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'He’ll have autism by Sunday': Trump busted for medical 'hypocrisy'
President Donald Trump got his COVID booster shot weeks after demanding pharmaceutical companies provide proof of their effectiveness."Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!" Trump said of COVID-19 medications such as vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and ...
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· 12h
'Did she say sir?' Trump mocked for claiming Nobel laureate nearly offered him Peace Prize
On Friday, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded its vaunted Peace Prize to Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado for her opposition to Nicolas Maduro's regime — much to the chagrin of President Donald Trump. Now, the president is claiming Machado nearly offered him the prize in a private phone call....
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· 13h
Trump DOJ's 'partisan' posturing 'likely to significantly harm' its own cases: experts
Legal observers are warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is undermining its own criminal and civil cases through overt political posturing — a strategy one journalist argues is aimed less at securing convictions and more at causing pain and consternation among liberals...
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'It's a threat': Trump admin tries clarifying Qatari base in US — but MAGA isn't buying it
In response to a wave of social media backlash from critics as well as MAGA voices, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a “clarification” on the social platform X Friday about a newly announced military facility involving Qatar, insisting that it falls far short of being a “foreign base” on U.S. s...
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· 14h
Leaked memo from top DHS official suggests 'no legal barrier' to crack down on protesters
A new memo from the Department of Homeland Security authorizes Federal Protective Service officers to leave federal property and, if necessary, enter private homes to “eliminate” threats, including what it describes as an “identified sniper” located blocks away from a federal facility, journalist Ma...
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· 15h
Trump has 'exposed' US in 'massive re-escalation' of tensions with major superpower: CNN
The United States and China have been in a tentative ceasefire in a trade war since this spring after President Donald Trump's initial wave of tariffs caused massive panic in financial markets. But that ceasefire may now be over.On Friday, Trump posted to his Truth Social platform that he was rollin...
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· 16h
'Unnerving': Trump critic explains why he still has regular phone calls with the president
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host and former Republican lawmaker Joe Scarborough admits that in between blasting President Donald Trump on his show, he actually still speaks with him from time to time, Mediaite reports.Although the show's ratings have since bounced back, reports in late 2024 and early 2025...
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'Choosing to inflict more pain': Trump admin slammed after announcing mass firings
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought signaled a sharp escalation in the federal government’s shutdown‑era tactics Friday: mass firings of government employees. In a one-line post on the social platform X, he wrote, “The RIFs have begun.” By “RIFs,” Vought referred to reduction...
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· 17h
'Really weird': Ex-US attorney calls Trump loyalist prosecutor 'nuts' for 'improper' move
Interim U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan – who President Donald Trump installed in late September — may have completely circumvented Attorney General Pam Bondi in her latest high-profile indictment. One former U.S. attorney emphasized that such a move would be "funky" and "nuts."ABC News reported Frid...
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· 18h
'Running out of excuses': GOP torched after calling 'No Kings' protest a 'terrorist' event
national security experts for his attack on First Amendment-protected speech and protest after he lashed out at next week’s “No Kings” rallies, which are expected to attract millions of Americans across the nation.“The theory we have right now,” Speaker Johnson told Fox News on Friday, “they have a ...
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'Where I draw the line': MAGA furious over Trump allowing foreign military base on US soil
Conservative hard‑liners erupted in outrage Friday after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greenlit plans for a Qatari air force facility on U.S. soil, accusing the administration of “enabling foreign control” on American bases and doubling down on sovereignty grievances.Hegseth announced Friday mornin...
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· 19h
'Feel the shock': Conservative slams attempts to downplay Trump's 'dangerous revenge tour'
White House correspondent Andrew Egger tells the Bulwark that most insidious things about Donald Trump’s decade-long turn atop our politics is the way “we seem to be losing some of our inability even to feel the shock.”“You could see this in some of the early reactions last night to the news of Leti...
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'Use every avenue you can': Trump ally says GOP may do something 7 in 10 Americans oppose
MSNBC producer Steve Benen said impeaching judges who make President Donald Trump unhappy is apparently back on the menu for MAGA Republicans.“While there was quite a bit of talk in Republican circles earlier this year about impeaching judges, the chatter largely disappeared in recent months,” said ...
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'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact'
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first school to publicly reject President Donald Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which offered "preferential access to federal funds in exchange for agreeing to a set of demands," reports NBC News.In a letter written...
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· 21h
'Angry' Johnson lashes out — says Dems need to be 'physically separated' from Republicans
Facing growing backlash from Democrats and even lawmakers from his own party — as well as GOP voters — for sending the House into recess during the shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is turning his anger toward Democrats and the broader left.As Politico reported on Friday, Johnson is “dead set on keepin...
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· 21h
GOP 'cautiously optimistic' about 2026 midterms — if the economy doesn’t tank
Democratic strategists, monitoring President Donald Trump's weak approval ratings in a long list of polls, are hoping that the 2026 midterms will see a major blue wave like 2018 — when, during Trump's first presidency, Democrats flipped the U.S. House of Representatives with a net gain of 40 seats.B...
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· 22h
'Conservative curious' celebs flock to 'MAGA Whisperer' to escape 'fear of being canceled'
Publicist Vanessa Santos is known by showbiz insiders as the "MAGA Whisperer," representing "conservative curious" celebrities whom she says "have been treated like garbage," according to a profile in Variety. Santos launched her Washington, DC-based agency Renegade PR — whose tagline is "Rebel With...
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· 22h
Trump admin 'treating national security like a timeshare' after Qatar-Idaho defense bombshell
Saying Qatar has played a "core part" in securing the impending Gaza peace deal, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning the creation of a new Qatari airforce facility in Idaho, according to Fox News. "Today, we’re announcing a letter of acceptance in building a Qatari Emiri Air F...
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· 23h
'Intent to defraud': Legal experts detail uphill battle Trump DOJ faces in NY AG indictment
On Thursday afternoon, October 9, the news broke that New York State Attorney General Letitia James had been indicted for bank fraud by a grand jury in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment came only one day after former FBI Director James Comey pleaded ...
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