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Verification of the authenticity of Trump’s plaques of former presidents on the White House Walk of Fame

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✨ Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,Fact Checks,politifact,U.S. presidents,White House 📌 Key idea: This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. In a break from tradition, President Donald Trump decorated the White House walkway with bronze plaques of each US president. In a more severe break with tradition, the panels are written in a style that echoes Trump's Social Truth posts, with misleading or false descriptions of recent Democratic presidents. Former President Joe Biden, whom Trump calls "Sleepy Joe," is represented not by a portrait but by an image of an automatic pen,…

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Watch the live stream: Johnson, Trump Jr., Erica Kirk and Vance speak at the Turning Point USA conference

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🔥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump Jr.,erika kirk,JD Vance,Mike Johnson,republican party,republicans,Turning Point USA 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: PHOENIX (AP) — We're three years away from the next presidential election, but Turning Point USA already knows it wants Vice President J.D. Vance as the Republican nominee. Erica Kirk, leader of the powerful conservative youth organization, endorsed him on the opening night of its annual AmericaFest convention, drawing cheers from the crowd. Watch the event live via the video player above. But the four-day meeting revealed more danger than promise for Vance…

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At least 16 files disappear from the Justice Department’s website of Epstein documents, including a photo of Trump

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🔥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Department of Justice,Donald Trump news,epstein files,jeffrey epstein 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: NEW YORK (AP) — At least 16 files have disappeared from the Justice Department's public web page of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photo showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, without any explanation from the government or notice to the public. The missing files, which were available on Friday and were no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and…

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PHOTOS: The Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to a congressional memorial created for JFK

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts,kennedy center 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center on Friday quickly added Donald Trump's name to the performing arts center designated by Congress as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy, a day after the center's board of trustees voted to make the change. Read more: Trump's select board votes to rename performing arts center to 'Trump Kennedy Center' Blue tarps were hung in front of the building to conceal workers on scaffolding while…

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Brooks and Keyhart on Trump’s approval ratings and mental acuity

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💥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Brooks and Capehart 💡 Main takeaway: Jeff Bennett: President Trump this week tried to address his low approval ratings for the economy.To analyze this and more, we now turn to Brooks and Capehart. These are New York Times columnist David Brooks and MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart.Good evening, gentlemen. Jonathan Capehart: Jeff. Jeff Bennett: So, President Trump is taking issue with affordability after initially saying it was a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. He talked about today's drug prices. He carries this message on the road to the battlefield…

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The family of a North Carolina woman detained by immigration officers shares their story

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🚀 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: immigration detention,immigraton,North Carolina 📌 Main takeaway: Jeff Bennett: Among the tens of thousands arrested in the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, many are convicted of violent crimes, but nearly three-quarters of those in ICE custody have no criminal record. That's according to reports by TRAC, a nonpartisan data collection platform.Amna Nawaz recently spoke with the family of a young woman, a young woman arrested by federal immigration officers in North Carolina. Amna Nawaz: Last month, Border Patrol arrested 23-year-old Fatima Isela Velasquez Antonio at her work…

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Chris Whipple talks about the White House’s reaction to his Susie Wells profile

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✨ Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Chris Whipple,Donald Trump news,epstein files,Susie Wiles,Vanity Fair 📌 Key idea: Jeff Bennett: That was the story that captured Washington's attention this week, Vanity Fair journalist Chris Whipple's story, which, based on 11 taped interviews with Susie Wiles, President Trump's chief of staff, provided a rare and revealing look at Trump's second term.Through Whipple's reporting, Wiles offers unusually frank assessments of Trump's top officials, criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein files, calling Vice President J.D. Vance a conspiracy theorist, and offering a stunning description of…

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See photos and documents from the latest version of the Epstein profile

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🚀 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Bill Clinton,Department of Justice,epstein files,jeffrey epstein 📌 Main takeaway: Want a refresher on the battle over the Epstein files? Here's how President Donald Trump is affected, a look at Jeffrey Epstein's private islands, plus what we know about Epstein's death in prison. The Justice Department released tens of thousands of records Friday regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though many of the files are heavily redacted and the agency failed to meet a legal deadline to release all files related to its investigation. A person with his…

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News Wrap: 9 Drug Companies Cut Drug Prices for Medicaid

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🔥 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: news wrap 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: In our news cover on Friday, nine pharmaceutical companies agreed to lower prices on many of the drugs they sell to Medicaid and sell directly to consumers through the site TrumpRx, Russian President Putin says he remains committed to achieving goals in Ukraine if Kiev does not agree to their demands for peace, and Australia announces a gun buyback plan after the Bondi Beach mass shooting. Jeff Bennett: And in other headlines of the day: Nine drug companies agreed…

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The Justice Department began releasing the Epstein files, with many of them heavily redacted

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Jeff Bennett: Welcome to the News Hour.Late this afternoon, the Department of Justice began releasing thousands of pages of files and communications related to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The new documents include photos, call logs, court files and more, many of which have been heavily redacted.Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, joins us now.So, Liz, you and our team have been reading these documents. What stands out so far? Liz Landers: Well, there are thousands of documents released today. That's…

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