The Republican budget bill remains in rocky territory after a night of contentious, acrimonious debate, during which Democrats repeatedly accused the GOP of using the cover of darkness to attempt to jam through unpopular legislation. The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would make permanent President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax …
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President Donald Trump has a lot on his plate. He hasn’t been able to end any of the wars, Congress can’t get his “big, beautiful bill” passed, and the courts keep stalling his governance-by-executive-order agenda. But for days now, the president has been obsessing over Bruce Springsteen. Today — as …
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For years leading up to the 2024 election, the conventional wisdom about Donald Trump in Democratic circles was that he had ‘a high floor, but a low ceiling’: an unshakable base of support, but one that didn’t have much potential to grow. A new, in-depth examination of 2024 voter data—the …
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President Donald Trump spent much of today’s Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rambling about disproven claims and conspiracy theories that white South African farmers are the victims of a genocide. Ramaphosa was not interested in indulging Trump’s delusions about his country. When a reporter asked Trump …
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Pressure is mounting against the Israeli government to release stockpiles of emergency aid and food to besieged Gaza, as the region teeters on the brink of famine that the United Nations warns could cause severe cases of acute malnutrition in over 14,000 children within the next year. The renewed focus …
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The Trump administration charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) on Monday following a chaotic confrontation at anImmigrationand Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey earlier this month. The acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey,Alina Habba, announced on social platform X that she was charging McIver with assaulting, impeding, and interferingwith law enforcement. …
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The Department of Homeland Security oversees tens of thousands of arrests and detentions in the United States every year. It should go without saying that the department is responsible for ensuring that anyone in its custody is treated in accordance with the Constitution. It has long been clear that Homeland …
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Senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today over her management of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and how the agency — which President Donald Trump has sought to dismantle — is responding to a series of devastating storms across the southern United States. During a hearing of the …
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Barack Obama has sent his best wishes to Joe Biden and his family following the news that the former president has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. “Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family,” Obama wrote on social media. “Nobody has done more to …
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President Donald Trump has demanded an investigation into Bruce Springsteen and other artists who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, after the singer has repeatedly told crowds at his concerts that the president is an “unfit” man running “a rogue government.” The president — who is scheduled to …
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