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Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Doesn’t Seem to Get That People Are Struggling

On Fox News Sunday morning, President Donald Trump’s lead economic policy adviser, Kevin Hassett, dismissed Americans’ struggles to cover the...

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New Jersey Officials Impose Curfew to Stifle Anti-ICE Protests at Delaney Hall

At midnight on Sunday, New Jersey officials chose to help federal agents suppress the ongoing rallies at a New Jersey ICE detention center rather than...

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Appeals Court Revives Texas Immigration Law Allowing Arrests on Suspicion

Appeals Court Revives Texas Immigration Law Allowing Arrests on Suspicion

Civil rights groups warn the immigration law could lead to racial profiling and family separations.

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Andy Kim: Nothing’s Improved Since Minnesota—Except Private Prison Profits

“I certainly didn’t see anything at Delaney Hall that gives me a sense that things have changed since Minnesota,” Andy Kim told me. The New...

28.05.2026 2

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Is Pope Leo Joining the Anti-AI Resistance?

Having spoken out for the welfare of immigrants and against the war in Iran—and drawn the ire of some American conservatives in the process—Pope...

24.05.2026 10

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Trump Has Finally Found a Small Enough Enemy

On Wednesday, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging 94-year-old former Cuban head of state Raúl Castro with murder and conspiracy to...

21.05.2026 6

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Who Is Eligible For Trump’s Slush Fund Money? Blanche Won’t Say.

Trump now has a slush fund to reward his devotees, but who gets a share of it is unclear. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.): “Will individuals who...

19.05.2026 10

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Minnesota Is Doing What the Federal Government Won’t: Holding ICE Accountable

An ICE officer who allegedly shot a Minneapolis man when the Trump administration sent thousands of officers to Minnesota and lied about the series of...

18.05.2026 10

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Trump Just Gave Himself a $1.8 Billion Slush Fund to Reward His Friends

President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a...

18.05.2026 9

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Sen. Bill Cassidy’s Losing Legacy: He Gave America RFK Jr.

Sen. Bill Cassidy may remember coming in third place, but the American people will be left with his legacy of playing a role in degrading the...

17.05.2026 10

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GOP Push for $1 Billion to Fund Trump’s Ballroom Hits Roadblock

A GOP bill aiming to use $1 billion of taxpayer money to finance required security for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom was denied in a...

17.05.2026 10

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Sam Altman Is Taking a Lot of Punches on the Witness Stand

Can you trust Sam Altman? That was one of the central themes at the high-profile trial between the OpenAI CEO and Elon Musk in California this week,...

14.05.2026 10

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Should Trump Get $10 Billion in Apology Money? Mike Johnson Hasn’t Thought About It.

Apparently House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t believe that Congress needs any oversight of President Trump’s actions. During a Tuesday press...

13.05.2026 10

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Marty Makary Wasn’t Anti-Abortion or Pro-Vape Enough for Trump

President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary resigned on Tuesday following political battles over health policy...

12.05.2026 10

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Trump Broke His Own Record—For Economic Disapproval

A new CNN poll on Tuesday found that 70 percent of Americans disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling the economy. Notably, Trump never...

12.05.2026 10

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Trump’s Energy Secretary: “I Can’t Predict the Price of Energy”

President Donald Trump’s energy secretary shrugged when asked on Sunday whether gas prices could rise to $5 per gallon and offered no clear plan to...

10.05.2026 10

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HHS Celebrates Mother’s Day With Pro-Life Pregnancy Advice

On Mother’s Day, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched a website that promotes pro-life pregnancy centers for new and expecting...

10.05.2026 10

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This May Day, Even Organizers Are Cautious, But Hopeful

After last month’s No Kings protest, Indivisible, the group that describes itself as a pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian people-powered movement,...

01.05.2026 10

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Sam Altman’s ChatGPT Couldn’t Stop Obsessing Over Goblins

OpenAI admitted it had to develop a specific instruction in the code of its latest model of ChatGPT to stop it from repeatedly referencing “goblins,...

30.04.2026 10

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The Girls Are Fighting, AI Edition

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are set to square off in court over OpenAI’s mission. In his lawsuit, Musk accuses Altman of illegally transforming OpenAI...

27.04.2026 10

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They’re Trying to Get Jimmy Kimmel Fired Again

First Lady Melania Trump kicked off the backlash against Jimmy Kimmel on Monday. Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt soon followed. Then came the Trump...

27.04.2026 10

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A Senator Takes The Justice Department at Its Word. What Could Go Wrong?

On Sunday, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he would confirm Donald Trump’s nominee for the new Federal Reserve chair after the Department of Justice...

26.04.2026 10

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Trump and Friends Use Dinner Shooting to Boost Ballroom

President Donald Trump and many of his supporters are using the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night to...

26.04.2026 10

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Meet Paolo Zampolli, the Man at the Center of Trump’s Biggest Scandals

Paolo Zampolli epitomizes why so many people hate the Trump administration. Zampolli serves as Donald Trump’s US special envoy for “Global...

