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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

yesterday 1

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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...

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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 3

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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 3

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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 5

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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 5

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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 5

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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 4

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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 5

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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 10

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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 6

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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 9

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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 8

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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 8

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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 8

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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 9

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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 9

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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 8

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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 9

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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 8

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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 9

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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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Lauren Boebert Hit With Brutal Fact-Check on Airport Chaos

Dumb comments from Lauren Boebert aren’t exactly rare, but her latest is a real doozy.

24.03.2026 7

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One “Lucky” Trader Made Nearly $1 Million on Polymarket Iran Bets

With betting apps—sorry, “prediction markets”—like Kalshi and Polymarket, it’s easier than ever to profit off of deadly conflicts.

24.03.2026 10

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Vivek Ramaswamy Blew Nearly $12K in Campaign Funds on Luxury Vacation

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy paid for a lavish trip to Puerto Rico using campaign funds, a new report from MeidasTouch has revealed.

20.03.2026 20

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John Fetterman Is Historically Unpopular, Brutal Polls Show

When Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was elected in 2023, the Democratic Party thought it might have a new kind of leader. The gruff,...

20.03.2026 6

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Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Harvard With New Lawsuit

The Trump administration is once again suing Harvard University, contending that “for several years, Jewish and Israeli students endured a hostile...

20.03.2026 10

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Denmark Prepared Drastic Measures to Keep Greenland Away From Trump

Imagine, if you will, U.S. military aircraft about to touch down in Greenland ahead of a forced annexation of the island. Suddenly, BOOM! The runway...

20.03.2026 10

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Trump Team Changed a Report to Hide How Bad DOGE Made Things

The Washington Post revealed Thursday that the Trump administration altered a Social Security report to make call wait times appear shorter than they...

20.03.2026 10

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Trump Finds a New Way to Force Us to Stare at His Face

Say what you will about our grifter in chief, but during his second term, Donald Trump has managed to slap his name and likeness on more objects than...

19.03.2026 9

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Trump Shrugs Off Surging Iran War Cost as Food and Gas Prices Rise

Donald Trump claimed Thursday that $200 billion more going to an unpopular, illegal overseas war wasn’t all that big a deal.

19.03.2026 9

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Democrats Revolt Against Hakeem Jeffries Ahead of Midterms

Democrats are increasingly confident that if President Donald Trump allows an election, they will win the House of Representatives come November. But...

17.03.2026 8

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Ex-DOGE Staffer Admits the Whole Thing Was a Total Bust

The DOGE bros responsible for cutting over 317,000 federal jobs and thousands of grants continue to show they had no idea what they were doing and no...

17.03.2026 6

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Here’s How Trump Came Up With Theory Iran Struck Its Own Girls’ School

We now know why Donald Trump falsely claimed Iran struck one of its own schools, following the largest loss of civilian life in the war so far.

17.03.2026 9

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“Rotten”: Trump Lashes Out at Female Reporter Over 2020 Election Lies

Journalists are getting better at asking an aging Donald Trump hard-hitting questions, and the man is starting to get truly ticked off.

11.03.2026 10

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Trump Refuses to Answer Key Question on Winning Iran War

We’re almost two weeks into the Iran war, and President Donald Trump still isn’t sure what his goals are.

11.03.2026 8

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Leaked Documents Show CBP Is Being Remade in Image of Its Worst Stooge

Greg Bovino may no longer be atop the U.S. Border Patrol, but documents leaked to The American Prospect suggest there’s still a sea change inside...

11.03.2026 8

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Marco Rubio Roasted for Wearing Clown Shoes Trump Bought Him

Just one day after The Wall Street Journal discovered that Donald Trump was urging everyone in his presidential Cabinet to wear the same style of...

11.03.2026 10

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Trump Adviser Flails Trying to Defend Threat of Iran Nuclear Program

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is back showing just how clueless the Trump administration is when it comes to warmaking.

11.03.2026 9

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Leavitt Erupts When Asked if U.S. Bombed Girls’ School in Iran

Karoline Leavitt gave a characteristically petulant response when asked whether the U.S. was involved in an airstrike on a girls’ school in Iran...

04.03.2026 8

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Noem Flails When Asked if She Had “Sexual Relations” With DHS Adviser

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got hot under the collar when asked if she was sleeping with one of her employees.

04.03.2026 6

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Republican Gerrymandering Hilariously Backfires in Texas Primaries

Given the many scandals that have enveloped this country since President Donald Trump began his second term, it’s easy to forget one of the first:...

04.03.2026 10

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Democrats Reject ICE and AIPAC in North Carolina Primary Gains

More primaries, more gains for progressives candidates.

04.03.2026 8

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