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September 12, 2025 • 8 mins
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, dealing a powerful rebuke to one of the world's most prominent far-right nationalist leaders.
The conviction ruling by a panel of five justices on Brazil's Supreme Court, who also agreed on the sentence, made the 70-year-old Bolsonaro the fi...
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September 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Polish officials say during a massive Russian air raid on Ukraine, 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace. They say NATO forces scrambled and shot down at least four of those drones. Russia says no Polish sites were targeted for destruction, but Poland says the incursion was an intentional act. Poland has invoked Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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September 9, 2025 • 10 mins
After an early post-election rise, Trump’s favorability has returned to historical norms at 43% favorable / 57% unfavorable, but Democrats are still behind in national polling as Trump steals headlines with authoritarian policies.
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September 9, 2025 • 10 mins
As Russian forces continue striking Kyiv, U.S. President Donald Trump has once again made sweeping claims about his role in achieving global peace. Speaking in Washington, D.C., he said that within just seven months, his administration had managed to halt seven wars around the world. Critics argue that Trump often exaggerates his accomplishments. In the past, he claimed credit for preventing a potential nuclear clash between India ...
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September 5, 2025 • 10 mins
Today the BLS reported payroll employment rose by only 22,000 in August. Analysts had forecast that the economy would add 75,000 jobs during the month. According to the agency, gains made in health care were offset by losses in federal government employment, as well as mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction.
While July's figures were revised up to 79,000 from 73,000, June's numbers were revised down by 27,000, dropping from...
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September 4, 2025 • 9 mins
In a stark warning to the nation, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has called today “the most dangerous period since World War II.” McConnell highlighted the rising political tensions, the state of American democracy, and the unprecedented challenges facing the country.
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September 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who made a rare foreign trip to attend, flanked President Xi as they ascended to the viewing platform overlooking Tiananmen Square and watched the display of military hardware and marching troops. Observers say the joint appearance was a show of unity against the United States.
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Trump 'broke Federal law' with National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, says judge in court ruling.
September 2, 2025 • 11 mins
A federal judge ruled today that Donald Trump’s administration “willfully” broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area in early June after days of protests over immigration raids.
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August 30, 2025 • 10 mins
Like many authoritarian rulers, Trump now finds himself in the trap of his own corruption: he cannot afford to lose power. To relinquish office would be to invite criminal prosecution and potentially, prison.
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August 28, 2025 • 9 mins
Trump fires CDC director Susan Monarez, who declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel selected by anti-vaccine conspiracist R.F. Kennedy Jr.
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Denmark’s foreign minister has called in the senior U.S. envoy in Copenhagen following reports that American operatives attempted to sway political developments in Greenland. “Greenland’s strategic importance means it will always attract attention from abroad,” Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in a statement. “It would not be surprising if we see renewed efforts by external players to try to shape the Kingdom’s future.”
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Trump denies he is a dictator whilst executing illegal orders and investigations into his opponents.
August 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Donald Trump’s second term has unleashed sweeping abuses of power across immigration, education, healthcare, public health, and the environment. International students and scholars have been detained or deported without cause, universities and law firms punished for dissent, independent agencies undermined, and federal workers threatened. Cuts to healthcare, research, student aid, and small business programs have endangered familie...
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August 25, 2025 • 8 mins
A federal judge on Monday said the Trump regime is “absolutely forbidden” from removing mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the U.S., for now. Judge Paula Xinis blocked Abrego Garcia’s deportation to Uganda until she can hold a hearing to determine whether the administration will let him contest his removal to the third country. The bid to deport him comes just 3 days after he was freed from custody in a criminal case...
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August 22, 2025 • 8 mins
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ramping up training for new agents as the agency's director said he wants to train 10,000 new agents by the end of the year. ICE is recruiting retired federal workers to join its enforcement, legal and investigative units as a part of a broader campaign to beef up hiring to rid the nation of people of color.
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August 21, 2025 • 14 mins
As Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington continued on Wednesday, protesters booed Vice President JD Vance during a photo op with the guardsmen stationed in the city. People jeered Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as they visited Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol which has seen it's police federalized in a fake claim of a crime wave.
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Trump plan to rig election by ending mail-in voting with illegal voter suppression executive action.
August 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Donald Trump is preparing to sign a new executive order that he hopes will do away with mail-in voting, as he falsely claims mail ballots can be manipulated and voting machines are “highly inaccurate” in a bid to suppress the vote and hold on to power.
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August 18, 2025 • 14 mins
Donald Trump thought he was hosting an episode of the EU Apprentice as he was outsmarted by European leaders at the White House during his farcical Ukraine summit, delivering Putin's talking points, and saying a whole lot of nothing to end the war.
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August 15, 2025 • 10 mins
Despite meeting for three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska, Donald Trump emerged without announcing any agreements and with little to share publicly. Known for using international platforms to his advantage, Trump was notably restrained, offering almost no specifics when standing alongside Putin at the summit’s conclusion.
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The Trump regime has agreed to scale back, in part, attorney general Pam Bondi’s executive order, specifically the aspect that puts DC metropolitan police department fully under the control of DEA administrator Terry Cole, rather than DC police chief.
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When Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the cameras will capture handshakes, flags, and grand claims of peace. But according to diplomatic insiders, the real outcome will be far less celebratory — and far more dangerous. The Anchorage summit, billed as a breakthrough to “end the war” in Ukraine, is shaping up to be the moment Putin secures exactly what he set out to achieve when he launched his invasion: permanent control...
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