“It is clear to me that in this case the government in many respects, candidly, has gone off the rails,” Matthew Ebert, one of Fort’s lawyers, said at a July 24 court hearing. “If the government is confused and can’t keep its story straight about the evidence in a 39-defendant case and incorrectly and repeatedly […]
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“The processing issue resulted from standard fraud prevention practices, and we are promptly addressing it,” DNC spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg told USA Today. Tax records show a $147,000 bill—with $23,000 in late fees—from February 17, with a due date of March 31. The records show someone from the DNC making a property tax payment of $166,700 […]
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The left sounded off against the article on social media. “Just so you understand, this is wall street, the military industrial complex, the Israel lobby, big tech AI money and all kinds of corporate money declaring war on the only faction of the dems that believes in something and knows how to fight Trump,” commentator […]
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The email was sent before Trump threatened new airstrikes against Iran and then relented, over the weekend, after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other Gulf leaders talked him out of it. Among the plans were attacking Pickaxe Mountain and other Iranian sites reportedly housing nuclear equipment or material. Those sites are deep underground, […]
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As a thin crowd made for the exits, he also touched on the matter of state that’s consumed most of his time lately: “The Reflecting Pool that you’ve heard so much about, which is so incredible, it’s been gruesomely vandalized by thugs, bad people, but soon will be looking as beautiful as it looked just […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty Look, y’all, I’m not saying Sen. Mitch McConnell is dead, I’m just saying his proof-of-life photos are really just proof-of-photos. In fact, folks on social media are currently putting their detective lenses on as they analyze four photos: McConnell’s first proof-of-life photo with his wife, Elaine Chao, a second proof-of-life […]
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“I believe that is a state issue. The states should control their own elections. Should we make sure they’re done fairly and U.S. citizens are voting? 100%. I think there’s broad agreement with that,” Stitt said, ahead of the National Governors Association meeting in his state this weekend, where he will turn over leadership of […]
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Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty As the GOP continues to play a month-and-a-half-long game of Where On Earth Is Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is done playing, and he’s demanding that the Republican senator from his state prove his “capacity to serve” or resign his seat, once and for all. As we […]
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Source: Courtesy of Mitch McConnell / Mitch McConnell We are now at day 44 of GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell doing everything in his power to prove to the world he’s still alive, besides recording his own video and letting people hear his own voice say, “Hey, guys, I’m still alive!” Instead, his office has offered […]
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Source: Look, I’m not saying GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell is secretly dead; I’m just saying a lot of people think he’s secretly dead, and the people tasked with convincing us he’s not secretly dead are not doing a great job of it. And maybe — just maybe — McConnell just needs to come right out […]
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Source: Last week was a hot mess in American politics. Don’t get me wrong, every week in Trump’s America, some kaleidoscopic evil goes down. But last Thursday, within roughly 36 hours, four ominous messages came from the president and three of his senior officials. Taken together, it is clear that this regime is laying the […]
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, whose physical and mental decline was apparent in recent years, announced in January she would retire at the end of her current term after intense public pressure. She had originally planned to run for re-election this year at the age of 88. California Senator Dianne Feinstein was once a formidable presence […]
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In one instance, she told the AP, he threw boiling water at her while she was holding their daughter, which her mother, Avis Collins, also confirmed. In court records, another of Brouillette’s ex-wives also alleged years of physical and verbal abuse against her and her daughters. The AP did not identify her because she fears […]
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Source: Grant Baldwin / Getty There are only two ways Washington knows how to deal with aging or deceased senators: either Weekend at Bernie’s them through another news cycle, or keep the seat in the family. This week, in the aftermath of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s death, Republicans chose the second option. South Carolina Gov. […]
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Source: Senator Mitch McConnell / facebook After being MIA from Congress for more than a month and reportedly hospitalized for nearly a month, GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell has broken his silence with a written statement about his health and what appears to be a proof-of-life photo in a hospital bed alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. […]
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Graham was once a fierce critic of Trump, warning the party would be ‘destroyed’ if he was nominated. In his later years, Graham became one of Trump’s biggest supporters and a ‘sycophant’. Graham’s death has drawn mixed reactions, with some criticizing his Trump allegiance and others remembering him as a ‘true American patriot’. Source: Pool […]
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Source: Finn Gomez / Getty As the U.S. Senate prepares to return next week, the GOP is still plagued with questions surrounding one congressional leader: How is Sen. Mitch McConnell doing, is he coming back to work, and, if so, when? As we reported earlier this week, the Republican senator from Kentucky was hospitalized last […]
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ICE also arrested and detained witnesses after the killing of Alex Pretti in January. And this isn’t the first time it’s offered this version of events, either. When Marimar Martinez was shot five times in her car last year, ICE initially claimed that when the officers exited their vehicle, Martinez tried to run them over, […]
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ICE also arrested and detained witnesses after the killing of Alex Pretti in January. And this isn’t the first time it’s offered this version of events, either. When Marimar Martinez was shot five times in her car last year, ICE initially claimed that when the officers exited their vehicle, Martinez tried to run them over, […]
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The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Burch, told The New York Times Thursday that the meeting had been “grossly mischaracterized.” The 51-year-old co-founder of CatholicVote presumed the story came from the Vatican’s side, and personally called Cardinal Pierre for an apology for what Burch described to the Times as “an attack on the United […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the former leader of the GOP, has been plagued by health concerns for at least the past few years, ever since he froze up on camera during press conferences not once but twice in 2023. Now, following a revelation that someone at his home suffered a “cardiac arrest” last month, […]
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Andrew Harnik/Getty Images “What’s your favorite upgrade to the new plane, and how much did it cost American taxpayers to upgrade the plane?” a reporter asked. “Very little relative to what it would cost if we did it a different way. This was a gift from a country that’s treated us very well, they’re an […]
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That legislative measure sparked nationwide controversy earlier this year, particularly over a detail in the bill that would have made it more difficult for married women to vote. The backlash on Capitol Hill was grave, so much so that it gummed up efforts to fund Homeland Security for several months. Republicans eventually had to bail […]
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This week, the DOJ’s director of public affairs Emily Covington shared a superseding indictment with the media that was supposed to have fixed the errors. Instead, Covington made a grave error herself by publishing a draft version of the document and, in turn, potentially violating grand jury secrecy rules, national security journalist Marcy Wheeler wrote […]
Read MoreOther CEOs who are planning to travel with Trump include Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, as well as officials from Meta, Visa, Mastercard, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, GE Aerospace, Cargill, and Illumina. The group also included CEOs from major semiconductor manufacturers Qualcomm, Micron, and Coherent. As a […]
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Trump and his associates have ripped through the executive branch over the past year, hacking and slashing at government expenditures on the authority of what they claim is a “mandate from the people.” The result has shuttered several core agencies, including the Department of Education, USAID, and Voice of America, while others, such as the […]
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