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Donald Trump just made good on his threat to sue The Wall Street Journal for reporting on his lewd birthday note to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The president filed a lawsuit in Miami court Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and…

Trump is purposely using a construction project that his own appointees are making more expensive as grounds to pick a fight and potentially fire his nemesis, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.The Fed building, opened in 1937, began undergoing plans for…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now allowing ICE to use U.S. military bases to detain undocumented immigrants as part of Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation efforts. In a brief letter signed Tuesday, Hegseth approved Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Joint…

Dick Durbin is leading the Senate Judiciary Committee in an effort to receive more transparency regarding the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files, particularly an order from Attorney General Pam Bondi for FBI agents to “flag” any mention…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that Americans should expect future natural disasters to be handled similarly to the recent deadly flooding in Texas—and no, she wasn’t being ironic. During a press conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Thursday,…

The most radical thing about Elon Musk this month is his staggering unpopularity.Public opinion of the world’s richest man fell by 66 points since his foray into politics, according to a CNN poll released Thursday. Musk was the most popular person according…

President Trump’s followers offered a measly defense against The Wall Street Journal’s exposé of the president’s close relationship with defamed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Journal reported that Trump wrote a 50th birthday letter to Epstein in which…

Donald Trump’s threats to sue The Wall Street Journal have extended to the daily’s owner, Rupert Murdoch.The president has promised to sue the newspaper over its latest report that Trump penned a cozy and salacious letter to his “pal” Jeffrey Epstein…

Time will tell whether the big bombshell from The Wall Street Journal is true. The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky has the rundown on what it means: Supposedly Trump drew a sexually explicit drawing and penned a suggestive note in Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th…

Donald Trump is already lying about why CBS’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was canceled. “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning. “I hear Jimmy Kimmel…

Stephen Colbert announced on Thursday night that next May would mark not just the end of his run as host, but the death of The Late Show itself, a CBS institution that has existed since 1993.“I found out just last night,” Colbert told his audience.…

Alina Habba, Trump’s shamelessly biased personal lawyer, will soon be out of the job he gave her. The president appointed Habba, who defended him in his hush-money and E. Jean Carroll defamation cases, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey…

After facing enormous pressure from his base, Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to release additional details pertaining to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The offering was, apparently, more than enough to get a chunk of far-right…

For years, MAGA stalwarts have accused the deep state and/or Democrats of operating a clandestine child sex-trafficking ring that, according to some, involved Hillary Clinton eating babies in the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza restaurant. Jeffrey…

So this is the thing about stories like the Jeffrey Epstein saga: There’s always new stuff waiting to come out. The explosive story that The Wall Street Journal dropped Thursday evening about Donald Trump’s alleged note to Epstein in a “birthday book”…

Donald Trump and JD Vance clearly didn’t take the time to get their story straight about the president’s lewd 50th birthday letter to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that in 2003, Trump penned Epstein a…

The Wall Street Journal on Thursday evening reported that President Trump sent a 50th birthday letter to infamous predator Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, containing a signed sketch of a naked woman and the ominous caption, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 18 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.President…

In the desert, a man walks alone. He is dirty, disheveled, and muttering to himself as he passes by a sign promoting a new data center being built nearby. Off in the distance stand the remnants of agricultural industry. The man ambles his way back into…

California Governor Gavin Newsom is doing something extraordinary for a Democratic politician: He is proposing structural changes to address the threat of Trumpism. In interviews and public statements in recent weeks, he has threatened to gerrymander a number…

The massive new Republican law narrowly passed by Congress this month could strip health care and nutrition benefits from millions of low-income Americans, even as some of the wealthiest households benefit from extended tax breaks. But the timeline and degree…

President Trump is in trouble. The Jeffrey Epstein files are killing him with the base. New polls show him cratering on many issues. And questions are mounting about his mental fitness due to a bizarre story he invented about his uncle and the Unabomber. At…

The Trump administration is doing damage control on the visible signs of aging in the president, as seen in his swollen legs and a mysterious bruise on his hand.On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Levitt revealed that the president had emergency…

Nick Fuentes, a far-right influencer who’s a fan of Hitler, thinks Donald Trump has gone too far. Trump’s neo-Nazi former sidekick (no, not Elon Musk) torched the president on his show America First Wednesday night for calling his supporters that were…

Seventy-eight House Democrats voted Thursday to further deregulate the cryptocurrency industry, which will help make Donald Trump rich. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a bill crafted by and for the crypto industry, passed the House in a 294-134 vote,…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was caught in a blatant lie Thursday over Donald Trump’s nonsensical threat to place 100 percent “secondary” tariffs on Russian exports, if Moscow failed to resolve its issues with Ukraine in 50 days. During a…

The Trump administration is attempting to square up Donald Trump’s stray attacks on his Epstein-concerned supporters, arguing that the president doesn’t deserve criticism after he insulted his supporters for expecting updates on the Jeffrey Epstein case.At…

A hacker has revealed that the Trump administration illegally deported dozens more people to El Salvador than they reported, and those additional people have not been seen or heard from since, according to 404 Media.President Trump’s decision to deport more…

This week, President Donald Trump raged on Truth Social that Senator Adam Schiff is guilty of “Mortgage Fraud,” and demanded that he be “brought to justice.” The basis for this claim: Fannie Mae has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department…

While Donald Trump tries to completely dismiss Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex ring scandal as a Democratic “scam,” his administration has quietly axed a key office related to investigating human trafficking.The White House hacked 1,353 positions from the…