Green leader Zack Polanski delivers his speech at the party's conference in Bournemouth earlier this month. Finnbarr Webster via Getty ImagesThe Greens are now neck-and-neck with the Tories after the party hit a record high with a major pollster. YouGov put Zack Polanksi’s party on 17%, two points up on where they were a week ago. Left-winger Polanski said last week that the Greens are “now the real opposition in British politics”. We also really welcome the increase in interest from major donors keen to back the party.”

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — Donald Trump, in his second term, appears to be suffering a case of early-onset Lame Duck syndrome. ), a vocal critic of Trump’s policies, including his tariffs, told HuffPost. On Tuesday morning, Greene said Trump’s opposition to releasing the Epstein files had badly damaged the MAGA movement. “Thanks to President Trump’s deal-making, we’re making trade fair again, & winning BIG,” The White House said in a post online. Some vulnerable House Republicans in purple districts have called for a short-term extension of the subsidies, while other GOP lawmakers are pushing for reforms to the program.

“The president has called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor. Would you advise the president to stop calling her a traitor?” CNN correspondent Manu Raju asked Johnson on Monday in the U.S. Capitol. Advertisement“I don’t — look, it’s not surprising the president is frustrated because of some of the criticisms that Marjorie had been out stating to the media,” Johnson replied. The once-solid relationship between Trump and Greene began to deteriorate shortly after. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has repeatedly called out Speaker Mike Johnson, President Donald Trump and the GOP over issues like the government shutdown and the handling of the Epstein files.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe war of words between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and President Donald Trump escalated Tuesday as the longtime Trump loyalist turned the president’s “traitor” accusation back on him. Greene, once one of the president’s most vocal supporters, has had a major fallout with Trump for taking part in the campaign to make public all the government files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. AdvertisementGreene noted that she was called “a traitor” by Trump despite years of giving “him my loyalty for free.”“I fought for him, for the policies, and for America First,” she told reporters. “And he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.”“Let me tell you what a traitor is,” the Georgia Republican continued. A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America, and Americans like the women standing behind me.” (Watch a video at the top of the story.)

LOADING ERROR LOADINGA federal district court ruled that Texas’ mid-decade redistricting enacted in August is an illegal racial gerrymander and ordered the state to use its 2021 maps for the 2026 election. The decision is a massive blow to President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure GOP states to gerrymander House districts to cushion Republicans ahead of the midterms. The map adopted by the Texas legislature in August would have shifted five seats currently held by Democrats into the GOP column. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, responded by initiating a successful process to redraw his state’s maps to offset Texas’ gerrymander. Brown goes on to point out that Dhillon’s explanations for which districts were unconstitutional coalition districts included multiple factual inaccuracies, including the background about how the district lines were initially drawn.

For his part, bin Salman claimed he had nothing to do with the assassination of the prominent critic of his regime at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 2, 2018. “It’s really painful to hear, you know, anyone that been losing his life for, uh, you know, no real purpose or nothing illegal, uh, and it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of, uh, investigation, et cetera, in Saudi Arabia,” bin Salman said. Trump ignored that assessment as he bathed bin Salman in praise as part of a red-carpet welcome for him that includes a state-visit-like formal dinner, even though bin Salman is not yet the head of state. “What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights and everything else, and he’s the crown prince, the future king.”AdvertisementTrump’s personal business is simultaneously making major agreements with Saudi Arabia that could enrich Trump personally by millions.

“The real test will be, will the Department of Justice release the files, or will it all remain tied up in investigations? Will the CIA release the files? Trump could have already asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the full trove of documents the Justice Department holds on Epstein. While Trump has suggested he would sign the legislation into law if it cleared both chambers of Congress, that doesn’t mean the full files would be made public. Advertisement“That gives Attorney General Pam Bondi a huge exception to hide behind for withholding certain documents, possibly even documents that pertain to Trump,” McQuade added.

I wrote the essay as part of my recovery process from the trauma of brain surgery. The author in 2017 before he had brain surgery. With this in the forefront of my mind, I decided not to have another brain surgery to have titanium plates fill the holes in my skull. The author in the hospital after his brain surgery. Felice received his Ph.D. from New York University and served as a trustee on the board of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Relations.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump verbally abused a female reporter who asked him about the Epstein files aboard Air Force One en route to his latest golf vacation, calling her “piggy” and trying to silence her. Quiet, piggy,” Trump told veteran White House reporter Catherine Lucey, now with Bloomberg, after she asked about the possibility that the Department of Justice’s investigative files on the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein might incriminate him. Lucey declined to comment, as did the White House Correspondents’ Association. AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump points as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 14, 2025. But instead of allowing the AP back into the pool, Trump instead removed Bloomberg and Reuters, as well.

The queer internet is currently losing its mind over what many are speculating is a romantic relationship not-so-quietly brewing between author, model and foodie Padma Lakshmi, and Top Chef icon, Melissa King. The pair have been close for a while, but the delicious rumors really began to swell when Lakshmi and King wore joint The Addams Family Halloween costumes (obviously, Lakshmi was Morticia and King was Gomez). In a post featuring the two of them together — which, by the way, included one picture of King kissing Lakshmi’s bicep — King quoted Gomez Addams: “I would die for her. Although Lakshmi has never explicitly come out to the public as queer, she has dropped hints. King, on the other hand, openly identifies as a lesbian and has long been an advocate for LGBTQ+ issues.

The 38-year-old transgender Air Force member had already jumped through bureaucratic hoops to be able to serve during Trump’s first term. Ireland is now one of 17 transgender Air Force and Space Force members suing the United States government over what they say is an “unlawful” revocation of their early retirement benefits and pensions. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementBut none of these circumstances apply to any of the service members in the case. There are about 4,200 service members who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria as of last December, a senior defense official toldThe Washington Post. Advocates warn that if the court allows the government to revoke retirement benefits for the plaintiffs, it could set a dangerous precedent for how the Trump administration might get away with denying benefits to other populations.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGRachel Maddow on Tuesday examined the latest “weirdness” from President Donald Trump and his administration, arguing that the litany of apparent scandals would have typically ruined any other administration. Advertisement“The FBI has never before had a taxpayer-funded security detail for an FBI official’s girlfriend, but that’s what we’re paying for now. The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel has members of the FBI’s SWAT team protecting her as if they’re private bodyguards,” Maddow said. Demand The Truth Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Support Fearless Journalism The Trump administration hopes its deepest secrets remain hidden, but we will not stop demanding answers. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times.