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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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'Corrupt': Trump's son-in-law sparks backlash with role in Warner Bros. Discovery takeover

On Sunday, President Donald Trump declared that he will “be involved” in the federal government’s decision on whether to allow the streaming service Netflix to buy mass media and entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. On Monday, Paramount Skydance, another mass media and entertainment conglomerate, announced a hostile takeover bid for WBD, with news soon following that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s private equity firm is part of the Paramount offer.

“Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner’s involvement only strengthens that case,” Axios reported. “Paramount is led by David Ellison, whose billionaire father Larry is a major supporter of President Trump.”

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Sonia Sotomayor thumps Trump DOJ for 'asking us to destroy the structure of government'

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused President Donald Trump's Department of Justice of asking the high court to "destroy the structure of government" by overturning 90 years of legal theory on who the president could fire.

During a hearing on Monday, Solicitor General John Sauer argued that a 90-year precedent on who the president can remove "must be overruled." The hearing comes after Trump tried to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Federal Trade Commissioner appointed by Democrats.

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'Not what we voted for': MAGA pollster finds Trump 'losing Republicans'

MAGA pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports warned that President Donald Trump was "losing Republicans" because he wasn't giving them "what we voted for."

During a Monday interview with MAGA influencer Steve Bannon, Mitchell said that young Republican voters were expecting Trump to be more like Spain's right-wing dictator, General Francisco Franco.

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'Chance this backfires': GOP nervous as Trump goes full speed on redistricting gambit

Months ago, when President Donald Trump urged Texas to redraw its congressional maps in a manner that — he said — would hand Republicans an additional five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, he launched what has become a sweeping mid-decade redistricting push spanning more than a dozen red and blue states.

Trump has pressed additional GOP-led states to join Texas in mid-decennial redistricting — a rare exercise given that congressional districts, per the U.S. Constitution, are reapportioned based on each decade’s census. But now, some Republicans are expressing anxiety over this all-out effort.

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GOP 'obliterated' by California move — with candidates left 'fighting for scraps': report

Crawling from the wreckage of the successful California redistricting vote that will likely make Golden State GOP representation in Washington, DC, almost extinct, Politico’s Jeremy White reported Monday that party leaders in the state are desperately looking for a path forward.

In response to President Donald Trump setting in motion redrawing of district boundary lines in Texas in order to acquire more Republican seats in the House in the 2026 midterms, California Gov. Gavin Newsom returned the favor with Prop. 50 that did the same for the Democrats in his already liberal state.

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'Wish he would stop!' Loyal MAGA strategists turn on Trump after latest attacks

Two Republican pundits told Newsmax that President Donald Trump was making a mistake by launching seemingly sexist attacks on MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and female journalists.

During a Monday panel, Republican strategist Melik Abdul said he wished Trump would stop insulting women after he called Greene a "dumb person" and attacked a CNN reporter as "nasty."

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