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President Trump on Friday afternoon is expected to make an announcement from the White House. The announcement comes after former national security adviser John Bolton’s home near the nation’s capital was raided by FBI agents. During his visit to The People’s House museum in Washington on Friday morning, the president said he “knew nothing about…
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President Trump said Friday he would fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook over allegations she committed mortgage fraud if she does not resign, which Cook has indicated she will not do. “Yeah, I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign. What she did was bad. So I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign,” Trump told reporters…
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Heading into the Jackson Hole Economic Summit, investors focused on how Jerome Powell’s message might differ from his assessment of the economy at the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting.   Powell indicated then that the decision to keep the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25 to 4.50 percent reflected the Fed’s view that labor market conditions were…
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The FBI’s raid at the home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton is drawing renewed attention to the president’s past criticism of the former White House official. Trump and Bolton have long clashed following their time working together in Trump’s first term, and the president has previously called for the hawkish former adviser…
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President Trump said Friday he was not given advance notice of an FBI search of former national security adviser John Bolton’s home but criticized his former aide as a “low life” and suggested he could be “very unpatriotic.” “He’s not a smart guy. But he could be a very unpatriotic guy. We’re going to find…
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The European Union’s (EU) top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “laughing” at President Trump’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.  Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said the president’s push to end the conflict in Eastern Europe is “welcome,” but that the Russian leader is…
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Third Way, a prominent center-left think tank, is aiming to shape the way Democrats speak to voters as they try to counter President Trump’s agenda, including avoiding words such as “birthing person,” “cisgender,” “the unhoused” and “Latinx.” “In reality, most Democrats do not run or govern on wildly out-of-touch social positions,” the group alleged in…
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The White House on Thursday unveiled a list of 20 Smithsonian exhibits the Trump administration alleges are being used to frame historical events through “ideological” narratives instead of factual evidence. Items categorized as unacceptable include an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Latino that portrays the U.S. as stolen land and characterizes U.S.…
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Some of the highest-profile arrests during the D.C. “crime emergency” are of immigrants — especially delivery workers for companies like DoorDash.

Russia is not ready to agree to a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Moscow’s top diplomat. “Putin is ready to meet with Zelensky when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC News’s Kristen Welker…
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke on the economy Friday morning in Wyoming as President Trump continues to prod the nation’s central bank for interest rate cuts. Powell, after announcing in July that the Fed would keep rates steady for the fifth straight month, justified the decision by pointing to a “strong” jobs report and…
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I have previously attributed the troubling rise of national political polarization to the erosion of the middle class — a deep concern of thinkers as far removed in time and space as Aristotle and James Madison.  But what about the link between the rise of polarization and the concentration of power in the person of the president? James…
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President Trump sent a warning to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) early Friday, threatening to extend the federal takeover of local police in the nation’s capital citing “inaccurate” crime reporting data. “Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN! The crowds are coming back, the spirit is high, and our D.C. National Guard and Police are doing a…
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The president laid it on thick about his embattled attorney general.

The FBI reportedly raided the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, who has been a vocal critic of Trump and the White House, early Friday. The search, two sources told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, is related to classified documents. GOP state lawmakers in Texas are also slated to approve new voting maps…
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Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, knocked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday, after a federal judge ruled she lacks the authority to serve as the Garden State’s top federal prosecutor.  “Number one, I was the nominee to become the U.S. attorney. And [Democratic New Jersey Sens.] Cory Booker and Andy Kim,…
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Federal agents raided the Washington-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning. FBI Director Kash Patel wrote “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” in a post on X at 7 a.m. EDT, shortly before the New York Post broke the news of the raid.  The…
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The California governor spelled out his serious reason for mimicking the president.

No matter how much President Trump is working to remove any mention of Jeffrey Epstein from the front pages, time is working against him.  When Congress returns in a few short weeks, after some members spent the August recess having to answer angry questions from constituents about why the administration refuses to release the oft-promised…
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A widening battle for control of the U.S. central bank, considered an anchor institution of the global financial system, seems to already be underway.

The animated satire has been boldly calling out the president’s administration in real time as other entities have cowered.

Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) is taking a novel approach to selling the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” in his district: Using his official office funds on a slick digital video ad campaign to promote key tax pieces of the legislation. One 30-second ad launching Friday, first previewed to The Hill, features waitress Erika Pirtle from Whisky…
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When President Trump sat down for a high-stakes meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, there were two men by his side: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff. When Trump phoned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders from Air Force One after the meeting, it was Witkoff and Rubio sitting nearby…
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“There is no silver lining,” one analyst told the newspaper.

He also brought up the subject earlier this week during another interview.