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Donald Trump is expanding his military intimidation campaigns against his enemies, foreign and domestic. Trump’s decision to destroy a purported drug boat from Venezuela, in international waters, is the latest escalation from a president who spent years conning his followers into believing he hates neocons and values “peace,” and is …

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office dismissed felony charges on Thursday against a man accused of threatening to kill Donald Trump. It’s one of several recent cases where grand juries have rejected the Trump administration’s charges in Washington, D.C., which have come amid his deployment of military personnel to the nation’s …

The U.S. military killed 11 alleged Tren de Aragua membersduring a strike in the southern Caribbean against a vessel leaving Venezuela and suspected of carrying drugs, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social Post on Tuesday, Trump said that on his orders, the military “conducted a kinetic strike” …

Sen. Susan Collins did not vote for President Donald Trump’s signature piece of legislation, his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, a massive package of tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans financed by slashing an estimated $1 trillion from Medicaid. “I did the right thing for the people of Maine, and I …

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — his law slashing taxes for the wealthy and health care for the poor — is getting a rebrand. After meeting with the president’s 2024 campaign team, Republican lawmakers are now calling their law a “working families tax plan.” This latest name, of course, is …

Survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and other wealthy elites gathered Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to demand accountability and the release of more information related to Epstein’s network of sexual abuse. One survivor said she was part of a group creating their own list of names …

Donald Trump’s least convincing impersonator, Ron DeSantis, is bringing the president’s attacks on science and the health and safety of children to the Sunshine State. DeSantis’ handpicked state surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, announced Wednesday the state will move to eliminate all vaccine requirements for children to attend public schools. …

The Trump administration’s freeze of more than $2 billion in grant funds for Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism on campus was ruled illegal by a federal judge on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs’ decision moves to restore the crucial research funding and sided with Harvard’s arguments that the …

President Donald Trump claimed today that he was unaware of social media rumors speculating about his supposed death or rapidly declining health that went viral over Labor Day weekend. The rumors were, as most pieces of unfounded viral gossip are, sparked by a collection of likely coincidental tidbits that were …

PORTLAND, Maine — Bernie Sanders drew 6,500 people to southern Maine on Labor Day Monday to discuss building a grassroots movement to fight the oligarchy, and to introduce them to Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and Marine veteran running for Senate with the Vermont independent’s early support. At the “Fighting …