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'Null and void': Judge demands DOGE action reversed in major slap for Trump

A judge ruled against President Donald Trump's administration in a decision Monday over the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney posted on X.

The USIP's goals are to promote conflict resolution and peacebuilding globally through a congressionally funded, independent, non-profit organization, its website says. Judge Beryl Howell said that having the executive branch take it over is not legal and "should be treated as null and void," said Cheney.

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Trump official rakes in $280M tax free with 'ethics agreement': report

President Donald Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is emulating his boss by transferring away "his ownership interests in multiple affiliated companies" to trusts that will benefit his adult children, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Lutnick, a billionaire, served as chairman and chief executive of financial-services firm Cantor Fitzgerald until he was appointed to Trump's cabinet in February.

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'Confused libs': Don Jr. flips out at backlash over his Biden cancer joke

Donald Trump Jr. accused Democrats of not being able to take a joke about former President Joe Biden's stage four prostate cancer.

In a post on X, Trump wondered how former First Lady Jill Biden, a doctor of philosophy, could have missed her husband's cancer and called it a "coverup."

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'Sesame Street' jumps to Netflix after Trump threatens PBS funding

After 56 years on PBS, Big Bird and friends are finding new life on Netflix following President Donald Trump's threat to pull the plug on publicly-funded media, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"The streaming giant has reached an agreement to broadcast new episodes of 'Sesame Street,' giving the beloved children’s show a home after Warner Bros. Discovery said it was stepping away from the program," the report said.

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Trump eyes installing his defense attorney onto Court of Appeals: report

President Donald Trump is considering one of his former defense attorneys for a nomination to a federal appeals court.

Two sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times that Emil Bove, the president's former criminal defense lawyer and current Justice Department official, is a top contender for an open seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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'What does that mean?' Odd messaging leaves even Trump's staunchest supporters bemused

Trade agreements that took decades to establish are in jeopardy due to President Donald Trump's tariffs — and those policies could do irreparable harm to the farming industry, according to a new report.

The U.S. government spent years building overseas markets for soybeans, wheat and other crops, and farmers rely on imported tractor parts and fertilizer, and farmers across the Midwest and West – many of whom still fly Trump 2024 flags over their barns – are worried the president's trade war will ruin them, reported NPR.

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Trump's henchmen are driving him to Supreme Court clash that he doesn't care about: expert

President Donald Trump seems likely to stage a major showdown with the U.S. Supreme Court that a legal expert believes is an intentional effort to gather up authoritarian powers.

The president has been attacking judges who rule against him in legal challenges to his executive orders, and Stanford Law School's Matthew Seligman told The New Republic's Greg Sargent that Vice President JD Vance and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller were even more eager than Trump to break the courts.

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'Ten times bigger than Watergate': Steve Bannon worries Biden will die before testifying

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon argued that former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis was 10 times "bigger than Watergate."

During an interview with MAGA ally Laura Loomer, Bannon suggested that aides had revealed Biden's cancer diagnosis to distract from recently released interview tapes from former special counsel Robert Hur.

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'I thought he was giving us a plug': Filmmaker Wes Anderson mocks Trump for confusing plan

Filmmaker Wes Anderson spoke about President Donald Trump at the annual Cannes Film Festival, expressing his disdain for the new tariffs on the film industry.

It followed an announcement by Trump earlier this month that, he wanted “MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

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MAGA TV host chuckles as she reports on Biden's cancer

MAGA television host Gina Loudon chuckled as she kicked off a report on former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis with a conspiracy theory.

During a Monday segment on Real America's Voice, Loudon gave her audience the bad news.

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Trump's favorite newspaper fears he may be neck-deep in 'Hunter Biden-style scandal'

President Donald Trump's once favorite daily tabloid, The New York Post, set off alarm bells Monday over his "questionable" cryptocurrency dealings that threaten a "Hunter Biden-style scandal at the White House."

Reporters Thomas Barrabi and Isabel Vincent cited experts who concluded "Donald Trump risks undercutting his presidency with a Hunter Biden-style influence-peddling scandal unless he clamps down on questionable crypto deals."

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Trump sons make fortune from tiny bank that pivoted from making cancer therapies: report

Two of the president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are making miliions by investing in a tiny bank hidden on a high floor of the Trump Tower, according to a Bloomberg report.

The bank, Dominari Holdings Inc., is headquartered on the 22nd floor of the New York City building. Three years ago, it was developing cancer therapies — today, however, they have pivoted to finance and are “stockpiling Bitcoin.”

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Karoline Leavitt clarifies what Trump means when he says 'Taylor Swift is no longer hot'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified what President Donald Trump meant when he attacked singer Taylor Swift's looks last week.

"What does President Trump mean when he says that Taylor Swift is no longer hot?" Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt at a Monday briefing.

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