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Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress, and the president’s allies across right-wing media have been trying everything to make public backlash to their botched handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation go away, amid reports that Trump himself appears in the government’s files pertaining to the convicted sex offender. The administration’s attempts …

President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States by deploying armed troops to yet another major metropolitan area, announcing on Monday that he is sending the National Guard into Washington, D.C., to “liberate” the city. The D.C. operation, launched two months after the start of his …

Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history. Now, as Republicans gear …

It’s been a banner year for the Democratic Socialists of America. The two most prominent democratic socialists in the country — Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are currently two of the country’s most popular politicians and, come next January, there is a very good chance that the largest city …

CINCINNATI — Since July 9, Ayman Soliman, who served for years as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, has been held at the Butler County Jail in Ohio. His arrest by Donald Trump’s quota-obsessed ICE, during a routine federal check-in, sparked a local outcry, largely due to his well-established …

Donald Trump is still trying to take over the Library of Congress — but the national library already, apparently by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part: the provision that guarantees people’s right to challenge their detention and demands the government …

Donald Trump and Republicans are nervous about the 2026 midterms. The president’s polling numbers are very bad (despite what he claims), and it doesn’t seem like Americans are thrilled with his lackeys in Congress who have supported the administration’s assault on Medicaid and other social services, his hardline immigration crackdown, …

Keeping a straight face has been perhaps the greatest achievement of Mark Carney’s brief tenure as the prime minister of Canada. For months, Donald Trump has railed against Canada, threatening to turn America’s ungrateful northern neighbor into the 51st state, come what may, an achievement worthy of his visage gracing …

Late last week, Donald Trump realized a dream that he’s had since he was president of the United States the first time: firing the person who informed the world that his economy isn’t as great as he wants to pretend it is. It was a move so comically autocratic that …

2025 was going to be Karate Man’s year. It’s January 7 and Dan Bongino had some advice for the listeners of his self-titled radio show. He leads with news that Facebook is caving in to the incoming Trump Administration and eliminating its fact checkers. Bongino is hyped — he is …