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A new rule explaining how states need to implement Medicaid work requirements may make it much harder for low-income sick people to maintain health coverage next year. The long-anticipated rule issued Monday is meant to guide 42 states and the District of Columbia in carrying out the work rules implemented by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. GOP lawmakers and…

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Trump official goes on Fox to explain $4.48 gas — and somehow blames Democrats

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Trump official goes on Fox to explain $4.48 gas — and somehow blames Democrats

Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared on Fox News Wednesday to defend the Trump administration against Democratic criticism over gasoline prices spiking amid the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, and provided a stunning explanation for the record-setting price surges.Fox News’ Bill Hemmer cued a compilation clip of Democratic lawmakers criticizing the Trump administration for its war against Iran, placing the blame for rising energy costs squarely on the decision to launch the war. And yet, Wright insisted that the blame lay elsewhere.“It's a little rich, it's a little rich! We're in the middle of solving a 47-year-old problem that's a growing problem about a nuclear-armed Iran,” Wright said.“The bigger problem, the even bigger problem with gasoline prices, electricity prices, heating prices, is Democrat green policies!”Gasoline prices in the United States reached an average of $4.48 per gallon in May, an increase of 42.2% over the previous year, Fox News reported. While the price hike coincided with Trump’s war against Iran – which resulted in major disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping channel through which 20% of the world’s oil trade flows – Wright continued to insist Democratic policies around renewable energy were to blame.“They've done everything they can for 20 years to drive energy prices up, and now they're upset about high energy prices!” Wright said. “I'm glad, I hope they keep that attitude going forward and will work with us to drive energy prices back down.”Energy @SecretaryWright on what the "bigger problem" is causing soaring gas prices:"The even bigger problem with gasoline prices, electricity prices, heating prices, is Democrat green policies!" pic.twitter.com/vj4U5IheDY— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) June 3, 2026

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Trump has 'given up' governing to focus on his real priority: Nobel economist

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Trump has 'given up' governing to focus on his real priority: Nobel economist

According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the Iran war “debacle” has “clearly broken” President Donald Trump, and as a result, the commander-in-chief has “given up governing” to focus exclusively on his true priorities: “rage and revenge.”The latest evidence of this is tthat Trump has tapped Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a role that is vital to the country’s national security apparatus. As Krugamn writes, “The word ‘acting’ is crucial. The statute creating the position of DNI explicitly requires that the appointee ‘shall have extensive national security expertise.’” Pulte has none. A home building baron and current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he has zero background in intelligence. “But pointing out that Pulte is unqualified for his new job doesn’t convey the extent to which Trump is trolling America with this new appointment,” says Krugman. “For Pulte isn’t merely unqualified for a sensitive national security position. He’s unqualified, intellectually and morally, for any government position. All he has are the qualifications that matter to Trump: he is a shameless lackey and willing hitman for Trump’s vendettas.”Part of what brought Pulte into Trump’s orbit where the “thousands of nasty political posts” he spewed onto social media in recent years. His family’s background in residential construction garnered him an appointment as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but according to Krugman, “His real job has been weaponizing the agency as a tool against Trump’s perceived enemies — weaponization that is being investigated by the Government Accountability Office as a potential misuse of authority. Pulte confected false claims of mortgage fraud to try to push out Lisa Cook, the only black woman on the Federal Reserve Board. He has leveled similar trumped-up charges against Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, and several Democratic politicians. And he pushed groundless fraud accusations against Jerome Powell, the former Federal Reserve chair, who stood in the way of Trump’s attempt to politicize monetary policy.”That Pulte has turned out to be a “bumbling hatchet man” whose efforts have been entirely ineffective is besides the point, says Krugman. “For Trump, willingness to engage in unethical behavior is all that matters.”Even so, Krugman expresses surprise that Trump would select someone with such vanishing experience considering the fact that, at the very least, the president “sees wars only as ways to enrich himself and distract from his domestic woes,” and to that end, one would think he’d want accurate intelligence. “But Trump appears to have given up on governing,” asserts Krugman, “even governing aimed at consolidating his own power and legacy. He wants to punish everyone he imagines has wronged him but has lost all interest in making the government work, even for nefarious purposes. So he don’t need no intelligence, just someone who will indulge his rage. And that will be Pulte’s job.”While Krugman warns that the Republican Party and its megadonors are still working hard to corrupt American democracy, dismantle the country’s scientific community, and consolidate power for billionaires, he concludes that “Trump himself is, at this point, little more than a festering ball of anger and hate.”

