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Politics · Economy · Military · Security · TechEl-Sayed spars with Jesse Watters on Fox News on immigration, Iran war: ‘Let me just answer the question’
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Monday clashed with Fox News host Jesse Watters on a slew of topics, including immigration enforcement and the Iran war, along with culture war topics, prompting the host twice to let him “just answer the question.” The interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” kicked off by talking about immigration…
Jeffries responds to Kushner backlash: ‘No one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday said that “no one from the Trump Cartel is getting a pass,” in a post on the social media platform X. The video comes after he faced backlash for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. The New York Times reported on Sunday that the two met…
El-Sayed and Watters clash in Fox News interview over culture war, gas prices
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Monday clashed with Fox News host Jesse Watters in a wide-ranging interview, often full of crosstalk, that covered culture war topics to the candidate’s faith to gas prices. El-Sayed, a progressive, appeared for roughly half an hour on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” where the host played clips of past…
Ship Struck In Strait Of Hormuz Hours After Trump’s “Economic D-Day” Campaign On Iran Unveiled
The new ship attack adds another challenge to Trump's push to extricate the U.S. from war with Iran. The post Ship Struck In Strait Of Hormuz Hours After Trump’s “Economic D-Day” Campaign On Iran Unveiled appeared first on TWZ.
Mark Carney's defiance of Trump has Canada cheering
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned his decision to hold firm against President Trump's tariff threats into a rallying point for Canadians as their trade clash escalates. Why it matters: The mild-mannered former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor is holding firm against Trump despite the threat of further economic pain for Canadians. Context: Carney campaigned on standing up to Trump but has generally dealt with the unpredictable U.S. president with the measured temperament of his central banking days. That combination of restraint and resolve has made Carney Canada's "man for the moment," Andrea Lawlor, an associate professor of political science at McMaster University in Ontario, tells Axios. Driving the news: Carney walked away from trade talks with the Trump administration Friday and vowed to match new 50% U.S. tariffs "dollar for dollar," winning broad support at home. Corpay chief market strategist Karl Schamotta said Monday that Carney appears to be betti
The Supreme Court just revived Trump’s attempt to sabotage the 2026 election
President Donald Trump greats Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett as he arrives for the State of the Union address on February 24, 2026. | Win McNamee/Getty Images In March, President Donald Trump issued a blatantly illegal executive order claiming that he had the power to unilaterally rewrite US election law. The order threatens prosecutions against state officials who allow certain people to vote, and it also requires states to include several federally mandated design elements in the envelopes that they use to mail ballots to voters. On Monday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority allowed that order to go into effect. All three of the Court’s Democrats dissented. Yet while the Court’s new decision in Trump v. California is troubling, it’s not necessarily a sign that the justices will permit Trump’s illegal order to take full effect. The Court’s actual holding in California is that two lower federal courts moved too quick
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