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'Uh...': Fox News ridiculed after claiming 'libraries turned into drug-infested sex dens'

A lot of Americans will be checking out their local libraries after Fox News ran a segment on their transition into "drug-infested sex dens."

Host Jesse Watters told his fellow Fox News panelists Thursday that an under-reported crime spree had spread through public library systems and he had one person to blame.

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'Gibberish': Trump's rant about 'Letitia Jones' causes 'mental decline' uproar

Former President Donald Trump gave a furious speech about his legal problems in New York, in which he seemed to be confused on many issues, like calling New York Attorney General Letitia James "Letitia Jones," and mixing her up with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting his hush money case next week — while claiming President Joe Biden had something to do with all of it.

"They put him into the state of New York, and then into the D.A.'s office to run the case," said Trump. "This is being run by Biden. They put a man into the state, Letitia Jones, 'Peekaboo,' I call her, Peekaboo Jones, Peekaboo — they put a man into that one to, Letitia. They put a man into that one to run it, and he went into the D.A.'s office."

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Biden campaign pounces on Republican abortion controversy

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden vowed to "fight like hell" for women's reproductive rights in a reelection ad Thursday, as his team pounced on the backlash to a Republican-backed decision all but outlawing abortion in the swing state of Arizona.

"Your bodies and your decisions belong to you, not the government, not Donald Trump," Biden says in the ad, which will be aired in Arizona during popular shows including American Idol and Saturday Night Live this month.

Biden vows 'ironclad' defense of Philippines, Japan

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pledged Thursday to defend the Philippines from any attack in the South China Sea, as he hosted the first joint summit with Tokyo and Manila amid growing tensions with Beijing.

Biden's three-way meeting with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida follows repeated confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the disputed waterway.

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Pro-Trump election denier fired from RFK Jr. campaign for 'misrepresentation'

Rita Palma, a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign New York State staffer and pro-Trump election denier who attended the pre-insurrection January 6, 2021 rally, has been terminated for “misrepresentation,” according to multiple news outlets and the campaign.

Palma made headlines earlier this week when unearthed video of her promoting a plan to “get rid” of President Joe Biden to help elect Donald Trump went viral.

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'A new level': Trump mocked for pushing law to ban something 'already against the law'

Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are holding a big press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday where they will reportedly propose a bill that was already passed 28 years ago in 1996.

According to USA Today, the men will demand passage of a bill that would prevent immigrants from voting in an election. The problem is that this is already a law on the books.

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'Thought he was being deviously clever': Analyst says MAGA ally just exposed big Trump lie

Steve Bannon’s attempt to talk up a Donald Trump “secretive scheme” on the campaign trail blew up in his face when he exposed a large lie instead, according to a new political analysis.

“Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever,” Greg Sargent wrote for the The New Republic Thursday.

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Trump-loving Georgia lieutenant governor faces formal investigation for being fake elector

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is finally facing an investigation into his role as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump in 2020.

The fake electors scheme, in which several Trump partisans signed paperwork falsely declaring themselves their states' legitimate electors, is a major piece of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' sprawling racketeering case against Trump and his allies.

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'They are calling her terrible names!' Trump jumps to defense of Aileen Cannon

Former President Donald Trump spoke out Thursday against the dangers to personal safety, and democracy, that arise when criminal court judges are publicly targeted by powerful people.

Trump — who has been hit with gag orders from three judges who said his character attacks triggered a barrage of violence threats against them and others — was condemning the Justice Department and President Joe Biden, whom he accused of harassing Judge Aileen Cannon.

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'Oh, big man!' Fox host shuts down Jeanine Pirro as she says Trump not scared of prison

During a segment on the Fox News show The Five, Jessica Tarlov pushed back against fellow host Jeanine Pirro who claimed that Donald Trump isn't scared to go to prison.

Tarlov, who's generally presented as a liberal voice on the show, was addressing Trump's recent comments in which he called President Joe Biden a "threat to democracy," saying that such a characterization is "complete insanity" in light of his actions on Jan. 6, adding that he's doing “his darnedest” to not show up to the courtrooms as he’s “definitely afraid of what’s going to happen there.”

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'Unwanted and just stupid': Trump insider trashes Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest stunt

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will travel to Mar-a-Lago as he faces a leadership threat from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Donald Trump's inner circle is indicating they're not thrilled with the drama.

The Georgia Republican filed a motion to vacate last month that so far has not come up for a vote, and Trump insiders aren't happy that Greene has threatened to throw the House back into chaos in a presidential election year, risking the GOP's chances of keeping Congress and retaking the White House and Senate, reported Politico Playbook.

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Biden takes major action on guns lawmakers have been talking about since Columbine

President Joe Biden is taking action on Thursday that will close the "gun show loophole" by requiring tens of thousands of unlicensed gun dealers to perform background checks. It is an effort to reduce gun violence and mass shootings that lawmakers have attempted for a quarter-century, since the 1999 Columbine, Colorado High School massacre, the deadliest school mass shooting in U.S. history at the time. Next week marks the 25th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, where 12 students and one teacher were murdered.

Last August the Biden administration announced the new proposed rule to add an estimated 23,000 unlicensed gun sellers to the category that already includes approximately 80,000 dealers required to perform background checks, according to CBS News. Politico calls it "the most sweeping expansion of firearms background checks in decades." A bipartisan bill passed after the Uvalde, Texas elementary school mass shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children and two adults, made the rule change possible, Forbes reported last year.

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'Sword hangs over Mike Johnson's neck': GOP rep says time running out for speaker

Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she still plans to move forward with her effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, saying she warned him in a meeting that she's "watching what happens" on Ukraine funding and the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

And her threat is being increasingly taken seriously by her GOP colleagues in Congress.

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