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'Sounds like a call for insurrection': Dem declares 'war' on GOP — dividing internet

A New Jersey Democrat stirred up social media on Tuesday afternoon during a fiery speech outside the Treasury Department, in which she said her party would "fight back" and demanded to "shut down the Senate," declaring, "We are at war!"

Rep. LaMonica McIver, who represents the district encompassing Newark, Orange and Jersey City, delivered an impassioned message Tuesday to her colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle.

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‘Elections have consequences’: CNN hosts 'shocked' by Trump's new remarks

Two longtime CNN hosts appeared stunned Tuesday by President Donald Trump’s Oval Office remarks just moments earlier where he sat beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and delivered a casual assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“You can’t live in Gaza right now,” Trump said. “You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza, this has been happening for years, it’s all death.” He added: “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. Why would they want to return? It’s been hell.”

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'Like Joe McCarthy': Expert sounds alarm as FBI hands DOJ info on thousands of agents

FBI agents had gone to court to stop their information from being leaked to the public and endangering the lives and families of agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

Thousands of FBI agents across the country worked as investigators on cases, and a source told NBC News that the FBI turned over a list of identifying information of those agents to the Justice Department. While it doesn't include their names, the list includes their employee number, position, and the post they held when working on the Jan. 6 cases, as well as other data.

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'President calls for ethnic cleansing, again': Internet outraged after Trump's Gaza remark

Critics unloaded on voters and President Donald Trump after he announced support for displacing Gaza residents and relocating them somewhere else in the Middle East "like Egypt" or Jordan.

According to Trump, Palestinians "would be happy" to leave Gaza because it has been decimated by rubble.

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'It's a demolition site': Trump says Palestinians have 'no alternative' but to leave Gaza

President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Palestinians had "no alternative" other than leaving Gaza, which he dubbed a "big pile of rubble."

In an Oval Office rant, Trump spoke about the aftermath of Israel's war in Gaza — and suggested the occupants would willingly leave.

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Trump leaves ‘instructions’ to have Iran ‘obliterated’ if he is assassinated

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday ordering the United States to have Iran "obliterated" if the country assassinated him.

Trump said he was "torn" about whether or not to sign the order but decided to move forward because Iran was "too close" to having a nuclear weapon, he said in remarks Tuesday from the White House.

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FBI agents sue as DOJ compiles list of officials who worked on Jan. 6 and Trump cases

FBI agents have reportedly filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Justice to halt efforts to compile a list of officials who worked on cases against Jan. 6 rioters or President Donald Trump.

Politico first reported the agents were anonymously suing the DOJ for fear of retaliation.

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Trump preps executive order to abolish Dept. of Education — despite legal hurdles: report

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to use an executive order to try to abolish the Department of Education — even though he cannot legally shut down the agency without the approval of Congress.

Sources told NBC News that Trump's executive order aimed to eliminate the federal agency following years of campaign promises. CNN confirmed the report.

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'Sit down!' The View trashes Fox commentator furious over Beyonce's Grammys win

The co-hosts of "The View" attacked a Fox News commentator who said Beyoncé was undeserving of winning the Grammy for her country music album.

Speaking to Laura Ingraham on Monday, author Raymond Arroyo ranted that the people voting for the Grammys now are people like "Lady Gaga's cat sitter," and complained Beyoncé shouldn't have more Grammys than Frank Sinatra and Dolly Parton.

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Karoline Leavitt announces first migrant flights to Guantanamo Bay officially 'underway'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that the first flights carrying migrants to be housed at Guantanamo Bay were officially "underway."

During an interview on Fox Business, Leavitt insisted that President Donald Trump was not "messing around" with his plan to eradicate migrants from the United States.

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'He did not answer': Republican doctor snubs CNN after giving key vote to RFK Jr.

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) blew past CNN's Manu Raju who tried to ask him about his "yes" vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services Secretary.

"I don't know if you just caught that," Raju said. "We were just trying to catch up with Bill Cassidy, the key vote, of course, in all of this. We asked him what got him to 'yes.'

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'Wrong place at wrong time': MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski shakes head in dismay at Trump boast

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski rained scorn on Donald Trump's boast about the sudden release of water from two dams in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

The president has been patting himself on the back by ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to allow irrigation water into engineered waterways, ostensibly as drought relief after devastating wildfires in the region, but the Los Angeles Times reported that much of the water wound up in retention basins and soaked into the ground – which won't help farmers who depend on the water to irrigate their crops in the summer.

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'Trump got rolled': Dem lawmaker pours cold water on MAGA boasts

Although President Donald Trump and his White House are trying to spin his decision to back off slapping Canada and Mexico with massive tariffs as a triumph, Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) is pouring cold water on their exuberance.

Appearing on CNN, Ryan said that he agreed with a Wall Street Journal editorial that said that the president backed down from his threats against Mexico and Canada without gaining any significant concessions from the two countries.

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