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Senior Trump Adviser Kari Lake just axed 85% of media workers to fulfill a recent executive order. This included the historic radio outlet Voice of America. (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)

“You have no credibility”: Lake grilled by House Committee over Voice of America cuts

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US President Donald Trump (L) reacts as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (R) speaks flanked by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) at a press conference during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague on June 25, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Before foreign press, Trump trashes US intelligence report on Iran and claims “total obliteration”

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US President Donald Trump during a a press conference in the East Room to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

“Losers”: Trump attacked media, made “N-word” joke during Iran’s assault on Qatar base

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Under the motto "Rally & March for Drag" member of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends rally and march in Washington, D.C., March 8, 2025, to protest "the hostile Trump takeover of the Kennedy Center." (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Reoccupying the Kennedy Center”: Democrats host LGBTQ+ Pride event to protest Trump takeover

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This photo shows a US Border Patrol patch on a border agent's uniform in McAllen, Texas, on January 15, 2019. (Suzanne Cordeiro/Afp/getty Images)

“He ran because he was scared”: Video shows Border Patrol agents assaulting California landscaper

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Police lights and crime scene tape (Getty Images/Ajax9)

“Searched by an unknown individual”: Police report break-in at slain Minnesota representative’s home

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In this handout photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York City Fugitive Operations Team conducted targeted enforcement operations resulting in the arrest of a Dominican national on January 28, 2025 in New York City. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images)

“We will not back down”: Democratic lawmakers refused entry to Manhattan ICE facility

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A protestor holds a placard during the Trans Rights Protest. (Loredana Sangiuliano/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

“Devastated and heartbroken”: Trump cuts LGBTQ+ youth services on 988 suicide hotline

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A U.S. Marine stands guard outside of the federal building complex in downtown on June 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“Political theater”: Trump deploying another 2,000 soldiers in LA, despite lack of unrest

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Never seen discrimination like this”: Judge orders Trump admin to restore cancelled NIH fund

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Vance Boelter's roommate, who declined to give his name, speaks with a Minneapolis police officer outside his home on June 14, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Boelter, a suspect in the shooting of two Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers. DFL State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were shot and killed this morning. DFL State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were also shot and hospitalized in a separate incident. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

“The stuff of nightmares”: Minnesota shooting suspect Boelter charged with first-degree murder

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Former President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump speaks to media before his father's caucus night event at the Iowa Events Center on January 15, 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“Now we’re doing Trump Mobile”: The president’s family business shifts to hawking cell phones

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FBI agents search for suspect Vance Boelter on June 15, 2025 in Green Isle, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

“Strong supporter” of Trump charged with politically motivated Minnesota killings

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Sen. Alex Padilla. (Photo by David Crane/Getty Images)

“Hands off!”: Sen. Padilla dragged from Noem news conference and handcuffed

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Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on October 4, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Etienne Laurent-Pool/Getty Images)

“This is not over”: Weinstein rape case ends in mistrial after jury foreman quits

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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

“Democracy is not guaranteed”: J6 police sue over House GOP’s failure to recognize insurrection

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) special agent preparing to arrest alleged immigration violators (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

“Children at risk”: Florida agency calls ICE on teen immigrant in foster care

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Elon Musk attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“They went too far”: Elon Musk expresses “regret” for posts attacking Trump

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Lab technician pulls DNA and RNA from rhesus monkey bone marrow cells to verify gene editing in the laboratory of Dr. John Tisdale, a Senior Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, at the National Institutes of Health on February 8, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

“We dissent”: NIH scientists sign declaration against Trump’s research cuts

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ICE officers and National Guard soldiers stand outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 8, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Bad for all Americans”: Former National Guard vice chief calls LA deployment “inappropriate”

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

“Ridiculous and false”: Biden pushes back against autopen investigation

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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks at The People's Convention hosted by Turning Point Action at The Huntington Place in Detroit, MI on June 15, 2024. (Adam J. Dewey/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“I would have voted no”: Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t read Trump spending bill before voting on it

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the Daily Briefing in The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Wednesday July 3, 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“An unwarranted betrayal”: Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democratic Party, announces new book

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