Dr. Mehmet Oz’s years of making dubious medical claims on his daytime talk show weren’t enough to win him a Senate seat in 2022. But for Donald Trump, they’re enough to qualify him to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which provides healthcare to over 160 million …
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By reshaping the Supreme Court in his first term, President-elect Donald Trump effectively laid the groundwork for a second-term agenda aimed at dismantling the federal government. Now, with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), we’re speeding toward a constitutional crisis, driven by Trump’s impulsive, tweet-like approach to governance. Trump …
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Donald Trump‘s determination to conduct mass deportations of undocumented immigrants is very real, and he wants to start cracking down immediately. One of the ways he plans to do so is by declaring a national emergency that will enable him to use the military to help boot migrants out of …
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Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, but the idea that he has a broad “mandate” to do whatever he wants is pretty dubious given that as of Monday he didn’t even crack 50 percent of the popular vote. Nevertheless, the president-elect’s elected followers are behaving as if the rules …
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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid two adult clients for sex, according to the lawyer representing them. Attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News that the two women he is representing were paid in the app Venmo. Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives last week when he became Trump’s pick for …
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Since Donald Trump‘s election win two weeks ago, megadonor Elon Musk has stuck close to the president-elect, whether sharing an airborne McDonald’s meal, taking in an Ultimate Fighting Championship event from ringside seats, or just hanging around Mar-a-Lago for days at a time. Throughout the bromance, Musk has sought direct …
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In the wake of the election, some have said that Democrats need to talk less about transgender people. That’s exactly wrong: they, and we, need to talk more — more about real trans lives, real science, and real values, and less about disinformation and lies. Thanks to nearly $250 billion …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, recently called Trump’s diet “poison.” On Saturday, he was photographed on Trump’s plane eating McDonald’s with the president-elect and his inner circle. RFK Jr., who says he wants to operate under the …
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President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use guided long-range American missiles to attack Russia, two senior U.S. officials told The Washington Post on Sunday. Officials said that the decision, a reversal of current U.S. policy, was made after thousands of North Korean troops were deployed to Kursk in southern …
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Close your eyes and make a list of the most important issues in the 2024 election. Maybe you thought of the cost of living, abortion, immigration, democracy, climate change, gun violence, the war in Gaza, the Supreme Court. If you’re like the vast majority of voters, the word you probably …
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