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Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

President Trump used his speech at the Pentagon on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks to promote his ill-advised war in the Middle East.

The Justice Department prosecutor leading the “grand conspiracy” case against President Trump’s perceived enemies resigned suddenly on Thursday—and Trump hasn’t said a word about it.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz brushed off a convention attendee shouting to kill Democratic politicians and candidates.

Republicans spent more than $40 million to produce their unprecedented midterm convention—but even that enormous investment couldn’t convince the American public to tune in.

President Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

We have trained ourselves to think of Donald Trump as sui generis, an outlier in the history of the American political experience.

FBI Director Kash Patel was so upset about being criticized on social media that he directed bureau agents to find offending accounts and respond to them.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was reportedly furious after a rogue aide got himself out of trouble by calling someone high up in President Donald Trump’s team, The Daily Mail reported Thursday.

President Trump led his fans in a bizarre pledge at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas Thursday night.

President Trump got in the face of ABC’s Rachel Scott after she asked him a question about the rationale behind his national midterm voter bribe.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 11 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed earlier this month a resolution that “condemns and denounces socialism in all its forms, including the Democratic Socialists of America, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the…

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican vying to be New York’s next governor, has an uphill battle ahead of November: The 70-year-old Nassau County executive will have to overcome an incumbent Democratic governor in one of the nation’s fiercest Democratic strongho…

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This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 10 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon.

The artificial intelligence industry is homing in on Ohio’s 7th congressional district race.

At his first inaugural in 1861, Abraham Lincoln warned that if we allowed the Supreme Court to rule that laws were unconstitutional, we would cease to be a democratic nation.

Artificial intelligence is going to destroy the world, or humanity at least.

Donald Trump just tailspinned again in the polls.

While giving remarks at the National Medal of Honor Museum in Texas Thursday, President Trump complained to a room full of medal recipients that he can’t have one.

The city of Denver—along with multiple Latino civil rights groups—on Thursday sued Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and the Trump administration to stop them from allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to serve immigration warrants

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins relented on the state’s congressional maps Thursday, ending weeks of election season chaos sparked by a scheme to eke out another Republican seat in the House.

Republicans are reportedly leaning toward Vice President JD Vance as their pick for 2028.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao reportedly admitted that the Iranian military “blew the hell” out of the U.S. naval base in Bahrain—a shocking claim that contradicts the Trump administration’s narrative of total destruction of Iran’s attack capabilities.

The Supreme Court rejected a brazen plot by Missouri Republican officials to hold the state’s upcoming congressional elections under an illegal map on Thursday morning, ending a weeklong jumble of dueling court orders that disrupted the state’s election p…

President Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for why he’ll never give those $5,000 handouts.

President Trump says he’ll give $500 rebate checks to about one million people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act in 30 states, claiming they were overcharged by the Biden administration.

“Trump-a-palooza” is already tearing MAGA apart.

President Trump’s executive order cracking down on mail-in voting is running into resistance in some Republican-led states.

The Justice Department sent letters demanding 30 states led by both Democrats and Republicans retain all 2024 election files, threatening their top election officials should they fail to do so.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says current Mayor Zohran Mamdani should skip the national 9/11 memorial service—but in light of recent revelations, it seems like Giuliani’s the one who should stay home.

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A federal appeals court on Thursday compared ICE’s detainment policies to the historical “stain” of Japanese internment during World War II, while rejecting the agency’s effort to detain people without bond.

Republicans are celebrating Democratic Senator John Fetterman making a cameo at the midterm GOP convention Wednesday night.

The Supreme Court has blocked a federal judge’s decision about Missouri’s voting map, further throwing the state’s election into chaos.

“Trump-a-palooza” is off to a disastrous start.

The current conflict against Iran could become another forever war.

Even conservatives are skeptical about President Trump’s massive Hail Mary to give everyone $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms.

President Trump is attempting to censor late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

Donald Trump instigated a war against America’s democracy on January 6, 2021.

Canadian officials aren’t being coy about it: The retaliatory tariffs imposed Tuesday against the United States were deliberately chosen to hurt vulnerable Republicans before the midterm elections.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination—and the days immediately following it—saw the ultraconservative agitator go from a tertiary character in MAGA’s youth culture war to an avatar for the right’s ultimate vision for America.

When Republicans are faced with an affordability problem, they eagerly try to turn it into a culture-war issue, every time.

It’s hard to keep loving the movies when we realize how much damage they’ve done.

Kevin Reddington’s media appearances this week Tuesday capped off a big summer for him.

After Canada’s reciprocal tariffs kicked in this week, Donald Trump spiraled on social media.

President Trump has made millions on his oil and gas investments thanks to the Iran war.

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