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Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope?

This week, the direct air capture company Climeworks unveiled the world’s largest-ever facility to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. Mammoth,...

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Kate Aronoff

Trump’s Sleazy $1 Billion Shakedown of Oil Execs Gives Dems an Opening

Ever since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, a central tenet of his bond with his supporters has been a simple promise to them:...

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Greg Sargent

Kristi Noem Got Herself Banned from Parts of Her Own State

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is no longer welcome in 16 percent of her home state. The MAGA Republican has been banned from the territories of...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Texas Top Court Has Horrific Judgment Over Failed Reproductive Surgery

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that an El Paso woman who gave birth despite supposedly receiving a tubal ligation can’t sue her medical...

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Hafiz Rashid

Stormy Daniels Aside, Trump Is Basically Winning His Legal Battles

Former President Donald Trump sat through an excruciating week of testimony in his New York trial on fraud charges over his payments to porn star...

previous day 10

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Matt Ford

Trump Allies Have a Horror Movie Plan to Clear Out Death Row Prisoners

If Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, Republicans and conservatives want criminals to die—literally.  Project 2025, a coalition of...

previous day 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Virginia County Decides Its School Names Aren’t Racist Enough

After removing Confederate names from two of its public schools during the summer of 2020, a rural Virginia county has become the first school...

previous day 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump’s Reversal on TikTok Is Starting to Make a Lot More Sense

Donald Trump is—once again—trying to backpedal on his opinions about TikTok. The presumed GOP presidential nominee is trying to argue that it...

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

New Hush-Money Evidence Shows Trump Basically Admitting to Crimes

Donald Trump is suddenly in the odd situation of having to defend against his own words. An old tweet of his was admitted into evidence in his...

previous day 10

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Hafiz Rashid

How FreedomWorks Paved the Way for Trumpism—and for Its Own Demise

If you’d known what to look for, you could have seen it coming miles and miles away: the demise of movement conservatism in the face of Trumpism....

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Addie Stan

Cassidy Hutchinson Could Be Latest Major Republican Defection

Donald Trump’s former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson could leave the Republican Party behind and vote for Joe Biden in November. Hutchinson...

previous day 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Tim Scott’s Stated Willingness to Crush Democracy Is an Ominous Moment

As many have observed, democracies don’t die overnight. There’s no One Big Event that does it. It happens bit by bit. Noticing it requires paying...

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Michael Tomasky

Fox News Freaks Out Over How Much Trump Is Getting Bashed in Trial

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is upset that an insult against Donald Trump, “orange turd,” has been repeatedly mentioned in trial coverage, despite...

previous day 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Stormy Daniels Just Hilariously Called Out Trump’s Biggest Insecurity

Porn star Stormy Daniels is goading Doanld Trump to take the stand following her testimony—though actually doing so may not turn out so well for...

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Dirtbag Rightist Steve Bannon Could Be Spending Election Day in a Jail

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia rejected Steve Bannon’s appeal case Friday, upholding a criminal...

previous day 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Stop Blaming Wild Birds. Avian Flu Is Our Fault.

Migratory birds are getting a bad rap right now, as avian influenza cases multiply and appear in new species. “The reason it’s become such a...

previous day 10

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Melody Schreiber

The Abuses of Prehistory

Our prehistoric ancestors never went away. This is what Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argued in his international blockbuster Sapiens: A...

previous day 10

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Udi Greenberg

Donald Trump Is Short on Cash—and Selling Laws to Anyone Who Will Pay

It has never been a better time to be a corporate lobbyist. The Republican Party, having run out of ideas, no longer even pretends to represent...

previous day 20

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Timothy Noah

Gas Stoves: Status Symbol for the Rich, Poison for the Poor

Industry marketing campaigns have long conditioned Americans to believe that gas stoves are the height of bourgeois suburban sophistication and the...

previous day 40

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Heather Souvaine Horn

Stormy Daniels’s Brutal Mockery of Trump Makes Conviction More Likely

On Thursday, Stormy Daniels faced tough cross examination from Donald Trump’s attorneys in his hush money trial in Manhattan. By most accounts,...

previous day 20

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

“It’s Called Heresy”: A Chilling New Film on Christian Nationalism

Stephen Ujlaki began his career in film “50 years ago doing antiwar films.” In the intervening years, he’s produced many feature films, but...

thursday 20

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Michael Tomasky

Trump Keeps Dragging America Into More Moral Sewers Than We Can Count

After just a bit more than a year of marriage and the recent birth of his youngest child, Donald Trump coerced Stormy Daniels into having sex with...

