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The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was formally signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on March 26, 1979. YouTube Video The agreement was a culmination of the Camp David Accords, held in September 1978, and brokered by President Carter . While the treaty helped ease decades of hostility between Egypt and Israel, it was criticized for…

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett and Renuka Rayasam and Amanda Seitz for KFF Carlos arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children. By that point, his 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter had been in a federal shelter in Texas for nearly a year after crossing the border to be with him. “I feel like I’m…

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Melania Trump’s newest fake job started this week when she hosted the “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit.” The new initiative is supposed to be For The Children, but looks more like an international sales conference for President Donald Trump’s favorite technology companies. But on Wednesday, things got, uh, a little weird when the first lady entered with “ Figure 03 ,” an AI …

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Men propelled Trump to the White House. Now they're turning on him. It sucks when daddy lets you down. GOP in panic mode as special election losses pile up Love seeing a Republican operative tweet about a "9 alarm fire for GOP heading into midterms." Trump’s new Homeland Security chief is…

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Apparently congressional approval is no longer needed for war—at least if you ask White House press secretary Karoline Levitt. During a press conference Wednesday, Leavitt gave the most ridiculous excuse for President Donald Trump’s escalating war in Iran—for which he never sought congressional authorization. “Well, as you know right now, that formal authorization from Congress is not necessary b…

Losing one lawsuit isn’t cool. You know what is also not cool? Losing two lawsuits. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. State courts just aren’t that into you. On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and YouTube were liable for negligence, not for the content on their platforms but for how those platforms were designed. The plaintiff, a now-20-year-old woman, alle…

A 5-year-old immigrant boy has been released from federal custody a week after children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel’s video call with the nonverbal boy spread across the U.S. Now Gael and his parents are returning home to El Paso, Texas, according to NBC News . His parents, who are Colombian asylum-seekers with no criminal record in the U.S., say their child suffers from developmental delays and oth…

President Donald Trump applauded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons whom he dispatched to airports across the country, saying that their efforts standing around as travelers wait in hours-long security lines are rehabbing the agency's image. On Wednesday, Trump wrote in a quintessentially stupid but also supremely weird Truth Social post: I am so proud of our ICE Patriots! They were un…

President Donald Trump's job approval rating is now at the lowest level of his second term, but beyond that topline is an even grimmer reality for Trump and the Republican Party: Men, the lifeblood of the GOP coalition, are souring on the president. As Americans express frustration with the struggling economy and his military quagmire in Iran, Trump’s approval rating is now 16 percentage points u…