Sen. Ted Cruz said he told Trump: "You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."
Trump's response, according to Cruz: "F**k you, Ted."
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Alex Pretti, killed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
As of Saturday evening, his family had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death.
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Trump administration plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran
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A federal judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating *Renee Good* after an ICE officer killed her
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The 500-year legacy of Gerardus Mercator strikes in 2026
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
“Figures compiled by staff in eight major eye hospitals and 16 emergency departments across the country reveal that at least 16,500-18,000 people have been killed.”
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>>> Diplomats have speculated that Trump’s allies in the tech world are interested in Greenland as a source of mineral wealth and real estate for data processing, treating the takeover of the island as the geopolitical equivalent of a series A fundraising round.
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“The broader Hispanic community certainly feels let down. It would be different if immigration and the economy had not been principal talking points for [Trump]. On both fronts, we didn’t get what we thought we were going to get.”
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At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the Trump administration’s handling of an ICE officer fatally shooting a motorist in Minneapolis
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“History tells us that when the independence of the central bank is compromised, bad things happen. It’s very worrisome.”
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A GOP senator blocking all Fed nominees means they won’t even get past the committee
A truly extraordinary Sunday night video statement from a Fed chair — confronting Trump for using a DOJ investigation to pressure the Fed to cut interest rates
The Donald J. Trump Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
“Who is going to make that commitment on the basis of a promise from Donald Trump?”
As Trump pressures U.S. oil firms, analysts and former diplomats say Venezuela cannot produce the outcome he wants.
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Two goals in direct conflict:
1) The president wants even lower oil prices, closer to $50 a barrel.
2) The president wants oil companies to invest huge sums of money to extract oil from Venezuela.
Oil execs won’t be interested if oil prices remain low.
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There is a reason that the United States has not gone to war with Iran before. The overwhelming consensus of military and intelligence officials and experts has been that doing so would be a disaster. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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“The Taco (for Trump Always Chickens Out) trade notched up its latest win yesterday”
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Hundreds of millions of $$$ from taxpayers
“You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One. It’s a massive undertaking — and an unfunded one at that.”
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“Even Teflon Don can’t outrun economic reality.”
>>> The manufacturing sector, watching order books dry up, has been shrinking its workforce. Ports are warning of a plunge in shipments. Economists have been calculating significant odds of a recession.
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Even after Trump caved on his China tariffs, American consumers still face an overall average effective tariff rate of 17.8%, the highest since 1934.
And even after consumption shifts, the average tariff rate will be 16.4%, the highest since 1937.
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“Tariffs cause hell with the economy. I don’t know exactly where President Trump thinks things should go… When he’s in the midst of negotiations, he scares the hell out of me like he scares the hell out of everyone else.” — Art Laffer, longtime Trump economic adviser www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Unless the president soon finds a face-saving retreat in his trade war, conditions are in place for a recession that Americans will feel viscerally.
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