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White House Struggles to Defend Trump Idea to Limit Kids’ Presents
“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want…
Read MoreTrump Wants People to Submit DNA Just to Get a Tourist Visa
“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want…
Read MoreKristi Noem Literally Runs Out of House Hearing to Avoid Dem Questions
“I don’t want to file perjury charges against you, but I’m of the opinion that the Trump administration—DHS, your DHS—approved the asylum application,” Thompson said. THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person? KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in— THOMPSON: No. I want…
Read MoreFBI Leader Crumbles During Basic Questions About Threat of “Antifa”
The FBI’s branch and operations director couldn’t answer basic questions about the Trump administration’s designation of antifa as a terrorist organization at a congressional hearing Thursday. Michael Glasheen was testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security, and told Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson that after antifa, a political designation and movement that stands for “anti-fascism,”…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Will Get Another Shot at Church-State Separation
At issue in Drummond were two significant constitutional questions. First: Are privately run charter schools state actors if they are publicly approved and funded? And second: If they are public, does the First Amendment’s free exercise clause prohibit a state from excluding religious schools from its charter school program—or does the establishment clause require it…
Read MorePete Hegseth’s Own AI Bot Backfires on His Boat Strikes
Et tu, ChatGPT? On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled his department’s new AI chatbot for military personnel, GenAI.mil. Almost immediately, the bot called a “hypothetical” situation where the government orders a strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat and then double-taps said boat to kill the survivors, “unambiguously illegal.” A military source who spoke to…
Read MoreICE Barbie Is Building Her Own Fleet of Deportation Planes
The Department of Homeland Security just paid nearly $140 million to be in charge of managing its own deportation flights. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has signed a multimillion-dollar contract to purchase six Boeing 737 aircrafts from Daedalus Aviation Corporation, whose owners already have ties to massive DHS contracts, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Immigration…
Read MoreGuess How Many Republican Seats Democrats Flipped in Recent Elections?
Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year. In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an…
Read MoreTrump Threatens to Fire His Treasury Secretary Over … Immigration?
“I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks—Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results,” Trump wrote. “I do these Tests because…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump in Fury as GOPers Quietly Defy His Plot to Rig 2026
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 10 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 Trump is raging at Indiana Republicans in a last-ditch effort…
Read MoreVideo: The Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery
new video loaded: The Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Nicole Sperling, a Times reporter who covers Hollywood and the streaming revolution, breaks down the competing bids from Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. By Nicole Sperling, Edward Vega, Laura Salaberry, Jon Hazell and Chris Orr December 9, 2025 Source link
Read MoreSotomayor Rips Lawyer Who Claims Elon Musk’s DOGE Job Wasn’t Shady
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor torched a lawyer Tuesday for suggesting that Elon Musk didn’t buy his way into the White House. While hearing oral arguments in a case on campaign finance law, Sotomayor warned that if the Supreme Court removed the limits on coordinated expenditures, then there would be “no control” over how much…
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