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Three-time Trump voters voice displeasure with the president

Annette Dombrowski and Chris Tackett, three-time Trump voters from Ohio, expressed deep disappointment with the president during interviews with MS NOW’s Alex Tabet on Friday, citing economic struggles and unfulfilled campaign promises.

The interviews came as a Conn-Selmer manufacturing plant in Eastlake, Ohio, announced closure, with Trump ally John Paulson sending jobs to China, according to reports by “Morning Joe," co-host Jonathan Lemire.

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Trump says US military killed Tren de Aragua leader in 'swift and lethal' strike

The U.S. launched a military strike against the leader of a Venezuelan prison gang, Trump announced in a Truth Social post.

"At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua," Trump wrote.

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World Cup watchers loudly boo US during National Anthem

World Cup audiences showed their anger with the United States by booing renditions of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Canadian spectators at a watch party jeered nonstop during the U.S. National Anthem at the opening of the U.S. versus Paraguay match in Los Angeles, according to a social media video.

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Right-wing editor pinpoints GOP's hidden midterm weakness in NYT interview

Ben Domenech, the husband of Meghan McCain and opinion editor at the right-wing Daily Wire, told The New York Times' John Guida in an interview published Friday that the GOP should be a lot more concerned about losing Senate races, and particularly that they are too quick to take the Maine race for granted.

This comes after progressive oysterman and harbormaster Graham Platner sailed to an easy win for the Democratic nomination to take on longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins, overcoming a long series of stories about drama in his life and his unsavory past relationships with women, which the GOP hopes will damage him in the general election.

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Knives come out as furious GOP insiders go scorched earth on a 'White House gone rogue'

A furious GOP Senate aide fired off at Trump for ignoring the issues that matter ahead of the midterms, the conservative Daily Mail reported Friday.

"People are p— the f— off that prices are too high and things are too expensive," a senior GOP aide told the Mail. "I'm just not sure the president really cares or if he's really in tune with what's going on on Capitol Hill."

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'Gulag': Revolt ignites against Mark Zuckerberg inside Meta's massive AI unit

Mark Zuckerberg's $14 billion AI gamble hit a wall, and his own employees are losing it on internal calls.

One Meta worker interrupted a livestreamed presentation to thousands of colleagues this week, blasting the company over an open mic and demanding the call's leaders pass along a personal message to a Meta AI executive: "Tell him that he's a piece of s---," according to a recording reviewed by Wired.

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Republican Nancy Mace swears revenge on Trump after losing her gubernatorial primary race

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) fired back at President Donald Trump after losing her South Carolina gubernatorial primary race, vowing revenge by leaving office in January 2027.

Mace lost to Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pam Evette, reported The Hill.

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Trump hit with stinging order for twisting national park exhibits into 'half-truths'

A federal judge in Massachusetts scorched President Donald Trump's Interior Department on Friday for orders to remove all exhibits pertaining to race, sexuality, and climate from national parks — and issued an order to reverse all of it.

U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, went into painstaking detail about the significance of the exhibits being torn down under the so-called "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

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Trump loses last-ditch bid to keep his name on the Kennedy Center

Trump lost his last-minute effort to stop the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center, according to CNN.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's emergency stay request to delay the removal, CNN reported. The decision came as crews were already removing the lettering on the Kennedy Center.

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MAGA feud explodes as Trump ally accuses Ron DeSantis of sabotaging president's pick

A long-simmering rift inside Florida's Republican Party erupted into open warfare on Friday, as far-right activist Laura Loomer unleashed a barrage of social media posts accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis of recruiting a fringe candidate to sabotage Trump-endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds.

In a series of posts on X, Loomer trained her fire on James Fishback, a 30-year-old investor running in the GOP gubernatorial primary, and on former DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw. She accused the governor's team of working with figures she labeled "Neo Nazis and the Muslim Brotherhood" to undermine the race.

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Dan Bongino delivers harsh response after Tucker Carlson's claim

Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson alleged Thursday that President Donald Trump ordered the FBI to shut down its investigation into Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate the president in 2024.

In his Thursday interview with Mario Nawal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur and prominent podcast host, Carlson claimed former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told him in December that Trump halted the probe.

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Botched paperwork set to flip red state seat blue

Florida Democrats got a surprise bit of good news on Friday: they're running unopposed in a heavily Hispanic, Orlando-area state House district currently held by the GOP — because the incumbent Republican failed to file her paperwork properly.

According to Gabrielle Russon of Florida Politics, "Rep. Paula Stark failed to qualify for re-election in House District 47, so Democrats will win back a blue seat they have long sought out."

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Pilot landing at Reagan National gets cockpit full of Trump's UFC lights: report

A commercial airline pilot received a baffling response from the FAA after Trump's UFC lights blinded them while landing, MeidasTouch reported.

The pilot spoke anonymously about how powerful lights from the UFC octagon on the White House South Lawn filled the cockpit during a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was "10 times worse than any laser illumination event," the pilot told MeidasTouch.

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