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'I have no cash': Rudy Giuliani unloads wild rant after judge refuses to postpone trial

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani raged against U.S. District Court Judge Lewis J. Liman Tuesday for refusing to postpone his trial so he could attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January.

Following a court hearing in Manhattan, Giuliani told reporters that Liman "ruled against us on everything."

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'Blow up some heads': Don Jr. has plan to add MAGA podcasters to White House press corps

The White House briefing room might look a lot different in Donald Trump's second presidency, according to his eldest son.

During the latest episode of his podcast, "Triggered With Donald Trump Jr.," his co-host Michael Knowles floated an idea to reorder the seating chart in the briefing room to punish some journalists and elevate others, reported The Daily Beast.

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'You can't lock everybody up': Democrat challenges Trump czar's threats to jail mayor

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) challenged Donald Trump's so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, for threatening to arrest anyone who stands in the way of mass deportations across the United States.

Thus far, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has made it clear that he won't cooperate with the federal government. Homan threatened to arrest him.

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Crypto spent big on the election — now they're outlining the 'payout they’re looking for'

NOTUS reporter Claire Heddles on Tuesday flagged a new "industry association letter" from the cryptocurrency industry to President-elect Donald Trump and Congress, which discusses their expectations for the future.

As Heddles notes, the crypto industry was the largest donor group in the 2024 election. Fairshake, along with affiliated PACs Protect Progress and Defend American Jobs, spent a combined $266,422,634.28, according to recent campaign finance reports.

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Harris campaign staffer suggests Joe Rogan podcast used her as ‘leverage’ to get Trump

A senior advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign suggested that she didn't appear on The Joe Rogan Experience because the popular host was using her as "leverage" to get President Donald Trump as a guest.

Four staffers from Harris' campaign appeared on the podcast Pod Save America on Tuesday. Stephanie Cutter, the campaign's senior advisor for strategy messaging, said that Harris wanted to appear on the show, but the timing didn't work out.

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'By and for the ultra-wealthy': The billionaires set to run Trump's administration

Since winning the presidential election earlier this month, Donald Trump has wasted no time working to fill his incoming administration with billionaires and other ultra-rich individuals who are poised to benefit from the GOP agenda of tax cuts for the wealthy and large-scale deregulation.

In separate analyses published this week, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and Accountable.US offered overviews of the president-elect's key nominations and their potential conflicts of interest as Trump prepares to retake power in January.

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Parents slam school after bully forces 8-year-old to write N-word: report

A Nebraska grade-schooler in Nebraska has been experiencing repeated racist attacks from another student — but his parents are unable to get the bully dealt with, according to a report.

Imari Adoukonou, a third-grader at Falling Waters Elementary School in Gretna, said the other boy asked him to spell the N-word and told him "that's what you are." He said his tormentor has allegedly kneed him twice in the groin and called him a racial slur, reported WOWT-TV.

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'Demonic!' Tulsa city council meeting goes off rails as member told she's 'inviting evil'

A city council meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week went off the rails after an outgoing city councilor invited a pagan priestess to deliver a prayer at a meeting.

Public Radio Tulsa reports that outgoing councilor Crista Patrick stirred controversy when she brought pagan priestess Amy McAdams to deliver an opening invocation at the meeting that included nods to "the Gorgonea, champions of equality and sacred rage" and "Medusa, monstrous hero of the oppressed and abused."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene demands Joy Reid be taken off air as she 'is clearly for murder'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for Joy Reid to be taken off the air because she claimed the MSNBC host's opposition to President-elect Donald Trump meant she supported murder.

During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene slammed Reid for warning that Trump would replace military officials with people who believe American protesters can be shot. Reid cited Trump's decision to nominate Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, who has called to deploy the military inside the country.

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MSNBC reacts to claims Kamala Harris paid $500K to Al Sharpton nonprofit before interview

Kamala Harris' campaign reportedly paid half a million dollars to Al Sharpton's nonprofit shortly before she took part in a friendly interview with the civil rights activist and MSNBC host — but a network spokesman said they were unaware of the payment.

The Harris campaign made a $250,000 contribution to Sharpton's National Action Network on Sept. 5 and another on Oct. 1, a few weeks before Sharpton interviewed the Democratic nominee, according to reports. The network spokesman said he did not inform viewers or MSNBC of the payments, reported the Washington Free Beacon.

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'Momentous, unsettled questions': Analyst warns end of Trump court cases leaves turmoil

On Election Night, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate in United States history to win an election despite having faced four criminal indictments — one of which resulted in him being convicted on 34 felony counts.

Two of the criminal indictments against Trump were federal ones brought by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice: the election interference case and the classified documents case.

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Nearly a quarter of Republicans would vote for Trump to get third term: poll

Nearly a quarter of Republican voters said that they want President Donald Trump to run for a third term in 2028, despite his being ineligible, according to a new poll.

According to the most recent Emerson College poll, that while 30% would vote for Vice President-elect JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 Republican primary, 23% want Trump to run for a third term. Another 28% were undecided. The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between November 20-22, and has a margin of error of 3%.

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'Not gonna play dead': Republican warns Trump just opened door for retaliation against US

The U.S. is about to pay dearly for Donald Trump's incoming tariff regime, former Republican strategist turned Never Trumper Ana Navarro told CNN's John Berman on Tuesday morning.

Donald Trump announced Monday he is going to make good on the tariff threats he made on the campaign trail, starting with 25 percent tariffs on goods across the board from Mexico and Canada and even higher ones on China. And that's immediately going to hit Americans in the pocketbook, warned Navarro.

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