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Make ready the orchestra of tiny violins, everyone! This weekend, Washington, D.C.’s greatest collection of reprobates and dweebs will gather at the Washington Hilton for the annual tribute to meretriciousness that is the White House Correspondents’…

President Trump is being sued by two watchdog groups for an internal White House memo asserting that text messages between officials could be deleted, regardless of a law stating the opposite. The lawsuit was filed Friday by the Citizens for Responsibility and…

Even the State Department recognizes that the U.S. entered the Iran war on behalf of Israel.A government release written earlier this week by Reed D. Rubinstein, the department’s legal adviser, detailed how the U.S. “is engaged in this conflict at the…

Republican Representative Thomas Kean Jr. of western New Jersey hasn’t voted on a single bill since March 5. Apparently, he’s been ill.Kean Jr. and his staff never explained to his constituents why the lawmaker was suddenly missing in action, but the…

It sure seems that the Trump administration is trying to pull a fast one on Senator Thom Tillis. Just hours after the Department of Justice announced Friday that it had dropped the investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the renovation of…

President Trump has offended U.S. ally India with his racist Truth Social post calling the country a “hellhole.”On Wednesday evening, Trump posted a screed from far-right commentator Michael Savage railing against birthright citizenship, claiming Indian…

Just days into the fallout over The Atlantic’s reporting on his alleged drinking issues, FBI Director Kash Patel will now have to answer questions about a 2005 letter, in which he admitted to being arrested twice for public intoxication and public urination.…

The Department of Justice announced Friday that it will resurrect federal firing squads as part of an effort to implement Donald Trump’s day-one executive order to revamp capital punishment.Trump’s order, signed in January 2025, demanded the attorney…

If you follow politics on social media, you’ve probably encountered a claim about Donald Trump that goes like this: “LOL Trump’s support is rock-solid LOL, his base will never leave him LOL.” And it’s true: The white-hot core of MAGA does remain with…

President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban immigrants from claiming asylum at the southern border was blocked in a federal court Friday.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2–1 that Trump could not deport immigrants “under summary…

Young voters across the country overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But less than two years into his term, the MAGA leader has completely lost them.An NBC News Decision Desk poll published Friday reveals a stark reversal in Gen Z’s…

Senator Elizabeth Warren thinks that anyone celebrating the Trump administration ending its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is “fooling themselves.”On Friday, the Justice Department announced it would be dropping its targeted, flimsy…

Insider trading is of no concern to the Trump administration.Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a 38-year-old active-duty Army soldier involved in the planning and capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, with using confidential…

It looks like Kash Patel’s major meltdown over The Atlantic’s humiliating report on his excessive drinking and unexplained absences has only made things worse for the embattled FBI director. Last weekend, The Atlantic’s Sarah Fitzpatrick reported that…

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is still living in a waterfront home on a Washington, D.C., military base nearly two months after she was fired, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.Noem moved into the home—usually reserved for…

President Donald Trump is backing down from his vendetta against Jerome Powell.The Justice Department announced Friday that it is dropping its criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve chief over the renovation of the central bank’s Washington, D.C.,…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is hoping to get around Florida’s Constitution in order to redraw the state’s congressional map and give Republicans nationally a big advantage.The Florida Constitution bans legislators from drawing districts with “the…

Donald Trump appears to believe that his administration’s targeting of an anti-extremism civil rights organization can be leveraged to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.“The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the greatest political scams in…

As we barrel toward the ninth week of this two- or three-week war, virtually all of the reporting and most of the commentary is focused on the strategery of the moment: who really controls the Strait of Hormuz, when the ceasefire might actually end, what…

President Donald Trump claimed that former President Barack Obama blocked a merger with a defunct airline that hasn’t existed since the 1980s. Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office Thursday, Trump appeared confused when he was asked whether the…

Lead Democrats on the House Oversight and Administration Committees are urging the U.S. Postal Service to refuse President Donald Trump’s executive order to illegally limit mail-in voting. In a letter Friday to the U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors,…

President Trump went on a long, angry social media tirade Thursday night while the entire country was asleep, once again raising doubts about his mental fitness and temperament. Just after midnight, Trump reposted a message from the Border Patrol union calling…

The Department of Defense is brainstorming ways to punish NATO members that didn’t support President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.Reuters, citing an unnamed U.S. government official, reports that the federal government is considering suspending Spain from…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Donald…

President Trump’s war on Iran has introduced Americans who haven’t previously followed farm policy to a rather niche topic: fertilizer. It’s estimated that half of global food production relies on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Gulf countries are major…

Donald Trump has a myriad of guises, none of them admirable: He is a preening narcissist with no end of self-congratulatory thoughts; a multiple-times failed businessman with six bankruptcies on his record; a sexual predator who declared his prowess to a…

On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked…

A new Fox News poll contains crushing findings for Donald Trump. His approval on the economy is at 34 percent with 66 percent disapproving. On inflation, those numbers are even worse, at 28–72. Importantly, the poll also finds Democrats with the advantage on…

Donald Trump would get around to ending the bloody conflict in Iran, but come on—we all deserve a break once in a while!That was essentially what the president told reporters on Thursday when asked about the ongoing war. After Trump falsely claimed the…

Our nearly 80-year-old president appears to have nodded off during a meeting, for the umpteenth time. President Trump’s eyes grew visibly heavy around the halfway point of his televised announcement of a deal with drug company Regeneron on Thursday…