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President Donald Trump held one of his emperor-has-no-clothes Cabinet meetings on Thursday, opening with a fantasy State of the Union-style address in the wake of his faltering war in Iran and partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. He claimed the U.S. is “extremely, really, a lot ahead of schedule” in Iran—despite reports that the administration has quietly stretched the timelin…

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. “Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to bio…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been adamant that Republicans in the Sunshine State should follow President Donald Trump's command to draw a new gerrymandered congressional map that could net the GOP as many as five more seats in the November midterms. But after Democrats' shocking special election victories on Tuesday in two state legislative seats Trump carried in 2024, Florida Republicans are ha…

Now this is a blast from the past, but not in a good way. Michael Flynn, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser for a hot minute during Trump’s first term before he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts, tried to reverse his plea, got Trump’s Department of Justice to drop the criminal charges, and then got a pardon , still doesn’t feel like he’s b…

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 …

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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…