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'Lay off the links!' Critics roast 'TACO' Trump over flailing trade blitz

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went back and forth with CNN's Dana Bash on Monday over whether President Donald Trump made the "90 deals in 90 days" he promised.

Trump had paused his tariffs for 90 days, during which he was supposed to negotiate with China, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries. But with just a couple of days to go, "The majority of those deals did not materialize, except for a handful of exceptions," CNN reported.

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'20 kids dead and you take a vacation?' Cruz again caught on vacay amid disaster

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was spotted visiting the Parthenon in Greece while deadly floods tore through his state, according to a new Daily Beast report.

When Texas was suffering under a deadly freeze in February 2021 that left millions without power, Cruz skipped town with his family to Cancún. This time, he was in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, as more than 20 girls went missing in the rising flood waters of the Guadalupe River.

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Trump's DOJ dealt a loss in bid to toss wrongful deportation lawsuit

President Donald Trump's Justice Department suffered a setback on Monday as a judge denied their initial effort to dismiss Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation lawsuit.

This follows U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis giving a DOJ lawyer a brutal dressing down about how they have handled the case.

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'Leave right now!' Irate LA mayor confronts feds during massive raid

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass confronted a number of federal agents congregating near the city’s downtown area Monday in an apparent raid, demanding that they disperse immediately.

“They need to leave, and they need to leave right now!” Bass told reporters at the scene. “They need to leave because this is not acceptable! Just wait and see, they will be leaving soon.”

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'Rotting flesh': CNN host stunned by smell 'permeating' TX after deadly floods

CNN host Boris Sanchez gave a harrowing description of the conditions along the Guadalupe River where recovery efforts have been underway for those still missing in the massive flooding that hit Kerr County, Texas.

According to The Washington Post, at least 90 people have been killed, 27 of whom were children and counselors from Camp Mystic.

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'Grave and immediate risk': Court urged to step in to halt RFK Jr.

Six major medical organizations on Monday filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleging he is putting American children at "grave and immediate risk" because of his policy on vaccines.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit—including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine—charged that Kennedy earlier this year made a "baseless and uninformed policy decision" when he removed vaccinations against Covid-19 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) official immunization schedule for "healthy" children and pregnant women.

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Trump uncorks massive new tariffs and sends warning shot if countries respond

President Donald Trump posted several letters he sent to the leaders of Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, and South Africa, telling them that as of Aug. 1, he will increase the tax on goods coming into the United States from their countries from 25-40%.

"If for any reason you decide to raise your tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 25% that we charge," he told the Malaysian prime minister in the letter.

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Trump DOJ attorney waffles on whether free speech applies to legal US residents

An attorney with President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice walked back claims Monday that the First Amendment applies to legal residents, defending the Trump administration’s efforts to arrest and deport legal immigrants for pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy.

Victoria Santora, a trial attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Immigration, is representing the Trump administration in a First Amendment lawsuit over the arrests of five legal immigrant students – including Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil – for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, something Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared to be a threat to the nation’s foreign policy.

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'You're going to cover it up?' Alex Jones melts down at Trump over Epstein list

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones feared that Donald Trump's presidency could spin out of control over Jeffrey Epstein's missing client list, which he worried could result in Democrats sending him to prison.

On Monday, Jones devoted his three-hour show to covering reports that the Department of Justice had claimed there was no Epstein client list after Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News that she had it on her desk.

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White House shuts down Epstein questions after DOJ denies ‘client list’ exists

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed Monday on a new Department of Justice and FBI report concluding there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, kept a “client list” of powerful figures for blackmail purposes.

“There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography, which is not something that's appropriate for public consumption, but they committed to an exhaustive investigation, and they provided the results of that,” Leavitt explained when asked about the report. “That's transparency.”

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‘Like nailing Jell-O to a wall’: Judge blasts DOJ over botched deportation case

The Justice Department was dodging straight answers when lawyers appeared before Judge Paula Xinis on Monday in the case involving Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland man sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador due to "clerical error," ABC News reported.

Xinis hammered the Justice Department during the morning session, pressing lawyers for answers on discrepancies in their timeline.

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'The fever won't break': Ex-GOP senator reprimands Tillis for quitting

Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona took aim at his own party Sunday, criticizing what he described as its undying allegiance to President Donald Trump, whom he described in an op-ed as the GOP’s “North Star.”

“Extreme partisanship has infected both parties, but it plays out differently,” Flake said in an op-ed published in The New York Times.

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Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ visa could backfire for rich foreigners: 'Going to get sued'

President Donald Trump unveiled a policy he called the "Gold Card," which allows wealthy foreigners to effectively purchase residency in the United States for $5 million. It's a policy intended to replace the existing EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign entrepreneurs to apply for a U.S. work permit if they either invest $800,000 in the U.S. economy or create at least 10 U.S. jobs.

It's also off to a rocky start, The Washington Post reported Monday. Immigration lawyers are strenuously advising prospective wealthy foreigners that the program is illegal and that they shouldn't apply for it.

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