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Orbán’s Total Defeat

Apr 14, 2026Center Right

In a warning to Donald Trump, the Hungarian prime minister’s loss shows the danger of governing just to please one’s base.

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'Total disaster' at Trump's fair as scorching heat leaves 7 on 'advanced life support'

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'Total disaster' at Trump's fair as scorching heat leaves 7 on 'advanced life support'

A reporter braving a blistering heat wave at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair described chaos at the event as paramedics raced to save attendees, with seven said to be on "advanced life support" in the hospital.Julian Andreone of Drop Site News was on the ground Friday at the fair detailing what he called a "hectic" scene."It really is hectic. It's chaotic. It's a total disaster," Andreone said. "They haven't planned for this at all."As Andreone recorded the conditions, multiple people ran past carrying cold water to help their loved ones who had fainted. During one 71-second clip, Andreone recorded two people racing past him and an ambulance arriving separately with a siren blaring."People are profusely sweating and need water," he said.Andreone reported in an X update that "7 people are on advanced life support in the hospital."In another clip from the event, Andreone points to another person lying down in the back of an EMS truck making its way across the lawn. The event had already been temporarily shut down earlier in the day as the record heat gripped Washington, with organizers planning to reopen at 5 p.m.Washington Post meteorologist Ben Noll noted on X that Washington, D.C., would be warmer than "99 percent of the planet on Friday.""Only parts of Africa's Sahara Desert, the Middle East, China's Gobi Desert and a few spots in the Desert Southwest will be hotter," Noll noted.The conditions have driven attendees to desperate measures, with one Trump supporter earlier dunking herself in a baptismal pool to escape the heat.The post caught Andreone's eye."Great time for a poorly planned and shoddily constructed fair in a wide open field with no shade," he quipped.His account matched what reporters found on the ground: a largely deserted fairground baking in triple-digit heat.Update: 7 people are on advanced life support in the hospital. Here’s a brief snippet of some of our Drop Site reporting from the ground, showing medical staff rushing to get people water and EMS crews driving around, one with a patient in the back on a gurney. https://t.co/PWu358OlbW pic.twitter.com/ItPx4W6yqE— Julian Andreone (@JulianAndreone) July 3, 2026

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‘A total disappointment’: revelers face unbearable heat at Great American State Fair

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‘A total disappointment’: revelers face unbearable heat at Great American State Fair

Attendance had been thin to Trump’s ‘unbelievable’ event before an increase on Friday – and then the high temperatures swept inEven by Trumpian standards, the event was promoted with intense hyperbole: nothing short, the US president suggested, of the “the most unforgettable birthday party any country has ever seen”.“It’s gonna be great,” Donald Trump proclaimed on the opening night of the Great American State Fair, the centerpiece of the US 250th anniversary celebrations. “It’s gonna be unbelievable.” Continue reading...

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Taxes on Trump's $1.4 billion crypto income could total hundreds of millions

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Taxes on Trump's $1.4 billion crypto income could total hundreds of millions

The White House declined to say how much the president paid in taxes on his crypto windfall.

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Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros Defeats 15-Term Incumbent in Colorado Primary

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Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros Defeats 15-Term Incumbent in Colorado Primary

Kiros’s platform includes Medicare for All, universal child care, and abolishing ICE.

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Trump’s birthright citizenship defeat is ‘a win even if it’s not an actual win’: Jack Birle

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Trump’s birthright citizenship defeat is ‘a win even if it’s not an actual win’: Jack Birle

Washington Examiner Supreme Court reporter Jack Birle argued that President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship defeat is “a win even if it’s not an actual win.” The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment on Tuesday. The court ruling reaffirmed the long-standing constitutional principle that nearly all children born […]

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Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary

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Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary

Twenty-nine-year-old beat representative Diana DeGette in deep-blue Denver districtThe democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left. The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza. Continue reading...

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Trump made his Supreme Court defeat 'all the greater' with surprising move: WSJ

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Trump made his Supreme Court defeat 'all the greater' with surprising move: WSJ

President Donald Trump lost big at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as a majority of the justices struck down his executive order abolishing birthright citizenship in the United States — but it's possible there's an alternate reality in which he could have won this, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote.Specifically, they argued, Trump could have tried a much less sweeping change to America's citizenship system, and gotten a more favorable result out of it."An interesting counterfactual is how the Justices might have come out on a narrower order, if Mr. Trump had tried to end birthright citizenship for transients alone," wrote the board, which has been forecasting Trump's loss on this issue for months. But instead, "he took the advice of those who recommended an expansive constitutional challenge because he thought the issue was a political winner, and his defeat is all the greater for it."With Chief Justice John Roberts issuing an absolute judgment in favor of constitutional protections for birthright citizenship, this is no longer possible without an amendment to the Constitution.A key consequence of the ruling, noted the board, is that "today’s 'Dreamers' will give birth to citizens, rather than a second generation living in limbo" — which is for the better, the board argued. "The ability to assimilate newcomers has always been an American strength, while falling birthrates will soon make that an even greater American advantage."As for the specter of "birth tourism," the board concluded, "If [it's] as big a problem as Mr. Trump says, he can make a sustained case for a constitutional amendment."

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Roiled GOP can't agree on path forward after massive Supreme Court defeat: report

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Roiled GOP can't agree on path forward after massive Supreme Court defeat: report

Republicans on Capitol Hill split Tuesday over how to respond after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship through his Day 1 executive order, The Hill reported.In a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Barbara, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly all children born on U.S. soil, even those born to parents in the country illegally. Roberts was joined by fellow conservative Amy Coney Barrett and the three liberal justices. Justice Brett Kavanaugh also voted to block the order but reasoned it violated a federal statute rather than the Constitution.Trump urged Congress to act by legislation, posting, "No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!" But several GOP figures with legal backgrounds broke with him, saying only an amendment could do it. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the ruling means "you have to amend the Constitution to fix that." Sen. Mike Lee, a former Alito clerk, wrote, "We're going to need a constitutional amendment."Sen. Eric Schmitt said he would file legislation walking through a "door" he argued Kavanaugh's opinion left open, while also pursuing an amendment. Sen. Rand Paul pointed to an amendment he filed earlier this year. Others favored narrower steps: Sen. John Cornyn touted his bill targeting "birth tourism," and Sen. Tom Cotton called for "more deportations, a more secure border, and more prosecutions of foreign criminals."The amendment path faces long odds, needing two-thirds of both chambers and three-quarters of the states. Even some conservatives conceded it is out of reach. As commentator Megyn Kelly wrote, "It takes 38 states. We'll never get that."The court issued two other rulings on its final decision day, allowing states to bar transgender girls from girls' and women's sports and striking down limits on coordinated party spending as a First Amendment violation.

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