The president told thousands of members of the military that Democrats are “gnats that “we have to take care of.”
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday said that hundreds of Texas National Guard members were headed to his state and Oregon and labeled it “Trump’s Invasion.” “This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from…
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British primatologist and scientist Jane Goodall, who died last week, she in one of her last interviews that she wanted to send President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, alongside others she didn’t like, into space. “There are people I don’t like. And I would like to put them on one of [Elon] Musk’s spaceships…
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President Trump said Sunday that talks with the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been “very successful, and proceeding rapidly.” “There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries from all over the World (Arab, Muslim, and everyone else) this weekend, to release the Hostages, end the War in Gaza but, more importantly, finally have…
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President Trump on Sunday told Navy sailors not to “worry about” their paychecks that are being held back by the current government shutdown. “As your commander in chief, I will always stand for you. I promise you that,” Trump said at a celebration of the Navy’s 250th anniversary. “You know that, that’s why you voted…
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The workers, all of whom volunteered in Gaza’s hospitals, hope to share their harrowing testimony with the president to usher in a permanent ceasefire.
Sen. Cory Booker pleaded with Trump to “come to the table” and help Americans.
President Trump on Sunday revealed a new detail about the hyped UFC fight set to take place on the South Lawn of the White House: It’ll occur on June 14, which is also his 80th birthday. In remarks in Norfolk, Va., at a celebration of the Navy’s 250th anniversary, the president reveled in the major…
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield on Sunday said he is “preparing to take legal action” against President Trump for sending California National Guard troops to the Beaver State. “We are quickly assessing our options and preparing to take legal action. We’ll continue to share updates as we have them,” Rayfield said in a post on…
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Trump also made the wild claim that “no company will move to New York” because of his political foe, Letitia James.
The Illinois governor said the administration is creating “mayhem on the ground” to justify the recent deployment of 300 National Guard troops to the city.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that “no Democrat” in Congress is attempting to expand health care benefits to migrants without legal status. “Federal law clearly prohibits the expenditure of taxpayer dollars to provide health care to undocumented immigrants. Period, full stop,” Jeffries said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And no Democrat on…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Sunday that the Trump administration is deploying 300 of his state’s National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., and he vowed he would sue over the move. On Saturday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to the state’s largest city. U.S. District…
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A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, including the California National Guard.
The season premiere kicked off with a sketch featuring Trump’s mystery bruise and so much more.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the Trump administration’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers is “regrettable,” but the fault is with Democrats who won’t agree to the Republicans’ proposal to reopen the government. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker pressed Johnson on the administration’s unprecedented plan to…
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President Trump’s push to expand and consolidate power is ramping up on multiple fronts, even as the government shutdown holds center stage on Capitol Hill. Trump’s actions are sharpening critics’ fears about creeping authoritarianism. The shutdown and Trump’s expansive use of power are interlinked in some respects. Trump has sought new ways to ratchet up…
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Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said on Sunday that federal layoffs will take place if President Trump decides that negotiations are going nowhere. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the NEC director signaled Republicans were far from willing to negotiate their position to end the government shutdown…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Trump administration officials “want to create the warzone” in Chicago to send in more National Guard troops. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker condemned the nighttime raid in Chicago, saying it’s “emblematic” of what the Trump administration is trying to do. “This raid at this…
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Progressive group Demand Justice on Sunday announced a six-figure ad campaign targeting two Democratic senators for voting to advance judicial nominees who had equivocated about the results of the 2020 election. Demand Justice, which has led liberal efforts to shape the federal judiciary, announced it would launch ads calling out Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and…
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President Trump is calling for Univision to return to YouTube TV, saying its recent removal is “VERY BAD” for the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic Network, can get BACK onto the very amazing Google/YouTube,” the president said late Saturday on his Truth Social platform. “It…
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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller railed against a Saturday ruling that temporarily blocked President Trump’s attempts to deploy 200 National Guard soldiers to Portland, Ore. “Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge … ,” Miller, an architect of many Trump administration immigration policies, wrote…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Democrats will caucus virtually on Monday after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent his colleagues home for the next week amid the government shutdown. “People will die. If the Affordable Care Act tax credits are not renewed in short order, millions will lose their healthcare coverage, and the…
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A new poll shows most Americans say they believe the government shutdown will last for two weeks or less, as Congress grapples with the public fallout from the first shutdown in about six years. The YouGov survey, published on Friday, found that 41 percent of Americans think the federal closure will last for two weeks…
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Eighteen people died in sporadic incidents, while 18 people, including children, were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City, medics said.