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Green Groups Fume as Trump Gives Big Oil 'Another Free Pass to Exploit' the ArcticJust over a week after a leading US Senate Democrat described President Donald Trump's relationship with fossil fuel giants as "old-fashioned corruption , by a thuggish government and a desperate industry," his administration on Thursday announced yet another giveaway to climate polluters who want to exploit the Arctic. The US Department of the Interior…
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DOJ Seeks to Prosecute Star Witness in Jan. 6 Probe Who Claimed Trump Tried to Join RiotersIn what appears to be its latest effort to target President Donald Trump's political foes, the US Department of Justice is reportedly seeking criminal charges against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a star witness in Congress' investigation of the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Punchbowl News reported on Thursday that the…
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Family Files Claim Over 'Execution-Style' ICE Killing of Silverio Villegas GonzálezOrganizations representing the family of Silverio Villegas González filed a legal claim against President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over an immigration agent's "execution-style killing " of the 38-year-old Mexican man in Illinois last year. Trump deployed agents from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to Chicago and its suburbs,…
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'What They Say When They're Scared': Vance Offers 'Brain-Dead' Definition of SocialismAs Republicans struggle to convince Americans to vote for the party whose policies have made workers' lives more difficult and expensive, they've increasingly invoked the tried-and-true bogeyman of socialism—a word for which Vice President JD Vance offered a bizarrely inaccurate definition during a Thursday press conference. Asked at the White House how…
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Raskin Bill Would Compel Smithsonian to Preserve Trump's 'Governmental Propaganda' in Permanent ExhibitPresident Donald Trump stands apart from his predecessors with his use of government resources to glorify himself. During his second presidency, he has used taxpayer funds to blast the airwaves with ads singing his praises, drape giant banners of his face from agency buildings, and mint coins bearing his image. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the…
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Big Payback: Corporations That Enjoyed Enforcement Rollback Plowed $200 Million Into Pro-Trump Super PACThe Trump administration's canceled enforcement actions against at least 205 corporations accused of wrongdoing have been cases of powerful companies "getting what they paid for," according to a new report by government watchdog Public Citizen. Building on an analysis it released earlier this week regarding hundreds of canceled investigations and…
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'There Must Be Room to Mourn Every Single Life,' Mamdani Says of Oct. 7 Attack and Genocide That FollowedNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a press conference on Thursday that "there must be room to mourn" both the Israelis killed during the Hamas-led October 7 attack three years ago and the Palestinians killed in the Israeli government's subsequent genocidal assault on Gaza. “I believe that there must be room to mourn every single life," said…
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'He Thinks Working People Are a Joke': Ken Paxton Floats Social Security Cuts in Leaked AudioKen Paxton, the Republican Party’s nominee for the US Senate in Texas , expressed a willingness to cut programs such as Social Security in a leaked recording published by The Texas Tribune on Thursday. In the recording, which was made during a private meeting with donors and lobbyists last month, Paxton said he'd target "mandatory spending"…
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'He Thinks We Don't Know Any Better,' Says El-Sayed After Latest Hateful Trump AttackAfter President Donald Trump launched yet another hateful attack on Abdul El-Sayed's name and Muslim faith, the Democratic Michigan US Senate nominee on Thursday accused the Republican of trying to distract voters from the cost-of-living crisis caused by GOP policies. "He knows my name is Abdul. He says it every day," El-Sayed said in a social media…
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Top Huckabee Aide Covered Up Report on Killings of 9 Americans by Israeli SettlersA top aide to Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, is being called a "traitor" following revelations that he manipulated embassy reports to portray the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a positive light, including covering up a report about nine US citizens killed by Israeli settlers and security forces in the West Bank. Previous…
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Voters in Key States See AI Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: PollPolling data released Thursday shows that American voters in several key states view campaign cash from the artificial intelligence industry and Big Tech CEOs as more politically poisonous than donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Wall Street executives, and cryptocurrency firms. The poll from Data for Progress and Guardrails…
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'It Was All Quid Pro Quo': GOP Donor Goes on the Record to Accuse Kimberly Guilfoyle of CorruptionA former Republican congressional candidate and donor to President Donald Trump's campaign went on the record Thursday to level allegations of corruption against Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Trump-appointed US Ambassador to Greece. Appearing on ABC News' "Good Morning America," Eric Deters said that Guilfoyle offered him access to top officials in the Trump…
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Federal Judge Orders Trump DHS to Return Man to US After Deportation to Equatorial GuineaA lawyer for Ahmed Soliman, a 31-year-old Phoenix man who has been arbitrarily detained in Equatorial Guinea since April, when US immigration agents forced him onto a plane under the Trump administration's third-country deportation policy, expressed cautious optimism and relief on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled that the Department of Homeland…
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'The DNC Has No Choice': Democrats Sue Trump Over Taxpayer-Funded PropagandaThe Democratic National Committee sued President Donald Trump and parts of his administration on Wednesday over a series of recent taxpayer-funded video advertisements that the complaint calls "a blatant violation of the statutory ban on the use of appropriations for 'publicity or propaganda purposes.'" "President Trump personally directed this illegal…
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Trump 'Environmental Destruction Agency Continues Its Rampage' With Methane Pollution RollbackThe US Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced plans to further weaken federal protections against methane pollution from oil and gas operations, prompting environmental advocates to accuse the Trump administration of once again putting fossil fuel interests ahead of public health and the climate. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made the…
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Trump Says He Wanted to Privatize Social Security 'So Badly' During First TermPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday opened up a new line of attack for Democrats when he talked about his desire to privatize Social Security. Even though Trump repeatedly said during his three runs for the White House that he wouldn't touch Social Security, the president on Wednesday told reporters in the Oval Office that he "wanted to ride with Social…
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