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House Republicans want to pretend that Bill and Hillary Clinton are the only worthwhile focus of the Epstein files scandal , but unfortunately for them, Democrats are ready to dismantle their desperate attempt to run interference for President Donald Trump. During a Wednesday hearing for the House Oversight Committee, Democrats tore into Attorney General Pam Bondi’s failure to release the governm…

President Donald Trump will travel to Iowa next week to kick off his series of weekly speeches on the economy—the most important issue to voters in the 2026 midterm elections. The fact that Trump is starting in Iowa is a major sign of just how much trouble Republicans are poised to find themselves in during the upcoming midterms . President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a visit to a fam…

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During his trip to Davos, Switzerland, California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out the plain truth about President Donald Trump’s long-winded and barely coherent speech. After Newsom dismissed the speech as “remarkably boring” and “insignificant,” CNN's Kaitlyn Collins noted that it also displayed Trump’s familiar ignorance of foreign affairs , such as when the president repeatedly confused Iceland for…

Mainstream media outlets on Wednesday once again reported on a strange, rambling speech by President Donald Trump as if it were a normal presentation, continuing the tradition of “sanewashing” his rhetoric and misinforming their audiences. Trump’s presentation before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had him referring to Greenland mistakenly as Iceland as part of his near-constant f…

During a bizarre speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump revisited his own appallingly racist claims —both insisting that the country of Somalia “ stinks ” and is populated by "low-IQ people," and peddling his administration's assertion that Somali immigrants in Minnesota have masterminded a welfare fraud scheme. “Somalia—they turned out to be higher IQ th…

A Minnesota toy store whose owners spoke out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement abuses of power is now being targeted by the Department of Homeland Security. The incident is another instance of the Trump administration using the power of the federal government to target speech and dissent. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported on Tuesday that Mischief Toy Store, located in St. Paul, has be…

President Donald Trump's largely incoherent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is unlikely to quell the growing questions about his mental fitness after he flubbed the name of the arctic territory he wants to conquer . On multiple occasions, Trump incorrectly referred to Greenland as Iceland, a nearby country. First, Trump blamed Tuesday’s stock market slide on “Iceland,” s…

President Donald Trump's first year back in office has been an abject disaster . Inflation remains stubbornly high , with the cost of groceries and housing continuing to put strain on American families—in large part thanks to Trump's idiotic tariffs . Americans largely believe that Trump is focused on the wrong things, including his attempts to take over foreign countries and his violent immigrat…

Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to supplements as an alternative, but many are creating barriers to these very products. By Anna Clark for ProPublica Last year, when Utah lawmakers passed the nation’s first statewide ban on community water fluoridation, they included a provision making it eas…