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ICE on high alert as FBI warns of lurking 'tradwife' threat: report

Agents working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) have been advised to be on their toes if they are looking to add a little romance into their lives when they are not rounding up immigrants, according to a new report.

The FBI's Chicago field office sent a memo to law enforcement nationwide in February warning that "a small group of women allegedly were creating fictitious online dating profiles with the purpose of attracting and then doxxing law enforcement participating in immigration enforcement," the Guardian reported Thursday.

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Senator gets the giggles over Mike Johnson's 'unbelievable' brag: 'That's really nuts!'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) burst into spontaneous laughter when a reporter told her that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed his leadership produced the most productive Congress in nearly 100 years.

Warren was taking questions in a Capitol hallway Thursday morning, on her way into a closed-door meeting. The senator's unexpected laughter came a day after Johnson sent House members home until Nov. 9, canceling a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Cuba cash-grab plot exposed as Trump henchman exploit boss's sanctions: report

While dozens of major companies flee Cuba under President Donald Trump-era sanctions, a select group of insiders with ties to the president are quietly positioning themselves to scoop up the island's assets, according to the Guardian.

That includes executives working for the Trump Organization.

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Trump makes wild Kennedy Center claim in under-the-wire filing: 'We have seen warnings'

Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued to a federal judge Thursday that the Kennedy Center has become so dangerous that 2,500-pound concrete slabs ringing the building pose an active falling hazard.

Minutes before a court-imposed deadline on Thursday, a response was filed in U.S. District Court, where the administration is fighting a demand for an emergency hearing.

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'Stunning' ad as fed-up Florida Republican says Trump has finally 'gone too far'

A Republican lawmaker broke sharply with President Donald Trump on Thursday as she seeks re-election.

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) released a campaign ad warning the 80-year-old president that his mass deportation campaign was too extreme and had caught up too many immigrants without criminal records.

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Chilling red flag spotted by Nobel-winning psychiatrist over Trump's nuke image posts

A Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist fears President Donald Trump has become too unstable to be trusted with nuclear codes.

Dr. Henry David Abraham, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine, told The i Paper's Kieron Monks he's troubled, not by the results of Trump's cognitive tests, but by how often he's taking them. Trump announced in May he'd scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, for the fourth time — his third such test in just over a year.

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Trump's 'flagrant defiance' shakes legal expert after 'childish' act called out in court

President Donald Trump's saga of interference with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts continues — and legal expert and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance is left absolutely stunned.

The president's hand-picked board tried to add his name to the building, only to be blocked by a federal judge. What has happened since then, wrote Vance for her Substack, is a tightrope of actions that stop just short of outright defying the court's orders.

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'What the hell?' Court filings fly as shock photo suggests imminent Kennedy Center threat

A photo of President Donald Trump reading a placard that appears to say "Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED" landed in federal court early Thursday as new evidence.

Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) filed the image Thursday morning in a notice telling U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper that two new pieces of evidence had surfaced overnight.

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'Panicking' GOP dumps emergency cash on gerrymandered districts as Dems gloat: report

Republicans are pouring emergency campaign cash into gerrymandered congressional districts as races once considered comfortably secure suddenly look genuinely competitive, according to a new report.

Several of those threatened seats sit in Texas, where Republicans gerrymandered new lines just last year hoping to secured them for a generation, according to The New York Times.

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'Jump in the bunker and shut the doors': Dad's harrowing account exposes Trump's war

Johnny Odom's 22-year-old son arrived at his base in Jordan in March expecting a routine Air Force deployment.

On his first day, Iranian missiles struck the base, forcing him and his unit to scramble into a ditch for cover. Six months later, he remains there, and the danger has only escalated, reported MS NOW.

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'Devastating': Floored conservative claims Trump blunder just ripped coalition to shreds

President Donald Trump's electoral coalition is falling to pieces and one blunder is to blame, Vice President JD Vance's former adviser Sohrab Ahmari argued Thursday.

"Well, it was nice while it lasted," Ahmari wrote for UnHerd. "Beginning in 2016, Donald Trump won over large shares of working- and lower-middle-class Americans to the GOP" — and that ultimately blossomed into a coalition that won the 2024 election as well. "But now a re-realignment may be afoot."

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'Did Joe Rogan really say that?' Podcaster stuns Morning Joe with Ken Paxton admission

Influential podcaster Joe Rogan was raked over the coals on Thursday morning after professing to be completely in the dark about corruption allegations targeting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Rogan, based in Austin, appeared to play dumb as Texas comedian Ron White called Paxton — running for U.S. Senate in their state — a "piece of s---" and detailed criminal charges that led to impeachment proceedings.

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Embattled Republican threatens longstanding House tradition to avoid feeling 'irritated'

A House Republican, whose caucus is being besieged with questions about President Donald Trump, is leading the charge to spare lawmakers the irritation of reporters camped off the House floor, according to a new report.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who chairs the House Rules Committee, revealed that some of her colleagues want to ban the press entirely from the Speaker's Lobby, the Washington Sun reported Thursday.

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