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The bad news keeps rolling in for Kristi Noem, the fired former head of the Department of Homeland Security. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that her husband is a crossdresser who wears large fake breasts and hot pants while messaging with online adult entertainers. According to the report, Bryon Noem sent at least $25,000 to interact with fetish models, whom he communicated with using a phon…

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a preservationist group’s request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project. Leon, who was nominated to the ben…

A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order to cease funding for NPR and PBS is unlawful and unenforceable. The judge said the First A…

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is muddying expectations ahead of what could be another disappointing jobs report later this week. “I'm looking forward to Friday's numbers to see exactly what the trends are,” she told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, before blaming last month's depressing report on a “strike” and “the weather.” YouTube Video “But again, it's a snapshot in time,” Chavez-DeRe…

The Trump administration is lashing out at America’s allies in Europe after their refusal to help President Donald Trump clean up the global mess he created by attacking Iran. Early Tuesday morning, Trump assailed the United Kingdom for declining to help him launch strikes on Iran, writing, “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, ju…

First son Eric Trump on Monday unveiled plans for his father's presidential library, a gigantic World Trade Center ripoff that will mar the Miami skyline and become yet another grift for the most amoral and corrupt family in American history. "Over the past six months, I have poured my heart and soul into this project with my incredible team at @Trump," Eric Trump wrote in a post on X, saying tha…

As we stare down the barrel of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case , it’s important to thank conservative legal scholars with flexible morals, without whom President Donald Trump could not have gotten nearly as far with this unconstitutional, racist stance. Also in line for a fruit basket from the administration? Dead white supremacists. To push this unconstituti…

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is reportedly having talks with former NBC/CNN executive Jeff Zucker about strategies to boost the network’s sagging ratings since it has taken a pro-Donald Trump turn. A source told the NY Post that Weiss has “had conversations” with Zucker and has been “asking advice” on how to run the network’s news division. Zucker’s son also apparently worked as a freelanc…

On March 31, 1968, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson surprised the nation when, during an address to the country about Vietnam, he announced that he would not seek reelection that year. “With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote …

Findhelp is a public benefit corporation that wants the structure of the National Labor Relations Board held unconstitutional. Critics say those things don’t square. By Rick Wartzman for Capital & Main In the world of social services, Findhelp is a big deal. Each year, its digital platform connects tens of millions of people in need to free and reduced-cost resources — food, housing, medical trea…

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