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There’s never been a president—or a presidential family—so hyped to slap their name on products. It’s just our luck that besides being the most monstrous president of our lifetime, President Donald Trump is also the tackiest, so all of this stuff is hot, wet garbage. There is also so, so much of it at so, so many different places, that we’re going to have to break this down by store. Prepare to f…

Nearly six months after a volatile oversight visit to a New Jersey immigration detention center spiraled into federal charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, she went back. On Tuesday, McIver joined Democratic Reps. Rob Menendez and Yvette Clarke for another tour of Delaney Hall, the privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark that has become a flashpoint in the national de…

The Trump administration will officially begin garnishing wages from people who default on their student loans, the Department of Education announced on Tuesday—a move that could impact millions of Americans. According to a report from CNN, the Department of Education will direct employers in January to begin withholding employees' income if they have not made payments on their federal student lo…

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Donald Trump rang in the Christmas season on Monday night by calling for his critics to be silenced. In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump complained about comedian Stephen Colbert, longtime critic and host of CBS’ “The Late Show.” “Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck, with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success,” Trump wrote . “Now, after being terminated by C…

Enjoy these cartoons highlighting the many ways that President Donald Trump tanked the economy. And feel free to share more of your favorites in the comments. Cartoon: He did say ‘liberation,’ by Clay Bennett Originally published April 5. Cartoon: MAGA tariff, by Clay Jones Originally published April 8. Cartoon: Big, beautiful bill, by Jack Ohman Originally published May 22. Cartoon: A doll for y…

Melania Trump’s self-titled documentary is getting the celebrity-presidential treatment, it seems. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Melania,” a film helmed by exiled Hollywood director Brett Ratner that chronicles the first lady’s preparation to return to the White House alongside her husband, will get a red carpet premiere at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—or, r…

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Here to put a big lump of coal in the toe of your Christmas stocking, it’s President Donald Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau! Big hand for these guys, everyone. They didn’t want to let the holidays come and go without letting the regular folks know just how little they think of us. So, tucked into the Federal Register, effective Wednesday: an advisory opinion that “earned wage access”…