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'He sulked, he slouched': Analyst claims 'puny' parade left Trump miserable

Americans “really let President Donald Trump down on June 14," USA Today columnist Rex Huppke mocked on Monday.

With more than five million people rallying at various ‘no kings’ protests, Huppke wanted those demonstrators to know how “hurtful that was for a man who just wanted to have a cool birthday parade that would make him feel like a powerful dictator?”

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Dairy farmer's lawsuit claims Trump is discriminating against whites

A Wisconsin farmer is suing the Trump administration's Department of Agriculture over its continued use of diversity, equity and inclusion programs that he says are keeping white, male farmers from receiving loan forgiveness.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the USDA Monday "on behalf of white dairy farmer, Adam Faust," according to the Associated Press.

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Iran signals it wants an end to Israel hostilities—but only if Trump stays away

Iran is open to deescalating tensions with Israel, but it is contingent with President Donald Trump and the U.S. staying out of the hostilities, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that after several days of mutual bombing, Iran "seeks an end to hostilities and resumption of talks over its nuclear programs."

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'Not MAGA': Fox News host attacks 'little known' Marjorie Taylor Greene

Fox News host Mark Levin lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by suggesting she wasn't "MAGA" enough.

Posting Sunday on X, Greene said some conservatives were pretending to be "real America First/MAGA."

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‘I'll have to answer’: Tucker Carlson admits to being ‘dishonest’ and ‘nasty’

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson admitted that he had spent much of his life being dishonest, cruel and nasty.

During a Monday discussion with MAGA host Steve Bannon, Carlson seemed to regret some of his years in broadcasting.

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'Nine errors in 60 seconds': GOP senator subjected to brutal fact check

Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) put out a video last week attacking the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan agency that forecast the budget impact of legislation, because they found President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" of tax cuts will add over $2 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. This follows a number of other Republicans pushing similar claims that the CBO cannot be trusted or is in some way biased.

But Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler found no fewer than "nine errors in 60 seconds" of his video.

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E. Jean Carroll publishes 'top secret' book revealing Trump trial 'high jinks'

E. Jean Carroll has secretly written a new book chronicling her court battles with President Donald Trump.

Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President,” is due out on Tuesday, just days after an appeals court ruled that it wouldn't reconsider its ruling upholding a $5 million civil judgment against the president in a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually abused the writer in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

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'Spending like drunken sailors': Kristi Noem risks criminal charges over ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement could “run out of money by next month,” according to a report from Axios.

The outlet reports the agency is “already $1 billion over budget” as it carries out multiple raids across the country. Axios' lawmaker sources said the Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of ICE, could be violating “U.S. law if it continues to spend at its current pace.”

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Court officers stabbed at Manhattan criminal courthouse

Two court officers were stabbed Monday morning at New York City's criminal courthouse in Manhattan, NBC New York reported.

"A suspect was taken into custody after the attack on the officers at 100 Centre Street," the report said, citing a source. "The attack happened near the entrance to the building, in the front lobby area."

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Supreme Court orders review of decision protecting medically necessary abortions

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reconsider a decision that protected abortion rights in the state of New York law that the Roman Catholic Diocese takes issue with.

New York passed a law that mandated employer-funded insurance to cover the price of medically necessary abortions. A lower court had already ruled against a challenge to that law by religious groups.

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Trump mobile phone service to include telemedicine where docs give prescriptions

President Donald Trump's sons, Eric and Don Jr., announced that their family's company will now offer a mobile phone service that includes doctors who will write prescriptions remotely.

At a media event on Monday, Don Trump Jr. gave an overview of the new business venture.

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'Oh my god, this could be him!' New details on suspected assassin's arrest

New details have emerged about the events leading up to the arrest of the suspect in the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota.

Police arrested 57-year-old Vance Boelter following a manhunt that started before dawn Saturday, when he allegedly shot and killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, at their Brooklyn Park home, and he is also accused of shooting and wounding state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, at their home in Champlin.

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'False!' Kristi Noem's DHS furious at accusations of 'racial targeting'

The Department of Homeland Security refuted an article in Monday's Los Angeles Times that accused the agency of making sweeping arrests based on "racial profiling."

The article's headline read, "Fears of racing profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens."

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