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Texans flock to social media to demand the state 'secede' after losing at Supreme Court

Texas lost another case at the U.S. Supreme Court against President Joe Biden's administration.

In this case, the federal government is fighting the state's decision to put razor wire on the border that blocks U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers from being able to access migrants. The incident unfolded after three migrants died in the river between the U.S. and Mexico. The Border Patrol was prevented from being able to save the family, which included two children.

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Trump has another senior moment live in Fox interview

Donald Trump had another senior moment when speaking to a reporter from the Fox network Monday in New Hampshire.

The latest cautionary advice by the 45th president was about gas prices as well as some other confused thoughts.

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Minnesota gov smacks down Republican for taking credit for Biden projects he voted against

Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) took to X on Monday to boast that he had helped secure funding to repair a bridge in northern Minnesota. The problem is that it is a lie.

"I'm proud to announce that Duluth, MN and Superior, WI have received over 1 billion in federal funding to help replace the Blatnik Bridge," he wrote. "This is a HUGE win for #MN08 and I was proud to advocate for these funds!"

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'Ignorant and rude': MAGA supporter lays into Trump — but says he'll vote for him anyway

Several Republican voters in New Hampshire told CNN they have a lot of complaints about Donald Trump as a candidate — but they're backing him anyway, CNN reported.

Voter Andrew Konchek told the network Trump was "ignorant and rude," But he's supporting him because Trump "supports fishermen, you know, and obviously it’s my livelihood."

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Biden gets border win as SCOTUS smacks down Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over razor wire

Supreme Court justices handed President Joe Biden a win Monday by codifying his administration's right to remove razor wire and other barriers placed at the border by Texas state officials.

In the 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court agreed with the Biden administration's emergency request that stated Texas officials were preventing federal officials from carrying out their duties.

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Florida bill would funnel $5M of public money to Trump to pay legal fees

Florida Republicans have a new idea — create a state program that will bail out up to $5 million of former President Donald Trump's legal expenses with public money.

The legislation — first reported by Newsweek — has been proposed by Florida's Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and is being sponsored by State Sen. Ileana Garcia. It would establish a bucket of cash called the "Florida Freedom Fighters Fund."

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Trump gaffe sparks worry that media is ignoring mental decline: 'Losing his marbles'

Donald Trump’s recent rhetorical fumble in which he confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi has begun raising concerns about media coverage of the leading Republican presidential candidate's mental state.

New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, in a five-alarm missive condemning the coverage of Trump's startling weekend statement, asked readers to imagine what would have happened if President Joe Biden publicly confused a campaign opponent with a past speaker of the House.

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'A lethal scam': Top constitutional lawyer warns No Labels 'could end democracy'

One of the nation’s top constitutional law attorneys, University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University Laurence Tribe, blasted the dark money group No Labels on Monday, calling it a “lethal scam.”

No Labels, which insists it is not a political party while attempting to get a potential candidate on the 2024 presidential ballot, reportedly is now “openly floating” a plot to throw the November election into the U.S. House of Representatives — letting congressmembers decide the winner.

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‘No Labels is a lethal scam’ warns top constitutional law attorney

One of the nation's top constitutional law attorneys, the well-known University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, Laurence Tribe, blasted the dark money group No Labels on Monday, calling it a "lethal scam."

No Labels, which insists it is not a political party while attempting to get a potential candidate on the 2024 presidential ballot, reportedly is now "openly floating" a plot to throw the November election into the U.S. House of Representatives, which would mostly likely hand the White House back to Donald Trump.

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CNN's Paula Reid gives Elise Stefanik brutal fact-check over election interference tantrum

Rep. Elise Stefanik received a swift and brutal fact check from CNN reporter Paula Reid Monday after news broke of a delay in former President Donald Trump’s defamation trial.

Stefanik threw her social media tantrum shortly after federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, learning a juror reported COVID-like symptoms and Trump’s attorney Alina Habba had been potentially exposed to the virus, adjourned the New York City courtroom for the day.

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Trump blasts out E. Jean Carroll smears as final day of trial delayed by illness

Donald Trump blasted out a series of demeaning posts about author E. Jean Carroll on what should have been the last day of his defamation trial.

The former president posted dozens of screenshots of Carroll tweeting about sex-related topics or jokes, along with right-wing blog posts questioning her motives, character and sanity, during the time Monday morning when the trial was scheduled to resume with him on the stand.

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Phony Biden-mimicking robocalls  urge voters to skip New Hampshire primary

A robocall impersonating President Joe Biden is urging his supporters in New Hampshire not to vote in Tuesday's primary election.

The president's name doesn't actually appear on the state's ballot because election officials set the primary date ahead of Feb. 3, when South Carolina will hold the first sanctioned contest under newly implemented Democratic National Committee rules, and the robocall appears intended to undermine a campaign to write in Biden's name, reported NBC News.

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'Truly confused': ABC News' Jon Karl stunned that Trump seems 'out of it'

ABC News' Jon Karl on Monday marveled at the fact that Trump has made multiple slipups in recent days, including in a speech where he seemed to confuse GOP rival Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

"Donald Trump is truly confused about who Nikki Haley is, thinks somehow that she was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6th," Karl said during an appearance on "Good Morning America." "We've seen him confuse Joe Biden with Barack Obama, he thinks that he beat Obama. We saw at one point, he talked about how Biden was going to get us into World War II... There have been several moments on the campaign trail where he has seemed, quite frankly, out of it."

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