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Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover Plunges Further Into Chaos

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More artists have canceled their performances at the Kennedy Center after its Trump-acolyte-dominated board’s recent vote to add the president’s name to the performing arts center earlier this month.  The latest includes The Cookers, a jazz ensemble, which called off their New Year’s Eve show on Monday.  The band did not explicitly mention the name […]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump Turned on Her Over Epstein Survivors

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that her defense of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and threat to disclose the identities of some of the men who abused them broke her relationship with President Donald Trump, who said his “friends will get hurt” if she went through with it.  Greene’s claim came in remarks […]

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Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Says He Acted to “Speak Up” for Election Deniers

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The man who allegedly planted two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the January 6 Capitol riot told investigators after his arrest earlier this month that someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed that the 2020 election was stolen, according to a court filing on Sunday.  Federal prosecutors said that the […]

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Kara Swisher Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Predator’

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Kara Swisher, the veteran tech journalist who had a leading hand in uncovering the affair between then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Olivia Nuzzi, said in a Friday interview that RFK Jr. also needs to be held accountable given his long history as a “predator.” “It’s crazy that people don’t care,” Swisher said, […]

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In Complaining About Gag Order, DHS Violates Gag Order

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The Department of Homeland Security’s complaint about being under a gag order on Saturday in its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration illegally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, likely violated the court order. Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the […]

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Trump Tried to Send the National Guard Into Chicago. The Supreme Court Said No.

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The Supreme Court blocked President Trump on Tuesday from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago as part of his campaign to use the military to police the streets of Democratic-led cities. The Trump administration had argued that Chicago was in chaos—referring to protests against immigration enforcement—but the Supreme Court’s order reads, “At this preliminary stage, […]

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Millions of Student Loan Borrowers Are About to See Their Paychecks Shrink

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The Department of Education said Monday that the Trump administration will begin to garnish earnings from student loan borrowers in January.  This is the first time borrowers’ paychecks will be at risk since pandemic-era policies paused payments in March 2020.  Starting the week of January 7, around 1,000 borrowers in default will get notices of […]

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Trump Administration Bans Abortion Care for Veterans

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In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling. This change stems from a Department of Justice legal opinion on December 18 that reinstated exclusions on abortions and abortion counseling that […]

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Mike Pence Poaches Heritage Foundation Staff After Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Blowup

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Former Vice President Mike Pence poached over a dozen senior officials from the Heritage Foundation to join his own conservative think tank in the latest sign that all is not well in right-wing politics. The Heritage Foundation is arguably the most prominent conservative think tank in America. Pence, meanwhile, started his competing think tank, Advancing […]

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CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical of Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans

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CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, a last-minute move that has since been condemned as political. The decision was announced just three hours before the story was expected to air on Sunday. […]

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Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank

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The Israeli government approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.   The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on X that this increases the total number of new settlements to 69 in the past three years—a new record. “On the ground, we are […]

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Trump Has Intercepted Two Oil Tankers Off Venezuela This Weekend

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The United States stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Sunday, just a day after the Coast Guard boarded another oil vessel, according to a report from Bloomberg.  The operation, which is not approved by Congress, is part of President Trump’s “blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, […]

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