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The U.S. military resumed strikes against Iran on Wednesday, aiming to further decimate its ability to disrupt maritime traffic, hours after President Trump threatened to unleash a “big attack” on the country. “At the direction of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command forces have started conducting additional strikes against Iran to further degrade their…

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Judge Orders Release of $5.8 Million Trump Owes E. Jean Carroll

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Judge Orders Release of $5.8 Million Trump Owes E. Jean Carroll

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of the $5.8 million that President Trump owes E. Jean Carroll. After the Supreme Court declined last week to hear Trump’s appeal of Carroll’s successful defamation case against him, the president has made excuses and tried to get out of paying her. Trump has already provided the money through a fund set up during the appeals process. However, the interest has grown since then, raising the total sum past the initial $5 million verdict. Shortly after Judge Lewis Kaplan issued his ruling, Trump appealed the decision.In 2023, a jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in 1996 in a Manhattan department store, and defamed her after she went public with her story. The jury ordered $5 million in damages, and Trump put the sum, plus interest, in a court-controlled account shortly after losing the case. Still, Trump insisted that he didn’t know Carroll and accused her of political and financial motives, and continued to defame her by claiming she fabricated her story. That repeated defamation resulted in another lawsuit that Trump lost, with a jury awarding Carroll $88.3 million.Carroll is still awaiting payment from a man notorious for many years for not paying his bills. He’s pulling out all of the stops to avoid paying funds that he already deposited, and that are a tiny fraction of his net worth thanks to his successful efforts to use the presidency to enrich himself. Trump can’t admit when he’s lost, whether in court or at the ballot box, and he likes to hoard his ill-gotten gains. This story has been updated.

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U.S. announces new strikes on Iran as Trump declares the ceasefire over

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U.S. announces new strikes on Iran as Trump declares the ceasefire over

The U.S. military announced new strikes against Iran on Wednesday, marking the second straight night of fighting and the worst escalation since talks began to end the war. President Trump also escalated his rhetoric, declaring the ceasefire over. Ed O'Keefe reports.

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Trump Admin Launches Probe Into H-1B Visa Fraudsters Stealing Jobs From Americans

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Trump Admin Launches Probe Into H-1B Visa Fraudsters Stealing Jobs From Americans

The invesitgation aims to further President Trump's goal to end foreign violence on American soil and return jobs to the American people.

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Clip of Trump's blunder-filled summit unsettles MS NOW: 'Something deeply wrong with him'

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Clip of Trump's blunder-filled summit unsettles MS NOW: 'Something deeply wrong with him'

MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace opened her show Wednesday by rattling off what President Donald Trump had just told the world — the Iran ceasefire is over, all trade with Spain is cut off, and, in her recounting, "Japan is now apparently an Islamic republic."She was reacting to Trump's rounds of news conferences at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where the president mixed up Iran and Japan, claiming "111 missiles" had been fired at a U.S. aircraft carrier by the "Islamic Republic of Japan." Moments earlier, seated beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump had gestured to him and asked reporters if they had a question for "President Putin." He also called TikTok "tic tac," branded Iran's leaders "scum," and declared the ceasefire over.Wallace was briefly left speechless as she played the clip, then unloaded with a withering verdict dripping in sarcasm."Marco Rubio is going to have to start standing next to him and translating. But unsurprisingly, Donald Trump's incomprehensible, unhinged, embarrassing, uninformed, me, me, me display there in his approach to geopolitics has had an effect. It appears to have finally exasperated and exhausted European leaders' patience," she said.Her guests went further.Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said such moments would once have been treated as international crises but now draw a shrug. Atlantic staff writer Tom Nichols, a professor emeritus at the Naval War College, offered the bleakest read."It's almost like we have a relative in the room, and there's something deeply wrong with him, and we've all agreed to not talk about it," Nichols said. "But there is something deeply wrong with him. His friends know it. His critics know it. His staff, I'm sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don't take him seriously." Nichols argued the real danger wasn't the viral gaffes, but that Trump made claims about an active war no one could parse. Wallace tied it to a broader shift, citing New York Times reporting that European leaders have decided to stop humoring the president and push back.

