Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s massive tariffs, which have caused markets to tumble, in the process making a dig at last week’s musical guest, Morgan Wallen. “America elected Trump to run the country like a business, but it turns out he’s running it like one …
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After President Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security admitted that it deported an innocent Maryland man to an El Salvadoran mega-prison known for torture and human-rights abuses, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavittbrushed off a judge’s order to bring him back. “We suggest the judge contact President Bukele because we …
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WASHINGTON — From Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, Topeka, Kansas to Chicago and several of its suburbs, in all 50 states and in many cities worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people assembled to protest against Donald Trump and his billionaire financier and adviser Elon Musk on Saturday. The “Hands Off” …
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Mel Gibson will be getting his gun rights back, according to the New York Times. Sources told the publication Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will allow the actor and Trump supporter to own guns again, after he lost his right to own firearms after being convicted of misdemeanor …
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Republicans aren’t typically big fans of taking deliberate action to crash the stock market — but that’s what Donald Trump did on Wednesday, putting lawmakers who have fashioned their careers around fluffing the president in a tough spot. There are, of course, plenty of Republicans who have given their full-throated …
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Financial markets are taking a nosedive for the second straight day amid global panic and investor anxiety over Donald Trump’s implementation of broad tariffs on foreign imports.Economists are warning that the president’s actions are putting not just the United States but the world at risk of a global recession, and …
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This article is being published in partnership with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly …
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Lithuanian President President Gitanas Nausėda, government dignitaries, religious leaders, military personnel, and thousands of spectators gathered on Thursday to send the remains of four American soldiers killed during a training exercise back to the U.S. for burial. They are arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday, and …
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On the eve of the expiration of the extension Donald Trump granted ByteDance on its deadline to sell TikTok to a U.S. entity, or be banned again, the president has announced plans to issue another executive order extending the deadline by 75 additional days. In a Truth Social post, he …
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Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs has taken a dark turn, one that might be comedic gold if it weren’t about to cost Americans so much hard-earned cash. To wit: Trump is placing tariffs on countries around the globe — including even remote Antarctic islands inhabited only by penguins — while …
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