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Democrats vow revenge for Supreme Court shenanigans if they gain majoritySenate Democrats are warning that if they win control of the chamber this November, any Supreme Court vacancy President Donald Trump tries to fill could meet the same fate Republicans once handed Barack Obama's nominee: a seat left open and a nominee left waiting. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) put the president on notice in response to a…

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'Oh, come on!' GOP senator shouted down on 'The View' over Don Jr.'s wedding oligarchA Republican senator was shouted down for defending the attorney general who won't investigate a Russian oligarch's spending on the wedding of the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. " The View " co-host Ana Navarro confronted Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on the ABC talk show Monday over his vote to confirm Attorney General Todd Blanche. Tillis, who is retiring…

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Trump condemned for 'victory lap' over Haitian removals miles from immigrant's funeralPresident Donald Trump celebrated the removal of Haitians from Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday — just hours after mourners gathered 25 miles away to bury a young Haitian immigrant, according to a new report in The Bulwark. The contrast drew a scathing assessment from writers Andrew Egger and Jim Swift, who attended both events. “They buried Pierre Damas…

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Humiliating flaw spotted in Trump's latest AI-generated Greenland threatPresident Donald Trump's latest AI-generated fantasy about seizing Greenland contains an embarrassing flaw that critics were quick to seize on: the Arctic territory he's so eager to claim has no penguins. As The Daily Beast flagged on Monday, Trump shared a Truth Social post featuring an AI-generated image of himself standing in front of a snowy mountain…

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Explosive CIA leak raises fears of imminent and ‘total collapse’ of major US allyCIA experts warned in a classified report that Israel could be headed toward “civil war” or “total collapse,” Drop Site News reported Monday after being briefed on the assessment by two U.S. sources. “The writers of this are Israel experts,” one of the U.S. sources told Drop Site News, speaking on the condition of anonymity for the outlet’s report, which…

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Jack Smith's shirt sends Fox News into a frenzy: 'Pretty rich for that guy!'Fox News personalities lashed out at former special counsel Jack Smith for wearing a "No Kings" shirt, with one guest falsely claiming the move was "pretty rich" because Smith had tried to overturn an election. Fox News host Harris Faulkner brought up the shirt during Monday's broadcast of "The Faulkner Focus." She scoffed at the idea that Smith "had…

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Trump White House escalates media war with move that threatens to backfire in courtThe White House is escalating its fight with news organizations by blocking Politico from Air Force One, a move that could give the outlets fresh ammunition ahead of a court hearing Thursday . Politico was scheduled to serve as the print representative in Monday's traveling press pool, CNN's Brian Stelter reported . "Scoop: The White House is refusing to…

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Ken Paxton demanded 'chilling' 28-item list from a small-town pediatricianTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, has buried a small central Texas pediatric practice in document demands as part of his investigation into what he calls a conspiracy to push parents into vaccinating their children. The New York Times reported that Paxton's Consumer Protection Division sent her a letter in…

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Judges twisted the knife on 'terrified' Trump's legacy obsession: criticA prominent Trump critic says the president's push to stamp his name across Washington just hit a wall, and he thinks he knows why it stings . Scott Dworkin, co-founder of the anti-Trump super PAC the Democratic Coalition, wrote in his newsletter Monday that President Donald Trump is "terrified America will forget him," and that two federal judges just…

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Mass confusion as Ken Paxton ad shows MAGA candidate tearing down missing child flyerA political ad airing nationally for GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton left viewers baffled Monday over a scene that appears to show the Texas attorney general tearing down a missing child flyer. “Yeah I don’t think they thought this through,” quipped Conor Rogers, a D.C.-based Democratic strategist. The ad was funded by Texas PAC, a Senate Republican…

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Nobel winner startled as Trump's 'cesspit' of scandals pushes even WSJ to its 'gag level'Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says Donald Trump's corruption problem is finally breaking through , and that a Democratic wave in November could bring an unprecedented round of investigations. "The cesspit of corruption that is Donald Trump's presidency is finally getting the attention it deserves," the former New York Times columnist wrote…

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CBS News under fire over glaring omission in Dennis Hastert death announcementCBS News set off a firestorm of criticism over its announcement on social media that disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert has died at 84. The longest-serving Republican House speaker was sentenced to 15 months in prison, making him the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, after pleading guilty to illegally…

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Republicans facing election 'whiplash' as redistricting 'bet' threatens to backfireRepublicans who built part of their redistricting strategy around Donald Trump's gains with Latino men are now facing the prospect that the bet could backfire in the midterms , according to Axios. Latino voters, whose shift toward Trump helped power his 2024 victory, are moving sharply back toward Democrats, Axios reports, citing new polling. Republicans…

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Trump ally ‘likely’ to destroy Amazon rainforest as expert delivers grim predictionThe world’s largest tropical rainforest that serves as a “critical counterweight to climate change” is under threat of complete destruction following the strong electoral performance of a far-right ally to President Donald Trump, one legal expert and former Democratic lawmaker warned Monday. Flávio Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and presidential…

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Local GOP insists it has 'duty' to campaign for Republican charged with child molestationThe Palm Beach County Republican Party isn't distancing itself from suspended Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso, even though the state GOP has said it won't support him after he was charged in August with molesting a young relative. Caruso won't drop out and insists he still intends to win in November, and county GOP Chairman Carl Cascio told the Miami Herald…

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Young voters deliver 'unambiguously good news' for Dems in pivotal swing stateDemocrats have a large advantage among young voters in Michigan across the different races coming to the ballot in November, according to a new poll from the Alliance for Youth Power PAC and YouGov released Monday, which showed “pretty unambiguously good news for Democrats,” as John Ray, a senior political analyst at YouGov Blue, described in a press…

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DOJ forced to detail secret Epstein videos at center of Trump 'cover-up' claims: reportThe Justice Department was forced to release new details that gave further credence to allegations that the agency engaged in a “cover-up” to protect President Donald Trump while it prepared millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein for public release, legal commentator Allison Gill reported Sunday. “I can see now why they wanted to push it back until…

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‘Insecure’ JD Vance targeted by MAGA senator as 2028 contenders trade blows: reportA simmering rivalry between two Republican heavyweights eyeing the White House spilled into public view this week, with one making it personal.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called Vice President JD Vance "insecure" in a phone interview with Politico on Saturday, responding to Vance's claim days earlier that ...

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'Triage begins': Panicked Republicans launch 'rescue mission' to save MAGA senatorRepublicans launched what a Democratic pollster called a "rescue mission" to save Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) in deep-red Kansas.The Senate Leadership Fund, the top super PAC for Senate Republicans, is pulling back from North Carolina's Senate race and putting seven figures into Kansas, Semafor first...

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Texas businessman used fake name to funnel $250K to corruption-plagued Ken PaxtonA Texas businessman funneled $250,000 to a super PAC backing embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton's Senate campaign under a fake name, according to a new Politico report.Last year, the pro-Paxton super PAC received the six-figure donation from a man calling himself "Paul McLaren," described in camp...

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