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Trump Makes Bank on Oil as He Declares Iran War Has No End in Sight
President Trump has made millions on his oil and gas investments thanks to the Iran war. CNBC reports that the president’s investment holdings continued to trade energy stocks during the first six mo…
9h ago
This Could Be the Biggest Issue of 2027. Dems Are Split on It.
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free. Inside Washington This could be the b…
10h ago
Trump’s Aides Have Totally Given Up on Trying to Control His Impulses
America has a runaway president, and no one on his team is willing to rein him in. White House officials and elected Republicans have abandoned their attempts to sway Donald Trump’s opinion, finding i…
11h ago
Trump Reveals Plan to Overhaul U.S. Census—Reshaping All of Congress
President Trump is trying once again to skirt the Constitution and mess with the U.S. census. The White House is proposing changes to the 2030 census that would exclude every non–U.S. citizen without…
11h ago
ICE Sends Legal Immigrant to Guantánamo Bay
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Somali immigrant in St. Paul, Minnesota, and sent him to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Adam Abdullah told Minnesota Public Radio over the phone Tuesday that he w…
12h ago
Canada Targets States Where Republicans Are Most at Risk of Losing
Canada is making sure Americans feel the consequences of President Trump’s trade war by focusing its tariffs on states where Republicans may lose a midterm election. In Ohio, where Republican Senator…
13h ago
“TRAITOR”: MAGA Rips Brett Kavanaugh Over Missouri Voting Maps
MAGA voters have turned on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh amid Missouri’s congressional map bedlam. Far-right influencers took to social media Tuesday after Kavanaugh declined to intervene in f…
13h ago
ICE Beats Up Protesters After Taking Over Neighborhood for Days
Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took over the Frederick, Maryland, neighborhood of Taskers Chance, and the situation quickly turned violent. ICE told the Frederick News-Post that…
14h ago
Anthropic Insiders Casually Reveal AI Could “Kill All Humans”
Researchers on the frontier of artificial intelligence are sounding the alarm on the likelihood that their products will cause a mass extinction event. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who trains AI models,…
14h ago
Republican Governor Has Long History of Hiring Undocumented Workers
Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen, a staunch supporter of President Trump’s extreme immigration crackdown, relied on undocumented Hispanic labor to build his multimillion-dollar pig-farming busi…
14h ago
Trump’s $45,000 Cash Gift to Natalie Harp Is a Massive Red Flag
Donald Trump gave Natalie Harp—and two other women in his administration—a hefty sum of cash last year. The president gifted Harp $45,000 as a “cash gift for the holidays,” according to a copy of Harp…
15h ago
Ted Cruz Offers Bonkers Defense of Trump’s Bizarre 9/11 Story
Never forget? Senator Ted Cruz suggested that President Donald Trump may not be able to remember what happened on 9/11. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked the Texas Republican Tuesday night what he made of T…
15h ago
Trump Crashes Out Over Fact-Checks of His Outlandish 9/11 Lie
President Trump isn’t happy that his half-truths about where he was during the September 11 attacks are being called out. On Truth Social Tuesday night, Trump posted an angry rant attacking New York…
16h ago
Trump’s DOJ Ghosts European Officials Investigating Epstein
The Justice Department has essentially ghosted the European law enforcement agencies investigating deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, refusing to respond to their requests for assistance, accor…
16h ago
Transcript: Trump Accidentally Reveals His Contempt for MAGA Voters
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and prese…
17h ago
Will the Bond Market Mayhem Make Rich People Want to Pay More Taxes?
I’ve been wondering lately whether the Great Bond Sell-Off of 2026 might force rich people to make Sophie’s Choice between low taxes and a stable bond market. The 10-year Treasury bill’s destabilizi…
19h ago
How Donald Trump Broke the Banks
Here’s some bad news for anyone who wants a sane and functional banking system. The second Trump administration is hard at work destroying every vestige of financial regulation in the United States. A…
19h ago
Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us Anytime Soon
A new report from the U.N. Environment Program concludes that global average temperatures will soon be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than they were in preindustrial times. The ne…
19h ago
Angry, Unglued Trump Accidentally Reveals His Contempt for MAGA Voters
Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of angry, unhinged threats over the last few days. He posted a map of all of North America—including Canada and Mexico—under conquest by the United States. He angrily…
20h ago
Trump, 80, Spotted With New Mystery Bruises on His Arm
While golfing over the weekend, President Trump appeared to have some concerning bruises on his arm. Trump spent Labor Day weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, and while he hit the links…
1d ago
Flock Employee Calls Cops on Reporter Filming Them
Flock Safety wants to record millions of Americans—but apparently no one is allowed to record it. The disturbing double standard was revealed Tuesday by Atlanta News First, which found itself in a loa…
1d ago
Elon Musk Spends Millions Tricking People Into Giving Up Personal Data
Elon Musk’s super PAC is stealing voters’ personal information—again. The billionaire technocrat’s America PAC has launched an aggressive advertising campaign directing them to Vote Safe, a website c…
1d ago
Trump Wants to Make It Easier to Bribe Public Officials
The Trump administration is moving to strip a rule barring private equity officials from engaging in “pay-to-play” schemes with government officials. The Securities and Exchange Commission is plannin…
1d ago
Why Trump’s Angry New Tirade at Canada Is About to Backfire on Him
Could Donald Trump’s destructive and ham-handed tariff wars paradoxically end up reminding Americans what’s good about trade and economic interdependence with other countries? A bizarre turn in Trump’…
1d ago
Secret DHS Unit Pulling People Over Based on Their Financial Data
The Department of Homeland Security is running a police unit that uses Americans’ financial records to predict whether they could commit crimes and is turning over their names to local police. 404 Med…
1d ago
National Guard Member Arrested for Pulling Gun on Fellow Soldier
A Georgia National Guardsman was arrested earlier this month in Washington after he allegedly pulled a loaded gun on a fellow guardswoman on one of the city’s busiest streets. Specialist Zion Mitchell…
1d ago
First Black Smithsonian Head to Retire as Fight With Trump Ramps Up
The Smithsonian’s chief official, Lonnie G. Bunch III, will retire by the end of the year. The 73-year-old historian said Tuesday that his decision to step down was not tied to the various pressures s…
1d ago
Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Biggest Claim About Iran
President Donald Trump has spent months falsely claiming that the United States has already won its war against Iran—until now. “Oil prices will drop precipitously, like everything else is dropping (…
1d ago
Judge Rules Trump’s Defense of IRS-ICE Agreement Is “Weak Sauce”
A federal court ruled Tuesday that the IRS broke the law when it shared taxpayer data with the Department of Homeland Security. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia called o…
1d ago
Bombshell October 7 Report Leads to Calls for Netanyahu’s Removal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of a potential large-scale attack from Hamas nearly two weeks before October 7. He refused to pass that warning down to anyone else in the governme…
1d ago