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The Trump administration has resorted to trying to bribe Americans to let data centers into their communities.

The public has some questions about President Donald Trump’s stance.

President Trump’s plan to make his triumphal arch a military center with snipers, drones, and ammunition is news to the people in charge of building it.

Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence chatbot used to tell the ugly truth about the president—but now it’s playing dumb.

The Kennedy Center has financially collapsed in the 19 months since Donald Trump took control.

Embattled Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote against a resolution that would require the State Department to report when Americans are murdered by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

President Trump’s accord on “superintelligence” signed with tech leaders in the White House Tuesday contains a glaring error—“United States” is misspelled.

In a leaked audio recording, Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately admitted that President Donald Trump’s disastrous midterm convention in Dallas hurt Republican candidates.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

“Hoax.”

James Talarico may or may not win the Senate race in Texas.

“We’re going to hold the crooks accountable,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told the Associated Press last week in anticipation of the Democrats’ likely retaking the House on November 3.

Fifty years ago, in his most famous work, the prolific intellectual Carlo Cipolla argued that stupid people, as a group, are “much more powerful than the mafia, or the military industrial complex.”

For the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has been noodling on a diesel export ban as a strategy for lowering fuel costs.

Donald Trump’s ban on a range of Canadian imports just went into effect, and The New York Times calls this a sign that the trade war has grown “vicious.”

From here on out, a civil rights group will receive the same treatment in Florida as the likes of Al Qaeda and ISIS.

The food delivery driver shot by ICE agents last week, Venezuelan immigrant Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering, and impeding a federal officer on Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is doing everything he can to clear the deck of battle-tested leaders as he prepares to drag President Donald Trump’s supposedly “six-week war” into its eighth month.

The Supreme Court has decided that the Trump administration can resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their place of origin.

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It turns out that President Trump took money for his self-adulating ads from the Department of Homeland Security.

The State Department offered a government contract to Oxygen Forensics even after federal officials were made aware of the company’s ties to Moscow.

Kash Patel’s FBI has been fudging the numbers to boost the agency’s success rate on apprehending fugitives from its Top 10 Most Wanted List.

Health Secretary Robert F.

As gas prices continue to soar amid a seemingly endless war in Iran, the Trump administration is finally delivering relief to drivers burdened by high gas and record diesel prices: letting automakers keep making cars that use lots of gas.

In case you needed any evidence that Republicans have absolutely no dirt on former special counsel Jack Smith, look no further.

The Trump administration’s brand-new, ultra-secure, “damn good” AI chatbot can’t be hacked —yet.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is facing right-wing backlash over an ad featuring a white man playing video games who got off welfare thanks to the state’s work requirement.

Former special counsel Jack Smith swears that President Donald Trump committed “serious crimes.”

Utah Senator Mike Lee was the only lawmaker to vote against a bipartisan bill that would have banned the demolition of presidential memorials such as the Kennedy Center without congressional approval.

Another one of the people President Donald Trump hired to investigate the cases against him has quit.

President Donald Trump’s inner circle is already bracing for a “f*cking rough” round of midterm elections.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

If you can think of an example of everyday people holding huge corporations accountable for harming the public, it was probably made possible in large part by a single legal theory: public nuisance.

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Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa, who is surprisingly close in polls against Republican incumbent Greg Abbott, attributes that strong standing to her campaign strategy.

This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 27 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon.

Republicans leaking about the midterms are growing more alarmed.

Donald Trump’s response to the ongoing Rwanda-Congo conflict involved deflecting to the Ebola virus before shutting down the line of questioning entirely.

Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton seems to think that letting a child predator out of jail after just two months is something to brag about.

President Trump’s move last week to cancel close to $1 billion of funds already appropriated by Congress is getting zero pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself Monday from a major climate change case coming up on the court’s docket.

A group of defendants prosecuted for their actions in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection are suing the federal government, claiming that their rights were violated.

President Donald Trump once again struggled to keep his eyes open Monday, just moments after unveiling a plan to build a new $15 billion steel plant in eastern Iowa.

President Trump had an even more extreme plan to restrict mail-in voting before the Supreme Court intervened, according to reporting from ProPublica.

House Speaker Mike Johnson cares so little about Americans that he’s pretending that public opinion is really the result of brainwashing by the Chinese government.

For all their browbeating about election fraud, it turns out that Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes aren’t following election laws.

A Republican candidate for statewide office in Texas regularly called for public executions in social media posts that he has since deleted.

FBI co–deputy director and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey—who helped lead the draconian raid on a Georgia election center in January—has resigned from his post.

America has the “best poverty numbers,” according to our billionaire president.