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'Terrible': Trump admin dragged as key jobs report yanked

Political analysts and observers warned on Monday that President Donald Trump's latest move shows that "something is very wrong" with his economy, despite his claims that he has resurrected America's "Golden Age."

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Monday that it was going to roll October's employment data into the November release that is scheduled to be published in January. Trump has worked to revamp the BLS during his second administration, going so far as to fire the agency's top statistician, Erika McEntarfer, in August after the BLS released a jobs report that contradicted Trump's messaging about the economy.

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New roadblock to keeping GOP House control is headed Mike Johnson's way: report

Democrats who are hoping to snatch control of the House away from Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in 2026 are going to get a major boost from former Republicans who want to see Donald Trump neutered for the last two years he is in office.

According to a report from Politico’s Andrew Howard, the Save America Movement PAC has launched a new initiative labeled “Save America Seats,” with plans to raise and spend $100 million in support of Democratic challengers targeting GOP-held seats.

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Trump announces major decision on Nvidia chips

President Donald Trump revealed a major decision Monday on Nvidia chips.

Nvidia, a chipmaker and a leading semiconductor and artificial intelligence company, has become a major focus of the Trump administration's policies regarding U.S. competitiveness in advanced technology and competition with China, particularly around restrictions on exporting advanced chips to Chinese companies.

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Progressive jolts the left with Senate primary challenge: 'Dem Tea Party has arrived!'

Democrats praised a progressive politician in Colorado on Monday after she filed paperwork to run for Sen. John Hickenlooper's (D-CO) seat.

Julie Gonzales, a progressive state Senator in Colorado, announced her primary challenge against Hickenlooper on Monday, according to a report by The Colorado Sun. Gonzales has served in the state senate since 2019 and is well-known for her work to pass Colorado's strict gun control laws and laws protecting abortion care in the state.

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'I don't have a plan': Trump official admits key airport initiative won't lower food costs

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy admitted Monday afternoon that he did "not have a plan" to lower airport food prices as a part of President Donald Trump's family-centric travel initiative.

Duffy made the admission during a news conference on Monday.

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'Ridiculous!' Trump flies into a rage after 'best lawyer' Alina Habba resigns

President Donald Trump grew angry while addressing the resignation of Alina Habba, the former acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, who multiple courts disqualified.

"Alina Habba says she's stepping down as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey after the courts disqualified her," a reporter told Trump on Monday. "Do you have any comment on that?"

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Hegseth to face punishment under Defense bill if he fails to turn over boat strike videos

The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act would effectively punish Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by curtailing his travel budget if he refuses to turn over "unedited" video of the strikes President Donald Trump has ordered on alleged drug boats.

According to the legislation, Hegseth would only be entitled to 75% of his travel budget unless he "provides to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command."

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Trump complains 'you need 185 IQ to turn on a lawnmower' in bizarre meeting

President Donald Trump vowed Monday afternoon to deregulate farming equipment, complaining that "you need 185 IQ to turn on a lawnmower."

In a Monday meeting with farmers, Trump revealed that he would remove environmental regulations from John Deere and other tractor manufacturers.

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'You are terrible!' Trump fumes as reporter catches him making a U-turn on strike video

President Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC reporter and reversed his position on Monday afternoon after saying he would push to release the video of an alleged drug boat strike that has come into question.

Trump was taking questions from the press following a roundtable discussion about agriculture at the White House when ABC's Rachel Scott asked about the footage of an attack in the Caribbean, which a top intel lawmaker warned last week appeared to confirm that the U.S. committed a war crime.

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'She's lighter than me!' MAGA influencer floats bizarre theory on Ilhan Omar’s ethnicity

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones questioned Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) Somali ethnicity and suggested she did not have the right to speak on racial issues.

On his Monday program, Jones complained that Omar spoke out about racism.

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Honeymoon over as Hegseth's handpicked 'reporter' turns on him

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is discovering that he can change the players, but he can't change the game as one of the more prominent conservative “reporters” he has allowed to cover the Pentagon is already giving him grief less than a week in.

The embattled Donald Trump appointee effectively purged the mainstream media from covering the Pentagon if they didn't agree to highly restrictive rules.

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Trump refuses to share pre-holiday inflation report — first skipped month in 12 years

The Bureau of Labor Statistics won't be publishing a delayed report on wholesale price inflation this month.

The federal agency will skip the postponed October report on the Producer Price Index and instead roll those figures into November's report, which will be published Jan. 14, reported the Wall Street Journal.

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'Outrageous!' Steve Bannon in tailspin over German push to ban 'repeat of Nazism'

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at the German government over a proposal to ban a right-wing political party to prevent a "repeat of Nazism."

During a Monday interview with German AfD party member Beatrix von Storch, Bannon noted that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had floated the idea of banning the party.

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