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The Kremlin claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin survived a massive drone attack on his helicopter last week. On Tuesday Putin was visiting the Kursk region when his helicopter was 'virtually at the epicenter of repelling a large-scale attack by the enemy's drones,' said Yury Dashkin, commander of a Russian air defense division, according to the state news agency TASS. 'Therefore, we simultaneously conducted an air defense battle and ensured the safety of the presidential helicopter’s flight in the air,' Dashkin said. The Kursk region borders Ukraine, with Moscow claiming that it had driven Ukrainian forces out of the area...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski are cozier than ever, despite White House concerns about their relationship. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night that Lewandowski is now working as a 'special government employee' under Noem at the Department of Homeland Security. Lewandowski had initially wanted to serve as Noem's chief of staff, but President Donald Trump and his top advisers reportedly felt 'uncomfortable' with the optics of such a placement. The president and Lewandowski settled on him becoming a special government employee to DHS so the pair would be more removed...

President Donald Trump has fired several members of his National Security Council team. DailyMail.com confirmed an Axios report released Thursday morning. The dismissals come after National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where top administration officials were discussing an attack on the Houthis in Yemen. Trump has publicly supported Waltz, a former Florida congressman, in the aftermath of Signalgate, despite some White House insiders labeling him a 'f***ing idiot.' However The New York Times reported Thursday morning that far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office on Wednesday and pressed...

President Donald Trump has declared himself a 'King' in an explosive social media post. Trump's reference to himself as a monarch came after his officials halted New York City's widely hated traffic congestion pricing system. The president, a New York City native, wrote on Truth Social: 'Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan, and all of New York, is saved. Long Live The King!' White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich went a step further, sharing the message along with what appeared to be an AI-generated image of Trump dressed in the regalia of a king. An official White House social...

President Donald Trump has given a cryptic warning that Joe Biden should have pardoned himself before he left office. Trump made the ominous comment in his first Oval Office interview since his swearing-in on Monday. Fox News star Sean Hannity asked Trump his thoughts on Biden's decision to give last-minute preemptive pardons to members of his own family, and some of the Republican president's political enemies. 'And you know what the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is - he didn't give himself a pardon,' Trump pointed out. 'And you look at it, it all had to do with him,'...

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that the top civilian honor was better than the top military honor because those recipients are in 'very bad shape' or deceased. He made the comments at an antisemitism event at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort, where he lauded Miriam Adelson, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who long bankrolled Republican political campaigns. Trump reminded the audience how he had presented Miriam Adelson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, mispeaking and saying it's equivalent to the 'Congressional Medal of Honor.' The highest military decoration is simply referred to as the Medal...

A member of the U.S. Secret Service was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night in California during President Joe Biden's high-profile fundraising swing. Scripps News reported Monday that officers from the Tustin Police Department responded to a call and found that the victim was a member of the Secret Service who had fired off his own gun during the robbery. It is unclear if the perpetrator was injured and by Monday afternoon the Tustin, California Police Department said it was still investigating the incident. Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi confirmed to Scripps that a member of the U.S. Secret Service was...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley told supporters Saturday night in Charleston that she was staying in the presidential race - despite being trounced by former President Donald Trump in her home state of South Carolina. Haley suffered a quick embarrassment in the state she governed from 2011 to 2017 - with the Associated Press calling South Carolina for Trump at 7 p.m. on the dot - the moment Palmetto State polls closed. By the time she stepped onstage around 8:30 p.m., Trump was leading her by about 20 points - with Haley hovering just below 40 percent - as returns...

When 2024 Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips took over his family's booze business in 2000 he oversaw a raunchy ad campaign used to sell Revelstoke, a spiced Canadian whisky. The ad campaign used strippers to sell the whisky and suggested men needed to drink more of it to deal with overweight, undesirable women. It also used creative technology so that the name of the whisky brand would show up in urinals as male customers went to the bathroom. Phillips has used his business background as a benefit since launching a political career in the aftermath of former President Donald...

