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Melania Trump's memecoin linked to $100M in suspicious trading: report

Investors made nearly $100 million by buying Melania Trump's cryptocurrency token minutes before she announced the coins were for sale.

The first lady publicized the $MELANIA coin in a Truth Social post on Jan. 19, hours before her husband was inaugurated for a second term as president, and two dozen digital wallets bought $2.6 million of the tokens in the two and a half minutes before her post went live, reported the Financial Times.

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‘He’s innocent!’ Family pleads with Trump as another migrant 'improperly deported'

A 20-year-old Venezuelan migrant wrongfully deported to El Salvador in defiance of a legal settlement is now at the center of another dramatic legal showdown over the Trump administration's use of emergency wartime powers to expel migrants.

Until now, the public focus has mostly centered around Kilmar Abrego Garcia, another migrant living in the United States who was deported under similar circumstances earlier this year. But newly surfaced court documents and reporting by Politico confirm that Daniel Lozano Camargo, who had only been identified in court by a pseudonym, was also among those swept up and expelled under the Alien Enemies Act.

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'Regrettable': Mike Pence takes old boss to task over 'unfortunate' Oval Office blow-up

Mike Pence, former vice president for Donald Trump, gave his old boss a slap on the wrist late Monday during an exclusive new interview on CNN's "The Source" with anchor Kaitlan Collins.

In introducing the segment, Collins called Pence's comments "perhaps his biggest and sharpest break" with Trump.

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Pence breaks with Trump on trade war — and warns 'Americans will demand different'

Former Vice President Mike Pence expressed concern Monday over President Donald Trump’s approach to trade and tariffs, warning of possible economic consequences, including price shocks and product shortages.

The comments came Monday during an exclusive interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, where the former vice president aired several grievances with his ex-boss’s sweeping tariff policy. He also questioned whether Trump is backtracking on a key campaign promise to bring down prices.

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'He didn’t say it as clearly as you did': Pence grilled on Trump’s 'I don't know' remarks

Former Vice President Mike Pence continuously tried to assert in his interview with CNN that he had confidence in President Donald Trump's ability to uphold the Constitution even as he had to go against Trump to do so in 2020.

Anchor Kaitlan Collins repeatedly pressed him on her show, "The Source," about instances where Trump appeared unwilling to follow the Constitution.

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There's a 'deeper problem' behind Trump's plan to fire top generals: ex-Pentagon adviser

Former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY), who served as an advisor to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, said Monday Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to reduce the number of four-star admirals and generals by 20 percent indicates there is a "deeper problem" within the Department of Defense (DoD).

"I don't think it's actually connected to a strategic imperative, but rather to the fact that they are looking for constant destruction," Rose said during an appearance on CNN.

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Ford sees $1.5 bn tariff hit this year, suspends 2025 forecast

by John BIERS

Ford reported a 65 percent drop in first-quarter profits Monday, citing a near-term drag on auto sales from new vehicle launches, as it withdrew its forecast amid tariff uncertainty.

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'Makes no sense': Hollywood shocked by Trump's film tariffs announcement

by Romain FONSEGRIVES

Hollywood reacted Monday with skepticism to US President Donald Trump's announcement of 100 percent tariffs on foreign films, with movie insiders calling it a policy made up on the fly by a president who fails to understand how the industry works.

"It makes no sense," entertainment lawyer Jonathan Handel said of Trump's idea.

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Trump orders curb on virus research he blames for Covid pandemic

US President Donald Trump on Monday ordered new limitations on a form of biological research his administration says caused the Covid-19 pandemic through a lab leak in China.

The United States will halt funding in certain countries for so-called "gain-of-function" experiments -- aimed at enhancing the properties of pathogens —- according to an executive order Trump signed Monday at the White House.

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‘Communist persecution!’ Trump rages as he orders DOJ to help free MAGA 'hostage'

President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his defense of former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted last year in a scheme to undermine the 2020 election, calling her a “political prisoner” and demanding her immediate release.

In a post to his Truth Social media platform, Trump lashed out at Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who he accused of ignoring “Illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Murder in his State,” while targeting Peters, an election denier whom Trump described as “a 69-year-old Gold Star mother who worked to expose and document Democrat Election Fraud.”

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'Clock is ticking to change hearts': Trump presses GOP holdouts on 'favorite' prosecutor

President Donald Trump is scrambling to whip the votes in the Senate from reluctant members of his own party to confirm his pick for federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, CNN reporter Paula Reid told anchor Erin Burnett on Monday evening.

Martin, a far-right activist from Missouri who had no prosecutorial experience prior to his appointment to the U.S. attorney's office on an acting basis, has repeatedly come under fire for his erratic and ethically dubious behavior, including trying to dismiss cases he previously acted as defense counsel on, and threatening inappropriate criminal investigations of entities ranging from Wikipedia to the American College of Chest Physicians. He has even had to apologize for praising a Nazi sympathizer.

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Trump official says Harvard banned from federal grants

President Donald Trump's education secretary said Monday that Harvard will no longer receive federal grants, escalating an ongoing battle with the prestigious university as it challenges the funding cuts in court.

The Trump administration has for weeks locked horns with Harvard and other higher education institutions over claims they tolerate anti-Semitism on their campuses -- threatening their budgets, tax-exempt status and enrollment of foreign students.

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'He can't possibly be stumped': Professor tears into Trump's 'totally ridiculous' claim

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump claimed not to know that he had to uphold the Constitutional guarantee of due process under the law in his interview with NBC's Meet the Press. Now, a constitutional law expert is calling him out.

During a Monday interview with CNN host Jake Tapper, Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe — who is also the co-founder of the American Constitution Society — pointed out that there was nothing complicated about the due process clauses in the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. And he opined that Trump was trying to feign ignorance in order to consolidate power.

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