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When a firework boomed in the distance as President Trump addressed supporters in Iowa earlier this month, the popping sound triggered something in the president's mind. "It's only fireworks, I hope. Famous last words," Trump quipped, a nod to when he was on stage a year ago in Pennsylvania and gunshots rang out, with a bullet grazing his ear. "You always have to think positive," Trump said in Iowa. "I didn't like that sound either." |
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Threats against public officials have persisted in the year since the first assassination attempt of President Trump, as experts in political violence warn the upward trend shows no sign of fizzling out. The failed attack — one of two attempts on Trump's life as he sought a second term in the White House — yielded sharp condemnations of violence and ample calls to turn down the heat on political rhetoric. |
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Student loan borrowers' options are dwindling and time is not on their side as the Trump administration turns up the heat to get all borrowers back in repayment. The recently passed "big, beautiful bill" will take the bevy of choices away from borrowers by 2028, leaving only two options for repayment. |
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The Tabernacle Choir, one of the oldest and largest choral organizations in the world, will broadcast its 5,000th episode of "Music and the Spoken Word" on Sunday.
One of the longest-running broadcast church services, "Music and the Spoken Word" has aired each week since July 1929 and has been heard by more than 6 million people in 50 countries around the globe on radio, television and online streaming. |
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A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens to reshape the federal workforce amid a broader battle over whether the president has the power to do so. The Tuesday decision was the latest example of the court stepping in to stop a nationwide injunction – leaving President Trump free to conduct widespread layoffs even as the legal tussle continues. |
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President Trump stood in defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday evening, praising her for doing a "FANTASTIC" job as she faces intense scrutiny from some of the president's supporters over her handling of files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "What's going on with my 'boys' and, in some cases, 'gals?' They're all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We're on one Team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. |
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President Trump on Saturday lashed out against comedian Rosie O'Donnell, calling her a "threat to humanity" and noting that he is "seriously considering" revoking her citizenship. "Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship," Trump wrote in a Saturday morning Truth Social post. |
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A federal judge in Texas reversed a Biden-era rule on Friday that permitted medical debt to be wiped from credit reports, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan, a 2019 appointee of President Trump, said the rule by the previous administration exceeds the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB, an independent agency, finalized the rule in January as former President Biden was set to leave the White House. |
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President Trump claimed during an interview on Saturday that some Democrats in Congress "wanted to vote" for his "big, beautiful bill," which was signed into law last week. "And remember this, the Democrats wanted to vote for it, most of them, many of them, because it's all good stuff," the president said during his appearance on Fox News's "My View with Lara Trump." |
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OPINION | I am a professor at a major research university. You'll be shocked to learn that I'm also a liberal Democrat. And here's another surprise: I listen to National Public Radio. |
OPINION | When I think about entrepreneurship, I think about resilience. I think about people who see opportunity where others see obstacles — who transform challenges into innovation and refuse to let circumstances define their future. That's why I urge Congress to pass the New Start Act: legislation that recognizes a truth too many overlook — some of America's most promising entrepreneurs are sitting behind bars. |
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Facing growing chaos, the European Union and numerous other countries are seeking to forge a global trading nexus that is less vulnerable to American tariffs. |
Investors are seeking details on how companies are coping with the trade turmoil. |
President Donald Trump has pledged to deport "the worst of the worst." He frequently speaks at public appearances about the countless "dangerous criminals" — among them murderers, rapists and child predators — from around the world he says entered the U.S. illegally under the Biden administration.
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BY MARIA SACCHETTI, CAROL D. LEONNIG AND MARIANNE LEVINE |
Lawyers warned that thousands of longtime immigrants with work permits and families in the U.S. could now be uprooted and sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language. |
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