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President Donald Trump has said every American should want a data center in their town. But his home county in Florida just voted to block them.
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According to right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, that is the exact verbatim response Donald Trump gave in the Oval Office when warned about the catastrophic human cost of a potential conflict. Now, Washington insiders and journalists are sounding the alarm, with fresh calls...
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There’s a raging Republican revolt against President Donald Trump in America’s heartland, and one former Trump official explained what’s “different” about the growing GOP divide.
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There are no plans in this White House, whose handling of its own press ban was comically inept, to address any of the myriad issues that are fueling citizen anger. That takes too much work – or a lot more than renaming bodies of water and wishing away corruption challenges wi...
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According to a new report by Politico, little movement has been seen among the group “tasked with reviewing and testing existing government-collected data to determine whether aliens or their technology are on Earth.”
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As gas prices surge to record levels amidst the ongoing war in Iran, military veterans led protestors outside a Lansing gas station Friday in opposition to the war alongside the rollout of an electronic records system they say is harming veteran healthcare.
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Internal polling and frozen funds signal a strategic retreat from Atlanta while the party redirects cash to protect more viable incumbents.
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Little attention is being paid to the ways first lady Melania Trump has found to cash in on her position in government.
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It is now 38 days until the Nov. 3 election and the thought back in May was that there's really no chance of flipping as many as 40 seats in Congress, The Los Angeles Times wrote. It appears that thinking has changed. Slate reported on Saturday that if Democrats vote in signif...
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some Democrats are already measuring for new decor in House committee hearing rooms, preparing for the investigations they plan to launch.
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A Trump supporter, decked out in his MAGA hat and an AMERICA t-shirt, said that Trump is trying to buy off voters with his latest promise to deliver $5,000 checks.
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One of the investigations likely to follow if Democrats take over the House concerns the extent to which President Donald Trump's administration ignored court orders at the direction of those at the highest level of government. One ACLU lawyer is still fighting a case that dat...
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It's a difficult time for the Republican Party as GOP candidates up for reelection back away slowly from their MAGA loyalty to President Donald Trump. It even appears the first lady is struggling to defend him, said the president's niece, Dr. Mary Trump. On her weekly cast whe...
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President Donald Trump's latest tactic to build some of his decoration projects has been to claim that they're actually for the military. One report thinks that the strategy will backfire. Writing for The Atlantic on Saturday, Janay Kingsberry noted that since announcing the p...
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Supporters of President Donald Trump have spent the past week attempting to justify his expulsion of three press outlets from the White House. But one CNN host isn't having it. According to Sean Spicer, Trump's former press secretary, Joe "Biden stripped the press passes of 44...
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While many Republican candidates have been rushing to distance themselves from President Donald Trump as his approval ratings have plunged to historic lows, one is not only “still with” him, but continues to back his most unpopular policies.
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Former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews recalled the first administration when "working for the guy" meant dealing with President Donald Trump's fire hose of comments and misinformation. She knows with absolute certainty that the more he can distract from the ...
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On Friday, a leading national security analyst warned that President Donald Trump’s recent behavior suggests his intention to commit “nuclear genocide.”
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President Donald Trump is calling for his proposed "triumphal arch" near Arlington National Cemetery to be used as a "top grade military complex" that would include snipers and drone storage.
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After nearly 20 years working for the U.S. Justice Department Sheri Mecklenburg said that she's been forced to take a retirement and she's telling all in a letter to Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros.Chicago Sun-Times reporter Jon Seidel obtained Mecklenburg’s letter allegi...
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