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Ex-State Dept. official thinks Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize for bombing Iran

A former official with the U.S. State Department said on Monday that President Donald Trump deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his decision to bomb three nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend.

Ellie Cohanim, who served as Trump's deputy special envoy to combat antisemitism in his first term, made the comments on Fox News' daily show, "America Reports with Sandra Smith and John Roberts.

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'Answer yes or no!' Dem rages at Pam Bondi as House hearing gets heated

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) admonished Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to increase fentanyl seizures under President Donald Trump.

"Fentanyl seizures are down 30% compared to last year," DeLauro told Bondi during a Monday House Appropriations Committee hearing. "And that data is coming from the Customs and Border Patrol, CBP."

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Red states are driving women away with severe abortion bans: new report

Fewer women are moving to red states with severe abortion restrictions, and that poses risks for some state economies, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

The report analyzed the findings of 55 different studies about the impact of state-level abortion bans following the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The Dobbs decision overturned the Roe v. Wade precedent, which protected a woman's right to receive an abortion.

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Dems cheer as 'brazen' GOP provision axed from megabill that would 'crown Trump'

Senate Democrats have successfully removed part of President Donald Trump's “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which would have blocked “federal government policies with injunctions or restraining orders,” according to a report from NBC.

According to a Democratic aide, the rule was removed because “it did not comply with the ‘Byrd rule,’ which says provisions must be directly related to taxes or spending.”

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Judge who handed Trump controversial win gets federal job: records

A judge who handed Donald Trump a major legal victory was actively lobbying for a federal position — which he has now won, according to newly disclosed Senate records.

Florida Judge Ed Artau was secretly meeting with Republican Sen. Rick Scott's staff about securing a Trump nomination in November, just days after the election. Then, in February, he delivered a ruling for Trump in his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board.

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DHS slammed as 'propagandist' by expert for 'spinning' man's 'brutal beating'

A prominent immigration attorney is hitting back against the Department of Homeland Security, which claimed in a video posted on X that a person "assaulted federal law enforcement with a weed whacker."

The Homeland Security account on X wrote Monday that the man "ASSAULTED federal law enforcement with a WEED WHACKER."

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'Enter the strongman': Analyst warns 'hawkish' Trump just became more dangerous

President Donald Trump has gone from “showman” to “strongman” and is becoming more hawkish and dangerous, according to The Guardian’s Washington D.C. bureau chief, David Smith.

Last week, Trump brought a military parade to the streets of Washington, D.C. Yet, Smith believes it could also be seen as “more than just an authoritarian ego trip. It was a show of strength and a statement of intent.”

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'Sleazebags': Trump attacks 'fake news' for calling his Iran strike a failure

President Donald Trump lashed out at "sleazebags" in the media after he said they were trying to "demean" his strike on Iran.

"The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it," Trump wrote Monday on his Truth Social platform. "Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible — And even they say they were 'pretty well destroyed!'"

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Shocking claim accuses Trump of helping stage Iran retaliation: 'Coordinated'

A former Israeli Defense Forces intelligence officer claimed Monday that Iran's retaliatory attack on a U.S. base in Qatar was carried out with full knowledge of the Trump administration.

Barak Ravid stunned CNN's Anderson Cooper when he said, "The Iranians coordinated this attack with the Qataris and with the knowledge of the Trump administration."

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Kristi Noem tells Americans fearing attack by Iran to 'be grateful'

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Americans fearing an attack by Iran should "be grateful."

As Iran was attacking a U.S. base in Qatar, Noem was asked about her biggest concern regarding the safety of Americans.

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'Words of a dumb president': Columnist left gobsmacked by post-Iran utterings

USA Today Columnist Rex Huppke railed against President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance not just for bombing Iran on Saturday, but also because of “ludicrous” remarks and “words of a dumb president” that have been uttered in the bombing's wake.

When Vance was asked if the administration trusts U.S. intelligence — which advised that Iran was not close to developing a nuclear weapon — Vance replied, “Of course we trust our intelligence community, but we also trust our instincts.”

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Kristi Noem lashes out at judge who blocked DHS crackdown on Harvard

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is doubling down on her feud with Harvard University over what she argued is its insufficient crackdown on the nonviolent pro-Palestinian demonstrations of its student body — and is now singling out a federal judge.

In an op-ed published Monday in The Washington Post, Noem pushed back against U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs’ ruling last week that blocked her agency from revoking the university’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, which permits the school to admit foreign students.

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'Good god': Critics terrified Trump took US 'deeper into chaos' with latest rant

President Donald Trump poked the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former president, Dimitry Medvedev, in a Truth Social post Monday — and it left many fearful that Trump is growing trigger-happy.

Medvedev began the exchange, suggesting that other countries would transfer nuclear weapons to Iran in support of their fight with the U.S.

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