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'Hey tough guy': Mark Cuban goes to war with MAGA-loving Fox News host

Business giant Mark Cuban faced off with one of Donald Trump's top defenders in the media on Friday.

It all started when Cuban reportedly "slammed fellow billionaire Elon Musk and other business figures who have recently signaled support for former President Trump's campaign in a social media post."

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Revealed: Expert discloses what 'chaos' could ensue if Joe Biden exits presidential race

An expert has revealed what chaos could ensue if President Joe Biden, who's facing mounting calls to step aside, does just that.

Speaking with Erin Burnett's "OutFront" on Friday, Josh Putnam, a consultant who helps campaigns navigate delegate rules, said should he step aside, the key factor will be Biden's endorsement.

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GOP Senate candidate thrashes Project 2025: It's a 'threat to our way of life'

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) wrote a scathing review of Project 2025 in an op-ed for The Washington Post, blasting it as a "threat to our way of life" as Americans.

Project 2025, a 900-page series of government restructuring proposals laid out by the far-right Heritage Foundation, calls for Trump to replace the entire federal civil service with an army of MAGA loyalists, take direct control of the prosecutorial power of the Justice Department, and implement a wide range of hard-right policy goals ranging from the enshrinement of Christian nationalism in law, to the end of all racial equity programs, to drastic cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Trump has denied any connection to the project, but in reality many of his own former administration officials helped write it.

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Man arrested for threatening to kill Trump and J.D. Vance days after assassination attempt

A Florida man has been arrested after police said he threatened former president and current presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, as well as vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance and their families.

Michael Wiseman was arrested Friday on charges of written threats to kill, police in Jupiter, Florida, wrote in a news release.

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'Help elect a childless cat lady': New Hampshire Democrat cashes in on J.D. Vance jab

Erica de Vries, a Democrat running for Congress in New Hampshire, is capitalizing on J.D. Vance’s ‘childless cat lady’ remark with a fundraising email she says is raking in the cash.

Vance, who accepted the Republican nomination this week to serve as Donald Trump’s vice president, has received backlash as his history of making misogynistic comments comes to light. In a 2021 Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson, Vance derided Democratic leadership as childless and miserable, with no stake in the country's future.

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The strange reason Trump showed off misspelled jacket for firefighter killed at rally

Donald Trump initially made no move to contact the family of or attend the funeral of Corey Comperatore, the pro-Trump firefighter who was fatally shot at the rally where the former president also received a minor injury to his ear in a failed assassination plot.

Ultimately he got in touch with his widow, however, and put on display a jacket of the firefighter at the Republican National Convention — but a number of people immediately noticed something odd. Comperatore's name was misspelled on the jacket, leaving out the "A."

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Trump spills on details of call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky

Former President Donald Trump revealed the details of what he called a very good phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Taking to his own social media app, Trump wrote that Zelensky congratulated him on receiving the GOP nomination for president and for a "very successful Republican National Convention."

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'I'm not a big dum-dum!': Shouting erupts on Fox News in heated exchange over Trump speech

Shouting erupted Friday afternoon on Fox News as "The Five" debated former President Donald Trump's rhetoric and whether it helped or hurt his chances of bringing in new voters.

The heated exchange started when rotating co-host Jessica Tarlov slammed Trump, telling the panel — made up of Judge Jeanine Pirro, Pete Hagseth, Sandra Smith, and Charlie Hurt — that Trump praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and said North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "misses him."

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Veteran newsman schools neo-Nazis: 'When I look at you guys, I do not think master race'

Legendary Nashville newsman Phil Williams clashed with neo-Nazis protesting in the "Music City."

The Goyim Defense League is described by the Anti-Defamation League as "virulently antisemitic provocateurs," and they brought "symbols of hate and vile words," wrote Williams on Friday.

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'Betrayal': Teamsters head who spoke at Trump's RNC faces challenge for 'kissing the ring'

International Brotherhood of Teamsters president Sean O'Brien is in hot water with his own members after giving a speech at the Republican National Convention this week. And it could now cost him his position.

According to In These Times labor reporter Kim Kelly, O'Brien is drawing a challenger in John Palmer, the union's VP-at-large, who tore O'Brien to shreds in an announcement of his candidacy for the union's leadership election in 2026, urging members to vote for him to "send Sean O'Brien back to the truck."

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Biden campaign takes online troll fight to Trump's home turf

Joe Biden’s campaign team is trolling Donald Trump on his home turf.

Biden’s meme-makers have been posting to the Trump-owned Truth Social website since October, The Atlantic reports. The official @Biden-HarrisHQ account has about 245,000 Truth followers (compared with Trump’s 7 million) and is “akin to a satanic metal band playing at a Christian-rock festival,” Ali Breland writes.

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John McCain's daughter pushes new conspiracy theory about Biden's health

Meghan McCain has a new conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden: he is faking his latest diagnosis of COVID-19.

McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a former co-host of "The View," laid out why she believes this in the latest episode of her "Citizen McCain" podcast, according to The Daily Beast.

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'Boring': Conservative says Trump speech left delegates 'yawning and looking at watches'

Donald Trump isn't getting good reviews from those who watched his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday.

Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes pointed out that even those most loyal and most dedicated to Trump were bored.

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