld…
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There are few women more important in the conservative media ecosystem than Megyn Kelly.  The former Fox News host has her own podcast empire, and is among the most influential pro-Trump voices in independent media. Though initially combative with Donald Trump while previously serving as a host at Fox, Kelly has become an ideologically reliable…
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U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday recounted the Alaska summit last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling President Trump the “Michael Jordan” of dealmaking. In a radio interview on “Cats & Cosby,” Witkoff described to hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby what he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio witnessed behind closed doors…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took another swing at Texas Republicans amid the mid-decade redistricting battle, accusing them of “cowering” to President Trump. “Look at these Republicans, cowering to this guy,” Newsom said on Tuesday’s episode of “The Siren Podcast,” referring to Trump. “Look at your Republican governor, used to claim to be a conservative.…
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Google will provide a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services to federal agencies for 47 cents each, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced Thursday.  Federal agencies will have access to Gemini for Government at the discounted price through 2026. The announcement follows similar moves by OpenAI and Anthropic to offer their AI products…
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday she will embark on a book tour across 15 cities, including in the United Kingdom and Canada, for her memoir titled “107 Days.” The book on her presidential run is set to go on sale Sept. 23, and Harris will start her tour Sept. 24 in New York…
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The Japanese company announced a base model now costs about $550. It previously cited Trump’s tariffs as a reason for potential price increases.

Dr. James Dobson, a child psychologist and minister who became one of the most influential figures in America’s Christian conservative movement, has died at 89. Dobson founded the influential Focus on the Family evangelical group in the 1970s, advised five presidents and hosted a weekly radio show that was broadcast by 1,500 stations with half…
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Military attorneys will be working alongside D.C.-based federal prosecutors, taking on civilian cases as President Trump ramps up the takeover of local law enforcement in the nation’s capital. Twenty members of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps will be detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., a spokesman confirmed. “The assignment of 20 JAGs…
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White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields is leaving his post for GOP lobbying and public affairs firm CGCN Group, marking one of the first major departures of President Trump’s second term. Fields’s last day at the White House is Friday, he shared on social media, calling his role in the Trump administration “the…
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President Trump on Thursday re-upped his call for Colorado to free Tina Peters, a state election official who was convicted of multiple felonies after breaching voting equipment in the 2020 election, warning he would take “harsh measures” if she is not released. “FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by…
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) denounced President Trump’s threat to deploy National Guard troops to help combat crime in California as an “absolute” violation of the law. “Absolute, complete, transparent, blatant, brazen violation of the law. The Posse Comitatus Act said you cannot use military to engage in civilian law enforcement on American soil.…
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