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  • 'We are fed up': Youth climate activists occupy McCarthy office to protest shutdown effort

    A group of youth climate activists occupied House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to condemn the Republican leader and his caucus for pushing the U.S. government to the brink of a destructive shutdown as they demand draconian cuts to food aid, housing assistance, and environmental programs."We are fed up and we won't take it anymore," said Adah Crandall a 17-year-old Sunrise Movement organizer who joined a number of other climate activists inside McCarthy's...

  • Trump begs Fox News to 'stop with the bad debates and negative ads'

    Donald Trump Thursday night took a swipe at Fox News and the GOP debates, calling on an end to the primary and on those in the media to "stop with the bad debates and negative ads."Trump on Thursday suggested that some of the GOP candidates did better than others at the recent Republican debate, even giving a report card for his rivals.After that, he called for an end to the debates altogether.POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office?Trump, who has skipped the first two debates and said...

  • Fugitive Proud Boy 'tool' found and arrested for assaulting police on Jan. 6

    A Proud Boys member who served as the far-right group’s “tool” during the Jan. 6, 2021, attempted insurrection and then disappeared after he was convicted has reportedly been found and arrested again.In May, Christopher Worrell, of Naples, Florida, was convicted of assaulting police and rioting, among other charges. Worrell was found guilty after a five-day bench trial.His sentencing was scheduled for Aug. 18, but he later disappeared, according to reports.POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run...

  • Trump must be covered as 'a cheat and a rapist': Ex-White House reporter unloads on press

    According to a former White House correspondent who spent the Donald Trump years trying to get straight answers out of the ex-president's press secretaries, the media has been covering the ex-president wrong.In a column for Salon, journalist Brian Karem argues that members of the press have been "moral cowards" by not properly covering Trump, who Karem says is "a fraud, a cheat and a rapist, facing 91 felony counts."Karem famously asked Trump if he would honor a peaceful transition of power if...

  • Republicans must ignore those that will 'visit Trump in jail one day': Ex-GOP Georgia official

    Republicans need to get over the obsession that a large portion of their base has with Donald Trump and simply move on for the good of the party, former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Thursday evening — the people who, he argued, would happily visit the former president in prison should he be convicted in any of the four indictments currently pending against him."Lieutenant Governor Duncan, do you think the country's democratic institutions are strong enough to...

  • GOPer urges fellow Republicans to put Biden impeachment aside to keep government open

    Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), a conservative stalwart and longtime member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus who has been increasingly at odds with many of his colleagues, warned on CNN that the House GOP needs to put impeachment of President Joe Biden on hold — at least for the time being — and focus on keeping the government open."Let's talk about the impeachment inquiry and the shutdown that you mentioned," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "When you look at it juxtaposed with the government shutdown,...

  • Trump voters stick with him even when watching him make 'liberal or stupid comments': report

    A right-wing anti-Donald Trump group has been trying to test messages to see what will persuade supporters of the former president to abandon him — and are coming up completely empty, reported The New York Times on Thursday."The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential fiscally conservative group Club for Growth. It has already spent more than $4 million trying to lower Mr. Trump’s support among Republican voters in Iowa and nearly $2 million more trying...

  • 'Too much J-6!' Donald Trump just gave a 'report card' on the second GOP debate

    Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that some of the GOP candidates did better than others at the recent Republican debate.Trump, who has skipped the first two debates and said he plans to avoid them all, had nice words to say for a couple of the candidates. For the others, he had insults.Trump also called for the debates to be "ended" entirely because he is winning the race, according to polls.POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office?"I’m up 56 Points, so the Debates would seem to be a...

  • Trump's lawyer's will rip Ivanka 'to shreds' if she testifies negatively: Trump biographer

    If former first daughter Ivanka Trump is made to take the stand at former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, and if she testifies in a way that injures her father, his lawyers will put her in a world of hurt.That's the view of Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who broke down the upcoming proceedings on Thursday's edition of CNN's "OutFront.""The context here, of course, in the New York fraud trial is that he's got days until that happens now, right?" said anchor Erin Burnett. "So...

  • 'When they repossess Mar-A-Lago': DeSantis fan accuses Kari Lake of lying at GOP debate

    Conservative and self-proclaimed journalist Chris Nelson, minutes before the second GOP debate Wednesday, September 27, engaged in a fiery back-and-forth with ex-Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake, The Daily Beast reports."How are you going to run for Senate when you're already the governor?" Nelson shouted at the failed candidate.Since the 2022 gubernatorial election, Lake has continued to deny her loss to Arizona Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs.POLL: Should Trump...

  • MAGA-hatted man in custody after allegedly opening fire at statue protest: report

    A New Mexico Trump supporter is in custody after allegedly opening fire at a protest in Albuquerque against the re-erection of a statue honoring a conquistador, reported The Daily Beast on Thursday.According to A.J. McDougall, the suspect, 23-year-old Ryan Martinez, "was collared by sheriff’s deputies shortly after fleeing the scene in a white Tesla, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The newspaper reported that he identified himself to a Journal photographer on the scene as Ryan Martinez...

  • 'Take out the enemy Fani Willis': GOPer blows up at Republicans after he's ousted from caucus

    Georgia Republican state Sen. Colton Moore raged against his own party on Steve Bannon's show on Thursday, after they booted him out of the party caucus for his repeated demands to impeach or defund the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the prosecutor charging former President Donald Trump and his associates with election racketeering.Moore's demands ultimately aggravated Georgia Republican leadership, with both Gov. Brian Kemp and House Speaker Jon Burns saying that a...