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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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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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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Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced her 107 Days book, chronicling her 2024 election campaign. The book will be released on September 23rd on Simon and Schuster. On X, Harris’ account posted, “What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story. My new book is …
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The family of Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who died by suicide earlier this year, has released a statement responding to President Donald Trump claiming this week that he had a falling out with Epstein because Epstein “stole” Giuffre and other young women employed at Mar-a-Lago’s spa. “It …
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It’s been two weeks since Team Trump prematurely began declaring victory in its efforts to quell the “MAGA rebellion” over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and this chapter of Donald Trump’s second presidency still has no end in sight. The White House’s big plan to change the …
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