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William Daniels didn’t mince words when it came to the president’s plans for a $300 million ballroom adjacent to the White House.

President Trump on Wednesday impersonated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his absence during a stop in South Korea. “He’s a killer, he’s tough as hell,” Trump said at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Changing his voice, Trump said, “‘No we will fight!’ I said, ‘Whoa, is this the same man that I…
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Shocking video captured by bystanders shows an ICE agent throwing an elderly woman to the ground at an otherwise peaceful protest in Durango, CO.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Wednesday directed the state’s board of governors to “crack down” on state universities hiring workers on H-1B visas.  DeSantis called the H-1B program a “scam” that state universities are abusing, while speaking during a news conference at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. “We need to make…
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attacked The Washington Post over a report about footage of immigration operations the outlet characterized as misleading. The Post reported Wednesday that an August DHS post, in which a department staffer says that federal officers were on the job “day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals…
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A progressive congressional candidate in Illinois has been indicted on federal charges stemming from protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in a nearby suburb of Chicago. Kat Abughazaleh, 26, a social media influencer and former journalist running for Congress in Illinois’s 9th District, was hit with two counts: conspiracy to impede or…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) placed two federal prosecutors on leave Wednesday, according to multiple news reports, a day after they filed a sentencing memo describing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as a “riot” carried out by “thousands of people comprising a mob.” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were told…
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Wednesday’s decision brings the Fed’s key rate down to about 3.9%, from about 4.1%.

“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is giving remarks Wednesday afternoon after the nation’s central bank cut interest rates for the second time this year. The committee responsible for setting borrowing costs cut the baseline interest rate to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent, a reduction of 0.25 percentage points. Powell faced months of pressure from President Trump to lower…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary will give remarks on the Trump administration’s push to lower drug prices. President Trump announced earlier this month plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that it says will direct Americans to more affordable medicine. The move…
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The nearly monthlong government shutdown will cost the United States between $7 billion and $14 billion, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Depending on the length of the shutdown, the CBO estimates that the shutdown will reduce real gross domestic product growth between 1 to 2 percentage points.…
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Just in time for Halloween, the president is spooking us all with talk of an unconstitutional third term.

The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, and is set to replace them with loyalists.

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reconstructed Trump’s attempted assassination in his new book, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.”

Overnight Israeli strikes in Gaza killed dozens of children, local health officials said, according to The Associated Press. The Israeli military’s air strikes left 46 children dead among 104 in total, the AP reported, citing figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on the social platform X…
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President Trump will soon have a face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Although Trump would likely prefer to talk about a trade deal, Xi will just as certainly be emphasizing the sensitive issue of Taiwan. The recently reignited trade war seems to show that Beijing is now playing hard ball.  In fact, a recent…
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Vice President Vance on Wednesday discussed his close relationship with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, following President Trump’s suggestion that they could succeed him on a 2028 ticket. The New York Post’s Miranda Devine raised the issue with Vance on the podcast “Pod Force One” and noted Trump has not specified who would be president…
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Paramount is slashing hundreds of jobs as part of a broader effort to trim down the company’s expenditures, the latest chapter in its transformation since the legacy media brand was bought by entertainment studio Skydance this summer. In a memo sent to staff on Wednesday morning and obtained by The Hill, the company’s chief executive…
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Human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States may have committed a war crime with a springtime strike on a prison in Yemen. The group claimed Wednesday its own investigation found “that a US air strike on a migrant detention centre in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen, on 28 April 2025 that killed and…
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A federal judge disqualified President Trump’s pick for chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles from several cases after finding he is serving in the temporary post unlawfully. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright. ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, should have left the position by the end of July, when…
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“The Trump administration has pulled a complete 180,” an administrative law expert tells HuffPost

President Trump floated working with Democrats on an alternative to ObamaCare on Wednesday, saying the two parties could come up with a “much better” option.  “We have to fix health care because ObamaCare is a disaster,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to South Korea.  “When you see the increases in ObamaCare,…
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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Tuesday urged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to stop sharing criticism about GOP lawmakers’ approach to solving the lapse in Affordable Care Act subsidies and present her own plan.  “If this is something she‘s passionate about, put pen to paper, write a bill, present an option,” Moreno said during an…
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President George W. Bush’s march to war in Iraq was a formative moment for me as a high school sophomore in Indiana. Like millions of Americans, I watched in disbelief as Congress, cowed into compliance by the horrors of September 11 and misled by the White House, ultimately granted Bush sweeping military authority under the…
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