'Tidal wave on our hands': Furious voters say Trump's turning key red state purple
July 18, 2025 6:36PM ET Angry voters in Iowa could turn the state from solid red to a swing state because they feel betrayed by President Donald Trump on issues from healthcare to agriculture. According to an article in Newsweek, Iowa has "leaned Republicans" for nearly a decade, with Trump carrying the state "by 9 points in 2016, 8 points in 2020, and about the same in 2024." But that could soon change if the latest polling is accurate. "Democrats and independents ...
Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: 'Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This'
Jul 18th, 2025, 8:55 pm Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) praised federal funding cuts to public broadcasting entities like NPR and PBS, saying, “Farmers are not gonna miss this.” In a Friday appearance on Laura Ingraham‘s The Ingraham Angle, Tuberville claimed that 90% of NPR content was left-leaning. “There was very little right. Anything positive about the right was never on,” Tuberville said. “We were about 30 years too late. This should have been gone a long time ago. People can get their n ...
Trump admin and Catholic priests secure victory against child abuse reporting law that would violate the confidentiality
Jul 18th, 2025, 4:26 pm The Trump administration secured a victory for the confidentiality of the confessional booth as a federal judge temporarily blocked a recently-enacted anti-child abuse statute in Washington state. In a 25-page order, U.S. District Judge David G. Estudillo, a Joe Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction that keeps mandatory reporting legislation passed this year from going into effect. Absent the court's order, SB 5375 would have become operative on July 27. T ...
At least 30 injured after vehicle strikes crowd in Los Angeles overnight
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Public to get chance to weigh in on plastic vs. paper straws under proposed Trump administration rule
July 18, 2025, 5:40 PM Members of the general public will have a chance to weigh in on the use of paper versus plastic straws as the federal government considers a new rule on the types of straws used by government contractors. Under the rule proposed by the Trump administration, every federal government contractor -- including those serving military bases and veterans facilities -- would have to offer only straws that "have the strength and durability of plastic straws." Governmen ...
Trump sues Murdoch, Dow Jones over WSJ story on Epstein birthday letter: court records
Published Fri, Jul 18 2025 4:49 PM EDT Updated 5 Min Ago President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his threat to sue media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his Wall Street Journal published an article saying that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a "bawdy" letter for Epstein's 50th birthday, courts records show. Trump filed a lawsuit alleging libel against Murdoch, the Journal's publisher, Dow Jones, and the two reporters who wrote the article in federal court for the Southern Distric ...
Tulsi Gabbard calls for Obama to be prosecuted over 2016 election claims
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them of a “treasonous conspiracy” intended to show that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win was due to Russian interference. She said Obama and senior officials in his administration had “[laid] the groundwork for … a years-long coup” against Trump after his victory over Hillary Clinton by “manufacturing intelligence” to sug ...
Trump's Mad Dream of Revamping Alcatraz Would Cost More Than $2 Billion
6h Donald Trump’s bonkers scheme to return Alcatraz Island to its inglorious past as one of the nation’s most feared prisons could run taxpayers upward of $2 billion. The president is apparently so hellbent on the made-for-Hollywood plan that on Thursday Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum took a tour to assess the site, which currently attracts 1.6 million tourists a year. An Axios report quoted two administration officials outlining the costs of three prosp ...
Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' -- what to know
Visitors to the United States will need to pay a “visa integrity fee,” according to a provision of the Trump administration’s recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The fee applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter, and cannot be waived. However travelers may also be able to get the fees reimbursed, according to the provision. -snip- The fee will be at least $250 during the U.S. fiscal year 2025, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025. However, the secreta ...
Embattled MAGA rallies behind Trump after leak of alleged Epstein letter
Tal Axelrod The MAGA movement finally began to unite on the issue of Jeffrey Epstein Friday, rallying around President Trump — and against "the fake news media" — after the release of a blockbuster Wall Street Journal investigation. Why it matters: A pair of explosive developments gave MAGA influencers the cover they needed to suspend nearly two weeks of unprecedented infighting over the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.First, the Journal's report that Trump sent ...
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JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives
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Minnesota assassination spurs wave of state bills to protect elected officials
1 hr ago - 07/19/2025 12:00 PM EDT The June assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman prompted at least a dozen states to pass or consider legislation designed to bolster protections for state lawmakers. But the measures are facing sharp c ... (Politico)
Exclusive: Trump's funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions
1 hr ago - July 19, 2025 6:08 AM EDT Updated 3 hours ago TAVETA, Kenya, July 19 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new ha ... (Reuters)
Immigration arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents
2 hrs ago - July 19, 2025, 9:09 AM BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Parents at a preschool in a Portland suburb are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school during morning drop-off hours, breaking his car window to detain him in front of chi ... (ABC News/AP)
Pressure grows to unmask ICE
3 hrs ago - Published July 19, 2025 6:30AM (EDT) The push to unmask ICE agents is catching fire, as backlash grows to President Donald Trump’s policy of mass deportation. “It comes across as kidnappings. At some point, where do we end up with vigilante ... (Salon)
32 Palestinians shot dead trying to reach US group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say
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New airport scanners are better at spotting liquid explosives, but many airports lack them
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The USDA wants states to hand over food stamp data by the end of July
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Clashes, homes torched in south Syria's Sweida despite ceasefire
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Netanyahu's Party Accuses Biden Administration of Attempted Coup in Israel After GOP Releases NGO Report
6 hrs ago - In recent months, House Republicans have cited links between anti-Netanyahu protests and the Biden administration's alleged use of foreign aid to influence foreign democratic allies' governments as justification for Trump's unprecedented crackdown on ... (Haaretz)
Trump DOJ wants Supreme Court to bring down hammer on gun rules
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Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps
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Pranksters fill Trump Tower gift shop with merch featuring pictures of Epstein with the president
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ICE head won't block agents from wearing masks, confirms use of Medicaid data
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Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: 'Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This'
9 hrs ago - Jul 18th, 2025, 8:55 pm Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) praised federal funding cuts to public broadcasting entities like NPR and PBS, saying, “Farmers are not gonna miss this.” In a Friday appearance on Laura Ingraham‘s The Ingraham Ang ... (MEDIAite)
At least 30 injured after vehicle strikes crowd in Los Angeles overnight
9 hrs ago - Updated Jul 19, 2025, 8:32 AM ET PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2025, 6:48 AM ET At least 30 people were injured - seven of them critically - when an "unknown vehicle" drove into a crowd in East Hollywood early Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Departme ... (CNN US)
Top WH officials encourage Ernst to run again in private meeting
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'Tidal wave on our hands': Furious voters say Trump's turning key red state purple
10 hrs ago - July 18, 2025 6:36PM ET Angry voters in Iowa could turn the state from solid red to a swing state because they feel betrayed by President Donald Trump on issues from healthcare to agriculture. According to an article in Newsweek, Iowa has "leaned Re ... (Raw Story)
Trump's immigration crackdown causing labor shortages to California's construction industry, builder says They're hiding
10 hrs ago - Updated on: July 18, 2025 / 8:20 PM EDT Los Angeles — One construction site in Los Angeles has just about everything needed to build a traditional family home. Everything, that is, except enough workers. "We have probably three people on site, f ... (CBS News)
G20 finance chiefs back central bank independence in first communique since October
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