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Well, well, well. Looks like that sweet, sweet “settlement” money for President Donald Trump’s Presidential Library has gone on a walkabout . No one could possibly have predicted that the most corrupt president in history would do such a thing. Now Senate Democrats are asking what, exactly, happened to the at least $63 million that Trump extracted from media and technology companies to settle his…

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida appeared on CNN Wednesday and delivered what could end up being the GOP’s midterm message on affordability and President Donald Trump’s move to create chaos in the global oil market. “It's fascinating to me that Democrats now talk about gas prices. Under [Barack] Obama and under [Joe] Biden, they tried to destroy the U.S. oil and gas industry,” Scott said. “I…

Democrats now have a big chance to fortify their power on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. Annette Ziegler, the arch-conservative justice on the swing state’s high court, announced Monday that she won’t run for her seat in 2027. This comes after conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley announced last year that she wouldn’t run, with the race to replace her just around the corner. Ziegler is … a lot . When …

An enormous statue depicting President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein recreating the famous king of the world scene from the movie “Titanic” appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The piece, installed by anonymous artists, shows the convicted sex offender being embraced at the prow of a ship by Trump. A satirical statue of Donald Trump and late convicted paedophile Jeffr…

Sometimes it gets overlooked in the across-the-board horrors we’re facing, but it cannot be overstated just how much the Trump administration keeps losing in court. Sure, running to the Supreme Court to get his way on the shadow docket has proven remarkably successful for President Donald Trump, but that’s because the administration only needs five credulous conservative justices to sign on. In a…

Democrats on Tuesday notched another round of stunning over-performances in a spate of special elections held around the country —including a victory in a state House seat in New Hampshire that President Donald Trump had won by nine points less than a year and a half ago. The New Hampshire flip—in which Democrat Bobbi Boudman defeated Republican Dale Fincher—is the second state legislative seat D…

The Trump administration has reportedly issued a directive to congressional Republicans to stop speaking about “mass deportation.” The edict comes as voters turn away from President Donald Trump and the GOP’s hard-line stance on immigration, traditionally an area that garnered support. Donald Trump salutes at a campaign rally at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center on Oct. 11, 2024, in …

On March 11, 2020, after weeks of gaslighting Americans , ignoring expert advice , and telling Americans “it will go away,” President Donald Trump announced a 30-day travel ban from Europe as the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. YouTube Video Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic was deadly , made even deadlier by ignoring every early warning sign and exporting m…

TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB. By Joel Jacobs for ProPublica Rebecca Sheppard specializes in untangling other people’s financial messes. But for nearly a year, the Colorado accountant has been unable to fix a glaring error on her ow…

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Wall Street has had its head in the sand through the entirety of President Donald Trump's second term, whistling past the graveyard as Trump's tariffs throttled the job market and kept inflation above the Federal Reserve's 2% benchmark. And Trump’s war in Iran is no exception, as traders have taken his word that it “is very complete,” even as other members of his own administration say the opposi…