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The overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac called Wednesday for Congress to investigate Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, accusing the central bank chief of lying to Congress. In a Wednesday statement, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) administrator Bill Pulte accused Powell of lying to lawmakers during testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last week.…
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission visited Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Wednesday, promoting his “Build America” agenda for the FCC. Chairman Brendan Carr first stopped by the KELOLAND Media Group studio. KELO is a sister station of this news organization. Along with touring the station, Carr went hundreds…
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Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D) condemned President Trump’s visit to the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” — a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades. “This isn’t about safety. This is actually about Donald Trump building modern-day concentration camps in an effort to disappear people from our communities,” Nixon said Tuesday during an appearance…
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Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Wednesday encouraged President Trump to visit the city to understand the impact of nuclear warfare after the leader compared the U.S. strikes on Iran to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings of 1945. The airstrike committed during World War II within a three day span resulted in a total of 214,000…
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Paramount Global’s agreement to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris is reverberating across the media industry and highlighting Trump’s success in using the power of the federal government to pressure news outlets.   The settlement, which had been speculated about for…
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The Democratic strategist believes President Donald Trump will “see the writing on the wall” ahead of the midterms and do anything to stay in power.

Midsize U.S. businesses could face a $82.3 billion to $187.7 billion hit if President Trump sticks to his sweeping tariff plans — creating the potential for price hikes, layoffs and hiring freezes for many employers, according to a new analysis. The JPMorganChase Institute released two reports Wednesday on the impact Trump’s import taxes will have…
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Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is headlining an emergency virtual town hall hosted by the Alaska Democratic Party on Wednesday, ramping up speculation over potential 2028 ambitions. The virtual town hall, which also includes a handful of local Alaska lawmakers, is expected to touch on the negative implications to health care access from Republicans’ massive tax…
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The senator has warned that it would set a bad precedent for other media companies.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday took aim at the $25,000 cap on the “no tax on tips” provision included in the Senate-passed version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending and tax bill. “As one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little…
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday reflected on his decision to wield a chain saw on stage in February to tout government spending cuts, saying the move “lacked empathy.” Musk’s remark came in response to criticism from a social media user who pushed back on Musk’s claim that “Hitting the debt ceiling is the only…
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Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) struck a nerve with House Rules Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Wednesday while lobbying against the Trump-backed “big, beautiful bill.” “You see, they say they’re pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school, and get shot in the school. Die in the schools, die on the…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted Paramount Global after the company agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump. The settlement comes as Paramount is working to secure a multibillion-dollar merger with Skydance, a deal that will need approval from Trump’s government regulators. “It is a dark day for freedom of…
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Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) will lead a press conference Wednesday afternoon in opposition to what the caucus calls President Trump’s “big, ugly bill.“ The Senate passed its version of the tax and spending bill Tuesday after days of debate and internal division, sending the megabill back to the House. Republicans in…
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Democratic lawmakers are calling out “rogue actors” in the Trump administration over the Pentagon’s halted shipments of certain munitions to Ukraine, insisting many people will die due to the pause. The paused shipments of air defense missiles and precision munitions, first reported by Politico, was done after a review of the Defense Department’s munitions stockpiles and…
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The Rev. Al Sharpton suggested Wednesday that it would be in former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) and New Yorkers’ best interests if he would remove his name from the mayoral ballot this fall. Cuomo lost New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to state Assembly member Zohran Mamdani and conceded last week, but CNN…
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The creators of “South Park” are blasting the planned merger between Paramount and Skydance following the delay of their animated series’s season premiere. “This merger is a s‑‑‑show and it’s f‑‑‑ing up ‘South Park,’” according to a Wednesday statement posted on social media from the Comedy Central show’s account and attributed to creators Trey Parker and Matt…
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House Democrats are calling for the closure of Florida’s new migrant detention facility on a remote site nestled in the Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” citing it as an example of what they argue is the Trump administration’s “shameful, dehumanizing approach to immigration.” Democratic Reps. Janelle Bynum (Ore.) and Maxwell Frost (Fla.) led a group of 24 Democrats in…
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Just months after marking its 4-year anniversary, viewers have made NewsNation the fastest-growing channel among basic cable networks, according to Nielsen, which tracks ratings across the television industry. According to Nielsen, NewsNation grew nearly 50 percent among total day viewers and 67 percent among adults aged 25-54, ranking #1 among all 112 ad-supported cable networks…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday invoked the late-Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) dramatic and decisive vote to sink the Republicans’ 2017 effort to repeal ObamaCare during President Trump’s first term — as Jeffries argued against the GOP megabill. “What type of party would bring a bill to the House floor that rips away…
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Last month, the Trump administration hosted the signing of a peace agreement to resolve one of the world’s longest-standing conflicts between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The agreement, brokered by the United States with support from Qatar, is expected to announce commitments to resolve decades-long issues on disarmament, border integrity, paramilitary groups,…
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U.S.-Russian dual citizen Ksenia Karelina, a former ballerina, said she’s been “really, really happy” since she was released from Russia in a prisoner exchange in April. “It feels amazing. It feels so great. And I’m just overwhelmed with feeling of happiness and gratitude now,” Karelina said in an exclusive interview on NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” when anchor…
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said Wednesday that Republican senators who advanced the latest iteration of President Trump’s domestic policy plan made it worse than the version he voted against when it passed the House in May. “I think the Senate accomplished a near impossible task: They took an ugly bill, and they made it even…
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The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow President Trump to fire three Democratic appointees at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).  It’s the administration’s latest emergency bid at the high court to greenlight the president’s efforts to remake agencies that have traditionally operated with a degree of independence from the White…
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Former President Biden is in San Diego on Wednesday where he will headline the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) annual conference with remarks focused on the U.S. workforce and economy after leaving the White House. According to the press release, Biden is expected to “provide his unique perspective” on “leadership, workforce transformation, and the…
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