June 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM EDT
'$10 trillion secret': Low-income voters are finally miffed at Republicans

Former World Bank leader Robert P. Beschel reports in the Atlantic that Republicans prefer to "focus on spending""when they're not responsible for it," and this has obscured the fact that the U.S. is bankrupting itself through decades of tax cuts. But voters are catching on to the ruse.

June 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM EDT
Feeling 'the squeeze': US border town 'an early victim of Donald Trump'

For generations, residents of American and Canadian border towns -- from New York State, Minnesota, Michigan and Maine on the U.S. side to Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia on the Canadian side -- have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship. Canadians have a long history of spending money in the United States, and Americans have a long history of spending money in Canada. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney believes that U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war is damaging a relationship that has been quite profitable for both countries. And he is warning that Trump's policies will hurt all the border states that benefit economically from their Canadian neighbors.

June 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM EDT
'Effort to frighten people': Experts warn Noem push a 'prelude' to invoking Insurrection Act

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reportedly requested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth grant law enforcement powers""including the authority to detain and arrest""to the thousands of military troops President Donald Trump deployed to Los Angeles to suppress anti-deportation protests. Such powers are typically barred under federal law, and experts warn the move marks another step toward the administration invoking the Insurrection Act.

June 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM EDT
Red state Republicans laugh and defend Trump admin's secretive tactics as Dems are aghast

WASHINGTON -- Masked ICE agents are the mysterious and menacing face of the Trump administration's mass deportation drive. Increasingly alarmed, Democrats are trying to conduct oversight on the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and related offices.

June 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM EDT
LA is just a dress rehearsal for what Trump really has planned

Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. Reporter: What's the bar for sending in the Marines? Trump: The bar is what I think it is.

June 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM EDT
Why Trump wants to turn America violent

The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They're not. Yesterday, the Pentagon activated 700 Marines out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, to join the 4,000 federalized National Guard's military occupation of parts of Los Angeles.

June 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM EDT
Kristi Noem flip-flop blasted by critics

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is being called out by critics after dramatically shifting her stance on the president's use of the National Guard. The controversy stems from Noem's recent endorsement of President Donald Trump's decision to deploy troops in Los Angeles in response to protests against immigration arrests -- a move that stands in stark contrast statements she made previously about such actions. On Sunday, Noem appeared on CBS's "Face The Nation" to defend Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles. She claimed the action was necessary due to "bad decisions" by California Governor Gavin Newsom and emphasized that the decision was made for "the safety of this community."

June 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM EDT
Trump unleashes incredibly dubious claim about the cost of air travel

President Donald Trump's repeated claims about $2 airfare between Los Angeles and San Francisco have raised eyebrows and drawn criticism, highlighting the tensions between his administration and California over infrastructure projects and immigration policy. On Monday, amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles County over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, Trump once again made the dubious claim about cheap flights while discussing California's high-speed rail project. This came as the president faced questions about his controversial decision to federalize the California National Guard, a move that has escalated tensions with state officials.

June 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM EDT
'You're dangerous': Trump allies turn on each other

President Donald Trump's public falling out with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now prompting additional infighting in MAGA circles between some of Trump's most high-profile supporters. Semafor reported Monday that "War Room" podcast host Steve Bannon - who was White House chief strategist in the first Trump administration - is now setting his sights on venture capitalist and second Trump administration AI czar David Sacks (who is close to Musk and co-hosts the popular "All In" podcast). The MAGA pundit mentioned Sacks on a recent episode of his podcast, and accused him of exploiting his relationship to Trump to further his own goals.

June 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM EDT
Trump is growing increasingly paranoid -- and that's bad news for Vance: biographer

Author Michael Wolff claimed Monday that President Donald Trump is growing increasingly paranoid following a political rift with tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has positioned Vice President JD Vance as a major rival to Trump's authority. Wolff, known for chronicling Trump's presidency in his book Fire and Fury , said during a Daily Beast podcast that Musk's move shook Trump, intensifying his mistrust of Vance.

June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM EDT
If you think chemtrails are real, you're probably up in arms -- about Canadian ostriches

If you think viruses are fake, chemtrails are real and public health is a conspiracy, you're probably up in arms about four hundred potentially diseased Canadian ostriches. Federal inspectors are poised to euthanize the flock to contain a novel strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that killed 69 ostriches on a remote farm in Edgewood, British Columbia.

June 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM EDT
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