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'Completely disgusting': House Dem upbraids Trump's attack on Somali Americans

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) upbraided President Donald Trump for his continued attacks against Somali-Americans, calling his rhetoric "completely disgusting" and "dehumanizing" in a new interview on Sunday.

Omar joined CBS News' Margaret Brennan on "Face The Nation" on Sunday to discuss Trump's most recent attacks on the Somali community. Trump has called the community "garbage" and said he would deport as many Somali-Americans back to Somalia as he can.

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Billionaire pushes return of public hangings as part of 'masculine leadership' initiative

Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of data platform company Palantir, is calling for the return of public hangings as part of a broader push to restore what he describes as “masculine leadership” to the US.

In a statement posted on X Friday, Lonsdale said that he supported changing the so-called “three strikes” anti-crime law to ensure that anyone who is convicted of three violent crimes gets publicly executed, rather than simply sent to prison for life.

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'Astonishing': Dem Senator scorches Trump admin's 'hypocrisy' on boat strikes

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) bashed President Donald Trump's administration in a new podcast interview on Sunday over what he described as "hypocrisy beyond belief."

Warner joined veteran GOP analyst Bill Kristol, editor at large of The Bulwark, on a new episode of "Bulwark Takes" on Sunday to discuss the The Trump administration's strikes against alleged drug boats. Since taking office, the administration has conducted more than 20 strikes, killing more than 80 people, according to reports.

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'OK, Boomer': Here's why young Americans feel a sense of 'national decline'

During Barack Obama's presidency, the dismissive "OK, Boomer" meme emerged among Millennials who viewed some Baby Boomers as clueless about the economic realities of the 21st Century. If a Boomer, for example, failed to understand why home ownership was a struggle for so many Millennials, they would dismissively tell them, "OK, Boomer."

The "OK, Boomer" meme continued with Generation Z, and younger Americans are still struggling with affordability — from homeownership to education to health care.

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Analyst worries boat strikes unlikely to deter Trump's 'long-lost son': 'He's bulletproof'

President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, seems unlikely to face any accountability for the strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters, according to one analyst.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has conducted over 20 strikes against alleged drug boats, killing more than 80 people, according to media reports. One strike in particular has faced renewed scrutiny after video evidence emerged showing U.S. military forces striking a boat a second time after it had been capsized.

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Ticket sales plummet at Kennedy Center amid Trump’s takeover: ‘Costs are huge!’

Ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s annual performance of “The Nutcracker” have plummeted under the new leadership of President Donald Trump, who took over as the organization’s chairman earlier this year, CNN reported Saturday.

According to internal sales data obtained and reviewed by CNN, ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s performance of “The Nutcracker” topped out at around 10,000 seats across the production’s seven performances, around a 33% drop off from the around 15,000 ticket sales for the production seen in 2001 through 2024.

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Trump claims he has 'other methods' of getting around Supreme Court's big tariff decision

President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he has "other ways" of charging tariffs against foreign countries regardless of what the Supreme Court says in an upcoming opinion.

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision this upcoming week regarding Trump's authority to unilaterally impose tariffs against foreign countries. Trump has issued a wide swath of tariffs on several of America's largest trading partners, impacting goods ranging from appliances to lumber and electrical components.

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'See a shrink': Feud erupts between two Trump-supporting 'longtime friends' and MAGA icons

Two of Donald Trump's closest friends became embroiled in a public feud on Sunday as the MAGA influencers dueled over a third right-wing voice's ties to Qatar.

It started when the so-called Trump Whisperer, Laura Loomer, took a shot at ex-Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. She said, "In case you don’t see what’s happening here, Carlson is getting a place in Qatar because Qatar is now using their financial influence and bribery, in addition to their access to Tucker to change the peace deal organized by President Trump."

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'Doth protest too much': Critics flag White House's aggressive denial of shocking story

The White House came out hard Sunday against a new report from The Bulwark that suggested Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem might be on the outs in the Trump administration, and in such a fierce manner that one prominent critic couldn’t help but point out what they characterized as an overly-defensive rebuttal.

“Anonymous former staffers pretend to know what POTUS is thinking and the Bulwark treats them as credible?” wrote White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson in a social media post on X, responding to the Bulwark’s reporting.

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'Taking his lunch': Ex-Obama advisor says Trump just revealed a major weakness

Donald Trump's recent attempt at political "bribery" has backfired, and is now causing the public to see the president's major weakness, according to a former senior advisor to Obama Sunday.

Dan Pfeiffer, former senior advisor to Obama and current host to Pod Save America, recently predicted a clip featuring Trump will make its way into about a million advertisements to be used against the president and the GOP. Now, Pfeiffer is seizing on the president's pardon of a Democrat accused of bribery.

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'Dawg, your in-laws speak another language!': JD Vance hammered over anti-migrant remark

Vice President JD Vance recently implied that it was “totally reasonable” for Americans to want their neighbors to speak the same language as them, remarks that were pounced on Sunday by critics who pointed to Vance’s own extended family, many of whom likely speak English as a second language, if at all.

“You have, let's say, a family of five that you've known for five years [that] moves out of the house… and then what happens is 20 people move into a three-bedroom house from a totally different culture, totally different ways of interacting,” Vance said, speaking with the New York Post recently on its “Pod Force One” podcast.

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'This is vile!' House GOP melts down after Dem lawmaker compares Trump official to Nazis

Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee melted down Sunday in defense of a top White House official, who Rep. Illhan Omar (D-MN) compared to “Nazis” earlier on CBS News.

Omar was asked to comment on a recent social media post made by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in which he warned that “migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

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'This is incredible': Internet stunned by Trump's Sunday effort to 'bribe' a congressman

Donald Trump made a comment on Sunday that numerous observers say showed the president's intention to bribe a congressman.

Trump this weekend lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat, decrying it as “such a lack of loyalty.” But in doing so, he raised a red flag for political analysts.

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