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Donald Trump on Saturday once again lashed out against special counsel Jack Smith, issuing comments that would likely be barred under a now-paused gag order.

Donald Trump on Saturday thanked the veterans attending his New Hampshire rally, but then proceeded to attack a familiar target: General Milley.

KOTZEBUE, Alaska — On a subzero Monday morning in March 2020, police found another woman dead at the ex-mayor’s property.

Donald Trump could have just broken the law with the sale of a firearm purportedly from Mar-a-Lago, according to a news report.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Stephanie Grisham stated she was highly skeptical that Ivanka Trump suddenly has the memory lapses she kept invoking when she testified in Judge Arthur Engorons's courtroom last Wednesday.

According to the former Donald Trump communications official, that is not the Ivanka she knew when they both worked in the Trump White House.

Pressed by host Alex Witt, "I know that your work with Melania [Trump] puts you in really perhaps the... Читать дальше...

On Saturday afternoon, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raged at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for pouring cold water on ramping up the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

The newly elected Speaker already has his hands full working out an acceptable budget proposal with his caucus as a government shutdown looms and, in comments made this week, he stated he hasn't seen enough solid evidence to proceed with an impeachment.

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Germany is increasing its humanitarian aid for the Palestinian Territories by a further €38 million ($40.7 million) in light of the suffering of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war rages on.

Rep. Nancey Mace (R-SC) who was elected to the House of Representatives as a mostly moderate conservative only to turn into a cheerleader for Donald Trump, is increasingly infuriating her GOP House colleagues who are growing fed up with her antics and her habit of publically taking one position only to cast it aside when it comes time to vote.

According to a report from the Washington Post, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is increasingly being seen as ineffective as the combination of age and the rise of Donald Trump have made him a secondary figure within the Republican Party.

Following a request to Donald Trump from Judge Tanya Chutkan over whether he will use the "advice of counsel" defense in his Washington D.C. trial related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, one former prosecutor claimed it won't fly and the former president will have painted himself into a corner if he attempts it.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner claimed the judge is putting the former president and his legal team in a difficult position.

"Here is the problem, Katie," he began. Читать дальше...

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former GOP campaign consultant and current Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson raised the red flag that a re-elected Donald Trump will plunge the country into chaos if he is re-elected in 2024.

Speaking with the host, Wilson noted the former president's recent comments where he suggested he could use the government to go after his political enemies.

According to Wilson, voters who fear Trump should take him at his word.

"He... Читать дальше...

In a brutal column for the New York Times, the author of “The Trump Women: Part of the Deal,” buried Ivanka Trump for willingly covering for the crimes of her father and looking the other way in her drive for power and popularity.

According to author Nina Burleigh, Donald Trump's eldest daughter has spent her life in "awe" of her father and, "Aware of her father’s expectations about women within camera frame of him, she styled herself to doll-like perfection."

However, as Burleigh notes... Читать дальше...

Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who has repeatedly criticized his papacy, the Vatican announced.

LGBTQ rights campaigners welcomed a Vatican statement that transgender people can be baptized as a step towards a more inclusive Catholic Church, but denounced caveats that provide cover to those who object.

On Friday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) formally filed an ethics complaint against Judge Arthur Engoron in support of Donald Trump who, along with his Trump Organization, is under siege in a $250 million financial fraud trial.

A painting of water lilies by French impressionist Claude Monet has sold for $74 million, as part of a lively fall art auction season.

Cherelle Parker became the first woman elected mayor of Philadelphia this week, in part because of her tough-on-crime positions. She’s a progressive Democrat and beat five other Democrats in the primary (including one endorsed by both Bernie and AOC) before cruising to victory Tuesday.

Harris County’s 2022 election results were upheld by a judge Thursday night, who also threw out all but one remaining lawsuit from Republican candidates against the county, saying in his ruling that there were not enough disputed votes to merit a new election.

The man who became the face of the Jan. 6 riot is ready to rule.

Jacob Chansley, aka "QAnon Shaman," entered the Capitol building back in 2021 clad in fur pelts and horned headdress at the dais where Vice President Mike Pence had moments before been presiding at the certification of the 2020 election.

Now he wants to become a change agent for Arizonans.

He officially filed a statement of interest to run for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in Congress, according to News 12. Читать дальше...

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A former captain with the Des Moines Fire Department has again been denied jobless benefits after being fired for online comments suggesting a colleague had an interest in gay pornography.

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Yesterday, I interrupted an event where President Joe Biden was speaking in Belvidere, Ill., to demand that he call for a cease-fire in Gaza. Over 10,000 Palestinians, half of them children, have been killed by Israeli bombardments in the last month. Entire bloodlines have been wiped off the face of the Earth. And the day I confronted Biden, a harrowing video surfaced of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza evacuating their cities on foot.

People stealing trees from public and private land in Iowa is an infrequent but growing occurrence, according to state conservation officers.