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Stars and Stripes is an editorially independent newspaper that serves the troops and their families overseas.News this past week that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are considering interfering with this newspaper’s congressionally mandated mission to provide a paper to the troops free of any interference from outside the newspaper’s editorial chain of command should concern all Americans. Any unlawful intrusion of this newspaper’s crucial mission would be a detriment to the military readers it serves, and anti-Am

Mediaite reports MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi “was stunned” by Saturday’s deadly shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis and the followup round of tear gas that agents shot at protestors after the killing.“Wow, what a scene in an American city in 2026 in Minneapolis,” Velshi said before announcing the death of the person shot by federal agents after first being piled on, struck multiple times and subdued.Mediaite reports that foota

A CNN panel reached a painful conclusion about one of their panelists on Saturday morning’s edition of “Table for Five” while discussing President Donald Trump’s apparent deafness to a slew of devastating polls. They also dragged Republican Strategic Communications Consultant and former GOP press secretary Lance Trover for his reluctance to call out some of Trump’s most obviously misdirected decisions, including threatening to sue the New York Times for citing some of his horrible polls.“Shouldn't this not be done?” asked Higher Learning podcast Host Van Lathan. “Isn’t that bad?”“Shouldn’t what not be done,” asked Trover.“Is it okay to be able t

Federal immigration officers shot a third person in Minneapolis in as many weeks, according to video posted to social media and confirmed in a post by Gov. Tim Walz.“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.”A reporter with Bring Me The News was on the scene and said the man appeared unconscious on the ground, and first responders were doing chest compressions. The

"Table for Five" host Abby Phillip delivered a ruinous montage of footage revealing the quickest way to determine when President Donald Trump has already lost interest in a particular topic.“A fortnight: It's not just one of Taylor Swift's hits. It is also one of Donald Trump's biggest tells this week after threatening to invade Greenland, declaring that the United States will own the island and insulting and isolating America’s allies over that issue,” Phillip said. “He basically said, ‘never mind.’ Why? Well, because a deal he reached with NATO that is ‘forever,’ in his words. But when he was asked about this deal, he gave this response.”“We’ll have something in two weeks,” Trump told a reporter

“The Weeknight” Co-host Symone D. Sanders says Republicans at Jack Smith’s Thursday testimony revealed their dangerous plans to disrupt future U.S. elections, even as Smith laid out the details of their leader’s last attempted coup.“… [W]hile Democrats on the committee focused on the past, Republicans looked to change the subject,” said Sanders. “Instead of sincerely grappling with the violence or the attempt to overturn the election, Republicans focused on process. They questioned procedures, attacked the special counsel and debated legal technicalities. … [T]hey did everything they c

Bulwark Publisher Sarah Longwell and “False Flag” editor Will Sommer have been analyzing the critical youth MAGA vote that helped put President Donald Trump over the finish line a little more than a year ago, and they report their enthusiasm is waning for Trump’s preferred replacement.Polls suggest Trump is deep in cold water and that his lame-duck chapter may already be underway, even before the 2026 mid-terms — primarily because of the expectation that his Republican Party will be trounced and his GOP Congressional majority e

The Guardian reports President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children. Worse, prosecutors and official are terrified of discussing the cuts, which limit their ability to carry out this work, for fear of losing their jobs.“You don’t want to speak too loudly, because you just fear retaliation, and that’s a heavy hand to be dealt when you’re just trying to do your job,” one prosecutor told the Guardian.Major cuts i

Over the past year, images of masked, heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting men, women and children – outside of courts, at schools and homes – have become common across the United States.The video of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good – a U.S. citizen – in Minnesota on Jan. 7, 2026, is one example of the brazen, sometimes deadly tactics that the agency employs.Pa

When Denmark European Parliament member Anders Vistisen stood before a microphone this week and bluntly told President Donald Trump to “F—— off,” he appeared to be echoing the general sentiment facing Trump back at home, according to the Washington Post.Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell — w