Watch: Trump praises Liberian president's English, the country's official language
Trump told Boakai he speaks "such good English", asking where he went to school.www.bbc.com
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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called on lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional maps when they convene in a special session later this month, in a bid to gain Republican seats and help the party keep control of the House in 2026.
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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called on lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional maps when they convene in a special session later this month, in a bid to gain Republican seats and help the party keep control of the House in 2026.
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Or teach him how to use his damn phone for more than just Owning Libs on social media
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After voting for Trump's megabill, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley wants to prevent a key provision from going into effect
HAZELWOOD, Mo. — Four days after President Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” into law, one of the Republicans who voted for it wasn’t interested in touting the measure’s high-profile tax, immigration or health care provisions.Instead, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., held an event here Tuesday centered on a less-noticed part of the nearly 1,000-page bill: an expanded fund for victims of nuclear waste, a bipartisan issue he worked for years to get across the finish line.
And when asked about the steep Medicaid cuts in the bill, Hawley continued to criticize them. Hawley said his “goal” is to ensure the provider tax changes, which will limit state reimbursement for Medicaid, don't go into effect in Missouri in 2030 — even as he helped to pass a piece of legislation that will do just that.
It illustrates the challenges Republicans face as they turn their attention to selling to the public the massive bill they’ve been working on for months, ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
“I think that if Republicans don’t come out strong and say we’re going to protect rural hospitals, then, yeah, I think voters aren’t going to like that,” Hawley told NBC News in an interview at St. Cin Park. “The truth of the matter is, we shouldn’t be cutting rural hospitals. I’m completely opposed to cutting rural hospitals period. I haven’t changed my view on that one iota.”
Hawley suggested he would work with Democrats to cut prescription drug pricing, a priority Trump has said he wants Congress to focus on, to pay for the tax cuts made permanent by the new law.
Ultimately, Hawley — who is seen as a potential future presidential candidate — chose to stay in Trump’s good graces and vote for the bill despite his reservations, while managing to score victories for his constituents.
“Gotta take the wins that you can,” Hawley told NBC News when asked about voting for a bill he admitted he didn’t like.
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If Trump was the True entrepreneur I think he is....This is that Point where you pull the same slick move that Elvis Manager did. When people turned on Elvis, his manager begin making and selling Anti Elvis gear. So regardless if you bought stuff in support of or against Elvis....Elvis was getting paid both ways. He should start a shadow company selling anti Trump stuff now.
MAGA influences encouraging supporters into burning MAGA gear and posting to Social Media as Trump faces major backlash from his own supporters over Epstein fallout.
MAGA loyalists are calling for the burning of the iconic MAGA cap as anger over the Epstein Files grows, even among Donald Trump's own supporter base.The Justice Department claimed on Monday that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list" and said no more files related to the wealthy financier’s sex trafficking investigation would be made public. This was despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.
The claims have been met with fury from the far-right who claim they have been strung along by the Trump administration. Bondi previously said in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.
Controversial right-wing figure Nick Fuentes wrote on X: "We need to burn our MAGA hats, I think that's a solution. That's the only language Trump will understand. He needs to be abandoned at this point."
Trump came under fire for hosting Fuentes, who has been described as a white supremacist, as a dinner guest at his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 as he geared up for the 2024 election.
Fuentes added: "Now he's going to tell us there's no Esptein black book, no client list. The message needs to be this: 'We're done. We don't understand. The radical right is f***ing furious. We are done.'"
He continued: "I'm burning my MAGA hat. I think other people should too."
Another video showed a man who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 burning his MAGA hats over the fact that the Epstein files will not be released.
Bondi for weeks had suggested more material was going to be revealed — “It’s a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public,” she said at one point — after a first document dump she had hyped angered President Donald Trump’s base by failing to deliver revelations.
That episode, in which far-right influencers were invited to the White House in February and provided with binders marked “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” and “Declassified” that contained documents that had largely already been in the public domain, has spurred conservative internet personalities to sharply criticize Bondi.
After the first release fell flat, Bondi said officials were poring over a “truckload” of previously withheld evidence she said had been handed over by the FBI.
In a March TV interview, she claimed the Biden administration “sat on these documents, no one did anything with them,” adding: “Sadly these people don’t believe in transparency, but I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don’t believe in honesty.”
But after a months-long review of evidence in the government’s possession, the Justice Department determined that no “further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted,” the memo says.
The department noted that much of the material was placed under seal by a court to protect victims and “only a fraction” of it “would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial.”
I looked at the guy's twitter. He doesn't do satire.
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Pete Hegseth Seems to Have Lost Control of One of His Top Defense Department Lieutenants
Pentagon policy chief’s rogue decisions have irked US allies and the Trump administration
Even for an administration with a knack for moving fast and breaking things, Elbridge Colby’s moves at the Pentagon have caused frustration and friction.Colby seems to consider the Indo-Pacific to be an American lake. To that end, he has managed to piss off the British, the Japanese, the Australians, and the New Zealanders. A deal to supply Australia up to five American nuclear submarines is hanging fire pending a Colby-inspired review at the Pentagon. Reports indicate that the US is attempting to get a defense spending increase out of Australia as a price for agreeing to the deal. The review is scheduled to be completed next week.
