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Vivek Ramaswamy caught on audio defending GOP candidate accused of domestic abuse

Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy defended embattled Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who's accused of domestic abuse against his ex-wife and daughter.

In a leaked audio published on Wednesday, Ramaswamy can be heard telling a supposed supporter that he has to defend Miller for the sake of the GOP.

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GOP candidate's damning slip adds fuel to spiraling forced child marriage scandal

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who has long defended killing a bill that could have acted on forced child marriage in Colorado City in 2013, let it slip to reporters this week that he knew what was going on all along.

Biggs, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, faced the questions Tuesday at the 2026 Gubernatorial Public Safety Policy Forum. The lawmaker has recently come under fire over claims that his opposition as then-state Senate leader effectively shut down legislation that would have helped the girls who were being abused.

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Trump hammering his voters with 'triple whammy' amid 'ill-timed' trade war: analyst

President Donald Trump is hammering his own voters with what one analyst described as a "triple whammy" resulting from his renewed trade war with Canada.

Trump renewed his passion for trade wars this week when he announced new tariffs on Canadian goods and relaxed rules to allow more than 300,000 metric tons of foreign ground beef to enter the U.S. market. Both moves have roiled Republican voters, especially those in rural areas, according to Chuck Todd, host of the "Chuck ToddCast" podcast.

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RFK Jr. bolts from MAHA event after being confronted over ties to 'gas station heroin'

A Tampa event featuring Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended abruptly on Wednesday as he was pressed on a $1 million donation from a kratom company that federal prosecutors had stopped pursuing.

Kennedy was pressed by a reporter about ties to the company selling the potentially addictive substance at Tampa Bay Boulevard Elementary School roundtable with Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL).

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'Snuggle up, boy': Canadians keep cursing at Trump as MS NOW leaps to bleep

Any hopes that President Donald Trump may have had about Canadians bowing to his trade demands likely died on Wednesday afternoon.

With the American president going toe-to-toe with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in a growing trade war, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet interviewed voters in Ontario and they had a lot to say.

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Trump's Reflecting Pool disaster devolves as sealant 'chunks' begin to break loose: report

Sealant is breaking loose from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again, this time during the repair work that President Donald Trump promised would fix the monument.

Freelance photographer Joe Flood posted video of the loose sealant on X on Wednesday. Repair crews were at work on the liner on Aug. 18, according to the Washington Post. The basin has been drained for the work.

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Frantic Glenn Beck breaks into epic Trump rant: 'Can’t believe I have to say this to you!'

Podcaster Glenn Beck found himself in a sticky conversation with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Beck's exclusive interview with Trump hit a snag about about 15 minutes in as the president rambled on and on about his many Canada problems.

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Blanche bends to Trump obsession with bold TV vow: 'Ballroom is being built'

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed on Fox News to keep building President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom, insisting it "is being built" despite two rulings against it.

Blanche spoke Wednesday on Fox News, where host Dana Perino asked when the legal fight would be resolved so the ballroom could be finished. The attorney general served as Trump's personal defense attorney before taking the Justice Department's second-highest job, and he now oversees the lawyers defending the project.

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'Unbelievable!' Rage erupts on MS NOW over Meta's 'peanuts' court settlement

Outrage erupted on MS NOW host Wednesday morning as news broke that social media giant Meta had been awarded a slap-on-the-wrist settlement agreement in its highly watched court case.

“Meta and a coalition of state attorneys general have settled a major federal trial centering on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms caused by apps like Facebook and Instagram,” CNBC reported early Wednesday morning.

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Dolly Parton's death spurs immediate self-praise from Trump: 'She really liked me'

President Donald Trump answered a question about honoring Dolly Parton by telling a radio audience the late country music star had liked him personally.

Trump appeared on the Glenn Beck Show on Wednesday, where the conservative radio host asked the president why he had lowered the nation's flags for a singer. Parton died Tuesday at 80, and Trump ordered American flags to half-staff that evening in a post on Truth Social, The Hill reported.

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Laughter erupts on MS NOW over 'hysterical' chaos threatening GOP Senate hopes

Laughter erupted on MS NOW Wednesday morning as news broke two Republican Dan Sullivans — one endorsed by a fellow Dan Sullivan — would compete for a single Senate seat in a charade that could cost the GOP its control of the chamber.

Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher running for the seat occupied by Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan of Alaska, has won a spot on the general-election ballot on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for ex-Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) to swipe a seat Republicans can’t afford to lose.

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Raging Republican crowd boos Trump's name as failed candidate admits defeat

Supporters of losing Republican Senate candidate Ralph Norman booed President Donald Trump's name during his concession speech Tuesday night, an unusually raw moment of grassroots frustration with the president's intervention in a South Carolina primary.

Sen. Darline Graham defeated the congressman in the state's GOP special primary runoff after Trump campaigned aggressively on her behalf, holding an in-person rally and repeatedly urging his Truth Social followers to back her, and The Daily Beast highlighted the reaction to the president's name from Norman's supporters.

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Analyst reveals 'most shocking thing' foreigners fear about Trump: 'They knew the names'

The foreign press, horrified by conditions in the U.S. under President Donald Trump, agree one action has been the “most shocking," a British journalist appearing on MS NOW said Wednesday morning.

During a segment on “Morning Joe” on the interview with the family of Alex Pretti, gunned down by ICE agents while trying to help a woman to her feet in Minneapolis, co-host Jonathan Lemire asked Katty Kay for comment.

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