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Picnicgate: Trump reinvites Rand Paul to party after fury over 'petty' snub

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who is vocally opposed to President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," has apparently been re-invited to the congressional picnic planned for the White House lawn.

On Wednesday, Paul said he tried to pick up his tickets to the much-anticipated event, only to be told, "You were not invited."

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Mike Lindell gets served with yet another lawsuit as he arrives at trial

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was reportedly served with yet another lawsuit while he was attending his defamation trial in Colorado.

On Wednesday, Marshall Zelinger of 9 News noted that FedEx delivered a lawsuit to Lindell outside the federal courthouse in Denver.

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'My beautiful friend': CNN host fights tears as she shares tragic news

CNN anchor Sara Sidner and correspondent Stephanie Elam both fought back tears while speaking on the death of their friend, former MTV video jockey Ananda Lewis, who died of breast cancer this week.

“This is a story I didn't want to have to tell you,” Sidner said, trying to eke out the words as she fought back tears. “But Ananda Lewis, the former MTV VJ and host of teen summit turned content creator, and my beautiful friend, mother, sister, and daughter, has died after years of living with breast cancer.”

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‘Too much drama’: Public defenders quit Louisiana governor's oversight board

Two members of the Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board have resigned just 14 months into what were supposed to be four-year terms on the new governing body Gov. Jeff Landry created.

Freddie Pitcher Jr., a former state appellate judge in Baton Rouge who also ran Southern University’s law school, and Shreveport attorney Ted Hernandez are leaving the board. Their decisions to step down come shortly before the board expects to have a contentious vote Monday about the dismissal of five attorneys who run local public defender offices.

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Trump could be forced to testify against himself by Jan. 6 lawsuit: expert

A $100 million lawsuit filed by the Proud Boys could force President Donald Trump's administration into testifying against itself, according to legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Shan Wu.

In his MSNBC column, Wu noted he believes the suit is “legally unsound — but it has an excellent chance of success.”

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'Didn't get the memo': Core Trump argument buried by his own top general

President Donald Trump's top general undercut his administration's legal argument for its sweeping anti-immigration agenda.

The administration has justified its mass deportations are necessary and legal because the Venezuelan government has engineered an invasion of the U.S. by gang members, but Trump's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledged during a Senate hearing that the claim simply wasn't accurate, reported CNN.

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Mike Johnson: 'I'm a wartime speaker, really, in a real sense'

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) dubbed himself a "wartime Speaker" in a "real sense."

The top House Republican made the confusing remarks during a Thursday morning interview with Fox News host Steve Doocy in the Capitol.

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'Dodge the blame': Republican blasted as he gets cold feet over Trump cuts

Anti-poverty campaigners and rights advocates have warned for months that the Republican Party's proposed cuts to federal nutrition assistance that tens of millions of Americans rely on would harm families as well as hundreds of thousands of jobs and the economies of cities and states across the nation—and on Wednesday one GOP senator appeared to have finally gotten the message.

Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) told Politico that if the Senate approves—or tries to "one-up"—the House's $300 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which President Donald Trump has endorsed, it could cost the party its congressional majority.

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National Guard in LA left hanging with no pay and no support from locals: report

In the Donald Trump administration's haste to federalize California National Guard troops to hit the streets of Los Angeles to protect ICE agents grabbing immigrants, the Pentagon has dropped the ball on providing the paperwork that would get them paid and activate their benefits, according to a report.

In interviews with more than a dozen of those deployed, Military.com found frustration that the Department of Defense, under Secretary Pete Hegseth, is not upholding its obligation to provide their "formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but also unlocks pay, Tricare health benefits and eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs benefits."

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'Keeping mum': Ex-GOP head reveals former colleagues ashamed of bill's 'cruelty'

House Republicans are about to vote on “who lives, who dies, and whether the United States still recognizes the difference,” according to an MSNBC column from ex-RNC chairman Michael Steele.

The co-host of "The Weeknight" said, “President Donald Trump is asking [Congress] to approve a rescissions package that would retroactively cancel grants that gave food to the hungry and medicine to the sick, building goodwill for the United States around the world.”

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'Should be saying thank you!' Trump fires off crude attack on Gavin Newsom

President Donald Trump demanded thanks from California Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday after sending active-duty troops and the National Guard into Los Angeles against his wishes.

The president deployed 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 U.S. Marines to the city, where protests broke out last week against the administration's crackdown on immigrants. But Newsom has challenged the move in court and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued an overnight curfew for about one square mile in downtown.

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'Never mentioned': Republican tells of strange Musk meeting after budget vote

Elon Musk’s accusation that President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill” is actually an “abomination” might be new. According to a Politico report, House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) claims he had breakfast with Musk after the House voted on the measure — and it wasn't mentioned once.

“I went directly from that vote straight to a breakfast with Elon, and he never mentioned the bill that morning,” Guthrie said during Politico’s annual Energy Summit in Washington.

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Trump 'incapable of even a train of thought' during Newsom phone call: report

California Governor Gavin Newsom has elevated his war with Donald Trump to a new level by suggesting the president, who turns 79 on Saturday, is slipping mentally based upon a recent phone conversations with him.

According to a report from Alex Thompson of Axios, Newsom is complaining that his talks with the president over the use of the military in Los Angeles, which has plunged the community into increasing turmoil, have been fruitless because the elderly president has trouble staying on topic.

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