President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for a perfect inauguration are being foiled by former President Jimmy Carter, who died last week at the age of 100. As is standard practice in memorializing dead former presidents, American flags displayed at federal buildings, grounds, and on naval vessels will be flown at half …
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President Joe Biden’s administration has imposed new sanctions on Russian and Iranian entities, accusing them of attempting to interfere with the 2024 U.S. election, it announced Tuesday. The Treasury Department alleges that the organizations attempted to spread disinformation related to the presidential race. In a statement, the Treasury Department said …
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Now that the 2024 election is over, journalists are admitting they missed the biggest story in American politics — 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s decline — prior to the June presidential debate. The event marked the beginning of the end for Biden, who gave a hoarse, rambling, and incoherent performance, and …
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When Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats endorsed Ron DeSantis in his ultimately fruitless bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump accused the Florida governor of buying the endorsement. Trump questioned whether DeSantis had committed “a major Campaign Finance Violation by paying for… Bob Vander Plaats’ useless endorsement.” He …
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Greg Casar won reelection to the Austin City Council the same year that Donald Trump won his first term in office. The son of Mexican immigrants, Casar made clear he had no plans to entertain the whims of an incoming president who had made vitriol against his community a centerpoint …
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The murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, America’s largest health insurer, has generated a lot of discourse over the past week and renewed conversation about the state of the U.S. health care system — something that was almost entirely missing from the 2024 campaign. Social media users have actively celebrated …
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Donald Trump has appointed his personal criminal defense attorney, Alina Habba, as a counselor to the president in his incoming administration. “I am pleased to announce that Alina Habba will join my White House Team as Counselor to the President,” Trump wrote in a Sunday Truth Social Post. Alina has …
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In the final 11 days of the 2024 election, a new conservative Super PAC launched a $20 million campaign to boost Donald Trump and aggressively troll liberals. The group, called RBG PAC, ran ads claiming that Trump would not support a federal abortion ban — and that he actually has …
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In an election cycle where billionaires flooded the race with hundreds of millions in cash to support their preferred candidates, apparently no one spent more than Elon Musk, who donated a grand total of $239 million to America PAC, a Super PAC he initially formed to support Donald Trump. Musk …
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Donald Trump has already lost a Cabinet pick and is reconsidering a second, but they say bad news comes in threes, and Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard may be the next uphill confirmation battle for the incoming president. Gabbard — a former Democratic representative from Hawaii who turned …
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