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Tony Dokoupil Lavishes Praise on Marco Rubio In Lauding CBS Segment

Reporting from Miami on Tuesday, newly minted CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil dedicated a lauding segment to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Dokoupil, who started on the job this week after years as a co-anchor on CBS’ morning show, began the around one-minute segment by listing off all the roles that Rubio has assumed […]


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Democrat Senators on the Armed Services Committee Condemn Trump’s Capture of Venezuela’s President

Democratic members of the Committee on Armed Services, which helps oversee the nation’s military, denounced President Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that United States military forces struck Venezuela and captured the nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.  Trump did not seek congressional authority for the attack and said at a press conference […]


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Trump Says US Captured Venezuela’s President and Plans to “Run the Country”

In a steep escalation in the United States’ ongoing military offensive in the region, President Donald Trump said early Saturday that the US had captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.  Trump did not seek congressional approval for this move. In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the US had “successfully […]


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Elon Musk: The FDNY Veteran Who Worked 9/11 and Covid Isn’t Qualified to Lead the Department

Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job. The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the […]


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Trump’s Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Jazz Musician With $1M Suit Over Canceled Christmas Gig

The president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is threatening legal action against a jazz musician who cancelled his Christmas Eve performance after the institution’s board of trustees, handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted last week to change the name of the performing arts institution. The letter from Richard Grenell, the […]


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Trump Spent Christmas Posting Over a Hundred Times on Truth Social

As the clock struck midnight on Christmas morning at one Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, at least one someone was stirring.  Starting in the early hours of December 25 and ending in the evening, President Donald Trump posted over a hundred times on his social media site Truth Social.  Hours before Trump sat alongside […]


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New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt. The law, headed by Assemblymember Linda B. […]


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Trump Seizes on Brown, MIT Shooting to Suspend More Legal Immigration

President Donald Trump has suspended a diversity green-card lottery program after authorities said that the suspected gunman in the Brown University and MIT shootings used the program to gain entrance to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the move Thursday on social media. “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in […]


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Trump’s Venezuela Blockade Is for “Our Oil.” Experts Say It Isn’t the US’s to Take.

President Donald Trump appears resolute to do anything in his power to acquire oil from Venezuela—even if it means sidestepping congressional approval. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced that he was ordering “A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela.” […]


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Ilhan Omar Says ICE Pulled Over Her Son in Minnesota, Asked for ID

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said Sunday that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled over her son this weekend and asked him to prove his citizenship.  In an interview with WCCO, a CBS affiliate based in Minneapolis, the Somali-born congresswoman said she’s feared for her 20-year-old son since President Donald Trump and ICE began […]


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15 Dead in Hanukkah Terror Attack Amid Wave of Rising Antisemitism in Australia

At least 15 people were killed, and more than three dozen hospitalized, in a shooting at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday in what the authorities are calling a terrorist attack at a Jewish holiday celebration.  One gunman has been killed and a second suspect is in custody and in critical condition, police […]


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Inside the Last Minute Fight on Legislation for Victims of Coerced Debt In New York

When Gina got a call that she owed money to a car financing company, it didn’t make sense. At the time, she did not have a driver’s license. In fact, she did not even know how to drive. But, the debt collector explained, her name was on the document. Gina came to New York City […]


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