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.
Members of the Diocese of San Bernardino were relieved of the obligation to attend Mass and encouraged to take up personal prayer on Tuesday in light of the increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids throughout the state of California. “All members of the faithful in the Diocese of San Bernardino who, due to…
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The CNN host accused the Trump administration of withholding information after the DOJ and FBI said no evidence exists of a Jeffrey Epstein client list.
President Trump’s administration is sanctioning the United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday over her political “warfare” against Israel. “Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials,…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) lashed out at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI on Wednesday over their memo saying disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not leave behind a “client list” after dying in prison in 2019. “I think the Department of Justice and the FBI has more explaining to…
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said the relationship between President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had a “troublesome ending,” despite the close and almost fatherly relationship the two shared. In an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, Wiles was asked how she would describe the relationship and expressed that…
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Editor’s Note: This story was updated to correct the byline. We regret the error. Iran’s missile attack against the Al Udeid U.S. Air Force base in Qatar reveals an inconvenient fact: The U.S. base there is a military liability. Worse, it is also a political liability, granting Qatar, with its anti-American agenda, too much leverage over U.S.…
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered an organizer of President Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse to pay $2,000 a day until she complies with a subpoena for records about her involvement in the event. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren’s “pattern of disregard and non-engagement” has unnecessarily delayed…
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says it is his “hope” that the Senate passes legislation to place tough sanctions on Russia by the August recess through a bipartisan proposal sponsored by President Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Senate Republicans are feeling more confident about passing Russia sanctions legislation this month after Trump criticized…
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President Trump told reporters Wednesday he hadn’t thought about who inside his administration ordered the pause in shipments of munitions to Ukraine, as the Defense Department is expected to resume weapons shipments to Kyiv. At a Tuesday Cabinet meeting, the president was asked who had approved the weapons halt; he replied, “I don’t know. Why…
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The United States on Wednesday announced a new round of sanctions targeting Iran’s “shadow banking” network involved in the illicit trade of Iranian oil designed to fund Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Force. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said the sanctions will target 22 entities based in Hong…
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The threat of detention or deportation by ICE has left many survivors too scared to seek help from police or the legal system.
Suspension of foreign aid costs lives but does not upset voters. On the day he took office, President Trump declared that U.S. foreign aid is “not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values,” and ordered a 90-day suspension of its delivery pending review of all programs. In February, Elon Musk’s Department of…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday accused President Trump’s administration of kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin, rather than standing up for Ukraine, as the war between the countries stretches more than three years after Moscow’s invasion. “There’s strong bipartisan support for sanctions against Vladimir Putin and Russia, and it’s unfortunate that the…
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Conservative podcaster Patrick Bet-David joined Fox News on Tuesday to share unbridled criticism over how the administration handled a recent issue.
HuffPost first reported the planned move against Francesca Albanese that comes amid a Washington visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Justice Department took legal action Wednesday against California over the state’s refusal to comply with orders from the Trump administration to ban transgender girls from girls’ school sports teams. The department’s Civil Rights Division sued the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), which oversees high school sports in the state, over…
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Elon Musk’s favorability dropped again this past week amid his renewed feud with President Trump and move to launch a separate political party. In the last week, Musk’s net favorability in the aggregate kept by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) dropped 3.4 points, falling just more than 20 points in the negative. The percentage that view…
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