Furious Democrats are set to train their fire far beyond the eight Senate Democrats who cut a deal to end the shutdown, directing their frustration into defeating establishment-leaning candidates in primaries across the country.
None of the eight Senate Democrats who helped Republicans pass the government funding bill this week are up for reelection in 2026. Nor is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is bearing the brunt of Democratic blame despite voting against the measure.
But progressive groups and lawmakers say the way the shutdown ended is yet another sign that the party needs new faces in Washington and are set to take that argument — and their money — to primary races in Maine, Michigan and beyond. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS AND ELLIOTT DAVIS |
President Trump late Friday announced he is pulling his endorsement and support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and would support a primary challenge against her — a major escalation of their growing beef after months of the House Republican criticizing fellow GOP members and the commander in chief himself.
"I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of 'Congresswoman' Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia," Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that despite his record, "all I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!" Trump in the post called Greene a "ranting lunatic" and that she has "gone Far Left." |
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The Trump administration, long critical of the way colleges handle campus protests, is sending a clear warning after multiple arrests were made outside of a Turning Point USA event this week.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) swiftly announced an investigation after anti-fascist demonstrators gathered at the University of California, Berkeley, against the last Turning Point stop of its college tour, which had begun with the event where the group's founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated.
The administration has repeatedly cut or frozen the federal funding of schools that it feels have failed to keep the peace, and the first major protest of the academic year offered it a clear contrast: a university long seen as one of the most liberal in the country, and an advocacy group the president backs wholeheartedly. |
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President Trump said on Friday that he has "sort of made up" his mind when it comes to next steps on Venezuela, as he has held multiple meetings this week with senior military officials on potential military options the U.S. could take against Caracas.
"I sort of made up my mind," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked about the administration's potential actions against Venezuela. "I can't tell you what it is, but we made a lot of progress with Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs from pouring in," the president said. |
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new military and surveillance campaign in the Western Hemisphere on Thursday, dubbed "Operation Southern Spear," to pummel "narco-terrorists."
The Pentagon chief said the operation will be led by a new counternarcotics joint task force, which was formed in October, and U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) to protect the U.S., quash "narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere" and secure "our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people." "The Western Hemisphere is America's neighborhood – and we will protect it," Hegseth wrote on social platform X. |
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President Trump on Friday said he would sue the BBC for potentially billions after the news outlet misleadingly edited clips from his Jan. 6, 2021, speech ahead of the Capitol insurrection.
"We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week," the president told reporters aboard Air Force One. "I think I have to do it. I mean, they've even admitted that they cheated," he added. "They changed the words coming out of my mouth. That's worse than what CBS did with Kamala. They changed her answer, but at least they didn't show it coming out of her mouth." |
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A last-minute amendment slipped into the bill that ended the government shutdown has thrown the hemp industry and its consumers into a panic as popular products stand to be banned in a year's time.
The amendment, which is set to go in effect in a year, bans the sale of hemp products with more than 0.4 milligrams per container of total delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — a psychoactive cannabinoid, or compound found in the cannabis plant. It also instates the same milligram cap for cannabinoids with similar effects in products and bans cannabinoids synthesized or manufactured outside of the plant. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will publish a list within 90 days that includes synthetic and natural cannabinoids and provide a definition of "container" — essentially clarifying which products will be banned. |
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) said flight reductions will be lowered from 6 percent to 3 percent on Saturday as plane operations recover from the longest shutdown in the country's history.
"The decision reflects improvements in air traffic controller staffing levels and a continued decline in staffing-trigger events across the National Airspace System (NAS)," a Friday announcement on the FAA website reads. "The 3 percent reduction will remain in place while the FAA monitors system performance throughout the weekend and evaluates whether normal operations can resume," it adds. |
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Disney and YouTubeTV announced a carrier deal late Friday that will restore ABC, ESPN and the media conglomerate's other content to the Google-owned streaming service.
The deal came after a two-week standoff between the pair of media giants that left an estimated 10 million YouTubeTV subscribers without access to top college football and NFL games as well as popular primetime shows like "Dancing with the Stars" and ABC News coverage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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OPINION | T. March Bell said the quiet part out loud.
Bell, the nominee to be the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, admitted in his recent testimony to Congress: "If confirmed as inspector general I will examine, evaluate, audit and investigate to support the initiatives of President Trump and Secretary Kennedy."
As if that weren't clear enough, he added: "The Office of the Inspector General must help explain what is actually going on and provide actionable information in support of the president's and secretary's courageous and innovative change of direction for the improved health of all Americans."
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OPINION | Zohran Mamdani ran on the populist message that New York City was being run for the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Now, with the dust settling and Mamdani headed for Gracie Mansion, it is pretty clear that his best helpers were the men running against him and their campaign teams. Again and again, they seemed determined to prove that he was right — that New York City was no longer a city for everyone. Their relentless personal attacks had the boomerang effect of making you feel kind of bad for the guy, and quite possibly driving more voters his way.
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Last month, Tucker Carlson's genial interview with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes detonated a bomb that further fractured the Trump-era conservative movement he once helped galvanize. This month, Carlson decided to escape the wreckage for weeks of bird hunting in Maine, South Dakota, Nebraska and Southwest Florida. During three hours of interviews driving to and from a quail hunting site outside Fort Myers, Carlson was by turns indignant, reflective and seething — and thoroughly unrepentant for having roiled the conservative movement with the interview, or for his own escalating attacks on those who support Israel. |
BY RAFFAELE HUANG AND YOKO KUBOTA |
Tesla is now requiring its suppliers to exclude China-made components in the manufacturing of its cars in the U.S., a fresh example of the fallout from deepening geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China.
Earlier this year, the electric-vehicle maker decided that it would stop using China-based suppliers for Tesla cars that are made in the U.S., according to people familiar with the situation. Tesla and its suppliers have already replaced some China-made components with parts made elsewhere. Tesla is aiming to switch all other components to those made outside of China in the next year or two, some of the people said. |
When he first came to the United States after escaping civil war in Sierra Leone and spending almost a decade in a refugee camp, Dauda Sesay had no idea he could become a citizen. But he was told that if he followed the rules and stayed out of trouble, after some years he could apply. As a U.S. citizen, he would have protection.
It's what made him decide to apply: the premise — and the promise — that when he became a naturalized American citizen, it would create a bond between him and his new home. He would have rights as well as responsibilities, like voting, that, as he was making a commitment to the country, the country was making one to him. |
President Trump's bid Friday to soothe consumers by dropping tariffs on a wide array of groceries, including coffee, beef, bananas and tomatoes — contradicting his repeated claims that the levies were not affecting retail prices — shows he is on the defensive over his signature policy initiative.
Public opposition, eroding support on Capitol Hill and a potentially lethal challenge before the Supreme Court have Trump scrambling to defend his economic strategy even as the administration notches diplomatic agreements that are cementing its high-tariff approach to rebalancing global trade. |
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