The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee’s ban on access to gender-affirming medical treatments for adolescents after hearing oral arguments on Wednesday, and right-wing activists are celebrating by vowing to completely stamp out America’s transgender community. Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, became the first …
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Secretary of Defense nomineePete Hegseth has been hit with an onslaught of disturbing allegations since President-elect Donald Trump announced the former Fox News personality as his Cabinet choice. The latest accusations arrive from former colleagues who spoke with NBC News about concerns they had with Hegseth’s drinking during his employment …
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Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) has weighed in on President Joe Biden offering a blanket pardon to his son Hunter Biden, shielding him from criminal gun and tax charges. The soon-to-be-retired independent, who caucuses with the Democrats, was not overly critical of the move by the president, who had previously pledged …
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Republican senators don’t seem too worried about all of the damning reporting emerging about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth. “They’re throwing disparaging remarks at someone who has earned a great deal of credibility. Are soldiers sometimes wild childs? Yeah, that can happen,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) told NBC News …
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Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump are scrambling to get his felony hush money conviction tossed before his inauguration — and they are doing whatever it takes to make their case. In a New York court filing made public on Tuesday, Trump’s attorneys argue that the case against their client should …
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President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he has signed a pardon for his son Hunter Biden, who is guilty of federal tax and gun crimes. Biden had previously said that he would not interfere in his son’s case or pardon him. “Today, I signed a pardon for my son …
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Pete Hegseth has had a rough go of it since Donald Trump nominated him to run the Pentagon last month. The former Fox News host’s past has come into the full focus of the media and the Republican lawmakers who must vote to confirm him, and it doesn’t look pretty. …
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MAGA filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza issued a statement on Sunday admitting that his most notorious project — the 2020 election conspiracy film 2000 Mules — was produced “on the basis of inaccurate information provided to me and my team.” The statement includes an apology to Mark Andrews, a Georgia man who …
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There are already plenty of reasons to be wary of Kash Patel becoming FBI director — one of which is his status among believers of QAnon Patel has long thirsted to purge the federal government of the so-called “Deep State,” as have MAGA conspiracy theorists who are now hailing Donald …
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It appears marrying into the Trump family is a good way to get a political appointment. After the president-elect selected Charles Kushner, father of Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner, as his nominee for ambassador to France, Donald Trump announced he will nominate Massad Boulos as his advisor on Arab and …
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