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Trump ignoring 'gathering storm' pushing world toward total war: column

President Donald Trump appears to be ignoring a "gathering storm" that could tip the world into a total war, according to a new column.

What global conflicts like Ukraine's war against Russian aggression and Trump's war against Iran have exposed, according to a new essay from New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, is that the U.S. is ill-prepared to enter a global conflict as the country did during World War II. That poses a significant risk, Stephens argued, for the global order.

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Jesse Watters changes his tune about progressive after epic clash: 'I like him!'

Right-wing Fox News anchor and commentator Jesse Watters grudgingly conceded Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was a worthy opponent during a segment of "The Five" on Tuesday evening.

The two went head to head in a dramatic clash Monday evening, where El-Sayed emerged with a ton of sound bites aimed at both base Democratic voters and undecided voters.

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'Hidden costs' of Trump DOJ's corruption come home to roost as cases stall: expert

The Justice Department's "nakedly political" prosecutions have made it harder to convict criminals, which will hurt the public, a former prosecutor warned.

In a Tuesday Substack article, former U.S. attorney Harry Litman argued that the reprisal prosecutions dominating the headlines, including cases against figures like James Comey and Letitia James, are only one face of what he called "the other side of the DOJ's corruption." The more damaging fallout lands where few are looking, he warned.

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Judge busts Trump admin violating her order — as it told Supreme Court the opposite

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's administration violated her court order blocking new mail-in ballot restrictions, catching officials making contradictory claims to different courts within weeks of each other.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani found that the Trump-governed U.S. Postal Service defied her preliminary injunction by quietly finalizing a rule implementing Trump's executive order on mail-in ballots just days earlier, sending it to the Federal Register on August 21, despite her explicit order barring them from "initiating or completing" any such rulemaking.

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Trump quietly hands Congress a Saudi nuclear deal as he looks for way out of war: report

President Donald Trump has submitted a nuclear agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Congress for approval, a move that has the potential to radically reshape the balance of power in the Middle East, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing "an administration official," that the agreement includes a stipulation that Saudi Arabia recognize the State of Israel and sign the Abraham Accords. The Kingdom has not signed the accords because of Israel's resistance to Palestinian statehood.

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Dolly Parton’s sister uncorked tirade at ‘pimple’ Trump in days before star’s death

Dolly Parton’s sister unleashed a blistering stream of attacks against President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the country music legend’s death - including a now-deleted attack shortly before the news broke.

“As a natural born citizen of the United States of America, I do not support nor do I agree with Trump or his deranged, ugly, nasty behavior,” Stella Parton wrote in a post on Tuesday, according to a screenshot retained by Raw Story before it disappeared.

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Clarence Thomas just made the case to impeach himself on Ted Cruz's podcast: expert

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas built a case for his own impeachment by praising his Republican senator "friends" on a podcast, a legal expert warned.

In a Tuesday episode of the "Legal Breakdown" podcast, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner reacted to comments made by Thomas during an episode of "Verdict with Ted Cruz." Thomas thanked Republican Texas senator Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and other GOP allies for defending him and his wife, Ginni Thomas.

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Fox News host cuts Democrat's mic mid-rant after interview goes off the rails

An interview with former Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison on Fox News' "The Will Cain Show" went completely off the rails Tuesday evening, as Harrison accused Cain of inviting him on under false pretenses.

Harrison appeared genuinely blindsided when Cain pressed him on the influence of the Democratic Socialists of America on Senate primaries, and their possible ties to activists accused of antisemitism. Harrison, while he tried to respond, insisted that wasn't the topic Cain had told him they'd be discussing.

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Top GOP campaign chief smacked with ethics complaint over secret video scheme

The head of the House Republicans’ campaign committee is facing an ethics complaint over allegations that he used footage of official congressional proceedings to target vulnerable Democrats with just over two months before the midterm elections.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, was named in a complaint filed Friday with the Office of Congressional Conduct, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

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Expert flags the 'twisted' detail everyone missed in Trump's Supreme Court win

A legal expert zeroes in on the more "twisted" part of President Donald Trump's latest Supreme Court win that seems to have been overlooked.

Alexis Romero, an economic justice attorney, wrote in a new op-ed for Slate that the Supreme Court's recent ruling that lifted a lower court's injunction on Trump's mail-in ballot order will create a "tightrope" for states to navigate during the midterms. She noted that one of the liberal Supreme Court Justices picked up on the implications of the order in her dissent.

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Court kills GOP's 'intolerable' scheme to bury Democrats before the midterms

A federal appeals court struck down a Federal Communications Commission rule that would have let Republican party committees buy television ads at the discounted rate Congress reserved for candidates.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 2-1 on Tuesday, setting aside guidance the commission's Media Bureau issued in March.

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'Sounds like me': Trump confesses to CNN that he torpedoed trade talks with Canada

President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that he caused the intensifying trade war between the U.S. and Canada after he added conditions to the talks at the 11th hour.

Trump spoke briefly with CNN's Jim Sciutto after Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on a bevy of U.S. goods. During the call, Sciutto asked about Canadian officials' assertion that late-stage demands were inserted into the negotiations, and the president's response was eerily surprising.

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Fury after Trump admin moves to crush public input on data centers: 'They want to lose'

The Trump administration is stripping away Americans' right to weigh in on data centers before construction starts, even as bipartisan backlash against the massive AI-fueled facilities grows nationwide.

According to The New York Times, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate a federal requirement forcing states to publicize and collect public comments on air pollution permits for data centers and the gas plants that power them.

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