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Former Vice President Harris said on Thursday that any checks and balances to hold back President Trump have not worked. On tour to promote her new book about her campaign, “107 Days,” Harris spoke with journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher at the Warner Theatre to a sold-out audience. “The point is that the guardrails have…
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado and migrant advocates filed a lawsuit against three Trump administration officials on Thursday, alleging that federal immigration officers are violating the law in arresting migrants in the state.  The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado, lists Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, acting Immigration and Customs…
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96 <!– {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment <!–   The Big Story  More Energy Department funding faces chopping block The Trump administration is eyeing major additional cuts to green energy projects beyond the billions of dollars in cuts it has already announced.  © Associated Press A list that circulated in Washington this week…
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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s federalization and deployment of hundreds of National Guard members throughout Illinois.   U.S. District Judge April Perry, an appointee of former President Biden, partially granted state and city officials’ request for a temporary restraining order barring Trump from taking over National Guard troops and sending them across…
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Throughout his second term, President Trump has campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president, his allies and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have renewed the push since Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan Trump proposed last month. The honor, first awarded in 1901 to France’s Frédéric Passy and…
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The dramatic announcement of a deal between Israel and Hamas has raised hopes that a horrific two-year conflict could be at its end. President Trump has been at the fore in lauding the deal, referring to it as a “momentous breakthrough” Thursday. Trump has also underscored what he sees as global support for the agreement…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on a fraud charge, becoming the second prominent foe of President Trump to face criminal charges after he vowed to seek retribution against his perceived enemies.   The indictment came in the Eastern District of Virginia following an investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud,…
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.  “If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work … they’re the problem children,” Duffy said, according to CNN.  “We need more controllers, but we need the…
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Almost every Senate Republican on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “reevaluate” whether a newly approved generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone should stay on the market.  The letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary from 51 of 53 Republican senators…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two charges stemming from mortgage fraud allegations, making her the second prominent adversary of President Trump to face criminal charges after he vowed to seek retribution against his perceived enemies.   She faces counts of bank fraud and false statements…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) said two of its employees reposting a video of President Trump criticizing Luigi Mangione does not violate his right to a fair trial. In a Sept. 23 filing in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, Mangione’s attorneys argued that the government “has continued to prejudice”…
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), the chair of the National Governors Association (NGA), on Thursday spoke out against the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, characterizing the move as an apparent violation of the belief in “states’ rights.” In an interview with The New York Times on Thursday, Stitt said he was surprised…
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President Trump on Thursday hosted Finnish President Alexander Stubb, where the two leaders announced an agreement for the U.S. to add 11 icebreaker ships to its fleet. Trump said as part of the agreement, the U.S. would purchase four icebreakers built in Finland, while seven additional ships would be constructed in the United States. Icebreakers…
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Pressure is rising on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to call the House back in session for a vote on ensuring military pay during the shutdown.  President Trump said a standalone military pay bill “probably will happen” in remarks to reporters Wednesday, while bipartisan legislation allowing service members to be paid amid the shutdown is…
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Former President Obama on Thursday praised the announcement of the first phase of a peace deal brokered between Israel and Hamas following two years of war in Gaza. “After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to…
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The White House on Thursday denied claims from Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro that the latest U.S. military strike in the Caribbean struck a boat carrying Colombian citizens. Petro on Wednesday said last week’s operation on a vessel that the Trump administration argued was smuggling drugs into the country targeted a boat with Colombians on board.…
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The FBI has fired two special agents involved in former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump, according to multiple reports.  On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee released an unclassified document showing that the FBI analyzed the phone records of nine Republican members of Congress in 2023. The document, dated Sept. 27, 2023, says…
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Late night host Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday that his comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination that preceded his brief suspension by ABC were deliberately mischaracterized by his critics. “It was intentionally, and I think maliciously, mischaracterized,” Kimmel said in an appearance on “Bloomberg Screentime” with Bloomberg reporter Lucas Shaw. Kimmel said the situation…
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Thursday said President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize if the current peace plan between Israel and Hamas doesn’t fall apart. “Do you think the president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?” Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie asked Fetterman on “America’s Newsroom.” “Well, I mean, if this sticks. I think that the…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his belief that President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, citing Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end the two-year war in Gaza. “Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it!” Netanyahu wrote on social platform X. The post also includes an image generated with…
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President Trump has said numerous times that climate change is a “hoax” and a “con job,” telling the United Nations last month that it was made up by “stupid people” despite a majority of credible scientists agreeing that it is real and causing massive issues in our world today.   Many climate change deniers claim that scientists…
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President Trump’s moment of truth as a global peacemaker will come early Friday morning when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded.  Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize. “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations…
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) formally nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday for his role in brokering the historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas to free the remaining hostages in Gaza. In a letter to members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the Florida Republican said she was endorsing Trump “in…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously championed diversity in a 2013 policy brief for Havard’s Kennedy School before knocking it as a crutch for minorities during his current stint in the Trump administration.  As a master’s student, Hegseth produced a 47-page brief that advocated for the creation of a multicultural STEM school in Minnesota, according to…
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The government shutdown shows no signs of stopping. But eventually, Democrats are going to cave and agree to end the shutdown, because they have a much lower threshold for national pain than the Trump White House does. Apart from the president’s willingness to target blue states and “Democrat agencies,” whatever those are, the wheels will…
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