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NEW: Abdul El-Sayed's campaign says it has raised $1.2 million in the four hours and counting after Haley Stevens backed the Republican Senate nominee.
BREAKING:
A federal judge just disqualified Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in southern California, from overseeing several cases — part of an ongoing legal battle over whether the Trump appointee has stayed in a temporary role longer than allowed by law.
The ruling was automatically stayed, pending appeal.
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BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe.
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ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015.
Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million.
The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
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BREAKING Politico:
Trump has just established a committee of inquiry to investigate whether Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook made "false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments" — his latest effort to remove her from the central bank.
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32 days before the midterms, Donald Trump has attacked Republican Sen. Tom Cotton twice — including publishing what appears to be Cotton's cell phone number — over his lack of support for the Daylight Saving Time bill.
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The Atlantic spoke with more than 40 sources: Just weeks before the midterms, Kash Patel is desperate to help Trump's Justice Department deliver numerous indictments on Trump's 2020 election lies just to please Trump.
In meetings, Patel has expressed frustration that there have been no new findings — instructing staff to "look harder" or "look again."
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Bill Pulte, Trump's director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, moved this week to slash the inspector general's office that scrutinizes his actions — prompting calls from Democrats for his resignation.
It's the second time that Trump officials have taken steps to limit scrutiny of the agency run by Pulte.
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AP-NORC: 65% of U.S. adults believe Trump is to blame for their cost-of-living concerns.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
BREAKING MS NOW:
Kash Patel has commissioned a classified report examining purported past FBI shortcomings — including in the Russia and special counsel probes — in what current and former officials see as the Trump admin's latest effort to rewrite history in Trump's favor.
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A $250,000 donation to a pro-Ken Paxton super PAC came from a businessman whose dad got pardoned by Trump — and who used a fake name and rented mailbox on the donation record.
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Playbook: Sen. Thom Tillis lashed out in private texts to Trump earlier this year, saying he refused to take his "bullshit" and that, had Trump directly threatened him with a primary challenge, he would've "immediately told you to fuck yourself" and announced his retirement early, according to messages obtained by Playbook.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - 2026 Kennedy Center Honors to be held at downtown Washington arena amid fight over adding Trump's name to building.
BREAKING NYT:
The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
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Two people detained outside a Chicago-area immigration detention center last year are suing right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson for defamation, saying he falsely portrayed them as violent extremists who assaulted federal officers.
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FLAG AJC: Georgia's Republican-led State Election Board has sent a letter to top Trump officials (Blanche, Dhillon, Mullin) asking the admin to (1) force changes to the state's voting system before November and (2) investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Trump claimed to TIME that Secret Service officials have encouraged him to replace the current Oval Office.
"'Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we'll build a new one, sir,'" said Trump, quoting a Secret Service official. "I said, 'My ass, you can't build a new one. This is a special place.'"
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A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections.
It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.
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BREAKING:
The Supreme Court just granted an emergency appeal from Missouri organizers barring the use of the Republican-backed congressional maps in the midterms.
The order marks the second time this week the court has denied the use of the gerrymandered maps.
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