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Vice President JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, held a press conference Tuesday to announce that they’d stopped $2.2 billion in fraud. But the fraud in question wasn’t the latest pay-for-play scandal…

The lone broadcaster that remained in the White House press pool has compromised Donald Trump’s safety.Real America’s Voice, a far-right streaming channel, aired footage of the president’s motorcade as it wound its way through Manhattan Tuesday evening.…

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonThe new “hot” issue: Home heating bills spiking due to the Iran warAs autumn…

Elon Musk may soon have a stake in two of the largest television news operations in the U.S., thanks to the Paramount merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.Semafor reports that Paramount Skydance executives are looking for sources of cash and are considering…

The Trump administration has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin—who is four years into his relentless invasion of Ukraine—to the December G20 summit at President Trump’s golf club in Miami. Putin has yet to accept the invitation.“We’ve invited…

Even Melania Trump is having a difficult time heaping praise on her husband’s second-term performance.The first lady appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning to discuss the launch of “IMPERIA,” a Davos dupe designed to bring female executives together. But…

Just over a month before the midterm elections in November, Texas has a backlog of voter registrations thanks to an error by the state Department of Public Safety.Votebeat reports that an unknown number of voter registration applications have yet to be…

Senator Mitch McConnell is still refusing to speak publicly after a monthslong absence from the Senate, raising concerns about whether he is still fit for office. A video posted on X Tuesday by Desiree Townsend, the conservative journalist who first reported…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his United Nations General Assembly speech to call out President Trump and Israel, challenging narratives about Iran as a terrorist threat, shedding light on the aggressions committed against the Iranian population, and…

The only present U.S. representative walked out of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday.The quiet protest came immediately after Pezeshkian mentioned two airstrikes by American forces in February that…

A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was indicted for throwing away hundreds of ballots in Utah, claiming that he did so because he felt lazy.According to court documents, the mail carrier, Damon Matai Seei, said his June 3 mail load was too heavy, and in…

Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”? In case you’re unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it’s typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion of nonwhite immigrants, done in…

Former members of the the Washington-based Alcoholics Anonymous chapter known as the Midtown Group call it more of a “sex cult” than a support group. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was reportedly a member for a decade.Young people flocked to the Midtown Group…

President Trump is reportedly looking for a way to stick his name on Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.—where former President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed in 1865.MS NOW reported that the theatre is one of multiple different establishments floated…

President Donald Trump claimed that the media outlets he banned from the White House threatened national security—without bothering to provide any actual evidence. In a court filing Tuesday, the Department of Justice defended Trump’s decision to ban CNN,…

President Trump didn’t want to adhere to building safety codes for his White House ballroom and fought with its original architect until he quit. The Washington Post reports, citing anonymous sources, that James McCrery II withdrew from the project in…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took millions of dollars away from the Office of Minority Health and used it to beef up his own personal security.The Wall Street Journal reported that Kennedy moved $12 million from the office, which…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 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.We’ve…

The most remarkable thing about President Donald Trump’s hissy-fit expulsion of CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House grounds is how difficult it is to tell that they’re gone. That’s not to denigrate these three news outlets, two of which…

Robert Bork never made it to the Supreme Court. President Ronald Reagan nominated him to a vacant seat in 1987, but the Democratic-controlled Senate voted against the prominent conservative legal scholar and judge over concerns about his views and…

If the Democrats lose the upcoming midterm elections, our path out of…

I believed in Jonathan Majors. My introduction to the actor was The Last Black Man in San Francisco—a 2019 A24 film that explored gentrification, racial identity, and vulnerability. Majors’s widely lauded performance was perhaps best described by Rolling…

The polling just keeps getting worse for the GOP. A new Reuters survey finds Donald Trump’s approval at 32 percent—the worst in Reuters polling of both his terms. He’s at only 73 percent among Republicans, and on cost of living he’s at an astonishing…

Donald Trump told Republicans to vote as if he were on the November ballot. But Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, doesn’t want the whiff of that directive lingering as the party heads toward a likely brutal November upset.“If the…

President Donald Trump is personally making tens of millions off of the AI industry. In financial disclosures filed Tuesday, Trump revealed that he’d made a total of 1,156 securities transactions in the month of July, CNBC reported. The president purchased…

President Trump couldn’t stop raving about his planned White House ballroom while taking questions from reporters alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Tuesday at the United Nations. Trump was bragging about “one of the papers reporting”…

President Trump’s long, dramatic relationship with billionaire Elon Musk seems to be back on good terms, as the president just bought and sold tens of thousands of dollars in the tech tycoon’s SpaceX rocket company.Financial disclosures the president…

Even Donald Trump’s most loyal political disciples are jumping off the president’s sinking ship.Florida Representative and Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds dropped all mentions of Trump from his campaign website Tuesday, peeling himself…

Kalshi, one of the largest U.S. prediction markets, is asking the Trump administration to help it attract more big bettors. In a filing with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, Tuesday, the company’s internal clearing house, Kalshi Klear,…

President Trump thinks the answer to skepticism about artificial intelligence is to try and change its name.At the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, Trump told the audience that the “United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme…