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At Supreme Court, steady wins for conservative states and Trump's claims of executive power
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court term that ended Friday will not be remembered for blockbuster rulings like those recent years that struck…
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California hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump's use of troops
California’s fight to rein in President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles hinges on a 19th century law with a a blood-soaked…
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Trump’s Fury Over Iran Failings Just Got Worse. Take Note, Dems.
As of now, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is the only one of the body’s 45 Democrats (and the two independents who caucus with…
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Even Fox Is Calling Out How Bad Trump’s Budget Bill Is
The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein…
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Meet the “Moderates” Trying to Make Trump’s Tax Bill More Regressive
In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached…
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Trump’s Ugly Phone Scam Has Already Hit Some Major Snags
Forget “Make America Great Again”—Donald Trump won’t even manufacture his own phone in the United States. The Trump-branded cell phone,…
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Democrats Are Finally Working to Stop Trump’s Secret Police
The Supreme Court just issued its worst ruling for women since Dobbs. In a 6-3 decision Thursday, the nation’s highest judiciary ruled…
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is in Big Trouble
Just eight days out from the Senate GOP’s self-imposed (read: Donald Trump–imposed) July 4 deadline to pass the president’s One Big…
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Transcript: MAGA Dope Pete Hegseth’s Tantrum Exposes Trump’s Iran Scam
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 26 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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MAGA Dope Pete Hegseth Accidentally Exposes Trump’s Vile Scam on Iran
President Donald Trump and his top advisers have worked themselves up into a fury about the leaked intelligence assessment casting doubt…
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Trump’s Immigration Team Goes Full Fascist With Threat to Visa Holders
Fox News’s efforts to make Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seem like a bad influence for New York City are only making him…
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Trump’s attack on Iran pushed diplomacy with Kim Jong Un further out of reach
SEOUL — Since beginning his second term earlier this year, President Trump has spoken optimistically about restarting denuclearization…
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Turns Out, Trump’s Reckless Iran Strikes Didn’t Achieve Anything
An early U.S. intelligence assessment has determined that Donald Trump’s airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear bases failed to destroy core…
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US: Wall St indexes open higher after Trump's Israel-Iran ceasefire announcement
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Tuesday (Jun 24) as President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran,…
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Australia: Banks, miners lift stocks; Trump’s Iran-Israel truce announcement boosts sentiment
RALIAN shares rose on Tuesday, led by gains in banks and miners, as US President Donald Trump’s announcement of the Iran-Israel ceasefire…
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Video: What We Learned About Trump’s Attack on Iran
Over the past week, President Trump claimed he would make a decision about Iran in “two weeks” and repeatedly pressed it to come to the…
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Iran Begins Its Retaliation After Trump’s Decision to Bomb the Country
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow continues to be one of the most coherent and consistent right-wing voices against the U.S.…
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Republican Rep Ties Himself in Knots Defending Trump’s Iran Strike
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow continues to be one of the most coherent and consistent right-wing voices against the U.S.…
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This Is Donald Trump’s War, and It’s Only the Beginning
President Donald Trump has just committed the most basic of strategic blunders: the fallacy of the last move. This is the mistaken belief…
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Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Darkens as Brutal Poll Hits
Emboldened by a partial court victory over his use of troops amid immigration protests in Los Angeles, President Trump is now threatening…
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Video: Trump’s Risky Gamble on Attacking Iran
With his strikes on Iran, President Trump is betting that the United States can repel any retaliation, and that the U.S. has destroyed the…
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Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
On Thursday, President Donald Trump scored a temporary victory after an appeals court ruled that he can continue deploying the National…
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The Fate of the World Is Now in Donald Trump’s Hands. Gulp.
They both shoulder some blame, but neither of those is really the answer. Every time I ask myself how he gets away with this, I remember:…
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US: Wall St indexes open higher with Trump's Middle East decision in focus
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Jun 20), tracking strength in global stocks after President Donald Trump held off from…