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Iran hit by round of U.S. strikes after Trump gives ‘mixed messaging’ on scope of military conflict

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Iran hit by round of U.S. strikes after Trump gives ‘mixed messaging’ on scope of military conflict

The U.S. military launches new strikes against Iran after President Trump suggested the ceasefire is “over." NBC News' Monica Alba, Brian Cheung, Courtney Kube and “Cosmopolitics” podcast host Elise Labott join Meet the Press NOW to discuss the state of the war.

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(VIDEO) Trump Trolls MS NOW Reporter During NATO Press Conference: “That’s a Failing Network. Why Would You Want to Work for Them?”

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(VIDEO) Trump Trolls MS NOW Reporter During NATO Press Conference: “That’s a Failing Network. Why Would You Want to Work for Them?”

President Trump trolled an MS NOW reporter during his NATO summit press conference on Wednesday, questioning why she would want to work for the "failing network." "They took [away] the name NBC because they were embarrassed by it," Trump said of the recent rebranding. The post (VIDEO) Trump Trolls MS NOW Reporter During NATO Press Conference: “That’s a Failing Network. Why Would You Want to Work for Them?” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump buried by experts over move to stop Carroll payment: ‘Have some self-respect!’

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Trump buried by experts over move to stop Carroll payment: ‘Have some self-respect!’

President Donald Trump's last-minute appeal of a court order to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million cannot stop the money from going out the door, legal experts suggest.Trump's lawyers filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals moments after U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the court clerk to release the funds Wednesday.The order directs the clerk to disburse $5 million — plus nearly $780,000 in interest — from an escrow account where Trump had parked the money while he appealed."What does the appeal mean? In and of itself, nothing," Chris Geidner, a legal journalist who publishes the Law Dork newsletter, wrote on X. "The order is the order, so unless Judge Lewis A. Kaplan or the Second Circuit does something to stop the judge's order from being in effect, the clerk's office is disbursing the money."In other words, filing an appeal doesn't automatically freeze a judge's order. Trump would need a court to grant a separate stay — a formal pause — to actually stop the payment."Appealing a disbursement order ... man, have some self-respect!" Liz Dye wrote on Bluesky. "This is the kind of amazing lawyering you'd expect from Alina Habba's junior partner.""He is such a cheap, judgment-dodging S—," legal analyst Katie Phang wrote on Bluesky, linking to the notice of appeal."After four years of litigation across every level of the federal court system, it is time for this case to end," Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan wrote last week. "It is time for him to pay Carroll."According to SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's challenge of the $5 million verdict on June 29.None of the nine justices noted a dissent — including three Trump had appointed.Trump has also asked the Supreme Court to reconsider that denial. Roberta Kaplan called the bid likely to fail, noting that rehearing is "an even more extraordinary remedy, granted in only narrow circumstances." The court has not yet ruled.Meanwhile, Trump separately owes Carroll $83.3 million from a 2024 defamation verdict. That case is also headed to the Supreme Court.

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Trump demands Supreme Court do something it's done once — ever — in blistering tirade

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Trump demands Supreme Court do something it's done once — ever — in blistering tirade

President Donald Trump demanded that the Supreme Court reverse its own birthright citizenship ruling, something the justices have done exactly once in their 236-year history.In Trump v. Barbara, the justices voted 6-3 to uphold the 14th Amendment's guarantee of automatic citizenship for virtually every child born on U.S. soil.A rehearing would require the same justices to reconsider a case they've already decided and take a new vote."Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. The ruling upheld birthright citizenship for children of immigrants here illegally or on temporary visas."Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with 'Deliveries starting at $4000,'" Trump ranted Wednesday on Truth Social. "AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court's ruling is wrong.""I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don't change their absolutely insane decision."Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck has called getting the Supreme Court to reverse itself on rehearing "a virtual dead-letter."The Court hasn't agreed to rehear a decided case since 1965. And it has only reversed itself once after rehearing a case — in 1957.For a rehearing to move forward, one of the six justices who voted against Trump would have to push for it. None of the six has. "I am not sure that today's opinion will stand the test of time," Justice Clarence Thomas argued in his 91-page dissent. But the justice has never called for a rehearing.Trump has until July 25 — just 17 days — to formally file his rehearing request with the Court.

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US military resumes Iran strikes as Trump ramps up rhetoric

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