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'It's so painful!' Ex-GOP lawmaker cringes on CNN as Trump clip plays

A former Republican lawmaker cringed during a segment on CNN after she was shown a clip of President Donald Trump grading his economy on Tuesday.

Trump told Politico's podcast, "The Conversation," earlier on Tuesday that his economy gets an "A+++++" for its performance. That's despite public polling showing that about half of Americans see the rising cost of living as their top concern heading into the 2026 midterm.

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Trump DOJ probes state's entire prison system in new plot to free jailed MAGA acolyte

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has come up with a new way to try to pressure the state of Colorado to release Tina Peters, a MAGA-favoring former elections clerk who went to prison for tampering with election equipment to try to prove Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories.

According to The New Republic, "Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are pretending to care about prisoners’ human rights in an apparent effort to get conspiracy theorist, former state official, and convicted 2020 election fraudster Tina Peters out of a Colorado jail."

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Explosive leak reveals shocking new use of AI in Trump's Pentagon: 'Monumental'

The Department of Defense has launched a new generative artificial intelligence tool that will help the agency identify and engage military targets, according to a DOD source and an explosive leak reported on by journalist Jessica Burbank and Drop Site News.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the new AI tool – dubbed “Gemini” – in a Tuesday memo obtained by Burbank, informing all DOD personnel that they are expected to incorporate the technology into their “workflows immediately.” Hegseth wrote that Gemini would help the agency “out-think, out-decide, and out-pace any adversary.

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'Are you listening?' Heated clash on CNN as Republican tries to deny hearing outrage

A heated CNN anchor gave fierce pushback on Tuesday afternoon to a Republican lawmaker who tried to deny hearing pleas from farmers who said they're struggling to make ends meet.

CNN's Brianna Keilar got in a fiery back-and-forth with Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) after she asked him during a live broadcast about what farmers are saying. Alford claimed that the Trump administration was working to give them more relief when the conversation got heated.

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'Where is your plan?' Senate Republican confronted on Fox News while slamming Obamacare

Fox News host Martha MacCallum challenged Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) to present the Republican health care plan after he blamed Democrats and the Affordable Care Act for rising costs.

During a Tuesday interview, McCormick acknowledged that "health care costs have gone up dramatically," blaming it on former President Barack Obama's signature law.

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Trump's 'monumentally deranged' admissions just handed Democrats a secret weapon: analyst

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission about his pardon of Honduran former President Juan Orlando Hernandez that undercuts his rationale for bombing alleged drug smuggling boats.

The president told Politico’s Dasha Burns in a new interview that he knew "very little about him" before issuing a pardon for his conviction in a U.S. court for drug trafficking, which Trump claimed was "an Obama-Biden type setup," and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said the admission "handed Democrats a new weapon to hound Republicans mercilessly if they fail to exercise oversight over these ongoing crimes."

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Confused Trump can't keep his popes straight when asked about harsh criticism

During a filmed interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, President Donald Trump became confused when confronted with comments made by the first American pope, Pope Leo XIV.

As part of the 45-minute interview, where the president professed, “I watch everything, yeah. I watch everything. I see a lot of things,” Trump seemed surprised the Chicago-born pope has criticized his administration for the forced roundup of immigrants by ICE on orders from the Department of Homeland Security.

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'Republicans made a fundamental error': Expert warns GOP scheme is about to backfire

President Donald Trump has consistently pressured Republicans in Texas and elsewhere to redraw U.S. House of Representatives district boundaries in the middle of the decade as a means of giving the GOP an advantage in next year's midterm elections. But one prominent elections expert is predicting that strategy may ultimately backfire.

During a Tuesday appearance on liberal commentator Bill Press' podcast, Larry Sabato — who is the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics — said that based on 2025's off-year elections in which Democrats enjoyed lopsided victories in multiple states, Republican gerrymandering efforts may not save the GOP's majority in the House of Representatives.

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'Are you kidding?' Texas GOP senators scoff at challenge from Jasmine Crockett

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) finally settled weeks of speculation on Monday by announcing her candidacy for U.S. Senate — but for the time being, at least, Texas' two Republican senators do not feel threatened by her.

Asked for comment by Raw Story, Sen. John Cornyn, the senator currently seeking reelection, said, "I welcome her to the race."

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Trump's iron grip on Republicans slipping as 'fear' of him diminishes: report

Signs are emerging that some Republican lawmakers may be reasserting independence from President Donald Trump, challenging his dominance over the party and the legislative branch.

Republicans have largely deferred to the president since his return to the White House, but recent pushback on key issues suggests potential cracks in Trump's control of the GOP congressional majority, reported NPR.

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Ex-staffers expose Trump-era 'purge' inside DOJ

About 200 former attorneys and staff from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice are warning of the “near destruction of DOJ’s once-revered crown jewel,” and what they call Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “demand” for “loyalty to the President, not the Constitution or the American people.”

“For decades, the non-partisan work of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has protected all Americans—especially the most vulnerable—from unfair treatment and unequal opportunities,” they write in a letter dated Tuesday. They added that “after witnessing this Administration destroy much of our work, we made the heartbreaking decision to leave—along with hundreds of colleagues, including about 75 percent of attorneys.”

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Investigation sought into Trump's FIFA peace prize

FIFA's Ethics Committee has received an official complaint regarding its inaugural peace award for President Donald Trump and allegations that the organization's leader, Gianni Infantino, violated the organization's political neutrality, according to reports on Tuesday.

The nonprofit FairSquare submitted an eight-page letter to FIFA's ethics committee on Monday, requesting an investigation into the process behind Trump's award decision, The Athletic reported. The nonprofit and advocacy group focuses on labor migration rights, political repression and sports.

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Racist and profanity-laden game show rented public school gym — and sparks firestorm

A nonprofit that raises money for a San Diego County high school district is under fire for renting out one school's gym for a “punishment” game show that featured racist attacks, profanity and bondage-themed penalties for participants.

According to a report from the San Diego Union Tribune, “the Canyon Crest Academy Foundation — a nonprofit separate from the district that raises money for the high school” agreed to rent out the gym for a show called “24-Hour Tag,” where the four participants were tormented as it was streamed on Twitch.

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