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'Unthinkable' deal offered to Trump DOJ stuns legal expert

Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor at the Department of Justice, was shocked to discover lawyers for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani offered the Department of Justice a $10 billion U.S. investment in exchange for dismissing criminal fraud charges.

Weissmann led the Department of Justice, or DOJ's, fraud section for two decades.

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Trump's 401(k) overhaul deluged with fake MAGA fawning — some from dead people

President Donald Trump's controversial 401(k) proposal was flooded with sham MAGA commentators — and some of them aren't actually alive, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

An examination of nearly 12,000 comments supporting the administration's proposed rule uncovered submissions made under the names of people who died, Bloomberg reported.

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MAGA darling may be walking into 'Super Bowl of murder content' trap: report

There's a storm brewing over an upcoming debate between MAGA heavyweights, according to a new report.

On Friday, MAGA personalities Candace Owens and Andrew Wilson will face off in a debate about Charlie Kirk's assassination, The Bulwark reported. Owens plans to present a case that there is a broader conspiracy at play, while Wilson plans to argue that Tyler Robinson, Kirk's accused killer, acted out of his own volition.

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'Heartbreaking': Analyst aghast as Trump's war drives Navy sailors to rock bottom

The mental health breakdown aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln as President Donald Trump's Iran war drags on is reaching the breaking point, Pentagon reporter Priya Sridhar told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Wednesday.

"Heartbreaking" reports have been flooding in about sailors jumping, or trying to jump, off the side of the vessel as their conditions and psyches deteriorate, she noted — and they "feel like there's no end in sight."

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Karoline Leavitt's White House departure sends shockwaves

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is resigning from her position, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday afternoon.

"Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family," Trump wrote.

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Tommy Tuberville asks ChatGPT how to vote during long Alabama drives

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has found a way to pass the long drives across Alabama: chatting out loud with ChatGPT about major policy issues.

The Alabama Republican, now eyeing the governor's mansion, peppers the bot with questions about Medicare and Medicaid and listens as its voice answers back, according to The Washington Post.

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Outrage as Trump aides move to put his name back on Kennedy Center after court said no

The Kennedy Center board is moving once again to put President Donald Trump's name on the side of the performing arts center — defying court orders.

The Trump-loyal board voted Thursday to inscribe "Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump" beneath the venue's main signage — a workaround to a federal law banning new memorials or plaques at the center, The New York Times reported. The move came shortly after the board also voted to move forward with shuttering the main building for two years of renovations, a plan Trump first floated in February, calling the historic venue "tired, broken and dilapidated."

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MAGA candidate's 'unexplained' attendance issues led to 200 missed votes: report

A MAGA lawmaker who is running for a Senate seat in Iowa missed nearly 200 votes during her time in Congress on topics ranging from protecting kids to reducing crime and domestic violence, according to a new report.

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) has been absent from 196 votes since she was sworn into office in 2021, American Journal News reported on Thursday. Her attendance record was revealed at a time when she is running against Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek, a Democrat, in a high-stakes election, according to the outlet.

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Trump's 'cruel' scheme hurled​ back at him by 'traitor' nemesis

President Donald Trump coined the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" as the vehicle for a billion-dollar scheme to funnel taxpayer money to his allies, and one of his highest-profile targets is stealing the name and aiming it right back at him.

Miles Taylor, the former Trump homeland security official who anonymously blew the whistle on the first administration, announced this week that his group Defiance is launching "the real Anti-Weaponization Fund" to go to bat for Americans caught in the president's campaign of retribution.

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MAGA rep's CNN interview goes off the rails: 'I'm not admitting anything!'

A Republican congressman exploded when a CNN anchor tried to pin him down on accepting campaign cash from a GOP colleague accused of abusing his ex-wife and daughter.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was among 16 GOP incumbents to receive contributions from Rep. Max Miller's (R-OH) Dependable Conservative Leadership PAC, and CNN's Dana Bash asked him about a statement from his campaign spokesman saying he would not give back a $10,000 donation from this campaign cycle.

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Stephen Miller teams up with a 'deadly threat' in new bid to attack helpless kids

Advocates and lawmakers are raising concerns over how the Trump administration is handling unaccompanied migrant children after a contract for legal services was allowed to expire.

The Department of Health and Human Services allowed a legal-services contract for the children to lapse and awarded a new $244 million contract to a nonprofit whose leadership has faced serious allegations, and a writer for Public Notice warned the moves put children in real danger.

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'Magical thinking': Jared Kushner slapped with humiliating takedown over 'peace' claim

Jared Kushner drew immediate backlash for a social media post claiming President Donald Trump had opened a new chapter of 'peace' in the Middle East, as a U.S.-initiated war raged on.

Kushner posted Thursday on X to mark what he called the six-year anniversary of the Abraham Accords — the 2020 diplomatic agreements that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states.

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Leavitt departure tied to Todd Blanche's surprise memo after confirmation: expert

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s out-of-the-blue announcement that she is abandoning her current job to become an off-the-books adviser to the president raised eyebrows on Thursday.

During a panel discussion on MS NOW’s “On The Line” with host Alicia Menendez, it was noted that the imminent departure of President Donald Trump’s spokesperson comes on the heels of an unexpected and controversial memo from Attorney General Todd Blanche released on Tuesday, after he was sworn in.

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