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'Apocalypse we've all feared': Expert sounds grave alarm over looming elections

Longtime political analyst Dave Wasserman, of The Cook Political Report, warned that the looming election will bring the "apocalypse we've all feared."

Speaking with NBC's Ryan Nobles, Wasserman explained that the GOP is holding "an edge" in the battle over redistricting after Texas began its effort to redraw the lines mere years after drawing the lines for the previous congressional districts. It's all part of an effort to hold onto Congress amid the GOP's lack of popularity.

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‘We’re more dangerous than DC!’ Columnist says Trump sent troops to the wrong place

Kansas City Star Columnist Melinda Henneberger says if any city deserves federal intervention from the U.S. military, it would not be Washington, D.C. It would be hers — only that’s not likely to happen.

“[President] Donald Trump won’t be sending the troops into this heavily Democratic city, even though Kansas City is by the numbers one of the more dangerous places in the country,” wrote Henneberger. “How can I be so sure? Because despite our many gun deaths and Black mayor … we already have no control over our own police department.”

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'What a loser!' MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace laughs at Trump for continuing to cheat at golf

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace learned for the first time on Wednesday that, despite being the leader of the "free world," President Donald Trump still cheats at golf.

The panel discussion was about Republicans' desperate effort to hold onto Congress by redrawing the lines only a few years after they'd already changed them. The new effort in Texas aims to craft congressional districts that would try to remove Democrats.

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Scott Bessent's farming claim just created an ethical mess for the Trump admin: report

President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary is in hot water with ethics watchdogs who say he has not divested himself from some of his assets as required by law, according to a new report.

The Office of Government Ethics sent a letter to a top Senate Republican on Aug. 11, alerting him that Secretary Scott Bessent had failed to comply with a law requiring him to divest from his financial assets, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The letter indicated that Bessent's delinquency poses a personal conflict of interest, according to the report.

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Jeanine Pirro charges man with felony for throwing Subway sandwich at officer

Jeanine Pirro, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said that a man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal officer has been charged with a felony.

In a video that went viral over the weekend, a man was seen yelling at an officer in Washington, D.C. before hurling the sandwich into his chest.

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'America is gone': Tiny act of kindness illuminates stark new reality of Trump's DC

WASHINGTON — Just outside the newly unrolled yellow police tape that encloses Lafayette Square, the green seven-acre public park just north of the White House, a graying African American man bent down to leave a hot Potbelly sandwich and tall store-bought water for a younger white man who lay there, sleeping in the sun.

“Sir, I don’t mean to disturb you,” Michael — a 61-year-old Houston native — said as the man was roused.

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Pam Bondi accused of possible witness tampering with Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, including ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), demanded answers from Attorney General Pam Bondi after Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was transferred to a "relatively luxurious minimum-security prison camp in Texas."

In a letter to Bondi on Wednesday, Democrats noted that the Department of Justice had "inexplicably transferred" Maxwell after she met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for two days.

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'Don't have a good poker face': Judge 'skeptical' of Trump admin's 'extraordinary' order

President Donald Trump's attempt to sue federal judges for not ruling in his favor isn't going well for him, reported The New York Times on Wednesday.

A federal judge hearing the case, Thomas Cullen, already seemed to be against the idea out of the gate, reported Alan Feuer, as he "said he had some reservations about the suit, making his remarks even before a lawyer for the Justice Department had the chance to offer any arguments on behalf of the administration."

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'Mean streets!' Feds in bulletproof vests mocked for patrolling posh DC neighborhood

Federal officers were ridiculed online Wednesday after videos and photos showed them patrolling the streets of the safest neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

One D.C. native posted photos of men wearing bulletproof vests and camo reading FBI on the back as they marched along the posh sidewalks of one of the richest neighborhoods in the city, Surburban Solutions wrote.

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A third of Trump's Latino voters have already dumped him: report

President Donald Trump is bleeding support among Latino voters over the same issue that drove many of them away from the Democratic Party.

The Latino polling organization Equis Research found about a third of Latinos who supported Trump last year are not committed to voting for Republican candidates in next year's midterm elections, and the survey found high grocery prices and other economic issues were driving them away, reported NPR.

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'Treadmill of debt': Financial expert warns Trump's economy is trapping Americans

The high cost of inflation is leading to mounting credit card debt, as one former consumer watchdog leader lamented that Americans are living on a "treadmill of debt."

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, one financial expert warned that inflation, tariffs and price gouging are making life increasingly difficult for the U.S., particularly as children go back to school.

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'Trump didn't like that': Phone call with European leaders leaves president fuming

President Donald Trump was on the receiving end of some harsh language during a call with European leaders ahead of his summit with Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. president told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other leaders on Wednesday that he hoped to achieve a ceasefire and get a better understanding of whether a peace deal is possible during Friday's meeting with the Russian president, two sources familiar with the call told Axios.

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New Trump 'offensive' is 'backfiring' as other nations team up against America

Among President Donald Trump’s many goals for his second term in office has been the destruction of the intergovernmental organization known as BIRCS, a coalition of Russia, China and eight other nations to challenge the western-dominated world order, though his efforts to do so, wrote The Washington Post’s Max Boot Wednesday, are only “backfiring.”

“Trump has emerged as the strongest salesman for the value of this international organization, created in 2009 at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s instigation to challenge the post-1945, American-led world order,” Boot wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post. “Trump seems intent on alienating America’s potential partners in the group.”

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