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'People stuck': US Open delays match after Trump's attendance backs up traffic for hours

US Open organizers delayed the final match of the tournament over the weekend after President Donald Trump's attendance caused attendees to experience a delay of over an hour in reaching the event.

"As a result of the security measures in place, and to ensure that fans have additional time to get to their seats, we have pushed the start time of today's match to 2:30 pm ET," the US Open said Sunday on X..

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'DeSantis is going to own this': Doctor says FL gov just redefined his legacy in worst way

"I live in a red state and this breaks my heart." That was the reaction from one health policy expert when discussing an announcement in Florida that vaccine mandates would be nixed in the state.

Former United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who was appointed by the president during his first term in office, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent purge at the CDC. After that analysis, he was asked about events unfolding in Florida.

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Amy Coney Barrett 'can't answer' if Trump has the 'right to do anything' as president

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett refused to say if President Donald Trump has "the right to do anything" as president of the United States.

During an interview on Sunday, CBS host Norah O'Donnell told Barrett that the president had recently made the claim to reporters in the Oval Office.

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'Be quiet!' Trump rages at reporter for asking if he's 'going to war' against Chicago

President Donald Trump lashed out at a White House correspondent for asking about reports that he was "going to war" in Chicago by deploying troops.

"Are you going to war with Chicago?" the reporter asked as Trump was leaving the White House on Sunday.

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'You're going to find out': Trump gives cryptic reply to question about Venezuela attack

Donald Trump made waves on Sunday when he gave a cryptic response to a reporter's question.

A reporter over the weekend asked the president, "Are you considering attacking the cartels inside of Venezuela?"

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'Answer the question!' Chris Christie shouts at Reince Priebus over RFK Jr. qualifications

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus yelled at each other over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s qualifications to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

"You looked at that appearance before Congress, and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades," Christie said during a Sunday morning roundtable on ABC. "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a foolish man full of foolish and vapid ideas."

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GOP senator blames 'what the CDC did during COVID' for shooting at agency's headquarters

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) suggested that a shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) happened because of what the agency "did during COVID."

During a Sunday interview with Marshall, CBS host Margaret Brennan advised the senator to be "very careful in this very heated environment."

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'Deeply alarmed': Trump-appointed surgeon general declares war on 'dangerous' RFK Jr.

Donald Trump's former surgeon general sounded the alarm on Sunday about Robert F. Kennedy's role in the administration.

Former United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who was appointed by the president during his first term in office, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to talk about Kennedy's recent purge at the CDC.

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'They will be prosecuted, too': Trump border czar targets those funding protests

White House border czar Tom Homan warned that people funding First Amendment protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "would be prosecuted."

During a Sunday morning interview on Fox News, Homan told host Jason Chaffetz that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a "historic number of prosecutions" against protesters for "impediment, assault, interference."

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Mike Johnson turns on GOP colleague who is 'actively working against his team'

Donald Trump wants to destroy one particular Republican lawmaker, and GOP leaders aren't going to stand in the president's way, according to CNN's new reporting.

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has been making waves from within the Republican party, most recently in connection with his push to force the DOJ to disclose all of its files on disgraced financier and convicted child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has vowed to support GOP candidates who want to oppose Massie, and CNN reports that Mike Johnson won't interfere.

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Thomas Massie busts Mike Johnson on Epstein: 'Why was Trump an informant to a hoax?'

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wondered why President Donald Trump had called the Jeffrey Epstein case a "hoax" even though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) seemed to claim that the commander-in-chief had once been an FBI "informant" against the sex offender.

"Congressman Massie, let me begin with you and get your response to Speaker Johnson," ABC host George Stephanopoulos told the Republican in a Sunday interview. "He says you've been misled. He also suggested at one point this week seemed to suggest that Donald Trump, President Trump, was an informant to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein."

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'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates.

"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

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'Trump lost it': Ex-insider flags evidence president prepping to 'stay in power forever'

Just as Donald Trump once looked to Ukraine in an attempt to dig up dirt on the Bidens and stay in power, he's now concocting a scheme to keep that power forever, according to a former administration insider.

Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration, was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info on Hunter Biden. Parnas was later convicted of campaign finance violations, and today reports on Trump from outside the administration.

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