US steps up pressure for 'extraordinarily generous' Gaza ceasefire deal
Bliken was speaking in Saudi Arabia ahead of a visit to Israel this week, in what will be his seventh to the Middle East since the Israel Hamas war started in October.
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HuffPostOUCH! Desi Lydic Tells Trump How 'Everyone' Around Him Really Feels
The "Daily Show" correspondent hit the former president with a blunt reality check.
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Mary Trump Thinks She Knows Exactly Why Ivanka And Don Jr. Haven't Turned Up In Court
Their no-show at Donald Trump's hush money trial is down to two things, said the former president's niece.
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Majorie Taylor Greene Insults Jasmine Crockett, Sends Oversight Committee Hearing Into Chaos
Even by recent standards, Thursday's meeting of the House Oversight Committee was a shocking train wreck.
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CNN Reveals Its Debate Moderators—and Trump Might Not be Happy
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesJust hours after Donald Trump and Joe Biden agreed to debate each other on CNN in June, the cable news network announced that the debate will be moderated by its anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. The debate will take place in Atlanta at 9 p.m. on June 27, and will air live on CNN. It will be the first of at least two agreed upon presidential debates, with the second slated to be hosted by ABC on Sept. 10.Both Tapper and Bash have experience as debate mode
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Trump Breaks Silence About Kristi Noem Killing Her Own Dog
Noem received widespread backlash when she admitted to shooting and killing her 14-month old dog, Cricket.
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MAGA Rep’s Insane Biden Claim Is Too Much Even for Maria Bartiromo
Fox Business NetworkRep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) made a bizarre claim Thursday, insisting that he has “evidence” to support his allegation that President Joe Biden was “jacked up on something” during the State of the Union address. He even offered to show his so-called proof to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo “offline.”The MAGA congressman’s wild accusation seemed to go too far for the pro-Trump conspiracy-loving Bartiromo, who once relied on “wackadoodle” claims made by a woman who thinks
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With Cuba’s economy in tailspin, its leader makes big bet on Putin during Kremlin visit
“We wish you and the Russian Federation success in conducting the special military operation.”
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Anderson Cooper Says if He Was a Trump Juror, He Would Think Michael Cohen Is ‘Making This Up’ | Video
The CNN host shares his surprise witnessing the former fixer being “cornered in what appeared to be a lie” in Thursday’s testimony The post Anderson Cooper Says if He Was a Trump Juror, He Would Think Michael Cohen Is ‘Making This Up’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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House Oversight Committee Hearing Goes Totally Off the Rails Thanks to MTG
TwitterA House Oversight Committee hearing that was supposed to cover contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland devolved into chaos and name-calling after repeated interruptions from a certain far-right representative from Georgia.Thursday night’s meeting was originally intended to advance a measure to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. But it quickly fell off the rails, with Marjorie Taylor
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Trump Will Spend Part of Barron’s Big Graduation Day at a GOP Fundraiser
Marco Bello/GettyLast month, Donald Trump was indignant when it appeared that the judge in his hush-money trial might not let him have a day off from the proceedings in order to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation. Trump said Barron “was looking forward for years to have graduation with his mother and father there” at the ceremony, but it looked like the judge wouldn’t let him “escape this scam—it’s a scam trial.”In the end, of course, Judge Juan Merchan did allow the former president
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Exclusive satellite images show destroyed Russian jets and building at Crimean airbase
Satellite images exclusively obtained by CNN show three destroyed Russian jets and damaged buildings at Belbek airbase in occupied port city of Sevastopol on Wednesday.
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Russia’s Most Notorious Enforcer Looks Set to Get One Hell of a Promotion
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Amid a flurry of changes in the Russian government this week as Vladimir Putin carries out his post-inaugural reshuffle, something strange and potentially dangerous happened in Chechnya: Ramzan Kadyrov’s longtime righthand man, Magomed Daudov, suddenly up and quit.“After a meeting with the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, I decided to resign as chairman of the parliament of the Chechen Republic,” Daudov was quoted as announcing on local television.He gave no fur
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Trump trial, his Florida guests, reveal what a sick joke American politics have become | Opinion
We’ve reached the act in Donald Trump’s hush money trial that is no longer farce, but infuriating | Opinion
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At least 9 GOP lawmakers are at Trump trial, which could be a problem for Republicans
At least nine Republican lawmakers traveled to New York to appear in court alongside former President Trump on Thursday, the latest in a string of GOP lawmakers to attend the hush money trial. The move could jeopardize GOP attendance at a key vote later in the day and also comes after the House Oversight and…
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Ex-Trump Lawyer Explains How GOP Stooges Could Hurt The Case More Than Anything
Tim Parlatore recalled one moment in particular that could have “a negative impact” on the jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
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Trump Camp Reportedly 'Irked' That Biden Called His Debate Bluff
The former president had suggested that his successor was reluctant to debate him. But on Wednesday, that claim was thrown out the window.
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‘No Wonder They Shot Him’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Shares Wild Conspiracy Theory
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesMarjorie Taylor Greene wasted no time in suggesting that the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico Wednesday could be linked to his position on COVID vaccines.The MAGA lawmaker shared a post on X Wednesday which contained a video with English subtitles in which Fico purportedly rails against the treatment of those who opposed vaccination and other government measures to manage the pandemic (The Daily Beast has not verified the translation
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Opinion: Stormy Daniels testified about something billions of humans do. Why was she demeaned for it?
The media decided to erroneously describe a grown woman openly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with a grown man as obscene, writes Danielle Campoamor.
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China-Russia relations: What is Xi Jinping prepared to pay for Putin’s war?
China is a vital ally, but Mr Xi is facing increasing pressure to distance himself from his "dear friend".
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Opinion: All Signs Point to a Trump Debate Meltdown
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe news that President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to two debates—one in just a few weeks’ time, in late June, and another in September—has naturally got the punditverse buzzing.Some commentators have focused on Biden’s sharp early morning announcement that he would welcome a debate with Trump. It was just the Egg McBiden the president’s fans—like the folks on Morning Joe—needed to start their day, served as it was with a sid