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'Emergency' declared as Trump tries to carve his name on another major institution

The United States Institute of Peace has thrown a wrench in another effort by President Donald Trump to emblazon his name on a historic building.

On Thursday, the USIP filed an emergency motion asking a judge to stop "plans to carve President Trump's name into the facade of the iconic USIP headquarters building," Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney reported via a post on X, noting it's "NOT JUST THE KENNEDY CENTER" that's fighting off Trump's name.

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'I will punch someone in the face!' Republican goes berserk over Hegseth impeachment move

WASHINGTON — An embattled GOP congressman says he’s eager to brawl on Pete Hegseth’s behalf in the wake of his fellow Republican, Rep Thomas Massie (KY) dropping impeachment articles against the embattled defense secretary this week.

“I will f------ punch someone in the face for talking about Hegseth,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) told Raw Story just outside the U.S. Capitol.

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'This is sick': Outrage as Trump taunts rallygoers with hurricane relief

President Donald Trump told North Carolinians that he'll withhold FEMA funding needed for hurricane relief unless the candidate he endorsed wins the midterms.

On Wednesday, Trump showed up in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for GOP Senate nominee Michael Whatley, and he told the voters at the rally that Whatley had to win if the state were to receive any additional FEMA funding as the state continues to recover from Hurricane Helene.

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Judge demands 'emergency' answers as forklift rams Kennedy Center after Trump threat

A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center's board to respond by Thursday morning to an emergency motion filed as forklifts were seen striking the building while quickly moved to encircle it with fencing.

Judge Christopher Cooper signed the order Wednesday, less than two hours after Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) filed the motion, the court docket shows. Trump and the other defendants must answer by 10 a.m. Thursday, and the court will schedule a prompt hearing if necessary after reviewing that response.

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Trump White House scrambles after ‘kissing’ photo with devoted aide goes viral

President Donald Trump’s White House responded Wednesday after fabricated images appearing to show him locked in a kiss with a close aide on a golf course spread across social media this week.

The two images depicted Trump, 80, embracing a blonde woman identified online as Natalie Harp, his 35-year-old executive assistant, who has been nicknamed the president’s “human printer.”

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Shockwaves as Trump’s secret $2.8B taxpayer-funded ‘gift’ exposed: ‘My God’

President Donald Trump sparked outrage after his administration was exposed for preparing a $2.8 billion military package amid “extraordinarily dire” economic signs — funded entirely by American taxpayers.

On Tuesday, The Washington Post revealed that the Trump administration was actively preparing to sell $2.8 billion worth of weapons to Israel, including 40,000 “controversial” 2,000-pound bombs, citing an anonymous U.S. official. While described as a sale, the Post noted that the “transaction is financed through a mechanism known as Foreign Military Financing,” in which American taxpayer dollars are transferred to Israel to fund the purchase.

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Shock Hegseth attack kept top secret amid fear of drastic GOP move to kill it

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) hid his effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his fellow Republicans until he unveiled it on the House floor Tuesday, fearing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would gavel the House out of session to avoid taking up the measure.

“Frankly, I was concerned that Mike Johnson would end Congress again — like, shorten even our already truncated work period — if he found out I was doing this, so I shared the idea with nobody,” Massie told reporters on the Capitol steps.

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'Conclude this hearing!' Kash Patel makes desperate plea as he's pinned down

FBI Director Kash Patel urged Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to end a Senate oversight hearing rather than answer questions from Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

Patel made the request Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee's oversight hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, his second annual appearance before the panel, Grassley said in his opening statement.

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Exclusive: What Trump Jr told Putin ally before he bankrolled wedding

The Vladimir Putin ally who secretly bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding had apparently met him only once in public — at an event where they bonded over a MAGA outrage.

In what appears to be the only recorded meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, Trump Jr. ranted about men taking part in women’s sports — and cited a scandal from the 2024 Olympics that had been soundly debunked.

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Pentagon insider smears antifascists who unmasked Nazi terrorists later convicted by DOJ

Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool described as an “anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa.”

Jennica Pounds, a Pentagon special government employee better known as Data Republican and the creator of the search tool, described the antifascist sites that she purported to expose as “a whole elaborate doxxing scheme that’s set to ruin people’s lives.”

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'Stone cold loser!' Trump melts down after Karl Rove's shock defection

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to throw fury at Karl Rove, a longtime Republican strategist who worked under former President George W. Bush.

"Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and completely wrong so often," wrote Trump. "He suffers from a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome primarily because, for almost 10 years, I beat back and won against so many of the people and things that he wanted and espoused."

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McConnell resurfaces in Senate after vanishing for months — and refuses to take questions

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described a "long and often frustrating process" of recovery after returning to the Senate on Monday.

It was the first time that the former Republican majority leader had been at the Capitol since a July 12 statement announced that he had been "briefly unconscious" at his home.

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New horrors in military detailed as insiders tell all: 'Every unit has a Hegseth'

When news broke that a Navy officer’s sexual assault claim was dismissed as a workman’s compensation issue, Dawn, a retired Marine, took a bat to a tree in rage.

Dawn is one of the survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) who is fed up with the direction of the armed forces under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has rolled back numerous initiatives to protect and promote women and minorities.

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