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Trump orders takedown of longtime protest tent at White House

09/05/25 7:15 PM ET President Trump ordered the removal of the White House Peace Vigil on Friday, marking an end to a 44-year protest against the nation’s nuclear weaponry and warfare. A reporter informed the president of the ongoing protest — now manned by Philipos Melaku-Bello and a group of rotating volunteers — Friday in the Oval Office, describing the long-standing tent as an “eye sore” for visitors supported by the “radical left.” “I didn’t know that. Take it down. Take it down today, ...

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Smithsonian reaffirms 'independence' in response to White House's demand for review

12h Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III asserted the Smithsonian Institution's control over its programming and content this week in a letter addressed to the White House after the Trump administration demanded a review of the institution's exhibits, a Smithsonian official confirmed to ABC News. The White House announced last month that it plans to conduct a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian's museum exhibitions, materials and operations to ensure they align with President Donald Tru ...

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Trump Exempts Gold, Tungsten and Uranium From Global Tariffs

September 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM EDT President Donald Trump moved Friday to exempt graphite, tungsten, uranium, gold bullion and other metals from his country-based tariffs, while subjecting silicone products to the levies. The changes are set to take effect on Monday under an executive order issued Friday. Trump's directive could also speed implementation of bespoke trade deals between the US and other countries, making it easier for Washington to lift tariffs on aircraft parts, generic pharmac ...

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Judge Cannon just blew up Newsmax's 'shotgun' lawsuit against Fox News before the case even got off the ground

Sep 5th, 2025, 5:22 pm Just one day after Newsmax sued Fox News, claiming the Rupert Murdoch-founded network had illegally monopolized the "right-leaning pay TV" cable news space, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon threw out the lawsuit for being a "shotgun" mess before the case could even get off the ground. The court docket in Newsmax Broadcasting, LLC v. Fox Corporation and Fox News Network, LLC, shows that the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday under the theory that Fox ha ...

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Florida's new immigrant detention site dubbed 'Deportation Depot' is now taking detainees, officials say

Updated Sep 5, 2025, 5:56 PM ET PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2025, 12:13 PM ET Florida has opened its second immigration detention site, dubbed “Deportation Depot,” amid an ongoing legal battle over its controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” facility. The facility is at a temporarily closed state prison, the Baker Correctional Institution, which is housing 117 detainees with the capacity to hold 1,500 people, according to the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis. It is about 45 miles west of Jacksonville near the Osc ...

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Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover

Fri 5 Sep 2025 12.03 EDT Last modified on Fri 5 Sep 2025 13.19 EDT Ticket sales at the Kennedy Center have continued to plummet following Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington DC’s premier performing arts venue, with the prestigious Stuttgart Ballet expected to dance next month to houses less than 20% full. Audiences are “voting with their feet to skip out” on shows that would once have been packed, in protest at the US president inserting himself into the center’s management and operations a ...

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As job market slumps, Trump administration says it could take a year to see better economic data

September 5, 2025 12:49 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The White House said it expects the Federal Reserve to weigh larger rate cuts this month after Friday's "disappointing" jobs report, while President Donald Trump and his administration said it could be a year before the U.S. sees rosier economic data. "The main market expectation is 25 basis points. But I would guess that there would be an expectation, a discussion of a higher cut, but I wouldn't ...

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CBS News Agrees Not to Edit 'Face The Nation' Interviews Following Homeland Security Backlash

CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. The Paramount Skydance news unit said Friday it would cease editing taped interviews with newsmakers who appear on “Face the Nation” following complaints from the Trump administration over an appearance on the show earlier this week when U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a number of false or unproven statements about Kilmar Abergo Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was deported despite his havi ...

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RFK Jr.'s nephew Joe Kennedy calls for his resignation

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) on Friday called for his uncle, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to resign amid concerns about vaccine misinformation and his attacks on public health officials. "Robert Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the health and wellbeing of every American. A United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is tasked with protecting the public health of our country and its people," Joe Kennedy III wrote in a Friday post on social plat ...

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Bessent calls to take power away from the Fed

Updated Sep 5, 2025, 3:02 PM ET PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2025, 1:22 PM ET Washington — The Federal Reserve must be relieved of its duties regulating the nation’s banks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in an essay published Friday. Bessent wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the central bank has veered away from what he described as its core mission of promoting full employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates. President Donald Trump’s top economic official is doubling d ...

