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Donald Trump’s scandal-plagued labor secretary resigned Monday, the White House announced.“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector. She has done a phenomenal job in her role by…

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles summoned dozens of Republican political consultants from across the country for a meeting Monday at the Waldorf Astoria, a person familiar with the plan told Politico’s Playbook.The gathering of Republican operatives…

Republicans are fighting over expelling some of their own members of Congress. Representative Cory Mills, under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over allegations of assaulting women, soliciting sex workers, lying about his military service, and…

The man who just committed the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in the past two years had a previous weapons conviction—so how did he get his hands on another gun? Shamar Elkins, a 31-year-old father, shot and killed his seven children and their cousin…

Republican Representative Chip Roy is taking aim at free speech and freedom of religion, introducing a bill that would target immigrants who support “socialism, communism, Chinese communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism.”  Roy calls his assault on…

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a new religious rights case that could challenge a landmark 1990 decision.Parents within the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver, which runs 34 preschools across Colorado’s capital city, have challenged a state mandate…

The Trump administration is considering a bailout for the United Arab Emirates over economic losses sustained as a result of the U.S. war with Iran.The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that UAE officials are speaking with the White House about providing…

Donald Trump’s administration has quietly transformed the agency overseeing legal immigration into yet another arm of the president’s mass deportation scheme. An internal agency document reviewed by The New Yorker’s Jonathan Blitzer revealed that the…

Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran have hit more turbulence in the wake of a tense weekend that has apparently sent Donald Trump spiraling.The two countries were close to brokering a new peace agreement late last week as the deadline on the two-week…

The Trump administration was rebuffed by the state of Michigan Sunday after it tried to demand Detroit-area ballots from the 2024 election. Last week, the Department of Justice sent a letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General ⁠Harmeet Dhillon, to the…

FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic Monday, after a sweeping report detailing his excessive drinking and unexplained absences. In a 19-page filing, lawyers for Patel alleged that The Atlantic had published an…

Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has gotten him exiled from critical peace negotiations with Iran.The president was removed from such talks by his own aides last month, who feared that his unpredictable style could hamper the discussions, The Wall Street…

Florida Representative Cory Mills threatened to call then-Attorney General Pam Bondi while he was being questioned by Washington police about an alleged assault. Police body camera footage released to The Washington Post showed officers responding to a call…

Last month, I considered whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used what he knew about the imminence of the Iran war to expand his stock portfolio with a little blood money (“Is Pete Hegseth Killing Iranians To Get Rich?”). That was the thrust of a…

Iran says it won’t be participating in negotiations with the U.S. after it seized an Iranian cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz.“While claiming diplomacy and readiness for negotiations, the U.S. is carrying out behaviors that do not in any way indicate…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 20 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.Is MAGA…

Last Friday morning, Axios published a scoop about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Iran. The administration, according to four sources, wants Iran to give up its stockpile of enriched uranium, of which it possesses about 2.2 tons in various…

In March, when Georgia police arrested a 31-year-old mother, alleged that she’d had an abortion, and charged her with murder, the woman’s mugshot circulated far faster than the facts did. An officer with the Kingsland police claimed that in December, they…

I had always read James Baldwin’s declaration “I want to be an honest man and a good writer” as a statement of artistic ambition—the kind of thing a young person, defining themselves for the world, says in order to be taken seriously. It comes at the…

Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump’s presidential library, a planned monstrosity in Miami that—in a perfect Trumpian twist—may also double as a hotel. The companies—ABC;…

Donald Trump just erupted at his MAGA allies for opposing his war. In one tirade, he attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others as “FAKE MAGA.” In another, he slammed them as “Low IQ.” Similarly, his pollster John McLaughlin claimed that the MAGA…

Take a random moment from Trump’s second term—his inauguration, a state visit to the Middle East, a meeting of the preposterous “Board of Peace,” even just a random day when cameras are allowed into the Oval Office—and there is a decent chance that…

Good news has been something of a precious commodity of late, what with the Trump administration still engaged in its slop-conflict with Iran and the president himself taking to depicting himself as a messianic figure online. But in last weekend’s elections…

President Donald Trump is snubbing the Republican congressman who used to be his personal physician by not attending his birthday party at Mar-a-Lago.Trump posted on Truth Social Friday afternoon that he will not be attending Representative Ronny Jackson’s…

Israel has technically already violated the 10-day ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, killing someone with a drone on Friday minutes after President Trump declared they were “PROHIBITED” from bombing Lebanon.“The Hezboolah situation in an appropriate…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a callous and wildly inaccurate response to a question about millions of Americans losing their health insurance at a congressional hearing Friday. The secretary of health and human services was testifying before the House Committee…

A top Department of Justice official was removed Friday from an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan after she reportedly expressed doubts about the probe. Maria Medetis Long, chief of the national security section for the U.S. attorney’s…

Caitlyn Jenner, perhaps the most prominent transgender Trump supporter around, made a public appeal to President Trump, begging him to reconsider his executive order requiring passports to only offer options for male and female—and match the gender the…

President Donald Trump claimed Friday that Iran had finally agreed to hand over its nuclear stockpile—but Tehran said otherwise. Speaking with CBS News, Trump claimed that Iran had “agreed to everything,” including working with the U.S. to remove the…

Donald Trump is in “discussions” to settle a $10 billion lawsuit with the Internal Revenue Service over the release of his tax returns.The president’s lawyers asked a judge Friday to extend key deadlines on the multibillion lawsuit against his…