Donald Trump doubled down on his comparison to Russian opposition leaderAlexei Navalny, whodied on Fridayin an arctic penal colony and is widely believed to have been murdered by the government of Vladimir Putin. When speaking at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday evening, Trump grotesquely likened a civil fraud …
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Florida rapper Kodak Black should be released from custody after he landed in jail two months ago on a Broward County drug possession charge dismissed two weeks ago. The “Super Gremlin” rapper walked out of detention Wednesday night, meaning he’ll be free to witness …
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Late last week, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump privately told his allies he backs a 16-week national abortion ban with some exceptions. Inside the Trump campaign, the news was immediately met with deep annoyance, anger, and a scramble for damage control, two people familiar with the matter …
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In the final three days of his presidency, Donald Trump had something weighing heavily on his mind, causing him to reverse decisions rapidly as he swore angrily in the White House. The source of the then-outgoing president’s anger had nothing to do with his failed attempts to subvert the 2020 …
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T roy, Michigan, is quintessential suburbia: strip malls, banks with drive-thrus, and jewelry stores. Though just 30 minutes outside of Detroit, Troy feels a world away from the Motor City, with its blocks of boarded-up houses and abandoned stores. The disparate environments speak to the systemic inequality that brought me …
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Nikki Haley doubled down on her refusal to withdraw from the Republican presidential primary despite facing virtually insurmountable odds in her bid to defeat former President Donald Trump. “Some of you, a few of you in the media, came here today to see if I’m dropping out of the race. …
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It’s Presidents’ Day, and America’s 45th is having a real one. Donald Trump spent the morning of the Monday holiday railing against the nearly half-billion-dollar court judgment levied against him for fraud in New York state, and grotesquely comparing himself to the Russian political dissident Alexei Navalny, who died last …
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Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States on a promise to “Make America Great Again.” But a preeminent group of political scientists that Trump would no doubt characterize as “haters and losers” has once again ranked him as the worst commander-in-chief in the nation’s history. The 2024 …
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Donald Trump spoke in Waterford Township, Michigan at an airplane hangar on Saturday, Feb. 17, for a Get Out the Vote Rally in the crucial battleground state. He appeared wearing black gloves and a red MAGA baseball cap, and immediately began lambasting some of his recent legal woes when he …
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CNN’s Jake Tapper has been covering politics for almost three decades. He’s had a front-row, insider’s view of the events that have defined the modern political era. He’s charted the victories and downfalls of our leaders and experienced the successes and failures of the news media in their mission to …
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