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Elon Musk, after months omnipresent in the White House, was nowhere near the Oval Office on May 20 when Donald Trump announced his new “Golden Dome” space weapons system. He didn’t have to be. He had already maneuvered his companies to benefit…

Well, folks, the Democratic Party really went through it this week. Last weekend, it was disclosed that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones. Coming smack-dab in the…

Last weekend’s bombing of an in vitro fertilization clinic in Palm Springs, California, was not merely shocking for its violence. The arguably more disturbing aspect of this tragic event is the bleak anti-life worldview underlying the attacker’s motives.…

When Aliza Dutt entered the race to recapture the top Houston-area elected office for the Republican party, her launch received little fanfare. There was a barely 200-word blurb in The Houston Chronicle, which mostly pulled its information from the one-page…

Incredibly unsurprising news: The people who paid millions of dollars to get into Trump’s lavish cryptocurrency dinner did so to directly influence the president’s financial policy in their favor.“I will definitely not hesitate to share my…

Because President Trump deeply values accuracy and integrity in public conduct, he will be mortified to learn that a photo he brandished during his recent Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa perpetrated a massive deception. The…

Crypto-investors anonymously shelled out a total $148 million to purchase access to Donald Trump, but all they got was a low-quality steak. Guests at Trump’s supposedly “intimate” gala for the 220 top buyers of the $TRUMP memecoin gathered at the Trump…

Days after the president signed a bill focused on curbing revenge porn, Nancy Mace’s former political adviser has accused the South Carolina lawmaker of displaying nude photos taken by her ex-fiancé to extort two properties out of him.In an April deposition…

A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. In a brief filing Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard’s request for a temporary…

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is letting his glitchy Grok AI chatbot sift through potentially sensitive government information, according to an exclusive report from Reuters Friday. One person familiar with the matter told Reuters that DOGE…

In a strange appeal to a right-wing conception of masculinity, Representative Tim Burchett proclaimed that he does not drink any liquid out of straws, because he is a masculine man and straws are for feminine women.“[Jesse] Watters says men should not drink…

While House Republicans celebrated passing the president’s “big, beautiful” spending bill by a one-vote margin Thursday, caucus members in the upper chamber remained unimpressed.Speaking with CNN’s Manu Raju later that day, South Carolina Senator…

If the world still exists a hundred years from now or, even more improbably, a thousand, and people are still writing and reading something that vaguely resembles a “book,” some future Gibbon chronicling the descent into authoritarian corruption of the…

The Trump administration doesn’t want you to trust independent analysis of their “big, beautiful” tax bill.The bill—now headed to the Senate—proposes cutting upward of $880 billion from Medicaid in order to make a multitrillion-dollar tax cut…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inadvertently destroyed his own nominee for surgeon general by giving a rare, good piece of medical advice.  During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlin Collins Thursday, Kennedy was asked to explain a remark he’d made…

Harvard University is suing the Trump administration over its revocation of the school’s ability to enroll international students.In a lawsuit filed on Friday in Boston, the university slammed the administration’s “unlawful and unwarranted action,”…

Weeks after negotiating a palatable trade deal with the United Kingdom to squash the tariffs, Donald Trump wants more.The president pitched early Friday that the U.K. should—like his administration—focus on divesting from clean energy and return to oil…

President Trump on Friday suggested ramping up tariffs against the European Union, indicating that his trade wars are still only just beginning. The president called for a 50 percent tariff on products from the EU, to begin on June 1. “The European Union,…

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

If it’s caught early, before it’s had the chance to spread to other parts of the body, 99 percent of patients with cancer of the prostate go on to live at least another five years. Once it’s metastasized, the five-year survival rate drops…

The budget bill that House Republicans passed early Thursday funds tax cuts for the rich by kneecapping Medicaid, slashing food stamps, and gutting green energy investments—while also adding trillions to the deficit. But Republicans aren’t content simply…

In 2024, even in blue areas like…

It’s a tale as old as time—or, rather, roughly as old as a seventh grader: The party controlling the Senate takes action to weaken the filibuster, and the minority party warns of a tyrannical majoritarian upper chamber that will undermine its perhaps…

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After raging at Harvard earlier this month, President Donald Trump is now revoking the university’s right to receive foreign students. The administration sent an unhinged letter to Harvard making the announcement while demanding extensive information about…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a tirade Thursday against a federal judge who ruled against Donald Trump’s illegal deportations to South Sudan. During a press briefing, Leavitt railed against U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of…

The president’s great solution to equalize America’s prescription costs with countries around the globe apparently boils down to raising the cost of drugs everywhere else.Donald Trump explained during the unveiling of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make…

The federal government is now investigating the liberal media watchdog Media Matters, an organization that Elon Musk is currently suing. The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced the investigation into whether the nonprofit illegally colluded with…

The U.S. president’s meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Wednesday featured a clip cooked up by the White House falsely alleging “white genocide” in the post-apartheid nation. But when pressed as to why Donald Trump lied that thousands…

A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s latest escalation against foreigners in the U.S. on Thursday, a ruling that came just hours after the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international…