Soccer governing body FIFA has mounted an extensive charm offensive to win over President Trump, including arranging for one of Trump’s favorite bands, the Village People, to perform at the World Cup draw today, the Washington Post reports.
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Steve Kornacki: “There’s no official winner yet, but the Democratic primary for the special election in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district already amounts to a political earthquake in the state.”…
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President Trump “fired off no fewer than 66 posts between 10:36 p.m and 12:25 a.m,” the Daily Beast reports. “That included everything from cute dog videos taken from TikTok to…
Bill Scher: “Be vigilant, be imaginative, but also remember that everything Trump is doing to impose restrictive voting measures is backfiring on Republicans, just like his previous efforts.” For more,…
NOTUS: “The future of the courses — when there will be renovations, how much it will cost to golf on them, who will have access — is all now in…
“Al-Qaeda and its network of affiliates have 50 times more recruits than they had at the time of 9/11, according to data compiled by a United Nations monitoring group,” the…
“Iran appears to have rapidly repaired several ballistic missile facilities damaged in strikes last year, but it has made only limited fixes to major nuclear sites struck by Israel and…
Paul Krugman: “For much of Trump’s first year in office many Democrats were reluctant to challenge his immigration policies, because their defeat in 2024 was widely seen as in part…
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Rachel Bade: “If it wasn’t clear before, it’s crystal clear now: Democrats are feeling their power when it comes to ICE enforcement and the looming Department of Homeland Security funding…
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“A new wave of popular anger is rising in Iran, as people enraged by last month’s mass killings of protesters vent their antipathy for the regime despite the risks of…
Punchbowl News: “Congress is once again in a crisis. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security will run out one week from today, and Congress is miles from a solution.”…
“Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated,…
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told TMZ that Republicans “shit talk” President Trump at the congressional gym. Said Swalwell: “You’d be surprised, the truth really comes out in the congressional gym….
Paul Krugman: “This crash may have political consequences. At least some young men supported Trump because they believed that he would enhance their crypto investments, and have remained favorable because…
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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