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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump began their latest White House renovations on Monday, June 9, as workers broke ground to begin paving over parts of the historic Rose Garden. Photos of the initial construction show a grassy area being dug up and parts of a limestone border — installed by Melania during her husband’s first term in office — being moved so that workers can lay down a concrete surface within the border.(snip) Melania faced significant backlash when she initially redid the Rose Garden in 2020. The first lady even made a rare public statement after NBC...

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley claimed on Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that voters “better wake up” to the “doomsday scenario” that would unfold if former President Donald Trump were elected. Host Joe Scarborough said, “What’s at stake with about 45 days left? What’s at stake?” Brinkley said, “American democracy, nothing less. Donald Trump is usurper of democracy. He’s a wrecking ball. You’ve been talking today rightfully reminding people of January 6 but the hellscape he has developed of dividing our country, we have a chance to unite. Kamala Harris is doing an incredible job, momentum is her way. I think...

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said Saturday on MSNBC’s “American Voices” that former President Donald Trump intentionally uses language that “led to the Holocaust.” Beschloss said, “Absolutely, and provide Hitler with an easy way to blame the many ills of Germany 1924 after World War I, one group which was Jewish people as well as some others but it was mainly Jews. And for Donald Trump as a former president and possible future president to use that language, knowing that that language led to the Holocaust, he knows what he’s doing, and he thinks it works.”

The day after the UN created the State of Israel, the country's first president, Chaim Weizmann, found time to work on his memoir, "Trial and Error." In it, he issued a warning to the Israeli leaders of today: "I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish state by what it will do with the Arabs." It was Nov. 30, 1947. Weizmann was an astonishingly accomplished man - chemist, diplomat, statesman - but maybe his most uncanny talent was that of seer. Peering into the future, he glimpsed the ugly turn Israeli politics has recently taken and how it...