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Judge Smacks Down Trump’s Investigation Into Jerome Powell

A federal judge has quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas directed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

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Hegseth Quietly Admits U.S. Might Be Behind Iran Girls’ School Strike

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged Friday that the U.S. military had opened a comprehensive investigation into the attack on an Iranian...

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Trump Says Iran War Will Be Over “When I Feel It in My Bones”

Two weeks after he directed American forces to bomb Iran, Donald Trump has revealed he has no notion of when the war will end.

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Trump Seems to Be Selling National Security Briefing Details to Fans

The president is leveraging his position as commander in chief for another moneymaking scheme.

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Hegseth Bars Reporter Who Revealed Aides’ Reaction to Dead Troops Quip

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is once again cracking down on the journalists who cover it.

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Trump Team Freaks Out Over CBS’s Newest Hire

The White House is weighing in on the internal affairs of private business—again.

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Here’s Which DOGE Goon Allegedly Took Social Security Data

The man accused of stealing sensitive social security data didn’t just potentially commit a massive security breach that could affect millions of...

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Trump Posts Most Unhinged Video Yet Showing Iran War as a Game

The White House is taking the current Middle East conflict very seriously.

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Iran Destroys U.S. Missile Defenses as Trump Insists Everything’s Fine

Iran has systematically destroyed U.S. missile defense systems across the Middle East over the last 13 days, opting to surgically dismantle the eyes...

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Trump Says He Totally Knows Where All Iran Sleeper Cells Are in U.S.

Having Iranian sleeper cells floating around the country is apparently no big deal to the president.

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Leavitt Admits SAVE Act Will Make It Harder for Married Women to Vote

Married women will need to update their identification documentation in order to vote if the SAVE America Act passes Congress, according to White...

10.03.2026 5

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Trump Insists Strait of Hormuz Is Safe as Iran Begins Laying Mines

Iran was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz while Donald Trump declared he was thinking of taking it over.

10.03.2026 4

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Trump Was on Phone While Epstein Assaulted a 16-Year-Old, Victim Says

Yet more evidence has emerged from the Epstein files suggesting that Donald Trump was well aware of the child sex trafficker’s criminal empire.

10.03.2026 8

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Trump Skips Honoring Dead Soldier After Being Ripped for Attire

Donald Trump opted not to attend the dignified transfer for the seventh U.S. service member killed during the war with Iran.

10.03.2026 5

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Trump Made Massive “Tactical Error” on Iran During Ukraine Talks

The U.S. could have had the schematics for Iran’s Shahed drones, but the Trump administration said no.

10.03.2026 9

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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab

The Pentagon spent more money in September—the end of the 2025 fiscal year—than it had in any other year since 2008. But a good chunk of the...

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Trump Ramps up 2020 Revenge by Targeting Vote Records in Second State

The White House is working to dredge up another election conspiracy with eight months on the clock until midterms.

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Trump Reveals Who Will Really Decide When the Iran War Ends

The U.S. will only pull out of Iran when Israel decides it’s time to call it quits.

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Why the Hell Are Trump Officials Panic Buying Armageddon Bunkers?

At least two members of the president’s Cabinet have recently purchased bomb-proof bunkers.

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Fox News Apologizes After Lying About Trump Honoring Dead Troops

Fox News does not air reality.

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DOD Cancels Army Training, Sparking Fears of Escalation in Iran

The U.S. Army spontaneously canceled a training exercise for an elite team this week, raising concerns that the soldiers may soon be expected to...

06.03.2026 5

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U.S. Is Running Out of Missiles Thanks to Trump’s War in Iran

American forces are no longer capable of supplying missiles to U.S. allies amid its war with Iran.

06.03.2026 5

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Why Trump Finally Threw Kristi Noem Under the Bus

The White House had not been happy with Kristi Noem for quite some time.

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“I Guess”: Trump Has Wild Response to Potential Attacks on U.S. Soil

The U.S. president could not care less if Iran’s violent retaliation includes the deaths of American citizens. Actually, it’s something he’s...

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DOJ Abruptly Posts FBI Interviews Trump Accuser From Epstein Files

The Justice Department released FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of beating her after he sexually assaulted her when she was a...

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Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign

The Department of Homeland Security tapped a little-known ad firm to produce Kristi Noem’s multimillion-dollar ad campaign during the government...

