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NFL thumbs nose at Trump facing MAGA backlash over Super Bowl halftime performer

President Donald Trump and his supporters are furious at the National Football League over the selection of Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rap star who has criticized the administration, to perform at the upcoming halftime show. But the NFL is making clear that its decision won't be renegotiated.

According to ESPN, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell "addressed the Bad Bunny controversy at his news conference following the NFL's fall meeting. It is the first time he has commented on the move announced in late September that garnered worldwide attention, including an increase in streams of Bad Bunny's music, along with backlash."

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Trump just 'laid bare' the 'absurdity' of John Roberts' catastrophic decision: analysis

President Donald Trump just "laid bare" the "absurdity" of Chief Justice John Roberts' catastrophic Supreme Court decision, according to new analysis published Wednesday.

A new Mother Jones report from reporter Pema Levy describes how Trump can make the decision to demand the Justice Department pay him $230 million of taxpayer money "because thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, the executive branch could accurately be described by King Louis XIV—L’état, c’est Trump."

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'Obscene': Tesla sparks backlash with package to make Elon Musk first trillionaire

A coalition of labor unions and progressive advocacy organizations on Tuesday launched the “Take Back Tesla” campaign, urging shareholders of the electric vehicle giant to reject a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

Musk is already the richest person on the planet, with an estimated net worth of $458-485.9 billion as of Wednesday. His previous 10-year proposal, worth $56 billion, was invalidated by a judge. He’s now on an interim plan that has not been approved by shareholders, who are set to vote on the $1 trillion package at the company’s annual meeting next month.

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Sweeping new poll spells trouble for Trump as nation expresses 'sour mood'

A sweeping new poll seen as a “reliable pre-election barometer” finds majorities of Americans deeply unhappy with the nation’s course and increasingly describing President Donald Trump as a “dangerous dictator.”

“The survey offers a snapshot of the nation’s sour mood just more than a year before the 2026 midterms — and suggests that anger could rewire political alliances and test the durability of Trump’s support,” Axios reported.

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‘Get in the game!’ GOP leadership rebuked by MAGA lawmaker on policy vision

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the once-loyal MAGA soldier whose recent attacks on her own party have led some to wonder if she is the “New Republican Voice of Sanity,” is out with another thrashing of the GOP, this time on health care.

“More of my Republican colleagues are finally talking about the unaffordable health insurance crisis, but yesterday on our GOP conference call Speaker Johnson said he has ideas and pages of policy, but did not say a single policy plan,” she wrote on Wednesday. “I think that is unacceptable.”

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'Capitulation': Editor quits after bosses tell staff to tiptoe around Trump

Told by his “chief content officer” to dial back coverage of Donald Trump lest the publication incur his wrath, the editor of a smaller outlet detailing the inner workings of the government quit his job and took to Politico to make his case.

In a column published Wednesday afternoon, Alan Greenblatt, formerly of NPR and Congressional Quarterly, explained that he was willing to go out into an uncertain media landscape rather than, as an editor, have his hands tied while reporting the news.

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'Completely out of touch': Ex-Trump aide rails at Trump ignoring 'America First' pledge

"The View" railed against President Donald Trump and the new reports of a "cash grab" of American taxpayer dollars.

During Wednesday's show, the co-hosts addressed recent New York Times reporting saying Trump wants $230 million in restitution from the Justice Department over the investigations he faced during his first term and after it.

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'Window dressing for crime': Lawsuit calls Melania meme coin massive scam as value craters

The creators of the official meme coin of First Lady Melania Trump are being accused of engaging in a sophisticated fraud scheme in a lawsuit filed by cryptocurrency investors.

As reported by Wired on Tuesday, the allegations against the creators of the Melania coin came as part of a proposed amended complaint that had been filed by investors earlier this year against Benjamin Chow, cofounder of crypto exchange Meteora, and Hayden Davis, cofounder of crypto venture capital firm Kelsier Labs.

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'How do you like my tweets?': Trump gets surprising warning from MAGA lawmaker

A MAGA lawmaker gave President Donald Trump a surprising warning after the president asked him "how do you like my tweets?"

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told Trump he might want to relax on the social media posts and attacks on anyone who criticizes him or the Trump administration, The Daily Beast reports Wednesday.

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'Profit-grabbing exploitation': Ex-ethics czar predicts 'accountability' for Trump cash-in

President Donald Trump has made over $2 billion off of his position in the White House, and former ethics czar Norm Eisen says it's clearly just the start after his demand for a $230 million payout from the Justice Department.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Trump is seeking some form of restitution from the DOJ for the numerous investigations he faced during his first term and afterward.

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Trump lashes out at ranchers over criticism of latest trade war move: 'Don't understand!'

President Donald Trump attacked ranchers after they pushed back on his plan to import beef from Argentina to help ease record prices for beef.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America and other farming groups condemned the president's casual remark about importing beef from Argentina, and Trump lashed out at them in a Wednesday afternoon Truth Social post.

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Author sues Melania Trump for threatening him over Epstein reporting

Journalist and author Michael Wolff has sued First Lady Melania Trump after her legal team threatened action against him over an article alleging that she was "very involved" in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Last month, The Daily Beast retracted a report based on Wolff's research after receiving legal threats from the first lady's team. Threats were later sent directly to Wolff.

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Trump's 'rot' is on full display in 'this vile moment': conservative Rick Wilson

Longtime Donald Trump critic Rick Wilson launched a furious fusillade at the president for adding to his destruction of political norms the actual destruction of the White House as he goes about building his, as Wilson put it, “vile big-box Barbie Dream House ballroom so Trump can pack more in more paying sycophants per square foot.”

Waxing poetic over the East Wing, which holds so much historical significance for generations, Wilson wrote on his Substack platform, “The East Wing, under Melania Trump, became a mood board for grievance. The holiday corridors turned into a fever dream of performative menace, a pomo aesthetic that screamed more threat than holiday spirit,” before calling what is going on an, “... American malaise dressed up as blaring pageant: a stripper-pole segment added to a ballet, a spiritual emptiness that comes when a man confuses himself with a country and then tries to decorate the void in more and more gold leaf and Temu-grade gradeau.”

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