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Florida swamped with angry protests over 'pathetic' Trump airport name change

Officials at Palm Beach International Airport were deluged with angry comments — including a bomb threat — after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis paved the way for the facility to be renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

According to NOTUS reporting by David Levinthal, who obtained the airport's website comments log via a Florida Public Records Act request, airport officials faced the brunt of abuse and boycott threats from travelers furious over the renaming.

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Trump rages that massive Iran concession in his own deal is 'Dumocrat propaganda'

President Donald Trump lashed out on Truth Social, insisting there is no $300 billion U.S. payment to Iran tied to his new peace deal and blaming Democrats for the reports.

"There is no 300 Billion Dollar payment to Iran by the U.S. That's Fake News!" Trump wrote. "All there is for the U.S. is Success, Lower Oil Prices, and Victory. Check out the Stock Market. Dumocrat propaganda at play!!!"

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Trump pick's 'disqualifying' smear hurled back in her face: 'How about an apology?'

Kari Lake, President Trump's nominee for ambassador to Jamaica, refused to retract a debunked smear against a sitting Democratic U.S. senator at her confirmation hearing, insisting her claim was not wrong.

The confrontation came during Lake's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) pressed her over a 2024 campaign claim that Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), then a House member running against Lake for Senate, was "controlled by the cartels," a charge PolitiFact rated "pants on fire."

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'I’m not fighting with the pope, Ross': Vance gets snippy in NYT interview

During an interview with one of the New York Times resident conservative columnists, Vice President JD Vance objected to the characterization that he is at war with Pope Leo XIV.

Donald Trump’s veep has indulged in a heavy media schedule this week as he promotes his book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” where he describes his conversion to Catholicism at the age of 35.

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CNN snubs JD Vance by cutting him off mid-thought to cover Obama Center opening

CNN cut away from Vice President JD Vance mid-briefing Thursday to launch live coverage of the Obama Presidential Center's grand opening.

Vance was at the White House podium fielding questions about the newly signed memorandum of understanding with Iran when anchor Pamela Brown pulled the plug on the briefing.

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'Revolt': Trump's self-destructive habit threatens to blow up Senate GOP support

President Donald Trump has a habit of punishing Republicans who tell him no, and his standoff with his party's Senate majority leader may cost him the most.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, has delivered a string of unwelcome answers to the president — rejecting Trump's demands to fire the Senate parliamentarian, kill the legislative filibuster, and pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a voter ID bill that lacks the votes to move forward.

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NBC journalists seethe as exec reportedly floats a Universal ride named for Trump

A candid admission from a high-ranking NBCUniversal executive that Comcast's multi-million dollar contribution to President Trump's ballroom project was merely the "cost of doing business" sparked outrage among journalists at a company retreat this week.

According to media watchdog Status, NBC-owned stations' news directors and NBC News investigative reporters gathered for a network training day ahead of the 2026 Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

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'Bet everybody's farm': Veteran reporter predicts Stephen Miller to face probe within days

A veteran Washington reporter said Wednesday he'd "bet everybody's farm" that Congress will launch an investigation into Stephen Miller by week's end.

Scott MacFarlane made the prediction during a panel on MS NOW. The MeidasTouch Network's chief Washington correspondent was reacting to New York Times reporting on secret White House memos showing Miller had pushed to suspend habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.

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Trump's own appointees turn on him in new Supreme Court gun ruling

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a unanimous loss Thursday, ruling that a 1968 law barring drug users from owning firearms cannot be used to prosecute a Texas marijuana user — a rare rebuke that also resurrects the ghost of Hunter Biden.

The justices sided with Ali Danial Hemani, who argued the prohibition violated his Second Amendment rights. Hemani had not been charged with any other crime and was not accused of using the weapon while under the influence.

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Key cabinet member now in a dangerous spot after Trump's international humiliation: MS NOW

While Donald Trump is being excoriated by Republicans over his Iran deal, which one GOP lawmaker called “… a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” MS NOW’s Bill Rohde stated on Thursday morning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can expect that his role in advising the president to launch the war has put his job at risk.

Discussing the blowback Trump is facing over the war that, for the moment, has ended in a stalemate, Rohde claimed that Hegseth is already a prime target instead since he is already on the outs with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers.

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Trump-backed pastor drops Congress bid amid flirting scandal

Jackson Lahmeyer, the candidate previously backed by President Donald Trump in Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, dropped out of the race one day after advancing to a runoff in the GOP primary.

NOTUS first reported earlier Wednesday that he was expected to drop out of the race.

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CNN puts Trump on blast with slew of withering reviews on 'tremendous blunder'

President Donald Trump is only seeing the backlash mount from his own party against the Iran agreement he signed to end the war largely on Iran's terms, CNN's John Berman reported on Thursday morning.

Trump, said Berman, is facing "a lot" of anger from conservatives — and the long list of social media posts put up on the display behind him, he added, is "just a smattering" of what they are saying about him.

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'Flat out lying': Senators enraged at Trump's secret trick to stealth-fund ballroom

Senators from both parties are accusing President Donald Trump of secretly tapping government funds for his White House ballroom after Congress refused to write him a check.

The White House Office of Management and Budget quietly moved $352 million last week from a Secret Service fund — money the law restricts to personnel, training, programming, and technology — and labeled it "White House Security Measures."

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