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Fury as Trump plans to 'import' more white South African refugees: 'Call it what it is'

The internet was in uproar on Thursday after a new Reuters report disclosed that the U.S. has planned to admit 4,500 applications from white South Africans as refugees.

The Trump administration has pushed to limit refugee applications from other countries. But an unreported State Department document from Jan. 27 revealed a new target for specifically white South Africans.

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School vouchers fraudulently bought millions of dollars in gift cards and condoms: report

Millions of dollars more in fraud have been discovered in Arizona's controversial school voucher program.

According to 12 News, "records show at least 18,000 [Empowerment Scholarship] account holders — close to 20% of the entire program — used voucher funds intended for private and home schooling on a myriad of banned purchases, according to Arizona Department of Education records."

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DHS insists abandoned blind refugee had 'no disabilities' after he was found dead in snow

The Department of Homeland Security insisted that a blind refugee from Burma who was found dead after being abandoned by agents had no disabilities.

According to Investigate Post, agents dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam at a doughnut shop last week, 5 miles away from his home. Buffalo police later found the man dead in the snow.

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US hockey star claps back at doctored White House video

One of the stars of the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team clapped back at the Trump White House on Thursday after it released a "clearly fake" video with his likeness.

Brady Tkachuk, captain of the Ottawa Senators, told ESPN on Thursday that he "didn't appreciate" the White House sharing an AI-generated video of him from the 4 Nations Face Off last year, where the U.S. and Canadian men's teams fought three times within the first nine seconds of the game. In the doctored video from Thursday, Tkachuk was made to say, "They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f---- a lesson" while "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd played in the background, ESPN reported.

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Trump admin wants to bring in thousands of white South Africans as refugees: report

A new report revealed Thursday that the U.S. has planned to admit 4,500 applications from white South Africans as refugees, according to Reuters.

The Trump administration has limited its refugee applications from other countries. This new target, according to an unreported U.S. State Department document from Jan. 27, showed a push to increase refugees from South Africa, Reuters reported.

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Trump warned voter fraud fight won't save him by ex-GOP insider

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson gave President Donald Trump and his supporters a blunt reality check on MS NOW Thursday: Waging a fight about voter ID is not going to save you in the midterms.

The president has made passing an extremely restrictive election bill, the SAVE America Act, a top priority, partly because he believes — based on dubious logic — that it would boost his party in relative turnout, and partly because polls show it's an issue the public broadly agrees with the GOP on. But that isn't a magic bullet to solving the Republican Party's growing problem with voters ahead of the midterm elections, said Wilson — and Democrats shouldn't be so quick to compromise on it.

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Mamdani secures release of 'illegally arrested' Columbia student after Trump call

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani secured the release of a Columbia University student taken by the Department of Homeland Security after a phone call with President Donald Trump.

On Thursday morning, Claire Shipman, acting president of the university, said agents had misled staff about a missing person to gain access to the student, who was later identified as Ellie Aghayeva.

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'Sad': MAGA buried over plot to cook up 'sham national emergency' to usurp elections

President Donald Trump's supporters handed him a 17-page draft proposal on how to declare a national emergency to seize control of state election administration, according to reports on Thursday.

Under the order, Trump would claim that China interfered in the 2020 presidential election, which would be used as justification for Trump to dictate how states run their elections in the midterm — presumably imposing by executive fiat some of the provisions in the GOP-backed SAVE America Act, which places several new restrictions and identification requirements on voting.

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'Why not?' Boebert defiant over breaking big rule at Clinton's Epstein hearing

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who violated rules of the House Oversight Committee during its deposition of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and took photos during the closed-door hearing, shrugged off questions about it Thursday.

Lawmakers were meeting with Clinton in her hometown of Chappaqua, New York, questioning her about her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted child sex offender. Boebert, who is a member of the committee leading the congressional investigation, reportedly took two photos during the questioning, which were sent to right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson and posted on social media.

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'Clown show': Dem appalled by GOP lawmakers at Clinton-Epstein deposition

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) had a scathing message for her Republican colleagues in the House Oversight Committee following a closed-door deposition for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, New York on Friday.

Ansari told reporters she was appalled by Republicans and their behavior during the hearing, calling it "a clown show of a deposition." She claimed that Republican lawmakers in the room were not taking the investigation into the Epstein files seriously.

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Dan Bongino predicts 'good chance' GOP loses Senate, House — or both

Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump's former deputy director of the FBI, admitted there was a "good chance" that Republicans would lose both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections.

The former government official made the prediction during his Thursday podcast.

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'Use your damn brain!' Boebert's  leaked Epstein hearing photos set off firestorm

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), with an assist from controversial podcaster Benny Johnson, set off a social media firestorm on Thursday after they combined to post two pictures from Hillary Clinton’s behind-closed-doors deposition that temporarily derailed the proceedings.

According to CNN, Clinton briefly ended the questioning after the photos were spotted on X because it violated a privacy agreement with House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY), who refused to allow the hearing to be televised.

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Ex-MAGA lawmaker catalogs Trump failures in blistering social media post

A former MAGA congresswoman ripped President Donald Trump's second term in a blistering social media post.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who retired from Congress last month after just two terms in office, faulted the 79-year-old president for ignoring domestic issues and covering up his involvement with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and she warned voters that he was trying to "gaslight" them into backing the GOP in November's midterm elections.

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