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Zelenskyy: ‘The Risk That Russia Will Occupy Europe Is 100 Percent’ If U.S. Pulls Out of NATO — Donald Trump has said he may withdraw from NATO if allies don't keep “paying their bills” — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that if the U.S. decides to leave NATO, “The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent.”
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Ukraine Won't Accept a Deal It Didn't Help Negotiate, Zelensky Says — Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told NBC News that he'd warned President Trump that Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, is a “liar.” — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated in an interview …
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US presented Ukraine with a document to access its minerals but offered almost nothing in return
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Ukraine not attending US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, government source tells BBC
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Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority — Amid Democrats' shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rely on the same institutional …
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Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington — The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.” — The Department of Government Efficiency created its own account on X last November …
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Democrats play blame game with GOP on looming government shutdown
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire US Agency Head — Justices asked to step in on emergency basis, person says — Trump seeking to remove head of US whistleblower agency — President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the head of an independent US agency …
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DOGE Mismanagement Principles — Sam Rayburn, the Texan who served as House Speaker for 17 years was fond of saying: … Rayburn was talking about policymaking, but the point extends to more broadly to governing. Trashing government agencies is easy. Making them work is hard.
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Boycotting President Elon — Protests have been gathering around Tesla dealerships: … Elon has also been an increasing focus of protests of other venues, which makes sense — a white nationalist plutocrat being given unaccountable power helps cut through the “populist” …
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Protesters target Tesla showrooms in US over Elon Musk's government cost-cutting
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US Health Department Layoffs Expand to Medicare, FDA — Employees at CMS, FDA, CDC received notices in weekend cuts — The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …
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'I think that's ridiculous': Tom Homan on quid pro quo speculation over Eric Adams — “It was cop to cop, not border czar to mayor, cop to cop. And we talked about the public safety threats and how they should be removed from our communities,” Homan said on CNN.
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The real victims of Eric Adams' NYC corrupt bargain might go to Gitmo
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Adams to Sue Trump Administration Over Clawback of Migrant Shelter Funds
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Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump's Birthday a Federal Holiday — Washington, DC - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Trump's Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act to officially designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate President Donald J. Trump's Birthday and Flag Day.
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Trump administration firings hit key office handling bird flu response — The layoffs in USDA's National Animal Health Laboratory Network program office come as egg prices reach record high amid worsening outbreak. — Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread …
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The Worst and the Dimmest — Hey cousins. The world's richest man held court in the Oval Office this week while his pet president watched from the resolute desk wearing his trademark pants-shitting scowl. The world's richest man was telling the press lies to repeat while holding his hands …

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to greenlight whistleblower office firing — The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to greenlight President Trump's firing of the head of a federal whistleblower protection office, marking the new Trump administration's first appeal to the high court.


Transcript: Rep. Dan Crenshaw on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Feb. 16, 2025 — The following is the transcript of an interview with GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 16, 2025. — MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to …
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Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantánamo migrants being ‘worst of the worst’ — Details on some of the migrants sent to Guantánamo Bay have begun to emerge. They are young Venezuelan men, and relatives say they have been falsely branded Tren de Aragua gang members.


Ashley St. Clair, influencer who claims to have had Musk's 13th child, reveals life of secrecy after whirlwind romance with ‘down to earth’ billionaire — The conservative influencer who claims to have given birth to Elon Musk's 13th child revealed to The Post how she was driven to lead …
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‘Border Czar’ Doubles Down on Asking if DOJ Should Prosecute AOC for Informing Immigrants of Their Rights — “I'm asking the Department of Justice, who are the prosecutors and decide who they prosecute and what the standards of that prosecution is,” Tom Homan said after suggesting “AOC's gonna be in trouble now”
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