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Fox News' favorite cardinal slams Trump's attack on Pope Leo

A Catholic cardinal who appears frequently on Fox News condemned President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on Pope Leo.

After Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope this week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke out against the U.S. president's claim that the Catholic leader was "weak on crime" because he opposed wars like the conflict in Iran.

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MAGA attorney claimed Trump allies ran psyops against him in bizarre grand jury testimony

Former Trumpworld attorney Lin Wood's bizarre rantings were revealed in newly-released transcripts of grand jury testimony for President Donald Trump's criminal election racketeering case in Georgia.

Wood, who gave up his law license in the face of disbarment threats after his own role in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has engaged in behavior that has even alienated most of Trump's other allies. He has unsuccessfully sued fellow lawyers for being "Deep State extortionists," called COVID-19 distancing measures a "Satanic ritual," and more recently claimed the late right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk was a covert operative against Trump.

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'He can get crazier': James Carville's chilling warning about Trump's coming decline

Democratic political strategist James Carville warned about how Trump will try to hold on to power as it begins to dwindle in the coming elections.

"He's going really down in November, and he's going to get crazier," Carville said during a Thursday episode of Politicon. "You think he can't get any crazier. Let me assure you, he can get crazier."

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'I feel terrible': Red state senator makes stunning admission after winning Trump's favor

President Donald Trump may have thought he had sufficiently purged the Indiana state senators who stood up to him on his gerrymandering plan — but it may not be so simple.

After a majority of GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber refused to pass his plan to redraw the state's congressional districts to delete two Democratic seats, Trump endorsed seven primary challengers to knock off lawmakers who said no, and six of them won their races, which in theory ought to be just enough seats to pass the map if it's debated again next session — assuming all of those six go on to win the general election against Democratic opponents, which itself isn't a guarantee.

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Massive trove of never-before-seen transcripts revealed in Trump's criminal case

A massive dump of more than five dozen transcripts for grand jury testimony in the Georgia criminal case against President Donald Trump was revealed to the public on Thursday for the first time.

The release was announced by Anna Bower of Lawfare in a post to X.

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Red state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly yanks 'Jim Crow' banner from Black senator

The Tennessee state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly pulled a banner from the hands of Sen. Charlane Oliver (D) during a debate on redistricting.

As the body was considering new maps that would erase the state's only majority-Black district, Oliver held up a banner that said: "No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal."

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Legal expert spots buried detail in Epstein's reported suicide note

A legal expert on Thursday revealed a potential pattern in the newly released alleged Epstein suicide note and described why it was something to consider.

Lisa Rubin, MS NOW senior legal reporter, told MS NOW anchor Katie Tur that there could be a buried detail found in the note discovered by Nicholas Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate in 2019. Tartaglione, who is now serving four consecutive life sentences for a quadruple homicide, says he discovered it after Epstein's alleged suicide attempt in July 2019 and gave it to one of his lawyers.

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Trump breaks silence on mystery Brazil meeting after press conference scrapped

Trump broke his silence on a meeting with Brazil's president that perplexed journalists on Thursday.

"Just concluded my meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the very dynamic President of Brazil," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "We discussed many topics, including Trade and, specifically, Tariffs. The meeting went very well."

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'Should work': Texas doc sells horse dewormer for hantavirus despite COVID-19 reprimand

After being officially reprimanded for treating COVID-19 without permission in Texas, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden has started selling an unproven horse dewormer to treat hantavirus.

Bowden responded to reports that at least five hantavirus cases had been confirmed aboard a cruise ship by speculating about the efficacy of ivermectin.

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US seen as 'rogue superpower' as Trump's abrupt U-turn irks allies: expert

President Donald Trump's sudden change of policy on reopening the Strait of Hormuz has angered Gulf allies and changed how they view the United States amid the Iran war, an expert said on Thursday.

Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy Magazine, told MS NOW that Trump's decision followed Saudi Arabia's move to suspend the U.S. military's ability to use its bases and airspaces for the ongoing military operation. The key Gulf ally's decision was a response to "Project Freedom," which Trump announced on his Truth Social platform over the weekend — without discussion among the regional allies.

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DHS withheld murder warrant — then lied that judge knowingly freed suspect: expert

The Trump administration withheld information from a Biden judge and let a lie spread that she knowingly freed a murder suspect, according to a legal expert.

Harry Litman, former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, called out the Department of Homeland Security in a piece on Thursday. DHS, the parent agency of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, posted a press release headlined, "Activist Biden judge releases violent criminal illegal alien wanted for murder."

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Suspicious MAGA suspects deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak a plot to ruin Trump

Right-wing influencers were spreading conspiracy theories about the rat-borne illness that has left three luxury cruise ship passengers dead, according to reports on Thursday.

Experts from the World Health Organization have said that the hantavirus outbreak on MV Hondius is being transmitted human-to-human and that MAGA social media accounts are now suggesting the virus was purposefully introduced to the passengers, The Daily Beast reported. The ship has been stranded off Cape Verde throughout the week but is now back to sailing with the plan to disembark passengers in the Canary Islands starting on Monday. Eight confirmed cases have been connected to the cruise, prompting medical evacuations in South Africa, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

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'Let them eat road trips!' Sean Duffy pilloried for cheery response to $4.50 gas

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheerfully downplayed rising fuel costs as the result of President Donald Trump's war in Iran, and he was pilloried on social media.

The Transportation Secretary was asked by reporters Thursday at an event in Philadelphia about average gasoline prices surpassing $4.50 per gallon, and Duffy justified the president's war and insisted that prices weren't too high to consider a road trip.

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