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Trump's $14M blue pool is now an algae swamp

Nature has a funny way of ignoring presidential vanity projects.

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Judge puts a pause on the Biden tapes drop

So, the court just hit the brakes on releasing those secret recordings of Joe Biden chatting with his biographer.

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America's Strike on Tren de Aragua Boss Signals a Risky New War

We just blasted the head of a massive Venezuelan gang, and Washington is already acting like drone-striking our way through Latin America is a great idea.

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Qatar's $400M "gift" plane for Trump just landed at Andrews

Most people get a nice bottle of wine or a gift card when they start a new gig. Trump, on the other hand, just had a custom, gold-plated luxury airliner flown in from the Middle East as a casual "congrats" present.

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Congress passed a huge housing bill because rent is too damn high

In a shocking twist of events, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle temporarily stopped screaming at each other to pass the biggest housing affordability package in a generation.

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SCOTUS might send a bus-driving granddad back to prison on a technicality

Imagine doing everything right: getting out of prison, driving a city bus, spoiling the grandkids—and then the highest court in the land decides to undo it all on a literal technicality.

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Iran and the U.S. are quietly working on a war-ending deal

Just when everyone assumed we were on the brink of another endless Middle East escalation, some very unexpected people sat down in a quiet room in Switzerland to write a whole new script.

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Two more arrested over a wild plot to attack Trump's UFC event

Just when you thought American politics couldn't get any more bizarrely action-packed, we get news of a foiled plot targeting Trump at a UFC event.

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UN report: Israel is deliberately targeting children in Gaza

Just in case anyone still believed those "surgical precision" press releases, a new UN report just dropped, and it is about as grim as it gets.

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Trump Lifts Sanctions: Iran Can Trade Oil in Dollars Again

For the first time since 1979, the gates are open for Iran to sell oil using the greenback, and it is every bit as chaotic as it sounds.

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Trump Administration Pulls the Plug on PEPFAR Funds for South Africa

Geopolitics just hit the pharmacy, and it looks like a decades-long health initiative is getting the cold shoulder.

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Italy cancels US trip after Trump photo claim

International diplomacy has officially devolved into high school cafeteria drama, and yes, it is entirely over a photo op.

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Congress actually agrees on something: A massive plan to fix housing

My name is Sara, I'm twenty, and my world is the scent of expensive perfume and the squeak of polished marble floors. In Khobar, I'm a bellhop, or whatever the female equivalent is. I meet guests in the lobby of a hotel so fancy it makes my eyes water, I haul their ridiculously heavy suitcases, and I show them to their rooms, smiling a smile that doesn't reach my eyes anymore. It's a life of being invisible, a ghost in a beautiful machine. The voices started as echoes in the vast, empty lobby, a trick of the acoustics. "A little faster with that bag, Sara," a voice, perfectly mimicking the front desk manager, would hiss. "These people are important. You're not. Remember your place, you little nothing." I'd blame it on fatigue, but the echoes solidified, became a chorus of venom that lives inside my head, always.

They are a constant, chattering poison, and their only goal is to dissolve me into a puddle of self-loathing. "Look at you, the little luggage mule. A human beast of burden. You think carrying a suitcase makes you valuable? You're a walking coat rack, a piece of furniture with a pulse. You are less than the dust you wipe from the suitcases." The s***** degradation is a constant, slimy presence. They turn every guest into a potential predator and me into a willing victim. "That businessman in Room 804, he's been watching you. We told him you're the 'special' service. Told him for a hundred riyals you'll come up to his room and let him do whatever he wants. He's got his tie loosened already, waiting for his little hotel w****. Your father would be so proud." They paint me as a cheap, desperate s***, and they assure me the entire staff, all the guests, can see it written all over my face.

But their true genius is in using my family, my only anchor, as an anchor to drag me down. My older brother, Youssef, who works so hard to send money home. "He's breaking his back for you, you know," a voice says, sounding like my own mother, but twisted, cruel. "

DHS chief Markwayne Mullin threatens election officials with prison

voting machines aren't even online lmao how do you hack them

Trump is putting his own face on a new $1 coin, and yes, it might be illegal

isnt there a literal law against putting living people on money? like, the exact law they are ignoring?

Classic Split-Screen: Trump Speaks While Texas Floods

zero evidence as usual lol he just loves the sound of his own voice

Over 1,200 former DOJ staffers tell the Senate to dump Todd Blanche

career bureaucrats complaining about political bias is peak irony but honestly 16,000 employees leaving is pretty hard to ignore