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'Worst thing Trump could imagine': Ex-aide warns of president's 'ferocious' plan

Donald Trump was just hit with the worst news he could imagine, and his response will be "ferocious," according to an ex-insider.

Lev Parnas, a former insider of the Trump administration who said he "saw how he thinks" and "how he operates," recently called out the president's purported ulterior motives in connection with the Russian war on Ukraine.

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GOP senator has 'conflicting feelings' on TX floods because not all campers died

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he had "conflicting feelings" because some people lived after experiencing deadly floods in Texas over the weekend.

In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Cornyn reacted to the floods that killed more than 50 people, including campers enjoying the holiday weekend.

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'Totally blindsided' Trump-supporting family furious over mom's ICE detainment

The husband of a Canadian national who has been living in the U.S. since she was a child is furious with Donald Trump's administration for arresting his wife on immigration charges while admitting he voted for the current president because he "wanted change."

According to a report from the Guardian, self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera of California is at his wit's end over the detainment of his wife who has been in the U.S. since she was a small child and is the mother of their three U.S.-born children.

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'Meet to discuss': Elon Musk gets unlikely allies in effort to build new party

Elon Musk on Saturday announced his plan to create a new political party, and he got some unlikely offers from his enemies.

Musk worked hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump's administration in his capacity as the mastermind of DOGE, a purported cost-cutting program. That relationship ultimately blew up, and now Musk has vowed to create his own political party.

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'Wow': GOP lawmaker recounts daughters' evacuation from fatal flood zone

A Republican lawmaker on Saturday said his daughters have safely returned home after being evacuated from a deadly flood zone in Texas, where about 30 people have lost their lives.

President Donald Trump's administration has faced some blame in the wake of the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 30 deaths. Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to introduce a "weather modification" bill following the storm tragedy.

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'DOGE has consequences': Fingers pointed at Trump admin after Texas flood deaths

Donald Trump's administration is picking up some of the blame for recent deaths from flooding in Texas.

Trump's team already faced a fact check in connection with the Texas flood that swept through a girls' camp and has led to an estimated 27 deaths.

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Glaring omission in White House Medicaid statement singled out by MSNBC host

During a review of how the Republican Party will defend cuts to Medicaid in the budget bill that Donald Trump signed on the 4th of July, questions were raised about how aware the president is over what is transpiring.

Add to that, the official White House statement on the fate of Medicaid contained a glaring omission as one MSNBC host pointed out on Saturday morning.

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'Stunning move': Observers react to Mike Johnson's 'dark symbolism' with Trump

Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday gave Donald Trump the gavel used to pass the Republicans' so-called "big, beautiful" spending megabill, resulting in mockery.

After Trump signed into law the package, which includes Medicaid spending cuts, Johnson said, "This is the gavel we used to enact the big, beautiful bill, and I want you to have that," the GOP speaker said.

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Judge warns Trump against 'inflicting harm' on migrants heading to South Sudan

Judge Randolph Moss has issued an emergency ruling deciding to transfer the case involving the deportation of eight men to war-torn South Sudan.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a previous decision saying that the U.S. could deport migrants to third-party countries. President Donald Trump seeks to deport the men, who are not from South Sudan, to a third-party country. Their lawyers argued in court Friday that it will mean their arrest and torture, if not their deaths.

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‘Torture or death!’ Trump Supreme Court win sparks blistering liberal dissent

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration can deport eight migrants to South Sudan, a country that the migrants have no ties to and that is embroiled in a conflict that has displaced 13 million people since 2023.

The order was issued after the Trump administration appealed a lower court order preventing them from removing "any alien" to a country "not explicitly provided for on the alien’s order of removal."

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Trump's megabill finally passes after GOP turmoil

In a razor-thin vote of 218-214 the House finally passed Thursday afternoon President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

It followed an all-night session in which the Republican leadership was able to convince all but one of its members to back the legislation. The night had started with five members voting against the bill, and several others declining to vote at all.

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Vladimir Putin tells Trump: 'Russia will not back down' on Ukraine goals

President Donald Trump staged a Thursday morning phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin where they discussed issues including a ceasefire with Ukraine, as well as diplomatic solutions with Iran, Reuters reported.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Trump "again raised the issue of an early end to military action" in Ukraine, but that Putin refused to back down from accomplishing his original goals for the region.

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'This is betrayal': Ex-Trump operative accuses president of 'sabotage' ​

Donald Trump is actively committing "obstruction" against Ukraine, according to the president's former "trusted operative."

Lev Parnas, who worked closely with the president and his associates in the run-up to his first impeachment, flagged the breaking news in a Substack piece Thursday.

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