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Carter Page speaks with reporters on Nov. 2, 2017 on Capitol Hill.

Former Trump adviser Carter Page latest to get lucrative Justice Department payout

Steve Benen

Laura Loomer; Bill Maher.

Laura Loomer loses defamation suit against Bill Maher and HBO over Trump relationship joke

Jordan Rubin

Rep. Jason Crow rips Trump’s plan to send Afghan allies who aided U.S. to Congo

Allison Detzel

In this photo shot from below, Donald Trump looks surprised while standing in front of a IS Flag.

Why the White House is working hard to conceal Trump’s ballroom donation list

Hayes Brown

Political inflection point? Trump’s approval rating is cratering

Chris Hayes

Democrats warn GOP that partisan funding plan will come back to bite them

Jack Fitzpatrick

Hung Cao attends his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in D.C.

Acting Navy secretary’s record raises eyebrows, including his concerns about ‘witchcraft’

Steve Benen

WB long is seen on a water tower at sunset or sunrise.

Warner Bros. shareholders green-light Paramount takeover

Sydney Carruth

Sen. Josh Hawley at the Punchbowl News Conference on March 10, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

Democrats see a war powers shift coming. Republicans say not so fast.

Mychael Schnell

Two boys paddle-board in the sea as ships are anchored near the shoreline.
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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives at Sky Harbor International Airport April 17, 2026 in Phoenix, Az.

Trump tells MS NOW Iran has ‘no idea who their leader is’

Jacqueline Alemany, David Rohde & Clarissa-Jan Lim

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill.

FBI reportedly investigated a reporter after she wrote article Kash Patel didn’t like

Steve Benen

Kevin Warsh, nominee to chairman of the Federal Reserve, testifies during his Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing.

Why so many Trump nominees keep flubbing a simple question: Who won in 2020?

Steve Benen

Two men walk past the capitol building in this photo shot from below the stairs and the dome.

Even worse than Trump: Disapproval for Republican-led Congress reaches 86%

Steve Benen

Jayanta Bhattacharya speaks at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 5, 2025 on Capitol Hill.

CDC buries report that showed the efficacy of the Covid vaccine

Steve Benen

Samuel Alito looks on as he sits at a table with others.

New book sheds more light on Justice Alito’s refusal to recuse himself in a Jan. 6 case

Jordan Rubin

Todd Blanche, acting U.S. attorney general, speaks at a podium.

Todd Blanche makes splashy moves to land AG job permanently

Ken Dilanian

Todd Blanche at a press conference at the Department of Justice.

New DOJ watchdog probe puts spotlight back on Epstein files, as Trump seeks to move on

Steve Benen

A Shiite Muslim pilgrim holds up a picture of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R), Iran's late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C), and the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, during a break in Najaf on their way to the shrine central city of Karbala on Dec. 9, 2014.

The U.S. is struggling to get Iran to the negotiating table. Trump is to blame.

Zeeshan Aleem

A trader at the New York Stock Exchange holds two phones up to his ears while looking at computer monitors.

The stock market in Trump’s second term remains jittery but still positive

Lily Becker

Rep. Devin Nunes and President Donald Trump on the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wis.

Devin Nunes steps down as CEO of Trump’s media company

Ja'han Jones

Pete Hegseth, left, and John Phelan standing next to a poster.

Hegseth ousts the Navy secretary, further destabilizing the military during a war

Steve Benen

The exterior of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

What the DOJ’s Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is really about

Michael Edison Hayden

Ahmed Shihab‑Eldin attend "Palestine 36" red carpet during the Doha Film Festival 2025 in Doha.

American Kuwaiti journalist held in Kuwait acquitted of all charges, lawyer says

Erum Salam

Mike Pence, former vice president.

Pence: Trump should back off Pope Leo

Ali Vitali

Clay Travis is making a hand gesture on stage as he looks afar.

MAGA world uses bogus SPLC indictment to downplay the existence of racist extremism

Ja'han Jones

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra stands in front of a podium and points.

California’s woes at the center of debate among leading candidates for governor

The Associated Press

US Customs and Border Protection agents patrol a neighborhood during immigration enforcement activity in Minneapolis.

Immigration officer charged over shoving protester to ground in Colorado

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., seen sitting down from a low angle.

GOP senator grills RFK Jr. on abortion, measles and CDC leadership at health hearing

Will McDuffie & Julianne McShane

Pence on JD Vance: ‘We haven’t spoken’

Trump’s numbers ‘extremely reminiscent’ of second term Bush, pollster says

Tucker Carlson says he’s ‘tormented,’ regrets backing Trump

Florida probes ChatGPT’s role in FSU shooting

Kash Patel ‘on the run’ amid mounting scrutiny, says Raskin

UNICEF spokesperson describes conditions in Lebanon: ‘So much death, so much destruction’

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  1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In the background, people in military uniforms are visible.

    The dangerous irony of Pete Hegseth’s absurd anti-flu vaccine mandate

    Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham (ret.)

  2. Photoillustration of Kahn Davison and his parents, layered with a newspaper report detailing their deaths.

    I only know a fraction of what the children of Justin Fairfax and his wife are about to endure

    Kahn Davison

  3. Tucker Carlson looking up.

    It’s too late for Tucker Carlson’s apology over supporting Trump

    Lyz Lenz

  4. President Donald Trump — only his hands and torso visible — holds a Bible.

    Trump’s participation in a marathon Bible-reading event is a cruel joke on America

    Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

  5. Photoillustration of a person seated at a desk with one wrist handcuffed to the desk leg, rendered in a blue-green duotone style.

    Tennessee’s ‘Charlie Kirk Act’ should terrify us all

    Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones

  6. Signs during the Virginia redistricting referendum.

    The hardest part is still to come for Virginia Democrats after redistricting win

    Paul Waldman

  7. People hold one another during a memorial. The surround a large wooden cross.

    The violent killings of eight children aren’t just about mental illness

    Denese Shervington

  8. People call for a regime change in Iran, waving lion and sun Iranian flags.

    Trump has only one real option left when it comes to Iran

    Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward (ret.)

  9. Kevin Warsh sits, hands clasped, in front of a microphone.

    Elizabeth Warren’s deceptively simple question for Kevin Warsh was a test. He failed.

    Hayes Brown

  10. Photoillustration of Kash Patel with a collage of torn newspapers and scales of justice.

    Patel’s defamation lawsuit will have real ramifications — even if he’s likely to lose

    Jessica Levinson

  11. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Joe Rogan.

    The next measles outbreak should be called ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’

    Anthony L. Fisher

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