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MAGA lawmaker married by imam suspected of being key Hamas backer

A conservative Christian MAGA lawmaker has revealed he was married by a radical Islamist investigated for fundraising ties to Hamas.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) married his wife Rana Al Saadi, who is originally from Iraq, in 2014. Blaze News reported that the marriage was officiated by Mohammed Al-Hanooti.

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'Deeply disturbing': Dem rakes 'insufficient' Kash Patel over the coals at budget hearing

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) grilled FBI Director Kash Patel after his agency purportedly violated the law by failing to provide a timely budget.

"As ranking member Van Hollen noted earlier, this hearing is being held without the FBI's fiscal year 2025 spend plan and a full budget request for fiscal year 2026," Murray told Patel at a Thursday hearing. "The spend plan is required by law. It was due to Congress over a week ago. We have not yet seen it. That is really absurd."

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'Very strong words': CNN host reacts to aviation expert's dire warning to Sean Duffy

CNN's Sara Sidner reacted to the "strong words" her colleague and former Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo had for transportation secretary Sean Duffy about the air traffic control crisis.

Duffy has pledged to transform and remodel the outdated air traffic control system after a major failure last week at Newark Liberty International Airport left thousands of travelers stranded for days, and Schiavo said president Donald Trump's transportation secretary faced a major test where failure is not an option.

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Republicans fear 'violence' for standing up to Trump — but an 'awakening' is near: experts

“Republican politicians face threats of violence if they oppose [President Donald Trump],” but a New York Times guest essay, published Thursday morning, claims that shouldn’t stop them from trying.

Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt are the three political scientists who wrote the essay. They study how democracies come to an end.

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'Nonsense math': Fact checker busts Trump commerce secretary's 'incoherent' claims

Donald Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has been all over television in recent weeks defending the president's trade wars, but a new fact check of his claims found that "much of what he says is economically incoherent and contradictory."

The billionaire former Wall Street executive claims that Trump's tariffs don't do much to "change virtually any price" on most goods and products, including iPhones, but Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler examined the accuracy of those comments.

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'Bad decisions': GOP infighting on key tax plan could derail Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Republican congresspersons are fighting over a key tax program that disproportionately affects swing districts. If they don't come to an agreement, it might stop President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill.’

“My party needs my vote in order to extend the tax cuts that didn’t get the votes from members in districts like mine eight years ago,” Congressman LaLota (R-NY) said to the Washington Post. “So there can’t be the same cap there was eight years ago. That reality doesn’t exist. There’s a new reality.”

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'It's made up': Expert says Trump gave a 'gross misrepresentation of the truth' on taxes

MSNBC finance expert Steven Rattner slammed President Donald Trump’s belief that democrats want a 68% tax increase, saying the numbers just don't add up.

In an interview, Trump was asked about economic uncertainty being on the rise, and then doubled down on his plan to pass another tax cut.

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'For profit': Report reveals Ivanka Trump's new focus for her father's second term

Ivanka Trump will return to public life for the first time during her father's second term in the White House.

President Donald Trump's elder daughter on Thursday will announce an initiative focused on access to fresh produce and healthy food, and Axios reported that she hopes to leverage her celebrity to highlight "the role of nutrition in chronic disease and overall well-being" through a new for-profit venture.

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'He's posting up a storm': CNN reporter lowers expectations for Trump's 'big' announcement

President Donald Trump has been hyping a "major" trade deal with the United Kingdom, but officials and experts alike have been cautioning that it will fall well short of the "full and comprehensive" pact he's teasing.

The president invited reporters to an Oval Office announcement Thursday morning, and hours ahead of that event he teased new details about the deal, but British officials told the Wall Street Journal they were surprised by his plans and say the deal is not comprehensive, which was also confirmed by CNN's Alayna Treene.

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'I think it's illegal': GOP lawmakers 'have a real problem' with Trump's latest threat

A rift is widening between the White House and Republican lawmakers over the government funding bills they're writing, and which president Donald Trump has signaled he might ignore.

Congressional Republicans have generally hesitated to speak out against the president's funding freezes – known as "impoundment" – but defense hawks and other GOP lawmakers are gearing up for a showdown ahead of a fiscal cliff looming this fall and stoking fears of a government shutdown, reported Politico.

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'I will fix it': Trump blames Biden for flight delays across the country

In a Truth Social tirade early Thursday, President Donald Trump blamed the Biden Administration for the air traffic issue facing the nation

“Air Traffic problems caused by the incompetent Biden Administration, as headed by, in this case, a total novice and political hack, Pete B. I WILL FIX IT!!!” He posted.

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'Fool who doesn't have a clue': Trump blasts Fed Chair Jerome Powell in early morning rant

President Donald Trump woke up Wednesday morning and took aim at Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.

“‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell is a FOOL, who doesn’t have a clue. Other than that, I like him very much! Oil and Energy way down, almost all costs (groceries and ‘eggs’) down, virtually NO INFLATION, Tariff Money Pouring Into the U.S. — THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF ‘TOO LATE!’ ENJOY!” He posted on Truth Social.

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Not 'pulling punches': Report reveals how many judges have ruled against Trump in new term

With more than 300 lawsuits against President Donald Trump, Democratic Attorneys General, federal employee unions, and liberal advocacy groups say they’re digging in for a long fight.

This includes New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin. “If they think we’re going to get tired and stop, that’s not gonna happen,” Platkin told Bloomberg.

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