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A German anti-fascist activist accused of allegedly participating in violent attacks against neo-Nazis went on trial on Friday in Hungary, as nationalist premier Viktor Orban has vowed to clamp down on "far-left violence".

During a preliminary hearing, the 24-year-old activist -- who identifies as non-binary -- was led into a Budapest court room handcuffed and with feet shackled.

by Johannes LEDEL

Swedish authorities said Friday they were investigating suspected damage to an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea, following a string of incidents experts believe are acts of sabotage orchestrated by Russia.

Reacting to Elon Musk being the focus of voter anger at a Georgia town hall that had Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) being shouted down by voters from his district, longtime political observer Elisabeth Bumiller claimed the billionaire made matters worse for Donald Trump and Republicans with his appearance at CPAC on Thursday night.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Bumiller followed MSNBC's Ali Vitali noting that a McCormick constituent accused Musk of using a "chainsaw" to destroy government services which was followed on Thursday night with the unelected billionaire brandishing one when he took the stage at the far-right conservative conference.

At least one Republican lawmaker appears to be willing to publicly express the discomfort that many of his colleagues are reportedly feeling about the massive cuts President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk are making to the federal workforce.

In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch, Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) said that Trump's executive orders were getting "out of control" and he said that Congress ought to decide whether to abolish entire government agencies such as the Department of Education or the United States Agency for International Development.

A Georgia Republican got an earful from a fired-up crowd of constituents who were angry at his support for wide-ranging layoffs of federal workers and budget cuts by Donald Trump and his unelected adviser Elon Musk through the Department of Government Efficiency.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) held a town hall in Roswell, near the headquarters for the Centers for Disease Control, where 1,300 workers were recently removed from their posts, and a Democratic strategist told CNN he saw a historic parallel in the video of attendees blasting the lawmaker for supporting DOGE's "radical and extremist and sloppy approach" to cutting the federal budget.

Reacting to a video of Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) facing a very hostile town hall crowd in his district on Thursday, MSNBC host Ali Vitali noted the moment when the embattled lawmaker really set off a wave of anger.

In the clip filmed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestien that has gone viral, the lawmaker can be seen attempting to defend the massive cuts Donald Trump is inflicting on government operations, including some job cuts that are already impacting the local economy.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Vitali –– who hosts MSNBC's "Way Too Early" –– singled out what could be a problem for Republicans across the country will face when they return to the districts.

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After sharing a clip, she asked the panel, "Did you catch that last part?" after McCormick talked about job cuts coming from with in the "organizations" instead of Musk's DOGE which was met with shouting from the crowd.

"A resident said it was actually Elon Musk that's making the decisions when it comes to job cuts," she pointed out. "One attendee told the lawmaker he'd done a disservice and failed to stand up for his constituents."

"We'll note McCormick handily won reelection last year," she pointed out. "He won by 64.9 percent of the vote in this district, in a state that President Trump flipped after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden in 2020. So, it's not like he's in some blue sea, he's in his home district that handily reelected him. "

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Donald Trump has already taken a hit in his approval rating over the economy, but a CNN conservative was met with pushback for blaming former president Joe Biden for an unexpected increase in consumer prices.

Recent polling shows that 62 percent of voters believe the current president hasn't focused enough on the economy in his first month after promising to bring down prices on Day One, but Republican strategist Brad Todd made excuses for Trump and agreed with his recent Truth Social post calling the increase "Biden inflation."

The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post had some sharp words for President Donald Trump over his recent false claims about the Russia-Ukraine war.

Days after Trump labeled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "dictator," the Post featured a photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin on its cover along with the headline, "President Trump: This is a dictator."

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a woman he pardoned in his first term, as "pardon czar" to advise on other cases.

"Alice was in prison for doing something that today probably wouldn't even be prosecuted," Trump said at an event celebrating Black History Month at the White House.

by Issam AHMED

A study published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that people can transmit bird flu to their domestic cats, with fatal consequences.

by Danny KEMP

Elon Musk attacked Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday, saying Ukrainians "despised" their president and that U.S. leader Donald Trump was right to leave him out of talks with Russia aimed at ending the Ukraine war.

by Chris Lefkow

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist who has threatened to go after President Donald Trump's political enemies, as director of the FBI, the country's top law enforcement agency.

The world's richest man Elon Musk got into a heated row Thursday with a Danish astronaut who criticized the tech billionaire's claim that former president Joe Biden intentionally abandoned two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Andreas "Andy" Mogensen had shared on X a Fox News clip featuring Musk and his boss, U.S. President Donald Trump, where Musk claimed NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for "political reasons" by Biden, and that the new administration was now coming to the rescue.