Paramount Surrenders to Trump and Agrees to Pay Him Millions
Truckling to President Donald Trump, Paramount has agreed to settle the president’s frivolous lawsuit over the editing of CBS News’s 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.Some executives at the media...
View ArticleWisconsin Supreme Court Repeals 1849 Abortion Ban in Major Victory
The Wisconsin state Supreme Court relegated a 176-year-old abortion ban to the ash heap of history on Wednesday, as the court’s liberal majority ruled that the ban was superseded by state laws that...
View Article“S**tshow”: MTG Tears Trump’s Budget Bill to Shreds
Even Donald Trump’s most unwavering allies are irate over the contents of the president’s spending package.Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” narrowly passed through the Senate Tuesday when Vice President...
View ArticleSean Combs Found Not Guilty of Sex-Trafficking in Shocking Verdict
Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was found not guilty on major charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. He was found guilty on two lesser charges of transportation for prostitution.Prosecutors had...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert
Donald Trump’s latest threat to illegally deport U.S. citizens is bone-chilling.Speaking at a press conference Tuesday at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s premier wetland-themed...
View ArticleFox Host Stumbles After Seeing Terrible Jobs Report Live on Air
Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo seemed shocked as she received the tumbling job numbers live on her show, as the impacts of President Trump’s second term begin to take root within the economy. “Of...
View ArticleWhy Mike Johnson Already Has a Huge Obstacle in Passing Trump’s Budget
The president’s “big, beautiful bill” is slated to be fast-tracked through the House—but before debate has even started, Republicans fear that they don’t have the votes.Whether conservative lawmakers...
View ArticleTrump Says Gas Is Under $2 a Gallon. Here’s the Truth.
Donald Trump won’t stop making up gasoline prices. While speaking at a press conference Tuesday at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s premier wetland-themed concentration camp, the...
View ArticleTrump’s Newest Trade Deal Is a Total Mess
Donald Trump’s great new deal with Vietnam may actually be terrible for America.The president announced the trade arrangement Wednesday morning, writing on Truth Social that “Vietnam will pay the...
View ArticleMAGA Is Losing Its Mind Over Zohran Mamdani Eating With His Hands
After a video recirculated of Zohran Mamdani eating food with his hands, many MAGA figures revealed their inability to engage with New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee without being sent into a...
View ArticleICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App
Donald Trump’s administration is claiming that the number of assaults against immigration enforcement officers has skyrocketed, but when pressed, even they can’t keep their phony numbers straight. In...
View ArticleAOC Exposes Catch in “No Tax on Tips” Rule in Trump’s Budget
The no tax on tips provision of Donald Trump’s budget cannot be the pro-labor gift that the president has made it out to be while the rest of the bill slashes health care and other social programs for...
View ArticleHouse Freedom Caucus Releases Rant on Why Trump’s Budget Is Trash
Opposition to the president’s “big, beautiful bill” is growing in the House of Representatives.The House Freedom Caucus released a three-page memo Wednesday heavily criticizing the Senate’s version of...
View ArticleKristi Noem Has Unhinged New Criteria for Firing People at DHS
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is seeking creative ways to staff her agency with sycophants of Donald Trump, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. At the first-ever meeting of Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” Is Already Flooding
The monstrous, recently constructed immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, flippantly dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” literally took on water within a day of President Trump visiting the...
View ArticleMAGA Republican Falsely Claims They’re Not Trump’s “Little Bitches”
Republican Representative Derrick Van Orden made sure to let reporters know that he wasn’t President Trump’s bitch—as he prepared to vote “yes” on the budget bill that will leave at least 30,000 of his...
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Stephen Miller Spirals After Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Asylum Ban
Trump adviser Stephen Miller is up in arms after a federal district court judge dealt a significant blow to Trump’s immigration agenda Wednesday.U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled unlawful Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump Jan. 6 Pardonee Gets Life Sentence After Trying to Take Revenge
A federal judge sentenced a January 6 rioter to life in prison Wednesday for plotting to assassinate the federal agents who’d investigated him. U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan ordered 36-year-old...
View ArticleCourt Battles: A Supreme Court Update
On July 2, The New Republic hosted a special live event: “Court Battles: A SCOTUS Update,” a conversation among TNR staff and legal experts about the end-of-session Supreme Court rulings and their...
View ArticleMike Johnson Panic Spirals as Republicans Revolt Over Trump Budget
It doesn’t appear that the president’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” will muster enough votes in time.Donald Trump has imposed a July 4 deadline on Congress to pass his signature legislative item, but actually...
View ArticleTrump’s Threat to Jail Foes Darkens, Prompting Epic Retort from Zohran
This week, President Donald Trump issued many angry threats against Zohran Mamdani, the underdog winner of New York Democratic mayoral primary. Trump has been attacking Mamdani, a state assemblyman, as...
View ArticleThe Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
If America is a ruled by a billionaire oligarchy, as I argued in a recent New Republic feature story (“How the Billionaires Took Over”), what will our billionaire overlords get out of the “big,...
View ArticleVaccine Shortages. Viral Outbreaks. Widespread Illness. More Death.
It’s September 2026. Routine childhood vaccines are now optional in the United States, and government officials, after hastily compiling an immense research registry of autistic people, have added the...
View ArticleKetanji Brown Jackson’s Heterodox Critiques of SCOTUS’s Right Wing
Earlier this year, I noted that it often takes a few years for new members of the Supreme Court to get acclimated to the job. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is moving ahead of schedule. With the end of...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Threats to Jail Foes Just Got Darker and Scarier
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleHakeem Jeffries Speaks for Six Hours as He Delays Trump Budget
With House Republicans poised to pass President Trump’s centerpiece legislation, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is making the most of the customary “magic minute” he’s afforded at the end of floor...
