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Republican dumps GOP after 'political identity crisis' under Trump’s rule
Republican dumps GOP after 'political identity crisis' under Trump’s rule
The Republican Party is facing major headwinds heading into the 2026 midterm elections amid President Donald Trump's sinking popularity. Now, at least one candidate running next year has defected from the GOP and will instead challenge them as a Democrat.Robb Ryerse is a pastor with 10 years of expe...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Republican dumps GOP after 'political identity crisis' under Trump’s rule
A 40-year old Samuel Alito opinion undermines Trump DOJ’s Comey case: legal analyst
A 40-year old Samuel Alito opinion undermines Trump DOJ’s Comey case: legal analyst
Editor’s Note: This headline has been updated.Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday vowed to appeal after a judge threw out the Department of Justice's cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.“We'll be taking all available legal action, including an i...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A 40-year old Samuel Alito opinion undermines Trump DOJ’s Comey case: legal analyst
DOJ reverses decision to nix Halligan’s name from cases as lawyers grow 'tired of losing'
DOJ reverses decision to nix Halligan’s name from cases as lawyers grow 'tired of losing'
Despite a judge's ruling Monday that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed to her post as interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, prosecutors in the office were told to continue to use Halligan's name on cases, reports CBS News justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane."Two hour...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
DOJ reverses decision to nix Halligan’s name from cases as lawyers grow 'tired of losing'
Departing Justice Department employees warn of 'irreversible damage' under Trump
Departing Justice Department employees warn of 'irreversible damage' under Trump
President Donald Trump's second term could be doing "potentially irreversible damage" to the federal government, according to a trove of notes left by departing employees, Axios reports.The Justice Connection, a network of former Department of Justice and FBI staffers, has been collecting various me...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Departing Justice Department employees warn of 'irreversible damage' under Trump
House Republican: Trump 'doesn’t have control of the base'
House Republican: Trump 'doesn’t have control of the base'
As death threats and infighting threaten a mass exodus of House Republicans from Congress, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) says President Donald Trump is losing control of his base, reports Axios."Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) scathing resignation has rattled her colleagues. Some are questioning wh...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
House Republican: Trump 'doesn’t have control of the base'
Trump official still getting paid for hawking sleeping pills as US diplomat: report
Trump official still getting paid for hawking sleeping pills as US diplomat: report
Mike Huckabee continues to profit from a sleeping pill endorsement deal despite now holding one of the most important U.S. ambassador roles in the Trump administration. According to a new report from NOTUS, the ethics of the situation appear murky.Huckabee previously served as governor of Arkansas f...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump official still getting paid for hawking sleeping pills as US diplomat: report
House speaker says the quiet part out loud on latest Trump policy proposal
House speaker says the quiet part out loud on latest Trump policy proposal
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is warning the White House that "most House Republicans don’t have an appetite for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies," jeopardizing President Donald Trump's healthcare push.Johnson's warning, the ...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
House speaker says the quiet part out loud on latest Trump policy proposal
Morning Joe blasts 'stupid' GOP for accidentally making Democrats the 'party of vets'
Morning Joe blasts 'stupid' GOP for accidentally making Democrats the 'party of vets'
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday did not hold back, using the word “stupid” four times in a rant about the Pentagon’s decision to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) for appearing in a video urging service members not to follow illegal orders. “How stupid do you have to — like, I have...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Morning Joe blasts 'stupid' GOP for accidentally making Democrats the 'party of vets'
How a key psychological concept was undermined once 'UFOs failed to arrive': study
How a key psychological concept was undermined once 'UFOs failed to arrive': study
A 1956 book favored by UFO believers that is considered "an enduring classic in the fields of new religious studies, cult research, and social psychology," is being called into question as a potential lie, according to Anna Merlan in Mother Jones. When Prophecy Fails, written by Leon Festinger, Henr...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How a key psychological concept was undermined once 'UFOs failed to arrive': study
Supreme Court blamed for 'ethically vacant' Trump's likely escape from criminal prosecution
Supreme Court blamed for 'ethically vacant' Trump's likely escape from criminal prosecution
Although he says President Donald Trump is "well on his way to becoming the most corrupt president in American history, Thomas B. Edsall writes in the New York Times that despite that, he is likely to escape criminal prosecution after leaving office."Even though Trump has defied the law and the Cons...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Supreme Court blamed for 'ethically vacant' Trump's likely escape from criminal prosecution
'Deeply troubling': What Alex Jones was allegedly told about Trump's revenge lawsuits
'Deeply troubling': What Alex Jones was allegedly told about Trump's revenge lawsuits
Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist and host of InfoWars, appears to have been given considerable insider information pertaining to President Donald Trump's campaign of legal revenge against his perceived enemies, based on a new analysis from The Bulwark, which called the situation "deeply...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
'Deeply troubling': What Alex Jones was allegedly told about Trump's revenge lawsuits
Aide to Republican state senator arrested for burning a house with 2 people inside: report
Aide to Republican state senator arrested for burning a house with 2 people inside: report
The legislative assistant to North Carolina's Republican State Senator Norman Sanderson has been arrested for “willfully” and “maliciously” burning a house with two people inside in Raleigh, according to local affiliate Fox8 Raleigh.The assistant, Diane Cook, 38, has been arrested and booked on a fi...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Aide to Republican state senator arrested for burning a house with 2 people inside: report
Trump’s 'unusual government intervention' is putting American taxpayers 'at risk': experts