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Republicans just gave Trump a 'shock defeat' in a GOP stronghold

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Republicans just gave Trump a 'shock defeat' in a GOP stronghold

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a recent series of GOP primaries, unseated one prominent Republican after another — including Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), none of whom will be competing with Democratic candidates in the 2026 midterms' general election. But on Tuesday, June 2 in Iowa's GOP gubernatorial primary, Trump suffered what the New York Times' Reid J. Epstein describes as a "shock defeat."Trump, four days before the election, endorsed Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) for governor of Iowa. But Feenstra narrowly lost that primary to businessman/farmer Zach Lahn."The primary loss for Rep. Randy Feenstra, whom the president endorsed on Friday afternoon, came at a time of mixed signals of Mr. Trump's power over the Republican Party," Epstein explains in the New York Times. "He has won a series of dominant primary victories over Republican opponents, but has faced rising pushback from his party in Congress."In the past, GOP and Democratic strategists considered Iowa a swing state. Former President Barack Obama won Iowa in both 2008 and 2012. Yet the midwestern state has trended Republican in recent years. Trump carried Iowa in three presidential elections in a row, defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 13 percent in the state in 2024.But Trump's endorsement wasn't enough to get Feenstra past the finish line in Iowa's 2026 GOP gubernatorial primary. And Epstein describes that outcome as a "rare high-profile primary loss" for the president."In modern Republican primary politics," the New York Times reporter notes, "Mr. Trump's endorsement is the gold standard. In the last month, it has ousted sitting senators, a congressman and state legislators whom the president deemed insufficiently loyal. So when Mr. Feenstra won Mr. Trump's endorsement for governor last week, it felt like the push he needed to get past four candidates in the primary."Epstein continues, "Yet Mr. Feenstra was toppled on Tuesday by Zach Lahn, a conservative political operative and farmer who ran an insurgent campaign. Mr. Feenstra was seen as having run a lackluster campaign, and also faced the wrath of former Rep. Steve King, who lost to Mr. Feenstra in a 2020 primary and backed Mr. Lahn. Mr. Feenstra's defeat makes him the highest-profile candidate endorsed by Mr. Trump to lose a Republican primary race in years — perhaps since Luther Strange, an appointed senator in Alabama, fell to Roy Moore in a 2017 special election primary. Mr. Moore went on to lose the general election to Doug Jones, a Democrat."The presumptive nominee in Iowa's gubernatorial race is State Auditor Rob Sand. Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, decided not to seek reelection.Iowa's last Democratic governor was Chet Culver, who left office in January 2011.

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Trump admits to lobbing expletives at foreign leader: 'I was a little bit perturbed'

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Trump admits to lobbing expletives at foreign leader: 'I was a little bit perturbed'

President Donald Trump admitted in an interview published Wednesday that he lobbed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an explosive phone call on Monday, citing his growing frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt its invasion and bombardment of Lebanon as the cause for his outburst.Details of the supposed call were first reported on by Axios, which claimed Trump had called Netanyahu “f------ crazy,” and said that “everybody hates you” and “hates Israel.” Trump also reportedly told the prime minister that he’d “be in prison if it weren’t for me,” with Netanyahu having been indicted on corruption charges by the Israeli government, and for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.Trump was asked about the authenticity of the call in an interview with The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, host of the outlet’s podcast Pod Force One.“You were angry with him, you said ‘are you f-ing crazy, what are you f-ing doing, I helped you stay out of jail’ – is that true?” Devine asked in a video interview published on Wednesday. “Did you speak to him in those terms?”“I did,” Trump admitted, before pressing back on the call being characterized as “angry.” “I wouldn’t say angry, I was a little bit… perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know? At some point, I said, ‘Bibi, we got to stop this, we got to stop this.’”Since its latest invasion of Lebanon in early March, Israel has killed more than 3,400 Lebanese and injured over 10,200, per the Lebanon Health Ministry. Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon is a key sticking point in the Trump administration’s peace negotiations with Tehran. Iran has demanded that Israel halt its bombardment of Lebanon as a condition in its negotiations with the Trump administration on ending the war, a demand that Israel has largely ignored, despite Trump himself demanding as much in April.Trump on Axios report that he told Netanyahu "you're f*cking crazy":I did. I always get angry. I was a little bit perturbed at him, constantly fighting with Lebanon....You know, at some point I said we're going to stop this. pic.twitter.com/4c6Tpo1GkZ— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 3, 2026

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The end of Trump's 'weaponisation' fund is another sign Republicans are fighting back

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The end of Trump's 'weaponisation' fund is another sign Republicans are fighting back

The $1.8bn fund would have paid people the Trump administration decided were unjustly and politically targeted.

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The Enhanced Games Proved Enhancement Works But Youth Works Better

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The Enhanced Games Proved Enhancement Works But Youth Works Better

But many older enhanced athletes did achieve better results than their younger selves.

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How Trump Left Himself With No Good Solutions on Iran

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How Trump Left Himself With No Good Solutions on Iran

He wants the war to be over, but without paying any cost—military, economic, or political.

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Trump-endorsed Feenstra concedes to MAHA-backed Lahn in GOP governor primary upset

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Trump-endorsed Feenstra concedes to MAHA-backed Lahn in GOP governor primary upset

Zach Lahn’s surprise win over Trump-backed Rep. Randy Feenstra sets up a November matchup with Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand in a race both parties are watching closely.

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