The White House on Monday launched Trump TV, a 24/7 stream on YouTube, days after President Trump banned reporters from CNN, Politico and MS NOW over their coverage of him and his administration. The inaugural video was a stream of Trump speaking at Mount Rushmore on July 3 as part of a livestream…
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California’s state ballot measure proposing a 5 percent tax on the state’s 200 billionaires’ net worth is losing support, according to a new poll released Monday. The University of California, Berkeley Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research-POLITICO poll found that 45 percent of registered…
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Austin, Tex., ICE shooting protest was organized by socialist and communist groups within hours, not a "spontaneous" gathering as media reported.
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The United Nations-backed Independent International Scientific Panel on AI on Monday urged world leaders and tech companies to implement new safeguards on artificial intelligence, with the concern that existing safeguards are “unraveling.” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gueterres welcomed the…
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Former White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) president Weijia Jiang on Sunday said President Trump’s ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW reporters from covering the White House was an “attack” on all other news outlets. “This is not a tantrum by three media outlets who are upset because they…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will now oversee a new Pentagon advisory committee focused on homeland security and defense, the first such department panel to do so. The Homeland Defense Board (HDB), announced in the Federal Register on Sept. 11 and first reported by Defense News, is meant to fill…
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A federal appeals court reinstated Missouri Republicans’ 7-1 House map to be used in time for the November elections, delivering a boost for several GOP candidates who wanted a more favorable map for the party to be used in the midterm elections. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on…
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NEW YORK — President Trump offered rare praise for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) Monday, saying he has “great potential.” The two leaders chatted inside Gracie Mansion before holding a press conference ahead of Tuesday’s United Nations General Assembly in the city. “No, I certainly hope…
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at an airport in Ireland on Monday as the two waited for their planes to be refueled en route to the U.S., a person familiar with the meeting told The Hill. Ratcliffe and Zelensky briefly met at Shannon Airport, the source…
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President Trump's exertion of power over the press, Greenland and even the D.C. landscape are teeing up questions over the president's limits.
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President Trump railed against the judge who has been assigned to a case seeking to challenge his ban on three media outlets from covering the White House and telegraphed he might be forced to let the journalists working for the trio back in the building. “They have drawn a great Judge, for them,”…
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Eric Burlison (MO-7) has a plan to fix healthcare for the American people, and blames exploding healthcare premiums for American's lack of discretionary income.
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Former Rep. Mike Rogers (Mich.), the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, on Monday said “Michigan families can’t afford to wait” for the Iran war to reach its conclusion, calling for an end to the conflict. Rogers released a campaign ad on the social platform X showing him at a grocery store.…
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Austin City Council members spoke out against ICE after an agent shot a man on Sept. 20.
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California has the most expensive diesel in the U.S. at an average of $8.42 per gallon, according to AAA.
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President Trump’s approval rating has dipped to a historic low with the midterms only about six weeks away, according to a new poll. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump’s approval rating was sitting at 32 percent, the lowest of his second term, and according to Reuters, a record low for his entire…
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More Democrats plan to vote in person as President Trump ramps up his attacks on casting mail-in ballots, according to a new poll released Sunday. NBC News’s latest poll shows that 36 percent of registered Democratic voters plan to cast their ballots in person at an early voting site, a 6-point…
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President Trump’s abrupt move to withdraw White House press credentials for three news organizations triggered a rare moment of unity among television networks, which on Monday said they would not cover the president’s daily activities while the ban was in place. Both Trump and the White House…
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Lame-duck lawmakers in the lower chamber are going out with guns blazing. In a series of extraordinary moves ahead of the midterms, soon-to-depart members forced votes on long-shot impeachments, carried discharge petitions over the top, and hopped the aisle to help the opposing party secure…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Sunday went after President Trump for his triumphal arch and pressed for statehood for Washington, D.C. The president in a Truth Social post on Sunday said that the plans for the massive arch bridging D.C. and Virginia will incorporate a “top grade military complex”…
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Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke out on Monday against the White House’s reported plans to give political appointees more control over the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) grantmaking process. Multiple outlets…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday he has “great confidence” in Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, after the central bank raised interest rates by a quarter point against the wishes of President Trump. “I have great confidence in Chair Warsh,” Bessent told host Joe Kernen on CNBC’s…
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President Trump was inaudible in live footage at a ribbon cutting ceremony unveiling the new South Lawn helipad at the White House on Monday after major television outlets covering Trump said they would not participate in the TV pool after he banned three outlets last week. While Trump was seen…
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Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working on a “massive Deal” to buy potash from Minsk at a steep discount amid the trade war with Canada. “Even…
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Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, said Monday that he thinks Pentagon funding should not be used toward the construction of President Trump’s triumphal arch. Simpson told reporters Monday that “there’s a lot of things that we need the military…
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted flights at multiple airports in the northeast on Monday, citing the accidental cutting of a fiber cable at a construction site in New Jersey. Ground stops are in effect at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in Queens, New York, Newark…
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A new poll shows that many Americans have a poor outlook on the United Nations and its performance in five chief objectives. The Gallup poll released Sunday found that 73 percent were most critical of the U.N.’s efforts to uphold international peace and security, with 25 percent saying the…
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Presley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford, died Sunday at a rehabilitation facility at the age of 27.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Transportation launched a new artificial intelligence tool in the Washington, D.C., area Monday intended to predict flight delays and advise air traffic controllers. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said at a press conference…
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"It's always going to be a human that manages the airspace in America,” Duffy said.
