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'Most alarming sign': Trump admin warned of red flag over 'biggest fan' of Iran strikes

A media analyst flagged the "most alarming sign" for the Trump administration following its decision to strike multiple sites across Iran on Saturday morning.

In the wake of the strikes, President Donald Trump's MAGA coalition appears to have soured on him, according to Will Sommer, a reporter who covers the right-wing media scene for The Bulwark. However, there is one voice that has risen above the fray to defend the president — MAGA fan and fervent Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, Sommer reported.

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Nancy Mace under investigation for padding expense reimbursements

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been accused of inflating her housing expenses in an over-billing scheme, according to a new report.

Axios reported on Monday that the House Ethics Committee is investigating Mace for allegedly inflating expenses for her congressional office to maintain her home in Washington, D.C. In a press release, the committee said it began the investigation after reviewing a report from the Office of Congressional Conduct that "identified discrepancies between the amounts requested and received by Rep. Mace ... and the total of these associated bills," according to the report.

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Trump caught lying about top general's Iran claim: report

President Donald Trump told the American public his top military adviser blessed the Iran strike campaign as a sure thing. But the truth, according to a New York Times report on Monday, was the opposite.

Before the bombs fell, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine stood before Trump and his national security team in the White House Situation Room in February and delivered a stark warning.

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Observers aghast as Supreme Court saves rare GOP seat in blue state redistricting fight

Political and legal analysts were aghast on Monday after the Supreme Court handed down its latest unsigned order.

The court granted a stay of the Manhattan Supreme Court's January ruling that New York's 11th Congressional District violated the state constitution by diluting the voting power of minority groups. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) currently sits in the seat, and the new district proposed by New York's Independent Election Commission would have made it more competitive for Democrats in the future.

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JD Vance revealed something quite ugly about himself: expert

In late February, MAGA media star Tucker Carlson interviewed U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. The conversation prompted a reaction from Vice President JD Vance, who described it as "good," highlighting its timeliness. Yet in doing so, Vance revealed himself to be a "shapeshifter", exhibiting something "quite ugly" about himself, according to one expert. For former State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen, Vance's comments were concerning. "What it tells you is that JD Vance, who is a shapeshifter if ever there was one, is really willing to play with some quite ugly rhetoric, and some very problematic figures," said Cohen. He then pointed out how Carlson and Huckabee made multiple controversial statements. For instance, Huckabee said Israel has the right to take over some of its neighboring countries to restore its Biblical borders, which is something most hard-liners in the country don't agree with, Cohen said.

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'Great villains': Law firms that 'groveled' to Trump scorched as revenge bid dropped

President Donald Trump's Justice Department backed down on Monday on a huge monthslong legal battle, no longer defending a series of executive orders that attacked prominent law firms that represented anti-Trump clients in the past.

It's a huge victory for the rule of law, voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace — but also a huge black eye for the law firms that made deals with Trump to avoid similar regulatory action against them.

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Trump warned Ira​n will hurt him even more than Epstein: 'Could split his party in half'

President Donald Trump's invasion of Iran might actually do more damage to his electoral coalition than his mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, former Republican strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

Miller claimed the president has a "megalomaniacal belief in himself."

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Right-wing Supreme Court justices skewered in blistering dissent on gender identity

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan tore into her right-wing colleagues in a dissent to a Monday "shadow docket" ruling that grants an appeal to religious parents challenging California policies that protect schoolchildren's confidentiality about gender identity.

In that dissent, she accused the majority of deploying a doctrine they themselves disparaged multiple times to undermine liberal legal rights.

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Supreme Court justice sends shockwaves in dissent: 'Rules for thee, but not for me'

A Supreme Court Justice sent shockwaves on Monday after she blasted a new unsigned order handed down by her conservative colleagues in a blistering dissent.

The Supreme Court issued a stay on a lower court's order allowing New York lawmakers to redraw the state's 11th Congressional District to make it more favorable to Democrats. Though the order is unsigned, Justice Samuel Alito wrote a concurrence, arguing that the redrawn 11th District "discriminates on the basis of race."

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Fury as 'embarrassing' video drops of House GOP 'making a mockery' of Epstein deposition

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Monday after seeing the video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deposition from last week.

Clinton was deposed by members of the House Oversight Committee for roughly six hours about her relationship with the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. During the deposition, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) shared a photo from inside the hearing room, which caused the interview to be temporarily suspended. Multiple other Republican lawmakers also asked Clinton about numerous conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, which caused some analysts to assume that they were "making a mockery" of the investigation into a convicted sex criminal.

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Trump's marquee legislation now reverberating through hospitals

President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," a $1 trillion healthcare cut, is triggering a crisis across rural America, forcing hospital closures and threatening Republican midterm prospects. The Congressional Budget Office projects 10 million Americans will lose insurance coverage over the next decade, with Medicaid work requirements alone eliminating 7.5 million people's coverage. Combined with Republican refusal to extend enhanced ACA subsidies, hospitals face catastrophic consequences. St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital in Georgia closed its maternity ward. MercyOne in Iowa shuttered clinics and laid off staff. Trinity Health projects $1.5 billion in annual revenue losses. Northern Light Health in Maine anticipates $27 million annual revenue drops. The bill simultaneously cuts provider taxes and eliminates special payment mechanisms, forcing hospitals to treat uninsured patients without reimbursement. Republicans face escalating political backlash in battleground states as hospital closures dominate local politics.

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Supreme Court hands down pair of major 'shadow docket' decisions

The Supreme Court handed down two significant and consequential emergency orders on Monday through the so-called "shadow docket," issuing a pair of rulings that largely handed victories to Republicans and conservative activists.

In one ruling, they granted an emergency appeal to religious parents suing California to force schools to disclose gender identity information their children chose to keep confidential.

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Rubio under fire over 'insane' 'imminent threat' remark on Iran: 'Dishonest as hell'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's claims that the U.S. was under an "imminent threat" prompting American military strikes in Iran came into question Monday.

Rubio told reporters the Iranian military was growing its nuclear weapons program and planning to launch attacks against America, its assets in the Middle East, and its allies in the region — namely Israel. In the days since, Rubio said Iran has attacked civilian areas in the Middle East in retaliatory strikes since the attacks started Saturday.

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