Trump’s 'unusual government intervention' is putting American taxpayers 'at risk': experts
The Trump administration is trading over $10 billion dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies in what Ana Swanson in The New York Times calls an "unusual strategy."A New York Times analysis has found that "the government’s growing portfolio of corporate ownership involves minority...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trump’s 'unusual government intervention' is putting American taxpayers 'at risk': experts
How China played Trump in a game of 'whack a mole': analysis
How China played Trump in a game of 'whack a mole': analysis
Foreign Affairs writer Jonathan A. Czin writes that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has played President Donald Trump and is now reaping the rewards.Although "Trump promised to unleash an economic fusillade on China after his return to the presidency, Beijing has enjoyed a remarkably strong year of diplom...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
How China played Trump in a game of 'whack a mole': analysis
NYT rips Trump for 'failing to deliver' on promises to protect consumers and small business
NYT rips Trump for 'failing to deliver' on promises to protect consumers and small business
President Donald Trump talked like an economic populist, promising to protect consumers, small business owners and workers against rampaging corporations, but it was all talk, says the NY Times, just like it was in his first term.“The Trump administration is decimating the federal agencies that poli...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NYT rips Trump for 'failing to deliver' on promises to protect consumers and small business
MAGA has no future — and Marjorie Taylor Greene knows it
MAGA has no future — and Marjorie Taylor Greene knows it
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene surprised me Friday by announcing her resignation from the Congress effective January 5.I was surprised, because just a few days prior she flexed her muscle when she got the president to step off. She had been demanding the release of the Epstein files. D...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
MAGA has no future — and Marjorie Taylor Greene knows it
America elected a simpleton and the wreck he leaves behind could be permanent
America elected a simpleton and the wreck he leaves behind could be permanent
Since Donald Trump has been back in office, energy prices have increased at more than double the rate of inflation. The Consumer Price Index from the end of October reported an “all items price index” increase for food, shelter, and transportation of 3.0 percent over a 12-month period, while energy ...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
America elected a simpleton and the wreck he leaves behind could be permanent
Pentagon threatens to court martial former NASA astronaut
Pentagon threatens to court martial former NASA astronaut
The US Department of Defense on Monday announced it was launching an investigation into a Democratic senator who had participating in a video warning active-duty troops to not follow illegal orders given by President Donald Trump.In a social media post, the DoD said it had “received serious allegati...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Pentagon threatens to court martial former NASA astronaut
Christian singers caught in Trump's deportation net falsely branded 'worst of worst'
Christian singers caught in Trump's deportation net falsely branded 'worst of worst'
On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Gomez drove to pick up his younger brother from a mechanic’s shop on Lamar Avenue. He never came home.On the return trip, law enforcement officers with the Memphis Safe Task Force pulled over his 2011 Toyota Tundra pickup and arrested the brothers on immigr...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Christian singers caught in Trump's deportation net falsely branded 'worst of worst'
Kristi Noem-tied firm threatened with probe of $220M in secret government contracts
Kristi Noem-tied firm threatened with probe of $220M in secret government contracts
In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely tied to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up receiving money from a $220 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign.The demands came in r...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Kristi Noem-tied firm threatened with probe of $220M in secret government contracts
A toxic combo aided by Trump can be defeated with two important steps
A toxic combo aided by Trump can be defeated with two important steps
The richest man on earth owns X.The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS — and could soon own Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN.The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.The fourth-richest man owns The Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios.Another ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A toxic combo aided by Trump can be defeated with two important steps
Republicans only have themselves to blame as Trump’s 'inept' administration runs amok
Republicans only have themselves to blame as Trump’s 'inept' administration runs amok
Political prospects for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party overall are starting to fall apart, and according to a new analysis from MS NOW, they have no one to blame but themselves due to a series of "embarrassing" fumbles.The piece — hailing from progressive pundit and longtime Rachel ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Republicans only have themselves to blame as Trump’s 'inept' administration runs amok
Trump was set to unveil health care plan until Republicans objected: report
Trump was set to unveil health care plan until Republicans objected: report
President Donald Trump was expected to announce as soon as Monday a long-awaited fix for the expiring Obamacare subsidies, to prevent health care premiums from skyrocketing to double and in some cases even triple their current levels, but congressional Republicans reportedly have objected.Trump was ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trump was set to unveil health care plan until Republicans objected: report
Revealed: Fox host unleashed on 'totally heinous' Trump in newly-released text messages
Revealed: Fox host unleashed on 'totally heinous' Trump in newly-released text messages
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include a statement from Fox News Media, along with additional context about the Trump administration's indictment of Smartmatic.Bret Baier – a veteran primetime host on Fox News — was apoplectic at President Donald Trump's refusal to concede his 2020 ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Revealed: Fox host unleashed on 'totally heinous' Trump in newly-released text messages
'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling
'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling
A federal judge dismissed the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Leticia James after deciding Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. Attorney who brought the case, was unlawfully appointed. Judge Cameron Currie ruled that the appointment of Halligan wa...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling