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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) traded pointed barbs in the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday, after the moderate Republican confronted the Democratic leader about his opposition to a short-term extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. Lawler approached Jeffries when he emerged from the House Democratic leadership press…
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The Democratic governor of Illinois stared down the camera when asked to respond to the president’s jail threat.

President Trump hosted a roundtable of administration officials and conservative influencers to highlight efforts to crack down on left-wing groups, specifically the anti-fascist movement known as antifa. Trump hosted the event Wednesday as his administration has sought to unilaterally intervene in Chicago and Portland, Ore., despite resistance from state and local officials. The president blamed…
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Pope Leo XIV told U.S. bishops to openly state their concerns regarding the Trump administration’s immigration policies on Wednesday, according to Reuters. During his meeting at the Vatican with the bishops and social workers from the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the pope received letters from migrants regarding their concerns around President Trump’s mass…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) challenged President Trump to “come and get” him after the president called for Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) to be put in jail. “You know as well as I do, the president of the United States in the last 24 hours called for you to be imprisoned,” MSNBC’s…
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Six former surgeons general criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Tuesday op-ed in The Washington Post. “The actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation,” the group said. “Never before have we issued a joint public warning like…
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) predicted on Wednesday that dozens of Republicans may ultimately support legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.  “It’s coming to an end guys. I’ve spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they’ve confided that Trump’s movement/support is fading. As one…
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’s (R) gubernatorial campaign is launching a $1 million ad buy following what the campaign said was an influx of cash in the wake of a string of leaked texts from Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones.  The Hill was the first outlet to report on the television and digital ad…
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Media organizations called out the Pentagon’s “unprecedented restrictions” for credentialed reporters, saying Wednesday the newly updated rules “appear designed to stifle a free press,” asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reconsider his stance. The draft policy, released Monday, notes that journalists given permission to work in the building will not need approval from Defense Department (DOD)…
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“I wasn’t speaking as a politician or some greater-than-thou asshole, just a 29 year old man who is just as confused as everyone else,” Zach Bryan said.

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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