The “Late Night” host took on the president’s restaurant boast in the Oval Office.
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The former “Meet the Press” host said he expects the president will eventually throw his health secretary “overboard.”
Bolton served under Trump for 17 months during his first term as president.
The president has claimed the current name is too “politically correct.”
David Frum argued that Congress has “lost control” of one of its key powers after the president turned to his “completely ludicrous theory.”
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to ProPublica reporting about Trump Cabinet members’ mortgages, saying that “the hypocrisy of the Trump administration is nothing short of staggering.” “Donald Trump has made mortgage fraud accusations his weapon of choice to attack people standing in his way and people standing up to him, like me,” Schiff…
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An appeals court issued a Thursday order halting the dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration’s migrant detention site based in the Florida Everglades. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit overturned a lower court’s order that deemed the site a threat to the environment. Judge Barbara Lagoa and…
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It wasn’t only Democrats confronting President Trump’s health secretary during a heated hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. Three Republican senators — Bill Cassidy (La.), Thom Tillis (S.C.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) — also harshly questioned Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his opinion on Trump’s COVID-19 response, changes to vaccine oversight…
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President Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order Friday formally renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the White House confirmed. Trump had in recent days signaled the change was coming, pointing to the history behind the name and his belief that it better reflected the Pentagon’s offensive operations. Fox News first…
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The Trump administration has offered few details about a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that it has asserted killed 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, fueling questions as to whether it violated maritime law or human rights conventions. President Trump, who announced Tuesday that American forces destroyed a vessel from Venezuela allegedly…
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The prosecution of Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown is not going well for the former Fox News personality.
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed “maximum protection” for Ukraine’s skies on Thursday during a call as the country continues to come under aerial bombardment by Russia with little progress toward peace talks in recent weeks. Zelensky said he and the president had a “very detailed” conversation after Thursday’s meeting of the so-called…
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Texas lawmakers voted late Wednesday to ban transgender people from public restrooms that match their gender identity, sending the measure to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott after nearly a decade of failed attempts. Texas Senate Bill 8 bars transgender people from using multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing rooms that align with their identity in schools and government-owned…
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President Trump took his fight to fire Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leaders without cause to the Supreme Court on Thursday, a move that could prompt the justices to overrule a key precedent blessing removal protections at the agency for decades. Trump’s bid to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat appointed to the FTC in 2018, comes as…
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Chicago has unveiled new tools for immigrants in the community to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will soon begin cracking down on crime and illegal immigration in the Democratic-run city. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and the city’s Office of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights (IMRR) rolled out an updated website with…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has appealed a court’s ruling that threw out a colossal penalty imposed upon President Trump and his business empire but kept her sprawling civil fraud case against him intact. Her office filed a notice of appeal Thursday with New York’s highest court, signaling its intention to challenge a midlevel appeals…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his tenure as the nation’s top health official during a contentious Senate hearing Thursday, snapping back at lawmakers who pressed him on the recent upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and changes to vaccine policy. During roughly three hours of testimony, the Health and Human Services…
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The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers.
Trump spread rumors about the mental and physical health of Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over the past decade
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday it would expand eligibility for catastrophic health insurance plans with new hardship exemption guidance. Applicants will be able to apply for catastrophic health coverage on Nov. 1, which will grant them access to lower monthly premiums and at least three primary care visits pre-deductible. “Catastrophic…
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Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Wednesday evening warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky not to attend a Moscow summit floated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I’ll give a free piece of advice to President Zelensky: Don’t go to Moscow. They don’t have your best interests at heart,” Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services…
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The federal agency tasked with issuing visas and green cards to immigrants will soon expand its ranks to law enforcement, adding armed officers to root out immigration fraud. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) provided details about the plans Thursday after a federal rule change was finalized under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi…
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“I put my hope in you when I voted for you … and you can’t even back us when we need you the most?” the survivor and former Trump voter asked.
The question of Federal Reserve independence took center stage Thursday at the confirmation hearing of Stephen Miran, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, whom President Trump nominated for a seat on the Fed board of governors. Both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee wanted to know if Miran would be…
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