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The defendant you testified against is being released : Ex-Capitol cop shares DOJ alerts

One former U.S. Capitol Police Department officer is sharing automated alerts he recently received from the Department of Justice (DOJ) letting him know that participants in the January 6 insurrectio

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Cannon blocks classified docs report as Trump targets ex-officials over ensitive info

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has denied the Department of Justice’s request to share Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of cla

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Ex-CIA chief warns Trump’s careless and chaotic decisions could spark another world war

President Donald Trump s second term officially got underway on Monday, January 20 when he was sworn into office by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Trump wasted no time issuing executive ord

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Trump kept his promise — and made some Democrats look like fools

For weeks we had some Democrats claiming they wanted to see what Trump planned to do before making judgments, a few of them even vowing to “work with” Trump on various issues. It’s hard to beli

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She lied to us : Ex-Gabbard staffers speak out about insane meeting with Syrian dictator

New details are emerging about former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) — who President Donald Trump has nominated to be the next director of national intelligence — and her controversial 2017 trip

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Trump ushers in whole new era of scamminess now that the mask is fully off : analysis

During his second inauguration on Monday, January 20, President Donald Trump was surrounded by a who s-who of billionaire tech CEOs — including Meta s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon s Jeff Bezos, and X s

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Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: "A Day of Victory for Indigenous People"

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier is coming home after nearly half a century behind bars. Just minutes before leaving office, former President Joe Biden granted Peltier clemency and ordere

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Chase Strangio: Trump Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People While Claiming to Defend Women

On his first day back in the White House, Donald Trump moved to roll back protections for transgender people. In his inaugural address, Trump declared the U.S. government’s policy is “ther

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"People Are Afraid": Immigrant Communities Brace for Raids and Mass Deportation Under Trump

As immigrant communities are bracing for raids and mass deportations promised by Donald Trump, the future for thousands of asylum seekers is also uncertain. As Trump took office, his administration im

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"A Massive Abuse of Emergency Power": Legality of Trump Move to Deploy Troops to Border Is Questioned

During Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday, he declared a national emergency at the southern border. On the first day back in office, Trump signed a number of executive orders on immigrat

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Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal While Distorting Deadly History of Waterway

During Monday’s inauguration, Donald Trump repeated his threat to retake the Panama Canal. The United States controlled the waterway since the early 20th century, but in 1977 President Jimmy Car

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Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ Jan. 6 Insurrectionists; Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute

President Donald Trump was sworn in Monday as the nation’s 47th president. The inauguration took place inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the same spot where Trump’s supporters staged an ins

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Headlines for January 21, 2025

Tech Billionaires Share Stage as Donald Trump Takes Oath of Office as 47th U.S. President, Trump Declares Emergency at Southern Border, Promising “Millions and Millions” of Deportations, T

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Democrats hidden in Instagram search results as Meta rushes to fix embarrassing problem

Although billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was critical of Donald Trump in the past, he reached out to Trump in a big way after the 2024 election. Zuckerberg met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, donated

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Matt Gaetz’s elf-serving OAN show plagued by third-rate guests and terrible quality: analysis

After defeating then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the United States 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump announced a long list of picks for his second administration — including former Rep. Mat

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Kicked him to the curb : How Elon Musk forced Vivek Ramaswamy out of DOGE

Originally, Donald Trump had two people in mind to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory board he has proposed: Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and MAGA businessman Vivek Ramasw

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A supremely strange start at the Arkansas Supreme Court

Newly elected Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker apparently came into office intent on cleaning house: she tried to fire several high-ranking court officials and replace three judges

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In the hot seat : 58 CA sheriffs speak out on immigration enforcement under Trump

Donald Trump repeatedly promised mass deportations during his 2024 campaign, even vowing to end birthright citizenship despite the fact that it is in the U.S. Consitution s 14th Amendment. And on Mon

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Not sorry: Pardoned Trump rioters unspeakably joyous as they proclaim their innocence upon release

During his 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to pardon the January 6 rioters — who he described as "hostages" — if he won the election. And Trump did exactly that after ret

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Operation Aurora : Denver suburb on edge as Trump takes office

A potent blend of viral video clips, wild exaggerations and outright lies brewed by supporters of restrictionist immigration policy have made a Denver suburb an unlikely potential stage for the lau

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TikTok users migrate to RedNote in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power

The new US president, Donald Trump, has given TikTok a reprieve one day after a law came into effect banning the Chinese-owned app in the US on national security grounds. Trump, who has previously ex

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WTF? World reacts to Trump’s vow of US expansionism

While the global far-right cheered President Donald Trump s return to the White House on Monday, world leaders, elected officials, activists, and others from across the rest of the political spectru

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The infamous Stanford prison experiment was flawed – so why is it still so influential today?

A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s most famous experiments. Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: H

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Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind incredibly dense cores called neutron stars. Some of these remnants emit powerful

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What is an oligarchy — and is the United States poised to become one?

