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Trump under pressure to launch major attack: ‘24 hours of strategic bombing’

The Trump administration is actively being pushed to launch a major attack on Iran’s energy infrastructure by Israeli officials, The New Arab reported Saturday, citing an “informed” Israeli source whose claim was shared on Israel’s Channel 12.

“According to the report, Israeli officials believe Iran’s energy infrastructure could be destroyed ‘within 24 hours,’ forcing Tehran into negotiations ‘from a position of severe weakness,’” The New Arab’s report reads. “One Israeli official cited by the broadcaster said: ‘If the regime does not fall, then at the very least it will become paralyzed.’”

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'Smuggled human teeth': Epstein’s heir exposed for bizarre – and 'likely' illegal – act

Karnya Shuliak, Jeffrey Epstein’s “last partner and main heiress,” was exposed Friday by veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez for “likely" engaging in an illegal scheme – one that involved smuggling 50 human teeth into the United States.

In a report published on her Substack Friday, Valdes-Rodriguez detailed a peculiar email hidden within the Justice Department’s release of millions of Epstein-related files. Addressed to Shuliak, the email in question was sent in October of 2017 from Rajesh Kannan, an Indian dentist who in 2019 was reported to possess the single “largest collection of extracted human teeth.”

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Trump's blunder backfires with big win for industry he openly despises: analysis

Trump's Iran war accidentally sparked a global renewable energy revolution — handing a big win to an industry he openly despises, an analyst wrote Saturday.

Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran has triggered what energy experts are calling the worst oil supply crisis in recorded history — and in a twist the president almost certainly never intended, it may have permanently accelerated the world's shift away from fossil fuels, wrote columnist Sabrina Haake on her Substack.

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GOP video catches Trump official in 'slam-dunk' admission of breaking federal law: report

Wyoming attorney and rancher Karen Budd-Falen, who President Donald Trump appointed to serve in a senior role at the Department of the Interior, made remarks at an event last December that some experts said could amount to an admission of violating federal law, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

Budd-Falen was speaking at a Congressional Western Caucus event — an event that was captured on video and published online by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) — where she championed policy changes on grazing limits that she, as DOI associate deputy secretary, admitted to being “involved in.”

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Crucial ally now frozen out because Trump 'hates to be associated with losers': analysis

Donald Trump is souring on Vladimir Putin as the Russian president's grip on power weakens and his war in Ukraine drags into an embarrassing stalemate, according to a new analysis.

The shift comes as Trump prepares for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, a meeting that has left Putin nervously watching from the sidelines, Sarah Baxter wrote for The i Paper.

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'Panic' spreads through GOP as Trump hints he'll squander midterm 'superweapon'

Republican lawmakers and candidates are growing increasingly anxious in the lead up to the 2026 midterm elections as President Donald Trump continues to stay quiet on whether his super PAC, MAGA Inc., has any plans to use its $300 million was chest to help bolster Republicans at the ballot box.

“There is an expectation funds are coming soon,” said a GOP donor, speaking with Politico for its report published Saturday on the condition of anonymity. “Mild panic will set in soon if it doesn’t by early summer.”

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Leaked email exposes White House splinters as 'frustrated' Susie Wiles threatens staff

A leaked threat from Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles warned she'd fire West Wing staff members who discussed the president's administration outside of a very close circle, Politico reported.

The internal warning told insiders they could be hit with immediate termination if they spoke to reporters.

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Trump's giant gold statue at his golf club triggers online disgust and disbelief

Trump's giant gold statue of himself at his Doral Golf Club in Miami was met with online disgust by people who couldn't believe that anyone would want or applaud such a vanity project.

"What's wrong with people," wrote journalist James Surowiecki on X, reacting to video of the statue and a photo of a pastor dedicating it in Trump's honor.

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'Cry more': Jim Acosta mocks Fox News host with montage of Trump's 'nutty' projects

Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta had a reality check for Fox News' Jesse Watters, after the latter objected to the former's criticism of President Donald Trump's latest vanity project in Washington, D.C.

"After Jesse Watters of Fox complained about my story on Trump’s ridiculous reflecting pool project, I decided to do a fuller report on many of the ways Trump is ruining DC. CRY MORE," he wrote on X, attaching a video montage of some of Trump's other projects.

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Trump already 'bored' with his own  war and wants out: report

Trump is reportedly losing patience with his own war that he started in Iran and wants it to end as soon as possible, according to a new report.

According to a Friday article by The Atlantic, an outside advisor to Trump said that the president is "bored" with the war.

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Trump backs down on Big Bend border wall after bipartisan backlash

Plans to build portions of the border wall in Big Bend National Park are off after bipartisan backlash over the proposed construction, a top U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner.

CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said the Trump administration was no longer planning to construct the wall within the national park following pushback from residents, the Examiner reported this week.

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GOP senator hit with 'doozy of an ad' over Epstein donations

A GOP senator trying to keep his seat in a contentious battleground state was hit with a damning attack ad calling out his connections to sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

"Of all 535 members of Congress, who's taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?" the attack ad opened. "Jon Husted, that's who."

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AOC's answer on running for president leaves political world speechless

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has gone from being considered a far-left backbencher when she was first elected in 2018, to one of the Democratic Party's most prominent rising stars — and with that has come swirling questions and rumors about whether she plans to seek higher office.

Former Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod asked her about precisely that during an interview at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics — and she gave an answer that wowed many observers.

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