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Howard Lutnick's attempt to flaunt 'Trump Gold Card' backfires as Epstein ties resurface

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took to social media Sunday evening to show off an image of the administration’s Trump Gold Card, the visa program for wealthy immigrants, but was soon swarmed with reminders of his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Posting on the social media platform X, Lutnick shared a single image of who appears to be President Donald Trump holding up the Trump Gold Card, which officially launched in September, costs between $1 million and $5 million, and grants holders permanent resident status and a pathway to full U.S. citizenship.

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MAGA flies into frenzy over Alicia Keys' July 4th video

Alicia Keys turned the nation's 250th birthday into a flashpoint over women's constitutional rights on Saturday — and MAGA world erupted.

The singer marked July 4th with an Instagram video highlighting that women still "don't have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution."

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Panic in GOP as Trump hoards much-needed campaign cash: report

The "cavalry" isn't arriving, and Republicans are freaking out, according to a new report.

With the midterm election four months away, GOP candidates and their campaign advisers expressed alarm that Donald Trump shows no inclination to spend the approximately $350 million sitting in his MAGA Inc. super PAC. While the money is there, Trump may not deploy it, according to Politico.

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Insiders spill new details on Trump's meddling in FIFA to get USA player back on field

President Donald Trump's inner circle mobilized within minutes of a red card to keep the United States' leading scorer on the field at the World Cup, according to Politico, which reconstructed four days of lobbying stretching from the Oval Office to FIFA's Zurich headquarters.

Striker Folarin Balogun was sent off in the 64th minute of the Americans' 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday, drawing an automatic one-match ban that would have sidelined him for Monday's round-of-16 match against Belgium in Seattle. Politico reported that White House World Cup task force director Andrew Giuliani alerted Trump almost immediately, and that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Soccer officials began working to challenge the call. The outlet said it spoke to a half-dozen U.S. government and soccer officials directly involved in or briefed on what happened.

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Trump's 'politically motivated attack' on health care ends as key law expires

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, defunding the organizations, expired.

The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025, but, due to Senate rules, the defunding only lasted for one year, and Congress failed to renew it before its summer recess.

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Sordid Trump ally's rejection at the Supreme Court astounds legal expert

The Supreme Court surprised a legal expert last week by rejecting an application from one of President Donald Trump's sordid allies.

Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who has faced extensive allegations of sexual misconduct, appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate a more than $8 million judgment he was awarded from a lower court that was later vacated by the 11th Circuit in a defamation case. The judgment arose from a lawsuit against a political group that accused Moore of soliciting sex from a minor while at a shopping mall many years ago.

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Internet schools Ron DeSantis after 'embarrassing' claim about an old English pub

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, got a quick history lesson on Sunday after he made what some described as an "embarrassing" claim about an old English pub.

DeSantis reshared a post on X from an account named "No Context Brits" that contained a picture of The Old Ferry Boat Inn, a pub in Hollywell that was allegedly established in the year 560. The post reads, "America is 250 years old. This pub is 1,466 years old."

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Dr. Oz's 'ridiculous' claims about health insurance on Fox News leave analyst aghast

President Donald Trump's top health care chief revealed during a recent Fox News interview that he apparently doesn't know how health insurance works, according to one political analyst.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, discussed his efforts to combat alleged health care fraud during a recent Fox News appearance. During the interview, Oz claimed that "40%" of people who signed up for Obamacare "never used their health insurance" and insurance brokers are "making a ton of money off of the American people" by signing multiple people up for the same policy that isn't being used.

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Hunter Biden stuns with scorched-earth rant about Trump corruption: 'Long live the King'

Hunter Biden stunned political analysts on Sunday with a scorched-earth rant about the Trump family corruption.

Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trumps had made more than $2.4 billion during their first year in office, a figure that shocked ethics experts. The Trump family is also positioned to reap financial windfalls from a lucrative mining deal in Kazakhstan and a gun deal that have benefited from government actions by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Trump's 'sad' America 250 celebration dismays analyst: 'Cheap and slapped together'

At least one political analyst left President Donald Trump's July 4 celebration feeling a little let down.

Trump had spent months ginning up a story that his July 4 bash would be the biggest in American history. However, the event was marred by extreme heat, long lines, and a weather delay, which caused many people to leave the National Mall before Trump took the stage. Washington, D.C., was so hazy the morning after the fireworks that some people reported feeling a burning sensation in their lungs when they went outside.

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Expert flabbergasted as court issues 'high-stakes judicial intervention' against Trump

A legal expert was flabbergasted by a recent ruling handed down against the Trump administration, calling it a "high-stakes judicial intervention" that could preserve many Americans' right to vote.

Last week, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration's attempt to choke off mail-in ballots by prohibiting the U.S. Postal Service from delivering ballots after Election Day was illegal. That rule would have disenfranchised many voters, especially senior citizens and military members deployed overseas.

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Trump's 'hilarious' meddling in FIFA World Cup stuns analysts: 'Man, does this look awful'

President Donald Trump reportedly intervened in the FIFA World Cup on behalf of Team USA in a way that had political analysts and sports fans holding their sides.

Team USA is scheduled to play in a high-stakes match against Belgium on Monday night, one where the Americans could advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002. Initially, it appeared that the U.S. would be without one of its stars, Folarin Balogun, after he received a red card in the team's last match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Red cards carry an automatic one-game suspension.

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Ex-RNC chair torches Doug Burgum's Reflecting Pool story: 'We know that did not happen'

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's attempts to blame a sea of reflecting pool troubles on D.C. vandals instead of D.C. incompetence left one Republican sputtering.

Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, took to X Sunday afternoon to share his views on a tense CNN interview that saw Burgum snapping at anchor Dana Bash.

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