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MAGA rep accused of burning ex-wife — a senator's daughter — with pot of boiling water

A Trump-endorsed congressman has been accused of beating his ex-wife, who's the daughter of a Republican senator, and even hurling a pot of boiling water at her, according to new reports.

"Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller is accused of years of document physical abuse against his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno," the Daily Mail reported on Thursday, citing court filings and three sources.

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Trump's steep global tariff dealt severe court blow

President Donald Trump got yet another body blow to his trade agenda on Thursday, as a pair of federal judges ruled his 10 percent global tariff illegal.

"In a split ruling, the Court of International Trade found that Mr. Trump had wrongly invoked a decades-old trade law when he applied those duties in February, almost immediately after his last set of punishing tariffs was struck down by the Supreme Court," reported The New York Times.

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Lawmaker sets Confederate flag ablaze over red state's redistricting push

A Tennessee state lawmaker set a paper Confederate flag on fire Thursday inside the state's capitol amid protests after the state's Republican lawmakers enacted a new U.S. House map and split the state's only majority-Black congressional seat.

Rep. Justin Jones, a community organizer and Democrat representing the state's 52nd district, used a lighter to set the paper on fire as it burned among a large crowd of cheering demonstrators.

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Trump torpedoed state's water supply to punish Boebert for Epstein files: Republican

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) claimed this week that President Donald Trump took revenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) after she didn't follow his demands.

The rebel Republican told former Fox News host and MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson in a podcast interview on Wednesday that the president "vetoed a bill that would’ve brought water to a large portion of Colorado" in retaliation for Boebert's decision to support a petition to release government documents connected to late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Mediaite reported.

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Fox News' favorite cardinal slams Trump's attack on Pope Leo

A Catholic cardinal who appears frequently on Fox News condemned President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Pope Leo.

After Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope this week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke out against the U.S. president's claim that the Catholic leader was "weak on crime" because he opposed wars like the conflict in Iran.

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'He can get crazier': James Carville's chilling warning about Trump's coming decline

Democratic political strategist James Carville warned about how Trump will try to hold on to power as it begins to dwindle in the coming elections.

"He's going really down in November, and he's going to get crazier," Carville said during a Thursday episode of Politicon. "You think he can't get any crazier. Let me assure you, he can get crazier."

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Massive trove of never-before-seen transcripts revealed in Trump's criminal case

A massive dump of more than five dozen transcripts for grand jury testimony in the Georgia criminal case against President Donald Trump was revealed to the public on Thursday for the first time.

The release was announced by Anna Bower of Lawfare in a post to X.

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Red state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly yanks 'Jim Crow' banner from Black senator

The Tennessee state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly pulled a banner from the hands of Sen. Charlane Oliver (D) during a debate on redistricting.

As the body was considering new maps that would erase the state's only majority-Black district, Oliver held up a banner that said: "No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal."

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Trump breaks silence on mystery Brazil meeting after press conference scrapped

Trump broke his silence on a meeting with Brazil's president that perplexed journalists on Thursday.

"Just concluded my meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the very dynamic President of Brazil," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "We discussed many topics, including Trade and, specifically, Tariffs. The meeting went very well."

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US seen as 'rogue superpower' as Trump's abrupt U-turn irks allies: expert

President Donald Trump's sudden change of policy on reopening the Strait of Hormuz has angered Gulf allies and changed how they view the United States amid the Iran war, an expert said on Thursday.

Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy Magazine, told MS NOW that Trump's decision followed Saudi Arabia's move to suspend the U.S. military's ability to use its bases and airspaces for the ongoing military operation. The key Gulf ally's decision was a response to "Project Freedom," which Trump announced on his Truth Social platform over the weekend — without discussion among the regional allies.

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Jailhouse suicide note a warning to Trump that new Epstein revelations still loom: column

The out-of-the-blue revelations of the contents of a suicide note reportedly written by convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein in his jail cell have once again focused attention on the cloud hovering over Donald Trump and his administration.

Writing for The iPaper, columnist James Ball noted that Epstein stories have fallen by the wayside while the president deals with fallout from his Iran war crisis, voter anger over rising fuel prices, and Republican efforts to stave off a midterm blood bath.

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Border Czar Tom Homan fires off vulgar promise about next wave of deportations

The relative calm that Tom Homan brought to immigration policy discussions following the firing of controversial DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was loudly slapped aside this week when Trump's border czar made a vulgar boast about the administration's plans for aggressive deportation enforcement.

Speaking at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, Homan declared that the Trump administration's record deportation numbers from last year would pale in comparison to what's coming next — specifically pledging to deploy more than 10,000 additional federal agents to carry out mass removals, NPR is reporting.

"If you think last year's historic number is good, wait till [sic] next year and we have 10,000 more agents on the border. You ain't seen s--- yet," Homan proudly boasted in his opening remarks. "This year will be a good year. Mass deportations are coming."

NPR's Ximena Bustillo reported that Homan directly challenged critics who question the administration's commitment to aggressive immigration enforcement, telling attendees, "For the people out there saying President Trump's weak on mass deportation, what the hell are you talking about? President Trump made a promise to the American people that's going to happen."

The border czar also signaled that the administration has no intention of dialing back who will be scooped up.

"It doesn't mean because you prioritize criminals, everybody else is off the table. I've said no one's off the table. Why is that? I don't care how long you've been here. If you're here illegally into this country, you cheated," Homan made clear.

Homan's aggressive rhetoric comes despite polling showing declining public support for the administration's enforcement approach. At the start of the year, more than half of respondents said immigration enforcement tactics had gone "too far," though nearly three-quarters of Republicans approved of ICE's work, NPR is reporting.

The report added that, while newly confirmed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was not present at the Phoenix event, Homan insisted the secretary shares his uncompromising vision for mass deportations

Rubio's Vatican trip exposes Trump's cruel Cabinet manipulation scheme: report

President Donald Trump's decision to send Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet with Pope Leo shows Trump may be interested in pitting his Cabinet members against each other, according to a report on Thursday.

The president's "mission impossible" for Rubio has raised questions about loyalties in the Trump administration — not necessarily healing strained ties with the Vatican, reported David Gardner for The Swamp, The Daily Beast's Substack.

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