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'He’s still really mad': Megyn Kelly says Trump won't return to her show 'anytime soon'

Former Fox News host-turned podcaster Megyn Kelly said that she's not expecting Donald Trump to return to her show anytime soon after the two had a contentious interview.

Kelly told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling this Thursday that she had Trump on in September "and I don’t know that he loved that interview," the New York Post reports.

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Fox News host flooded by snark after asking why GOP leaders aren't bowing to Trump

One of Donald Trump's biggest Fox News allies found himself overwhelmed by snarky answers on Thursday when he asked why prominent Republicans aren't backing the ex-president.

Fox News weekend host Mark R. Levin, who was recently mocked online for lamenting a lack of billionaires offering to help Trump post bond in his case, is frequently promoted by Trump on the ex-president's social network, dubbed "Truth Social."

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Democrats hit Trump on abortion in key U.S. election states

Democrats blitzed target states Tuesday with a campaign to mobilize voters on reproductive rights ahead of November's US election, highlighting efforts by Donald Trump and the Republicans to curb abortion access.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries headlined a "field hearing" in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a day after a ruling by the state's Supreme Court paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to come into effect next month.

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Man behind Dobbs decision now complains women being left to 'back-alley abortion butchers'

The chairperson behind a group's legal opinion that was used to overturn federal abortion rights now worries that women will be left to "back-alley abortion butchers."

Although Matt Staver's Liberty Counsel filed a brief to overturn Roe v. Wade, he believes women could be put in a worse situation after the Dobbs decision that relied on his legal opinion.

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Biden slams 'outrageous' Florida abortion ruling

US President Joe Biden criticized Tuesday an "outrageous" Florida supreme court ruling that paved the way for six-week abortion ban, seizing on an issue that the Democrat hopes could boost his reelection chances.

The decision by the southern state's conservative-dominated court on Monday threw Florida into the heart of an increasingly bitter nationwide fight over reproductive rights ahead of November's US presidential election.

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Will Musk help Trump with cash, not just tweets?

Elon Musk, one of the world's richest people, says he won't directly back Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the US election -- but one look at his X feed makes clear his heart is with the Republican.

Trump, meanwhile, needs cash -- burdened with millions of dollars in legal troubles, he is also gearing up to fight what will be the most expensive election in US history.

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Florida in play? Biden and strategists say yes as court puts abortion, marijuana on ballot

Could Democrats win Florida in November?

The Florida state Supreme Court on Monday approved two measures to appear on the ballot in the November presidential election: the right to abortion, and recreational marijuana, both strong pulls for Democrats.

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Diversity programs vanishing from U.S. campuses amid culture wars

The latest battle in the culture wars cleaving American society centers around diversity programs on university campuses, now restricted or banned in a growing number of U.S. states.

The debate pits those on the left, who advocate for boosting minority students victimized by deep-rooted inequality, and those on the right who say people should be judged on individual merit, not skin color.

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'Gratuitous attacks': Republicans fear Trump's grudge matches could bury them in election

Donald Trump is being urged to move past bitterly held grudges over Republicans he considers disloyal — or risk destroying his party in November, according to a report.

Members of the House GOP are increasingly worried that the former president can’t move on from perceived slights of the past, and that he’s more focused on revenge than he is on victory.

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'Unhinged': More than a dozen far-right groups urge SCOTUS to give Trump absolute immunity

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments both in favor of and against former President Donald Trump's claim of absolute broad presidential immunity in less than a month. And a significant number of groups have already submitted arguments to the Court asking that justices grant it.

According to Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, 18 groups have submitted what he called amicus (meaning "friend of the court") briefs totaling nearly 600 pages, all in relation to the immunity case. Nearly all of them are from far-right organizations and legal activists requesting that the nation's highest court accept Trump's "unhinged" argument that presidents are unbound by the rule of law while they're in office.

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Trump's 'megalomania' trap: neocon expert warns of concentration camps and carnage

Donald Trump's megalomania will either spell "electoral calamity" for Republicans in the 2024 election or the beginning of American carnage the likes of which the world has never seen, an expert on neoconservatives said Friday.

Jacob Heilbrunn, author of "America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators," raised his serious concerns with Salon Friday over the Republicans who have lined up behind a presumptive nominee he warns could dismantle democracy at home and abroad.

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'Stop butchering songs': Lara Trump bashed for latest musical venture

Lara Trump, the co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, has released a new song and it's getting absolutely panned even by many of her own social media followers.

Lara Trump last year unveiled her musical ambitions when she offered up a widely ridiculed cover of Tom Petty's classic hit "I Won't Back Down," and her new track, titled "Anything is Possible," is taking similar abuse from internet critics.

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Disney's bitter war with Ron DeSantis comes to end

Disney's war with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has come to an end with the settlement of a lawsuit.

The Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board, which governs the special tax district where Disney is located, voted unanimously Wednesday morning in favor of the agreement and dropped most of its legal opposition to a state law restricting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, reported the Washington Post.

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