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Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick and Elon Musk in the White House. (Allison Robbert/Getty Images)

“Wouldn’t describe it as a fistfight”: White House speaks on Musk, Bessent scrap

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California Governor Gavin Newsom attends an event with fellow governors in the East Room of the White House on February 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Purposefully inflammatory”: Newsom criticizes Trump deploying National Guard amid LA ICE protests

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Demonstrators gather outside United States Federal Court House in New York City to show support for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and demand his immediate release from ICE detention. New York, U.S., March 12, 2025. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Devastating”: Mahmoud Khalil describes missing the birth of his son in new legal filings

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From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

“Trump is in the Epstein files”: Musk drops “big bomb” on president as war of words continues

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US Representative Jared Moskowitz. (Allison Robbert/Getty Images)

“Elon’s telling the truth!”: Dem Rep. says GOP bill will balloon debt and “get rid of Elmo”

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A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Milton on Tuesday October 08, 2024. (NOAA NESDIS STAR GOES-East/GEOCOLOR)

What hurricane season? FEMA chief flusters staffers by appearing not to know about peak storm period

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In this handout photo released by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, suspect Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez poses for a booking photo on June 2, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. He was booked on suspicion of murder of Jonathan Joss, a voice actor on the television show "King of the Hill". (Photo by Bexar County Sheriff’s Office/Getty Images)

“They did not accept our relationship”: Actor Jonathan Joss shot dead in alleged homophobic attack

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 23, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

“He was always on top of it”: Clinton pushes back against reports of Biden decline

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CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at 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)

“Stick to spaceships”: Musk interview grows tense during grilling on Trump admin policies

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Soulless, mindless entities”: Trump shares QAnon conspiracy theory suggesting Biden is a clone

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol on February 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Liberation Day” is cancelled: Trump’s global tariffs ruled illegal

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Julie and Todd Chrisley (Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images)

“Well-deserving Americans”: Trump pardons convicted reality TV fraudsters Todd, Julie Chrisley

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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room at the White House on February 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“You call that chickening out?”: Trump bristles at Wall Street’s TACO talk over tariffs

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis arrives to speak during a press conference regarding an apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on September 17, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“The swamp has won”: DeSantis throws in lot with DOGE as Musk influence wanes

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

“Emperor has no clothes!”: Paul’s problems with Trump’s “Beautiful” bill may spell trouble in Senate

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Harvard University (Getty/Pgiam)

“We want those names and countries”: Trump rages over Harvard’s international student population

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Florida's Republican state Sen. Randy Fine speaks with the media after winning the 6th District race to replace GOP former Rep. Michael Waltz, who is now President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on April 01, 2025 in Ormond Beach, Florida. Mr. Fine beat his Democratic opponent, Josh Weil. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Need to be defeated”: GOP Rep. Fine says Gaza should be “nuked” in response to DC shooting

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Donald Trump | Lyndon B. Johnson Department of Education building in Washington, DC (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Restore the DOE”: Federal judge blocks Trump’s attempt to dismantle Department of Education

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Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., arrives for the meeting in Speaker Johnson's office with Republican House members on the reconciliation package on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Bill Clark/Getty Images)

You snooze, you win: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” almost failed thanks to congressman’s catnap

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Neil Young performs on stage at Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park at Hyde Park on July 12, 2019 in London, England. (Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty Images)

“You work for us”: Neil Young trashes Trump, supports Springsteen in fired-up screed

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US President Donald Trump shows pictures and articles as he meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington's resettlement of white Afrikaners that the US president claims are the victims of "genocide." (Photo by Jim Watson/Getty Images)

“Don’t have a plane to give you”: Trump pushes “white genocide” claims in chaotic Ramaphosa meeting

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Jake Tapper (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“She saw something I did not”: Tapper apologized to Lara Trump over Biden decline dust-up

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on January 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

“It’s the right to remove people”: Noem whiffs when Congress asks her to define habeas corpus

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks from the Rose Garden at the White House on November 26, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden diagnosed with “aggressive” prostate cancer

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