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'No they aren't!' Kristi Noem clashes as Dem lawmaker applies pressure on Capitol Hill

Secretary Kristi Noem clashed with a Democratic House member over whether U.S. citizens have been illegally deported by the Department of Homeland Security.

Noem and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified before the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday on budget-related matters.

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Trump ally plans arrest of journalists who revealed links with gangs: report

An internationally acclaimed digital news outlet in El Salvador said Monday that the administration of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is preparing to arrest a number of its journalists following the publication of an interview with two former gang leaders who shed new light on a power-sharing agreement with the U.S.-backed leader and self-described "world's coolest dictator."

"A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General's Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro," the outlet reported. "The source reached out following the publication of an interview with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios on Bukele's yearslong relationship to gangs."

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New filing reveals Trump has not left business helm: 'Maintains grip on entire empire'

Documents filed with British regulators show President Donald Trump maintains control over his business empire.

The U.S. president has long insisted he has little to do with Trump Organization operations while in the White House, but the document, titled “notice of individual person with significant control,” identifies him as an individual with influence over Golf Recreation Scotland Limited, through which he controls the Trump Turnberry golf course, reported Forbes.

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'Don’t need anything they have': Trump insults Canada's PM seconds before Oval Office meet

President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney just seconds before he was set to arrive at the White House for a highly anticipated meeting.

Ahead of the Oval Office get together on Tuesday, Trump used his Truth Social platform to attack Canada.

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'Got it — you're in charge': Ex-general blames Hegseth's insecurity for top brass firings

Retired Major General James Spider Marks slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to "flex his muscles" by announcing he's slashing top generals and admirals from the Pentagon.

CNN's John Berman played a clip of Hegseth claiming his new "DOD reforms" will include "less generals, more G.I.s."

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'Loony lies': NY Times writer slams Trump for packing Cabinet with 'outlandish' thinkers

President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by the rise of conspiracy theorists into a level of political power they have not enjoyed for generations, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Even bizarre and fanciful ideas like the government concealing the Earth being flat are no longer disqualifiers for office in today's Republican Party, reported Tiffany Hsu, as "they’re running local Republican parties in Georgia and Minnesota and seeking public office in Alabama."

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'This is my time': Kristi Noem scolded as she stonewalls on withholding federal grants

Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about her agency's decision to withhold federal grant money without permission from Congress.

"Let's start with Article 1 [of the Constitution], which gives Congress and only Congress the power of the purse," Underwood told Noem at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday. "But this administration is freezing, terminating, and even clawing back federal grants and awards that were already signed into law."

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'Crisis': US farm exports collapse to pandemic-era levels as Trump's tariffs ramp up

The U.S. farming sector is on the brink of crisis as President Donald Trump's trade war implodes America's ability to ship crops abroad, reported CNBC on Tuesday morning.

This follows warnings from lawmakers in Trump's own party who represent agricultural areas, fearing the negative impact on the mounting taxes and retaliatory taxes from other countries.

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Trump faces major hurdle as lawyers throw away huge advantage with judges: analyst

President Donald Trump is quickly running into a problem in court, Politico reported on Tuesday — federal judges have lost patience and trust with the Justice Department attorneys defending his policies.

The long string of cases in which DOJ attorneys under Pam Bondi have either been caught lying to judges, or the Trump administration has simply misrepresented judges' own rulings or tried to ignore them outright, are starting to work against them, wrote Ankush Khardori.

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'Wildly overstated': Trump's favorite attacks blown up as he readies to meet Canada's PM

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale made clear Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump is “wildly overstating” when he bashes Canada.

The comments came ahead of Trump’s meeting Tuesday with the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney.

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'Words of war': Analyst warns Trump is bending the law to make America a battlefield

President Donald Trump is only pretending not to understand the Constitution, wrote Jesselyn Radack for Salon in an analysis published Tuesday — so that he can twist and reinterpret our laws to make political opponents and disfavored groups into a military enemy of the state.

The president has drawn fire for a recent interview in which he claimed he doesn't know whether he is required to uphold the Constitution. But his words aren't an accident, Radack argued — he's been laying the groundwork to reshape our rights with "words of war" since day one.

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MAGA Republicans take unlikely stance in rebellion against House bill: columnist

MAGA Republicans led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took a surprising turn as they denounced a House bill meant to protect Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel from boycotts.

The bipartisan bill, HR 867, "would have amended the Anti-Boycott Act of 2018 by criminalizing compliance with boycotts called for by international government organizations, such as the United Nations — with potential penalties including prison time," according to a new article on MSNBC.com.

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Trump's latest scheme is scramble to cover up core policy's failure: MSNBC host

The Trump administration has offered $1,000 to undocumented migrants who agree to deport themselves — and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire claimed that reveals the failure of the president's immigration policies.

The policy would offer cash stipend and a flight home for each immigrant who agrees to leave, which President Donald Trump insisted was necessary to achieve the administration's goals, but the "Morning Joe" co-host told panelists that the payouts were an admission that his campaign promises on the issue had so far fallen flat.

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