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Thom Hartmann

Biden, Fire Bank Regulator Martin Gruenberg

An independent investigation has now confirmed allegations raised last November by a Wall Street Journal report that the Federal Deposit Insurance...

thursday 10

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Timothy Noah

“Warning Sign” For Trump As Anti-MAGA Vote Surges In Indiana Primary

In the Indiana GOP primary on Tuesday night, Donald Trump lost 22 percent of GOP primary voters to Nikki Haley. That’s surprising, since Haley...

thursday 20

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Dobbs Was a Gift to Domestic Abusers

Nearly two years since the Dobbs decision, it’s clear that the end of Roe didn’t end abortion; rather, it has turned the decisions we make about...

thursday 10

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Melissa Gira Grant

The Anti-Woke Grifters Get Their Tithe

It was just past 1 p.m. on the first Friday in May, and a two-day festival of “dangerous ideas” was about to begin in a glassy warehouse on the...

thursday 10

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Raina Lipsitz

Stormy Daniels Epically Humiliates Trump Just Minutes into Trial

Donald Trump’s sexual escapades aren’t exactly the conquests that his allies have made them out to be—at least, not according to one woman he...

thursday 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Barron Makes 4: Banana-Republican Convention Is Trump Family Affair

Donald Trump’s youngest son is about to join the new family business: leading the Republican conference. After he graduates from high school next...

thursday 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Marjorie Taylor Greene May Finally See Consequences for Shenanigans

Representative Marjorie Taylor Grenee’s spectacularly failed effort to strip Speaker Mike Johnson of the gavel has earned her a whole slew of new...

thursday 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968

The dominant headline on The Wall Street Journal’s home page at midday Wednesday was “Chaos on Campus, in Gaza, Threatens Biden’s Campaign.”...

thursday 10

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Walter Shapiro

Trump Goes on Deranged Rant About Anti-White Racism in Dead of Night

Very early Thursday morning, Donald Trump was posting feverishly on his Truth Social account, with one “Truth” being an article from the...

thursday 30

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Hafiz Rashid

Remove Aileen Cannon Calls Grow After Classified Docs Case Blown Apart

After Judge Aileen Cannon announced that Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida has been postponed indefinitely , there’s been a...

thursday 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Stormy Daniels Keeps Delivering Sick Burns About Trump on the Stand

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels got in some jabs at Donald Trump, who is accused of paying her off via his lawyer to cover up their affair before...

thursday 3

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Hafiz Rashid

Bizarre New Wrinkle in Trump’s Fraud Case Could Hand Him a Big Win

A bit of alleged unsolicited advice may have compromised the judge in Donald Trump’s $454 million New York bank fraud trial. New York’s...

thursday 40

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Demands Mistrial After Stormy Daniels Said He’s Bad at Sex

Donald Trump’s attorneys attempted Thursday to throw out his hush-money case on the basis that the trial had unnecessarily turned into an...

thursday 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Alina Habba Invents a New Constitutional Right at Hush-Money Trial

Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba thinks it’s a violation of the First Amendment to be prohibited from attacking witnesses. Fox News presenter...

thursday 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Columbia Could Take Major Financial Hit Over Response to Gaza Protests

Columbia University alumni are firing back at the university over its crackdown on student protests demanding the school divest from Israel-aligned...

thursday 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Mike Johnson Has a Racist Election Conspiracy He Admits He Can’t Prove

At a press conference Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed a right-wing conspiracy theory that undocumented immigrants are voting in...

08.05.2024 40

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Risks New Gag Order Violation with Fresh “Sleazeballs” Tirade

Donald Trump simply can’t help himself from taking a solid jab at the partial gag order he’s under in his New York hush-money trial. The...

08.05.2024 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Top Republicans Lose Their Mind Over Biden Delaying Weapons to Israel

President Biden briefly held up sending weapons to Israel this week, and Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson promptly freaked out. The Speaker of the...

