Author: Naomi Lim
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Trump relishes fight with Newsom over LA riots
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President Donald Trump is on the offensive regarding the anti-immigration law enforcement riots in the Los Angeles area by mobilizing the National Guard in California against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), a conflict Trump sees as a political winner. By becoming the first president since Lyndon Johnson to dispatch the National Guard without…
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‘One Big Beautiful Breakup’: What’s next for Trump and Musk?
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Private tensions between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest spilled out into a public war on Thursday, ending the alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the most dramatic way possible. Since Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and former leader of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, started cozying up to…
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Kamala Harris headlines DNC fundraiser as she tries to wash away ‘lasting stain’ of 2024
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has not even announced her candidacy to become California‘s next governor, but her possible campaign has already hit snags. Despite polling finding that she is the front-runner in the crowded field of declared and undeclared candidates before the primary in a year’s time, Democrats are growing increasingly apprehensive about a…
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One year after his hush money conviction in New York, Trump battles lawfare
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President Donald Trump became the first former commander in chief to be convicted of a crime a year ago, and that guilty verdict has shaped policy in his second administration and anchors a GOP campaign against “lawfare” to prevent future prosecutions. A New York jury’s guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business…
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Pinning ‘Jell-O to the wall’: Democrats in search of anti-Trump strategy that sticks
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Democrats can’t settle on a winning strategy to defeat Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections to take on President Donald Trump, mired by infighting, blame, and disbelief after the 2024 election losses. More than six months after Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election and became the first Republican in 20 years to win…
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Trump tells Senate ‘no time to waste’ after House passage of ‘big, beautiful bill’
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President Donald Trump urged the Senate to quickly pass his legislative agenda after the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” cleared a vote in the House on Thursday morning. The tax cut-and-border measure will likely be changed when it is considered by the Senate, but Trump heralded it as “arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that…
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Trump’s ‘uncritical embrace’ of Arab partners rankles critics
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President Donald Trump‘s cordial approach to his Middle East counterparts has lent itself to criticism that he is failing to hold them to account for human rights abuses, as well as direct ties to terrorism. President Donald Trump is showcasing his cordial relationship with counterparts in the Middle East during the first major foreign trip…
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Trump mixes business and diplomacy as ethics concerns hang over Middle East trip
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President Donald Trump departed for his first trip abroad — this time to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates — from a position of strength as he hopes to make $1 trillion in deals and strike a balance between diplomacy and business in the Middle East. Trump did spend some of last weekend…
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Trump welcomes Catholic Church’s first American pope: ‘Such an honor’
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President Donald Trump embraced Robert Prevost’s election as the Catholic Church‘s next pope. Prevost is the first American-Peruvian pontiff in history. “Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope,” Trump said Thursday on social media. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and…
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Bondi ‘learning’ about pizza deliveries to judges that Durbin says are ‘threats’
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said she is aware of reports that pizzas are being anonymously sent to judges’ homes but withheld comment on the deliveries, which Democrats said are meant to be threatening. “I’m just learning about that,” Bondi told the Washington Examiner at the White House on Wednesday. When asked if the Justice Department…

