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GOP lawmaker calls for Gaza to be 'nuked' like Japan was in World War II

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) called for nuclear weapons to be used against Gaza following Wednesday night's shooting of two Israeli staffers at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington.

During a Thursday morning interview on Fox News, Fine insisted that "Palestinianism is built on violence."

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'Flawed': Government health report blasted as being packed full of bogus data

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" campaign is being criticized for using "misleading" information in its official report on children's health.

In "MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again" released Thursday, the White House "blamed exposure to environmental toxins, poor nutrition and increased screen time for a decline in Americans’ life expectancy" and declared, “today’s children are the sickest generation in American history in terms of chronic disease," according to The Washington Post.

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'Please, don't': Jewish hate expert not impressed as Pam Bondi attacks antisemitism

The founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism name-checked attorney general Pam Bondi on CNN Thursday for pledging to do everything the Trump administration can to stop anti-Jewish violence.

Bondi appeared on Fox News, where she lamented the deaths of two young people outside of a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night by a man who shouted "Free Palestine" when he was arrested.

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'Shameful': MAGA observers melt down over Supreme Court's new ruling

MAGA advocates staged a meltdown on social media after news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court failed to reach a decision in favor of allowing taxpayers to pay for a religious charter school in Oklahoma.

The court tied 4-4 Thursday, with one conservative justice siding with liberals. According to the Associated Press:

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Amy Coney Barrett ensures religious school fight fails in Supreme Court

A recusal by conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has ensured that Oklahoma taxpayers will not have to pay for a religious public charter school.

Coney Barrett would have broken the 4-4 deadlock reached by the Court Thursday. Although she did not give a reason for her recusal, The New York Times speculated that the justice's "close friendship with Nicole Stelle Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who was an early adviser for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the school involved in the dispute," may have contributed.

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Woman shot at CIA headquarters as car fails to stop at security

The FBI is investigating after a woman was shot by CIA security Thursday as she drove up to a gate at the agency's headquarters in Langley, VA, and failed to stop, CBS reported.

Law enforcement said they believed the gunshot wound to the woman's upper was not life-threatening.

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'I didn't like it': MAGA host shreds Trump for 'sandbagging' South African president

MAGA TV host David Brody blasted President Donald Trump for ambushing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office this week with a video about alleged "white genocide."

"I tell you what, and we're not showing the video there, but when he dimmed the lights... dim the lights and said, hey, let's play this video," Brody said Thursday on Real America's Voice. "I mean, you just don't see this. You never see this."

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Trump was scolded by France's Macron during call with world leaders: report

During a phone call with world leaders where the topic was Russian President Vladimir Putin's failure to negotiate in good faith about his Ukraine invasion, Donald Trump was scolded by French President Emmanuel Macron.

According to an exclusive report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump spoke on Monday with Macron, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to update them on his attempts to get Putin to come to the table and finally end the Ukraine incursion where the U.S. president admitted Putin is "not ready" because he thinks he is winning.

With the report noting that Trump had earlier told the same leaders that he was poised to issue sanctions against Russia to pressure Putin, the Journal reported he had a change of heart after his call with the Russian strongman, with the Journal's Bojan Pancevski and Laurence Norman writing, "He wasn’t ready to do that. Instead, Trump said he wanted to proceed quickly with lower-level talks between Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican. "

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Having gotten that business out of the way, Trump reportedly then began to ramble before making statements that irked Macron and led to Trump being reprimanded.

"That Sunday call included some of Trump’s signature off-the-cuff style, mixing praise and criticism of European leaders," the Journal is reporting. "At another point, he digressed into a broadside against Europe’s migration policies. Trump said out-of-control migration was bringing their countries to the 'brink of collapse.'”

That, in turn led Macron to push back and ask him to back off, warning Trump, "You cannot insult our nations, Donald.”

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Trump 'deeply underwater' on Wall Street skyscraper as massive debt deadline looms: report

President Donald Trump's most problematic business loan has him "deeply underwater" and scrambling to pay the exorbitant mortgage, with Forbes declaring that how he handles the situation "will reveal a lot about his current financial standing—and how politics is shaping it."

The building in question is 40 Wall Street, and the $115 million mortgage on the skyscraper is due in a mere 46 days, according to senior editor Dan Alexander.

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'Body slammed!' Dem lawmaker praised for takedown of ed secretary Linda McMahon

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) received widespread praise on social media Wednesday for her takedown of Linda McMahon during the education secretary's defense of the Trump administration's plan to slash $4.5 billion from the nation's K-12 schools.

McMahon, a billionaire thanks to her involvement with World Wrestling Entertainment, testified before the House Appropriations Committee, echoing the administration's talking points on "waste, fraud, and abuse."

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'Grotesque': ICE slammed for barring Columbia activist from meeting newborn

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are not allowing detained pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil to meet with his wife and newborn son, his attorneys told Mehdi Hasan's Zateo News.

Khalil missed his son's birth in April after being arrested by the Trump administration in March.

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'Blindsided': South African newspaper accuses Trump of hoodwinking nation's leader

The Sunday Times based in Johannesburg, South Africa, accused President Donald Trump of blindsiding the African nation's leader who arrived in Washington Wednesday for an Oval Office meeting.

"US president Donald Trump blindsided his counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa during their meeting in the White House's Oval Office by playing a montage of video clips of EFF leader Julius Malema singing about killing white people," the Times published.

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CNN fact-checks 'truly extraordinary' Trump attack on president of South Africa

CNN host Dana Bash and fact-checker Daniel Dale pounced on Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon after the U.S. president "ambushed" South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office with patently false claims of murders of white farmers in his country.

After Trump showed a highly manipulative video disparaging South Africa, he followed up by making sweeping assertions and arguing with the African leader, which seemed to have stunned CNN's Bash.

Cutting away, Bash told her audience, "Okay we're going to continue to monitor what has been a truly extraordinary what? Half an hour plus inside the Oval Office. I just, I want to go back to Daniel Dale because there's a lot of fact-checking to do."

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Dale jumped in, explaining, "The last nine months of 2024 in South Africa: 19,696 murders. How many of them occurred on farms? 36."

"36 about 0.2 percent," he re-emphasized. "That includes employees like security staff, farm workers. How many of them were actual farmers? Seven out of more than 19,000 and it's not even clear that those are all white farmers. Contrary to what the president said, many farmers in South Africa are Black."

"Even the white ones who have been victims of crime, it's not clear, have been targeted for racial reasons," he elaborated. "Experts and white farmers themselves in South Africa have repeatedly told media outlets and think tanks that they feel they are often targeted for robbery and even attacks because they are geographically isolated and therefore vulnerable."

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