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'Undue': Judge Cannon slammed by appeals court after Jack Smith's report on Trump delayed

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to stop delaying the release of the remaining parts of special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents.

In September, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and American Oversight asked the appeals court to force Cannon to release the report. Cannon had blocked former President Joe Biden's Justice Department from releasing the report in January.

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Taunts as ex-Dem governor lands backhanded Trump endorsement in hotly contested election

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Monday taunted top rival Andrew Cuomo for receiving a decidedly backhanded endorsement from President Donald Trump.

During an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, Trump criticized both Cuomo and Mamdani, but said that he would pick the former New York governor to be New York City’s next mayor if forced to choose.

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Trump shamed by fact checker over amazing amount of lies during '60 Minutes' interview

President Donald Trump fired off a whopping 18 false claims during his new “60 Minutes” interview, according to a fact check.

The president told his favorite lie that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him and falsely declared that grocery prices “are down," even after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell corrected him. He insisted there was "no inflation" and tossed out a litany of bogus statistics, reported CNN's Daniel Dale.

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GOP fears Jack Smith request will cause Trump vendetta to blow up in his face: report

The former special counsel Jack Smith has requested a public hearing before Congress — scaring Republicans who fear President Donald Trump's quest for vengeance is about to blow up in his face, according to a report.

Trump has maintained an obsession with humiliating and prosecuting his enemies. Generally, "his targets have not been in a position to inflict serious retributive pain on him," according to analysis by Glenn Thrush published Monday in The New York Times.

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Trump caves in standoff over SNAP funding

The Trump administration caved on pulling Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding Monday and will partially fund the program after two judges ruled that the administration is required to fund it.

The administration is dipping into the SNAP contingency fund — about $4.5 billion — to cover about half of the benefits for November, CNN reported. It's unclear when people will receive these funds.

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Fear of Trump 'pain cave' forces major companies to duck Supreme Court challenge: CNN

Major companies are sitting out the court challenge to President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs despite it causing them immense pain — instead leaving the fight to a group of small businesses, according to a report.

That group, including a family-owned toymaker in Illinois and a New York-based wine importer, have challenged the tariffs all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments Wednesday. But their larger competitors have stayed on the sidelines because of fear of how Trump will react, reported CNN.

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Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."

As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staffing shortages, Duffy said in an interview Monday with CNBC.

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Military chiefs at risk of 'court martial' for following Pete Hegseth orders: expert

Military historian Max Boot lamented Monday that not enough attention is being paid to the dramatic uptick in boat bombings since a top military official was forced out.

And he said the action by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is putting some military veterans in dire risk of court-martial.

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'Don't know anything': Johnson deflects as Trump does same thing he slammed Biden for

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) played dumb after President Donald Trump stated Sunday night that he did not know that he had pardoned a crypto billionaire.

During a press conference on Monday, CNN's Manu Raju noted that Trump claimed to "know nothing" about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, even though the president had pardoned him after his company boosted the Trump family's crypto business.

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'This man is not well!' 'Dripping in sweat' Trump alarms in latest interview

As much as President Donald Trump demonizes the mainstream media, he loves the spotlight. And on Sunday night, Trump's interview with Norah O'Donnell for CBS News' "60 Minutes" was aired.

The interview is generating a variety of reactions on X.

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Republican warns Trump now 'losing' on economy — and says it's 'going to get a lot worse'

As the government shutdown continues with millions of Americans losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and federal employees going without pay forcing many to turn to food banks, President Donald Trump's focus on foreign policy and building a ballroom is causing supporters and Republicans to question his priorities, according to NBC News.

The shutdown, NBC reports, is compounding problems that have intensified "broader anxiety over an economy that in recent months has been marked by lingering high prices for many consumer goods, rough jobs numbers, mass layoffs at major companies — including Amazon and Target — and an uptick in inflation."

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'Trump is a huge drag': CNN expert gives history lesson to warn GOP's in big trouble

CNN data analyst Harry Enten had some grim news for President Donald Trump and his party on Monday, the eve of the first major election night since the 2024 presidential contest.

With governor and legislative races, the New York City mayoral race, a redistricting ballot proposition in California, and many other local contests all over the country set to take place, what happens on Tuesday night could be a clear harbinger of what's to come in the midterm elections, he argued.

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New book reveals Trump’s classified docs scandal was 'far worse' than reported

A " handful"of documents found by the FBI during their raid of President Donald Trump's Palm Beach country club were "so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them," according to an explosive new book excerpted by MSNBC.

Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department,” written by MSNBC's senior investigative correspondent Carol Leonnig and Washington Post's Aaron Davis, details how the surprise FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022 revealed a national security threat so severe that they'd have gotten "American operatives killed if the information fell into the wrong hands."

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