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Noem Hit With Brutal Fact Check Over Minnesota “Domestic Terrorism”

Roughly two months after their deaths, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem still isn’t ready to publicly acknowledge that Renee Nicole Good and...

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Mike Johnson Says Enforcing Constitution on Iran Would Be “Terrible”

Only Congress has the authority to declare war—but Republican leadership seems content to let Donald Trump do whatever he wants at whim.

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DOD Officials Make Chilling Admission About Fighting Off Iran’s Drones

American forces might not be able to fend off Iran’s drones.

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Trump Team Scrambles Over Rubio’s Admission About Israel and Iran

State Secretary Marco Rubio just ate his own words.

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France and U.K. Get Roped Into Trump’s Iran War

France and the United Kingdom have entered the Iran conflict.

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Why Texas Republicans Want to Halt All Immigration Into the Country

A contingent of Texas Republicans are pushing for an immediate pause on all immigration into the U.S. after local authorities revealed a naturalized...

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Trump Admits His Big Iran Plot Could Totally Fail

The Iran war could be entirely in vain, according to Donald Trump.

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Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”

Without any clear message coming from the White House with regard to the purpose of the Iran war, U.S. military commanders have turned to Jesus,...

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Trump Issues Chilling Warning About How Long Iran War Could Last

The Iran war could go on “forever”—if Donald Trump wanted it to.

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Trump’s First Administration Shut Down Investigation Into Epstein

The state of New Mexico attempted to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s state residence in 2019. Then the Trump administration got involved.

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MAGA Republican Announces Retirement, Giving Dems an Opportunity

Yet another Republican is calling it quits on his congressional career.

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Trump Accidentally Reveals Iran Wasn’t a Threat Before He Attacked

Iran had to be attacked because the U.S. was “very nearly under threat” by its advanced weapons systems, according to the president.

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Pentagon Panics That Iran War Will Use Up All Air Defense Supplies

Attacking Iran has severely diminished America’s air defense supplies, a predictable outcome that has Pentagon officials panicking mere days into...

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Trump Has Absolutely Zero Clue What to Do Next in Iran

Donald Trump declared war against Iran over the weekend, killing dozens of people in the country’s senior leadership in the process, including...

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Trump’s Effort to Steal the Midterms Is Getting Serious

Anti-voting activists are circulating an unconstitutional executive order draft that they argue could allow Donald Trump to take control over the...

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Vance Arrogantly Dismisses Criticism of War He’s About to Help Launch

National concern is mounting as the White House mulls over a possible attack on Iran, though JD Vance isn’t worried in the slightest.

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The Pro-Trump Paramount-WBD Merger Can Still Be Stopped

Paramount Skydance successfully outbid Netflix Thursday, paving the way for the media behemoth to merge with its Burbank, California, neighbor, Warner...

27.02.2026 8

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Mike Huckabee Just Sent an Ominous Warning to U.S. Staff in Israel

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are boiling up, so much so that Trump administration officials are bypassing normal procedure to warn regional...

27.02.2026 10

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MAGA Is Furious Lauren Boebert Derailed Hillary’s Epstein Deposition

Lauren Boebert successfully pissed everybody off during Hillary Clinton’s closed door deposition Thursday.

27.02.2026 10

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YouTuber Who Found “Somali Fraud” Backs Probe Into “Jewish Invasion”

Just one day after Republicans invited Nick Shirley to join them at the State of the Union address, the right-wing YouTuber endorsed a copy-cat of his...

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MAGA Senator Crashes Out Explaining Why Trump Should Attack Iran

The White House is prepping for war with Iran—but that outcome is getting more and more difficult to rationalize, even for MAGA loyalists.

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Trump Wants to Deport Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and … Robert De Niro?

The White House’s next immigration target: a pair of Democratic lawmakers and famed actor Robert De Niro.

25.02.2026 10

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Cuban Coast Guard Kills 4 Americans in Move Sure to Piss Off Trump

Cuban officials have confirmed that the country’s Border Guard troops killed four people aboard a speedboat registered in Florida Wednesday morning.

25.02.2026 10

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The Real Reason Kristi Noem Fired (and Rehired) a Coast Guard Pilot

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s blanket fiasco may not have been about a blanket at all.

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