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President Donald Trump and other Republicans are threatening retaliation against Canada for the wildfires ravaging Ontario, smoke from which has caused hazardous air quality in a significant swath of the United States this week.On Truth Social Friday…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has yet more blood on its hands.An employee at an ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, shot a protester Thursday evening, Aurora Police Department shared in a written news release. The woman was hit in her lower body…

Tilman Fertitta, Texas billionaire and President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Italy, is conducting a two-month tour along the Italian coast on his luxury, 384-foot superyacht, supposedly to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States.The voyage has…

House Republicans released a much-anticipated continuing resolution Friday—and it omits Donald Trump’s biggest ask.Despite Trump specifically ordering his congressional allies to include his unpopular voter restriction bill in the government funding…

Whatever distinctions may exist between the eight candidates to replace Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee for the Senate, they weren’t on display in the first and likely only debate on Thursday night. The candidates ranged from political…

The government shelled out almost $2 million in a no-bid emergency contract to clean up a diesel spill that occurred under the watch of Freedom 250, the shadowy organization through which President Donald Trump is administering semiquincentennial…

The Trump administration has promised to stonewall federal grants unless states “scrub” their voter rolls and to imprison state officials who refuse to comply.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced during a press conference in Washington…

President Trump’s rant to the nation about election fraud Thursday night was full of inaccuracies, previously known information, and claims unsupported by evidence. On the biggest conservative TV network, Fox News, which Trump watches regularly, no one is…

The mass mobilization against data centers is…

Donald Trump promised federal cuts under the Elon Musk–led Department of Government Efficiency would “drive out the massive waste.” Indeed, waste is now being expelled on an incredible scale, across the country: A diarrhea-causing parasite,…

Despite recent evidence to the contrary, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear isn’t so sure that Senator Mitch McConnell is actually alive.Speaking with journalist Katie Couric in an interview published on YouTube July 15, Beshear explained why he had requested a…

New details are emerging about the ICE agent who shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on Monday.David Brouillette has a history of violent and abusive behavior, his relatives told the Associated Press, including attacks on the women and…

Democrats across the country questioned the president’s fitness after his baseless, incendiary prime-time Thursday night speech accusing foreign agents of tampering with our last three elections—all to push his restrictive SAVE America Act.“This is a…

First of all, I could barely stay…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s meeting with several Epstein survivors was a major bust. The Thursday meeting was an obvious gambit for Senate support for Blanche’s potential promotion to permanent attorney general. The encounter was arranged hours…

Republicans in Congress are reportedly souring on Vice President JD Vance, feeling abandoned as he’s put media appearances before his duty to help resolve the intraparty strife bogging down the GOP’s agenda.With midterms fast approaching and divisions in…

President Trump’s wild claims of election fraud made in a speech to the nation Thursday night contradict the findings from the declassified documents his administration released.In his 27-minute speech, Trump complained that the 2020 election was…

Not even President Trump’s own election fraud guy could back up his claims that votes in the last three general and midterm elections were tampered with in any way.“Can you acknowledge that there were no votes changed in 2020?” MS NOW’s Vaughn Hill…

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Incumbent Democrats and establishment candidates are falling across the country to more progressive opponents, most…

Forget the $10,000 tickets and the travel bans and the fact that the last three…

Seconds into our phone call, Brian Schweitzer, Montana’s folksy Democratic former governor, launched into an analogy about dirt roads. In Montana, he explained, you drive along a two-lane highway until you wind up on a gravel road, which takes you to a dirt…

The Supreme Court’s end-of-term blockbuster cascade of…

This is a lightly edited transcript of the June 14 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: This is Right Now on The New Republic, and I’m the host, Perry Bacon. Our…

The thin veil that has historically clouded government corruption is in the trash—under the current Trump administration, blatant ethical misconduct is in.Truth Social executives announced Thursday that the company would sell Wall Street firms premier access…

A sitting senator proposed annexing Greenland on the wild assumption that Denmark may, in the coming decades, become an Islamic theocracy.Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri appeared Thursday on The Charlie Kirk Show, where he supported President…

The ICE agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old in Biddeford, Maine, is a former police officer who his ex-wife says was abusive.David Michael Brouillette was identified by his ex-wife, Ashley Brouillette, as the ICE agent who fatally shot Johan Sebastián…

Donald Trump’s eponymously named childhood investment accounts might not survive his own administration’s cost-cutting measures.The Trump Accounts program was officially launched on Independence Day, offering $1,000 deposits in Treasury-held funds for…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance agree on the value of pursuing negotiations with Iran.In a Thursday press conference, Elina Shirazi of The Daily…

Senator Thom Tillis has announced that he will vote against Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination unless Blanche meets with the Epstein survivors he’s been avoiding for months. This could potentially kill Blanche’s nomination, as Blanche needs a…

The Trump administration is putting limits on how long foreign students can stay in the U.S. on student visas. The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday finalized a plan to cap student visas to a maximum of four years, regardless of whether the…