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'I'm very concerned': Marco Rubio triggers alarms of 'war' from intel lawmakers

Secretary of State Marco Rubio held an unusual briefing on Tuesday that raised concerns among intel lawmakers over whether the U.S. may launch military attacks on Iran.

Rubio's private meeting was held virtually just hours before President Donald Trump's State of the Union address and included both Senate and House lawmakers, including high-ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Politico reported. The move has raised questions over the Trump administration's decision to take military action in the Middle East.

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‘Not giving it back’: Trump jokes about stealing gold medal from Team USA hockey player

President Donald Trump hosted the US men's Olympic hockey team in the Oval Office on Tuesday, joking that he would take one of the players' gold medals.

Trump has taken other people's awards in the past, including the Nobel Peace Prize, which was presented by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. He teased the Olympic gold medalists visiting the White House that he would put on one of the medals.

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MAGA lawmaker clashes with CNN anchor over Trump's economy: 'Don't cut me off!'

A MAGA lawmaker and staunch ally of President Donald Trump clashed with a CNN anchor Tuesday over his claims that the economy is growing as Americans express their affordability concerns just hours before the president was set to give his State of the Union address.

CNN anchor Erica Hill asked Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) to respond after sharing comments from Sarah Wells, founder and CEO of Sarah Wells Bags, who described the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's tariffs as "a win" for small business owners feeling the weight of the president's levies. Wells explained that in the last year, she has had to lay employees off as a result of the president's trade policy and the difficulties she's faced, estimating up to $500,000 in business losses.

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Bongino loses it at MAGA influencer: 'You deserve the little licks of the flames of hell'

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino lashed out at right-wing podcaster Candace Owens for an upcoming broadcast that was expected to suggest Erika Kirk was linked to the death of her husband, Charlie Kirk.

"I don't know what to call it," Bongino said on his Tuesday podcast. "Some production Candace Owens is putting together, an investigative series. ... This just can't be what this movement is. And if it is, I don't want any part of it."

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Jon Stewart throws Trump's own words in his face as he 'obliterates' latest threat

Donald Trump's words have come back to haunt him as Jon Stewart ripped into the president for a claim he made last year.

The president bragged about Iran's nuclear capabilities being "totally obliterated" in June 2025 — but it seems the threat is still very real, Stewart said Monday. Steve Witkoff, the United States' Special Envoy to the Middle East, is now claiming Iran is just a week away from having "bomb-making capabilities," despite the strikes.

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Expert reveals how foreign leaders exploit Trump for their own gain: 'He knows this'

President Donald Trump wants to project a certain image on the global stage, and some world leaders have learned how to use that to their advantage, according to one expert.

Trump wants to appear as a ruthless leader on par with strongmen like Russia's Vladimir Putin or China's Xi Jinping, according to Fiona Hill, Trump's Russia advisor during the first administration. Hill said during an interview on the "The Court of History" podcast on Monday that Trump's desire to be seen in this light gives world leaders a psychological advantage when they interact with the U.S. president, because they have turned that desire for adoration into currency.

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Jake Tapper in disbelief at 'beer-soaked' Kash Patel's defense of Olympics trip

CNN anchor Jake Tapper was shocked Monday by FBI Director Kash Patel's partying in the locker room with the gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team at the Olympics in Italy.

Tapper questioned what Patel was doing there — and exactly who was footing the bill. The move comes amid multiple high profile federal investigations.

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WSJ smacks down Trump's claim that a hospital ship is headed to Greenland

President Donald Trump announced last week that a U.S. Naval hospital ship was en route to Greenland, sparking outrage at yet another imperialist move on the Danish territory despite its residents' repeated insistence they have no interest in joining the United States. Trump cited a supposed public health crisis going on in Greenland, without any details or explanation.

But according to the Wall Street Journal, no such hospital ship on the way.

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Mike Johnson admits Trump's tariffs are dead on arrival in Congress

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Monday that he doubted Congress would pass any legislation to reinstate President Donald Trump's tariff policy following the Supreme Court decision last week that the president's levies were illegal.

He described how it would be unlikely for lawmakers to reverse that decision, Politico reported.

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Federal court refuses to strike down red state redistricting map that helps Dems

A panel of three federal judges declined to strike down a Utah redistricting map that could help Democrats regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a ruling on Monday, the Tenth Circuit panel responded to a demand by Utah's Republican-led legislature that new court-drawn maps not be used for the upcoming midterm elections.

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Kash Patel may have violated FBI rules as locker room antics 'disgust' agency insiders: MS NOW

Count current and former FBI officials among those who were appalled watching FBI Director Kash Patel chugging beer and partying with the Olympic hockey team in Italy, as if he had some part in their 2-1 overtime victory over Canada.

According to MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian, Patel claimed he had important business in Italy, and it was just a coincidence that the Winter Olympics, awarded to Milan in 2019, happened to be running concurrently.

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Secret Epstein lockers could hold stash of files that have never been seen: report

Late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had six secret lockers that have never been searched, according to reports Monday.

A report from The Telegraph found that Epstein apparently paid private investigators to remove computers and photographs from his Florida home, including computers from his private island in the Caribbean, and hide the items in an attempt to obstruct investigators. Credit card payments for the storage units continued through 2019, the year he died while awaiting trial on federal charges related to his exploitation of underage girls.

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'Unpredictable' Trump's 'impossible' Iran dream is threatening a bloodbath: expert

Donald Trump's long-term plan for Iran may not be as achievable as the president wants it to be, according to a political analyst.

Professor Anthony Glees believes the Trump administration is looking to topple the Iranian government and bring about a friendlier relationship between Iran and the US as a result. This would be a tall order for the president's team, though, as Glees notes that finding a suitable replacement for ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the military action would be hard.

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