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Scalise Won’t Challenge Johnson for Speaker — But Won’t Say What Happens If the GOP Loses the House House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Friday he will not challenge Speaker Mike Johnson for the gavel if House Republicans retain their majority in November, saying Johnson has done “a great job” and has “earned” the right…

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Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing, Reopening the Fight Over What Justice Looks Like Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to two counts of stalking — interstate stalking resulting in death and stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death — tied to the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO…

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Federal Judge Threatens DOJ Lawyers With Contempt Over Stonewalled Epstein Files U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan pressed Justice Department attorneys this week over their compliance with his orders in a lawsuit brought by journalist Katie Phang against Attorney General Todd Blanche and the DOJ seeking full release of FBI records on Jeffrey Epstein, including justification…

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Schumer Demands Hegseth’s Firing as Sailors on Iran-Deployed Carrier Reportedly Try to Jump Overboard Senate Democrats demanded answers this week about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier that has been deployed since November amid the Iran war, after reports of food shortages, broken plumbing, water contamination and deteriorating mental health among the…

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Trump Vows to Claim the Strait of Hormuz as US Territory While Telling Americans to Eat the Gas Price Hike Speaking at a Friday event in Nassau County, New York, President Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a “U.S. territory” “pretty soon” once the war with Iran concludes, framing the move as…

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White House Admits It’s Losing Up to $26 Billion a Year as China Dodges Trump’s Tariffs The Trump White House released a report Thursday estimating that the U.S. is losing between $19 billion and $26 billion a year in tariff revenue because countries are routing Chinese exports through third nations to avoid duties, a practice…

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DOJ Indicts 11 in Birth Tourism Ring as State Department Reveals 600 Visas Already Revoked The Justice Department on Thursday indicted 11 Chinese nationals accused of running a nationwide and international marriage-fraud network that arranged sham marriages between foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, operating from at least 2016 through July 2026 out of a New…

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Sailors Try to Jump Overboard After 260 Days at Sea — Hegseth Calls the Reports “Completely Misrepresented” Roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have now spent 260 consecutive days at sea, one of the longest deployments in modern Navy history, amid reports of supply shortages, water contamination, plumbing failures, mail disruptions…

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Kennedy Center Board Defies Judge, Slaps Trump’s Name Back on the Building and Shuts It Down for Two Years The Kennedy Center’s Trump-appointed board of trustees voted 20-3 on Thursday to add the phrase “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” to the center’s official name and to rename the site’s plaza “President Donald…

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Federal Judge Threatens DOJ With Contempt Over Blacked-Out Epstein Files U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan convened a hearing Thursday to press Justice Department lawyers on whether the Trump administration has complied with his prior orders requiring the government to justify redactions made under the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act [1]. Sullivan grew visibly frustrated with…

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