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Trump says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has ‘lost her way’ for criticizing his foreign policy focus

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday said that key Republican ally Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had “lost her way” by saying that he’s spending too much time on foreign affairs and should be more focused on inflation. The dispute reflects a fundamental challenge within Trump’s coalition after last week’s off-cycle elections, in which voters in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races flocked to Democrats in large part over concerns about the cost of living. The White House has recognized that it needs to do […]

todayNovember 11, 2025 2

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National Guard deployments in DC and Portland, Oregon, are focus of court hearings

No National Guard troops are expected to be deployed in Portland, Oregon, for at least several days, after a temporary federal appeals court decision Friday. Meanwhile, a judge in Washington, D.C., is weighing whether to pull more than 2,000 troops off the streets of the nation’s capital. The developments are the latest in a head-spinning array of lawsuits and overlapping rulings prompted by Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities despite fierce resistance from mayors and governors. Troop deployment remains […]

todayOctober 25, 2025

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Trump’s health becomes major focus, sparking online conspiracy theories. Some point out the Biden irony

After a week of limited public sightings and interaction with the press, conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump‘s health—and potential demise—permeated online, particularly among liberal corners of the internet. The chatter about the president’s rumored declining health got so loud that Trump, who appeared before the press in the Oval Office on Tuesday to announce a new U.S. Space Command headquarters in Alabama, responded to the hearsay on Truth Social over the Labor Day weekend, writing, “NEVER FELT BETTER IN […]

todaySeptember 2, 2025 2

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Barack Obama blasts Texas redistricting scheme, urges voters to not ‘lose focus’

Former U.S. President Barack Obama spoke out against Texas Republicans’ redistricting plan to give them a leg up in next year’s election, calling it clear gerrymandering and a threat to democracy. The 44th president of the United States urged voters, “We can’t lose focus on what matters.” In response to the new map redrawn by Texas House Republicans, at the direction of Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott and President Donald Trump, Obama wrote on X, “Right now, Republicans in Texas are […]

todayAugust 7, 2025 3

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FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump during his address to Congress

President Donald Trump ‘s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress highlighted several of the initiatives he’s started in his first six weeks in office, but many of his comments included false and misleading information. Here’s a look at the facts. He overstated the numbers on his immigration crackdown TRUMP: “Illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded. Ever.” THE FACTS: Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday that Border Patrol apprehended 8,326 people on the U.S.-Mexico […]

todayMarch 5, 2025

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In the campaign’s final weeks, Harris is keeping a focus on ‘blue wall’ states

MILWAUKEE (AP) — With three weeks left in the presidential campaign, Democrat Kamala Harris is spending most of her days trying to shore up support in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin as she tries to avoid a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s collapse there eight years ago. The vice president campaigned at a hockey rink on Monday in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she denounced Republican candidate Donald Trump as “unhinged.” She visited an art gallery in Detroit with actors Don Cheadle, Delroy Lindo, and […]

todayOctober 17, 2024 1

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In federal challenge to Mississippi law, arguments focus on racial discrimination and public safety

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city. Attorneys for Mississippi and the NAACP, who represent Jackson residents suing the state, each laid out their arguments Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate. The federal judge will decide whether to grant the NAACP’s motion for […]

todayDecember 21, 2023 1