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White House Flips Out Over Newest Video of Trump Asleep in a Meeting

The Trump administration is angry that President Trump was caught sleeping on camera again.

The administration’s official Rapid Response account on X took aim at a video clip from Kamala Harris’s news account @Headquarters showing the president clearly slumping back in his chair in the Oval Office and dozing off while surrounded by White House officials Thursday. They posted a screenshot from…

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Cognitive Decline? Trump Claims He’s Never Heard of a “Corner Store”

Does President Donald Trump really not know what a corner store is?

Speaking about taxes Thursday in Las Vegas, Trump’s apparent contempt for even discussing affordability was on full display, as he joked he had no idea what a corner store was.

“The Great Big Beautiful Bill also slashed taxes on millions of American small businesses, including restaurants, dry cleaners, corner stores—what is a…

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Republican Senator Claims Surging Gas Prices Are a Good Sign, Actually

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall has doubled down on his delusional pitch for voters to get excited about higher gas prices.

Speaking to CNN Tuesday evening, Marshall was asked if he actually expected his constituents to buy into his earlier claim that national security was “more important than your pocketbook.”

Marshall insisted that Kansans understood the “long game,” and that things could be a…

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Netanyahu Reveals Trump Reports to Him Every Day on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Trump administration reports to him every day about the ongoing war in Iran.

In a meeting with Israel’s Cabinet ministers, Netanyahu said, “I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the…

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Maple Leaf DOGE vs. the Canadian State

Instead of building a resilient economy to meet the challenges of the present economic “rupture,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are turbocharging austerity and gutting the capacity of Canada's federal public service.


If the Carney government stays the course, workers and the broader Canadian public may soon be facing cuts that rival the austerity measures of the…

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Australia Has a Serious Landlord Problem

Landlords dominate Australia’s parliament and Reserve Bank. Their policies make the housing crisis worse.


In Australia, a cost-of-living surge comes in the context of a worsening housing crisis. (Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images)

In Australia, the war in Iran is having a dramatic effect on prices. Fuel costs are already up and are set to further soar anywhere from 10 to 20 percent.…

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Republicans Get to Work Defending Trump’s Sick Threat on Iran

After Donald Trump escalated his threats against Iran Tuesday by warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Republicans in Congress still came to his defense.

Despite the fact that many of Trump’s former allies, as well as Democrats, think that he could be alluding to nuclear war or genocide, Republicans like Representative Jodey Arrington are saying,…

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Nearly Two Dozen Democratic States Hit Trump With Elections Lawsuit

Officials from 23 different states (and the District of Columbia) are taking Donald Trump to court over a brazenly unconstitutional executive order that looks to limit Americans’ voting rights.

The executive order, signed on Tuesday, banned the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on a preapproved list compiled by the USPS itself. Trump and his cronies like to claim…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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Trump signs executive order for crackdown on mail-in voting ahead of mid-term election

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to crack down on mail-in voting, escalating his push to restrict a popular way of casting ballots in US elections.

Trump’s executive order follows repeated attacks by the 79-year-old Republican on US elections, based on his disproven conspiracy theories about supposed cheating by his Democratic opponents.

It was unclear…

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How AI is being used in the Iran war

Syria was the first social media war, where the Syrian government harnessed the power of social media to spread misinformation. Ukraine was the first drone war, taking combat beyond the trenches. Now, the Iran conflict is the first artificial intelligence war, as the world’s strongest military embraces the technology.

Admiral Brad Cooper , the head of US Central Command, said earlier…

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Desperate Trump Sends Peace Plan to Iran

President Donald Trump has sent a peace plan to Iran—but is anyone actually reading it?

The United States transmitted a 15-point peace plan to Iran through Pakistan, betraying the president’s eagerness to build an off-ramp from the spiraling conflict he helped launch in the Middle East, _The New York Times_ reported Wednesday.

