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The Trump administration is weighing plans to publicly release audio recordings of Joe Biden’s interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel who raised concerns about the former president’s mental acuity after an investigation into his handling of classified documents. That’s according to Politico, which reported Wednesday that while no final decision has been made, Biden’s camp is preparing for the possible release of the audio. The recordings stem from Hur’s investigation of Biden, which triggered a political firestorm when he concluded the Democrat was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a p...

President Donald Trump lashed out at the "60 Minutes" news program after it was nominated for an award based on an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. In a Wednesday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump argued that the interview amounted to "election interference" and "turned out to be much worse than expected." The president claimed that Harris's answers were "unlawfully fixed, manipulated, and doctored throughout by CBS, in order to try and make Kamala appear at least somewhat coherent." Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Accor...

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Louisiana known for his rulings favoring conservatives says that ICE may have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen. The post ‘Just deported a U.S. citizen’: Trump-appointed judge gives admin the chance to dispel ‘strong suspicion’ that Louisiana-born girl, 2, was removed ‘with no meaningful process’ first appeared on Law & Crime .

There is a way to defeat Donald Trump, and one woman recently showed the way, a commentator said on Sunday. Liberal political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen published a Substack post over the weekend, in which he talks about an instance in which Trump was "forced to concede defeat" after a public confrontation. "In late February, Maine Governor Janet Mills made national headlines for standing up to Trump during a verbal altercation in the White House, during which the president threatened to withhold federal funding from the state if Mills didn’t comply with his February 5 executive order barri...

President Donald Trump took to his social media platform Monday evening to double down on his plans to celebrate the end of World War I and World War II in the United States by designating specific "Victory Days" for each conflict. He wrote on his Truth Social app last week that he would rename May 8 as "Victory Day for World War II," aligning with the European observance of VE Day, and Nov. 11 as "Victory Day for World War I," the date of the armistice in 1918. Trump has also floated renaming Veterans Day to "Victory Day for World War I," but the White House walked that back facing backlash f...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for accusing Canada's "socialist regime" of stealing from the U.S. ahead of a meeting between its newly elected prime minister and President Donald Trump. The commerce secretary cast doubt on the possibility of cutting a deal to avert a trade war, saying "they have been basically feeding off of us for decades upon decades upon decades." The "Morning Joe" host mocked his understanding of basic economics. "Did he go to school?" Scarborough said. "I went to Alabama. I took Econ 101 – I was reading Sports Illustrated in the back, I ...

The founder and CEO of a clothing company made a direct appeal to Donald Trump during a CNN interview Monday, where the MAGA supporter urged the president to reconsider his sweeping tariff policy that he said is threatening small businesses like his own. Steven Borrelli of Cuts Clothing, who said he voted for Trump three times, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that his e-commerce company has been hit hard by the 145% tariff on goods coming from China. Cuts, a California-based menswear brand, relied on a workaround known as the “3-2-1 loophole” – importing items from China through Mexico and bringing the...

Former Governor and Congressman George Allen is warning of “escalating disruption” as he joins a lawsuit against President Donald Trump. The disruption he is speaking about is the “sweeping use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose a 10 percent baseline tariff on nearly all imports alongside sharply higher duties targeting Chinese goods and foreign automobiles.” Allen also criticized the 100 percent tariffs on foreign-made films, saying it “bolsters the point that this is not a genuine national emergency.” Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines...

Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about her agency's decision to withhold federal grant money without permission from Congress. "Let's start with Article 1 [of the Constitution], which gives Congress and only Congress the power of the purse," Underwood told Noem at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday. "But this administration is freezing, terminating, and even clawing back federal grants and awards that were already signed into law." "So, Secretary, let me ask you, do you believe the administration has the authority to su...

As Raw Story reported Monday, the toy company Mattel announced it scrapped its financial forecast for the year, explaining that President Donald Trump's tariffs "make it hard to predict consumer spending," The Wall Street Journal reported. It prompted a reporter to comment that this is the worst possible outcome for President Donald Trump's trade war. Among the tariffs he issued is a 145% tariff on China. While Mattel has been shifting manufacturing out of China, it still makes about 40% of its toys there. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, The Atlantic's Derek Thompson said that ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned that Republicans are on track to "lose the midterms." In a Monday interview, MAGA influencer Steve Bannon asked Greene what advice she would give to President Donald Trump as Congress tries to pass legislation based on his agenda. "Stick with the agenda and ignore the people here in Washington that are trying to get you to do something different," Greene advised. "It's the Republicans that are the problem, Steve." Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. "Stick to the program!" she exclaimed. "And understand that ...

Israel plans to "occupy and flatten" what remains of key parts of Gaza if no deal is reached by the time President Donald Trump finishes up his tour of the Middle East this month, Axios reported on Monday. "Israel's Security Cabinet approved a plan Sunday night to gradually reoccupy all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely if no deal is reached by May 15," said the report. "Plans for the operation call for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to flatten any buildings that remain standing and displace virtually the entire population of 2 million people to a single 'humanitarian area.' The alternative to...

The Trump administration is moving to deport Asian nationals, including Cambodians, Filipinos, and Vietnamese, to Libya, a new legal complaint filed in a Massachusetts federal district court alleged. The migrants have no ties to the country, which is notorious for human rights abuses, and detainees who refuse to sign the paperwork authorizing it are being thrown in solitary confinement, the lawsuit alleges. It's the latest in a long string of allegations in court that the Trump administration is bypassing due process for huge groups of people officials summarily deem to be in the country illeg...