A highly classified binder of documents related to 2016 Russian election interference disappeared from the White House during former President Donald Trump's final days in office. CNN first reported Friday on the mystery, which remains unsolved nearly three years after Trump left office. The binder contained raw intelligence the U.S. and its NATO allies collected to inform the government's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win the 2016 presidential election over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

A top Biden campaign official was noncommittal on Wednesday about President Joe Biden participating in the general election debates. Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager for the Biden-Harris campaign, was asked if the president was committed to participating now that the the Commission on Presidential Debates released a schedule. Fulks, former Democratic Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and Alabama state Rep. Barbara Drummond held a press conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where the fourth Republican primary debate will be held on the University of Alabama's campus later Wednesday night. 'At the end of the day, we're focused on building a campaign....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement Monday to run for president as an Independent complicates the presidential race, with early surveys showing him tying up the race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. A Fox News poll from Wednesday found that in a three-way race between Trump, who is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Biden and Kennedy, Biden and Trump tie at 41 percent and Kennedy sucks up 16 percent of the vote. A Zogby survey conducted for the pro-Kennedy PAC American Values 2024 had similar findings, with Trump and Biden tied at 38 percent and with...

Former President Donald Trump floated a new plan Wednesday to solve the border crisis: Feed migrants to alligators. The ex-president shared a meme to his Truth Social website Wednesday afternoon, which showed an image of six alligators with the words 'new border security' and 'will work for food' superimposed over it. 'Problem solved!!' the post also said. Trump's commentary comes as border crossings returned to the levels from before Title 42 was dropped, with apprehensions hitting 8,000 on Monday. It also comes after The New York Times reported in October 2019 that the then-president floated fortifying his border wall with...

Last week brought yet another campaign reset for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a DailyMail.com poll found his support in the crucial early state of Iowa had crashed by nine percent. But stop to ask the actual men and women who will take part in the first contest to choose the Republican nominee next year and they will tell you to ignore the headlines and that there is a long, long way to go. 'I think that Trump is in the lead now, but Trump's gonna say something dumb and make a mistake, and people are gonna turn to Ron,'...

Vice President Kamala Harris was ridiculed Tuesday after making a rather obvious quip in a speech about transportation. The Veep was seated alongside Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for an event with disability rights advocates to increase transportation accessibility. 'This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go,' she said chuckling. 'It's that basic.' **SNIP** One user referred to it as her '1st grade vocabulary class.' Harris' latest cringey line comes after she awkwardly spewed out a 'word salad' when trying to define 'culture' at New Orleans' Essence...

A group of bipartisan senators is quietly meeting to retool Social Security before funds run out in 2032. On the table, according to Semafor, is gradually raising the retirement age to 70 and creating a $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund, which would invest in stocks.

Hungary's far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban snubbed Wednesday's meeting in Warsaw with President Joe Biden and the other Bucharest Nine leaders after insisting Donald Trump was the only person who could broker peace with Vladimir Putin. Orban has been an outlier on the war in Ukraine, chiding the European Union for prolonging the conflict and saying in October that only former U.S. President Donald Trump could negotiate a deal between the Ukrainians and Russians to end the conflict. 'This is going to sound brutal, but hope for peace goes by the name of Donald Trump,' Orban said at the time,...

Republican Rep.-elect George Santos comes to Congress in January with a degree from Baruch College and stints at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, according to his campaign biography. But a New York Times investigation revealed Monday that nobody by Santos' name, or a deviation of it, graduated in 2010 from Baruch. Nobody at Citigroup nor Goldman Sachs had a record of Santos working at their offices....

Former President Donald Trump said in a video message Thursday that those imprisoned for January 6 crimes were being 'tormented' and treated 'very, very unfairly,' and he would 'get to the bottom of it' during his 2024 White House run. ... ...we can't let this happen in our country because our country is going - not socialist, they've skipped over that, they've skipped over socialism - our country is going communist,' Trump also claimed. 'This is what happens and we can't let it happen, we have to stop it.' ... ...In September Trump pledged that if he was re-elected president...

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is denying she leaked a tape of a conversation with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in which he says he'll push former President Donald Trump to resign from office after the January 6 Capitol attack. 'The select committee has asked Kevin McCarthy to speak with us about these events but he has so far declined. Representative Cheney did not record or leak the tape and does not know how the reporters got it,' Cheney's spokesperson said, according to CNN. After denying he made such comments, audio of a conversation between Cheney, then the No. 3 House...