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Former Fox News Host , Donald Trump Told Me the Epstein files "could destroy people"—Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly, a former Fox host, said he had a conversation with President Donald Trump earlier this year about the Jeffrey Epstein files, which the president said could "destroy" innocent people.
On NewsNation's Cuomo on Wednesday, O'Reilly said he had spoken with Trump "man to man, eye to eye" about the Epstein files on St. Patrick's Day.
"He said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct," O'Reilly said in the interview.
"They maybe had lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another," he added. "If that name gets out, those people are destroyed because there's not going to be any context."
Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via an email sent outside regular business hours.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration is facing mounting criticism from conservatives over the Justice Department's decision not to release additional documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation.The department said in a two-page memo on Monday that Epstein did not maintain a "client list" and had died by suicide. The memo said that no more files related to the investigation would be made public after a monthslong review of evidence in the government's possession.
As Trump had suggested while campaigning for the White House that he would release documents related to the Epstein case, the DOJ's announcement may deepen fissures between the president and his MAGA supporters.
What To Know
O'Reilly said Trump should have Attorney General Pam Bondi hold a press conference to detail what investigators learned while protecting the names of innocent people.Trump said: "All you got to do is say to the Attorney General, 'You're gonna hold a press conference.
"You're going to tell them generally what we've learned about the Epstein case in a very methodical way. You'll answer some questions. You're not to mention any names because that could destroy people.'"
He added: "You can't destroy human beings by putting out the files, whatever they may be. But you certainly can have Attorney General Bondi say, 'This is what we know, and you know, we're going to protect the innocent, and he's a heinous individual.'"
Providing cover in case it gets leaked?
Of course he didn't know. Just went on the plane and to the island for business purposes only.
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If Trump is covering up for Epstein it's not because of he protecting the child sex trafficking and the people who paid him for servicesProviding cover in case it gets leaked?
Of course he didn't know. Just went on the plane and to the island for business purposes only.
Trump is just trying to protect all those innocent people in the list that would get scrutinized because of their relationship and business dealings with A CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER
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Hes trying to cover for himself. He's not like Hillary and Pizzagate
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Trump's birthright citizenship efforts blocked by judge despite Supreme Court ruling
CONCORD, New Hampshire − A federal judge again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, made the ruling July 10 after immigrant rights advocates implored him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by implementation of Trump's directive.
Laplante agreed the plaintiffs could proceed as a class, allowing him to issue a fresh judicial order blocking implementation of the Republican president's policy nationally.
The question of whether to issue an injunction was "not a close call," he said, noting children could be deprived of U.S. citizenship if Trump's order took effect.
"That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone," he said. "It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”
The judge said he would stay his ruling for a few days to allow the Trump administration to appeal and would issue a written decision by the end of the day.
The American Civil Liberties Union and others filed the suit just hours after the Supreme Court on June 27 issued a 6-3 ruling, powered by its conservative majority, that narrowed three nationwide injunctions issued by judges in separate challenges to Trump's directive.
The suit was filed on behalf of non-U.S. citizens living in the United States whose babies might be affected.
Under the Supreme Court's decision, Trump's executive order would take effect on July 27.
Looking to seize upon an exception in the Supreme Court's ruling, the lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the decision allows judges to continue to block Trump policies on a nationwide basis in class action lawsuits.
The three judges who issued nationwide injunctions found that Trump's directive likely violates citizenship language in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment. The amendment states that all "persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
The Justice Department has argued that Trump's order conforms with the Constitution and has asked Laplante to find that the plaintiffs cannot sue as a class.
The Supreme Court's ruling did not address the legal merits of Trump's order, which the Republican president issued as part of his hardline immigration agenda on his first day back in office in January.
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Pentagon to Take Stake in America’s largest rare earths miner, Challenging China’s Control
The Pentagon is making a big investment in rare-earth magnets, striking an unusual deal with a private-sector company aimed at undercutting China’s dominance.MP Materials, America’s largest rare earths miner, said Thursday it has reached a deal under which the Defense Department will take a 15% stake in the company. The government is committing to spending billions of dollars investing in MP Materials and purchasing its output.
The deal calls for MP Materials to build a new factory to make rare-earth magnets at a scale that vastly exceeds current U.S. magnet production. It is expected to come online in 2028.
Rare-earth magnets, which are needed in industrial products such as automobiles, wind turbines, jet fighters and missile systems, have been at the center of the U.S.-China trade war this year.
In April, after President Trump imposed high tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing began limiting rare-earth exports, sending shock waves through the global auto, electronics and defense industries because they couldn’t get alternate supplies. Some factories, including a Ford plant, were forced to close temporarily.
Nationalization of key industries. Very small government
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VERY Hitleresque
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So now American mining companies who are into copper will work harder than ever to find some more. So stand by for a recession while they look for more copper.
How about we start building the infrastructure first, tariff next?
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How did President Biden slap into Pam Bondi’s office. 
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