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‘Get on the phone!’ Thune snaps back after Leavitt says Trump’s patience is running out
BS BRIEF: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared President Trump's "patience is running out" over the Senate's failure to advance the SAVE America Act before the August recess, intensifying pressure on Senate Republicans. Senate Majority Leader John...
‘Uh…’ Trump won’t say if Jeanine Pirro keeps her job after Reflecting Pool debacle
Just days after publicly blasting one of his closest political allies, President Donald Trump is still refusing to say whether Jeanine Pirro will survive the controversy surrounding the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool prosecution. Speaking with reporters before...
Todd Blanche nomination hits GOP roadblock as Republicans demand answers
BS BRIEFING The Senate Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed a scheduled vote on Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General after Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina refused to support advancing the nomination without...
‘I’m not looking to kill people’: Trump says Iran peace deal is imminent after pulling back massive strike
BS BULLETIN President Trump says U.S.-Iran negotiations are set to begin Monday after he says he called off what he described as a massive military strike in favor of diplomacy. Iran, however, disputes Trump's account and says no direct U.S. talks are currently...
Anne Hathaway’s old ‘whiteness’ speech explodes online as conservatives torch Hollywood lecture
BS BRIEF: An eight-year-old speech by Anne Hathaway has gone viral again after clips from her 2018 Human Rights Campaign acceptance speech spread across X, drawing millions of views and a fresh wave of criticism from conservative commentators. Elon Musk, Buck Sexton,...
‘Woke 1 was crazy’: AOC wants you to pretend Dems’ radical views are all gone
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has unveiled a remarkably convenient explanation for the Democratic Party’s radical post-2020 rhetoric: That was “Woke 1,” and apparently everybody got a little carried away. AOC on Francesca Hong's old tweets calling for abolishing...
Exclusive: Gov’t healthcare price transparency push seems to be working, advocacy org says
Patient Rights Advocate sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday touting his administration’s efforts to bolster healthcare price transparency in the U.S., the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned. PRA’s letter partly highlights data from one of its...
CEOs skip Senate hearing about automated surveillance
Technology CEOs did not show up to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday about mass surveillance concerns related to Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who chairs the Subcommittee on Crime and...
Florida man said he was ‘gonna hunt Jews,’ prosecutors allege
A Florida man has been charged for allegedly making threats against Jewish people in videos posted on social media, according to news coverage. Duncan Fraser MacDonald was charged with one count of interstate transmission of a threat to injure another individual, 10...
Property taxes front and center in Texas gubernatorial race
(The Center Square) – The gloves are off in the Texas gubernatorial race with attack ads being launched on both sides. One key issue is property taxes. Abbott’s campaign launched a $12 million ad buy targeting the voting record of his Democratic opponent, state...
Legislation proposed to dismantle DHS, divert funding
(The Center Square) – An Illinois congresswoman says new legislation to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection will pour $150 billion into communities around the country. Illinois U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago,...
Budd, Trump in different arenas speak on behalf of persecuted Christians
(The Center Square) – On the same day second-term Republican President Donald Trump called out the United Nations for silence on the persecution of Christians, a North Carolina senator was on the floor in Washington calling out China’s war on religious freedom...
