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'Peace through strength!' Trump Diwali greeting finds darkness in festival of lights

As Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists across the globe celebrated Diwali, the festival championing the victory of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance, former President Donald Trump had a message to deliver.

It was this: Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden should be held responsible for recent looting and mobs in Bangladesh.

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'I shudder to imagine': Expert sees surprise way Trump return could doom Americans

Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House in 2025 could doom American citizens to an early death for a surprising reason revealed by a Washington Post contributor Thursday.

Health columnist and emergency physician Dr. Leana S. Wen expressed concern that Trump would task anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy with choosing health agency chiefs who could face a major viral threat hovering on the horizon.

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'I have no cognitive': NPR analysis reveals litany of alarming Trump gaffes

Former President Donald Trump's most recent campaign speeches are not nearly as succinct or energetic as they once were, and riddled with gaffes, according to a new National Public Radio review.

The 78-year-old Trump's speeches are marked by "lower energy" and also a tendency to go off on "nonsensical tangents," NPR reported Tuesday. What's more, Trump seems to at times have difficulty recalling very basic vocabulary.

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'Consistently exaggerating': CNN fact checker drops the hammer on J.D. Vance

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale on Friday whacked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for falsely claiming that the Biden administration is forcing American car companies to only manufacture electric cars, which Vance said would cost thousands of autoworker jobs.

"The Biden-Harris administration has not forced and is not forcing Americans to buy electric vehicles," Dale said. "And Vice President Harris isn't proposing forcing people to buy electric vehicles. Nobody's taking away your gas-powered car."

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'Alarmingly bad at math': 78-year-old Trump slammed for saying he's 'not that close' to 80

Donald Trump, 78, on Sunday was criticized after saying at a town hall event that he is "not that close" to being 80 years old.

Trump over the weekend held a town hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he delivered remarks while sitting.

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Fox crowd goes wild after woman says Biden would call audience members domestic terrorists

Donald Trump's town hall on Fox News with an all-woman audience ended with a question from a woman who said that President Joe Biden would call the audience terrorists.

Trump had been dealing with questions about women's reproductive freedom when a woman complained about the "woke" military.

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Trump demanded 'special election' to reinstate him six months after leaving office: report

Donald Trump cooked up a "pressure" campaign for a special election that he hoped would reinstate himself as president six whole months after Joe Biden took office, according to details purportedly from famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's book.

Foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen dropped the report on social media, making this the most recent news stemming from Woodward's upcoming book. Woodward gathered material for the forthcoming publication "War" in hundreds of interviews, and CNN reports that the book claims that Trump "secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use."

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'Chaos monkeys': Ex-GOP strategist warns what will ensue if Trump wins

Metaphorical monkeys of pandemonium will be armed and ready to throw — not a party — if former President Donald Trump wins the election in November, according a concerned conservative.

This graphic assessment comes from the Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson in a new Salon editorial from Republicans who have vowed "never Trump" and throw support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

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'Propaganda': Trump adviser fumes as Fox News airs Hurricane Milton briefing

Former President Donald Trump's senior campaign adviser was furious that Fox News updated Americans on a deadly hurricane barreling toward the nation's southern coast.

Chris LaCivita shared bitter complaints on X Wednesday afternoon that the conservative news network opted to air a Biden administration briefing on preparations for Hurricane Milton hours before its expected landfall in Florida.

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'It's got to stop': Biden uses national address to shame Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is continuing to spread misinformation about liberals controlling national disasters, and President Joe Biden on Wednesday told her publicly to cut it out.

Speaking in a nationally-televised address with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the leaders pressed those in the path of the Category 4 Hurricane Milton to take it seriously.

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'Not true': CNN host puts Trump spokeswoman on the spot over ex-president's FEMA lies

CNN's Kate Bolduan on Wednesday put Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on the spot for lies former President Donald Trump has been telling about the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to Hurricane Helene.

At the start of the interview, Bolduan played a clip of Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) telling CNN this week that there was no evidence to back up claims that FEMA has been deliberately holding back funds for Americans in need of disaster aid and diverting that money to undocumented immigrants.

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Watch: Fox Business scrambles to put negative spin on blockbuster new jobs report

A panel on Fox Business scrambled on Friday to put a negative spin on a blockbuster new jobs report that showed more than 250,000 jobs were created in September.

Even though the new report showed not only strong growth in hiring but also growth in wages significantly outpacing inflation, panelist Joanie Bily nonetheless believed it showed a weak economy if you simply disregard a large number of the jobs that were created.

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'Number of falsehoods': CNN cuts away from Trump rally to deliver brutal fact-check

CNN cut off live coverage of former President Donald Trump's campaign speech Thursday to deliver a lengthy fact-check over a "number of falsehoods."

Anchors Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez interrupted the Republican presidential nominee's rally in Saginaw, Michigan, to correct a series of false statements, even as Trump railed against "lying" Vice President Kamala Harris, whose name he mispronounced.

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