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'I am anti-sunscreen': MAGA TV host insists sun doesn't cause cancer

A pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host declared he won't wear a single drop of sunscreen on an upcoming Florida trip — then played a clip of an anti-medicine influencer arguing against science that the sun doesn't cause cancer; it's the corn dogs.

Steve Gruber, host of the conservative network's morning program Day Break, made the announcement Wednesday alongside his guest and wife, Ivey Ramos Gruber, who agreed sunglasses might also be unnecessary. The segment fits neatly into the MAHA movement's growing anti-sunscreen wing — and straight into a public health nightmare.

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Senate GOP terrified Susan Collins is about to make 'fatal mistake': report

Democratic candidate Graham Platner coasted to an easy nomination for the U.S. Senate race in Maine on Tuesday night, overcoming weeks of negative press over scandals about his personal life and interactions with women to take on longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a top target of Democrats hoping to flip control of the upper chamber.

While Republicans project confidence in the race publicly, a recent memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is throwing up alarms, warning this could be a tough fight and Collins must not be caught off guard.

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Joe Scarborough shreds Ted Cruz for questioning Democratic candidate's manhood

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough bashed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for questioning a Democratic candidate's masculinity.

Cruz joined the chorus of Republicans jeering Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, whom his GOP rival Ken Paxton has insulted as "Talafreako," and the GOP senator mocked him as weak and not manly enough.

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'Hegseth gave the whole thing away' with his anti-Mormon policy: analyst

White evangelicals are just 13% of the American population. But according to one columnist, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is building a Pentagon that looks a lot like their church — and writer Amanda Marcotte says that's no accident.

When the Pentagon cut its official list of military religious designations from 211 to 31 earlier this month, it left out one group that expected to be included: Latter-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wasn't classified as Christian at all.

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Pam Bondi blindsided White House by releasing Trump's name in Epstein files binders: NYT

According to reporting in the upcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, former Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly infuriated the president’s inner circle during a meeting with high-profile conservative influencers about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

On February 27, the White House Communications Office had scheduled a lineup of cabinet officials to brief popular MAGA influencers in the Roosevelt Room. Vice President JD Vance led the session, followed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, walking the influencers through the administration's agenda. In attendance was a "who's who of online Trump world": Mike Cernovich, Liz Wheeler, Collin Rugg, and DC Draino.

According to Swan and Haberman, Trump himself brought them to the Oval Office and presented custom-designed challenge coins as tokens of appreciation. Before the day went sideways, one influencer remarked: "It was the best day of my life."

Then Bondi and her team reportedly waltzed into the Roosevelt Room carrying boxes. The attorney general had prepared binders as handouts; her aides would later claim the FBI had prepared them with revelatory details. One staffer reportedly boasted: "Watch this. This is cool. This is going to be epic."

Instead, the binders led to panic in the room.

As Bondi's staff distributed the binders, "blood pressure in the room" skyrocketed among other officials because no one in the White House had vetted the material in the binders and the attorney general was distributing materials she was calling "the Epstein files" without approval.

According to the report, one official opened a binder and frantically flipped through pages looking for Trump's name and, "A few pages in, right in the middle of the page, there it was."

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Dems have 'clear path' to Senate majority without controversial candidate: CNN data expert

Controversial candidate Graham Platner won the Democratic nomination in Maine's Senate race, but a new analysis found the party doesn't even need him to win to take back control of the U.S. Senate.

The Iraq war veteran won his primary race and will face off against Republican Sen. Susan Collins despite allegations of mistreatment by past girlfriends, sexually explicit text messages sent to other women while he was married, questionable comments posted online and getting a tattoo of a Nazi symbol – but CNN's Harry Enten said his campaign is not essential for Democrats.

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Trump gets bad news as inflation spikes again amid Iran crisis

The latest inflation numbers brought more bad news for President Donald Trump, with consumer price increases jumping to 4.2 percent in May — a three-year high.

