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MSNBC host mocks Trump as he 'backs off' major campaign pledge

MSNBC host Katy Tur mocked President Donald Trump on Monday as he backed off peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.

Speaking in the White House garden for an event about artificial intelligence, Trump told the gathering a little about his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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'What about me?' Trump gripes after revealing Putin respects Melania 'better' than him

President Donald Trump revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin respects First Lady Melania Trump more than her husband.

At a signing ceremony for the Take It Down Act — a bill to fight revenge porn — the U.S. president said he had recently spoken to Putin about ending the war in Ukraine.

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JD Vance bashed for abandoning 'moral compass' to go 'scorched earth' for Trump

A new piece in The Atlantic laid out how Vice President JD Vance made a deliberate decision to "betray his true values" rooted in Appalachia in order to go full MAGA alongside Donald Trump when the political timing was right.

Journalist George Packer examined Vance's rise from the working class in a de-industrialized Ohio town to the hallowed halls of Yale Law School, writing that Vance was "tasked with explaining the world he came from to the world he recently joined."

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MAGA goes berserk as Ketanji Brown Jackson takes solo stance against Trump

MAGA acolytes have gone to war with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson over her sole dissent in Monday's decision to rescind legal protections to Venezuelan immigrants.

Jackson was the sole dissenter in Monday's court decision to rescind protections that stopped hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants being sent back to the country — although neither she nor the majority detailed their decisions.

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Trump gushes about Putin's 'spirit' as he reveals Ukraine call details

President Donald Trump insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would immediately begin negotiating to end the war in Ukraine after a Monday telephone call between the leaders.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump argued that his two-hour phone call with Putin "went very well."

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El Salvador arrests rights lawyer helping migrants deported by Trump

Police in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights lawyer with an organization helping families of imprisoned Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the United States, authorities said Monday.

The Cristosal rights group called for the immediate release of activist and attorney Ruth Eleonora Lopez, a critic of President Nayib Bukele.

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Trump official rakes in $280M tax free with 'ethics agreement': report

President Donald Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is emulating his boss by transferring away "his ownership interests in multiple affiliated companies" to trusts that will benefit his adult children, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Lutnick, a billionaire, served as chairman and chief executive of financial-services firm Cantor Fitzgerald until he was appointed to Trump's cabinet in February.

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'Sesame Street' jumps to Netflix after Trump threatens PBS funding

After 56 years on PBS, Big Bird and friends are finding new life on Netflix following President Donald Trump's threat to pull the plug on publicly-funded media, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"The streaming giant has reached an agreement to broadcast new episodes of 'Sesame Street,' giving the beloved children’s show a home after Warner Bros. Discovery said it was stepping away from the program," the report said.

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'I thought he was giving us a plug': Filmmaker Wes Anderson mocks Trump for confusing plan

Filmmaker Wes Anderson spoke about President Donald Trump at the annual Cannes Film Festival, expressing his disdain for the new tariffs on the film industry.

It followed an announcement by Trump earlier this month that, he wanted “MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

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Trump's favorite newspaper fears he may be neck-deep in 'Hunter Biden-style scandal'

President Donald Trump's once favorite daily tabloid, The New York Post, set off alarm bells Monday over his "questionable" cryptocurrency dealings that threaten a "Hunter Biden-style scandal at the White House."

Reporters Thomas Barrabi and Isabel Vincent cited experts who concluded "Donald Trump risks undercutting his presidency with a Hunter Biden-style influence-peddling scandal unless he clamps down on questionable crypto deals."

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'Overplayed his hand': Experts flag big consequences of Trump's latest 'retreat'

Donald Trump's latest international negotiations aren't going as planned, according to experts.

Trump's recent negotiations in Switzerland resulted in what some saw as a win for the president, because it stopped some of the bleeding in the trade war against China.

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Project 2025 authors enroll Trump DOJ into secret new right-wing scheme: report

While Project 2025's proposals to dismantle the federal government and purge the civil servants with mass firings is ongoing under Donald Trump's administration, lesser-known and secretive plans are also being undertaken — which has pleased the authors.

According to a report from the New York Times, a Heritage Foundation plan to harass and tamp down on a growing pro-Palestinian movement is proceeding with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice doing the dirty work following suggestions found in what is called "Project Esther."

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DHS spokesperson melts down on CNN's Blackwell with personal attacks

During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin resorted to personal attacks on host Victor Blackwell as he peppered her with questions about allowing white immigrants from South Africa to jump the line to enter the U.S.

The interview became combative when Blackwell confronted McLaughlin with the Donald Trump administration referring to the persecution of the white South Africans as "genocide," which, in turn, made her lash out.

"Victor, can we take a pause and recognize that fact that you are defending race-based discrimination," she complained. "You're defending --."

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"I'm not defending race-based discrimination in any way," the CNN host interrupted before reminding her that President Trump has used the term "genocide," and then reminded her of countries that have actually been condemned internationally for genocide.

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