The Republican budget bill remains in rocky territory after a night of contentious, acrimonious debate, during which Democrats repeatedly accused the GOP of using the cover of darkness to attempt to jam through unpopular legislation. The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would make permanent President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax …
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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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Pressure is mounting against the Israeli government to release stockpiles of emergency aid and food to besieged Gaza, as the region teeters on the brink of famine that the United Nations warns could cause severe cases of acute malnutrition in over 14,000 children within the next year. The renewed focus …
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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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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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More than 250 celebrity leaders from across multiple industries — including Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, Pedro Pascal, and Addison Rae — have signed a full-page Planned Parenthood ad calling for support of the organization’s lifesaving healthcare initiatives in response to threats under President Donald Trump. Rolling Stone exclusively reveals the …
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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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