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White House backtracks on Trump's confusing Hollywood movie tariff announcement

The White House appeared to backtrack after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on movies filmed in foreign locations.

On Sunday, Trump revealed that he had ordered United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer "to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands."

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Ex-advisor would 'be leading GOP with pitchforks' if​ Dem had said what Trump just did

President Donald Trump's first-term communications director, Alyssa Farah Griffin, was aghast to see the clip of Trump's interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker.

Among the questions from Welker was whether Trump thinks he must uphold the Constitution of the United States as president.

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Right-wing Republicans fear antisemitism bill stops spreading of anti-Jewish myth: report

A House is struggling to pass a bipartisan antisemitism bill because some right-wing lawmakers are concerned that it would stop them from stating the foundational myth of antisemitism.

The Antisemitism Awareness Act passed the House easily in the last congressional session despite bipartisan concerns about how the bill defined antisemitism, but Democrats are wary of supporting the measure as the Trump administration attacks universities and visa holders over alleged antisemitism on campus.

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'We're going to lose the midterms': MTG gripes that 'Republicans are the problem'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned that Republicans are on track to "lose the midterms."

In a Monday interview, MAGA influencer Steve Bannon asked Greene what advice she would give to President Donald Trump as Congress tries to pass legislation based on his agenda.

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'It's your fault!' MSNBC experts crack up as they listen to Trump passing blame

President Donald Trump spoke for an hour with NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker and claimed that things going wrong in America are the fault of former President Joe Biden — and things that go well are because of him.

The comment prompted an MSNBC economics panel to laugh Monday.

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MTG rages at Trump advisers: 'Anyone that gets in the president's ear and is lying to him'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raged that unnamed advisers to President Donald Trump were "lying to him."

During a Monday interview with MGA influencer Steve Bannon, Greene reflected on complaints she made last week about the Trump administration moving closer to war with Iran — and losing his MAGA base.

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'Baffling': Inside the bizarre MAGA entourage given prime White House seats

A new report from The Guardian delves into the "new media" personalities given prime seats in the White House press room that many say are perpetuating propaganda through "fawning, softball, or otherwise baffling questions.”

One example is Podcast host Tim Pool, who joined the press room last week.

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'Killing millions!' MAGA influencer goes to war against Trump's surgeon general nominee

President Donald Trump's pick for surgeon general is drawing the fury of longtime MAGA ally and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.

Loomer, a 9/11 Truther and self-described "Proud Islamophobe" who ran multiple failed bids for Congress in Florida and has frequently gained the president's ear, has taken to X to repeatedly attack Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, the sister-in-law of Trump's recently-dismissed National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.

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'This is a trap': Expert warns Trump promise is fooling migrants to get on planes

President Donald Trump's new initiative to get people to "self-deport" is using deception to trick people to leave the country, a top immigration expert warned on Monday.

This came in response to a report by Fox News' Bill Melugin about a new policy, to be announced this week by the Department of Homeland Security, through which unauthorized immigrants can apply for their intent to leave the country and receive financial incentives once they are out.

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'Slippery slope to eugenics': Alarm sounded as government plans $50M research project

Researchers and parents are sounding the alarm over an autism database the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is building for a major research study.

The agency denies the database is a registry, saying it would be used only to power a $50 million study whose results health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised within months, but advocates and researchers fear it could be misused, and tens of thousands of people have signed a petition against its creation, reported The Guardian.

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'I love you guys': Trump greets convicted Proud Boys militant at Mar-a-Lago

President Donald Trump offered a message of support to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists when he met with a former Proud Boys militant in Mar-a-Lago over the weekend.

Enrique Tarrio, who formerly led the right-wing militant group before his conviction on sedition charges, met with the president Saturday after a member invited him and his mother, Zuny Duarte, reported the New York Times. HuffPost flagged his description of the encounter on X.

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'Zeroed out': Trump plans to shut down critical crime unit — and no one knows why

President Donald Trump's administration is moving to shut down a critical Department of Justice unit fighting organized crime and drug trafficking that dates all the way back to the Reagan administration, Bloomberg News reported — and there doesn't seem to be any clear reason why.

The leaders of this unit, known as the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), received notice that all operations must wind down by September 30, and "An email sent last Monday by a DOJ budget analyst to a counterpart at OCDETF said that the unit’s fiscal year 2026 budget would be 'zeroed out' and the independent office dissolved, according to records obtained by Bloomberg News in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and the people familiar with the matter."

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'Unmistakable vibe of corruption': MSNBC panelist accuses Trump of 'market manipulation'

A panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" called out the possibility that President Donald Trump and his high-ranking officials were engaged in "market manipulation" with his trade war.

The president has rattled global markets with his on-again, off-again tariffs against numerous U.S. trading partners. Sportswriter Pablo Torre told fellow panelists that Trump's comments about children making do with fewer toys were unintentionally revealing.

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