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Epstein May Have Left a Suicide Note—and DOJ Didn’t Mention It

Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death—ruled a suicide by a New York City coroner—has been pored over by conspiracy theorists. The financier was arrested...

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Republicans Desperately Try to Ignore Damning Inflation Report

As inflation hit 3.5 percent in March—its highest rate in three years—congressional Republicans are urging Americans to cover their eyes and ears.

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Hegseth Accuses Troops of Lying as He’s Faced With Facts on Iran War

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is continuing to lie about an Iranian drone strike that killed six U.S. service members in early March, and now he’s...

29.04.2026 1

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Trump Admits He’s Not Sure James Comey Was Trying to Kill Him

President Donald Trump’s indictments against his perceived political enemies are getting so flimsy, even he’s not sure he believes in them.

29.04.2026 2

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Hegseth Struggles to Explain the “Imminent Threat” Posed by Iran

Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth went before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday to defend the mammoth $1.5 trillion budget request...

29.04.2026 1

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“I Dissent”: Kagan Rips Supreme Court for Destroying Racial Equality

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to render the Voting Rights Act obsolete.

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Republicans Privately Panicking About Trump’s Revenge Crusade

Republicans are realizing most Americans don’t like President Trump using the Justice Department to persecute those he believes have personally...

29.04.2026 4

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DOJ Identifies Hundreds of Americans to Strip of Citizenship

The Trump administration is reupping its efforts to denaturalize U.S. citizens it sees as unworthy.

23.04.2026 4

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Trump DOJ Under Investigation for How It Handled Epstein Files

The Department of Justice is auditing itself over the chaotic rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

23.04.2026 5

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Trump Says He’s Still on Schedule in Iran Because He Took “a Break”

Donald Trump would get around to ending the bloody conflict in Iran, but come on—we all deserve a break once in a while!

23.04.2026 4

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Trump to Stage a Meltdown at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Donald Trump and the media have what could be most nicely put as a contentious relationship, as the president frequently fumes over journalists who...

23.04.2026 5

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Susie Wiles Demands Trump Advisers Actually Focus on Midterms

Back in February, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was desperately trying to get Cabinet officials to lock in.

23.04.2026 5

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Florida Criminally Investigating ChatGPT Over Role in School Shooting

Florida became the first state to criminally investigate an AI model on Tuesday, and Attorney General James Uthmeier’s charges could lead to big...

21.04.2026 4

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Ex-Bondi Aide Says MAGA Too Incompetent to Carry Out Trump’s Revenge

Do Donald Trump’s legal prosecutors know what they’re doing? According to the chief of staff for the former top MAGA prosecutor in the country:...

21.04.2026 4

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Fed Chair Nominee Caught in Massive Lie on What Trump Told Him

Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego should be commended for some excellent fact-checking of Trump crony Kevin Warsh on Tuesday.

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Trump to Recite Eyebrow-Raising Scripture at Bible Reading Event

President Trump is not exactly known for his piousness, but one Bible verse seems to have struck his fancy—probably because it was used by...

21.04.2026 7

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Karoline Leavitt Lashes Out Over Question on Trump’s Morality

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt threw one of her patented tantrums Wednesday in her first appearance since Donald Trump’s deranged...

08.04.2026 5

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RFK Jr. Using Your Taxpayer Money to Become a Podcast Bro

As bombs rain down on innocents in the Middle East, gas prices skyrocket, and data centers displace poor communities across the land, at least...

08.04.2026 10

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Democrats Sweep Elections in Crucial Swing State

Up north, Wisconsin Democrats increased their state Supreme Court majority to 5–2 and won a mayoral race in the typically Republican city of Waukesha.

08.04.2026 9

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Iran Brutally Mocks Trump After He Caves on Ceasefire Deal

Official Iranian accounts are taking a victory lap in the wake of Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal.

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Pete Hegseth Insists Starting a War Didn’t Put Troops in Harm’s Way

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took questions from the press Wednesday after a two-week ceasefire was agreed in the Iran war, and he was about as...

08.04.2026 4

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Trump’s New Attorney General Refuses to Investigate Ally’s Fraud

It looks as if Donald Trump’s new attorney general is ready to pick up right where Pam Bondi left off: declining to investigate fraud committed by...

07.04.2026 8

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Trump Left JD Vance Out of Key Iran Meeting—but Invited Jared Kushner

As President Donald Trump drags the U.S. deeper into a war with Iran that has caused horrific civilian casualties and decimated the global oil market,...

07.04.2026 8

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ICE Finally Releases Soldier’s Wife After Raiding Military Base

Annie Ramos, the 22-year-old wife of Army soldier Matthew Blank, was released from ICE custody on Tuesday. Ramos had been detained for five days after...

07.04.2026 6

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Ex-Trump Allies Join Dems to Demand Trump Removal via 25th Amendment

As President Donald Trump terrifies everyone around the world into thinking human civilization may end at 8 p.m. Tuesday, a growing number of...

