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Oregon cattle ranchers pardoned by Trump fly home on private jet owned by cattle conglomerate

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump pardoned the Oregon father and son who set fire to federal lands in protest over grazing rights for their cattle. Their crime became a rallying cry for right-wing militias, who saw their prosecution as federal government overreach.

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WATCH: Fox News tries to explain NATO with perplexing car metaphor

On Wednesday's episode of Fox News' the Five, the hosts struggled to justify President Donald Trump's actions in Brussels today, where the President met with NATO allies.

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Mike Pence's PAC accidentally sends $5,000 to radical progressive with same name as Coal Country Republican

Vice President Mike Pence's political action committee, the Great America Committee, apparently has more money than it can keep track of.

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Colorado cop swiftly fired for using a racial slur -- then gets rehired less than a year later

A cop with the Aurora, Colorado police department was fired after Aurora police chief Nick Metz was alerted to a racial slur he'd used to refer to a group of African-Americans.

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Sarah Sanders says John Kelly was mad about breakfast pastries -- not Trump saying Germany is 'controlled by Russia'

Donald Trump and some of his closest aides are in Brussels today to meet with America's NATO allies.

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Shep Smith explains NATO -- and Fox News viewers fume that he is 'berating the president'

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith opened his show Wednesday by giving a basic primer on NATO.

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Miami bar's hate-filled Instagram screed on 'the point of ladies night' leads to thrown drink and pepper-spraying

A Florida kava bar's hate-filled and transphobic Instagram screed about "the point of ladies night" led to an altercation in which sheriff's deputies came after drinks were thrown and pepper-spray deployed, Miami New Times reports.

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Republican Rick Wilson: Trump supporters 'want anyone who's darker than a latte deported'

The Trump administration is back to roughly the same immigration policy as his predecessors.

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John Kelly looked like he was going to make a break for it as Trump delivered his 'Germany is controlled by Russia' rant

Donald Trump opened his visit to Europe with a perfect presidential touch, describing our close ally Germany as being "totally controlled by Russia" because it buys natural gas from the Kremlin.

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CIA analyst says 'republic is burning' because American institutions are not up to battling Trump's authoritarianism

The United States was not designed to withstand the sort of authoritarian onslaught we're seeing from Donald Trump, former CIA analyst Nada Bakos warned on Wednesday night.

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Republican strategist Rick Wilson says Trump 'eager as a schoolgirl' to hang with Putin and destroy NATO

A panel on CNN Wednesday night took up the topic of Donald Trump's one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Russian dictator who interfered in the 2016 election in an effort to get Trump the 77,000 votes he needed to secure an electoral college victory.

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Blackwater founder Erik Prince wants to 'rationalize and restructure' America's wars -- and has a company to do it

On Tuesday, the Independent reported that billionaire military contractor Erik Prince is once again trying to sway President Donald Trump's administration to outsource America's wars to the private sector.

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Watch: Chris Matthews interrupts analysis of Trump's Putin meeting to discuss his outfit

On MSNBC Tuesday, former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fl) detailed all the ways Donald Trump is woefully unprepared to meet one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also accused the President of being drawn to strongmen dictators like Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, while alienating NATO allies.

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