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JD Vance raises eyebrows with surprising claim during Nixon Library talk: 'So close'

Vice President JD Vance's commentary about former President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, comparing the moment to President Donald Trump, raised eyebrows online after he delivered public comments in Orange County Thursday.

Vance was speaking at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, when he described his thoughts about the nation's 37th president who resigned in 1974 — the only president in history to step down from the job.

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Mike Johnson runs to Trump as MAGA Republican seizes 'control' of Congress: report

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran to President Donald Trump for help with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) after she hijacked the House and derailed his agenda.

Luna has frozen all floor votes until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — Trump's elections overhaul that has stalled for months. Johnson met with Trump at the White House on Thursday, seeking a way out, according to a Politico report.

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Trump takes shot across the bow as Knicks star casts doubt on White House visit

New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson has not committed yet to visiting President Donald Trump at the White House, according to reports on Thursday.

The NBA champions were invited to visit Capitol Hill, and James Dolan, the team's "Trumpy owner," had accepted the offer — but Brunson said the team still had to talk about it, The Daily Beast reported.

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Supreme Court justices 'incandescently angry' at their colleagues' 'gaslighting': expert

A legal expert said on Thursday that a recent spate of decisions published by the Supreme Court made some of the liberal justices "incandescently angry" because the majority opinions read like "gaslighting."

The court published opinions on a range of cases, from one that protects chemical giant Monsanto from lawsuits over cancer-causing chemicals in some of its products to an opinion that ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants. In each of the cases, Lithwick argued, the court's majority continued to "twist itself into pretzels" to give the Trump administration what it wanted, according to Dahlia Lithwick, a lawyer and journalist.

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'Utterly amazing': Trump stuns by running from one of his few successes while in office

President Donald Trump torpedoed his own Republican Party's moment this week by abruptly canceling the signing of a major housing bill that could have boosted the GOP ahead of midterms, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, revealed that the growing ruptures between Trump and Republicans "have crippled the G.O.P. at what should be the peak of its power." Trump instead signaled he would not sign the bill until Republicans passed his elections legislation, the SAVE America Act.

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Rare conviction in Trump-hyped operation falls apart amid misconduct scandal

One of the only two felony convictions won by federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's vaunted Chicago deportation operation is now falling apart.

Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez, a 27-year-old Lyons man, pleaded guilty in April to a felony charge after striking a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle during Trump's Operation Midway Blitz last fall. His sentencing was set for July 22.

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Republicans scramble to unsnarl the knot Trump created with housing bill fiasco: report

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was rushing to the White House to "unsnarl the knot" on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump canceled signing a bipartisan housing bill and signaled it was "leverage" to pressure Republicans to pass his elections legislation, according to The Washington Post.

Trump told Republican senators they should focus on passing his SAVE America Act, which he has referred to as a priority. He has described the voting measure as "necessary to confront a national emergency," The Post reported.

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'Confirms our worst fears': Expert sounds the alarm over Supreme Court's 'freewheeling'

A Supreme Court watcher sounded the alarm on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that the expert described as "freewheeling."

Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer for Slate, argued in a new article that the Supreme Court's decision in Wolford v. Lopez, a gun rights case that arose out of Hawaii, was another "ad hoc nullification of any law that favors human life over the paranoid obsessions of gun enthusiasts."

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Half of Americans think the Trump White House is fibbing about president's health: poll

Americans were not buying the White House's claims about President Donald Trump's health, according to reports on Thursday.

A shocking new Quinnipiac poll revealed a whopping 59 percent of Americans, about 6 in 10 voters, do not think the Trump administration has been transparent about the president's physical or mental health, The Daily Beast reported.

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Elon Musk ordered to give deposition as 'vote buying' scheme bites him

Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona women who say his political action committee, America PAC, tricked them into handing over their personal information.

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Supreme Court's latest 'inhumane' decision shocks onlookers: 'Absolutely disgraceful'

Onlookers were shocked on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that some people called "inhumane."

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants who fled political violence in their home country. The 6-3 decision from the court's conservative supermajority was seen as a big win for the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda, even as some political analysts described it as a "disgrace."

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'Packed to the brim!' Trump claims 'fantastic' turnout to his Great American State Fair

President Trump claimed a "fantastic" turnout at the kickoff rally for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall Wednesday night, a figure that sharply diverges from independent estimates of the crowd size.

A widely shared video clip shows a steady stream of people walking away from the stage area during the president's speech, and multiple news outlets reported that turnout was a disappointing start to the 16-day fair marking the nation's 250th anniversary.

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Iran boasts about looming $40 billion windfall it never had before Trump attack: report

Iran has discussed plans with its neighbors to extract billions from the global economy by setting up permanent tolls in the Strait of Hormuz—a direct result of President Trump's disastrous war that handed Tehran unprecedented leverage over the world's most critical oil artery.

According to the Wall Street Journal reporting, Iranian officials are boasting to Middle Eastern neighbors that a lucrative new revenue stream is imminent. The Islamic Republic estimated that charging for "security, safety, and environmental services" in the strait could generate $40 billion annually for "participating states."

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