Russia launched another major drone and missile strike on Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian officials confirmed Thursday morning, as President Trump ramps up criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the continued onslaught. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social platform X that Russia’s latest attack, using 18 missiles and nearly 400 aerial drone…
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On July 4, President Trump signed into law his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sprawling piece of legislation with a staggering price tag. It will add a projected $3 trillion to $4 trillion to the national debt. Having just celebrated our independence, it is worth reflecting on what truly threatens America’s future — and…
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A watchdog group launched a records lawsuit Thursday to obtain communications involving Emil Bove, a senior Justice Department (DOJ) leader at the center of a recent whistleblower complaint. American Oversight seeks to enforce seven Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests it made in February and March, filing the new lawsuit in the lead-up to Bove’s confirmation…
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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) sparred with CNN commentator Scott Jennings over comments he made Wednesday on Medicaid and steep cuts to the program included in President Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill. As Torres blasted House Republicans for supporting cuts to Medicaid with the legislation signed into law on July 4, Jennings said “according to the [Congressional…
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Former CIA director John Brennan on Wednesday commented on reported scrutiny he has faced from the Justice Department (DOJ), saying he’s “had no contact” with federal officials. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the DOJ saud that former FBI director James Comey and Brennan were facing a “criminal investigation.” “I don’t know whether or not…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) doubled down on his call for the Trump administration to release more material on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, pointing to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s claims that President Trump is implicated in the alleged files. “Elon Musk said that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files, and that’s the real reason they…
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Congress is closing in on endorsing a sanctions bill against Russia, which pummeled Ukraine overnight Thursday. Amid that, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Malaysia on the sidelines of an Asian nation summit. Rubio indicated the Washington and Moscow are looking at a “new and a different approach”…
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) accused President Trump of being “racist and wrong” on Wednesday after Trump complimented Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking English, which is the primary language in his country. “Trump never misses an opportunity to be racist and wrong, and every day he finds a new way to be embarrassing,” Crockett wrote…
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Immigration officials relied in part on a shadowy online blacklist to single out pro-Palestinian campus activists for investigation, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official testified Wednesday. Peter Hatch, assistant director of intelligence for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), said that he was given a list of names for his team to investigate in March, and…
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National Forest Service (NFS) Chief Tom Schultz on Thursday will testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee about the agency’s fiscal 2026 budget request. The request, unveiled in May, includes steep cuts to the NFS workforce while prioritizing “forest management, including timber sales, hazardous fuels removal, mineral extraction, grazing, and wildlife habitat management.”…
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday he believes a so-called “client list” associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once existed but was “destroyed” by the Biden administration. “I think the files existed at one time,” Burchett said in an interview on NewsNation’s “On Balance” with host Leland Vittert. “I think they were destroyed in the…
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The Puerto Rican star flipped the script on the president in “NUEVAYoL.”
Trump’s tax and spending bill does not eliminate taxes on Social Security, overtime and tip income, but merely provides temporary tax deductions
Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he discussed the Jeffrey Epstein case in March with President Trump, who told him that there are “a lot of names associated” with the disgraced financier for innocuous reasons. “I talked to President Trump, man to man, eye to eye, on St Patrick’s Day about this… And he…
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Andrew Bailey took issue with how the AI platforms ranked the president on “a straightforward historical question.”
The cringeworthy exchange went viral on social media.
President Trump’s push for a ceasefire in Gaza is testing his bond with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was on full display this week during the Israeli leader’s third visit to Washington this year. Even when Trump and Netanyahu have diverged in private, they have usually remained publicly in lockstep — apart from Trump…
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President Trump’s about-face on last week’s pause of some weapons shipments to Ukraine has revealed chasms within the administration, with the president claiming several times that he didn’t know who approved the halt. Trump on Monday said he would restart the dispatch of defensive weapons to the country — to include air defense missiles —…
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The MSNBC host trashed “Trumpian stupidity” and said there’s “no way” the president “can fake sounding smart about anything.”
Susie Wiles said it was “not a good ending” for Musk’s time in the White House, but she enjoyed working with him overall.
The president’s hype doesn’t hold the heat, they argued.
Joe Davidson, who wrote the “Federal Insider” column at the paper, said he couldn’t live with the “level of constraint” amid the billionaire’s ownership.
It was mocked as the perfect metaphor.
The president was given an unusual honor in his adopted home state.
His statements come amid fierce scrutiny of staffing shortages following the Texas floods.