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Trump’s trade war doomed workers to ‘a whole career’ without a raise: economistPresident Donald Trump’s tariffs could leave American workers paying higher prices without the wage increases needed to keep up, according to economist Justin Wolfers, who warned that the financial damage could last an entire career. In his “Platypus Economics” Substack newsletter , Wolfers explained why Trump’s trade policies could have lasting…
ICE pursuit takes bizarre turn as agency’s explanation faces 'jaw-dropping' challengeAn immigration enforcement operation that left a Houston man seriously injured has taken a stunning turn after a family recognized the photograph of the person federal agents claimed they were pursuing. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents were attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza Cervantes on Oct. 10 when Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, fled from a…
Trump’s ‘most-feared man in government’ torched by his own old ‘chilling’ warning: analystPresident Donald Trump's top communications regulator is being haunted by words he wrote just a few years ago. In a column published Friday by The Bulwark, critic Sonny Bunch zeroed in on a February 2021 statement from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr condemning Democrats for sending letters to cable providers and other regulated…
Little-known law sets ticking time bomb for Trump officials who send ICE to polls: reportAny Trump official who sends armed federal agents to polling places this November could be walking into a trap that springs years later. Federal law bars "troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held," and the crime carries a five-year statute of limitations, The Bulwark's Adrian Carrasquillo reported Friday. That leaves…
Contempt threat pries loose FBI notes on Trump sex abuse allegation DOJ fought to withholdAttorney General Todd Blanche’s Justice Department turned over to a federal judge FBI notes in which a woman says President Donald Trump sexually abused her as a child after sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced them, under threat of sanctions. The Justice Department said in a court filing Friday that it hand-delivered a binder of the notes to the…
Damning report claims Musk didn’t tell the whole truth on Ukraine’s ‘night of carnage’SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pitched President Donald Trump on slowing Ukraine’s military Starlink service before publicly blaming him for it, The Telegraph reported . Four people familiar with the talks told the British newspaper that the idea of throttling the system, which crippled Ukraine’s drone defenses, came from Musk. One said Trump “agreed,” after which…
‘Key part’ of MAGA’s crusade to take down Ilhan Omar could blow it all up in court: lawyerThe question of why Republicans want to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her citizenship would matter a great deal to any court that takes up the case, even though it isn’t the legal issue itself, California-based attorney Dilan Esper wrote in a thread posted to X on Friday. Omar, a Somali-American lawmaker who came to the United States as a child…
Debate disaster as Trump Senate pick freezes on hot-button issue: ‘I am … eh …’A Republican Senate candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump froze, then laughed, when a debate moderator asked her to define the “reasonable access” to abortion she says she supports. Republican nominee Michele Tafoya faced Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN) on Friday in a debate for Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat. It was the race’s only scheduled…
GOP goes wild on deep fake campaign ads: 'Deception is a pretty good strategy'Republican campaigns and their allies are filling the midterm airwaves with AI-generated fakes – and most of the ads don’t tell voters about their origins. The Wesleyan Media Project found more than 220 ads during this election cycle that used AI-generated material, which candidates and political groups have spent more than $137 million promoting, and…
'All the details' to impeach Kash Patel quietly slipped into lawsuit by ex-FBI agentsNine FBI agents and analysts fired by FBI Director Kash Patel slipped “all the details” Congress might need to impeach him into their wrongful-firing lawsuit, an analysis argues. Marcy Wheeler, a national security journalist who runs the emptywheel blog, wrote Friday that the complaint “provides all the details Congress might need to substantiate proof…
'Betrayal' claims fly as military targets recruit's wife: 'Stabbing soldiers in the back'The wife of a new Army recruit went to a Texas Navy base to pick up military ID cards for her family – but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting for her. Giovanna Perez, 35, drove her four children from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on Sept. 21 for a scheduled appointment to pick up ID cards…
'Voila': CNN fact-checker cracks case of Trump's mystery 19 percent inflation numberCNN's Daniel Dale has a theory about where President Donald Trump got his claim that inflation under former President Joe Biden reached 19 percent – and it's based on some very creative math. Trump has claimed his predecessor “had real inflation of 19 percent," which he repeated for effect, and he also claimed his administration “inherited the worst…
Hegseth leaves troops exposed to spies as Pentagon ignores phone security warnings: reportDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has left American troops vulnerable to foreign surveillance by failing to fix security gaps in its $2.67 billion cellphone contracts, according to a new inspector general audit. The watchdog found the department never verified whether wireless carriers were adequately safeguarding sensitive data that could reveal…
Trump officials ignored ‘beet-red flags’ as cronies stole from everyday savers: analystTrump officials looked the other way as the president's allies apparently cashed in at everyday Americans' expense, an economic analyst warned. Economics columnist Catherine Rampell laid out the case in a Thursday piece for The Bulwark, arguing that what she called "beet-red flags" around a string of suspiciously well-timed trades this spring were waved…