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In February of 2021, a fitness instructor named Khing Hnin Wai shot what might be history’s most viral aerobics lesson. Filming herself in front of a major thoroughfare in Myanmar’s capital city, Khing went through her paces, gyrating purposefully to some…

A federal judge questioned the Department of Justice Friday over Donald Trump’s “expanded” use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport planefuls of immigrants without due process over the weekend. During a hearing, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said that…

Donald Trump bragged about releasing the Social Security numbers of hundreds of people during his anticlimactic release of the John F. Kennedy assassination files.“Eighty thousand pages of documents is a lot to sift through,” a reporter said to Trump on…

The Department of Homeland Security shut down its office in charge of investigating civil rights complaints on Friday.DHS closed its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which was created along with the department in 2002 to advise leadership on civil…

A federal judge tore into Justice Department lawyers Friday as they struggled to defend Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said that she would not be “gaslit” by the lawyers’…

Will U.S. marching bands be replacing “God Bless America” with “God Save the King”?Donald Trump had a bizarrely warm reaction to news that Britain’s King Charles would extend a “secret offer” for the United States to join the British…

The Trump administration is moving to deport another international student for speaking out against the U.S.-funded genocide in Palestine.One day after Cornell Ph.D. student Momodou Taal, who has dual U.K. and Gambian citizenship, reported unidentified law…

The Trump administration is so worried about judicial scrutiny over its deportation flights to El Salvador that officials are thinking about misusing the “state secrets privilege.”Notus reports that Todd Blanche, the number two person at the Justice…

A Big Law associate has issued a scathing resignation letter after a different firm—Paul, Weiss—chose to bend to Donald Trump’s blatant bullying. Rachel Cohen, an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, circulated her strongly worded…

More bad news for Elon Musk and Tesla: Nearly every single Cybertruck is being recalled because the large panel near the front of the truck’s body falls off while in motion.The recall covers 46,000 Cybertrucks on the road, or every car made from November 13,…

Donald Trump announced a new investment in military aircraft production Friday, revealing that he had contracted Boeing to develop “the world’s first sixth-generation” fighter jet, named the F-47. And he managed to threaten America’s allies in the…

The FBI’s New York field office normally handles counterintelligence, counterterrorism, public corruption, international drug trafficking, and financial crime investigations. Right now, though, it has been ordered to prioritize redacting sensitive…

Even the deep-red Wyoming constituents who booted out Liz Cheney are upset with the wanton way in which DOGE has gone about “eliminating fraud.” “I’m a retired military officer.… At 18, I rose my hand to defend the Constitution against all enemies…

Elon Musk is paying Wisconsin residents $100 each to sign a petition denouncing “activist” judges, collecting troves of voter data in the final days before a crucial state Supreme Court election.Donald Trump and the billionaire bureaucrat leading the…

Donald Trump’s death knell to the Education Department isn’t likely to go over well with the American public.The president stripped apart the centralized authority overseeing the American educational system on Thursday via executive order, marking the end…

Think we’re not in a constitutional crisis yet? We’re not. We’re in several. One involves Elon Musk and DOGE, barging their way into the United States Institute for Peace, created by Congress under Ronald Reagan, with DOGE staffers apparently ripping the…

After The New York Times reported Thursday that Elon Musk would be getting a secret Pentagon briefing on the potential for war with China the next day, the tech oligarch was livid. Musk posted about the article on his X account early on Friday morning,…

Department of Government Efficiency operatives have found their new target: your local library.Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE infiltrated the Institute of Museum and Library Services on Thursday, according to multiple sources. This comes just a week after Trump…

Elon Musk, the unelected face of the Department of Government Efficiency, is scheduled to receive a Pentagon briefing Friday on the U.S. military’s plan for a potential war with China, The New York Times reported.The meeting would be a massive and…

Donald Trump is threatening to deport U.S. citizens who vandalize Tesla dealerships. In a post on Truth Social Friday morning, the president took his threats to punish protesters for committing so-called “domestic terrorism” against his billionaire…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 21 episode of theDaily 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…

Days before new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China took effect earlier this month, President Trump issued two executive orders. One bemoaned America’s status as a net importer of lumber, ordering the secretary of commerce to investigate the “national…

Last week, Donald Trump hosted an impromptu infomercial at the White House for Elon Musk’s embattled car company, Tesla. This week, Tesla recalled every Cybertruck the company has made since November 2023 because of an exterior steel panel that can separate…

Democrats across the country are desperate for our party to take a more aggressive and coherent fighting stance against Donald Trump. That is why there is so much anger about the decision by Senate Democrats not to filibuster President Trump’s bill to keep…

Flashback: The year is 2023. A Wisconsin state Supreme Court election has captured the attention of political observers—and large-pocketed donors—across the country. The ideological majority of the court is at stake, and the election results could…

On the streets of New York City, tens of thousands of delivery workers are constantly shuttling everything from take-out dinners to groceries. Most of the workers plying this trade are immigrants, and a substantial portion—no one knows exactly how many—are…

Two egos like Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s could never share the spotlight if it weren’t for the unifying force of grifter solidarity—two oligarchs teaming up to further tip the scales against everyone else. Just as Trump’s P.R. campaign as a canny…

President Trump is furious with a federal judge who is trying to block his ludicrous deportations of migrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Trump and his allies are demanding the judge’s impeachment, but this has Republicans privately in a big panic.…

Donald Trump halted government refugee resettlement programs on his first day in office, but a few weeks later, he decided to carve out an exception for South Africa’s white Afrikaner population. Now thousands of them want to take him up on the offer. The…

Donald Trump has killed the Education Department.Via executive order, the president stripped apart the centralized authority overseeing the American educational system on Thursday, marking the end of a 45-year-old institution.“Today we take a very historic…