View ArticleTrump Apparently Didn’t Know His Own Bill’s Extreme Medicaid Plan
President Trump has no idea what’s actually in his sweeping, term-defining budget bill. NOTUS reported on Wednesday that House Republicans had to tell the president that his “big, beautiful bill” was...
View ArticleMAGA Rep Makes Wild Claim About Why It’s OK People Will Lose Medicaid
Florida Representative Randy Fine took a moment to remind people that the most important reason to pass the “big, beautiful bill” is to give Donald Trump exactly what he wants.During a Fox News...
View ArticleFox News Airs Outrageous Lie About Kilmar Abrego Garcia
On Wednesday night, a Fox News guest falsely accused Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration, of killing Americans.In an appearance on Fox...
View ArticleTrump Takes Credit for Story About Elon Musk’s Ketamine Addiction
The rumors about Elon Musk’s rampant White House ketamine use have circled back to a source: Donald Trump.The world’s richest man and ousted Trump adviser was reputed to be a regular pill popper in...
View ArticleKilmar Abrego Garcia Reveals He Was Tortured in El Salvador Megaprison
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia revealed gruesome details about his treatment at the notorious Salvadoran prison where Donald Trump has exiled more than 280 deportees. In a 40-page amended complaint...
View ArticleSupreme Court Prepares to Rip Away Trans Rights in Two New Cases
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear two cases involving transgender athletes being banned from women’s sports at the youth and collegiate level—a troubling sign of the court’s willingness to...
View ArticleTrump and the GOP Will Regret the Day They Passed This Sick Bill
In the Beltway newsletters on Thursday, they’re writing about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s historic, “massive victory” in guiding President Donald Trump’s big, ugly bill to final passage in the House....
View ArticleTrump Overlooks Crucial Detail in Bragging About Jobs Report
For all of the president’s braggadocio about the economy, a key detail in last month’s jobs report paints a bitter picture for America’s market.The June jobs report came with droves of good news: the...
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DHS Suddenly Pulls Weird 180 on “Alligator Alcatraz” After Trump Visit
The Department of Homeland Security is suddenly trying to distance itself from “Alligator Alcatraz,” after weeks of promoting the Trump administration’s premiere wetland-themed concentration camp in...
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Trump Won Over Republican Budget Rebels With Some Lousy Free Merch
President Donald Trump’s efforts to coax wary House Republicans off the fence to support his “big, beautiful bill” have seemingly succeeded, as GOP leaders say the president’s centerpiece legislation...
View ArticleNew State Reports Measles Outbreak as RFK Jr. Slashes Vaccines
Measles is on the rise in Kentucky.Health officials in the state confirmed that the disease has spread to Fayette County, marking the seventh case of the highly contagious illness in Kentucky since the...
View ArticleTrump Just Went Absolutely Nuclear in Screwing Over MAGA Voters
For at least the last half-century in American politics, Republicans have employed three distinct scams to hide the deeply regressive nature of their priorities and agenda from the voters. Trumpism, in...
View ArticleHakeem Jeffries Breaks House Speech Record as Budget Vote Delayed
Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries has broken former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s record for longest floor speech in an attempt to delay voting on Trump’s destructive budget bill.The House minority...
View ArticleTrump Had Bonkers Top Request After His Assassination Attempt
Moments after Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July, he demanded something unexpected from his doctors: a CT scan of his brain.The then-presumptive Republican...
View ArticleOnly Two House Republicans Vote Against Trump’s Cruel Budget
House Republicans on Thursday passed Donald Trump’s sweeping, 887-page budget bill, an unpopular piece of legislation that is poised to further enrich the wealthiest Americans while tattering the...
View ArticleTrump Treasury Secretary Reveals Administration’s Unhinged Budget Math
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is being delusional as ever about the exorbitant cost of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”During an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street Thursday, Bessent did...
View ArticleMAGA Rep Admits Trump Scammed People With Budget Bill
Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is on its way to his desk thanks to a 218-214 vote in the House.MAGA representatives, however, could hardly wait after the vote was over to reveal that some of...
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Republican Votes for Budget After Dumping Medicaid-Related Stock
GOP Representative Robert Bresnahan voted for Trump’s budget on Thursday, conveniently after he dumped his shares of stock in a Medicaid provider.The Pennsylvania representative sold his Centene stock...
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MAGA Rep Literally Cheers for Budget Taking Away Free School Lunch
Wisconsin Representative Derrick “Little Bitch” Van Orden stooped to a new low Thursday after passing Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill. While other Republicans have tried to obfuscate the fact that...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Just Teed Up a Major Ruling on Transgender Athletes
The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that next term it will hear two cases on state bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports, setting the stage for a potential landmark decision on the future...
View ArticleCongress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
Donald Trump’s budget bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives Thursday and now awaits the president’s signature, will balloon immigration and border enforcement spending astonishingly—so...
View ArticleEPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”
On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a “declaration of dissent” against Administrator Lee Zeldin and...
View ArticleSoldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses
Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their car at times. She didn’t think she could afford college, so she...
View ArticleWe Are Wittingly Fooling Ourselves About Trump’s Attack on Iran
Earlier this year, in an unexpected divergence from the long-prevailing foreign policy rhetoric of presidents from both parties, Donald Trump gave a speech in Riyadh criticizing interventionists,...
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