07.04.2026 8

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Trump Freaks Out After Tucker Carlson Implies He’s the Antichrist

Once a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson has fully turned against him over the war in...

07.04.2026 10

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Trump Celebrates His Fraud Crackdown in Blue States as Arrests Begin

Donald Trump’s so-called fraud crackdown will soon be coming to a (Democrat-led) state near you.

03.04.2026 10

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Nearly Two Dozen Democratic States Hit Trump With Elections Lawsuit

Officials from 23 different states (and the District of Columbia) are taking Donald Trump to court over a brazenly unconstitutional executive order...

03.04.2026 10

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Trump Suggests Decimating NIH to Give Military Even More Money

The Trump administration officially sent Congress its 2027 budget proposal on Friday, and while the largest story that emerged from the mammoth...

03.04.2026 10

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Brutal Jobs Report Revision Reveals Just How Bad Trump’s Economy Is

For what was meant to be the Golden Age of America, it’s sure looking like a recession could be on the cards.

03.04.2026 9

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Is This Democratic Senate Candidate a GOP Plant to “Trick Voters”?

Nebraska’s Senate primary has been thrown into chaos, all because of a 79-year-old pastor who is either an extremely bizarre Democrat or a...

30.03.2026 10

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Israel Releases Photoshopped Picture to Justify Killing Journalist

After Israel’s military killed three journalists in a strike on Lebanon Saturday, they took to social media to gloat about the death of one in...

30.03.2026 9

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New Details on 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Revealed in Massive Report

A woman who alleged that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was just 13 years old has had new details about her story verified, following...

30.03.2026 10

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Remember Trump’s 5-Minute Rant About Sharpies? It Just Got Weirder

President Donald Trump took nearly five minutes out of a Thursday Cabinet meeting to tell the country a rambling, completely made-up story about his...

27.03.2026 20

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ICE Chief Hospitalized as Stephen Miller Keeps Yelling at Him

Todd Lyons, the acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been hospitalized twice in the last seven months due to stress, Politico...

27.03.2026 10

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Kash Patel’s Personal Email Hacked by Iran-Linked Group

Our podcaster FBI director has had his email hacked by the country we’re currently bombing.

27.03.2026 10

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Pentagon Alarmed by Tomahawk Burn Rate in Iran War

U.S. forces have blown through more than 850 Tomahawk missiles in the ongoing war in Iran, according to a new report by The Washington Post. The usage...

27.03.2026 10

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Trump Admits He Told Top Official to Ignore the Courts

An hour into his Thursday Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump made a remark that should infuriate every American who has been stuck paying high prices for...

26.03.2026 10

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Top Trump Official Asks What the Big Deal Is if ICE Goes to the Polls

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche advocated for sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling places, in the clearest proof yet...

26.03.2026 10

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Republicans’ 11th-Hour Gerrymandering Plot Flops in Another Red State

After Democrats snagged a likely House seat in Salt Lake City County, Utah, in February, the GOP was furious. Republicans control all four House...

26.03.2026 10

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Trump Reveals “Very Big Present” From Iran That Changed His Mind

Donald Trump is pretty bad at keeping secrets.

26.03.2026 10

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Trump Admits How He’s Getting Around the Constitution on Iran War

Donald Trump admitted that he is referring to the Iran war as a “military operation” to circumvent the Constitution.

26.03.2026 10

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Even Republicans Flip Out After Classified Pentagon Briefing on Iran

Prominent Republicans are bristling at the Trump administration’s opaque Iran war plans, particularly after a closed-door briefing of the House and...

25.03.2026 10

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Meta and Google Found Liable in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

In a landmark ruling that could affect thousands of future cases, Google and Meta were found liable Wednesday for inducing depression and anxiety in a...

25.03.2026 10

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Republican Rep. Declines to Defend Trump From Claim He’s a Pedophile

When Texas Representative Pete Sessions went on C-SPAN to take questions from everyday Americans on Wednesday morning, he was probably expecting...

25.03.2026 10

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Trump Creates Tech Advisers Council With Worst People You Know

Donald Trump announced his “President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology” on Wednesday, in what can only be described as a...

25.03.2026 10

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Bombshell Jack Smith Report Reveals Why Trump Hoarded Classified Docs

When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 and found that the former president had stolen hundreds of classified documents from...

25.03.2026 10

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Trump Says He Changed His Mind After Iran Gave “Very Big Present”

President Trump took questions after Markwayne Mullin was confirmed as homeland security secretary on Tuesday, and dropped a strange detail about the...

24.03.2026 10

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Venezuelan Man Sues U.S. Over “Total Hell” He Endured in CECOT Prison

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man deported by the Trump administration to CECOT prison in El Salvador, is trying to make...

24.03.2026 10

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Saudi’s MBS Secretly Pushes Trump to Take Iran War to Next Phase

Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is reportedly pressuring President Donald Trump to intensify his unpopular and...

24.03.2026 10

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