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White House forced to deny Trump was lone patient to get experimental obesity drug

A White House spokesman went on the record to deny a report suggesting that President Donald Trump was granted access to an experimental obesity drug not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

STAT reported the FDA and Eli Lilly allowed one individual – a 79-year-old man – to gain access to retatrutide through a “compassionate use” program typically reserved for patients with serious and immediately life-threatening medical issues, and reporter Lizzy Lawrence asked the White House whether that patient was the president.

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Brown Jackson hammers Clarence Thomas' majority opinion giving Trump admin a 'blank check'

After yet another 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that handed Donald Trump’s administration one more victory, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her conservative colleagues over their betrayal of existing green card holders.

According to The Independent, the ruling came down in Blanche v. Lau, which agrees with the administration that, if a green card holder leaves the U.S. and then returns, a border official can arbitrarily declare they may have committed a possible crime and therefore can revoke and confiscate their green card without evidence, putting them in a "legal limbo."

The case centered on Muk Choi Lau, a lawful permanent resident who returned from a short trip to China in 2012. A border officer placed him on immigration parole after he was accused of counterfeiting crimes. Lau later pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey, but argued the officer had overstepped authority in triggering deportation proceedings, the report notes.

The conservative majority Supreme Court disagreed, with Thomas reasoning that, "Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude."

Jackson, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, unleashed a fierce counterattack, writing that the majority's ruling "cavalierly swept aside" the rights of green card holders and handed the government a "massive blank check" to rewrite immigration law as it sees fit at the moment.

The decision allows the government to upend a green card holder's status upon return to the U.S. "so long as the government is able to show later that he was eventually convicted," Jackson noted— calling it an astonishing reversal of the "burden of proof" standard.

"That sequencing undermines the plain terms and basic operation of the relevant statutory scheme, which guarantees that lawful permanent residents will not be 'regarded as seeking an admission' at the border unless certain exceptions apply," she added.

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'It blows my mind': ​MS NOW host dumbfounded by details of Trump's new oil deal with Iran

Reacting to reports that Donald Trump has given the okay from Iran to start selling oil to the United States, handing the extremist leadership an immediate source of billions of dollars, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle admitted she was dumbfounded.

On her “Money Power Politics" morning show, Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, reported, “We learned the administration will allow Iran to sell their oil for US dollars. Why is this a big deal? It is a decision that upends decades of US policy that was meant to make it harder for them to develop their nuclear program.”

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Ex-insider warns of 'dictatorial dementia' as Trump copes with his 'impending mortality'

A GOP analyst and former White House insider revealed that as President Donald Trump has shown signs of "dictatorial dementia," energetic "young henchmen" around him are in a hurry to reshape the government — even rushing to conduct mass firings.

Bill Kristol, the editor at large for The Bulwark and a former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, described how 80-year-old Trump has surrounded himself with young men. Acting director of national intelligence Bill Pulte is 38 years old, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is 40, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin and FBI Director Kash Patel are all 46 years old. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is 51, and Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought is 50.

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Trump DOJ backtracks on exceedingly rare move against journalists: WaPo​

The Justice Department has withdrawn extraordinary grand jury subpoenas issued to reporters from two newspapers after they challenged the demands in federal court, marking a rare retreat from an exceedingly aggressive tactic against the press.

The DOJ had sought to compel Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima and three Wall Street Journal journalists to testify before a federal grand jury regarding their reporting on sensitive national security matters, but the Post reported that both orders were pulled back.

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Trump spouts new theory that vandals destroyed Reflecting Pool 'in the dark of night'

President Donald Trump doubled down on his theory Tuesday that vandals were responsible for his failed Reflecting Pool renovations, suggesting that “razor blades” may have been used to create a “gash” in the pool’s bottom longer than a football field “in the dark of night.”

“The 350 foot gash, made by a very sharp knife or razors, is actually numerous slashes over a very long 350 foot length,” Trump claimed on his social media platform Truth Social.

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'We checked': New CBS Reflecting Pool probe finds 'no sign' of Trump knife slash

CBS News and other news organizations have investigated President Donald Trump's claim that vandals left a 350-foot gash in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and have found that there is "no sign."

On Monday, Trump doubled down on his assertions about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco happened, saying it "has been given a 300-foot-long gash." The president told CBS News that he would present the evidence in court.

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Trump hunts for 'big win' to distract MAGA from foreign policy collapse: analyst

President Donald Trump has become desperate to "erase the sting of defeat," an analyst argued on Tuesday.

Salon's Heather Digby Parton described how the Iran negotiations and failed foreign policy maneuvers have left Trump in a position where he needs a "big win." And now, he has turned his attention to Cuba and Greenland in an attempt to restore his MAGA base after a "profound defeat."

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Rubio wants nothing to do with JD Vance's Iran negotiations that are bound to fail: MS NOW

Vice President JD Vance’s becoming the face of the Iran peace negotiations has all the appearances of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Donald Trump leaving the veep out to dangle in the wind by defending a deal that will go nowhere.

That is according to MS NOW’s Jake Traylor, who told host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday morning that one administration insider called Vance’s hyping up the negotiators' efforts a “complete capitulation” to Iran and characterized Trump’s initial praise of it as “salesmanship,” before adding, “That’s putting lipstick on a very ugly pig.

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Parents ditch the name 'Donald' in historic numbers amid Trump's tanking favorability

As President Donald Trump's favorability among Americans continues to reach record lows, so too has the number of infants given the name “Donald,” a review of Social Security Administration data by NOTUS found Tuesday.

“The federal agency received fewer than 400 Social Security card applications for baby Donalds last year, making ‘Donald’ the nation’s 690th most popular baby name amid Trump’s return to the White House for a second term,” NOTUS’ Dave Levinthal wrote.

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Trump speculation swirls as one 79-year-old patient given unapproved powerful obesity drug

Speculation swirled around a report that a single patient – a 79-year-old man – was given access to a powerful new obesity drug that's still awaiting federal approval.

STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the Food and Drug Administration allowed one individual to gain access to retatrutide, which has demonstrated the ability to cut weight at comparable levels to bariatric surgery, through a “compassionate use” program typically reserved for patients with serious and immediately life-threatening medical issues.

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Stephen Miller in peril as uncovered FBI docs put his secret deeds in judge's crosshairs

The secrets Stephen Miller has kept about his role in the Trump administration may finally be revealed after a judge was handed a key FBI report.

Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, has long shielded his White House communications from disclosure under executive privilege. Now, a court filing in federal court in Alabama threatens to crack that wall open.

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MTG spills beans on Trump campaign efforts to sideline MAGA bloc: 'They were embarrassed'

Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to drive a wedge between a MAGA voter bloc that once counted her as an adherent and President Donald Trump.

The former Republican congresswoman posted a video Tuesday morning revealing the lengths taken by the Trump campaign to stifle QAnon conspiracists at campaign rallies, even as the 80-year-old president continues to court their support with social media posts winking and nodding in their direction.

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