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The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University.

The Trump administration is flip-flopping on how to manage its mass deportation policy ahead of the midterm elections.

On Tuesday, the full D.C.

Senator John Fetterman seemed to forget where he stands politically over the weekend.

Selling weapons to China is suddenly off the table.

Attorney General Todd Blanche crashed and burned while trying to defend President Donald Trump’s ever-increasing restrictions on the press.

FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have spent his weekend schmoozing with a man his own department fired under suspicions of being a double agent in 2008.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that his country is “fully prepared for the war to be resumed” following President Trump’s threats to “annihilate” Iran during his U.N.

What does it say that President Donald Trump’s biggest fans are starting to abandon him?

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

Is it better for the planet to save a tree or cut it down?

About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up.

In the Trump administration’s avalanche of immigration animosity, it can be hard to miss some of the more technical changes to immigration policy, buried as they are in the broader news of masked agents shooting people and mass medical negligence in deten…

Across the last half-century or so, Doonesbury has been one of those rare institutions that could always be counted on—even while the political world it described seemed to be run by people who couldn’t be counted on at all.

A few days ago, Donald Trump exploded in an extended tirade at news organizations.

One of my many cataloged memories of the Trump era is from the run-up to the 2016 election, when one of my colleagues related to me what one of his sources in Brazil, fretful about Donald Trump’s rise, told him.

One of the most frustrating things about the capitulation of elite institutions to Donald Trump—from law firms to universities to media companies—has been that the logic of the situation so clearly counseled the opposite.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, trying to refute corruption allegations, may have just proven them.

The lead prosecutor who unsuccessfully tried Chicago’s anti–Immigration and Customs Enforcement “Broadview Six” protesters resigned from the Justice Department “under protest” on Thursday—and accused the Chicago branch of the DOJ of pushing politically mo…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed America’s service members and their families to vote in the midterm election, not-so-subtly suggesting Friday that they could make the difference in some districts predicted to vote blue.

Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing a nuclear weapons program, according to U.S. intelligence.

Pope Leo XIV made a point to express his support for the free press, firing a stray at President Trump—whose ongoing White House ban on MS NOW, CNN, and Politico is still being legally contested.

President Trump scuttled a major AI guardrail after a series of tech executives donated to his political operation.

A software company contracted by the U.S. government claimed it had no ties to Russia.

The Supreme Court just brought Donald Trump’s immigration database back to life.

Ed Sheeran has had his upcoming weekend shows at billionaire Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium due to inclement weather—a fitting, ironic end to an embarrassing saga for the British singer.

The president apparently did not realize that he’d lose the spotlight when he decided to ban news outlets from the White House.

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President Trump’s Department of Justice doesn’t think desegregation is worth the effort.

You’re paying for Trump’s newest “Love Me” campaign ad.

In the topsy-turvy MAGA world, some of America’s most prominent media outlets are choosing not to cover Donald Trump.

The soon-to-be owner of CNN ate with President Trump Thursday night at the White House’s state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping while Trump still barred the broadcast network from the premises.

The Trump administration is preparing for possible military action in Cuba.

It was far from the most important development of the week, but the “deal” the Trump administration struck with Denmark over Greenland was just oh-so-perfectly-emblematic of virtually everything Donald Trump does.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

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President Donald Trump appears to think that the phrase “national security” is a get-out-of-court-free card whenever he wants to do (or get away with) something.

In the annals of government-press relations, the Trump White House will go down as the first to punish reporters for publishing information it wanted to get out.

This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 24 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon.

Edgar Allan Poe can be difficult to take seriously.

Supreme Court reform is all the rage among Democratic leaders in Washington.

Iowa radio host Steve Deace just unleashed an extraordinary social media screed.

One of our closest allies now believes that it can’t rely on the United States under President Donald Trump’s leadership.

The president’s unprecedented decision to ban members of the press have inspired his political disciples.

The California Supreme Court ordered Republican Sheriff Chad Bianco in Riverside County, California, to return ballots that he illegally seized from election officials.

Earlier this summer, the Trump administration claimed that there were more than 15,000 noncitizens voting on Nevada’s voter rolls.

With just weeks until the midterm elections, Senator Tommy Tuberville, who hopes to be Alabama’s next governor, is ignoring voter concerns to descend into a bizarre anti-furry frenzy.

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Senate Republicans have once again refused to rein in President Trump’s war on Iran, voting 49–50 to block a war powers resolution on Thursday, choosing to allow the president to continue his $45 billion failed effort.

Police arrested dozens of protesters who filled the streets around the United Nations Thursday in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the U.N.