After an appeals court declined to remove an injunction aimed at barring Donald Trump‘s administration from deporting noncitizens to “third-party countries” — a country that is not their country of origin — without due process, and without giving them chance to raise concerns of persecution, torture, and death, the government …
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Richard Grenell is now a member of Live Nation Entertainment’s Board of Directors. On Tuesday, the organization, currently under investigation by the Department of Justice, announced the addition of the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center President to its Board. “The power of live performances to bring people together while boosting local economies …
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Last week, the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump from continuing to use an archaic wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process, after the administration sent hundreds of people to prison in El Salvador this way. In a 7-2 decision, the justices vacated a decision by the Fifth Circuit …
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If you’re even mildly curious about why Donald Trump is big mad at lil ol’ Bruce Springsteen lately, just listen to the artist’s newly released EP, Land of Hope & Dreams — a live recording from Manchester, England, earlier this month. You don’t even have to listen to Springsteen’s music …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is reintroducing her bill to provide civil recourse for survivors of nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes. Ocasio-Cortez is co-leading the bicameral bill with Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act was originally …
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President Donald Trump has a lot on his plate. He hasn’t been able to end any of the wars, Congress can’t get his “big, beautiful bill” passed, and the courts keep stalling his governance-by-executive-order agenda. But for days now, the president has been obsessing over Bruce Springsteen. Today — as …
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For years leading up to the 2024 election, the conventional wisdom about Donald Trump in Democratic circles was that he had ‘a high floor, but a low ceiling’: an unshakable base of support, but one that didn’t have much potential to grow. A new, in-depth examination of 2024 voter data—the …
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President Donald Trump spent much of today’s Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rambling about disproven claims and conspiracy theories that white South African farmers are the victims of a genocide. Ramaphosa was not interested in indulging Trump’s delusions about his country. When a reporter asked Trump …
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Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Billy Long, is famous for mixing it up on the social media platform X, previously Twitter. Representing Missouri in the House, Long once earned the title of Congress’ most prolific tweeter. A Rolling Stone audit of Long’s social media diet on …
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The Trump administration charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) on Monday following a chaotic confrontation at anImmigrationand Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey earlier this month. The acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey,Alina Habba, announced on social platform X that she was charging McIver with assaulting, impeding, and interferingwith law enforcement. …
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