The Department of Health and Human Services, under President Donald Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., swiftly un-fired a large number of people dismissed as part of sweeping agency cuts, CBS News reported, including health care workers for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. This follows a number of similar cases of the Trump administration realizing it needed to reverse staffing cuts made to critical agencies, including an incident in which nuclear weapons security experts had to be rehired. However, the report noted, these notices sent to affected workers "went a step further...

Documents filed with British regulators show President Donald Trump maintains control over his business empire. The U.S. president has long insisted he has little to do with Trump Organization operations while in the White House, but the document, titled “notice of individual person with significant control,” identifies him as an individual with influence over Golf Recreation Scotland Limited, through which he controls the Trump Turnberry golf course, reported Forbes. "A more detailed section of the filing, labeled 'nature of control,' specifies that 'the person has the right to exercise, or a...

CNN John Berman apologized to viewers Wednesday morning after visibly cringing at remarks made by former President Joe Biden. Tossing to a sound bite from a BBC interview with the former President, Berman noted, “[Biden] was asked a question that I think I know Democrats don't want to relive right now, which is should he have dropped out of the race sooner.” “Mr. President, did you leave it too late? Should you have withdrawn earlier? Given someone else a bigger chance?” The BBC’s Nick Robinson asked Biden. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. ALSO RE...

President Donald Trump is catching heat for floating the idea that a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia could be reached by allowing the latter to participate in the 2026 World Cup. Speaking at the World Cup's first 2026 task force meeting on Tuesday, Trump facetiously said he was unaware Russia could not participate. “I didn’t know that. Is that right?” Trump replied slyly. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, then confirmed “[Russia is] banned for the time being from playing, but we hope that something happens ...

Beloved former child star Hayley Mills, best known for classic feature films like Pollyanna, and The Parent Trap, continues to live a full life at 79. Hayley Mills was born on April 18, 1946, in Marylebone, United Kingdom, the the youngest daughter of renowned actor Sir John Mills (Great Expectations), and actor/playwright Mary Hayley Bell.

President Donald Trump is only pretending not to understand the Constitution, wrote Jesselyn Radack for Salon in an analysis published Tuesday — so that he can twist and reinterpret our laws to make political opponents and disfavored groups into a military enemy of the state. The president has drawn fire for a recent interview in which he claimed he doesn't know whether he is required to uphold the Constitution. But his words aren't an accident, Radack argued — he's been laying the groundwork to reshape our rights with "words of war" since day one. For instance, she wrote, "On his first day ba...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the country after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, federal officials said Friday.

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Correction: A previous version of this report mistakenly reported that the parents are green card holders. They are U.S. citizens and their son is a green card holder. A Georgia couple believed they were voting for order at the southern border when they cast their ballots for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But that was before their son became caught up in the president’s massive crackdown on immigrants. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. “This is craziness,” Deborah Rey told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution while sitting outside El Ref...

President Trump’s budget proposal “is bad for the work to end homelessness,” according to Ann Oliva, chief executive officer of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “From zeroing out the Continuum of Care and (Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS) programs in favor of an inadequate Emergency Solutions Grants increase, to eliminating the Community Development Block Grant and HOME programs, to major changes and cuts in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s rental assistance programs, to cuts in other critical supports — this budget would (if passed) be disastrous for already-marginalized people, especially those experiencing homelessness and housing instability.”

It's been nearly forty years since the tragic death of actor/comedian Dick Shawn, whose stage, movie and TV career spanned over three decades. He died on April 17, 1987, during a live stage performance in front of approximately 500 people, mere seconds after delivering a punchline. At first, everyone thought his death was a joke. But it wasn't. He was gone, at only 57 years old.

A Virginia man convicted of financing the Islamic State terror organization launched into an outburst at his sentencing hearing, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, and was met with an irate judge and a sentence to hard time. Mohammed Chhipa, 35, of Springfield, who emigrated from India as a child, was convicted last year of a cryptocurrency scheme that raised $185,000 for ISIS, per a Justice Department news release in December. "From at least October 2019 through October 2022, Chhipa collected and sent money to female ISIS members in Syria to benefit ISIS in various ways, including by ...

An exchange on CNN turned tense Monday when anchor Kasie Hunt pushed a State Department spokesperson for details on high-level talks between U.S. officials and El Salvador’s president, a question which the Trump administration official attributed to “gossip.” The moment unfolded on CNN’s “The Arena” when Hunt pressed State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce on whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio had recently communicated with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. When she refused to confirm “what world leaders the secretary speaks to,” Hunt asked her question more directly. “Is he still workin...

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James has returned to Florida from a patrol that saw them seize more than 44,550 pounds of Mexican Cartel cocaine and 3,880 pounds of Mexican Cartel marijuana worth about $510 million. US Attorney General Pam Biondi says the seizures represent more than a half-billion-dollars of lost profits by the Gulf Cartel (CDG), the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

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President Donald Trump scored a victory Tuesday as the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the administration to enforce a ban on transgender troops serving in the military. The New York Times reported the "ruling was brief, unsigned and gave no reasons. "The court’s three liberal members — Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — noted dissents but provided no reasoning," the report added. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Paula Reid, CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent, called it "a big victory for the Trump administrati...

A prominent immigration attorney was shocked over a report that could reveal if Immigration and Customs Enforcement was "telling the truth" about the last of three flights to El Salvador carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, wrote on X, "Whoa. @404mediaco reports that hackers have shared flight manifests for the 3 GlobalX flights to El Salvador on March 15. This could confirm whether ICE is telling the truth that the third plane, which took off after Boasberg's order had only people with final orders of removal....