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Amid White House anger at Eric Adams, NYC mayor says migrant crisis could cost Democrats at the polls

NEW YORK — Amid reports the White House is angry about Mayor Eric Adams’ public criticism of President Joe Biden, Adams warned Sunday that the migrant crisis could cost fellow Democrats at the polls. Speaking on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart,” Adams compared the migrant crisis to public safety, the central talking point of his 2021 campaign. “When I talked about public safety and the over-proliferation of guns in our country last year, many people were not listening to the concern of voters. And I am saying that again,” the mayor said. The president’s reelection campaign rece...

'The Black people are running rampant': Republican uses Dan Abrams show to justify racism in C-SPAN call

Bobby from Grayson, Kentucky, called into the Republican line to tell Democrats they are stupid.

He attacked a previous caller who he said "white people [are] bad" and said that the Dan Abrams show "On Patrol: Live" is the best justification for his beliefs about the different races in America.

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GOP senator pours cold water on any chance Trump will ever be president again

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) made a strong case that there is little to no chance that Donald Trump will ever be president again.

Speaking with host Jake Tapper, the conservative from Louisiana was asked about the host of Republicans now jumping into the race to be the GOP's 2024 presidential nominee and was asked if Trump has a chance in the general election.

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Yellen says June 1 is 'hard deadline' for raising debt ceiling

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said June 1 remains a "hard deadline" for raising the federal debt limit, with the odds quite low that the government will collect enough revenue to bridge to June 15, when more tax receipts are due.

Yellen, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, said there would be hard choices to make about payments to Americans if Congress failed to raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling before Treasury ran out of cash and was forced to default.

"I indicated in my last letter to Congress that we expect to be unable to pay all of our bills in early June and possibly as soon as June 1. And I will continue to update Congress, but I certainly haven't changed my assessment. So I think that that's a hard deadline," she said.

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'The numbers are the numbers': Chuck Todd thumps GOP rep. over damage from Trump tax cuts

NBC host Chuck Todd pushed back on Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) after the Florida Republicans tried to minimize the damage done to the federal government's coffers by President Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.

"We can't litigate the tax cuts because of what happened with COVID," Todd told Donalds during a Sunday interview. "We don't know how much this ate into everything, but it certainly looks like there were going to be fewer revenues coming into the government."

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'All of that money from China': Trump baselessly accuses Biden of being on Beijing’s payroll

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked President Joe Biden over the United States Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur's probe into classified documents that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered at various properties associated with the president.

"Joe Biden REFUSES to give the 1,850 Boxes in Delaware, or the 4 Boxes that were discovered in CHINATOWN, and then sent to his lawyers in Boston to clean them up," Trump wrote on his Truth Social app at 8:20 a.m.

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Biden: Zelenskiy has promised Ukraine won't use F-16 planes to go into Russia

By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday said he had received a "flat assurance" from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he would not use Western-provided F-16 fighter jets to go into Russian territory.

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Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Ukraine says still controls part of Bakhmut

(Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine gave conflicting accounts of the situation in Bakhmut with Kyiv saying its forces still controlled part of the besieged eastern city, while Moscow congratulated the Wagner mercenary force and Russian troops for "liberating" it.

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Biden says Republican debt ceiling demands 'unacceptable'

US President Joe Biden will call Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy once he winds up the G7 summit in Japan

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday slammed Republican demands in negotiations to resolve the US debt ceiling standoff as "unacceptable" but said a solution can still be found before a disastrous default.

Speaking at a press conference just before returning to Washington from the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Biden said Republicans' latest demands for spending cuts as a condition for raising the US government's borrowing authority were "frankly unacceptable."

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Ukraine's Zelensky wins new diplomatic, military support from G7

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will plead for diplomatic and military support in Hiroshima as he addresses G7 allies

Hiroshima (Japan) (AFP) - President Volodymyr Zelensky secured more arms, munitions and "unwavering" diplomatic support from G7 allies in Hiroshima Sunday, as Russia claimed victory in the battle for a devastated eastern city.

Meeting leaders from a bloc of rich democracies, Zelensky won a commitment from US President Joe Biden to provide yet more "ammunition, artillery, armoured vehicles" on top of access to F-16 jets.

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Biden, House Speaker McCarthy could speak Sunday on debt limit

By Trevor Hunnicutt

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy could speak as soon as Sunday in talks over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Biden is 'held hostage by the radical left mob' in spending talks

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Saturday that it is not the Republicans in Congress who are trying to appease their radical fringe base in spending talks, but the White House and Joe Biden.

Greene, who is known for making fantastic claims on Twitter, was responding to Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram, who reported on news coming from the White House on the ongoing spending discussions with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

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U.S. elections are changing, and it's benefitting Democrats: analysis

We all know that elections in the United States have changed since Donald Trump arrived on the political scene, but a report shows that those differences are often working to the benefit of Democrats, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

The Post analyzed data provided in a new report by the Democratic data analytics firm Catalist, which purports to provide a comprehensive analysis of the 2022 contest. Some of the findings from the report run counter to "conventional wisdom," according to Dan Balz, chief correspondent for the Post.

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