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JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives

Saturday 19 July 2025 05:49 EDT JD Vance took a quick day trip to Montana Tuesday afternoon to speak to right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, who is the chief of both Fox News and its sister corporation News Corp., which publishes the New York Post and Wall Street Journal. According to the Associated Press, the vice president’s secret meeting also included several executives from Fox News, the conservative cable giant that has largely carried Donald Trump’s water and help ...

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Founder of Right-Wing Group Behind Project 2025 Dies at 83

5h Edwin J. Feulner, the conservative mastermind who co-founded The Heritage Foundation, has died at 83. Based in Washington, D.C., the influential right-wing think tank is behind Project 2025, a controversial playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term. The details surrounding Feulner’s death are unknown, with multiple outlets reporting that he died Friday. He served as president of the foundation from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018. He also served on the transition team ...

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Hegseth reassigns first female Naval Academy head

07/19/25 1:40 PM ET Navy Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the first female to serve as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy is being reassigned, the Defense Department announced Friday. Davids was instead tapped to serve as deputy chief of naval operations, plans, strategy and warfighting development, according to a press release. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte was named to lead the Naval Academy in her place — making him the first Marine to lead the institution. “The Naval Academy ...

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Republicans' food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump

07/19/2025 02:00 PM EDT The deep cuts Republicans made to federal nutrition programs this summer are poised to devastate independent grocery stores that are central to many low-income communities, including those that voted for President Donald Trump. Food aid recipients often make up the majority of small grocers’ customer base in remote areas and food deserts — places that have limited options for fresh, healthy food. But a central part of paying for the GOP policy megabill Trump signed on ...

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Trump administration imposes limits on Mexican flights and threatens Delta alliance in trade dispute

The Trump administration imposed new restrictions Saturday on flights from Mexico and threatened to end a longstanding partnership between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico in response to limits the Mexican government placed on passenger and cargo flights into Mexico City several years ago. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Mexico’s actions to force airlines to move out of the main Benito Juarez International Airport to the newer Felipe Angeles International Airport more than 30 miles away ...

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'Tidal wave on our hands': Furious voters say Trump's turning key red state purple

July 18, 2025 6:36PM ET Angry voters in Iowa could turn the state from solid red to a swing state because they feel betrayed by President Donald Trump on issues from healthcare to agriculture. According to an article in Newsweek, Iowa has "leaned Republicans" for nearly a decade, with Trump carrying the state "by 9 points in 2016, 8 points in 2020, and about the same in 2024." But that could soon change if the latest polling is accurate. "Democrats and independents ...

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Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: 'Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This'

Jul 18th, 2025, 8:55 pm Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) praised federal funding cuts to public broadcasting entities like NPR and PBS, saying, “Farmers are not gonna miss this.” In a Friday appearance on Laura Ingraham‘s The Ingraham Angle, Tuberville claimed that 90% of NPR content was left-leaning. “There was very little right. Anything positive about the right was never on,” Tuberville said. “We were about 30 years too late. This should have been gone a long time ago. People can get their n ...

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Trump admin and Catholic priests secure victory against child abuse reporting law that would violate the confidentiality

Jul 18th, 2025, 4:26 pm The Trump administration secured a victory for the confidentiality of the confessional booth as a federal judge temporarily blocked a recently-enacted anti-child abuse statute in Washington state. In a 25-page order, U.S. District Judge David G. Estudillo, a Joe Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction that keeps mandatory reporting legislation passed this year from going into effect. Absent the court's order, SB 5375 would have become operative on July 27. T ...

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At least 30 injured after vehicle strikes crowd in Los Angeles overnight

Updated Jul 19, 2025, 8:32 AM ET PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2025, 6:48 AM ET At least 30 people were injured - seven of them critically - when an "unknown vehicle" drove into a crowd in East Hollywood early Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The West Santa Monica Boulevard location provided by the LAFD is in the area of a music venue. Seven victims were transported in critical condition, six in serious condition, and 10 in fair condition, the LAFD said. Seven patients r ...

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Public to get chance to weigh in on plastic vs. paper straws under proposed Trump administration rule

July 18, 2025, 5:40 PM Members of the general public will have a chance to weigh in on the use of paper versus plastic straws as the federal government considers a new rule on the types of straws used by government contractors. Under the rule proposed by the Trump administration, every federal government contractor -- including those serving military bases and veterans facilities -- would have to offer only straws that "have the strength and durability of plastic straws." Governmen ...

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Tourist boat capsizes during a storm in Vietnam, leaving 37 dead. 5 remain missing

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Republicans' food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump

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Hegseth reassigns first female Naval Academy head

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Founder of Right-Wing Group Behind Project 2025 Dies at 83

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JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives

10 hrs ago - Saturday 19 July 2025 05:49 EDT JD Vance took a quick day trip to Montana Tuesday afternoon to speak to right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, who is the chief of both Fox News and its sister corporation News Corp., which publishe ... (The Independent)

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Pressure grows to unmask ICE

13 hrs ago - Published July 19, 2025 6:30AM (EDT) The push to unmask ICE agents is catching fire, as backlash grows to President Donald Trump’s policy of mass deportation. “It comes across as kidnappings. At some point, where do we end up with vigilante ... (Salon)

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Trump DOJ wants Supreme Court to bring down hammer on gun rules

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