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Bugs, Thunder, and a Lawsuit: Three Things That Almost Grounded Trump's UFC Spectacle
A federal judge cleared the cage match. Then the skies and the swarms moved in.
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The federal courthouse was supposed to be the biggest threat to Donald Trump's 80th birthday cage match on the South Lawn. It wasn't.
A last-minute lawsuit filed before UFC Freedom 250 accused the administration of a "deeply corrupt" scheme, arguing the White House had given the UFC "unfettered access" to turn public landmarks into profitable billboards. Court filings placed the UFC's financial commitment at $60 million. The lawsuit sought to stop the event before it started. A federal judge rejected it. That was supposed to be the end of the drama.
Investigations & The Dossier
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The Trump Epstein Reading Room: Survivors Rename the Archive on His 80th Birthday
Marina Lacerda and Andrea Sterling turned Trump's milestone celebration into a public accountability ritual, and the White House has no good answer for it
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Joe Rogan Confirmed It: ICE Detained an Asylum Seeker, Took Her Medication, and She Died. That Is Not What We Were Sold.
A mother who checked in on her asylum case never came home. Her daughter watched the burial. Joe Rogan said it himself. This is the immigration enforcement the 2024 electorate did not vote for.
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Trump at 80: The Question Washington Won't Ask Out Loud
The president turns 80 this month. The public record on his cognitive and physical fitness remains almost entirely closed. That is itself a story.
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Politics
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Trump's 80th Birthday Party and the Protest Movement That Wants to Crash It
Opponents are betting that mass demonstrations on June 14 will be the sharpest rebuke of Trump's presidency. The president is betting the spectacle overwhelms them.
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Europe Is Rearming in the Dark: Putin Prepares, Britain Stumbles, and the Alliance Has No Agreed Answer
Satellite evidence of Russian war preparation meets a United Kingdom whose defence planning is publicly collapsing, and NATO's eastern flank is watching both.
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The UFC Was the Party. The Iran Deal Was the Problem.
Trump celebrated his 80th birthday with cage fights on the White House lawn while Republican insiders warned a 'bad' nuclear deal was costing him the base he needs to sell it.
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Two Versions of the Same Deal
Iran's state media published terms that directly contradict what the White House says was agreed. Trump called it fabricated. The contradiction itself is the story.
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The Iran Deal Clock: Trump Says Sunday, Tehran Says Not Yet
A possible nuclear agreement is within reach, but the public record shows the two sides are not describing the same deal
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Markets & Video
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Trump Says Iran Is 'In Submission' and He Wants to Escalate Further. The Record Contradicts Both Claims.
A president boasts about $250 million in overnight strikes, dismisses 58, 000 American dead in Vietnam as a footnote, and admits he doesn't know if America has the appetite for what he 'really much prefers.' That is a remarkable set of admissions for a single morning call.
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The President Nobody Can Reach
A new book and on-the-record reporting describe a White House where bad news cannot get in, and the president cannot get out
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The Bud Light White House
Trump plastered his lawn with the brand his movement destroyed. Nobody in MAGA said a word.
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The Octagon on the Lawn: Trump's UFC Birthday Spectacle Meets Washington Summer
The White House has installed a full UFC Octagon on the South Lawn for the president's 80th birthday. What the public record shows, and what it doesn't, about the event, the optics, and what it costs to throw a cage match at the people's house.
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The Epstein Files Are Doing What No Prosecutor Would: Sinking Trump's Attorney General Pick
Todd Blanche's confirmation odds are falling in a Republican Senate because 84 percent of Americans already believe the answer, and they believe it across party lines
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