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'Major tension' in White House as airspace botch triggers 'intense blame game': report

The surprise closure this week of the airspace over El Paso, Texas, has exposed a "strained relations" between two key departments in President Donald Trump's administration, according to a report.

The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly restricted all civilian aircraft Wednesday around Fort Bliss, which is immediately adjacent to El Paso International Airport, but reversed the order hours later. CNN's Pete Muntean reported on the conflicting statements coming from government officials.

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Ex-GOP congressman flags 'five-alarm fire' showing Trump's base is dumping him

As President Donald Trump’s support continues to crater one year into his second term, new polling shows that Trump’s support among one key voter bloc has absolutely collapsed, prompting MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough to warn Republicans Friday that they’re facing a “five-alarm fire.”

That key voter bloc in non-college-educated voters, a group that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024 and helped propel him to the White House a second time. New polling flagged by CNN, however, shows that Trump is now “underwater by nine points” with non-college voters, a staggering 23-point fall from last year.

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Texas airspace 'embarrassment' causing 'chaos' at high levels: 'Lot of blame going around'

The abrupt closure of the airspace over El Paso, Texas, has set off "chaos" and "finger-pointing" at the highest levels of President Donald Trump's administration.

The Federal Aviation Agency announced Wednesday the airspace would be closed for 10 days, only to reverse the decision about eight hours later, and reports have since emerged that the shutdown was enacted because Customs and Border Patrol had been testing a high-energy laser at nearby Fort Bliss against suspected foreign drones that turned out to be party balloons.

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'Never seen polling like this': News hosts taken aback by '51 point swing' against Trump

MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough was taken aback Friday after new polling revealed that President Donald Trump had suffered a staggering 51-point swing in net approval among young voters in just a year’s time, something the “Morning Joe” host said he hadn’t seen in his entire career covering politics.

“I've never, in 32, 33 years following this very closely on the Hill, I have never seen 50-point swings,” Scarborough said. “Here we have a 51-point swing on the economy, a 51-point swing among [young] voters, and that's in the past year!”

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Morning Joe scorches Pam Bondi over embarrassing 'picture that will go down in history'

A photograph captured during Attorney General Pam Bondi’s explosive congressional hearing on Wednesday may very well go on to become the “defining picture” of her legacy, MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” said on Friday.

Held by the House Judiciary Committee, Wednesday’s hearing saw Bondi grilled by Democratic lawmakers over what they said was the Justice Department’s continued failure to hold potential co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein accountable for their alleged crimes. The hearing also saw six survivors of Epstein’s abuse attend the hearing, standing behind Bondi.

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Jimmy Kimmel rips into Trump admin over 'deeply disturbing' scandal about 'spying' on Dems

Jimmy Kimmel has ripped into Donald Trump's administration after a picture of Pam Bondi's notes from the congressional hearing earlier this week appeared.

The Attorney General had notes from Democratic Party representative Pramila Jayapal's searches of the Epstein files. Though legally allowed to search through the files, a member of the Trump admin had taken notes on what the US representative from Washington's 7th congressional district had searched.

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Author reveals a strange detail about the Trumps' marriage: 'Of a different nature'

An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed a strange detail about the president's marriage.

Journalist Michael Wolff said during an interview on "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosted with Hugh Dougherty, executive editor of The Daily Beast, that the relationship between Donald and Melania Trump is "remote at best." He added that the two don't even live in the same state, with the first lady spending most of her time between Mar-a-Lago and the Trump properties in New York.

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'You're full of crap!' Republican lashes out as his false allegations hurled back at him

A Republican state lawmaker in Colorado got fired up on Thursday after he was confronted about false allegations he made against his colleagues.

Scott Bottoms, a Republican running for Colorado Governor, said during a campaign stop last weekend that there is a pedophile ring being run out of the Colorado state capitol and the governor's office, a claim that he made without evidence. He also said he will reveal the names of those participating in the ring if Coloradans elect him Governor.

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'Dire situation': TMZ founder shares 'ominous' email claiming to know Guthrie kidnapper

TMZ founder Harvey Levin revealed Thursday night that he received another email from someone claiming to know the person who took Nancy Guthrie almost two weeks ago.

The new email, Levin said on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," paints a "bleak picture" of Guthrie's case.

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'Heartless': Pam Bondi hit with blistering takedown by CNN's Jake Tapper

CNN's Jake Tapper didn't mince words in his fiery takedown of Attorney General Pam Bondi's performance before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.

Bondi appeared before the committee to discuss the Department of Justice's continued efforts to stall the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, as required by federal law. The Attorney General was combative throughout the hearing, and at one point refused to acknowledge the presence of Epstein survivors who attended.

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'Everyone is scared': Professor reveals devil's bargain made with Trump

Billionaire CEOs have lined up to kiss President Donald Trump's feet — and NYU Professor Scott Galloway wants America to put a stop to it.

Speaking to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on the latest edition of her "All the Best People" podcast, Galloway, who is spearheading a movement to boycott tech companies like Apple and Amazon that have rolled over for the president, outlined why he thinks so many of them are knuckling under — and why it wouldn't take much to send the message that's not going to fly anymore.

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'You're struggling': Trump nominee quails at demand to explain white nationalist rhetoric

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) backed President Donald Trump's nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organizations into a corner during questioning this week, as he asked him to clarify what he meant by a series of pro-white nationalist posts claiming that "white identity" is under threat in America.

This comes after Jeremy Carl has deleted 5,000 social media posts, including posts claiming that Jan. 6 rioters were treated worse than Black Americans under Jim Crow, and that the head of a top teachers union should be executed.

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Mockery erupts as RFK Jr. admits snorting 'cocaine off toilet seats'

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s revelation Thursday that he wasn't afraid of COVID-19 since he "used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats" prompted a wave of responses online.

Kennedy recalled during an interview that he had met podcaster Theo Von at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on Los Angeles' Westside.

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