The Trump administration was rocked last week by an explosive leak to Politico, which published 2,900 pages of racist text messages from leaders in New York.

Daily Mail article suggests that Trump is protecting “nightmare leaker” Gavin Wax after betraying colleagues and creating a national scandal for the GOP.

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2025 NYC Mayoral Poll

Among American-born New Yorkers:
🟡 Andrew Cuomo: 40%
🔵 Zohran Mamdani: 31%
🔴 Curtis Sliwa: 25%

Among foreign-born New Yorkers:
🔵 Zohran Mamdani: 62%
🟡 Andrew Cuomo: 24%
🔴 Curtis Sliwa: 12%

Oct. 18-19 | 715 RV

The US national debt has surpassed $38 trillion, rising from $37 trillion in August.

The $1 trillion increase in just two months ranks among the most rapid debt expansions in American history outside the COVID-19 era.

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House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, the number two House Democrat, defended the government shutdown as political leverage, saying:

“Of course, there will be families that are going to suffer… but it is one of the few leverage times we have.”

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Tucker Carlson snapped at a college student who mentioned his father’s CIA ties.

“Leave my father out of it. I’m gonna have to kick your ass, which I can do, by the way, if you bring him up again, ’cause he was a wonderful man — whatever he did for a living.…

King Charles joined Pope Leo XIV in prayer, becoming the first British monarch to do so since Luther’s Reformation five centuries ago.

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Vice President JD Vance visited and prayed at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

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Vice President JD Vance criticized the Knesset’s vote on West Bank annexation, calling it “a very stupid political stunt” and saying he “personally takes some insult.”

Vance affirmed, “The policy of the Trump Administration is that the West Bank will not…

Vice President JD Vance said following his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu that there will be “no American troops on the ground” in Gaza. However, US troops will assist in “supervising and mediating the peace.”

Vance added the International Security…

The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv shortly after JD Vance departed Israel.

Rubio’s two-day visit seeks to “reaffirm America’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s security” and advance diplomatic efforts under…

Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance have boarded Air Force Two and departed from Israel.

During the visit, Vance met with Israeli officials to reinforce the Gaza peace plan, visited and prayed at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and did not…

President Trump said that Israel "would lose all of its support from the United States" if it annexed the West Bank in an interview with Time Magazine last week.

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he called off the planned federal deployment to the city after speaking with Mayor Daniel Lurie. 

The shutdown is going into next week — at least. And senators are getting restless.

The Alto Norrland Court of Appeals decided that Yazied Mohamed, an 18-year-old Eritrean refugee convicted of raping Meya Åberg, 16, will not be deported onc...

Video of India’s Gorehabba festival, celebrated a day after Diwali, where Hindus throw cow poop on one another.

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Mohammed Umar Khan stabbed Harvey through the heart at Sheffield's All Saints Catholic High School.

Bernie Sanders acknowledged that if “you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation,” and admitted Trump did a better job securing the border than Biden.

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