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For what is perhaps the world’s stuffiest, most self-important, and—sure—rarefied cultural award, the Nobel Prize in Literature is also often quite funny.

The Trump administration wants to prosecute Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who was one of the star witnesses for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S.

Vice President JD Vance was asked to define socialism on Thursday.

White House deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities to be inhumane.

MAGA world has turned its fire and fury toward two of the president’s closest advisers, Chris LaCivita and James Blair, after it was revealed that the pair were more interested in assisting a pro-Russia Balkan regime than helping Republicans win the midte…

Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that the Trump administration is targeting multiple universities that he claims “bring in foreigners to undercut the wages of American residents.”

Vice President JD Vance was forced to eat his words in real time, accusing Microsoft of hiring too many foreign workers on the same day President Trump plans to award Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

The president is making an enemy out of Fox News.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly launched a 45-day immigration crackdown in California ahead of the midterm elections, instructing its officers to “go after anybody.”

American diplomats are supposed to represent the interests of the U.S. above everything else.

President Donald Trump did nothing as one of his rallygoers attacked a peaceful protester.

More audio of Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has leaked, this time featuring the embattled lawmaker telling people depending on federal benefits programs to “suck it up” and prepare for cuts.

When Donald Trump gives, he expects something in return.

President Donald Trump clearly gets a kick out of imagining Iran destroying American cities.

Kimberly Guilfoyle begged a donor to send her $100,000 without leaving a trace as part of her pay-to-play grift—in the midst of her confirmation process last year to become U.S. ambassador to Greece.

President Trump’s meeting with convicted election denier Tina Peters on Monday concerned some disturbing plans for the upcoming midterm elections.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

Is this what panic looks like?

It’s hard to write a case for reading.

Supreme Court justices write and publish books from time to time.

In short order, America’s data centers have come to stand in for a broad range of apocalyptic threats, from the climate crisis to the surveillance state to Trump’s kleptocracy.

In today’s episode, nonpartisan political forecaster Kyle Kondik makes some critical points about Donald Trump’s approval rating.

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration Wednesday, alleging that recent TV advertisements espousing the president’s political agenda were funded by taxpayers and thus violated U.S. propaganda law.

Election officials in Florida have extended the state’s new voter registration protections to Donald Trump—even though he doesn’t qualify for them.

President Trump claimed that he can do whatever he wants to his political enemies.

President Trump had trouble fighting to stay awake Wednesday while surrounded by members of his administration and the press in the Oval Office.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a hypernationalistic speech at the Acropolis in Athens Wednesday in which he lauded the supposed superiority of Western civilization while stoking more fears about immigration.

A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was sexually assaulted while trying to repair one of her campaign signs.

Colorado minister and Republican gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx has declared that he shoved his wife in the past—and he’d do it again.

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is combing the bottom of the barrel to fill prosecutor vacancies.

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Nearly 1,000 armed guards have descended on the United States Postal Service, deploying to at least 55 facilities across the country ahead of Election Day.

President Trump is still using your money to pay for his propaganda hype video commercials ahead of the midterms.

The Department of Homeland Security radically reduced training requirements for local law enforcement officers whose departments had agreed to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigated hundreds of voter registration groups over the past year as part of their efforts to catch noncitizens voting.

Donald Trump is dragging his feet in dealing with the recent pneumonic plague case in Russia.

President Trump wants to bring his own personal Camp David to Palm Beach.

Maine Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, faced a humiliating reality check Tuesday night during her debate against Democratic challenger Troy Jackson.

President Trump isn’t going to like how the European Parliament is allowing him to be depicted.

Yet another leaked recording of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton has landed.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

I’m nervous about the polls and election forecasts projecting a huge Democratic wave.

There is a strange irony in the career that Francis Fukuyama recounts in his new memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man.

It was 9 a.m. in Kyiv, and I showed up at class ready to teach Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless,” his celebrated 1978 essay about totalitarian control, but was feeling rough around the edges because I had been in a bomb shelter until 5:30 a.m. t…

It is January 3, 2027.

Donald Trump unleashed a long, crazed tirade this week about Dr.

President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that his military campaign against Iran ended eight months before he started it.

Kash Patel’s FBI slammed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a wildly partisan, and likely illegal, propaganda video Tuesday.

President Trump is preventing Maryland’s Democratic Governor Wes Moore from speaking at an event in Baltimore County in the state on Tuesday.

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