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On Thursday’s “Spectrum News One,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said all of our Democratic and Republican presidents have been patriots, except for President Donald Trump. Discussing the House possibly flipping control in the midterm elections, Pelosi said, “We only need a handful, but I would rather have at least 30 now. But it doesn’t matter if I want to win more than we need, because I think the Republicans will try to play a stunt and challenge if it’s just a few seats. So it’s good to have the insurance of having many more. That’s the way I like it.”…

Some of President Donald Trump’s Capitol Hill critics were quick to condemn his administration’s military action against Iran early Saturday, criticizing what they described as an unjustified act of war that hadn’t been approved by Congress. Shortly after reports of the attack against Tehran emerged in the predawn hours, frequent Trump-basher Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) characterized the strikes on social media as “acts of war unauthorized by Congress.” Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) had planned to force votes next week on legislation that would curb Trump’s ability to take unilateral military action against Iran without congressional approval. But the…

Islamabad launched military strikes on its western neighbor early on Friday, allegedly in response to cross-border fire by Kabul Nuclear-armed Pakistan has made an open declaration of war against former ally Afghanistan, its western neighbor that has resisted NATO occupation for years, and has sought to drag its archrival India into an escalating conflict.Islamabad said the latest escalation of violence between the estranged neighbors was triggered after Afghan Taliban forces opened fire on its border positions late Thursday, killing two Pakistani soldiers and wounding three others.During the NATO occupation of its western neighbor, Pakistan had a complex relationship with Afghanistan,…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that President Donald Trump “has no role constitutionally” in administering midterm elections. Raskin said, “Everything we’re hearing about today is an echo of what took place in 2020. Write me a memo. Explain how we can steal the election. Why? Because their policies are tremendously unpopular. They’re plummeting in the polls. So they don’t have a program of policies for the country. They’re just going to try to shrink and reduce the electorate and somehow rig the electoral result.” He added, “The administration should take note, from what happened in…

The British PM’s Labour Party came in third place in a constituency it’s held since the 1930s The UK’s Labour Party has lost a parliamentary seat it had held for almost a century to the Green Party in an embarrassing defeat for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Labour is projected to lose more seats in upcoming local elections.The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer won Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election with 40.7% of the vote, with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK coming in second with 28.7%, and Labour finishing third with 25.4%, according to results announced on Friday morning.The result is a striking upset…

China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, abruptly dismissed 19 of its deputies Thursday afternoon without explanation, including nine military officers. The move came after dictator Xi Jinping purged a series of high-ranking People’s Liberation Army (PLA) leaders, and only a week before the annual meeting of the Chinese legislature in Beijing. Thursday’s removals were announced by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislative authority. Among the deputies dismissed were Li Qiaoming, commander of PLA Ground Forces, and former People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) commander Shen Jinlong.  The military deputies included five full generals, three…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was building Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an army “that’s going to be policing American streets.” Schiff said, “We wanted to go through DHS contracting records and document just how much they’re spending to militarize this new, you know, effectively new police forces, palace guard of the presidents that is wreaking such havoc in our cities. And we found dramatic increases in spending on weapons, as you said, ICE agents will be equipped with now 3 to 4 times the amount of weapons as…

The decision comes as a €90 billion package from the EU is still being blocked by Budapest The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new four-year loan for Ukraine, which is currently facing an acute budget deficit. A much larger sum offered by Brussels and backed by EU taxpayers remains blocked by Hungary’s veto.The IMF has allocated $8.1 billion, with $1.5 billion to be disbursed immediately, the UN financial institution said in a statement published on Friday. The sum would still be insufficient to cover the Ukrainian government’s needs, it admitted.Kiev will have a budget deficit of $52 billion…

President Donald Trump said Friday, “maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba,” and that his administration is in contact with the Cuban government. Trump’s comments came during a press gaggle on the South Lawn during his departure from the White House for Corpus Christi, Texas. “The Cuban Government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money; they have no anything right now, but they’re talking with us, and maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba,” he…

[WARNING: Adult Language] Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” actor Morgan Freeman said President Donald Trump was leading the country “down a shithole.” Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “How would you describe where we are now?” Freeman said, “Can I use profanity?” O’Donnell said, “You can say whatever you want.” Freeman said, “Well, we have somebody sitting in the White House is leading us down a shithole. I can’t personally understand how a convicted felon convicted, 34, felon, felonious is that a word, counts of wrongdoing gets to be president. How do you do that? I don’t care. That ruling…