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A man was arrested Sunday for allegedly impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and intimidating voters at a Miami polling site for Brazil’s presidential elections.

President Trump accepted a diamond ring as a gift in June and seems to have stashed it away somewhere.

Students across France are protesting underfunded and understaffed schools, but President Donald Trump has decided to co-opt the movement for his own xenophobic aims.

John Murdock, a top conservative lawyer at the Department of the Interior, has quit over what he calls an “assault on the rule of law.”

In the early hours of President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran, Tehran targeted a makeshift tactical operations center in Kuwait, killing six U.S. military personnel and injuring more than 30 others.

The Trump administration has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens since it began its mass deportation initiative, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The White House pressured the FBI to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles in violation of the Constitution, a whistleblower alleges.

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is taking action to strip 40 naturalized Americans of their citizenship.

President Donald Trump called Natalie Harp a “perfect person” after showing her off to hundreds of rallygoers.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been on a real media blitz.

President Trump invited infamous election denier Tina Peters to the White House to discuss plans for the midterms.

Vice President JD Vance spoke for roughly 35 minutes at a MAGA rally in Fairbanks, Alaska, Monday evening.

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall used unapproved images of children in his recent attack ad against Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton.

President Donald Trump flipped out over an ugly photograph of his golf club.

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At a rally in Nebraska Tuesday night, President Trump told his supporters exactly what he thinks about the well-being of the American people.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

In the autumn of 2001, a new national security threat arrived by mail.

The political ascent of Donald Trump has forced me to adjust upward my estimation of the American public’s gullibility.

Claire Valdez, the New York state assemblymember now running to represent New York City’s 7th congressional district in the House of Representatives, joined a union long before she ever entered politics.

“There’s no Dracula here,” the head of the Norwegian welcoming committee proudly tells a Romanian family in an early scene in Fjord.

Donald Trump has been holding rallies in red states, and in a pair of articles, The New York Times reported that his crowd sizes have been diminishing.

President Donald Trump had a petty meltdown on social media Monday after news outlets reported on the light attendance at his weekend rally in Ohio.

President Trump’s reaction to the death of a lab worker in Russia due to a suspected plague is not reassuring.

The Supreme Court appeared to be splintered over how to decide a major climate litigation case from Colorado at oral arguments on Monday.

The Democratic party will refuse to approve any of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominations in the event they take back control of the Senate, drawing perhaps the strongest line in the sand against the White House to date.

The White House continued its press ban Monday, blocking the news outlet Politico from traveling on Air Force One with President Trump.

Rick Jackson, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Georgia, is the latest MAGA candidate to delete mentions of President Donald Trump from his campaign website.

President Trump’s ill-advised, poorly executed war in Iran was foreshadowed months before.

Suddenly, gas prices have absolutely nothing to do with the Iran war, according to the U.S. president.

Vice President JD Vance claimed Monday that Donald Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda videos are actually “not partisan.”

America’s FBI directors are expected to be fiercely independent.

President Trump has the lowest approval rating in Kansas of any president since Herbert Hoover—who was widely blamed for causing the Great Depression.

On her way out of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem may have gotten one of her donors a sweet deal.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have used peace negotiations with Russia to concoct a multibillion-dollar deal to benefit their foreign business partners and political allies.

The president feels absolutely no remorse about doxing Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton.

Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt—who resigned from her post in August to spend more time with family after birthing her second child—just got a new job at Fox News.

In a leaked audio recording, Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton lamented that he isn’t in control of his own campaign.

The Trump administration is watching Brazil’s presidential election results closely.

Two recent polls show that the majority of Latino voters have all but abandoned President Trump—reaffirming a development that’s been brewing since he returned to office and began his draconian immigration crackdown.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 5 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

Well, we’ve entered that time-honored phase of the campaign that we’ve come to know so well: When Republicans turn to their closing argument about the issue that is keeping Americans up at night.

A couple of weeks ago, the city of Seattle announced that its community violence intervention work would move into the city’s community safety department, also known as CARE.

Next week the Supreme Court will return from its summer recess to hear a new term of cases.

Four years after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion with the Dobbs decision, access to the procedure remains a critical matter for voters across the country.

A new Fox poll showing James Talarico ahead in the Texas Senate race unnerved Fox figures.

In the 1972 movie The Candidate, Bill McKay, played by Robert Redford, shockingly wins a Senate seat.

This week, one of the most talked-about stories has been President Donald Trump’s decision to spend taxpayer money on campaign ads that the administration is misleadingly characterizing as “public service announcements.”

Right-wing commentator Benny Johnson branded a group of brutalized ICE protesters as “left-wing terrorists.”

The Trump administration has ratcheted up its election interference efforts in Brazil, using sanctions, tariffs, and narratives to give Flávio Bolsonaro—son of right-wing hard-liner and convicted traitor Jair Bolsonaro—any possible edge over incumbent Pre…