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Producer Alicia Hastey departed CBS News Wednesday, saying the work she came to do was “increasingly becoming impossible,” as stories were now evaluated “not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.” Whose ideological expectations was Hastey referring to? Would it be impertinent for me to suggest it’s the sociopath in the Oval Office? Hastey’s criticism came a little over two weeks after Bari Weiss, the anti-“woke” opinion journalist who became editor-in-chief at CBS News, unveiled her

New details are emerging about turmoil inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the leadership of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem — and her rumored paramour, Corey Lewandowski.The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that DHS sources are sounding the alarm about patterns Noem and Lewandowski (who was once President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign manager) are exhibiting atop DHS. Sources confided to the Journal that since becoming Noem's top advisor at DHS, Lewandowski has assumed an all-powerful

Since his second term began in 2025, President Donald Trump has exhibited a pattern of pledging to address a problem by sending stimulus checks to all Americans. But as one analyst documented, he has yet to actually deliver on that promise.In a Thursday essay for the Bulwark, columnist Catherine Rampell recounted all the times Trump has dangled the prospect of free money only to yank it away and never mention it again. The Bulwark writer noted that affordability of basic needs like food and housing has dominated the political conversation, and that Trump has been struggling to justify his tariffs —

The New York Times reports a federal judge in Illinois blocked the Trump administration’s plot to snatch $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats.“Judge Manish S. Shah of the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois wrote in a two-page order that the plaintiff states — California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota — had provided enough evidence that the cuts were ‘based on arbitrary, capricious or unconstitutional rationales’ to halt what would have been deep cuts in federal public health funding that had already been

On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi was photographed with a record of Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s search history of the unredacted Epstein documents — apparently made possible by monitoring activity on the Justice Department’s four secure portals.As MS NOW recounted, Bondi more frequently resorted to canned insults, courtesy of a briefing notebook she kept at ready for lawmaker targets, insted of answering lawmakers' questions.Jayapal, a Democrat who demanded Bondi

President Donald Trump's administration rapidly withdrawing federal agents from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was done to prevent Minnesota officials from obtaining federal records.That's according to a new court filing the Trump administration submitted Thursday to U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Politico legal correspondent Josh Gerstein tweeted a link to the filing, noting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had "fortuitous timing" behind the recent announcement that the DHS was ending "Operation

The New York Times reports a moderate Republican candidate is exiting the Republican primary for Arizona’s gubernatorial race, and Republicans now fret the office could be out of reach.Republican gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson announced she was dropping out on Thursday, which reflects President Donald Trump’s continued influence over the Republican Party.Robson had initially earned Trump’s endorsement, but then Trump later changed course and endorsed Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.). Additionally, Robson’s campaign had suffered attacks fr

New details are emerging about the whistleblower complaint being withheld from most of Congress. According to a new report, the complaint allegedly involves President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner (who is Ivanka Trump's husband).The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the "highly classified whistleblower complaint" against Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard pertains to an intercepted comm

New York City elected officials and activists re-raised the LGBTQ+ pride flag on Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument in defiance of a Trump administration edict that led to the iconic emblem’s removal. In response, the U.S. Department of the Interior called re-raising the flag a “political stunt.”The flag’s removal became a national flashpoint after the Nat

Semafor reports there was a time when a government shutdown was a sure sign that the party behind it was going to get hurt. That may no longer be the case, and now Republicans are worried ahead of Saturday’s scheduled Department of Homeland Security shutdown.“This is all about the midterms. That’s all it is,” Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) told Semafor. “The messaging of this, Democrats are really good at that. They really are. And they are really good at using stuff like this to be able to maneuver things to their political advantage. That’s what all this is about