23.04.2026 10

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The Trump Family’s Crypto Venture Is Being Sued by Its Own Billionaire Backer

The Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial is being sued by one of its billionaire investors, who claims the company froze...

22.04.2026 10

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Majority Backs Trump Impeachment—Even One in Five of His Own Voters

A majority of American adults say that the US House should vote to impeach President Trump—including one-in-five people who voted for him in 2024. A...

22.04.2026 10

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Why Kevin Warsh Won’t Grade Trump’s Economy

Donald Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve chair promised to bring a new inflation framework and regime change to the central bank on Tuesday...

21.04.2026 10

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The Real Reason Tucker Carlson Is Turning on Trump

Tucker Carlson would very much like you to forgive him for backing Donald Trump all these years. “It’s not enough to say ‘I changed my mind’...

21.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Is a Catch-22

“If it works, it’s not great for the US. And if it doesn’t work, it’s also not great for the US.” That’s what Jeff Colgan, a political...

20.04.2026 10

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Trump’s “Petro-Imperialism” Is Pushing the US and Iran to the Brink

Petro-imperialism is back in a big way. On Monday, Iran’s military vowed to execute “necessary action” against US forces after it fired at and...

20.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Approval Rating Sinks to Lowest Point of His Second Term

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have dropped to their lowest level since the start of his second term. According to the NBC News Decision...

19.04.2026 10

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Trump Threatens War Crimes in Iran Again

In a Truth Social tirade on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump claimed that Iran violated their ceasefire agreement with the US by firing shots at...

19.04.2026 10

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RFK Jr. Vows to Demolish Preventive Medicine

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would overhaul a preventive medicine team that risks making screenings more difficult. “[The US...

16.04.2026 10

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Dave Chappelle Is Outraged That Trans People Were Right About His Jokes

Dave Chappelle is happy to make tens of millions of dollars on anti-trans comedy routines—”I’m team TERF,” he said in a 2021 special—but now...

16.04.2026 10

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Pete Hegseth Is Now Opening With Quentin Tarantino

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted a violent and fictional Bible passage nearly word-for-word from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in his...

16.04.2026 10

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Congress Will Not Stop the War With Iran

US senators voted 52-47, largely along party lines, against a war powers resolution on Wednesday afternoon that would have stopped the Trump...

15.04.2026 10

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Trump Thinks Jesus Loves Him

President Donald Trump shared what appears to be an AI-generated image of Jesus hugging him on social media on Wednesday morning, just days after he...

15.04.2026 10

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The Chappell Roan Harassment Campaign Is Plain Old Misogyny

Justice for Chappell Roan! On Monday, Jorginho, the soccer star who alleged that the bestselling artist was responsible for a security guard making...

14.04.2026 10

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A Non-Exhaustive List of Trump’s Deleted Posts

Despite his brashness, Donald Trump has built a habit of taking back some of his most obscene social media posts. On Monday, the president deleted a...

13.04.2026 10

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Zuckerberg Didn’t Think He Was Robotic Enough Already, So Now He’s Using AI

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly making an AI clone of himself to provide feedback to his employees. According to a Sunday night report by the Financial...

13.04.2026 10

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After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive?

Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for...

11.04.2026 10

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Trump: Buy American, Unless It’s for My Ballroom

President Trump, who has long married “protecting American steel” with his “Make America Great Again” slogan, reportedly accepted tens of...

11.04.2026 10

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Sam Altman’s Really Weird Week Just Got Even Worse

Sam Altman, who published “ambitious ideas” to add guardrails to AI on the same day he was described as a power-hungry tech leader with a...

09.04.2026 10

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Sam Altman Is Having a Really Weird Week

Sam Altman wants you to know that he’s just fine. Sure, his company, OpenAI, is reportedly building technology that it fears and some of his former...

09.04.2026 10

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The (Few) Republicans Breaking With Trump Over Iran

Even Republicans are joining congressional Democrats in calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office following his threats of genocide...

08.04.2026 10

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Trump: “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”

Trump threatened genocide against the people of Iran Tuesday morning, saying that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back...

07.04.2026 10

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Trump: Iranians Who Are Being Bombed Are Saying “Please Keep Bombing”

According to Donald Trump, Iranians want the US military to continue to bomb their homes. “We’ve had numerous intercepts,” Trump told reporters...

06.04.2026 10

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A Major Strike of Beef Workers Pauses in Colorado—but Workers Say the Fight Isn’t Over

Thousands of striking workers at a beef plant in Colorado agreed on Saturday to return to work as JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, agreed to...

05.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Easter Message to Iran: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” or “You’ll Be Living in Hell”

President Donald Trump gave Americans a bizarre, expletive-filled Easter Sunday message, celebrating US plans for war crimes against Iran following...

05.04.2026 10

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Trump’s Iran Speech Offered Zero Answers and Backfired

Donald Trump’s first national address since launching his war in Iran with Israel on Wednesday night tremendously backfired. The speech, reportedly...

02.04.2026 10

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