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'De-Muskification': DOGE just 'lost all remaining influence' at key agency

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency just suffered another massive blow as the Trump administration continues its "de-Muskification" of the General Services Administration, according to a new report.

Musk and Trump's dramatic falling out came over disagreements about Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill." Musk strongly opposed the bill, which experts say will explode the national debt, and urged Republicans to vote against it. In turn, he was thrust out of Trump's circle.

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Trump's $200M White House ballroom leaves critics aghast: 'Can’t afford pediatric cancer?'

The new specs of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom reveal that the size will be twice that of the existing complex.

The new 90,000 square foot extension will completely remake the look of the historic building and is being estimated to cost $200 million. The specifics about the estimate haven't been published, but some are concerned that it could balloon similar to the U.S. Central Bank's renovation.

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Epstein reportedly used Trump meeting to groom 14-year-old: 'This is a good one, right?'

Deceased wealth manager and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein used a meeting with President Donald Trump to groom one of his 14-year-old victims, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday.

The victim, known only as "Jane," testified extensively to how she was targeted and manipulated while testifying at the 2021 trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of helping Epstein groom his victims and sometimes sexually assaulting them herself.

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GOP governor issues stern threat over millions owed to innocent man jailed 45 years

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is pressuring Richmond city officials to pay $5.8 million owed under a new law to a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for 45 years.

"Richmond, the state’s capital city, has yet to compensate Marvin Leon Grimm Jr. for a miscarriage of justice that began with his 'coercive' interrogation by local police in 1975," The Washington Post reported. "His ordeal ended in 2024, when Grimm was finally cleared of the abduction, sexual assault and murder of a 3-year-old neighbor."

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'Inappropriate!' Agitated Trump bashes 'lunatic' reporter after grilling on tariff law

An agitated President Donald Trump called a reporter a "lunatic" — minutes after bashing another reporter — during a question-and-answer session Thursday afternoon, reacting to a question about his tariff policy.

"As you know, a federal appellate court today heard oral arguments about whether or not you had the authority to unilaterally impose those tariffs," the reporter told Trump. "I'm not going to get you to weigh in on the legal arguments, but you're weighing your decision to do that, your authority to do that, based on a 1977 law."

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'Fake news!' Trump lashes out after reporter asks why Epstein 'stole' women from him

President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott after she asked a question about his relationship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

During a White House event on Thursday, Scott noted that the family of Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's victims, had expressed outrage after the president said that the sex offender "stole" women from him.

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'Perp walk!' Kari Lake 'looking forward' to Obama being 'sentenced to time'

Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's special advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, predicted that former President Barack Obama would be "sentenced to time" because of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

"I believe that accountability is coming," Lake told Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling on Thursday. "I believe you called it perp walks. I'd like to see justice, is what I call it."

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MAGA senator shrugs after being caught violating stock trade laws for years

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) violated federal law by dodging reporting requirements for lawmakers to reveal their stock trades, according to a new report.

Mullin waited over 2 1/2 years before revealing he violated federal financial conflicts of interest disclosure laws, Dave Leventhal wrote for NOTUS.

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'We'll never catch up!' GOP senator melts down on right-wing TV as Dems block Trump

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) bemoaned Thursday that Republicans "will never catch up" with confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's executive branch nominees due to "unprecedented obstruction" by the Democrats.

"They are still in full resistance mode," Cornyn said on Newsmax of his Democratic colleagues, "and they have yet to accept the outcome of last November's election."

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'Braindead': Financial exec rips Trump as US business hit by tariff told to 'kick sand'

Hedge fund founder Spencer Hakimian, a frequent critic of the Trump administration, posted a lengthy rant to X on Thursday, breaking down how President Donald Trump's tariffs are coming down on businesses.

"A real life example of how braindead our tariff policies are," wrote Hakimian. "I have a friend who works in the gemstone business. The specific type of gemstone he buys & sells *only* comes from Sri Lanka — which got hit with a 30% tariff rate. He works in a building on 47th Street in New York. If he requests a parcel of gemstones to look through, pick out the ones he wants, and return the rest, he must nonetheless pay a 30% tariff on the value of the entire parcel. Even if he only buys 1-2 stones out of the 100 piece parcel."

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'Not gonna put up with that': FAA hearing gets tense after employee elbowed into silence

A National Transportation Safety Board hearing over the deadly Washington, D.C. plane crash has uncovered startling revelations in the past two days, but one supervisor at the Federal Aviation Administration was reprimanded during a discussion and required to move his seat to distance himself from an employee.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homedy said the FAA supervisor "elbowed an employee midsentence during the AA 5342 hearing today, and the employee stopped speaking," Reuters transportation reporter David Shepardson posted Thursday on X.

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Alex Jones: Trump 'sources at the very top' planning to impeach Obama 'retroactively'

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed to have "sources" within President Donald Trump's administration that were orchestrating a retroactive impeachment of former President Barack Obama.

During his Thursday program, Jones encouraged his audience to urge the Trump administration to move forward with prosecutions as retaliation for the probe into Russia's election interference in 2016.

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MAGA senator slams illegal immigrants as 'criminals' — then steps in to free ICE detainee

MAGA Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who has been a fervent supporter of Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts to deport undocumented migrants, reversed course when it came to one of his constituents, according to The New York Times.

Kennedy told Fox News on July 17, “If you’re in our country illegally, you’re a criminal. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.”

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