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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Wednesday that peace negotiations with Ukraine have been stalled since the August Alaska summit, where President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin made commitments to cooling the conflict in Eastern Europe.  “We have to acknowledge that the strong momentum created in Anchorage toward reaching agreements has been largely…
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President Trump is holding a roundtable Wednesday afternoon at the White House centered on antifa, an anti-fascist movement. Trump last month signed an order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, following through on a pledge in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to crack down on left-wing groups. The move has received pushback from…
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Virginia Giuffre’s brother on Tuesday said it’s “hurtful” that President Trump declined to rule out issuing a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and girlfriend. “It’s hurtful for a lot of survivors out there. It’s hurtful for me, as a family member, to even hear the potential for a pardon — that he…
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I know more about Bugs Bunny than I will ever know about Bad Bunny. But here’s what I do know: Bad Bunny is a wildly popular rapper from Puerto Rico. He’s no fan of Donald Trump — surprise, surprise — and he’ll be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show next February in Santa Clara, Calif. Bunny…
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Former White House aide Steve Bannon bemoaned that former FBI Director James Comey did not walk through the front door of the Virginia courthouse where he was arraigned Wednesday on charges linked to his 2020 congressional testimony about the investigation into Russian ties to President Trump’s 2016 campaign. “They slipped Comey in through another entrance,…
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Americans embrace change but recoil from chaos. This is the third time that the federal government has shut down while Donald Trump has been president. One shutdown may be an accident, twice a coincidence but the third time is an ominous pattern, three strikes and MAGA is out.   A new national survey of adult Americans…
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a bill to end the government shutdown for a sixth time, as the funding lapse enters its second week with little headway made toward a resolution. Senators voted 54-45 on the GOP’s “clean” stopgap spending package that would fund the government through late November. It needed 60 votes to advance.…
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he would “strongly discourage” President Trump from pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after Trump declined to rule out the possibility. In an interview on CNN’s “The Lead,” Comer pointed to the dearth of evidence he’s reviewed…
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Trump first threatened to revoke the comedian’s U.S. citizenship in July.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker condemned the president’s “full-blown authoritarianism.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D), responding to President Trump’s remarks that he and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) should be arrested, called Trump “unstable” and “unhinged.” “First of all, this president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that, quite frankly, is a threat to our democracy,” Johnson said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Situation…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has aggressively recast himself from a genial moderate happy to banter with Charlie Kirk to a full-time Donald Trump antagonist at the helm of a party with zero leadership. The transformation has its awkward moments. When someone mailed him a Trump 2028 hat, clearly as a joke, Newsom claimed it proved…
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Congress is locked in a standoff that’s about to hit millions of Americans right in the wallet.    The government shutdown continues, and one of the biggest casualties could be — health care. If lawmakers don’t extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies put in place during COVID, health insurance premiums for more than 20 million people…
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made clear Democrats are not backing down from their health care demands, as the U.S. government enters its second week of a shutdown. In a heavily produced video posted to social platform X, the Democratic leader blamed his opponents for the shutdown and outlined the reasons his party is…
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President Trump has openly lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize, and late-night TV host Seth Meyers says there’s a specific reason it may just be time to award it to him. “Nobel Prize winners are set to be announced this week,” Meyers, a frequent Trump critic, said during his Tuesday monologue on NBC’s “Late Night.” “Look, I know he doesn’t…
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Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D) called Democratic state attorney general nominee Jay Jones’s recently unearthed violent text messages about former state House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R) “indefensible” but said he still ultimately supports the Democrat.  “Jay has apologized. The statements that he made were indefensible, but I’ve known Jay Jones for 25 years, and I…
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The IRS shared guidance Wednesday suggesting furloughed employees are guaranteed back pay under a 2019 law despite White House objections.  “Although you will be placed in non-pay and non-duty status during the furlough, the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 requires employees of the federal government who are furloughed or required to work during…
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”I mean, listen to this stuff that he puts out day by day. It’s completely untethered to reality,” George Conway said.

Ten House Democrats are pressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring the chamber back by next week to pass a bill to pay service members before funding runs out due to the ongoing government shutdown, though the Louisiana Republican said that won’t be happening. In a Wednesday letter led by Democratic Reps. Gabe Vasquez (N.M.) and Derek…
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House Democratic leaders will speak with reporters Wednesday afternoon as the Senate takes up another vote on stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government a week after the shutdown began. Democrats have thus far held firm on their demands for health care concessions to be included in any funding bill. House Minority Leader Hakeem…
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Book publisher HarperCollins UK issued an apology Tuesday after a recent book made claims that first lady Melania Trump was introduced to her husband through convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The publisher worked with Andrew Lownie, author of “Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York,” to remove “several passages of the book…
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Former White House attorney Ty Cobb, who served during President Trump’s first term, lambasted Attorney General Pam Bondi for her combative congressional testimony on Tuesday. In an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” Cobb said Bondi’s tenure as the country’s chief law enforcement official has been more “reprehensible” than that of Nixon-era Attorney General John…
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A Senate panel on Wednesday will look into government pressure on social media platforms to censor speech protected under the First Amendment. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing centered on what’s known as “jawboning” comes as the protection of free speech has been in the spotlight following the death of conservative activist Charlie…
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The Senate is set to vote again Wednesday on dueling stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government as the shutdown stretches past the one-week mark. Senators on Monday voted 52-42 on a House-passed bill, which needed 60 votes to advance and would have funded the government at Biden-era spending levels until late November. The…
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Nearly 60 percent of Americans say the U.S. government should only deploy the military when faced with external threats, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Wednesday, found that 58 percent of respondents believe the military should only be utilized for external threats, while 25 percent believe the military can be used for…
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