Hollywood legend Robert De Niro, who has won two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe, is now just a "sad, broken old man," according to Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy. De Niro, 82, teed off on Miller this week during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," comparing M...| Raw Story
A House Judiciary Committee member accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of "shaking down" his own government and called on GOP lawmakers to stand up. Trump reportedly demanded that his Justice Department pay him $230 million in taxpayer dollars as compensation for past actions that he disagreed...| Raw Story
A leaked MAGA chat is revealing that a Trump administration nominee for a whistleblower agency has reportedly used a racist epithet in texts, called for MLK Jr. Day to be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell," and says he has "a Nazi streak," according to a Monday report from Politico.Paul Ingras...| Raw Story
Marc Elias, an election lawyer, warned on Sunday that President Donald Trump's latest hire poses a threat to the 2026 midterm elections. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration had hired Kurt Olsen as a Special Government Employee at the Justice Department focused o...| Raw Story
Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, is facing an "early test" as Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, two champions of Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, are set to appear on 60 Minutes alongside someone who painted a transgender Statue of Liberty, according to the New York Times.The sh...| Raw Story
Is the U.S. military already in the early stages of a Trump-led coup against our Constitution?Inside the Pentagon, loyalty is being elevated above law as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quietly removes senior military lawyers, the very officials meant to uphold legality and restraint, and replaces th...| Raw Story
According to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, President Donald Trump's latest moves all share the same goal: Keeping Americans distracted from the ongoing fallout over his administration's handling of unreleased documents pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.In an atypical Friday night br...| Raw Story
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WASHINGTON — In the midst of this government shutdown, President Donald Trump’s war on the federal workforce isn’t just angering his Democratic counterparts on Capitol Hill — it also seems to be uniting them.While a federal judge temporarily halted the administration’s firings on Wednesday, damage h...| Raw Story
The Justice Department appeared in court after President Donald Trump and his administration fired thousands of federal workers. Trump publicly threatened Democrats, saying that if they didn't end the government shutdown, he would start layoffs. The firings were then announced by Office of Managemen...| Raw Story
With multiple experts agreeing that Donald Trump is using every page out of the authoritarian playbook to seize more and more power, a professor who specializes in the rise and rule of dictators suggested there is every reason to believe he may not live long enough to finish the job.In a column for ...| Raw Story
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President Donald Trump uncorked a bizarre meltdown on his Truth Social platform Tuesday over California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plans to bring affordable housing to the affluent Pacific Palisades following devastating wildfires earlier this year.Residents in the LA neighborhood have pushed back on Newso...| Raw Story
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This cannot be what President Donald Trump had in mind.Authorities made an arrest in connection with the heinous assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The suspect is Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white, male Utah State University student, the son of registered Republican voters from t...| Raw Story
The data analytics firm Palantir is building a master list of personal information on Americans that could give president Donald Trump immense surveillance power.The president signed an executive order in March calling for the federal government to share data across various agencies, and while he ha...| Raw Story
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WASHINGTON — What emails?That’s the mood from congressional Republicans these days as allegations of private servers and accessing sensitive, private data swirl about this White House.In 2016 alone, House Republicans issued more than 70 subpoenas or investigative inquiries into Hillary Clinton and h...| Raw Story
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