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ICE launches Trump's latest immigration crackdown in Boston, says report

2 min ago - Saturday 06 September 2025 17:55 EDT Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly started detaining immigrants in Boston. The ICE operation in Massachusetts is reportedly going to last several weeks, according to sources who spoke to the New Y ... (The Independent)

OPEC+ Agrees in Principle to Increase Production in October

31 min ago - Sat, September 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM EDT (Bloomberg) -- OPEC+ has agreed in principle to increase production again next month, according to delegates, as the group doubles down on its policy shift to pursue market share instead of defending prices. Key ... (Yahoo! Finance/Bloomberg)

Legal aid group sues to preemptively block U.S. from deporting a dozen Honduran children

1 hr ago - Updated 1:57 PM EDT, September 6, 2025 A legal aid group has sued to preemptively block any efforts by the U.S. government to deport a dozen Honduran children, saying it had “credible” information that such plans were quietly in the works. ... (AP)

Rightwing conference reveals muddled lines between Trump and far right

1 hr ago - Sat 6 Sep 2025 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 6 Sep 2025 07.04 EDT A rightwing conference recently saw theocratic Christian nationalists, far-right publishers and members of men-only secret societies speaking alongside the Missouri senator Eric Schmi ... (The Guardian)

Pam Bondi's DOJ facing a 'citizens' revolt' as prosecution efforts flop: report

2 hrs ago - September 6, 2025 8:48AM ET Attempts by the Department of Justice to prosecute Americans who are balking at Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are not finding a friendly audience when cases are being presented before grand juries long conside ... (Raw Story)

Washington, DC, residents protest against Trump's troop deployment to the city

2 hrs ago - September 6, 2025 3:03 PM EDT Updated 1 hour ago WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Several thousand protesters marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to demand that U.S. President Donald Trump end the deployment of National Guard troops patrolling the ... (Reuters)

Top News Site Deletes Dozens of Articles After AI Scam Probe

3 hrs ago - Updated Sep. 6 2025 4:28AM EDT Published Sep. 5 2025 4:43PM EDT A leading news website has removed dozens of articles after apparently being conned by bogus “journalists”—who may have been assisted in their deception by AI. Business ... (Daily Beast)

FEMA Employees File Whistleblower Complaints--'Won't Be Silenced'

3 hrs ago - Published Sep 06, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT Several employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have filed whistleblower complaints after being put on administrative leave shortly after signing a public letter of dissent last week. "I beli ... (Newsweek)

DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret

3 hrs ago - Sept. 6, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from hi ... (NBC News)

Trump Threatens to Send Troops to City He Says He Saw Being Destroyed 'Last Night'-- But it Wasn't

4 hrs ago - Sep 6th, 2025, 1:23 pm President Donald Trump said he has earmarked Portland, Oregon as the next city for National Guard deployment after watching video of its “destruction” on television. Except the video the president apparently saw was ... (MEDIAite)

Postal traffic to U.S. fell 80% after Trump administration stopped exemption on low-value parcels

5 hrs ago - September 6, 2025 / 1:34 PM EDT Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union sa ... (CBS News/AP)

LAPD ends protection of former Vice President Kamala Harris amid criticism over diverting cops, sources say

5 hrs ago - By Richard Winton Sat, September 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM PDT The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday discontinued its protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after heavy criticism within its own ranks that officers were being diverted fro ... (Los Angeles Times/Yahoo)

Biden chooses Delaware for his presidential library as his team turns to raising money for it

5 hrs ago - By AAMER MADHANI Updated 8:57 AM CDT, September 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware and has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heav ... (AP)

'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with 'Department of War' and suggests ICE raids imminent

5 hrs ago - Saturday 06 September 2025 12:52 EDT Communities across Chicago are preparing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids to begin as soon as Saturday, which President Donald Trump appeared to confirm in a bizarre Truth Social post this morning. Fo ... (The Independent)

RFK Jr. Given Green Light To Lie With Impunity At Hearing

6 hrs ago - Republican Sen. Mike Crapo refused to put the lying HHS secretary under oath. By NewsHound Ellen — September 6, 2025 .......................... Ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) cited Kennedy’s lies to the committee about vaccines as a r ... (crooksandliars.com)

West Point alumni group cancels award ceremony for Tom Hanks

6 hrs ago - September 6, 2025 at 11:13 a.m. EDT The alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has canceled an award ceremony for actor and veterans advocate Tom Hanks, citing a desire for the Army service academy to focus on preparing future ... (Washington Post)

Trump signs order on state sponsors of wrongful detention

8 hrs ago - 4h President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage. The de ... (msn/Los Angeles Times)

Seoul promises to help hundreds of Korean workers arrested in US in Ice raid

9 hrs ago - Sat 6 Sep 2025 06.10 EDT First published on Fri 5 Sep 2025 09.22 EDT South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has ordered “all-out efforts” to respond to the arrest of hundreds of its citizens by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ... (The Guardian)

Dearborn Heights mayor says proposed Arabic police patch was not an "official prototype"

10 hrs ago - September 5, 2025 / 9:21 PM EDT With nearly 40% of its residents identifying as Middle Eastern or North African, Dearborn Heights, Michigan, has had a longstanding relationship with its Arabic-speaking community. On Wednesday, the Dearborn Heights Po ... (CBS News)

Trump sending National Guard to New Orleans in next crime crackdown

10 hrs ago - 09/05/25 9:11 PM ET President Trump announced Friday that he will soon be sending the National Guard to New Orleans after previously teasing that he would be targeting the city in his next federal crime crackdown. “We’re going to come into ... (The Hill)

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