Today’s edition of quick hits.
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Today’s edition of quick hits.
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At his confirmation hearing, Patel said the FBI “will not go backwards” and “there will be no retributive actions.” So much for that.
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For just under $12,000, you too can buy a coin, “designed” by the president, celebrating the UFC Freedom 250 event.
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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told voters, “Corruption is why things don’t work for ordinary people.” This message is resonating for good reason.
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The Utah Republican had little to say when the administration discriminated against others. Then he saw his own church excluded from a Pentagon list.
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If nefarious Democratic schemers existed and were secretly orchestrating the results, these are not the outcomes they would have picked.
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Blanche has made it clear that he doesn’t want to be the American people’s attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general.
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After a brutal British murder, the Republican vice president published a needlessly provocative statement, which did not go unnoticed in London.
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What we’re dealing with is a political leader who believes gut feelings are a legitimate substitute for knowledge. They are not.
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Today’s edition of quick hits.
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Today’s edition of quick hits.
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The president, unprompted, boasted that he “helped” with the case against his former national security adviser “from the standpoint of encouragement.”
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As the president prepares to nominate his former defense attorney for attorney general, there is reason for some skepticism about his confirmation odds.
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As MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell summarized, “I think few people in American history have done more to screw over farmers than Donald Trump.”
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The president didn’t need to add to his list of renovation projects around the nation’s capital, but by all appearances, Trump just can’t help himself.
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The defense secretary has spent most of his tenure drifting from one culture war priority to another. Evidently, he hasn’t gotten to the end of his list.
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In 2021, Elias Irizarry participated in the Jan. 6 attack. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to a Jan. 6 charge. In 2026, the Defense Department hired him.
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After critics raised concerns that the Trump loyalist would turn the DNI’s office into a partisan tool, the president gave them more reason to worry.
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As recently as February, the U.S. job market lost 156,000 jobs, raising new concerns about a possible recession. We’ve seen improvements ever since.
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Today’s edition of quick hits.
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Today’s edition of quick hits.
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What the secretary of state didn’t explain is why white South Africans are uniquely suited to, in Rubio’s phrasing, “rapid assimilation and success.”
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The president said the White House “won’t be a very secure place” unless Congress approved public funds related to the ballroom. GOP senators didn’t care.
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The public is apparently supposed to believe that the president keeps seeing physicians because they keep telling him things that make him happy.
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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
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Trump’s outlandish choice isn’t just sparking bipartisan pushback; it’s also endangering one of the White House’s top legislative priorities for the year.
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The list of “undiplomatic diplomats” from the United States is getting longer. Pete Hoekstra is part of a pattern that shouldn’t exist.
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Team Trump isn’t just eager to create and implement radical policies, it also hedges when pressed on whether it’s constrained by the judiciary.
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In 2023, Elias Irizarry pleaded guilty to a Jan. 6 charge. In 2026, he was hired to work in an office that manages highly classified military operations.
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Team Trump abandoned a scheme that would have helped the president’s allies, but left intact a parallel scheme that helps the president directly.
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