The Pentagon has been ordered to begin kicking out openly identifying transgender service members by U.S. Defense Secretary PeteHegseth, who issued the internal instructions in a memo on Thursday. Other service members will be given 30 days to self-identify. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump‘s administration to …
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President Donald Trump’s administration is working to ramp up its pointless cruelty toward immigrants, and has apparently been plotting to have the military send Asian immigrants to Libya imminently, according to immigration lawyers. The plan to deport immigrants to Libya, a war-torn country known for widespread mistreatment of migrants, would …
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The cameras rolled on Tuesday as PresidentDonald Trump held his first 2026 World Cup task force meeting in a public spectacle that included several Cabinet members, as well as FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Millions of foreigners from around the world are expected to visit the United States for soccer’s most …
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President Donald Trump’s meme coin is already a thing that shouldn’t exist, much less as a vehicle for foreign entities to funnel money to the sitting president, yet here we are. According to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg, over half of the top holders of $TRUMP — a personal cryptocurrency …
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C ory Booker had been railing against Donald Trump’s agenda from the floor of the Senate for three hours when his feet started to go numb. On the lectern he had his cellphone out (against Senate rules), with his family group chat pulled up. Every now and then it pinged …
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s tariff regime could lead to increased inflation and unemployment, as well as a slowdown in the U.S. economy as a whole. “If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate …
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Pete Hegseth has already displayed a predictable lack of competence in his role as defense secretary, but it’s not just a sloppy use of Signal chats that has forced the White House to do damage control on his behalf. According to a Tuesday report from Reuters, early in his tenure …
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It’s a tired exercise to imagine how Republicans might react if Barack Obama or Joe Biden was guilty of any of the gaffes Donald Trump commits on a daily basis — but imagine for a second how conservatives would react if Obama or Biden had been asked during a high-profile …
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A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows. The recording is part of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s federal lawsuit, which was filed last …
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Austerity for thee but not for me. As Donald Trump advises the American public on how to save some money — buy fewer dolls, five pencils max — to counteract the effects of tariff-induced price increases, he’s making clear that cost-saving measures don’t apply to his office decor budget. During …
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