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Johnson pulled Biden aside to "apologize for the eye-roll memes" during the SOTU

"I’m just grateful you didn’t rip my speech up," the president laughed

"Well, Mr. President, don't think my friends back home didn't want me to light it on fire."
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Maryland drivers ruin everything

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Frustrations are showing early in Practice 1 🫣

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DES MOINES, Iowa—Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson was barely out of college in April 2006 when a tornado tore through a major city 30 miles south of the local TV station where she was a rookie reporter. https://t.co/rjWwb5aucC

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Freedom250 Grand Prix.

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SCOOP: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to step down from his role by the end of the year, if not sooner, after months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to people familiar with the discussions
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@laraseligman @MarcusReports

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Asked about Karoline Leavitt's replacement, Trump says "Scott Jennings is good" then floats longtime aide Margo Martin for the press secretary position as well.

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BREAKING: #SCOTUS Order signed by the Chief Justice allows construction on the WH ballroom complex to CONTINUE ... for now. It is not a full adjudication on the merits. It is a pause on the lower court decision that had called for a halt to some of the construction.

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Huey Long was famously colorful but also corrupt. As historian Arthur Schlesinger noted, "Huey Long’s great passion was for power and money, and he stole a lot of money and accumulated a lot of power and destroyed all those who got in the way of these two ambitions."

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VP @JDVance in Ohio with rare praise for 'the Kingfish:' "The great southern populist, probably most of you in the room don't know who I'm talking about, but he is an interesting guy--kind of a crazy guy--his name was Huey Long, and he once said, 'every man a king was the goal of his political program but no man is a king if their castle is under siege by criminals."

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left alone.

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Michael Cohen said before the last presidential election that if Trump ever returned to the White House, he would change his name and flee the country. Two years later, he invited his old boss onto his radio show instead. https://t.co/JXtPOIzEax

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NEW: PublicSquare’s marketplace, an "anti-woke" MAGA aligned e-commerce business backed by Donald Trump Jr., has completely collapsed after waves of big spending and extensive financial losses within the company, per unearthed records

Inside the fall of a business that struggled to become a conservative alternative to Amazon after President Trump embraced the founder of their biggest competitor: Jeff Bezos

Story w/@dgtokar + @TheWillHobson

https://t.co/1q0rJWJaKX

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Michael Cohen plays "Why Can't We Be Friends" by War before his interview with President Trump.

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An @IndyCar rides through the Washington D.C. Metro system ahead of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

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Trump says if he was a mayor or governor he'd "absolutely want" a data center in his town or state because of the economic benefits. He warns "if you don't take it, you're going to be left behind."

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How Trump’s Ever-Present Executive Assistant Became the Talk of Washington - WSJ https://t.co/rOOPL0c2pE

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"Sen. Jon Ossoff didn’t even use her full name. But everybody in Washington knew who he was talking about." read @PhilipWegmann @meridithmcgraw @jdawsey1 on Natalie Harp https://t.co/BhkPjiv4G5 via @WSJ

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Right out of school and before Trump, Natalie Harp worked on campaigns and would send flowers to candidates who had come up short in their races. She paid for the arrangements out of her own pocket. https://t.co/Wg5X72n5fJ

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Map showing drained agricultural lands from the 1950s U.S. agricultural census.

The Midwest used to be a much wetter place. Wetlands that once rivalled the Everglades.

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RT @alweaver22: The Talarico camp has hired a CORNYN policy aide as deputy political director. Yes, you read that right.

Jacob Smith, a Co…