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MAGA ally Ben Shapiro has stunningly turned on President Trump and urged him to listen to Elon Musk's criticism of his tariff policy. Shapiro, a long-time supporter of the president, smashed the illusion that tariffs are a good business deal for Americans to smithereens, with a startling insight on Monday: 'Musk is right. Musk happens to be 100 percent right about this.' The Tesla CEO has been in lockstep with the president on key voter issues since he returned to the White House, but came out swinging against tariffs and exposed a feud with the key advisor who helped bring...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was jokingly dubbed the "Prime Minister" by BBC Radio 4 host Nick Robinson following a surge in polling for the political party. In a new survey by Find Out Now, Reform came out on top at 26 per cent, down one point from the week before. Labour came in close second with 23 per cent, while the Conservatives took third place with 22 per cent in the poll of 2,745 people. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Farage scoffed as Robinson greeted him as "Prime Minister". Robinson said: "The leader of Reform UK joins us on...

In an interview this morning with RS, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said there was clearly "no urgency" for U.S. military airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, now in their 13th day. Therefore, the administration should have gone to Congress for authorization and without it, those strikes are illegal. Massie pointed to Vice President J.D. Vance's contribution to the now infamous signal chat which described the strikes as they were happening. "JD" as identified in the chat, which has been authenticated by the administration, among other points, said that "there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the...

But this predictable attempt to make Donald Trump the scapegoat for closer-than-expected midterm election results is highly misleading, and an oversimplification in the extreme.The results of Tuesday night’s elections do not tell an easy story for those looking to pin the blame on Trump. Many Trump candidates—including J. D. Vance, Ted Budd, almost certainly Kari Lake and Adam Laxalt, potentially Blake Masters, and possibly (after the runoff) Herschel Walker—will have won their races in highly competitive swing states despite most being outspent by tens of millions of dollars.Where Republican candidates faltered, it was not just those who were chosen by...