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Karoline Leavitt can't keep straight face while delivering 'obviously true' claims

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt struggled to keep a straight face while insisting that information she delivered from the podium was "obviously true because I'm saying it."

During Wednesday's White House briefing, Michael Graham noted that Americans in New England were paying "the highest prices for natural gas to heat their home."

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'Big mistake': Trump demands US ally keep​ Indian Ocean island as possible war looms

President Donald Trump demanded the United Kingdom hold onto an Indian Ocean island that's home to a joint airbase because it might be needed for a possible war against Iran.

The administration has backed Britain’s plan to turn over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius while leasing back the joint UK-U.S. airbase Diego Garcia, but the 79-year-old president issued a social media demand Wednesday afternoon as American forces mass in the Middle East.

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'Rattled' prosecutors blame grand juries for failure by Jeannine Pirro's office: report

Prosecutors in U.S. attorney Jeannine Pirro's office are unnerved by their failures to indict targets of President Donald Trump's ire, and they reportedly believe the system is rigged against them.

The president accused six Democratic lawmakers of sedition for producing a video urging military service members to disobey unlawful orders, but their lawyers said federal prosecutors looking into those allegations were genial in their inquiry and indicated an investigation was in its earliest stages – until suddenly something charged, reported the New York Times.

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Top Epstein pal hounded by Dem lawmaker during break in hearing: 'Hard to believe'

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) hounded billionaire Les Wexner Wednesday during a break from the billionaire’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee on his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Wexner was compelled by law to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, members of which traveled to Wexner’s mansion in Ohio to conduct the closed-door hearing. During a break in the testimony, a handful of lawmakers on the committee spoke with reporters to provide an update, and Lynch, speaking fiercely, blasted Wexner for his “hard to believe” testimony up to that point.

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Pope snubs Trump's White House invite citing 'critical issues' with president

Pope Leo XIV rejected President Donald Trump's invitation to join his Board of Peace with a serious response, according to reports Wednesday.

The Vatican issued a statement and declined the White House's January request, making it clear that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church does not want to be involved with Trump's Gaza project, The New Republic reported.

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Trump uses Black History Month 'celebration' to push for 'Jim Crow 2.0' voting laws

The White House announced that President Donald Trump was celebrating Black History Month by pushing policies like voter ID that would make it more difficult to vote.

In a statement titled, "President Trump Celebrates Black History Month" on Wednesday, the White House said, "President Trump's historic push to pass the SAVE America Act will safeguard the voices of black Americans — and all Americans — by preventing illegal votes from disenfranchising any citizen."

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Surprise Trump voter bloc roils with regret: 'Honeymoon is over'

President Donald Trump's early support from Black Americans has cratered just a year later, according to a new analysis.

The 79-year-old president garnered more support from Black voters in 2024 than any GOP presidential candidate in decades, and nearly one in three Black Americans approved of his job performance in his first weeks back in the White House, but that favorability has plunged to as low as 13 percent last month and he's currently hovering around the lows he hit just before losing the 2020 election, reported the Washington Post.

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Trump admin's threats appear to have backfired as Dem candidate gets 'very good news'

President Donald Trump's administration may have elevated a Democratic Senate candidate by strong-arming CBS into calling off an interview with him, according to a new analysis.

Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert told viewers that said CBS didn't air his interview Monday with Texas state Rep. James Talarico out of fear of regulatory action by the Federal Communications Commission, which the network denies, but CNN's Harry Enten said new data shows the administration's threat could have backfired.

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DHS defends locking up critically ill baby by blaming migrant mother: ‘The mother chose’

The Department of Homeland Security sparked outrage Tuesday after reports revealed that a two-month old baby with bronchitis was being held in an immigration detention center in Texas, and on Wednesday, DHS went on an unhinged posting spree defending its lockup of the critically ill infant.

The infant, Juan Nicolás, is currently incarcerated at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Dilley, Texas, a facility that’s become infamous for the amount of children held within its walls.

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CNBC humiliates Eric Trump after bragging about brand success: ‘Because your father’

Eric Trump appeared alongside his brother Donald Trump Jr. Wednesday for a sit-down interview with CNBC where, after touting the Trump brand as “hot,” he was issued a scathing reminder of who may be most responsible for its success.

“We have the greatest hospitality assets in the world, the Trump Organization, we have 26 projects going up around the world,” Eric Trump boasted to CNBC’s Sara Eisen.

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Dems poised to flip Trump's own district in special Florida state election: report

A special election in President Donald Trump's own backyard could flip a Florida House district from Republican to Democratic.

The long-anticipated race has Democrat Emily Gregory facing off against Republican Jon Maples in the 87th District, the same district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, according to The Down Ballot. The district includes the coastline along northern Palm Beach County.

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Smithsonian to display Melania Trump gown featured in documentary

Melania Trump will once again donate her inaugural gown to the Smithsonian, continuing a century-old tradition.

The first lady wore a Hervé Pierre-designed white gown to her husband Donald Trump's second inauguration Jan. 20, 2025, that will now go on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s First Ladies Gallery, reported The Hill.

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Don Jr. defiant on Trump's 'blatant' crypto corruption: 'They put us in this position'

Donald Trump Jr. defended his family after they were accused of corruption over a secret deal in which the UAE invested millions in a crypto venture in apparent exchange for clearance to purchase powerful AI chips that could end up in the hands of China.

During an interview on Wednesday, CNBC's Sara Eisen asked Donald Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric Trump, about the World Financial Liberty deal with the UAE. Critics have called the deal a "blatant, disgraceful conflict of interest and a possible violation of the Constitution's Federal Emoluments Clause."

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