Trump is exactly what he appears to be. It's time to stop pretending otherwise.

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Ken Paxton, US Senate nominee in Texas, advocates for cutting programs such as  Social Security and Medicare in leaked recording. Texas Democrats call him "evil."

Yes. His cuts in food safety have literally caused a shitshow.

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‘Tis true, which doesn’t make it any less fantastical.

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If you’re going to come for Jack Smith, you’d better have double-checked your work.

Eric Schmitt shoots an airball at Jack Smith as Washington talks him up for VP

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

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Taxpayer-funded Trump commercials are the latest sign the president has turned our institutions into his personal business.

The former Trump prosecutor is defying threats from the president and standing up for the rule of law.

Donald Trump accepted a trust and betrayed it.

To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

The dude is a dumdum. We have to do better.

A look inside the crypto deals, foreign money, and government contracts fueling the Trump family's historic wealth surge.

Comcast’s chief is reportedly weighing a decision to release an acclaimed film that’s deeply critical of Elon Musk — or shelve it to appease the White House.

Even if the new version looks and sounds like the old show, remember that it’s now being run by people with a Trump-friendly political agenda and little respect for fact-based journalism.

At the TPUSA Women’s Leadership Summit, wealthy influencers pitched a dark fantasy where women are happiest without pesky distractions like bodily autonomy or the right to vote.

This is Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network, and this is my open letter to CBS reporters and staff, as well as reporters and staff who work for other corporate news outlets that are co...

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Among Trump’s assertions of arbitrary power

Throughout history, physicians have played a lesser-known but unique role in confronting authoritarianism.

Ten Years Since Obama visited Laos

Problems at the Pentagon go far beyond the operational issues with the war in Iran. And Pete Hegseth’s leadership is to blame.

A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms, e...

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The Trump administration announced a deal Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves, with the U.S. taking a majority stake. Energy experts say there are many reasons to be skeptical.

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And it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday rejected President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” explaining the history of the Great Lake’s indigenous name in a post on social…

The Secretary of State is sloshing in the run-off from the MAGA sewer

The Speaker can be an outsider who's not in Congress. If Democrats take the majority, they should pick someone with a national profile — and the chops to investigate a wannabe dictator.

That FAFO stage is always the worst.

That FAFO stage is always the worst.

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.

Americans are coming together to save our Republic, right now. And it means something.

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