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President Donald Trump caused a stir after he appeared to give the middle finger to an employee who had been heckling him about the Epstein files during an automotive plant visit, but according to a new interview with the Washington Post, the worker has "no regrets whatsoever" about his actions.Trump had been visiting the Ford factory, which specializes in producing Ford's popular F-150 trucks, in Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday when the incident took place. The employee, 40-year-old line worker TJ Sabula, began shouting at the presid

With President Donald Trump having weak approval ratings in poll after poll, Democratic strategists are feeling cautiously optimistic about their chances of retaking the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms. For Democrats, efforts to recapture the U.S. Senate are an uphill climb — they would need a net gain of four seats — yet Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) believes the political environment is so "toxic" for Republicans that flipping the Senate isn't out of question for her party.

There have been a lot of conflicting comments about the various videos showing the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis mom killed last week. One behavioral expert walked through how people can see the exact same video and have completely different takes on the matter. Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, social psychologist Emily Balcetis said that she's been studying for 20 years how people look at the same evidence in a case and come to different conclusions. Balcetis, who penned the book Social Psychology of Visual Percep

Top aide to President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, spoke to Fox News on Tuesday, and one legal expert says he may have just made things worse for the administration. According to Evan Bernick, associate professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law, both Miller and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are creating a paper trail that will not work out well for them. DHS posted the interview with Miller in which he tells Fox: “To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony. You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one — no city official, no

Based on recently released testimony transcripts, Yale law professor Asha Rangappa argued that former special counsel Jack Smith "wasn't going to lose" his cases against Donald Trump and had the president "dead to rights" for his misconduct.Last month, Smith sat for a seven-hour hearing with the House Judiciary Committee about the investigations into Trump's efforts to provoke the January 6 Capitol riot and his "willful retention" of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. When transcripts were later released, legal experts and observers

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross, who reportedly fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, at point-blank range in Minneapolis last week, is now said to be in hiding.“I know for a fact now he has to be in hiding … for the safety of him and his family,” Trump border czar Tom Homan said during an episode of the “Will Cain Country” podcast, according to

The hopes many conservatives had for a revitalization of the MAGA youth movement following the death of pundit Charlie Kirk have taken a turn, according to a new profile by New York Magazine, with the space becoming overrun by "darker forces" and "conspiracism."The piece, published on Wednesday, explores numerous groups and individuals jockeying for influence following Kirk's death, but while his organization, Turning Point USA, has seen a surge in popularity in some parts of the US, the ov

One of President Donald Trump's longtime loyalists sees the coalition that got him elected in 2024 breaking apart. This week, podcaster Joe Rogan lambasted the president for his ICE operations that included shooting and killing a mother of three.“I can also see the point of view of the people that say, ‘Yeah, but you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens that just don’t have their papers on them,’” Rogan said. “Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”Last September, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a

During New York City's 2025 mayoral race, President Donald Trump was vehemently critical of the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani — who he attacked as a "communist." But Mamdani's supporters countered that he was a "democratic socialist" along the lines of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), not a communist — and that actual Leninists, Trotskyites and Maoists did not consider him one of their own.Regardless of Trump's attacks, Mamdani enjoyed a double-digit victory over his opponents — who included former New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo (a fellow Democrat) and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa (the GOP nominee) — and is now NYC mayor.Trump and Mamdani

The Washington Post reported, and The New York Times confirmed Wednesday, that a Post reporter was raided by the FBI in search of classified materials. Semafor's Max Tani posted on X that "a Washington Post spokesperson confirmed to me that the paper is reviewing and monitoring the situation."Post reporter Hannah Natanson was at her Virginia home when federal