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Fox host Harris Faulkner snaps as effort to place shutdown blame smacked down on live TV

Fox News’ Harris Faulkner snapped at a Democratic voter Monday during a roundtable discussion after they noted that millions of Americans would likely lose health insurance if Democratic lawmakers were to support Republicans’ spending proposals amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Faulkner was hosting a roundtable discussion with both Democratic and Republican voters Monday to discuss “the issues shaping” the upcoming midterm elections, and among the topics discussed was the ongoing government shutdown, sparked by disagreements on government health care subsidies.

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Fear of Trump 'pain cave' forces major companies to duck Supreme Court challenge: CNN

Major companies are sitting out the court challenge to President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs despite it causing them immense pain — instead leaving the fight to a group of small businesses, according to a report.

That group, including a family-owned toymaker in Illinois and a New York-based wine importer, have challenged the tariffs all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments Wednesday. But their larger competitors have stayed on the sidelines because of fear of how Trump will react, reported CNN.

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Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."

As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staffing shortages, Duffy said in an interview Monday with CNBC.

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Military chiefs at risk of 'court martial' for following Pete Hegseth orders: expert

Military historian Max Boot lamented Monday that not enough attention is being paid to the dramatic uptick in boat bombings since a top military official was forced out.

And he said the action by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is putting some military veterans in dire risk of court-martial.

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'Don't know anything': Johnson deflects as Trump does same thing he slammed Biden for

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) played dumb after President Donald Trump stated Sunday night that he did not know that he had pardoned a crypto billionaire.

During a press conference on Monday, CNN's Manu Raju noted that Trump claimed to "know nothing" about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, even though the president had pardoned him after his company boosted the Trump family's crypto business.

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'It's on': Nancy Mace declares war on unpaid TSA agents as airport tirade fallout grows

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is escalating her foul-mouthed tirade unleashed at Charleston International Airport Thursday as security did not meet her as she traveled. On Monday, she accused the airport of lying about the ordeal.

Taking to X, Mace wrote, "Wait until we release audio between my staff and the Charleston airport. It's on. HOLD THE LINE."

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Mike Johnson openly defies Trump's shutdown demand

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) publicly broke with President Donald Trump Monday after speaking out against eliminating the filibuster, which Trump has demanded Republicans do in recent days.

Trump ordered Republicans “terminate the filibuster” – a procedural rule in the Senate that allows a member to block a measure that receives less than 60 votes – as recently as Sunday night as a way to circumvent the 60-vote threshold required to adopt a spending bill in the Senate and re-open the government, now on its 34th day as of Monday and just a day away from tying the record for the longest-government shutdown in history.

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DOJ devises 'wackadoodle' plan to save Alina Habba's legal cases from collapse: expert

The Department of Justice has concocted an "unprecedented" scheme to preserve dozens of criminal cases filed by interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba after a Manhattan defense attorney challenged her appointment.

Defense attorney Thomas Mirigliano, whose client was indicted by Habba on drug and weapons charges, was the first to challenge the validity of Habba's work, citing a controversial decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to argue that Habba lacked the authority to bring charges in the case, reported NOTUS.

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'This man is not well!' 'Dripping in sweat' Trump alarms in latest interview

As much as President Donald Trump demonizes the mainstream media, he loves the spotlight. And on Sunday night, Trump's interview with Norah O'Donnell for CBS News' "60 Minutes" was aired.

The interview is generating a variety of reactions on X.

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Kash Patel hammered as FBI jet scandal brings old comments back to life

FBI Director Kash Patel faced backlash Monday after old remarks criticizing his predecessor’s use of an FBI jet resurfaced amid reports he used an agency jet to attend his girlfriend’s music show over the weekend.

On Friday, Patel reportedly used the FBI’s Gulfstream luxury jet to fly from Palm Beach, Florida to Nashville, Tennessee, where his girlfriend – 26-year-old Alexis Wilkins, a country music singer – was performing that night. Patel would go on to fire a 27-year veteran at the FBI the next day after blaming him for leaking his use of the FBI jet to the press, according to reports.

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'Total fools': Morning Joe skewers GOP sidestep so 'stupid' South Park wouldn't touch it

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Republicans for descending into self-parody so "stupid" that "South Park" wouldn't even lampoon it.

The president claimed during an interview with "60 Minutes" that he didn't know who crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao was, despite pardoning him after his company helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of a Trump family crypto enterprise, and "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire cast doubt on his claims.

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MAGA-friendly firm fires worker for filming 'brutal' DHS raid

A security guard at a big-box home improvement store owned by a Trump-supporting billionaire filmed a "brutal" immigration raid, The Daily Beast reported — and then found himself out of a job.

"Ricardo Mendez was positioned at the door of Menards — a chain of midwestern home-improvement stores whose billionaire owner, John Menard Jr., is a GOP megadonor — in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois, when agents deployed by DHS arrived on Tuesday afternoon," said the report. "Like so many in the city since 'Operation Midway Blitz' began in September, Mendez had been 'on the lookout' since federal immigration officers 'started taking over,' he told the Daily Beast."

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Republican warns Trump now 'losing' on economy — and says it's 'going to get a lot worse'

As the government shutdown continues with millions of Americans losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and federal employees going without pay forcing many to turn to food banks, President Donald Trump's focus on foreign policy and building a ballroom is causing supporters and Republicans to question his priorities, according to NBC News.

The shutdown, NBC reports, is compounding problems that have intensified "broader anxiety over an economy that in recent months has been marked by lingering high prices for many consumer goods, rough jobs numbers, mass layoffs at major companies — including Amazon and Target — and an uptick in inflation."

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