08.05.2024 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Our Money-in-Politics Problem Just Got Worse

If you’re a big fan of money in politics, then the Federal Election Commission made your day last week with two important moves: one that could...

08.05.2024 3

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Matt Ford

Nikki Haley’s Zombie Campaign Delivers Huge Blow to Trump in Indiana

Nikki Haley is still haunting Donald Trump’s bid for the White House. Three months after abandoning her long-shot campaign, Haley still managed to...

08.05.2024 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Georgia Appeals Court Hands Trump Massive Win With Fani Willis Ruling

Donald Trump just got some good news on another legal front. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review the decision to keep Fulton County...

08.05.2024 3

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

New Rudy Giuliani Bankruptcy Filings Expose Just How Broke He Is

America’s disgraced mayor seems to have lost practically everything in his bid to aid Donald Trump. A Tuesday filing in United States Bankruptcy...

08.05.2024 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Sierra Club’s Labor Woes Just Got a Lot Worse

Months into contentious contract negotiations, the Progressive Workers Union, representing around 400 Sierra Club employees, now alleges that the...

08.05.2024 20

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Kate Aronoff

RFK Jr. Says a Worm Ate Part of His Brain (Literally)

As if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. couldn’t get any weirder, the presidential candidate has admitted that a doctor once suspected a worm ate part of his...

08.05.2024 20

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Hafiz Rashid

The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.

Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI,...

08.05.2024 20

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Jacob Silverman

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Rage At Mike Johnson Is Suddenly Fizzling Out

This week, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is deciding whether to call a snap vote to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker. She has a list of...

08.05.2024 30

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Uses Break From Criminal Trial to Meet With His Idiot NFT Buyers

After complaining about being forced to attend his hush-money trial, Donald Trump is spending his day off with people who spent thousands of...

08.05.2024 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Beyond Words

The magazine made the case for military intervention in the Balkans, persistently and passionately. It was a model of activist journalism,...

08.05.2024 10

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Fouad Ajami

Meditation in E Minor*

The editors of The New Republic both craved and attracted spiritual godfathers. Louis Brandeis, John Dewey, Learned Hand, and Felix Frankfurter...

08.05.2024 4

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H.l. Mencken

After Memory

One of the unusual features of the modern New Republic has been the depth of its writing about Judaism. That is the handiwork of literary editor...

08.05.2024 20

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Leon Wieseltier

Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue

Humor is not the primary métier of The New Republic nor, for that matter, of liberalism. But there’s a small tradition that includes this cute,...

08.05.2024 10

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Philip Roth

Out of the Red with Roosevelt

The New Republic trumpeted its connections to the New Deal. One of its advertisements cited testimony from a visitor to the Oval Office who claimed...

08.05.2024 3

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John Dos Passos

Life is Cheap

This essay sounds unlike the Walter Lippmann—that granite fixture on the opinion раgе—who became so well known. There’s not a hint of any...

08.05.2024 5

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Walter Lippmann

The Limited Circle Is Pure

Quite simply, one of the finest essays on Kafka ever written. —Franklin Foer, former TNR editor, Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics...

08.05.2024 3

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Zadie Smith

GOP Congressman Offers Solution to Student Protests: Send Them to Gaza

A Republican lawmaker has decided that the violent detention of college students participating in Gaza solidarity protests isn’t enough of a...

08.05.2024 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Netanyahu Is Humiliating Biden

There is nothing new or unexpected about Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrogance. When President Bill Clinton first met him at the White House in...

08.05.2024 20

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Alex Shephard

Scott Perry Draws Fire with Bizarro-Land Comments on Democrats and KKK

The Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic Party,” and migrants coming to the United States “have no interest in being...

08.05.2024 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Desperately Tries to Toss Entire Case After Stormy Condom Detail

Stormy Daniels’s testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial Tuesday went too far and warrants a mistrial , his lawyers tried to argue. Part of...

07.05.2024 40

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Hafiz Rashid

The Right-Wing Judges’ Ban on Columbia Students Is Wildly Unethical

Judges do not comment on politics. This principle is so fundamental to the American legal system that writing it out feels like writing that...

07.05.2024 20

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Matt Ford

Biden Just Effectively Killed a Report on Israeli Actions in Gaza

A Biden administration report that could cut off military aid to Israel has been indefinitely delayed. The State Department was anticipated to...

