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Trump's new Fed official downplays severe price hikes hitting Americans' wallets

President Donald Trump’s new addition to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, Stephen Miran, appeared to try to downplay the significant price increases Americans are seeing at grocery store checkout lines.

“Last month saw the biggest jump in grocery prices in almost three years,” NPR reported on Friday. “A survey this summer by The Associated Press and NORC found the cost of groceries has become a major source of stress for just over half of all Americans — outpacing rent, health care and student debt.”

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Experts sound alarm as Trump designates an 'idea as a terrorist group'

In a fiery declaration, President Donald Trump announced he is designating Antifa a terrorist organization. Some experts say he lacks the authority to do so and will struggle to enforce such a move, while others warn it could give him sweeping license to target groups or individuals he disfavors.

“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote on social media on Wednesday evening. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

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‘We’re literally sitting in the building’: House Dem shreds GOP’s spin on violence

A House Democratic lawmaker blasted the right’s narrative that extremist violence comes largely — or exclusively — from the left, a claim contradicted by evidence, including a Justice Department study recently scrubbed from its website. The motive and political ideology of the shooter remain largely unknown.

President Donald Trump has been leading the charge on the right in suggesting that left-wing violence is prevalent.

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Top Trump aide demands left face ‘accountability’ for Kirk killing and MAGA's own misdeeds

Senior Trump White House Counselor Peter Navarro is raging at “they” — seemingly Democrats and the left — for consequences he and fellow MAGA allies have brought on themselves, including prison time. And he appeared to blame the left for the assassination of Charlie Kirk as well.

In a Fox Business interview, Navarro, who has promoted conspiracy theories, highlighted on Tuesday his prison sentence and that of Steve Bannon, both for contempt of Congress. Both were sentenced to several months in prison.

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Americans are being conditioned to accept 'violence beyond anything imagined': experts

The increasingly hostile political climate is showing no signs of abating, and some political scientists are worried about what that could mean for Americans in the near future.

That's according to a Tuesday essay by the New York Times' Thomas B. Edsall, who spoke with various experts about how the recent killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk has inflamed political tensions across the United States. Some were particularly worried that President Donald Trump's harsh rhetoric toward the political left could significantly increase the chances of further political violence during his second term.

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House lawmaker mulls government shutdown over Trump's threat to 'lock up a reporter'

A prominent Democratic congressman is threatening to vote to shut down the federal government in response to President Donald Trump’s threat to target a journalist over a question about hate speech.

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked the president about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claim that she will target those who engage in hate speech, which is largely constitutionally protected. Trump suggested the administration could go after the reporter.

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New poll finds staggering number of parents now reject childhood vaccines

Parents who homeschool their children are the largest demographic to delay or reject childhood vaccinations, followed by parents who are white and very religious, according to a new Washington Post-KFF poll. One in six parents now reject the vaccination schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The poll — the most detailed recent look at the childhood vaccination practices and opinions of American parents — shows that 1 in 6 parents have delayed or skipped some vaccines for their children, excluding for coronavirus or flu,” according to The Washington Post. For those two diseases , the compliance rate is far less.

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'I pray for your violent, bloody anguishing death': House Dem shares audio of MAGA threats

One Democratic member of the House of Representatives is now sharing disturbing audio of death threats that supporters of President Donald Trump recently called into his office.

The Hill reported Friday that Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) posted a minute-long clip of several death threats to both Moulton and his children after he called on President Donald Trump to take the lead on calming the national temperature in the wake of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk's assassination. Many of the threats were profane and detailed, and at least one caller explicitly said "MAGA" before threatening Moulton's life.

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Nancy Mace careens from ‘death penalty’ call to prayers for ‘lost’ Charlie Kirk suspect

Over the course of two days, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has taken starkly shifting positions on the alleged assassin of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk—repeatedly blaming Democrats, calling for the death penalty, then urging prayer for the suspect to find Jesus Christ.

When news broke on Wednesday that Kirk—who had a large following on the right, and was close with President Donald Trump and his family—had been shot and had died, Mace declared, “They killed Charlie Kirk.” She did not specify who she thought “they” were.

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Eric Trump echoes father’s rhetoric after Charlie Kirk's killing to hawk his memoir

Eric Trump railed against “radical left lunatics” in a tirade of grievances—parroting the same rhetoric his father used in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk—as he hawked his new memoir, “Under Siege.”

“As to what the radical left lunatics were trying to do to our family, what the movement that we created, and it’s a movement of good. It’s exactly what Charlie epitomized,” the president’s son declared to podcaster Benny Johnson.

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'Costs are down!' Trump declares inflation 'solved' as gas and grocery prices soar

President Donald Trump has declared inflation “solved” as Americans are paying more for everyday goods like gas and groceries.

“I’ve already solved inflation,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning. “Costs are down.”

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'Their ideology is pure evil': Congressional Republicans tee off on progressives

House and Senate Republicans are lashing out at Democrats en masse, blaming them for rhetoric they say led to Wednesday’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

U.S. Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO), in a speech Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives, attacked the left, charging that even those who are “well-meaning” abide by an ideology of “hate” that mirrors communist authoritarians and revolutionaries.

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'It will get worse': Experts alarmed as Putin again thumbs nose at US

Two former top Trump officials from his first administration sounded the alarm after Russia attacked Poland Tuesday night, as several critics assailed the President for years of insisting Putin would never have dared attack Ukraine if he were in office.

Russia launched more than a dozen drones into Poland, which “prompted NATO forces to launch warplanes overnight,” according to The New York Times.

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