The Secret Service suspended six agents in connection with their “actions” during last year’s assassination attempt on President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a source from the agency confirmed. They were suspended following an investigation into the attempted assassination, “specifically their actions,” the source told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company. Their jobs,…
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President Trump said Wednesday he was impressed with Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s English during a meeting with African heads of state at the White House. “Such good English,” he said after Boakai spoke. “Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia? Well, that’s very interesting. It’s beautiful English,” Trump said during a joint press conference. “I…
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Marc Short said the president’s trade agenda is “starkly different” from that of the first administration.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) suggested on Wednesday that he would not vote in favor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation at this time. During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Tillis said that when it came to Hegseth’s confirmation vote, he “had already informed my conference that I was going to defer to the Senate…
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English is the official language of Liberia, which was founded as an American colony in the 1800s.
The truth-challenged ex-congressman suggested that the House Speaker is preventing President Donald Trump from pardoning him for federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. will depart as President Volodymyr Zelensky looks to reshape relationships in Washington amid the war with Russia. Oksana Markarova is out as the leading U.S. diplomat, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha. “She is extremely effective and charismatic, but every diplomat has a rotation cycle,” Sybiha said during…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is widely considered to be a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2028, told reporters in South Carolina on Wednesday that he is skeptical — but not surprised — about the IRS’s decision this week that allows churches to endorse political candidates. “I don’t know if…
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday took a swing at President Trump’s advisers, calling them amateurs in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I don’t have a problem [with] President Trump. I got a — I got a problem with some of the people I consider to be amateurs, advising him,” Tillis said in the…
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has doubled down on her past calls to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — but also says it should be “remade” as the agency responds to floods in Texas. Noem said FEMA has been “slower to get the resources to Americans in crisis, and that is why this…
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Federal agencies can resume implementing President Trump’s mass layoff directive following Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling, greenlighting agencies to take their first steps in booting thousands of federal workers. The apparent 8-1 emergency decision lifts the widest block on Trump’s plans for massive reductions in force (RIFs). But a patchwork of injunctions that have yet to reach…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced on Wednesday that redistricting will be included in a legislative special session slated to take place later this month. The governor said in a release that the session will tackle “[legislation] that provides a revised congressional redistricting plan in light of constitutional concerns raised by the U.S. Department of…
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The Trump administration has backtracked on promises to throw open the curtain on any Epstein files held by the government.
President Trump on Wednesday announced plans to impose a 50 percent tariff on all goods from Brazil, in part due to the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged plot to remain in power after losing an election. Trump, who has criticized Brazil’s treatment of Bolsonaro in recent days, cited the ongoing trial…
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Canadians point to America as both their country’s top threat and its greatest ally, according to Pew Research Center data released Tuesday. The survey, conducted during the first four months of this year, asked residents of 25 countries to name the nation they think poses the greatest threat to their own, as well as the…
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Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said during a recent television appearance that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) would be a “viable” White House candidate for Democrats if he decides to run for president in 2028. Clyburn agreed when asked if Newsom would be an “effective” messenger for the Democratic Party. “He’s been that for some time…
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Nearly 200 Democratic lawmakers have filed a legal brief supporting a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs. The brief bolsters a group of small businesses and Democratic-led states suing to block President Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in advance of appeal arguments later this month. Sen.…
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“I clearly was obsessed with Trump. I was mentally being held hostage to something that was just sucking me dry,” the former insurrectionist said.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said she calls on former aides to former President Biden on occasion, following what she described as a very positive experience working with them on the presidential transition. In an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, Wiles praised Biden’s staff when asked about her view on the former presidency.…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Wednesday that she will move to stop additional aid to Israel. “There are some parts of this NDAA that I cannot support, and that’s continued foreign aid and foreign funding, and it needs to come out,” Greene said during Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show, referencing the National Defense Authorization…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) rebuked President Trump during a visit to South Carolina on Tuesday, vowing, “we cannot let him win.” Newsom said during the first day of a two-day trip in the Palmetto State that the people of the country are experiencing “America in reverse,” saying that the Trump administration is trying to…
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Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam said President Trump “destroyed satire” in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “He’s f—– up the latest film I was working on,” the British filmmaker and comedian said in the interview, released Tuesday, when talking about Trump. “Because it was a satire about the last several years when things were…
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Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Whatley said this week that he hopes the GOP will rally behind the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, should she decide to run for North Carolina’s vacant Senate seat next year. “What I will say is this: If Lara Trump is going to be interested, then she is certainly going…
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The San Bernardino bishop is the latest Catholic clergyman to push back against Trump’s immigration raids.