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Almost one in three Americans say the country is moving in the wrong direction, mostly due to President Trump’s actions since returning to the White House in January, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Sixty-two percent think the nation is on the wrong track, including 92 percent of Democrats…
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The Trump administration dispatched 100 immigration agents to San Francisco with groups expected to begin arriving on Thursday, making it the second city in California to face federal intervention.  Agents will be dispersed from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Coast Guard Base Alameda, one source told the San Francisco Chronicle. The Hill reached out…
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The public’s approval of Congress is souring amid the government shutdown, according to a Gallup survey. The poll, released Wednesday, found that just 15 percent of respondents said they approve of the legislature’s performance, with 79 percent disapproving and 6 percent offering no opinion.  That marks a decline in approval of 11 percentage points relative…
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The Trump administration on Wednesday announced fresh sanctions on major Russian oil companies as efforts to end the war in Ukraine have stalled. The Treasury Department said it was hitting Russia’s two largest oil companies, Open Joint Stock Company Rosneft Oil Company and Lukoil OAO, with sanctions. The move is part of an effort to increase…
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The constitutional Republican has been unwavering in his stance since the first U.S. military strike on a suspected drug vessel near Venezuela last month.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) gave impassioned defenses of President Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing as he prepares to construct a new grand ballroom. “Just because President Trump has an idea, the Democrat Party’s visceral reaction is just to say no,” Scalise said in a press…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered Republicans over the Trump administration’s new policy limiting Pentagon outreach to members of Congress.  Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, Jeffries first went after Pete Hegseth, the Defense secretary who installed the new restrictions, portraying him as unqualified. He then shifted his criticisms to Republicans on Capitol Hill, saying they’ve…
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Approval for President Trump’s handling of the Gaza conflict has jumped over the past month as the administration pushes to maintain the ceasefire, according to a poll released Wednesday. Forty-seven percent of registered voters in the Quinnipiac University survey said they support the way Trump is handling the conflict, while 41 percent disapprove of the…
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China unseated the U.S. as Germany’s top trading partner, according to data from the first eight months of the year.  ​​”There is no question that U.S. tariff and trade policy is an important reason for the decline in sales,” said Dirk Jandura, president of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services, told Reuters,…
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President Trump hit his lowest approval rating on the economy in a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday. Just 38 percent of respondents said they approve of the president’s handling of the economy, while 57 percent disapproved and 5 percent did not provide an opinion. Trump’s previous low on the economy was a 39 percent approval…
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are discussing extending current government funding levels until December 2026 as debate heats up about the length of a potential stopgap funding bill to reopen the government. Republicans increasingly say a funding stopgap until well beyond Nov. 21 — the funding extension date in the House-passed “clean” continuing resolution (CR) that…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the Trump administration was poised to announce “a substantial pickup in Russia sanctions” amid stalled efforts to end the war in Ukraine. “We are going to, either announce after the close this afternoon or first thing tomorrow morning, a substantial pickup in Russia sanctions,” Bessent told reporters at the…
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“I believe there’s a lot of fake outrage right now,” the press secretary said of the president tearing down a part of the White House to build a ballroom.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) brushed off criticism from President Trump on Tuesday after the president called him a “nasty liddle’ guy” for voting against the Republican Party on key issues. “I don’t take it too seriously,” Paul said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” about the president’s jabs. “I’ve known President Trump for over a decade. I’ve…
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Liberal influencer Harry Sisson said Tuesday he was not amused by President Trump’s AI-generated video featuring himself dropping what appeared to be feces on “No Kings Day” protesters. “I don’t think the president behaving in this way is funny,” Sisson told Piers Morgan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” “I think we have to hold our leaders…
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“I know he believes he’s owed that reimbursement,” the House speaker said on Wednesday.

President Trump’s construction of a grand ballroom attached to the White House — starting with the demolition of part of the East Wing this week — will not be the first time a president has left a lasting mark on the people’s house. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama have remade parts of the building…
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Of all the things to get really, really mad at President Donald Trump about, Democrats are going with — White House renovations?   Yes, the president’s decision to add a ballroom to the White House is actually being met with significant fury by liberals and Democrats, now that the construction is actually under way. An…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the U.S. military’s strike against an alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific.  Hegseth said the vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was smuggling narcotics along a “known narco-trafficking transit route.” It is unclear which terrorist group the boat was…
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President Trump on Wednesday sent a message to cattle ranchers defending his tariff policies and urging American ranchers to lower their prices. “The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the…
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Hegseth equated the alleged drug traffickers to the terror group that conducted the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday said she is examining a Senate bid in the Lone Star state following the Republicans’ redistricting effort there earlier this year. “Every other day there’s a poll that comes out that makes it clear that I can win the primary for the U.S. Senate race in Texas,” Crockett said…
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Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) is pushing for President Trump to fire staffer Paul Ingrassia, who on Tuesday withdrew his nomination to be head of the Office of Special Counsel. “Reminder that Mr. ‘Nazi streak’ still works for the White House,” Kim said in a post on the social platform X that featured a screenshot of…
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North Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to a new U.S. House map backed by Trump.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Wednesday afternoon as Democrats and Republicans continue to see no movement toward reopening the government — as the lapse in funding stretches into a fourth week. Democrats have not bucked on their demands that a stopgap funding bill include extensions to Affordable Care Act subsidies…
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