6 h. ago Democrats laugh off Trump attempts to blame them for Epstein fallout

Democrats ignore Trump’s attempts to pin his newest scandal on them

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32 h. ago Rubio moves to strip US visas from eight Brazilian judges in Bolsonaro battle

Move by Marco Rubio is latest attempt by Trump administration to help former president avoid justice over alleged coupThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has reportedly stripped eight of Brazil’s 11 supreme court judges of their US visas as the White House escalates its campaign to help the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro avoid justice over his alleged attempt to seize power with a military coup.Bolsonaro, a far-right populist with ties to Donald Trump’s Maga movement, is on trial for allegedly masterminding a murderous plot to cling to power after losing the 2022 election to his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro is expected to be convicted by the supreme court in the coming weeks and faces a jail sentence of up to 43 years. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Trump's birthright citizenship order remains blocked as lawsuits march on after Supreme Court ruling

A federal judge’s order blocking former President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship has taken effect

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3 d. ago Trump Epstein fallout continues as press secretary attempts to explain president’s ‘hoax’ claims: Live updates

Trump attacks own supporters for continuing to press for release of Epstein files causing rift in MAGA base

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3 d. ago Elon Musk demolishes Trump's latest claim that Democrats created the Epstein files 'hoax'

Elon Musk eviscerated Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president attempted to redefine Jeffrey Epstein 's notorious sex trafficking scandal as just a 'hoax' created by the Democrats.

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4 d. ago Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump

Forum speakers said Donald Trump’s second term resembles strongman Viktor Orbán’s first years in powerDemocrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections and avoid a “it can’t happen here” mentality to stop Donald Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover, a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.Katalin Cseh, a critic of Hungary’s strongman prime minister, Viktor Orbán, told a forum on authoritarianism that the central European country’s experience held vital lessons for Trump’s opponents in their attempts to resist his assaults on US institutions and democratic norms since his return to the White House. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? | Samuel Earle

The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voterA popular maxim on the American right is that politics is downstream from culture. In the UK, it increasingly feels like politics is simply downstream from the US. With Reform UK ascendant in the polls, Nigel Farage – officially MP for Clacton, unofficially Donald Trump’s emissary to the UK – is setting the terms of the national conversation, and he is importing them directly from across the pond.Over the past few months, Reform has sought to launch “Doge” initiatives (referencing Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency), waged war on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) employment schemes, and called for the UK government to embrace crypto and create a bitcoin digital reserve at the Bank of England, following Trump’s lead. It seems the Brexiteers were right: Britain doesn’t make anything any more – not even its own bogeymen.Samuel Earle ...

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5 d. ago Jon Stewart mocks Trump’s attempt to distract MAGA base from Epstein debacle in epic takedown

‘MAGA is losing their s*** right now,’ The Daily Show host scoffed during Monday night’s episode

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6 d. ago Democratic strategist points finger of blame at one person over Epstein list debacle, and it’s not Pam Bondi

David Axelrod believes that President Trump is to blame for the decisions related to the Epstein files

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6 d. ago 'Disturbing pattern' of Secret Service 'failures' exposed in new report on Trump's Butler assassination attempt

Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday released the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee's final report from its investigation into the attempt on Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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6 d. ago Donald Trump showered in boos at Club World Cup final on American soil

Trump attended the final on the anniversary of his assassination attempt

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7 d. ago Donald Trump booed by football fans on anniversary of attempted assassination

Donald Trump was booed by fans in attendance for the FIFA Club World Cup final between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, as the National Anthem played before kick-off

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7 d. ago Top Trump advisor reveals ‘absolute chaos’ behind the scenes of the Butler assassination attempt

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung posted several pictures and videos he took leading up to and following the assasination attempt on July 13 2024

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7 d. ago Martyr, Savior, Showman: Key details in Trump's iconic Butler assassination survival photo... that expert says suggests divine intervention

One year after the attempt on Trump's life, a leading image theorist reveals how one photo became a defining image in political history.

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7 d. ago Secret Service’s ‘cascade of failures’ allowed Trump assassination attempt, report says

Highly critical Senate committee report calls for severe disciplinary action against Secret Service in the futureA new Senate committee report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, described the events as a “cascade of preventable failures” and called for more severe disciplinary action to be taken with the Secret Service in the future.In the 31-page, highly critical findings released on Sunday, the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee lamented the mishandling of communications around the rally and said Trump was denied extra security on the day. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago All the sinister clues that point to Thomas Matthew Crooks' motive when he tried to assassinate Donald Trump

One year later and questions are still unanswered as to the motive behind 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks' assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.

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7 d. ago Martyr, Savior, Showman: Key details in Trump's iconic Butler assassination survival photo... that suggest divine intervention

One year after the attempt on Trump's life, a leading image theorist reveals how one photo became a defining image in political history.

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7 d. ago One year after Butler assassination attempt on Trump new report reveals ‘series of bad decisions’ and ‘handicaps’ by Secret Service

The Secret Service ‘failed to implement security measures’ that could have prevented the assassination attempt, a new report states

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7 d. ago The six seconds of terror that changed history: Every angle, theory and fallout from the assassination attempt on Donald Trump

At 6.11pm on July 13, 2024, Trump held up a chart illustrating the surge in U.S.-Mexico border crossings under Biden. In less than six seconds, American history changed forever.

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7 d. ago Blood and bravado: the Trump shooting upended an election and shook the US

A year ago the image of Trump’s raised fist became a political touchstone, helping force Joe Biden from the race and fuelling a presidency like no otherBlake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile on the former US president. “I was able to see him standing and I could see the blood on his ear,” Marnell recalls. “When he put his fist up, I remember yelling, ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’”Sunday marks one year since the assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a week that changed US politics. Eight days later then-president Joe Biden, 81, dropped out of the election race amid concerns over his mental and physical decline. Continue reading...

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