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After a top counterterrorism staffer resigned with a blistering letter, the White House has turned the tables. MAGA loyalist Joe Kent posted a resignation letter online, saying that he didn't believe in the war against Iran and that President Donald Trump had been lied to. One senior administration official told Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie that Kent was a "known leaker" and that the administration began cutting him out of intelligence briefings

During a Monday night, March 16 broadcast, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow lambasted U.S. President Donald Trump for saying that U.S. allies would be helping United States forces militarily in the Strait of Hormuz — only to later tell reporters that the U.S. doesn't need their help in that crucial Middle Eastern waterway."My attitude is: we don't need anybody," Trump declared during a press conference.The Strait of Hormuz is vital to the flow of oil. And with the U.S. at war with Iran, that flow is being interrupted — thus causing oil prices to soar. In an article published by the U

Another Justice Department prosecutor is facing off against an angry judge, and this time, he was thrown out of court. “You have lost the confidence and the trust of this court. You have lost the confidence and the trust of the New Jersey legal community, and you are losing the trust and confidence of the public," said Judge Zahid Quraishi, an appointee of President Joe Biden in 2021. According to the New York Times, the issue was that the judge grew frustrated with the Justice Department's head of appeals, Mark Coyne. It seems Coyne hadn't "formally disclosed that he would appe

As the 2024 election approached, the MAGA movement seemed to resonate among many younger voters, with videos abounding that portrayed large gatherings of college-aged and 20-something, usually white, usually male Trump supporters donning red hats and mimicking his infamous YMCA dance. But according to a new analysis in the Washington Post, MAGA has entered its “cringe” phase as the president’s approval rating among under-30 voters has cratered from 44 to 29 percent, and sits at just 20 percent among those under 40. According to MAGA commentator Arynne Wexler, “We were cool for 2½ minutes — that time has passed.”T

When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House almost 14 months ago on January 20, 2025, his foreign policy was a major departure from that of his predecessor Joe Biden — who feared that Trump would withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) if he became president again. Biden was an aggressive champion of NATO during his four years as president, applauding Sweden and Finland for deciding to join the alliance. Trump, in contrast, hasn't pulled the U.S. out of NATO as Biden feared but has much worse relations with longtime NATO members — from calling for Canada to become "the 51st state" to w

The Trump Administration has been reviewing Paramount Skydance's proposal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, whose assets include CNN, for $110 billion. Radar Online's Beth Shilliday, in late February, reported that CNN staffers are filled with "dread" at the prospect of Paramount Skydance's David Ellison, a Republican billionaire, as their new boss.Now, according to Washington Post reporter Scott Nover, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are publicly applauding the deal and making

A group of MAGA-aligned Florida sheriffs this week made a "stunning break" from President Donald Trump, according to a report from The Daily Beast, urging him to retreat from the extremes of his biggest political goal.Per the report, the matter arose during a Monday meeting of the Florida Immigration Enforcement Council, an entity established to help push the state's immigration enforcement efforts amid Trump's mass deportation pledge. The council includes eight Republican county sheriffs, six of whom backed a call for the Trump administration to cease deportin

There have been disagreements within the GOP in recent weeks as Congress has debated and struggled to pass a number of key pieces of legislation. According to Politico, House Republicans are heading into yet another “chaotic 2-week sprint” as they try to bridge the legislative divide before the fast-approaching recess, “and prove that their narrow and deeply fractious majority can still get something done.”At the moment, they are grappling with internal revolts over three key votes. First, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). GOP leadership wants to

Veteran conservative columnist/author Mona Charen has long been a blistering critic of the far-right Shiite fundamentalist regime in Iran, which came to power in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During the 1980s, Charen worked in the Reagan White House as a speechwriter for First Lady Nancy Reagan — and as a syndicated columnist, she was quick to call out the many human rights violations occurring in Iran under the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomehni.Charen, now 69, hasn't grown any less critical of the Iranian regime. But in a scathing article for the conservative website The Bulwark published on March 17, she a

President Donald Trump has lost his appeal in his libel lawsuit against the cable news outlet CNN. The appeal went before the full panel of judges at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Alabama, Georgia and Florida cases. Trump had specifically asked for the decision be en banc, meaning the full panel would rule on it. The reason may have been that many judges were appointed by Trump himself to the appeals court. Still, the verdict was unanimous, Politico legal reporter Josh Gerstein posted on X. Trump filed the lawsuit in 2022 as a private citizen after the network used the term "Big Lie" to refer to f