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Zohran Mamdani campaigns for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

GOP meets Mamdani's 9/11 story with hate

Shefali Luthra - The 19th
The facade of the East Wing of the White House is demolished by work crews on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

CNN chief to staff: Lay off WH demo

Garrett Owen
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before departing the White House en route to Turnberry, Scotland on July 25, 2025, in Washington DC. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump touts "perfect" MRI to reporters

Garrett Owen
Vadim Kruglov in Times Square. At left, an aerial view of Black Rock City, the temporary desert site of Burning Man. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Maxar / Courtesy Kruglov Family)

A Burning Man dream ends in tragedy

Nicole Karlis
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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House on Sept. 26, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump "would love" to have a third term

Garrett Owen
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk’s moon mission divides Trump world

Sophia Tesfaye
Riley Gaines speaks during the 10X Ladies Conference on Aug. 15, 2025 in Aventura, Florida. (Ivan Apfel/Getty Images)

Riley Gaines and the demonic trans panic

Amanda Marcotte
Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Oklahoma pushes "America first" schools

Jennifer Smith Richards - ProPublica
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump to GOP: Ban all early voting

Alex Galbraith
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

Bessent: I'm a soybean farmer too

Alex Galbraith
Former Vice President Mike Pence attends the unveiling ceremony for the statue of Rev. Billy Graham in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Trump: Pence a "wimp" on Jan. 6

Alex Galbraith
Protesters march against Trump's Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump's enemies list keeps expanding

Chauncey DeVega
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President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Inflation is coming for Donald Trump

Heather Digby Parton
(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Angelina Katsani/Underwood Archives/Katsumi Murouchi)

That time a socialist ran for mayor

Andrew O'Hehir
An attendee wears a Superman-Trump t-shirt at a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan on October 25, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

How Trump blurs reality for his base

Andrew Rojecki, Tanja Aitamurto - The Conversation
Construction on Trump's enormous ballroom began this week. Not everyone was pleased about it. Even on Fox News. (Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

Fox News host slams Trump ballroom

CK Smith
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Conservative influencer Tomi Lahren always has a lot to say. This week, she's been having a beef with President Trump over a proposed deal with Argentina. Lahren is siding with American farmers' outcries online to buy more American. Lahren is just the latest of GOP stars to take a stand against Trump. (Theo Wargo / Getty Images)

GOP's latest beef: A deal with Argentina

CK Smith
Pam Bondi's DOJ plans to send election monitors to 6 blue counties. Critics claim it's a partisan intimidation tactic. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

DOJ to send election monitors to NJ, CA

CK Smith
The Pentagon announced this week that an anonymous donation helped offset military pay expenditures, despite federal shutdown halting thousands of other workers' paychecks. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Trump's mystery donor adds shutdown woes

CK Smith
The East Wing of the White House was demolished on Oct. 23, 2025. (Eric Lee/Getty Images)

Trump’s demolition shakes MAGA base

Sophia Tesfaye
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The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, is now on its way to the Caribbean. (JONATHAN KLEIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signals war in all but name

Sabrina Haake
Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on February 4, 2025. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump aims to burn global birth control

Nicole Karlis
Cropped image of a businessman putting money in his pocket (Getty Images)

Is it wrong to have too much money?

Jackson Trager - The Conversation
Steve Bannon, media personality and political strategist, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Bannon claims "plan" for 3rd Trump term

Garrett Owen
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