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Miranda Devine: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shutdown any Hunter Biden laptop discussion

The conversations, withheld by the FBI under Director Chris Wray, show that senior leadership issued an internal “gag order” on the laptop. 

Senate rebukes Trump’s tariffs on Canada in bid to roll back presidential emergency powers

Four Senate Republicans joined forces with the chamber's Democrats to reject President Trump's emergency justification for implementing tariffs against Canada, dealing the president the first legislative loss of his second term.

Why voter ID won in Wisconsin

Hours after Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) finished breaking former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history, Wisconsin overwhelmingly voted in favor of adding voter identification requirements to the state’s constitution on the same night its voters sent a Democrat to the state’s Supreme Court. The Wisconsin voter identification win […]

Booker says he hoped floor speech would be something that ‘would unify our caucus’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Wednesday he hoped to unify the Democratic party with his marathon floor speech this week after the caucus grew bitterly divided in debates over the continuing resolution last month. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Booker described those tense moments behind closed doors last month,...

Vance, Harris seen as top 2028 White House contenders

Vice President JD Vance and former Vice President Kamala Harris are seen as top contenders for the White House in 2028 by their respective parties, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. The poll, released Wednesday, asks Democrats and Republicans whom they would consider supporting in the 2028 presidential election and asks which person would be...

Watch live: White House holds press briefing one day before tariffs deadline

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will speak to reporters Tuesday afternoon, a day before President Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China and certain product imports, are set to take place. The president has dubbed April 2 as "liberation day," vowing to also levy reciprocal tariffs on countries that target the U.S. Though he has...

EU prepared to retaliate against Trump tariffs, von der Leyen says

The European Union (EU) is prepared to retaliate against President Trump’s existing and upcoming tariffs, although the trade bloc is open to negotiations with Washington, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.  In a Tuesday speech, von der Leyen said that Europe “did not start this confrontation,” that the EU does not “necessarily...

Susan Collins says Trump is right to probe Maine over transgender athletes

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent Senate Republican moderate, says President Trump is right to scrutinize her state's law that "allows biological males to play in girls’ sports," calling the law contrary to the “spirit and intent” of Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools. “I believe that the State of Maine is under...

Bondi instructs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

Attorney General Pam Bondi Tuesday instructed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who stands accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson late last year. “Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,” Bondi said in...

Tim Walz’s daughter says she’s ditching grad school over lack of support for protesters

The daughter of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) announced on TikTok she is ditching graduate school due to what she says is a lack of support for the right to protest at higher education institutions. "I applied for one school. I kind of had my heart set on it. I am not going to...

HHS begins layoffs in ‘painful’ reorganization

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has initiated the layoffs that will impact roughly 10,000 of its employees as part of the reorganization announced last week, with staffers receiving emails Tuesday morning of their dismissal. Sources within the agency told The Associated Press at least four directors of the 27 institutes in the...

Kid Rock on White House visit with Bill Maher to meet Trump: ‘It could not have been better’

Kid Rock is describing a meeting between President Trump and Bill Maher at the White House as a mind-blowing success, saying his aim in coordinating the get-together between the political adversaries was to model "a little more civility in this country." "It could not have been better," the "All Summer Long" singer said Tuesday in a "Fox...

Democrats bash GOP over gambit to sink proxy voting: ‘Outrageous’

House Democrats are going after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the Republican leadership effort to sink legislation allowing proxy voting for lawmakers on parental leave, even after the bill won the support of the majority of the lower chamber. Johnson and his leadership team are attempting to kill the bill on Tuesday by concocting a...

Senate Democrats call for special counsel to investigate Signal leak

More than 30 Senate Democrats have called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Houthi Signal chat scandal, as the White House insists the case is closed on how a journalist was looped into high-level military discussions. “In addition to the reckless inclusion of a journalist in the chat,...

Trump is whitewashing US history and embracing ‘alternative facts’ 

It’s impossible for the Smithsonian to truthfully tell the American story without mentioning racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, bigotry and flaws. 

My MAHA involvement ‘not a political issue’: Dr. Phil McGraw

McGraw said his concerns transcend political divisions: "There aren't any Democrat children. There aren't any Republican children."

House Democrat: Trump not ‘imagining a democratic election for his third term’

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) compared President Trump's suggestion he could run for a third term to Russian President Vladimir Putin, currently in his fifth term, saying Trump is not "imagining a democratic election." “I don't think, by the way, that he's imagining a democratic election for his third term. He is trying to be Vladimir...

Social Security isn’t the third rail of American politics any more 

Team Trump seems to have concluded that Social Security is no longer the “third rail of American politics” — that they can touch it and live to tell the tale. It will be up to voters to prove them wrong.    

Trump: Le Pen’s ban on seeking office in France ‘very big deal’

President Trump weighed in on French far-right leader Marine Le Pen being barred from seeking office for five years after being convicted of embezzlement, telling reporters that it is a “very big deal” and that it sounds “like this country.”  "That big deal, that's a very big deal. I know all about it. And a...

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