According to The New York Times, the new data on the Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics represents "is up from a 2.4 percent annual increase before the conflict in the Middle East started in February and is the fastest pace since April 2023."

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Trump insiders in 'Epstein War Room' feared 'surreal' accusation against president: report

According to excerpts from the forthcoming book "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Vice President JD Vance and senior White House officials engaged in an extraordinary debate over whether to publicly release an uncorroborated allegation of sexual assault involving the president.

The White House converted the secure Situation Room—"the same facility where President Obama's team monitored the raid that killed Osama bin Laden"—into an Epstein "war room" to manage fallout from a DOJ memo claiming no "client list" of Epstein's associates existed. The memo "backfired spectacularly," triggering loud backlash among the MAGA base and prompting the Wall Street Journal to prepare a damaging article about Trump's relationship with Epstein.

Trump's senior officials gathered repeatedly in the Situation Room without the president, attempting to manage public fury over the administration's refusal to release Epstein files. The secure space, traditionally used to assess foreign threats, became instead a political bunker for managing a domestic crisis involving Trump's long friendship with Epstein who died while in custody under suspicious circumstances, the report notes.

According to the report, at an August meeting, the administration's desperation boiled over after a senior aide raised an uncorroborated, secondhand allegation from nearly a decade earlier—a claim that Trump had aggressively flicked and sucked a young woman's n-----s until they "looked incredibly painful."

The allegation had surfaced in 2024 in unsealed court filings from a civil suit unrelated to Trump. When another official raised the matter, Vance argued strenuously for including this and numerous other accusations on the Justice Department's website, framing it as an exercise in "maximum transparency." Vance contended Trump wouldn't object, having been accused of worse.

Haberman and Swan are reporting that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles shut down the proposal immediately, telling Vance that the president would emphatically not be fine with releasing the allegation. One official later described the moment as "surreal"—debating explicit sexual assault allegations in the nation's most secure meeting space.

GOP lawmakers at each other's throats over new MAGA bill idea: 'Will not happen'

House Republicans broke a months-long logjam on Tuesday by passing President Donald Trump's package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the remainder of his term, bypassing Democrats who had been demanding reforms to the agencies as a condition for a bipartisan vote. But already, tensions are boiling over whether to use the budget process once again.

It's the second time in Trump's second term that Republicans have used the budget reconciliation process to push partisan legislation, getting around the Senate's filibuster rule.

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Morning Joe hosts fire back live after Trump snaps at their Epstein reporting

Any question over whether Donald Trump was watching MS NOW’s "Morning Joe” on Wednesday morning was put to rest after he fired off a furious Truth Social post moments after the hosts read excerpts from a bombshell New York Times report on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Following an interview with Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, co-host Joe Scarborough broke the news that Trump had just lashed out at the show.

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Trump takes oddly personal swipe at Morning Joe co-host

President Donald Trump took an oddly personal swipe at MS NOW's Willie Geist in a rant against the "Morning Joe" crew.

Geist and his colleagues Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spent Wednesday morning discussing bombshell new reporting by the New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on the White House "freakout" over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and Trump attempted to drown out their reporting with personal attacks on all three hosts.

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GOP lawmaker caught on video faking call instead of answering about Social Security cuts

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) pretended to take a phone call for roughly 90 seconds when asked about Speaker Mike Johnson's comments on potential Social Security cuts — and the evidence was right there on his screen.

Asked about a "plan to cut Social Security," Wittman is seen in the video grabbing his phone, holding it up to his face, and saying, "Hey, how're you doing?"

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Trump drops ominous threat as Iran talks fail: 'Now they will have to pay the price!'

President Donald Trump boasted that Iran has been "completely defeated" as the U.S. trades strikes with the Middle Eastern nation.

U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday evening that it had conducted "self-defense strikes" in response to the downing of an Army helicopter the previous day, which prompted Trump to threaten a response, and he rejected Iran's claims that the strikes had disputed the diplomatic process by violating the ceasefire.

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