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President Donald Trump attorneys have moved to block an attempt by FBI agents to clarify what they can say about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation. They are defending a sweeping court order that has kept the final report of former special counsel Jack Smith fro...

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How a 1964 smear campaign created a medical gag order—and why the fight over Trump's mental fitness might finally destroy it

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On Thursday, it was revealed that the Trump administration has launched an "unusual" investigation into the conduct of one of its own. According to the Wall Street Journal, a new Department of Justice inquiry into former Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski is one of th...

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Karoline Leavitt has announced that she’s helping President Donald Trump find the next White House press secretary. Her revelation comes after her successor, Katie Zacharia, was ousted after just five days on the job following a disastrous inaugural press conference in which s...

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President Donald Trump and Judge Ana Reyes have exchanged heated words for months, with the former described the latter as a "crazed lunatic" when she questions his explanations for destroying public property to renovate a golf course asking "rather a lot of coincidence." Now ...

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The New York Times is fighting back against allegations that the legacy publication failed to fact-check when producing a recent report accusing the Trump administration of using disaster aid to influence political choices. I

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Facing an absolute deadline just two weeks before the holiday, the president must testify or watch his massive defamation lawsuit implode.

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Amid the ongoing legal battle between media outlets and President Donald Trump over the president's attempted press ban, one journalist is detailing how he learned of his fate. White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg reveals in a piece for The Independent that he will not be...

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How the president's signature high-stakes tactics are shaping his latest political and legal battles while in office.

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On Thursday, footage emerged of one of President Donald Trump's staffers getting ejected from an NBA game, tossing a beer on a fan on her way out for good measure as her section rang with boos. The video was released by TMZ, and shows State Department Press Advisor Britt McHen...

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Economic journalist and author Hamish McRae reports that Wall Street is not so secretly praying for President Donald Trump to get toppled.“Big money here in America will welcome it if Donald Trump is roughed up by voters in the US midterm elections, now less than two weeks awa...

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A Republican mayor lunged at his own constituents — and it is unclear what if anything the police will do about it."A seemingly routine Pemberton Township council meeting Wednesday night came to a dramatic close after Mayor Matthew Bianchini charged at someone in the audience,...

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When distrusting everything makes you believe anything...

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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) has already aroused controversy for his closeness to President Donald Trump and allegedly harassing poor patients when he was a doctor. Now a conservative newspaper is adding a new controversy to his list — supporting a supposedly "left-wing, tax-and...

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Politico’s Daniel Lippman says the wife of a Pentagon chief has abandoned her lavish job lobbying the Defense Department after calls from reporters.“Jill Buria, who is married to Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff Ricky Buria, recently started at Checkmate Government Relations and ...

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Dallas Cruze was once a huge supporter of President Donald Trump in Detroit, Michigan. Now he thinks voting is pointless.

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A new Politico poll reveals that GOP midterm voters support impeachment, as a bipartisan majority targets both the President and his Cabinet secretaries ahead of November.

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Former Justice Department lawyer Sarah Wilson spent years working for the federal government and representing agency clients, in both Democratic and Republican administrations. But she said the second Trump administration took her to the point where she could no longer do her ...

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The administration replaced key National Park Service and agency officials on the voting commission just as fierce backlash mounts from veterans and preservationists over the massive, 250-foot monument.

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After facing intense backlash for a secret dinner alongside Bill Maher and Kid Rock, the ESPN host reveals the dramatic behind-the-scenes reality.