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Donald Trump is trying to get a grip on “affordability” with a proposal his party can’t stand.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell could result in increased inflation and interest rates. Speaking to reporters on the call for his company’s fourth-quarter results, Dimon said “anything that chips away” at the independence of the central bank “is probably not a good…

In a Detroit speech supposedly about the economy, Trump spent the majority of his time on stage repeating his usual lies and grievances about everything else.

The comedian threw cold water on the president’s claims and slammed him for “doing some weird reverse-woke land acknowledgement.”

Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist top prosecutor hand-picked by President Trump in the Eastern District of Virginia, told a federal judge Tuesday she’s entitled to continue calling herself the U.S. attorney after different judge found she was unlawfully installed to the post. The contention came in sharp-tongued court filings responding to U.S. District Judge David Novak’s order last…

GOP Rep. Don Bacon (R) joined House Democrats to introduce legislation seeking to preemptively block President Trump from using military force to acquire Greenland — a prospect the president has declined to rule out amid renewed interest in the Danish territory. The “No Funds for NATO Invasion Act,” introduced Monday, would prohibit the use of…

Warren got the White House’s attention after taking Trump to task over the affordability crisis in a Monday speech.

A new Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent of respondents support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with 43 percent opposed to getting rid of the agency. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 35 percent of respondents strongly support eliminating the agency, while 1 in 10 somewhat support such a move. Just over 30 percent…

Iran on Tuesday allowed citizens to call internationally after days of phone and internet outages amid violent protests.  More than 2,000 Iranians have been killed amid antigovernment protests, activists told The Associated Press. Some in Tehran told the newswire they were able to call abroad for the first time Tuesday but could not receive international…

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday said his people “choose Denmark” and “choose NATO” instead of the United States, amid President Trump’s calls for the island territory to be annexed into the union. “If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark,” Nielsen said at a…

The MS NOW host on Monday ran through a lengthy series of recent court cases that didn’t go the president’s way.

Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said Tuesday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has seemingly “sold his soul” and is influencing President Trump on foreign policy. “When I was there, you had people like Gen. [John] Kelly, Gen. [James] Mattis, Nikki Haley, other people who could say no and say no effectively. And you…

A new survey from Quinnipiac University found that over 80 percent of respondents have seen video of a federal immigration officer fatally shooting 37-year-old Renee Good, with a majority believing it was not justified. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 82 percent of respondents have seen footage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer…

Podcaster Joe Rogan expressed sympathy with Americans who have expressed anger and frustration at the way President Trump’s administration has conducted immigration enforcement during his first year in office. “You don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching up people — many of which turn out to be U.S. citizens that just don’t…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday decried the news that the top prosecutor in the federal investigation into the state’s social services fraud scandal has resigned.  The New York Times first reported that Joseph H. Thompson resigned from his position as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of…

President Trump is again slamming New York City’s congestion pricing program, calling it “a disaster.” “Congestion Pricing in Manhattan is a DISASTER for New York. It’s got to be ended, IMMEDIATELY! It’s never worked before, and it will never work now,” the president, who is originally from the Big Apple, said in a post on…

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon on their push for reforms within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The pressure comes less than a week after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minnesota. Protests…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said the Iranian government could soon cripple following the wave of national protests in the country against poor economic conditions. “If a regime can only keep itself in power by force, then it’s effectively at the end,” Merz said Tuesday in Bengaluru, India, according to The Associated Press. “I…

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen, who served in the Clinton administration, warned on Tuesday that bombing Iran could risk rallying its civilians to support the regime. In an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Cohen urged President Trump to consider relying on allies in the region, rather than taking unilateral action, to help bring down…

Experts in gender studies and mental health break down why it’s crucial that Trump’s latest remarks do not go unchallenged.

Preliminary numbers on Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace plan enrollment shows a noticeable drop when compared to last year’s figures, an early indication that allowing the enhanced premium tax subsidies to expire caused people to defer signing up for health insurance. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on Monday that 22.8 million…

More than 600 people have been killed during nationwide protests, and Iran has cut all internet communication.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned that President Trump’s proposal calling for a one-year 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates could have “negative secondary effects.” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday that the proposal is one that the House “ought to think about and investigate.” “Like everything else we, you know, you would need legislation to do…

Former British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson has apologized over his links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I did not want to be held responsible for his [Jeffrey Epstein’s] crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others,” Mandelson told the BBC’s “Newsnight”…

Two cases before the court could affect laws in 27 states that bar trans athletes from women’s sports.