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Tsunami alerts issued for entire West Coast after massive 8.8 earthquake

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific Ocean and the U.S. West Coast.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake happened 85 miles off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula at a depth of nearly 12 miles.

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'Collapse': Steve Bannon warns newest crisis poised to decimate Trump's presidency

Key allies to President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement are issuing dire warnings that the president’s support of Israel amid its partial blockade of aid into the Gaza Strip will result in a near-total “collapse of support” among the president’s most diehard supporters.

“It seems that for the under-30-year-old MAGA base, Israel has almost no support, and (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s attempt to save himself politically by dragging America in deeper to another Middle East war has turned off a large swath of older MAGA diehards,” said Steve Bannon, a former White House chief strategist under Trump and influential MAGA figure, speaking with Politico Tuesday.

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Candace Owens insists 'they'll fake kill' French president's wife for 'being a man'

Right-wing podcast host Candace Owens predicted that unnamed people would "fake kill" Bridgette Macron, wife of the French president, before a lawsuit over the MAGA celebrity's claims that she's really a man make it to court.

On her Monday podcast, Owens responded after the Macrons sued her for saying Macron was born a man.

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Trump's gold merch caught with 'made in China' stickers at Scotland golf club

President Donald Trump flew to Scotland, where he spent the weekend at his Turnberry resort playing golf. While the White House press corps and those credentialed to wander the grounds were rummaging through the resort, a Reuters photographer discovered some of the items up for sale in the new resort gift shop would normally be subject to hefty tariffs if sold in the United States.

The merchandise includes hats that read "TRUMP" and "USA," as well as teddy bears wearing "TRUMP" sweaters. But one key item is a packet of gold glittery playing cards with a prominent "Made in China" sticker on the bottom.

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Questions raised over cost to rehab Trump's Qatar jet and 'mysterious' $934M fund transfer

The cost to rehab the controversial luxury jet generously gifted to Donald Trump by the government of Qatar remains a mystery with the figures not being made available at the same time that there are questions about a "mysterious" Pentagon fund transfer.

According to a report from the New York Times' David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, the Pentagon has gone to great pains to hide the expense to make changes to the "free" jet that is supposed to replace the aging Air Force One.

The report notes, "Officially, and conveniently, the price tag has been classified. But even by Washington standards, where “black budgets” are often used as an excuse to avoid revealing the cost of outdated spy satellites and lavish end-of-year parties," adding that the reasoning behind hiding the cost is "inventive."

That led to speculation about a recent unexplained transfer of almost a billion dollars within the Pentagon.

Writing, "no one wants to discuss a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects — the modernization of America’s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles," Sanger and Schmitt added, "congressional budget sleuths have come to think that amount, slipped into an obscure Pentagon document sent to Capitol Hill as a 'transfer' to an unnamed classified project, almost certainly includes the renovation" of the jet that has been descibed as a "palace in the sky."

The report adds that the plane will not be ready soon, if at all while the president is in office, and "will be transferred to the yet-to-be-created Trump presidential library after he leaves office in 2029, the president has said."

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Trump hits Scottish golf course as protesters set to rally

US President Donald Trump played golf on the first full day of his visit to Scotland Saturday, as protesters prepared to take to the streets across the country.

Trump emerged from his Turnberry resort with son Eric and waved to photographers following his arrival in Scotland on Friday evening.

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'Extremely disappointing': Little Leaguers denied visas into US due to Trump travel ban

President Donald Trump's administration has denied a Venezuelan Little League team from coming into the United States to compete in the Senior League World Series.

Little League International confirmed to Newsweek on Friday that the Cacique Mara team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be given visas to compete after winning the Latin American championship in Mexico.

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Top official admits quiet part out loud on Trump's South African refugee program

A top State Department official has revealed that a key program to help people from South Africa is meant for white people.

Reuters confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump's February executive order to help "Afrikaners" in South Africa experiencing "racial discrimination" is not available for people of color. The group is primarily made up of descendants of Dutch colonizers.

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Trump hit with 'opposite of what he wanted' as Greenland threat backfires: report

Donald Trump's flirtation with wanting to take over Greenland has plunged the popularity of the U.S. to a new low among locals and in Denmark.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump's overtures to Denmark to assume possession of the protectorate was greeted with dismay and diminished goodwill built up over decades between the two countries.

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First lady of France sues right-wing firebrand Candace Owens over claims she's a man

First Lady Brigitte Macron is suing right-wing firebrand Candace Owens for a “relentless and unjustified smear campaign” that alleges Macron is secretly a man.

Law firm Clare Locke shared the 219-page defamation complaint on its website, showing that Owens will be sued in Delaware state court.

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Karoline Leavitt 'not sure' if Trump told Johnson to close Congress early over Epstein

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she was "not sure" if President Donald Trump or anyone in his administration communicated with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) before a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents was scuttled by canceling the final day of Congress before summer break.

Although the House was scheduled to hold votes on Thursday, Johnson moved to cut the week short as many members indicated that they would push to force the Trump administration to release files on the convicted sex offender.

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Ozzy Osbourne dies weeks after final Black Sabbath show

The English heavy metal superstar John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne died on Tuesday, just weeks after reuniting with members of his band Black Sabbath for a farewell show, Sky News reported.

Ozbourne’s cause of death has yet to be reported, though his family released a statement that read he died “surrounded by love,” Sky News reported.

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Trump shocks experts with announcement that undercuts his own legal case

President Donald Trump's administration may have just shot itself in the foot with a newly announced prisoner swap, in which he gave 250 Venezuelans who were deported to the brutal CECOT prison in El Salvador for 10 Americans jailed there.

Professor and journalist Bill Grueskin remarked on Bluesky, "But we were told that once these detainees arrived in El Salvador, the US had no control over their fates."

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