The Trump administration is attempting to wrench control of the White House Press Corps from the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) — a move the independent journalistic organization that has handled the credentialing of White House reporters for decades says “tears at the independence of a free press in the …
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Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has spent the first month of President Donald Trump‘s second term in office working its way through the federal government like termites. DOGE has fired tens of thousands of employees, hollowing out everything from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Department of Veterans …
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Ed Martin — the D.C. federal attorney who recently referred to himself as “President Trump’s lawyer” — may be expanding his partisan services to other embattled Republicans. Martin declined to sign off on an arrest warrant against MAGA Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who last week was accused of physically assaulting …
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Days after Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency cut hundreds of jobs at the Federal Aviation Administration — including critical safety roles — his company, SpaceX, has secured a contract with the agency to use Musk’s Starlink satellite internet to help manage U.S. airspace. Yes, it’s a …
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As Donald Trump and Elon Musk prepare to bring their next round of arbitrary cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it seems like at least one employee is making their displeasure known. This morning, the first day of the Trump administration’s “return to office” ban on remote …
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The FBI will officially be headed by two men with no experience in the bureau, and a lot of blind loyalty towards President Donald Trump. On Sunday, the president announced that former Secret Service agent and right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino has been selected to serve as deputy and second in …
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Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has already vowed to operate as a legal attack dog for Elon Musk and DOGE, and is now styling himself and those in his office as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers. “As President Trumps’ lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as …
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A top Trump official is claiming Russia “was provoked” into invading Ukraine, repeating talking points used by President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The war didn’t need to happen,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “It was provoked. …
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended the Trump administration’s purge of top military lawyers because they don’t want people in those roles who “attempt to be roadblocks to … anything that happens.” Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream brought up the firings, which happened Friday night, in an interview today …
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Sen. Susan Collins is “very concerned” about how the Trump administration’s mass firings in the federal government will affect her home state. “I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. …
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