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President Donald Trump nearly berated a reporter—until he realized they were with a right-wing blog.

Vice President JD Vance called a brown man at his rally an “illegal immigrant” because he interrupted his rally to demand the release of the Epstein files.

President Trump now wants New Mexico to change its name to something that doesn’t offend him.

And the scandals keep coming: President Donald Trump’s close ally Ric Grenell, who has recently served as both special envoy to Venezuela and acting director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, came under fire Monday for new evidence that he of…

A Black MAGA influencer says she was booted from a Ken Paxton rally in Texas on Sunday.

President Donald Trump’s border czar, Todd Homan, seemed to suggest that the FBI was mounting its own investigation into Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar.

President Trump doesn’t want former special counsel Jack Smith to testify in a deposition as part of Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Company.

Outside Mansfield, Georgia, just under an hour’s drive from Atlanta, Jeff and Beverly Morris live right where the road turns from pavement to gravel.

Meta offered a weak excuse for shutting down the No Kings movement’s official Instagram account for several hours during the group’s nationwide action over the weekend to mobilize early voting.

The Supreme Court just signed off on President Trump’s firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board despite laws against at-will dismissals, further cementing his power over independent agencies.

Longtime CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour will be leaving the network next June.

Americans who survived tornados, floods, and wildfires are still waiting on $10 billion in aid from the Trump administration over a year later.

The Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, Deidre Henderson, is warning that the federal government is threatening the integrity of American elections.

President Donald Trump’s press secretary-for-a-day Katie Zacharia couldn’t even exit the White House without making one last mistake.

After Kimberly Guilfoyle was fired on live television last week, she reportedly begged MAGA allies to rescue her, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and U.S.

President Donald Trump on Monday attacked a federal judge who blocked his lawless construction on a public golf course in Washington, D.C.

CBS News editor in chief and anti-woke crusader Bari Weiss urged her newsroom to cover right-wing conspiracy theories regarding Democratic Senate candidates James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed.

A Republican political operative tried to trap the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, into a viral “gotcha” moment.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

On October 15, 1969, Somali President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was slain by an assassin’s bullet.

The forthcoming midterm elections are a referendum on President Donald Trump’s policies, not his health.

Youth is full of women running out of time.

With the U.S. midterm elections less than three weeks away, is it any surprise that corruption has emerged as voters’ top concern?

In recent days, Donald Trump has exploded over James Talarico’s Senate candidacy in Texas.

In recent weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to observe two competing visions for Democratic senators should they retake the upper chamber in next month’s midterm elections.

What do you do when a stranger says “I love you”?

Tech CEO Elon Musk reportedly approached President Trump on slowing down his Starlink communications service in Ukraine earlier this week, contradicting both Musk’s statement that it was Trump’s idea and Trump’s statement that he has no idea who did it.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed Friday that the Trump administration is hoping to bring a criminal conspiracy case against Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy knows how to get the European Union laughing—at Donald Trump.

Katie Zacharia’s tenure as White House press secretary only lasted five days before President Trump fired her Friday, breaking the record for shortest duration in the role.

Katie Zacharia has been fired as White House press secretary after less than one week on the job, The New York Times reported Friday, citing three anonymous sources.

Canadians may be extremely divided, but there is one thing they can all agree on: They don’t like Donald Trump.

Republican Representative Andy Harris is defending his threat to have a student journalist arrested following a disastrous debate earlier this week.

Rudy Giuliani’s legal defense fund has spent $1.2 million throughout the 2026 election cycle—but the vast majority of it hasn’t gone to legal fees.

Donald Trump held a rally on Monday in Youngstown, the eastern Ohio town that has come to symbolize postindustrial Rust Belt decline.

The president’s once-unassailable ice maiden is melting.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may have exposed U.S. troops to foreign intelligence.

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book.

Elon Musk has settled a class action lawsuit over allegations that his shady super PAC offered President Donald Trump’s supporters a chance to win $1 million—when the winners had already been handpicked.

We’re two-plus weeks out from Election Day.

Dozens of Israeli settlers beat and robbed veteran Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine Friday during an attack on an olive tree grove in the West Bank.

Someone in the White House is crippling Ukraine’s access to military-grade Starlink terminals.

President Donald Trump isn’t doing a good job of explaining why he would drop one of America’s largest bombs on Iran.

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia crashed and burned Thursday as she struggled to defend pretending to be an actual attorney.

This is a lightly edited transcript of the October 15 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon.

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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

In the run-up to this second Trump term, there were a lot of predictions, assumptions, extrapolations, and truisms that turned out to be very wrong.

“With all my heart” is how Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump’s slavishly devoted assistant and “human printer,” signed one letter to her boss, the man she calls her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

Musk, Alex Gibney’s latest documentary, is nearly four hours long with a ten-minute intermission, which is surely more time than any well-adjusted person wants to spend thinking about Elon Musk.