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MAGA influencer 'Rolex Karen' hunted by cops after alleged racist tirade in UK

Police in the UK are hunting for a MAGA influencer dubbed "Rolex Karen" and her financier husband after the couple were reportedly involved in a racist tirade last month targeting a woman with her baby in a stroller.

Detectives in London say the couple were involved in a reported assault and racial abuse incident. They released an image of them in a British Transport Police poster, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

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GOP’s redistricting power grab takes step closer to spectacularly backfiring: report

President Donald Trump’s push for mid-decade redistricting to prevent Republicans from losing control of the US House of Representatives appears to be on the verge of backfiring.

The latest blow to Trump’s nationwide redistricting efforts came in Utah, where District Court Judge Dianna Gibson shot down a proposed map drawn by Utah Republicans because it failed to abide by a 2018 ballot measure that restricted partisan gerrymandering in the state.

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Trump blasted for 'desecrating Veterans Day' with speech fluffing up Pete Hegseth

President Donald Trump shocked and disgusted onlookers by glorifying war in a Veterans' Day speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The president marked the occasion Tuesday afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery, where he praised his Cabinet secretaries in attendance, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who prefers to use the historical honorific of the Department of War for the office, used before it was changed as part of a post-World War II reorganization of the military and intelligence services.

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Trump shutdown flub delivers 'huge political headache' for GOP: analyst

Republicans are bracing for a "huge political headache" after Donald Trump "delivered nothing" during the government shutdown, a columnist wrote Tuesday.

A 60-40 vote to re-open the government was reached by the Senate after a 41-day closure in which Democrats ultimately failed to secure an extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies. But, though the Democrats may have fallen short of their goal, political commentators believe the GOP faces a bigger headache when it comes to showing what they achieved during the shutdown, CNN columnist Stephen Collinson warned.

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Trump's 'sneer of disgust' at public event shows he's 'struggling': expert

A "sneer of disgust" from Donald Trump during his recent NFL game attendance could be a sign he is "struggling," an expert on body language said Tuesday.

Judi James told The Mirror US the president was not expecting the negative reception he received during his attendance of a Washington Commanders match at the weekend. Trump was booed by the crowd at the Commanders' match against the Detroit Lions, and the "sneer of disgust" he responded with could be a sign that he didn't know how to deal with it.

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Lawyer prosecuting Trump's enemies hit with official complaint of 'dishonesty and deceit'

Interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, a "special prosecutor" for the Department of Justice, may face an investigation by the Virginia State Bar for violating the Rules of Professional Conduct in cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

In a complaint to the Virginia State Bar, the Campaign for Accountability asked that Halligan be investigated for violations of candor and competence, for making extrajudicial statements, and for "dishonesty, deceit, misrepresentation, or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice."

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Trump’s 'astonishing expansions of presidential power' are 'easily reversible': report

Axios reports President Donald Trump's second term is creating few new laws that will outlive his presidency.

“[N]o president since at least Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 has signed fewer bills into law in a similar governing period, GovTrack Insider found, despite Trump's party controlling both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue,” reports Axios.

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Fear that Trump wants Obama arrested has DOJ prosecutors on 'pins and needles': report

A surprise meeting held Monday afternoon by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones in Florida exposed a continuing rift between Donald Trump-appointed DOJ officials and career prosecutors who want nothing to do with the president’s desire to have his detractors prosecuted, a report stated Tuesday.

According to MSNBC, the impromptu meeting was called after two prosecutors tendered their resignations after being ordered “to take part in a vast ‘conspiracy’ investigation into former intelligence and law enforcement officials.”

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Chaos as Republican holds town hall despite vow not to — and gets hammered by angry voters

An Iowa Republican heard from angry constituents at a combative town hall as Congress seeks to end the weeks-long government shutdown.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) was heckled and booed throughout an hourlong event in Keosauqua, and both law enforcement and the congresswoman's security detail escorted out some audience members who stood up and disrupted the event, reported The Gazette.

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Bombshell report reveals Trump 'loyalty test' hidden in interviews of judge nominees

A new report from Demand Justice revealed Tuesday that dozens of President Donald Trump-nominated judges had used "nearly identical” language in an attempt to dodge questions on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and the results of the 2020 election, with the group's president labeling the findings as a “political loyalty test.”

In the exclusive report, Demand Justice analyzed the responses of 27 of Trump’s nominees to questions from lawmaker that are frequently submitted to nominees after their hearings. All 27 were asked bluntly if Trump lost the 2020 election, as well as whether they would describe the Jan. 6 riot as an attack by a “violent mob.”

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'This is not what MAGA wants': Trump base furious over his latest demand

President Donald Trump says that the United States "needs" up to 600,000 students from China and his MAGA base is fuming, Newsweek reports.

During his August trade talks with Chinese President Xi, Trump said "I think it's very insulting to say students can't come here."

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New figures predict next economic crisis imminent — with 'serious risk to GOP': report

Republicans are facing their next crisis after getting thrashed in elections last week — voters are seeing slow growth in their paychecks, making President Donald Trump's blindspot on affordability more startling and creating a larger problem for the GOP ahead of midterms.

Americans are feeling pessimistic over their economic futures and concerned over their own financial health, Politico reports Tuesday.

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GOP insiders fear they’re losing 'political war' to Dems: report

Although President Donald Trump is confident in his redistricting battle designed to keep the Republican House majority, insiders say Republicans are fretting that last Tuesday's election results gave Democrats an opening to counterstrike, NBC reports.

While one anonymous Republican strategist tells NBC that “The president understands intuitively, in a way that other Republicans don’t … that Democrats are always assaulting us, always, and mostly much of the Republican Party never fights back."

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