But it wasn’t clear that the deal would be accepted, or even…

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Hegseth: We Negotiate With Bombs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just perfectly summed up Donald Trump’s reckless military campaign in Iran.

Speaking in the Oval Office alongside Trump Tuesday, Hegseth insisted that the Pentagon had established its own role in ongoing negotiations.

“The air campaign that we’ve conducted, that Israel’s conducted alongside us, was one for the history books, truly. And it’s because we have a…

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Thermonuclear Slop and the Return of the Bomb

We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.


A new book on nuclear winter makes clear the scale of our present danger. It calls for pushing past our collective burnout and rebuilding the movement to abolish nuclear weapons to…

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FO rejects US intelligence chief’s claims about Pakistan missile threat

The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday categorically rejected the statement by US Dire­ctor of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard over Pakistan’s missile capabilities posing a threat to the country.

Gabbard had listed Pakistan among states that pose a significant threat to the United States, warning US lawmakers that Islam­abad’s evolving missile capabilities could potentially put the American…

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US intelligence chief’s missile claim ‘not grounded in strategic reality’, says former foreign minister

Former caretaker foreign minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Thursday dismissed a statement made by US Dire­ctor of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard over Pakistan’s missile capabilities posing a threat to the United States.

In a post on X, the former foreign minister maintained that the assertion that the “US Homeland is within range of Pakistan’s nuclear/con missiles is not grounded in strategic…

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Gabbard’s missile claim ‘not grounded in strategic reality’, says former foreign minister

Former caretaker foreign minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Thursday dismissed a statement made by US Dire­ctor of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard over Pakistan’s missile capabilities posing a threat to the United States.

In a post on X, the former foreign minister maintained that the assertion that the “US Homeland is within range of Pakistan’s nuclear/con missiles is not grounded in strategic…

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Silicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther Right

Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.


Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. (Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images)

The offices…

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How Trump’s Iran gamble backfired

Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump launched a war of choice to topple Iran's regime expecting a quick, clean win. What he's gotten is a regime that's proving far more capable of enduring and fighting back than he anticipated. Seven American troops are dead, 140 wounded. The Strait of Hormuz has been shut for almost ten days, creating the largest oil supply shock in history. Iranian…

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MAGA Senators Tell People to Suck It Up Over Surging Gas Prices

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall dismissed rising gas prices as a “sacrifice” Americans needed to make for their freedom.

During an interview Tuesday night, Marshall became extremely defensive when CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed back on his claim that soaring gas prices were simply “a little bit of a hiccup.”

“If they’re lifting sanctions on Russia, clearly they’re worried it could last longer…

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Former CBP Chief Under Investigation Over Actions in Minnesota

Local authorities in Minnesota are investigating former Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino and other federal agents for potentially breaking the law during Operation Metro Surge in the Minneapolis area.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in a news conference Monday that her office is already looking into 17 instances of “potential unlawful behavior” and asked local residents to…

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Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough

It’s good that the federal occupation of Minnesota is ending. But the Trump administration shouldn’t be allowed to pretend it never happened. Justice would require a wave of impeachments, criminal charges, and restitution to the people of the Twin Cities.


The bare minimum of justice would mean serious efforts to repair the damage ICE has done in Minnesota and bring the people who…

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Epstein Email Reveals Plot to Install Hidden Cameras Everywhere

The latest tranche of Epstein files includes a 2014 email from the infamous sexual predator asking his personal pilot to purchase and place tiny hidden cameras for him around his home in Palm Beach, Florida. While it’s unclear where exactly the cameras were placed and what they were used for, it’s not a far stretch to infer that they aided Epstein in his trafficking and abuse in some…

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Pakistan to invest $1bn in artificial intelligence by 2030, announces PM

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced the government’s plan to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030.

The Indus AI Week 2026 is being held from February 9 to 15 (Sunday). The event’s website describes it as “Pakistan’s official national platform for artificial intelligence — where policy, innovation, talent and investment converge”.

“The government of Pakistan is…

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