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August 29, 2025
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August 29, 2025
Chaos continues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where President Donald J.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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August 19, 2025
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August 19, 2025
Yesterday, the 51 Democratic Texas state representatives who left the state for Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts on August 3 to prevent Republican lawmakers from redistricting Texas to give five ...
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August 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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August 16, 2025
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August 16, 2025
Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for w...
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August 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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July 31, 2025
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July 31, 2025
On Monday, at a meeting with U.K.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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July 30, 2025
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July 30, 2025
On July 2, 2024, just about a year ago, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts told the listeners of Steve Bannon’s War Room webcast: “[W]e are going to win.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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July 28, 2025
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July 28, 2025
Today’s theme seems to be Republican leadership digging into positions that are directly contradicted by facts.
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July 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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July 27, 2025
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July 27, 2025
On July 23 the X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of an 1872 oil painting by John Gast, titled American Progress. Gast represented the American East on the right side of ...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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July 24, 2025
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July 24, 2025
The Epstein list made it into last night’s premiere of the twenty-seventh season of the television series South Park when Satan, in bed with Trump, commented, “It’s weird that whenever it comes up, yo...
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July 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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July 22, 2025
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July 22, 2025
First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...
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July 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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July 20, 2025
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July 20, 2025
On Friday, G.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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July 14, 2025
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July 14, 2025
Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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July 13, 2025
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July 13, 2025
This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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July 8, 2025
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July 8, 2025
One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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June 23, 2025
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June 23, 2025
In a timeline of Trump’s decision to drop 12 of the reportedly 20 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs the U.S.
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June 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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June 22, 2025
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June 22, 2025
Last night, exactly a week after his military parade fizzled and more than five million Americans turned out to protest his administration, President Donald J.
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June 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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June 21, 2025
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June 21, 2025
At 7:50 this evening, Eastern Time, President Donald J.
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June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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June 20, 2025
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June 20, 2025
Individuals in plain clothes with their faces covered and without badges or name tags are snatching people off the streets and taking them away.
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June 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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June 19, 2025
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June 19, 2025
Just a week ago, the Trump administration was preparing for a sixth round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, scheduled to be held in Oman on June 15.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
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June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
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June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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June 17, 2025
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June 17, 2025
Yesterday at the meeting of the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), a forum of democracies with advanced economies, President Donald Trump told reporters: “The UK is very well protected.
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June 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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June 16, 2025
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June 16, 2025
At a news conference today, acting U.S.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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June 15, 2025
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June 15, 2025
Yesterday began with the horrific news that a gunman had shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in what Minnesota governor Tim Walz said appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.”...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Political Violence in Minnesota, Powerful Protests, and a Dud of a Birthday Parade
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Political Violence in Minnesota, Powerful Protests, and a Dud of a Birthday Parade
Every day is a week-long newscycle right now.
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June 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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June 12, 2025
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June 12, 2025
At a press conference for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Los Angeles today, Noem’s security assaulted Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), dragged him into the hallway, forced him to the floor,...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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June 11, 2025
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June 11, 2025
While President Donald Trump is trying to project strength by ordering a federalized National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles, a new Quinnipiac poll of American registered voters out today rein...
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June 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM