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'Rolled over': Analyst slams Republican senators who 'abandoned' their duty

Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) publicly expressed "concerns" over Donald Trump's cabinet nominees, but these worries amounted to absolutely nothing when they voted to confirm, according to a new article by MSNBC writer Paul Waldman.

Cassidy, a medical doctor, fretted about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s record on vaccines, while Collins claimed Tulsi Gabbard had "obvious issues."

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Pardoned ex-Proud Boys leader considers run for Matt Gaetz's former seat in Congress

Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader pardoned by President Donald Trump, said he was considering a run for Congress.

In an interview with The Miami New Times this week, Tarrio revealed that "a lot" of pardoned Jan. 6 rioters had asked him to run for office.

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Pilots eject before fighter jet crashes into San Diego Harbor

Two pilots have been rescued after ejecting from a fighter plane that crashed into San Diego Harbor.

The U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement that a fishing vessel rescued the pilots after they ditched the plane in the water after the crash Wednesday.

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'$600M on Sushi!' Republican hits 'wild' govt waste using examples from parody X account

Oregon’s Senate Republican leader shared debunked claims from a social media parody account about federal government spending in a state-issued email newsletter decrying “fear-mongering and misinformation.”

Sen. Daniel Bonham, R-The Dalles, dedicated the first 400 words of his official legislative newsletter on Monday night to “cutting through the rhetoric” on several of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders.

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'Going to scream': WaPo slammed over article profiling top 'anti-choice' lawyer

The Washington Post is being criticized for a recent profile on a conservative lawyer that neglected to mention he supports a 150-year-old abortion ban.

Calling him "a legal renegade," The Post profile on Jonathan Mitchell referred to him as "an originalist of sorts," referring to his belief that the Constitution should be interpreted based on its original meaning. As part of that, Mitchell said he quibbles with the idea that Supreme Court Justices write rulings "for ages," calling the top Court nothing more than a "referee."

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Is that 'effective messaging?' CNN anchor calls out rep who used slur at DOGE hearing

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar called out a House Democrat for using a vulgar slur to label Elon Musk at Wednesday's DOGE oversight subcommittee meeting.

Keilar asked Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), "During the Hunter Biden affair, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who now chairs this subcommittee, she had put up some censored, but still quite revealing, photos of the first son who was nude and with alleged prostitutes -- photos that she said were taken from his laptop. Today, you harkened back to that moment with this one in the DOGE subcommittee hearing. I want to play this."

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'Highway robbery': Furious NYC comptroller accuses Musk of stealing $80 million from city

New York City comptroller Brad Lander on Wednesday accused X owner Elon Musk of stealing $80 million from his city.

In speaking out about the alleged theft, Lander accused Musk of "highway robbery" by removing $80 million that had been allocated by the federal government to help New York house refugees.

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'Absolute scandal': Disgusted lawmaker hits Trump for abandoning U.S. family in riot zone

Rep. Don Beyer (R-VA) reacted with horror on Wednesday to a legal complaint filed against the Trump administration on behalf of an American family that had to scramble to escape Congo after X owner Elon Musk shut down the United States Agency for International Development.

The complaint in question was first flagged on X by Politico reporter Robbie Gramer and it featured testimony of a USAID worker who alleged that "the chaos of the Trump administration's haphazard and extra-Constitutional shutdown of USAID has caused my family and me immense emotional distress by contributing to the already intense sense of panic and uncertainty of the riots in Kinshasa."

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'Live with consequences': Ex-Trump aide warns GOP its actions can be used against party

A former top staffer to vice president Mike Pence trashed Congress for ceding their authority to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Marc Short, a former Trump White House staffer who then led Pence's team, told CNN he didn't mind the tech billionaire slashing government spending by targeting entire agencies for closure and offering buyouts to millions of government workers, but he preferred that lawmakers were the ones making those cuts and not an unelected outside adviser.

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Karoline Leavitt: Trump retaliated against AP because Gulf of America 'is a fact'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Trump administration retaliated against The Associated Press because the news agency declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America despite President Donald Trump's executive order on the body of water.

During Wednesday's White House briefing, CNN's Kaitlan Collins noted that officials refused to allow the AP's reporter to cover an event on Tuesday.

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Trump says Ukraine talks to start 'immediately' after Putin call

by Danny KEMP

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone Wednesday and agreed to immediately start talks to end the Ukraine war, in an extraordinary thaw in relations that could leave Kyiv out in the cold.

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Trump's 25% steel, aluminum tariffs add on to Canada and Mexico duties: W. House

U.S. President Donald Trump's planned 25-percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports will stack on the hefty duties earlier announced on Canada and Mexico, a White House official told AFP Wednesday.

Trump had in early February unveiled sweeping tariffs of 25 percent on Canadian and Mexican goods, with a lower rate of 10 percent on Canadian energy imports.

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New accuser sues U.S. actor Kevin Spacey in UK over sexual abuse claim

A new civil claim alleging sexual abuse against Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey was filed on Wednesday at London's High Court, the legal team representing the accuser confirmed to AFP.

Actor Ruari Cannon is suing Spacey, 65, and two organizations connected to London's Old Vic Theatre, where the actor was artistic director between 2003 and 2015, the claimant's legal firm Fieldfisher confirmed to AFP.

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