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This weekend, the leaders of France and Germany pleaded with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine to no avail as Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy each refused to make concessions to their counterparts and end the fighting in the eastern regions of Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor
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An angry activist got in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s face at a Houston restaurant after his address Friday at the National Rifle Association convention; the activist had to be restrained before he was dragged out of the establishment. What are the details? The activist asked the Texas Republican for a photo, and the two were
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During Saturday’s Alex Witt Reports on MSNBC, Yasmin Vossoughian had a message to any American who wishes to purchase an AR-15: “join the military.” Vossoughian backed up her self-righteous reporting from Uvalde by falsely claimed that the AR-15 is given to members of the military when they enlist. During a segment with Witt, Vossoughian referenced
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As the National Rifle Association holds its convention in Houston, CBS Saturday Morning lamented that Republicans “remain in lockstep with” with the organization and decried the partisanship showed at the convention, but of course they only meant Republican partisanship. Accusing people of killing children is just the other perspective for CBS. Correspondent Robert Costa was
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The Toronto police fatally shot a man after he was reportedly seen carrying a gun in a residential area of the city on Thursday afternoon, Reuters reports. The weapon in question was reportedly a pellet gun, a police watchdog agency now says. What are the details? Authorities shot and killed a male suspect who was
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Concerned over the possibility that the Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, thus ending the federal legalization of abortion, San Diego’s city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to declare the city a safe place for “reproductive freedom and access to abortion.” The move “carries no legal weight and wouldn’t matter much if it
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A news outlet was promptly fact-checked on Friday after publishing a story that claimed purchasing an AR-15 rifle online is like “ordering groceries.” What was claimed? Zach Seward, editor-in-chief of Quartz, tweeted on Thursday, “We bought a gun—the same Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 assault rifle used in Uvalde. It was like ordering groceries. Click, checkout,
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It looks like Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke has flipped his position on AR-15s once again, according to a Fox News report. Beto the political chameleon has changed his position on gun control repeatedly over the course of his three major political bids since 2018. Here’s a quick recap: In 2018, while running
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Stephanie Ruhle must have realized she was lagging behind the other hosts on MSNBC in political exploitation and did her best on Wednesday night’s The 11th Hour to push her half-hour-long interview with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) in an increasingly gruesome, hateful, and constitutionally dubious direction.  The interview began innocuously enough, with Ruhle simply asking
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An inspector general’s report concluded that the accusations against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his response to the COVID-19 pandemic were completely baseless. Rebekah Jones was a frequent guest on MSNBC and CNN because of her claims that she was fired for whistleblowing against the DeSantis administration about allegedly faked pandemic statistics. Those claims
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Business magnate Elon Musk is running a Twitter poll that asks people whether they have less trust in politicians or billionaires, and he has challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to run an identical poll on her account. “Who do you trust less? Real question,” Musk wrote when posting the poll. In another tweet he added,
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ABC’s Capitol Hill correspondent Rachel Scott continued her harassment of Republican Senators Thursday in the network’s apparent attempt to bully enough Senators into supporting the Democrat’s gun control agenda, this time with help from Sky News reporter Mark Stone. However, two Republican Senators were able to turn the tables on both Scott and Stone.  Scott
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot melted down during a media briefing where a reporter challenged her to retract her overheated rhetoric about the expected overturn of the Roe v. Wade decision. Lightfoot angrily interrupted and shouted him down as he tried to follow up on his questions during Wednesday’s media briefing. “Mayor Lightfoot, you’re patting yourself
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