In his farewell address, outgoing US President Joe Biden warned “an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy”. The

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Fruit and veg, exercise, frequent bloodletting and more tips on staying healthy from medieval travellers

Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and others were warned by preachers such as 13th century Jacques de Vitry of “

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Severance: The real cognitive neuroscience behind the Apple TV+ show’s ‘severance procedure’

Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of s

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Fake podcast clips are misleading millions of people on social media

Podcasting is the medium of choice for millions of listeners looking for the latest commentary on almost any topic. In Australia, it’s estimated about 48% of people tune in to a podcast each month.

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Trump promises a second term focused on revenge and retribution

Yesterday, in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington DC, the 47th President of the United States was sworn into office. The second Trump era has begun. In his inaugural address, Trump outlined a radical a

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Corporate giants at Davos give up the game

The World Economic Forum begins its 54th annual confab of CEOs and billionaires this week in Davos, Switzerland. Among its attendees are some who attended Trump’s inauguration yesterday to kiss his

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Trump Inauguration dubbed a coronation of our country descent into oligarchy

Donald Trump was sworn in Monday as the 47th president of the United States with some of the richest people on the planet standing close behind him on the inaugural platform—a symbol of what observ

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Virginia House panel moves to end tax breaks for Confederate-affiliated groups

The House of Delegates Finance Committee on Monday by a 12-10 party-line vote advanced legislation that would strip the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and simila

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Major GOP-led immigration measure passed by U.S. Senate, heads to House

WASHINGTON — On the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. Senate Monday passed a bill that would require the expansion of mass detention for immigrants charged or arrested for proper

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That’s interesting: Did Trump just launch a new conspiracy theory?

Yesterday, in the last hours of his administration, President Biden issued preemptive pardons to many people who tried to hold Trump responsible for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 electi

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Not a weather problem : Conspiracies erupt as Trump supporters gathered in DC bars

WASHINGTON — It’s not that cold in the nation’s capital. So why’s Donald Trump’s inauguration indoors? There’s only one obvious conclusion: Deep State. Duh.Trump hasn’t been back in Was

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Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency flies in the face of the facts : retired federal judge

In the first hours of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly everyone convicted of crimes associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol – including former Prou

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Trump repeats geopolitical flub in bizarre exchange with reporters

President Donald Trump flubbed geopolitics in his first informal exchange with reporters in his second term as president in the Oval Office. This came as Trump signed a massive flurry of new exec

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Trump revokes security clearances for 50 ex-intel officials — including 4 former CIA directors

On his first night back in the White House, President Donald Trump issued an abundance of executive orders. Trump pardoned roughly 1500 of the January 6 defendants, offering commutations to members o

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Holy crap : Ex-GOP insider translates what Republican Senators are thinking about Gabbard

A former Republican lawmaker who has been thought by some to be a target of Donald Trump spoke out on Saturday against one of the President-elect s Cabinet nominees. Former "Tea Party" Republica

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George Will: Why Trump’s inaugural address will be remembered as worse than 59 others

Eight years after giving his first inaugural address, President Donald Trump offered a second one that, like the first, heavily emphasized grievance. MAGA Republicans are applauding his return to the

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I’ll read it first : Trump mulls sharing Biden letter with press after finding it in Resolute desk

On his first night back in the White House, President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders — and spoke with the press while signing those documents.While signing his executive order on bi

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Picked up a gun : Son who turned in Jan. 6 dad filled with paranoia over Trump executive order

During his second inaugural address on Monday, January 20, President Donald Trump reiterated his plan to pardon the January 6, 2021 rioters — who he considers "hostages."Trump has repeatedly claime

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MTG angrily cuts in line at inauguration — insisting she upports President Trump the most

Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) was among the many members of Congress who waited in line at the Capitol Rotunda to attend President Donald Trump s second inauguration. But the far-

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Blatantly unconstitutional : Law professor says key Trump executive orders won t survive

Trump s flurry of planned executive orders are rife with "dangerous and illegal abuses of power" that will not hold up under the slightest legal scrutiny, George Mason University law professor Ilya

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Trump expected to grant clemency to almost all J6 criminals — including violent felons

President Donald Trump is expected to grant “sweeping” pardons and sentence commutations to all or nearly all the approximately 1600 people convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021 insu

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Pentagon facing lack of clarity on leadership as Trump White House announces acting defense officials

Roughly two hours and 40 minutes after President Donald Trump was sworn into office by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, the new Trump White House announced some acting Pentagon officials.But

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Plumbing new depths of idiocy : Tech industry responds to preposterous Trump crypto launch

On Sunday, January 19 — the day before Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term as president — the Associated Press (AP) reported that Trump "launched a new cryptocurrency token that is soarin

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What did he just do? Elon Musk sends hate groups buzzing with Roman salute at Trump rally

After President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Monday, January 20, 2025, a variety of Inauguration Day activities followed—including a MAG

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How John Roberts played a significant role in Trump’s return to White House

Shortly after noon on Monday, January 20, 2025, Joe Biden s presidency officially ended when President Donald Trump was sworn into office by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Vice Presid

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Rapid-fire CNN fact-check dismantles Trump’s lie-a-minute Emancipation Hall speech

After being sworn in for a second term by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Monday, January 20, President Donald Trump gave his inaugural address — which was followed by a different speech