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Trump hemorrhaging support from key business community as 'buyer's remorse' settles in

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Trump hemorrhaging support from key business community as 'buyer's remorse' settles in

President Donald Trump is hemorrhaging support from a key business community as they express "buyer's remorse," according to a new report. NBC News reported on Friday that support for Trump from Latino business owners has seemingly fallen off a cliff during his second term. Latino voters were one group that swung heavily in favor of Trump during the 2024 election, and some business owners interviewed by NBC said they supported Trump because of his economic agenda. However, Trump's immigration policies and tariffs have changed their minds, according to the report. It cited recent polling data that showed support for Trump among the Latino business community had dropped from 69% to 39%. That could prove costly as the 2026 midterm elections approach. "The very guy that we thought would fix things for me, and make my life better, these circumstances are even worse now," Javier Palomares, CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Business Council, said in an interview with NBC News. NBC News' Valerie Castro characterized the sentiment as "buyer's remorse." "They're really rethinking the choices they made," Palomares added, referring to the business owners the USHBC represents. "We're kind of stuck right now. That's not to say that it's too late."

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'Huge gamble': Expert shares sobering prediction after Trump ruptures alliance with insult

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'Huge gamble': Expert shares sobering prediction after Trump ruptures alliance with insult

Republican strategist Doug Heye is alarmed by the rift between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a right-wing leader who was initially close with Trump but is now on the outs with him.Tensions came to a head on Friday as Meloni posted a public video raging about Trump's false claim that she had "begged" to get a photo with him at the G7 summit."Doug, you say that this dispute between Trump and Meloni is an embarrassment," said CNN's Boris Sanchez on Friday's edition of CNN's "OutFront.""It's an embarrassment, and it comes at the very worst time, I think, possible that it could for the president and frankly, for the global coalition that the U.S. has put together over decades," said Heye, who has often fretted about the drama Trump creates in his party.Notably, he said, when Meloni was first put in office, "she was viewed as sort of like an Italian MAGA candidate. So she and Trump were going to get along famously." However, he continued, Meloni is now learning what "so many other people learn about Donald Trump if they get close to him," which is that "Donald Trump doesn't give points. He only takes them away one at a time."The consequences of the rift could be far-reaching, Heye warned."Whether you're talking about Europe — and by the way, things aren't terribly stable in England right now either — and what that means for Iran and thus the whole world are really important right now, I would want to keep our allies as close as possible," said Heye, but Trump appears totally unconcerned with this. "It's a huge gamble." - YouTube www.youtube.com

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Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool

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Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool

A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro.

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DOJ Refusing to Release Old Epstein Emails That Could Expose Trump

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DOJ Refusing to Release Old Epstein Emails That Could Expose Trump

The Department of Justice claims that it’s released every document that’s required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. But the agency previously said it collected more than six million pages of material during its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, and it only released around three million. So what’s in the rest of the Epstein files?The DOJ claims that the other three million pages are either duplicates, unrelated to Epstein, or protected by legal privilege. But because of the administration’s lack of transparency in regard to Epstein, many are concerned that something is still being hidden.CBS News analyzed the available files to try to figure out which documents appeared to be missing, and found a number of notable omissions: questionable redactions, missing emails from older accounts, lack of massage scheduling records after 2009, missing prison surveillance footage, and more.Notably, most of the emails in the released files were from an email account created in 2008, around the time Epstein went to jail: jeevacation@gmail.com.But Epstein had other, older email addresses that were mentioned in only a few, highly redacted publicly released files. One missing account, littlestjeff@yahoo.com, was from the early 2000s—the time when Epstein was most in touch with Donald Trump.Trump has repeatedly claimed that he is innocent of all charges when it comes to his connection with Epstein. But, as this analysis by CBS reveals, we may still be missing major pieces of the puzzle.

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Pete Hegseth's 'exceptionally bad idea' creating needless suffering in military: analysis

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Pete Hegseth's 'exceptionally bad idea' creating needless suffering in military: analysis

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is causing needless suffering within the military ranks by eliminating the universal flu vaccine mandate, according to a new analysis. More than 160 soldiers at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas because of a growing influenza outbreak, which may have killed at least one person in basic training, according to a new editorial from The Washington Post's editorial board. Since the new mandate was handed down in April, at least half of Air Force cadets have skipped getting the shot, and that is part of why the virus is spreading, the editorial added. "If it wasn’t already clear why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to eliminate the military’s universal flu vaccine mandate was an exceptionally bad idea, it should be now," the editors wrote. The influenza outbreak is happening at a time when the U.S. is engaged in a protracted conflict with Iran, which seems likely to start heating up after peace talks fell apart this week. Vice President JD Vance was scheduled to travel to Switzerland on Friday to sign an agreement between the U.S. and Iran that was brokered last weekend, but abruptly canceled the plans late Thursday night. The Washington Post editors also took aim at Hegseth's excuse for revising the vaccine mandate, arguing that it makes the military less war-ready. "When Hegseth announced the new vaccine policy, he claimed that 'overly broad' mandates 'only weaken our war-fighting capabilities' and stressed that his rollback would 'restore freedom and strength to our joint force,'" the editors wrote. "In reality, his apparent motive was pandering to anti-vaccine elements inside President Donald Trump’s coalition," they added. "Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former trial lawyer who has profited from lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers, continues plotting to make it harder for people to get immunizations. Never mind that Trump himself received the flu and COVID vaccines last fall.""The secretary cannot stop seasonal diseases like the flu, but unnecessarily ruling out ways to mitigate harm only degrades military readiness," they continued.

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French President shares new angle of Trump’s historic Iran deal signing

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French President shares new angle of Trump’s historic Iran deal signing

President Trump signed the U.S.–Iran memorandum at Versailles after Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf reportedly signed it digitally earlier in the week. The agreement, witnessed by Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, is being framed as a step toward ending hostilities and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. officials say...

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US Launches Tariff Probe Into Germany Over Pharma Pricing

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US Launches Tariff Probe Into Germany Over Pharma Pricing

The US launched a tariff investigation into Germany over what it called “persistent underpayment for innovative pharmaceutical products,” setting the stage for possible levies on its goods in retaliation.

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Gas Prices Could Take Months to Return to Pre-War Levels Even After U.S.-Iran Deal

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Gas Prices Could Take Months to Return to Pre-War Levels Even After U.S.-Iran Deal

The securing of a U.S.-Iran agreement, and its emphasis on the full reopening of the Strait, has offered some reassurance, but significant obstacles remain, analysts tell TIME.

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