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Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests expected to be largest display against Trump yet


Organizers of the third round of No Kings protests against President Donald Trump say they expect Saturday will be the single largest day of American political protest in history, with more than 3,000 events planned across the nation, including nearly 70 in Arizona.

An estimated 7 million people showed up to rally against the Trump administration in October — more than the 5 million or so who protested in June — and No Kings organizers are anticipating nearly 9 million people will take to the streets this weekend.

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'This will hurt us all': Nobel laureate  delivers devastating verdict on Trump crackdown

An administrative policy rolled out by Donald Trump's team will affect everyone living in the United States, according to a Nobel Prize winner.

Economist Paul Krugman likened the economic policies of the president and his team to their tough stance on immigration, with both dealing financial blows across the country. Writing in his Substack, the Nobel Prize winner suggested that, despite most "despising ICE," the administration had "succeeded" in their aims regarding immigration.

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CPAC speaker slams 'leader worship' of Trump: 'The right is not all right'

Brandon Straka, a Jan. 6 participant who was sentenced to three years of probation, slammed the "leader worship" of President Donald Trump.

During a Friday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, Straka began by advising that "the right is not all right." He noted that while he was being prosecuted for his actions on Jan. 6, only then-Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) would return his calls.

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Democrats signal 2 more weeks of shutdown as GOP goes to war with itself over DHS funding

Democrats in the Senate signaled they would not vote for a funding bill that House Republicans floated as an alternative to bipartisan legislation passed by senators to end a partial government shutdown.

Early Friday, the Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill that would have funded all parts of the Department of Homeland Security except Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Trump brags about his 'finest' luxury ballroom to devastated farmers

President Donald Trump lavished praise on himself for building a $400 million ballroom while speaking to farmers who have faced devastation because of his tariff policies.

During a White House event on Friday, Trump told a group of farmers that he had "given" them $12 billion in aid to address the fallout from the tariffs.

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White House’s cryptic posts immediately backfire as critics invoke Epstein-Trump ties

The White House’s official social media account on X made several cryptic posts Thursday night featuring pixelated images of President Donald Trump – an apparent bid to boost engagement that quickly backfired as critics immediately invoked the president’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Given the frequent use of pixelation to redact photographs, the pixelated images of Trump shared by the White House drew immediate comparisons to some of the redacted files released recently by the Justice Department (DOJ) related to Epstein, one of which was from House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee.

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'Abandoning Donald': CNN data guru reveals Trump's lost crucial voting bloc

CNN data expert Harry Enten revealed how working class Americans have turned on President Donald Trump.

Enten described during a live broadcast on Friday how polling shows working class voters — classified as people who make $50,000-a-year or less — were a major swing vote bloc that helped elect Trump in 2024. But now, they've been left disappointed.

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Trump lawyer confesses 'everybody's afraid' at White House: 'We're going to be indicted'

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed this week during the Conservative Political Action Conference that President Donald Trump's administration has real fears about what will happen in 2028 if Democrats take back office.

The Department of Justice leader spoke to the audience during the event attended by conservatives and right-wing influencers in suburban Dallas on Thursday, describing why Trump's team was so concerned about potential prosecution for "unspecified offenses," The Daily Beast reported.

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CPAC attendees stun host as they cheer for Trump impeachment: ‘That was the wrong answer’

Conservative activist and lobbyist Matthew Schlapp was left speechless Friday after attempting to “hype up” the crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas, only for the effort to backfire spectacularly.

“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” Schlapp asked the massive crowd at the annual conservative event.

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House GOP leadership vows to refuse vote on the Senate's DHS funding bill: 'Garbage'

House Republican leadership signaled that they would refuse to vote on a Senate bill to end the partial government shutdown by funding most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

House Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-MI) told NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman that the bill was "garbage" and that there would be no votes on the legislation.

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CPAC crowd hits Steve Bannon with deathly silence as he urges cheers for high gas prices

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon failed to goad a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to cheer for higher gas prices in support of President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

During a live discussion at CPAC on Friday, Bannon asked right-wing journalist James Rickards what oil prices were signaling to Trump.

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Trump just got 'the most magnificently savage dismantling' in France's parliament

A French lawmaker torched President Donald Trump and his top officials in a scathing indictment of his second term in the White House.

Senator Claude Malhuret, who was described last year by the New York Times as "Trump's European nemesis," linked the Iran war to the U.S. president's appearance in the Jeffrey Epstein files and shamed American legislators for failing to impeach him for clearly unconstitutional conduct.

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Trump's already 'bored' as thousands of troops barrel into Iran war zone: officials

President Donald Trump is already losing interest in the war he launched four weeks ago as thousands of U.S. troops are on their way to the Middle East, according to officials.

The 79-year-old president has deployed Marines and Army paratroopers to the region to prepare to fight in a war that he declares has been "already won." That contradiction is frustrating senior White House aides and outside allies, according to three officials who spoke to MS NOW.

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