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5+ hour, 16+ min ago  (180+ words) Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Thursday appointed an immigration hard-liner and former political rival to be state comptroller, his latest move to unify the Republican Party by embracing its increasingly ascendant hard right faction," the New York Times reports....

5+ hour, 13+ min ago  (120+ words) CQ Brown, the retired general forced out of his post as the nation's top military officer last year, has provided his most direct critique of the Trump administration's handling of the U. S. military, questioning the deployment of troops in U. S. cities and…...

1+ min ago  (448+ words) Karen Hao is a former reporter at The Wall Street Journal and MIT Technology Review, where she became the first journalist to profile Open AI. Democracy Now! s Juan Gonz'lez and I spoke to her. I began by asking her…...

57+ min ago  (19+ words) Iran's parliament speaker told Chinese officials that the Islamic Republic will block any US "interference' in the strait...

9+ min ago  (46+ words) In a 6-3 decision breaking on partisan lines, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter that Trump can fire Federal Trade Commissioners and other federal agency directors without cause. The ruling overturns longstanding Supreme Court precedent and express statutory instruction that…...

9+ min ago  (79+ words) The laughter was hard to contain during a phone call between the British and the United States, a top British aide told the BBCOutgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan Mc Sweeney is speaking out about some of…...

18+ min ago  (177+ words) Prominent military veterans, from retired U. S Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling to retired U. S Navy Adm. William H. Mc Raven, are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's purges at the Pentagon " which, they warn, is…...

18+ min ago  (542+ words) After musician after musician pulled out from President Donald Trump's "Freedom 250" concert, he was left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, a couple of military bands, and Kash Patel's girlfriend. The anthem that made Greenwood a star, "God Bless the…...

27+ min ago  (432+ words) The Trump administration concluded a recent mineral deal with Kazakhstan that, not surprisingly, enriches not only President Donald Trump's own family but that of his secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick. Trump's two eldest sons, part owners of Dominari Securities, are…...

5+ hour, 21+ min ago  (133+ words) New York Times: "Mr. Trump's profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. No modern Western leader has ever publicly disclosed such big windfalls while in office." "The Trump family's…...