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The Trump administration is reportedly putting together an executive order to move the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) grant approval process away from the agency and giving political appointees more control. Reports emerged over the weekend that the Oval Office was considering enforcing…
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Lindsay Clancy's attorney says he intends to file a motion to dismiss the case.
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Paramount has reached an agreement to settle with 12 states that sued the media conglomerate earlier this year over its planned purchase of Warner Brothers Discovery, the two sides announced on Monday. During a press conference in Los Angeles, California Attorney General Rob Bonta — who led the…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday officials from the U.S. and China are considering lowering tariffs on “noncritical” products, as President Trump prepares to host Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Washington, D.C. During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Bessent said the two…
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But government access to the president should not become a reward for favorable coverage. The job of the White House press corps isn't to make the president look good. It is to report what the president says and does.
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Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey's Welcome Family program sparked a firestorm after a viral clip about home visits for new parents.
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Tens of millions from the Soros family flow to Democratic allies as campaign finance records reveal over $40 million in disbursements before Election Day.
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Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas railroad commissioner, commented on the racial makeup of the Texas Longhorns's cheering section, calling it "far worse than anyone imagined."
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President Donald Trump's Greenland interest spotlights critical minerals and oil as Strait of Hormuz disruptions threaten global energy supplies.
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The claim process has opened for a massive settlement involving select iPhones.
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Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), the Republican Senate candidate in Iowa, on Monday vented voters’ frustrations by declaring that Iowans “shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran.” Hinson’s decision to link the seven-month military conflict to rising prices…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said in a new interview that he has dropped 80 pounds using a GLP-1 drug. “I have been driven my whole life to lose weight,” Pritzker said in an interview that aired Monday on “CBS Mornings.” “The fact that I am now able to do it because this GLP-1 became…
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Rapper Macklemore gained a new ally in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who blasted Robert Kraft for allegedly forcing Ed Sheeran to drop him from tour.
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As advancements in technology allow private companies like Flock Safety to bypass the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994, experts argue that current privacy laws must be updated to regulate the collection and retention of vehicle movement data.
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Payments are set to be issued starting Monday in the $115 million class action lawsuit against tech company Oracle that "millions" could have qualified for.
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The State Department on Saturday warned Americans in the Middle East to exercise caution, after the Iranian-backed Houthis launched an attack on the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Citing “tensions” in the region, the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs said the security environment in…
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Vice President Vance will rally Republican voters Monday in North Carolina as the party fights to hold a key Senate seat in November. Vance is set to appear in Greensboro, less than a week after President Trump traveled to the Tar Heel State, to campaign alongside GOP Senate nominee Michael…
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As conflict escalates in the Strait of Hormuz, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has introduced legislation to repeal a 34-year-old ban on direct U.S. aid to Azerbaijan to bolster the strategic Middle Corridor energy route.
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The judge who will decide whether President Trump constitutionally banned a trio of media outlets from the White House is one of the president’s own nominees — and he’s no stranger to Trump’s clashes with the press. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump nominated to the federal bench in…
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Both parties are embracing the Supreme Court’s summer ruling that allows parties to coordinate and spend unlimited amounts of money with campaigns as marquee midterm races head into the home stretch. The Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is spending over $45 million in coordinated expenditures with…
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will give remarks Monday as the Federal Aviation Administration rolls out a new artificial intelligence tool aimed at helping air traffic controllers manage congestion and reduce flight delays. The Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes, and Trajectories…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the White House’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House grounds Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Bessent joined the financial news show just days after President Trump banned members of three news agencies from the White House in…
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While artificial intelligence leaders call for regulation to prevent existential risks, President Donald Trump continues to dismiss AI fears as a hoax to protect a stock market heavily reliant on AI speculation.
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Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico has a slight lead over his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton, according to a new poll. In the NBC 5 Dallas/Telemundo Station Group poll, 46 percent of registered voter respondents backed Talarico, while 43 percent backed the Texas attorney general.…
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A major cryptocurrency super PAC, Fairshake, plans to spend $30 million in Ohio opposing former Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D) bid to return to the Senate, the group has confirmed to The Hill. Brown, who spent nearly two decades representing the Buckeye State before being ousted in 2024, is facing off…
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Vice President Vance, who has long cast himself as a champion of free speech, defended President Trump’s ban on three outlets from the White House on Monday, calling the move “totally appropriate.” “He’s not banning media outlets. What he’s doing is saying ‘we’re not going to give you special…
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What is needed is a federal framework to check, oversee and control the existential threat AI might pose to society.
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Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) this week endorsed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), crossing the aisle to support the Republican in one of the closest — and most closely watched — contests of the midterm cycle. The move is sure to frustrate Democrats, who are fighting to flip control of the lower chamber…
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