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'Caught redhanded!' Trump takes a swing at old foe after big announcement

President Donald Trump Monday reacted to news that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) would not seek reelection for another term as the state's governor, attacking his longtime foe.

Walz cited Trump's attacks on his state and pointed to an ongoing daycare fraud investigation for reasons to why he was dropping out. Following a viral fraud hoax video from MAGA influencer Nick Shirley last week, Trump freezed childcare funding to every state in the US after initially suspending funds for Minnesota.

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'The dumbest plot': MAGA trounced for blindly following as Trump abandons promise

A journalist and lawyer slammed MAGA loyalists Monday over blindly following President Donald Trump as he abandoned his key campaign promise.

After years of criticizing America's foreign wars, Trump has now turned his full attention to global conflicts with his invasion of Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro, Slate's Jill Filipovic wrote.

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Kristi Noem's DHS throws tantrum as Hilton Hotels cancels ICE agents' rooms

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials cried foul after Hilton Hotels refused service to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The department expressed outrage in a Monday post on X.

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Mike Lindell vows feeble 'foundation' will 'secure welfare' checks if he wins governorship

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell vowed to use his feeble Lindell Foundation to secure the welfare system if he's elected governor of Minnesota.

During a Monday interview with Steve Bannon, Lindell reacted to reports that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) could run for governor now that current Gov. Tim Walz (D) had dropped his re-election campaign.

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Teacher banned for claiming Rosa Parks 'did not exist' and MLK was a 'fraud': report

A teacher who told students Rosa Parks "did not exist" and that American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was guilty of plagiarism has been banned, according to a report Monday.

British teacher Patrick Lawler, 62, was accused of making several offensive comments about the Black civil rights icons, including claims that King was a “fraud and had embezzled lots of money," The Independent reported.

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'Welcome to the jungle': Analyst warns Trump's 'strong man move' is about to unleash havoc

Invited to discuss the economic implications stemming from Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela, former Wall Street banker Stephanie Ruhle told “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire that the president’s actions should have investors rethinking the long-term financial impact on the world’s markets.

Ruhle, who hosts MS NOW’s “Eleventh Hour,” claimed Trump has opened the door to China to take provocative chances now the U.S. stance on assuming control of another country — as Trump has boasted — has radically changed the calculus.

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White House airs unedited N-word in video celebrating Maduro capture

The Trump administration's social media video has raised eyebrows after an unedited racial slur was shared by the White House's official X account, Newsweek reported Monday.

The video posted on Jan. 3 showed Nicolás Maduro speaking in Spanish and yelling "come and get me," followed by a clip from Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking at a press conference and saying "if you don't know, now you know" — paired with the same lyrics from "Hypnotize," a 1997 hit from rapper The Notorious B.I.G.

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Right-wing YouTuber’s daycare hoax reveals bizarre MAGA obsession: analyst

A right-wing YouTuber's "psychosexual’ obsession amid allegations that he perpetuated a fraud hoax at Somali daycare facilities has revealed MAGA's misogynistic attack on childcare and women, an analyst wrote Monday.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte wrote how Nick Shirley has attempted to use his virginity as a "nonsense" justification for his allegations.

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'Donald is a coward' – and it's left China 'laughing its way to the bank': MS NOW panel

Using Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela as a leaping-off point, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and international risk management expert Ian Bremmer jumped on the president for ignoring a substantially bigger threat that China poses to the U.S.

Noting that the president seems obsessed with Venezuela's natural resources — mainly oil — as one of his main reasons for securing the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, Bremmer said Trump is missing the boat, much to China’s delight.

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Secret Service seizes man accused of hammer attack on JD Vance's home

A man accused of using a hammer to smash the windows of Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home was in custody Monday.

The man was suspected of trying to break open windows of Vance's Cincinnati home with a hammer just after midnight Monday and was "physically detained" by Cincinnati Police Department officers, according to The Washington Post.

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Alarm raised as Trump-invented rebrand threatens closest allies

Donald Trump’s coining of the term “Donroe Doctrine” to justify his invasion of Venezuela to take President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their home and bring them to the U.S. should alarm leaders of every country, according to an expert in international relations.

Appearing on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group which analyzes international political risk, stated that the president has created a new “brand” for himself, which distracts from the other problems plaguing his administration, and now will likely double down.

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MAGA faction revolts as GOP slips 'middle finger' into latest spending bill: report

Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement are revolting Monday after House Republicans quietly slipped a provision into the latest government spending bill to shield pesticide makers from accountability.

Conservative commentator Brett Cooper took to Fox News recently to sound the alarm about House Republicans’ efforts to protect pesticide makers, telling the network that the lawmakers’ efforts were a betrayal to the MAHA movement long championed by the Trump administration and its supporters.

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Pete Hegseth caves on Mark Kelly court martial threat

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested he was backing down from his threat to court-martial Mark Kelly and would instead seek to reduce his retirement pay.

In a video with other Democratic lawmakers, Kelly said troops had a responsibility not to obey illegal orders. The video came after the Trump administration began striking alleged drug boats off the coast of Venezuela.

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