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'Can’t hate the media enough!' Trump Jr. fumes over 2 sentences in months-old NYT article

President Donald Trump's eldest son melted down Monday at The New York Times after finding the paper of record wrote that former President Joe Biden allowed many migrants into the United States temporarily to encourage them to avoid crossing the border unlawfully.

Donald Trump Jr. took to X to complain about what appeared to be two sentences written by the Times. Raw Story found the sentences inside an April 10 article on the Trump administration's move to classify thousands of migrants as dead in an effort to get them to self-deport.

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Fox News host flags 'warning sign' for Republicans: 'Coming to a city near you!'

Fox News host Dana Perino flagged a warning sign for Republicans in upcoming elections on Monday during the network's show, "The Five."

The panel discussed the Democratic Party's chances of flipping Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in an upcoming election, a seat that is deep in Trump country. Perino, a former press secretary during George W. Bush's administration, warned that Democrats could over-perform in the district, which would continue to feed the party's momentum going into the 2026 midterm.

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'Chilling': Experts sound the alarm over the next 'existential' threat to health care

Advocates are sounding the alarm over what they describe as an "existential" threat to health care, one that could give the Trump administration leeway to go after humanitarian groups, journalists, and protesters, according to a new report.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case to determine whether a Crisis Pregnancy Center in New Jersey misled customers about its services. Crisis Pregnancy Centers work to persuade expecting mothers to choose adoption over abortion, and are given wide protections under the First Amendment.

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'Takes a pass!' Thune's snub of Hegseth raises eyebrows

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) snubbed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday following a meeting among top congressional leaders over attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, just off the coast of Venezuela.

Several Republicans and Democrats have expressed concern over reports that two strikes were ordered during an attack on Sept. 2, killing survivors in what some GOP leaders called illegal, according to Reuters. The White House on Monday confirmed the second order was directed by a senior military leader, after shifting the story on lethal strikes.

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'Getting rolled!' Elise Stefanik tears into Mike Johnson

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a steadfast MAGA ally, took to X on Monday to publicly chew out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), claiming that he is doing the bidding of "the deep state."

Her gripe is that the rest of the GOP leadership is failing to advance a provision she wrote requiring disclosure to Congress of any FBI counterintelligence investigation that involves federal or presidential candidates — a provision aimed squarely at trying to stymie future investigations like the one into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia in 2016.

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Lawyer takes a wrecking ball to Karoline Leavitt's claim about nephew in ICE detention

A lawyer representing the mother of a Trump administration official's nephew, who is currently in the custody of immigration agents, pushed back on claims made about the nature of their relationship, according to a new report.

Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, and her son were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as part of the administration's broad crackdown on illegal immigration. Ferreira, a Brazilian national, has lived in the country for years and was in the process of getting her green card at the time of her arrest, according to a report by The Irish Star.

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Trump's Defense Secretary crossed 'a bright legal line': constitutional law expert

The White House on Monday confirmed prior reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed U.S. forces to fire a second time on survivors of an initial strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. Writing for the New Republic, former U.S. Attorney and constitutional law expert Harry Litman accused Hegseth of breaking a "foundational" rule of warfighting and crossing a "bright legal line."

The Trump administration has been engaged in a widely criticized campaign of strikes on boats in the Caribbean, claiming with little to no evidence that the crafts are linked to Venezuelan drug smuggling. According to a report from the Washington Post, on September 2, U.S. forces fired a second time against survivors of an initial strike, in line with an order from Hegseth to "kill them all." Such a strike would, according to legal experts, very likely amount to a war crime, with U.S. laws specifically singling out attacks on "shipwrecked" individuals as a clear example of an unlawful military action.

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‘Bananas!’ CNN analyst stunned as race tightens in deep red state

An analyst on Monday was stunned by how close a special election race has gotten in Tennessee — a deep red state — as a Democratic candidate shows significant strides in polling just hours before voting begins.

Political analyst David Chalian told CNN that Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn has focused on affordability in the tight race in Tennessee's seventh congressional district, which could show major shifts in the historically Republican-led state.

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'Tremendous failure': Admiral aghast at 'inconceivable' lack of planning in Trump strikes

President Donald Trump's strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels, apart from being illegal, appear to have been executed with no proper planning, retired Rear Adm. William Baumgartner told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House."

This comes after explosive reporting that military officials fired on survivors of at least one strike, an act considered a war crime under both U.S. and international law, which has sent the White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scrambling to alternatively justify and point fingers for the action.

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'Very Orwellian': Ex-federal prosecutor calls out Trump hypocrisy

One former assistant U.S. attorney is arguing that President Donald Trump's pardon of a convicted drug trafficker doesn't jibe with his stated reason for blowing up boats in the Caribbean Sea.

During a Monday segment on MS NOW, Sean Murphy — who was a Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor during former President Joe Biden's administration — told host Katy Tur that he was unable to make sense of Trump's recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, and his ongoing strikes on boats his administration alleges are trafficking drugs to the United States.

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Trump's 'brazen ploy to buy votes' shredded in new column

President Donald Trump appears to have concocted a new ploy to buy votes for Republicans during the 2026 midterm election, a scheme that one columnist described as "brazen" in a new column published on Monday.

Jamez Bovard, a columnist and author, argued in a new column for The New York Post that Trump's idea of sending $2,000 "tariff rebate" checks to American households is a brazen attempt to buy votes ahead of the midterm. He also argued that the idea seems to contradict Trump's promises to cut government spending, a promise that he articulated in the creation of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

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Top right-wing allies beg Trump to ditch 'un-American and absurd' policy

A group of high-profile conservative voices is calling on President Donald Trump to ditch a controversial policy that has allowed tech titans to train their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted materials without paying for them, according to a new report.

Thirteen top conservatives, including former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and conservative strategist Mike Davis, penned a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Michael Kratsios, director of Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy, calling on the administration to revise its stance on the "fair use" doctrine.

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University instructor hit with leave for failing student's Bible-based essay

The University of Oklahoma has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after they gave a student a failing grade for a gender-roles essay that appeared to be based on an interpretation of Christian Bible theology.

The student “publicly contested” the grade and “filed an illegal discrimination claim,” according to OU Daily, the university’s student-run news outlet.

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