07.05.2024 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Shameless Judge Cannon May Have Killed Trump’s Classified Docs Case

Judge Aileen Cannon has handed another reprieve to Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The case was expected to be one of...

07.05.2024 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Stormy Daniels Used This Classic Excuse to Get Out of Sex with Trump

Stormy Daniels used an all-too-familiar line to get out of having sex with Donald Trump. Recounting one instance in 2007 when the pair met at a...

07.05.2024 10

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Latest Way Kicking Kevin McCarthy Out Has Backfired on Republicans

The GOP hasn’t been able to regain its financial footing since it lost its key fundraiser: former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. According to...

07.05.2024 4

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The FTC Wants the Oil Industry to Be Competitive. Good Luck With That.

It was not Scott Sheffield’s job, as the former CEO of oil and gas company Pioneer Resources, to keep oil prices low. Neither is it the job of any...

07.05.2024 20

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Kate Aronoff

The Right Is Now Saying Biden’s Creating the Wrong Jobs

The Biden economy is in excellent shape, and that’s a problem for what my onetime boss Jacob Weisberg wittily labelled the Conintern....

07.05.2024 20

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Timothy Noah

Bombshells in Trump’s Trial Show How This Case Will Get Worse for Him

Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan has already served up some extraordinary moments. On Friday, former Trump aide Hope Hicks’s...

07.05.2024 20

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Cowardly Trump Deletes Post Fuming About Stormy Daniels on the Stand

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is at the center of the allegations against Donald Trump in his hush-money trial, is the next witness on the...

07.05.2024 10

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Seems to Be Ditching His Son’s Graduation to Attend a Fundraiser

Donald Trump got a day off from his hush-money trial next week after requesting to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation. But on the same...

07.05.2024 20

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Hafiz Rashid

The Campus Crackdowns Show What Universities Really Value

In the spring of 1985, more than 100 Columbia University students blockaded Hamilton Hall for three weeks, protesting the university’s financial...

07.05.2024 10

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Noah Rawlings

Why I’m Not Calling the Police on My Students’ Encampment

The encampment at Wesleyan University went up on the night of Sunday, April 28, during a planned rally in support of Palestinians. At the time, I...

07.05.2024 20

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Michael S. Roth

Top New York Times Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump

Let’s state this right at the outset: The New York Times has produced a remarkable run of indispensable journalism about Donald Trump’s...

07.05.2024 10

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Greg Sargent

How Stormy Daniels Just Trapped Trump in Hush-Money Case

Stormy Daniels’s testimony in the hush-money trial may have restricted Donald Trump’s ability to testify on his own terms. The porn actress’s...

07.05.2024 20

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Stormy Daniels Testifies on Donald Trump’s Revolting Pick-Up Line

Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, and, not surprisingly, shared some weird and gross details about...

07.05.2024 20

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Hafiz Rashid

Judge Cannon Just Put Final Nail in the Coffin of Classified Docs Case

Judge Aileen Cannon, who coincidentally was appointed by Donald Trump, announced Tuesday afternoon that she is indefinitely postponing his...

07.05.2024 20

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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

Stormy Daniels Enters “Orange Turd” in Hush-Money Trial Public Record

In court Tuesday during Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, some new and unusual nicknames were entered into the legal record during adult film...

07.05.2024 30

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Accountant Exposes Checks to Michael Cohen in Damning Testimony

A former accountant in the Trump Organization dropped a bombshell during her testimony at Donald Trump’s hush-money trial Monday. According to...

06.05.2024 40

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Hafiz Rashid

RFK Jr. Just Got the Worst Presidential Endorsement Ever

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just got a random—and possibly unwelcome—endorsement in the presidential election from Kevin Spacey. Kennedy’s...

06.05.2024 40

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Ben Metzner

Republican Trump Pressured to Overthrow Election Is Now Team Biden

Georgia’s former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan announced Monday that he is endorsing Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a stunning...

06.05.2024 50

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Ben Metzner

Republican Senators Threaten ICC on Israel: “You Have Been Warned”

A group of Republican senators have threatened the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and his family against issuing...

06.05.2024 30

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Hafiz Rashid

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