Author name: Heather Cox Richardson

Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S.

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Today, on the second day of the papal conclave, the cardinal electors—133 members of the College of Cardinals who were under the age of 80 when Pope Francis died on April 21—elected a new pope.

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Alarm appears to be rising about how the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is consolidating data about Americans.

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In a follow-up story to last night’s information about the Trump family’s cryptocurrency corruption, MacKenzie Sigalos of CNBC reported today that 58 crypto wallets have made more than $10 million each on Trump’s meme coin, gathering a total of $1.1 billion in profits.

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On his social media feed yesterday evening, President Donald J.

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In an interview aired today on NBC News’s Meet the Press, reporter Kristen Welker asked President Donald J.

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I had thought to post a picture tonight and then realized that today was the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby.

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Yesterday I identified incorrectly the messaging app newly fired national security advisor Michael Waltz was using at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as the unsecure Signal app.

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President Donald Trump waited until the 101st day of his administration to fire national security advisor Mike Waltz, the official responsible for including the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic on an unsecure Signal chat in which leaders shared classified information about a military strike on the Houthis in Yemen.

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