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Actor Alec Baldwin on Friday condemned President Trump’s efforts to take over D.C.’s law enforcement. “What’s gonna happen next? Is Trump gonna federalize the New York City Police Department? What’s after that? Chicago, L.A., Miami, Boston, and on and on? What’s after that? The NFL? The NBA? Is he gonna federalize them to take them…
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“Real macho stuff,” the former secretary of state said.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) hit back at President Trump on Thursday in another tit-for-tat over Trump’s recent efforts to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., deploying the National Guard and asserting command over local police. “I don’t listen to criticism from chicken hawks, people who talk tough and try to utilize people in…
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On Aug. 4, the National Park Service announced that it will restore and reinstall the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike in Washington. This decision is yet another round in the ongoing fight over the American past. Trump and his supporters want to substitute a comprehensive U.S. history with a purely celebratory one. For the MAGA movement,…
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A new Pew Research Center polls finds just 38 percent of respondents approve of President Trump’s job performance compared to 41 percent two months ago. The worsening performance appears to be linked to disapproval of Trump’s tariff policies, and to some opposition to the “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law earlier this summer that extended Trump’s…
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman said it’s “notoriously hard” to prep the president to meet Vladimir Putin.

A band of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to thwart President Trump’s takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department, arguing the White House is exceeding its authority. The resolution would terminate Trump’s Monday order, something the lawmakers say comes as “the President has concocted a false narrative around the city’s crime rates” which have been declining for two years,…
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FBI Director Kash Patel said early Friday that agents and the agency’s partner made 18 more arrests in Washington, D.C., overnight, bringing the total to 120 since President Trump announced federal officials were taking over the District’s police force.  “18 more arrests with federal partners last night in Washington DC. – 8 firearms recovered from…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a pretty major announcement yesterday, taking his latest stance to fight back against Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting plans in Texas and beyond.   This move comes as Republicans in Texas — with President Donald Trump’s backing — are pursuing a new congressional map that could give them as many as five…
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A federal appeals court panel on Friday overturned a judge’s block on the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), paving the way for mass layoffs to resume.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit panel voted 2-1 that employee unions and groups that use CFPB services have no…
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President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Friday that the administration is not asking D.C. police to directly enforce immigration laws, adding that they must cooperate with federal authorities. Homan’s comments come after Attorney General Pam Bondi sought to roll back the district’s sanctuary policies around undocumented migrants, including lifting the block on local police…
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Former President Obama joined a Zoom call with Texas state House Democrats on Thursday, calling the Republican redistricting effort in the state a “systematic assault on democracy.”  “What we all recognize is we can’t let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by,” Obama said.  “And my hope is that rather than have a race…
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Washington’s top legal official sought an emergency restraining order in federal court blocking a Trump administration move to put a federal official in charge of its police.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday she was ramping up pressure on 32 “sanctuary jurisdictions,” urging them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts. “I just sent Sanctuary City letters to 32 mayors around the country and multiple governors saying, you better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because…
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President Trump on Monday tapped Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to lead the federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department. On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Cole would serve as “emergency police commissioner” of the nation’s capital amid the president’s deployment of National Guard soldiers and federal agents. Cole, a…
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Republican strategist Karl Rove warned President Trump about making too many promises to the American people about the quality of the economy, predicting failure to deliver could cost Republicans in the midterm elections. “On economics, Team Trump is making the same mistake as the last administration,” Rove wrote in a recent op-ed for The Wall…
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All week, Lindsey Granger and I have been discussing debating President Trump’s approach to tackling the crime problem in Washington, D.C.   Our debate mirrors a national debate taking place — Republicans are applauding Trump’s decision to send in federal troops and impose order on the crime-plagued national capital, whereas Democrats and mainstream media progressives are…
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A government surplus auction company that acquired up to $350 million in unused construction materials from President Trump’s unfinished wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is reportedly ready to return them to the U.S. government as part of a recent agreement. GovPlanet was set to sell unused steel panels, bollards and concrete after former President Biden…
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As President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the hopes of ending the war in Ukraine, his long-held dream of nabbing a Nobel Peace Prize has an unlikely supporter: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In a recent podcast appearance, Clinton said she would support Trump for the coveted prize if he were…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of using a drone strike to “sabotage” upcoming peace talks between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine launched an attack on Russia Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring over a dozen more — a day before the high-stakes meeting between…
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South Korea’s leftists and rightists held competing demonstrations in the capital city of Seoul today, which is the nation’s National Liberation Day.   This year, the country celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of Japanese rule. The day also is the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Korea, or South Korea.   The crowds…
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President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are hours away from their Friday face to face meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.  Both leaders will be accompanied by a host of other officials for the high-profile summit that could determine the future of the Russia-Ukraine war, a conflict Trump vowed to end during his campaign last year.…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) criticized Border Patrol as “sick and pathetic” after armed agents made a show of force outside the governor’s Thursday press conference to announce retaliatory redistricting measures. “It just said everything you need to know about the setting that we’re under,” Newsom said after the event. ” That they chose the…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will benefit the most from Friday’s high stakes meeting with President Trump in Alaska. “I believe that Putin will benefit from this, because what he is seeking, frankly, is photographs,” Zelensky told a small group of reporters at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv, including NewsNation’s Robert Sherman. “He…
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“If President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him” for the honor, the former U.S. secretary of state said.