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HuffPostDonald Trump Botches New BFF Elon Musk’s Name And You Know What Happened
Hilarity ensued over the former president's latest stumble.
- HuffPost
Ex-GOP Lawmaker Blows The Whistle On Trump's 'Very Vile' Plan To Beat Kamala Harris
Former Rep. David Jolly said Trump "has no ground to gain," leaving him with just one strategy.
- HuffPost
Newsmax Host Lidia Curanaj Makes Startling Political Confession And Apologizes
"I didn't know any better," the conservative host told her audience.
- The Daily Beast
Melania Trump Breaks Silence to Complain About 2020 Defeat
Melania Trump sort of teased her upcoming memoir again Sunday in a text-based video with voiceover, in which she bemoans the cost of living in America and attempts to “silence” her husband, former President Donald Trump, before a cut to an image of the cover of Melania."The 2020 election results changed our lives forever,” said Melania in the video, posted to her X account Sunday, with each word illustrated in an italicized serif font. “It impacted our quality of life, cost of food, gasoline, sa
- CNN
Trump calls for modifying 25th Amendment to make it possible to remove a vice president
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called for modifying the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution and said if a vice president “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president” they should be removed from office.
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Maggie Haberman Explains Why Donald Trump Wanted To 'Humiliate' His Own Lawyers
The former president ripped his legal team as they all stood nearby.
- The Independent
George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement after Cheney snubbed Trump
The 43rd president will not join his former vice president Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris
- The Independent
Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat
‘We are ready, we are willing, and we are able to spark a new era of American exceptionalism,’ Donald Trump Jr’s fiancée says to sparse applause
- Fortune
China laments ‘garbage time of history’ as economy comes off peak and growth model hits dead end, expert says
“The financial system itself is now constraining China’s economic growth rather than facilitating it.”
- Euronews
Russian drones violate Romania and Latvia's airspace in just 24 hours
A Russian drone violated Romania's airspace forcing the airforce to scramble two F16 warplanes on Sunday and another crashed in Latvia on Saturday.
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'Dictator' Trump Condemned After Threatening To Jail Opponents
“An extreme and unhinged Donald Trump is further ratcheting up his dangerous threats of revenge and retribution,” the Harris campaign said.
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Mary Trump Takes No Prisoners With Scathing New Description Of Her Uncle
Americans “deserve to be told that there’s a maniac on the loose," wrote Donald Trump's niece.
- The Hill
Government shutdown looms as Congress faces funding fight
Congress is staring down a time crunch to avert a shutdown, with both parties digging in their heels and some Republicans expressing skepticism about their own party’s plans less than a month before government funding is set to run out. Lawmakers return to Washington on Monday facing a Sept. 30 deadline to avert a government…
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Now Trump Has Decided He Is 'Very Offended' By Putin's Endorsement Of Kamala Harris
But he still made time to defend "poor Russia."
- France 24
Russia claims new gains in east Ukraine push, launches deadly strikes
Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as they advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again urged Kyiv's partners to give him more scope to use Western-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia. Russia on Sunday said its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv reported deadly air attacks and urged the West to allow it to carry out more retaliatory strikes inside Russia's bor
- NewsWire
Warning of $4.5bn hit to Aussie economy
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned weak commodity prices could deal a $4.5bn blow to Commonwealth coffers.
- HuffPost
North Carolina Governor Says If Harris Wins State, ‘She Is The Next President’
“She knows that we are in play," Gov. Roy Cooper said Sunday.
- HuffPost
Nikki Haley Dismisses Misogyny In Support Of Trump
She argued that her focus as a voter is on Trump's policies, not writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault case against him or his general "communication."
- Rolling Stone
Trump Threatens to Let Conspiracy Theorist Senator ‘Run’ Education in Wisconsin
GOP presidential nominee hit rural town of Mosinee in battleground state on Saturday
- The Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s Camp Is Literally Praying He Won’t Blow Prez Debate
Donald Trump’s Sept. 10 debate against Vice President Kamala Harris could be his biggest opportunity yet to regain ground lost to Harris in fundraising and in the polls, according to his GOP allies. But some are literally praying he just doesn’t go off the rails.“I think—I pray—he can be disciplined,” Republican strategist Tricia McLaughlin told Politico, voicing concerns about Trump trading personal attacks over focusing on policy.House Speaker Newt Gingrich theorized that could be exactly what