Republicans are angry that Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the bureau’s lackluster jobs report showed a weak economy on Friday. Trump accused commissioner Erika McEntarfer, who was appointed by Joe Biden, of fabricating statistics now as well as before the 2024 election. Friday’s …
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President Donald Trump’s administration is investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal investigations into Trump during the Biden administration, on the supposed basis that Smith’s actions may have been politically motivated. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is reportedly investigating Smith over a possible violation of the …
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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 …
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President Donald Trump’s administration keeps denying that the Department of Veteran Affairs is headed toward privatization — just like it couldn’t stop denying that mass layoffs of 80,000 employees wouldn’t impact veteran care. But facts have a way of catching up. After intense pressure from veterans’ groups and Congress, the …
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President Donald Trump’s primary Super PAC has raked in over $200 million this year, with the donations ranging from unseemly to objectively funny. Perhaps the most notable donor to the group, MAGA Inc., is Elon Musk, who gave $5 million in late June despite publicly feuding with the president ever …
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Donald Trump and his allies are throwing every bucket of chum they can at their base in their ongoing efforts to distract from the administration’s bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and this time they may have caught a fish that’s too big to fry. Following a request from Sen. …
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Donald Trump has heralded a “Golden Age” of the United States, and he’s determined to do whatever it takes to project a gilded image — including cleansing the government of anyone who dares report the reality of what his policies are doing to the economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics …
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps direct federal funds to NPR and PBS, will begin to shutter after President Donald Trump signed a law taking back $1.1 billion in congressional funding. The CPB announced the news Friday, with president and CEO Patricia Harrison saying in a statement, “Despite the …
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Senators could vote on a bill as soon as today to allow members of Congress and their staff to demand that websites take down information about their houses and details about their travel. Watchdogs and media advocates have objected to the member security legislation and similar measures in the past, …
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Donald Trump lashed out at his longtime ally and prominent MAGA Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in a bizarre Truth Social post on Wednesday. The president pilloried the senator as a “second-tier” lawmaker who had been used as a “pawn” by Democrats, after Hawley broke with Republicans to vote in favor …
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