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Trump official in charge of elections security wants to ban voting machines
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (615+ words) In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation's elections infrastructure, including voting machines. He's also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming…...
Trump FCC chief threatens broadcasters’ licenses over Iran war coverage
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (98+ words) Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, on Saturday appeared to threaten the licenses of broadcasters reporting on President Donald Trump's war in Iran after the president crafted a lengthy Truth Social post against the "Fake News Media.Trump,…...
'Anxious' Senate Republicans send Trump flashing-red warning about midterms
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (86+ words) Senate Republicans are "anxious about the midterms," and "the mood is shifting" among GOP leaders who once assumed they could coast to victory in November, Politico reports.Politico spoke with 10 Republican senators and aides, many of whom "are now openly…...
'Meathead' Pentagon chief blind to the fact he’s Trump’s next 'sacrificial lamb': analysis
7+ hour, 13+ min ago (139+ words) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has no idea he's President Donald Trump's "future victim," British-American journalist Sarah Baxter writes in i Paper."We are beginning to see in real time what happens when a vain, looksmaxxing US secretary of war…...
'Hot commodity': White House officials say Trump’s personal phone number is for sale
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (86+ words) 'Hot commodity': White House officials say Trump's personal phone number is for sale'Alternet 'Hot commodity': White House officials say Trump's personal phone number is for sale President Donald Trump's personal phone number is "for sale to deep-pocket interests seeking influence,…...
White House scrambles to reassure Trump 'conservatives aren’t abandoning him': WSJ
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (151+ words) President Donald Trump's team "is privately trying to reassure the president that conservatives aren't abandoning him," the Wall Street Journal reports, including providing him recent polling data "they say shows the [Iran] war is popular with his supporters."Still, the…...
Outlook for young Americans 'really awful' as Trump’s 'SOL' economy takes hold: conservatives
11+ hour, 18+ min ago (212+ words) President Donald Trump insists that the American economy is booming under him, but a pair of conservative commentators discussed on Friday how unemployed people are "SOL" right now. Overall Rampell explained that "there's a lot of uncertainty in the economy....
'Mind boggling' corruption: Kushner seeks $5 billion from foreign governments for his firm
10+ hour, 20+ min ago (172+ words) President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is trying to raise more than $5 billion from foreign governments for his private equity firm while working as "one of the U.S. government's chief negotiators in the Middle East," the New York Times reports.According…...
Dark money group offers influencers cash to trash Illinois Democrat: report
11+ hour, 4+ min ago (483+ words) Democratic Congress candidate Kat Abughazaleh was targeted by a dark money group. (Wikimedia Commons) A dark money group offered at least two social media influencers $1,500 apiece for a single negative social media post about progressive Illinois Democrat candidate Kat Abughazaleh....
Putin cashes in as panicked Trump seeks his help
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (935+ words) Donald Trump suddenly popped on TV screens this week, giving his most extensive remarks on the war in Iran and taking questions from the press. Trump had previously given no public speech to the American people upon the initiation of…...