Trump BBC Defamation Lawsuit Backfires Big-Time—With Subpoenas Coming
President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Company is backfiring in his face, as…
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Trump Trade Ambassador Dodges Key Question on Tariff Reimbursements
American families are unlikely to be reimbursed for the money they lost to President Donald Trump’s illegal tariff…
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Nolan Wells Autopsy Raises More Questions About Black Teen’s Death
An independent autopsy report has raised more questions around the suspicious death of Nolan Wells. Wells was a Black…
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Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers to Defend His War
President Trump tried to claim Wednesday that U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war all agreed with his stated mission.…
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Democrats’ Plan for Ending the Iran War
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GOP Freaks That Trump’s Iran Obsession Will Screw Them in Midterms
The president’s inability to resolve the Iran war is spelling disaster for endangered Republican lawmakers this…
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Trump Shares Crazed Plan to Stop Iran Attacking Boats in Hormuz Strait
President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to keep committing war crimes against Iran in order to stop attacks in the…
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What Did Trump Do With the Billions He Collected From Venezuelan Oil?
The Trump administration has raked in about $13 billion after taking over Venezuela’s oil exports in the wake of its…
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MAGA Flips Out Over Zohran Mamdani’s Call to Arrest Netanyahu
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s call for the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister and suspected war…
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Trump Tries to Claim That 18 Dead Soldiers Is a Good Thing, Actually
President Donald Trump is trying to use the number of U.S. service members he’s gotten killed to sell Americans on his…
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Trump Begs Judge to Give Back Money He Just Paid E. Jean Carroll
Donald Trump has made billions of dollars grifting the American public since returning to office, yet he’s still trying…
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Transcript: Trump Iran Tirade Goes Nuclear as GOP Midterm Panic Grows
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg…
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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Is Beautifully Implausible
Thirty years ago, on a not very special episode of Friends (“The One With Frank Jr.,” for the record) Ross and Rachel…
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A Remote Alaska Village, a Small Aircraft, and a Few Cases of Beer
Fourteen years ago, the state of Alaska tried to seize a man’s $95,000 small airplane because one of his passengers…
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Can Benjamin Netanyahu Be Stopped?
In March 2025, as the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, was investigating links between Qatar and some of…
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Trump Rages at Fresh Iran Setbacks as GOP Midterm Panic Grows: “Bleak”
Donald Trump lost his temper with a reporter on Tuesday after she pressed him on why Iran is continuing to fight. In…
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Justice Department Secretly Investigating Republican Congressman
After months of scandal, Republican Representative Cory Mills is finally under criminal investigation. MS NOW, citing…
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Pete Hegseth Gives Suspiciously Low Estimate of Total Cost of Iran War
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just lowballed the Iran war to the tune of about $62.5 billion. Hegseth, alongside…
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Taylor Farms Backtracks After Trying to Hide Role in Diarrhea Outbreak
Taylor Farms must be very sorry to have ever claimed that the Food and Drug Administration apologized to them. The…
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Ken Paxton Flees Press Conference When Asked About His Scandals
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton was given an opportunity to address two major scandals…
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Trump Advisers Scramble to Talk Him Out of More Disastrous Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s advisers aren’t so sure that another round of tariffs is a good idea. According to a report…
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MAGA’s Laura Loomer Visits Ukraine and Suddenly Wakes Up to Reality
Right-wing, Islamophobic conspiracy theorist and commentator Laura Loomer is on a P.R. tour of Ukraine in a complete…
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RFK Jr. Halts Medicaid Funds to Blue States Despite No Proof of Fraud
The Trump administration announced that it’s pausing $1 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments to California and…
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Todd Blanche Admits Trump’s Slush Fund Still Isn’t Dead
Within days of pledging that Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund was dead, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has…
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Hundreds of Thousands in Key Swing State Lose SNAP Thanks to Trump
More than 4.5 million people across the country have lost access to federal food assistance since the passage of…
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Trump Undercuts His Own Primetime Speech on Election Fraud
President Trump is now downplaying the election fraud accusations he made in a prime-time address to the nation last…
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Trump Flips Out When Asked What Exactly the Plan Is in Iran
President Trump blew a gasket when he was asked if he had a concrete plan for the escalating war on Iran. “Mr.…
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Trump Tries to Raise Money With Scammy “Failed Application” Email
President Trump’s campaign is using a misleading email to solicit donations by fooling people into thinking an…
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Blanche Begs Judge Not to Fine Him $1,000 a Day Over Epstein Files
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is begging a federal judge to let him off the hook for a $1,000-a-day fine. This…
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Pentagon Not Just Running Out of Weapons—but Also Money
Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon isn’t just running out of weapons as the war on Iran intensifies—it’s also running out of…
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Trump Judges Block Ruling Freeing Pro-Palestine Protester
A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling that freed Columbia student and pro-Palestinian…
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GOP Panics as Trump Shows “Zero” Interest in Helping With Midterms
Donald Trump is distancing himself from Capitol Hill at a time when his Congressional allies need him most. The…
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Three Keys to a Democratic Victory in Maine
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House Democrats Investigate Whether Epstein Was Foreign Agent
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have been acting as a foreign agent for multiple countries, and House…
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Kash Patel Faces Massive Backlash Over Planned Russia Trip
FBI Director Kash Patel has come under fire from all sides for his upcoming trip to Russia in October. Patel will…
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MAGA Rages at Lindsey Graham’s Sister for “Idiotic” Decision
Lindsey Graham’s little sister has officially decided to run for his empty Senate seat—much to the chagrin of MAGA…
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