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‘You ain't right in the head!’ Civil war erupts between staunch Trump loyalists

President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone, a prominent figure in the MAGA movement, announced Sunday that bank and finance records of right-wing influencer Laura Loomer would be made public “very soon,” sparking her outrage and the eruption of a public spat.

Stone’s announcement comes amid Loomer’s ongoing and one-sided feud with right-wing figure Tucker Carlson, who’s drawn Loomer’s ire in recent months over his criticism of Israel, and the United States’ significant support – both financially and geopolitically – of the Middle East nation.

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Honeymoon over as Hegseth's handpicked 'reporter' turns on him

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is discovering that he can change the players, but he can't change the game as one of the more prominent conservative “reporters” he has allowed to cover the Pentagon is already giving him grief less than a week in.

The embattled Donald Trump appointee effectively purged the mainstream media from covering the Pentagon if they didn't agree to highly restrictive rules.

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‘Nonstory!’ Trump official gets defensive as spending on chemical weapons soars

A Trump administration official went on the defensive Monday after a report that the administration is far outspending previous administrations on chemical weapons — and using them against its own citizens.

Advocates have criticized the administration for its spending and accused ICE agents of using force and chemical weapons, including pepper spray and pepper ball projectiles, on people protesting the administration's immigration policies, according to a Newsweek report.

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Top Trump prosecutor resigns after court rules she was serving unlawfully

Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, announced Monday that she has resigned and blamed the "politicized left" for the move.

Habba, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, stepped down after an appeals court ruling found that she was serving in her position unlawfully.

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Trump refuses to share pre-holiday inflation report — first skipped month in 12 years

The Bureau of Labor Statistics won't be publishing a delayed report on wholesale price inflation this month.

The federal agency will skip the postponed October report on the Producer Price Index and instead roll those figures into November's report, which will be published Jan. 14, reported the Wall Street Journal.

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'Outrageous!' Steve Bannon in tailspin over German push to ban 'repeat of Nazism'

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at the German government over a proposal to ban a right-wing political party to prevent a "repeat of Nazism."

During a Monday interview with German AfD party member Beatrix von Storch, Bannon noted that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had floated the idea of banning the party.

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'Elect clowns, get a circus': Pam Bondi mocked as she rages over Lindsey Halligan putdown

The Department of Justice issued a joint statement in support of Lindsey Halligan after federal judges questioned her role as a prosecutor.

Two magistrate judges and a district court judge in Virginia told prosecutors in open court they didn’t believe Halligan’s name should be listed on criminal case filings after another judge found last week that she was not lawfully serving as U.S. attorney.

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'So deranged!' JD Vance lashes out at critics sickened by anti-migrant rant

Vice President JD Vance doubled down Monday on his past remarks about how it was “totally reasonable” for Americans to want their neighbors to speak the same language, lashing out at critics as being “so deranged.”

Vance sat down with New York Post’s Miranda Devine in late October for a lengthy interview on the outlet’s “Pod Force One” podcast, during which he defended Americans that didn’t want non-English speakers as neighbors.

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'Corrupt': Trump's son-in-law sparks backlash with role in Warner Bros. Discovery takeover

On Sunday, President Donald Trump declared that he will “be involved” in the federal government’s decision on whether to allow the streaming service Netflix to buy mass media and entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. On Monday, Paramount Skydance, another mass media and entertainment conglomerate, announced a hostile takeover bid for WBD, with news soon following that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s private equity firm is part of the Paramount offer.

“Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner’s involvement only strengthens that case,” Axios reported. “Paramount is led by David Ellison, whose billionaire father Larry is a major supporter of President Trump.”

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Stephen Miller gunning for Kristi Noem as her star fades at the White House: report

Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s future within Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly on “thin ice,” reports MS NOW’s Jake Traylor — with highly influential Trump adviser Stephen Miller reportedly seeking her ouster.

Over the weekend, The Bulwark reported that White House patience with the controversial Noem is waning over her escapades and “it was made clear that Trump is indeed considering moving on from Noem. Two of those officials said they believed such a move could happen 'really soon,' relaying that they’ve been told Noem has been taking on less of a role in directing department memos.”

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Judge orders release of Karoline Leavitt family member being held by ICE

An immigration judge ordered the release of a Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Bruna Ferreira, who is the mother of Leavitt's 11-year-old nephew, was being held at an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana after federal officers arrested her last month in Massachusetts, but immigration Judge Cynthia Goodman ordered her to be set free on the lowest bond possible, her lawyers told the Washington Post.

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Kristi Noem confronted to her face about rumors she's about to be fired

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem laughed Monday after a reporter asked about reports that President Donald Trump is considering cutting her from the top administration job.

Noem was at a press conference in Tampa, Florida where she handed out checks to $10,000 bonus checks for TSA workers who kept working without pay during the government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history. A reporter off camera during the live-streamed press conference asked about reports that Trump is considering replacing her.

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Sonia Sotomayor thumps Trump DOJ for 'asking us to destroy the structure of government'

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused President Donald Trump's Department of Justice of asking the high court to "destroy the structure of government" by overturning 90 years of legal theory on who the president could fire.

During a hearing on Monday, Solicitor General John Sauer argued that a 90-year precedent on who the president can remove "must be overruled." The hearing comes after Trump tried to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Federal Trade Commissioner appointed by Democrats.

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