“States like New York and New Jersey and Connecticut and Illinois and California, are donor states, we regularly send billions of dollars more to the federal government than we get back in return. We are donor states! So we’re not going to be lectured by people who are actually in what has sometimes been referred to as taker states, who …
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CNN reports: The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. That’s contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a “gift” to him. After Trump took office …
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“People are angry. You know, forget about the big beautiful bill, people want big beautiful handcuffs on some of these people. Because for far too long we saw– we saw Thomas Crooks took a shot at Trump in the head. He’s dead. We don’t know any more about that. Ryan Routh tried to shoot Trump on a golf course. We …
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The Daily Beast reports: A former Fox News contributor turned Trump administration Department of Justice lawyer has suggested Joe Biden’s wife could be criminally charged for “elder abuse.” The former president announced a diagnosis of a particularly “aggressive” prostate cancer on Sunday. Within hours, the MAGA world was peddling the notion that the 82-year-old had been sick for some time, …
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The Associated Press reports: The Senate has confirmed real estate developer Charles Kushner, the father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France. Charles Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Prosecutors alleged that he hatched a scheme for revenge and …
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NBC News reports: Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor who more recently served in top posts at the Democratic National Committee and in former President Joe Biden’s White House and 2024 campaign, is running for governor of Georgia. She announced her campaign Tuesday morning, releasing a video on social media that recounts her upbringing and tight-knit family and criticizes …
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The Huffington Post reports: Critics mockingly poked holes in Fox News personality-turned-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest security clearances claim. “I’m offended” by “this idea that I don’t take classification or I don’t take clearances seriously,” Hegseth told Fox News’ Will Cain in an interview that aired Monday. “Nobody takes it more seriously than me,” the top Donald Trump Cabinet official …
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“Tax cuts — as much as the president and Republicans want to say this tax bill extending things are going to help middle-class Americans, the vast majority of people who are going to be helped by the tax cuts are the wealthiest, because there’s one other number. Over the last 12 years, the S&P has gone up almost 400%, and …
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The New Jersey Monitor reports: Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said Monday she is charging Rep. LaMonica McIver with “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement” during the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside a migrant jail in Newark 10 days ago. Habba also announced her office is dropping Baraka’s misdemeanor trespassing charge “for the sake of moving forward.” …
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People reports: In a career move that has set the Croisette abuzz, Harry Melling, 36, widely remembered as the petulant Dudley Dursley from the iconic Harry Potter film series, has emerged as the unexpected talk of the Cannes Film Festival. The 36-year-old actor is starring in the audacious new X-rated film Pillion, which didn’t just premiere but exploded onto the …
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