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One Indiana outlet is reporting on the "outrage" after a viral video shot in Fort Wayne shows "several white men with vests labeled ‘Outlaw’ attacking a Black man."

The local WANE 15 reports:

President Donald Trump’s push to slash federal spending could have devastating consequences for America’s national parks, with proposed budget cuts threatening to gut the Park Service and dismantle protections for the country’s most treasured landscapes, the New York Times reported Sunday.

In 2023, the latest year with available data, an estimated 325 million people visited national parks, monuments, and historic sites, spending around $26.4 billion in nearby communities. That number grew even higher the following year, with park visits reaching an all-time record of nearly 332 million, per the article by Ted Kerasote, a nature and wildlife writer.

Donald Trump may have inadvertently created a resistance "hero" with his latest actions.

That's the opinion of journalist Antonia Hylton, who co-hosts MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime. On their show Saturday night, Hylton highlighted Trump's war against Harvard.

President Donald Trump warned that courts ruling against him could bring on the economic "ruination of the United States."

In a Sunday post on his Truth Social platform, the president said that he did not expect the court to strip him of the power to impose tariffs.

The reasons given by White House insiders on why Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of Elon Musk associate Jared Isaacman to head NASA are now being questioned.

According to a report from the New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Ryan Mac, the dismissal of Isaacman was officially described as being due to “prior associations,” which was meant to convey it was because he had previously donated to Democrats.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell threatened to bring one of his pillows to his defamation trial to prove it wasn't "lumpy."

Over the weekend, Lindell talked to MAGA influencer Steve Bannon about the trial he was facing on Monday after being sued by Dominion Voting Systems and one of its employees. Lindell has accused the voting machine manufacturer of rigging the 2020 election against President Donald Trump.

A caller to C-SPAN's Washington Journal program accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of being a "liar" because he espouses Christianity while stripping aid from impoverished people.

During Sunday's program, an Oklahoma Democrat named Joe called in to speak to right-wing pundit Erick Erickson.

"Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan continually called out Donald Trump's choice to head the FDA on Sunday morning for making blanket statements about vaccine studies and undergoing a conversion to align himself with HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

With Dr. Marty Makakry batting away the host's questions on why he's dismissing previous studies of the safety of vaccines, Brennan put him on the spot about pregnant women.

"We're saying it's going to be between a doctor and a patient until that committee meets or more experts weigh in, or we get some clinical data. If there's zero clinical data, you're opining. I mean, you're just, it's a theory, and so we don't want to put out an absolute recommendation for kids with no clinical data at this point," he stated while talking about inoculating children," he told the host.

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"So you made this pronouncement as well on pregnant women. There is data," she pressed before reading from a document. "Researchers in the UK analyzed a series of 67 studies, which included 1.8 million women, and the journal BMJ Global Health published it. People can Google it at home, and it says the COVID vaccine in pregnant women is highly effective in reducing the odds of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection, hospital admission and improves pregnancy outcomes with no serious safety concerns. This is data that shows that it is recommended or could be advised, for pregnant women to take this vaccine. Why do you find otherwise?"

"There's no randomized control trial. That's the gold standard," he parried "Those 67 studies are mixed. The data in pregnant women is different for healthy versus women with a comorbid condition. So it's a very mixed bag. So we're saying your obstetrician, your primary care doctor, and the pregnant woman should together decide whether or not to get it. 12 percent of pregnant women last year got the COVID shot. So people have serious concerns, and it's probably because they want to see a randomized trial data, the randomized trial of pregnant women–."


"But in the meantime, the world moves on," the CBS host protested. "And you published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 20. In that report, you referenced, you listed pregnancy as an underlying medical condition that increases a person's risk for severe COVID. You said that. So then seven days later, you joined in this video announcement saying you should drop the recommendation for the COVID vaccine in healthy pregnant women. So what changed in the seven days?"

"In the New England Journal of Medicine, we simply list what the. what the CDC has traditionally defined as high risk, and we're just saying, decide with your doctor. We're not saying the other–," he replied only to be interrupted again.

"But doctors want data and information as well from you," Brennan pointed out.

"-- and the randomized trial," Makaray continued.

"So here's the data on pregnant women," he attempted. "A randomized control trial was set up, and it was closed without any explanation. We wanted to see that trial complete so women can have information that in a randomized control trial, which is the gold standard, this is what the data shows. We don't have those data."

"All right. It is still unclear what pregnant women now should do until they get the data that you say--," Brennan replied as Makaray interjected, "I'd say talk to their doctor."

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Fox News host Howard Kurtz called out billionaire DOGE administrator Elon Musk for deflecting questions about his alleged drug abuse.

"At the Oval Office Presser, Fox's Peter Doocy started to ask Musk about a detailed report on his allegedly frequent drug use, including ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, to the point where the article says it damaged his bladder," Kurtz noted on Sunday.

During an appearance on MSNBNC on Sunday, former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi was asked about Donald Trump and his family's embrace of crypto and he responded the timing is not coincidental.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, claimed there is little to stop the Trump family from getting away with accepting bribes in the current atmosphere in Washington, D.C.

"We talk about espionage in terms of spies and classified information," host Velshi began. "But what happens when financial systems like unregulated markets, like crypto become this new battleground for influence operations? We're not built for this, we're not prepared for this. "

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"Yeah, we're not," the ex-FBI director replied. "And it's never been easier to try to get access to a president to try and bribe a president, because now the machinery of that is out in the open."

"I'm old enough to remember when corruption and espionage, like activities on the business-side happened in dark rooms, smoke-filled back rooms, dark restaurants. It's out in the open, and it's almost challenging for us to do something about it, daring us to to find a way to hold people accountable."

"The law has not caught.up with technology, with the financial world," he elaborated. "This is a constant game of trying to play catch up and in this environment, our elected legislators, because they align with the majority, align themselves with the man in the Oval Office, they're unlikely to go for anything that impedes the kind of corruption that can happen when you can literally buy access to the president."

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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for complaining about the national debt and deficit instead of proposing solutions.

"From my standpoint, I want to see the president succeed," Johnson opined in a Sunday interview. "I want to take a tax increase, an automatic tax increase, off the table as soon as possible."