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As a senior citizen on Medicare and SNAP, I feel like I can speak to both issues. Our country is now being run by a narcissistic president. He does not care about the poor, working people, homeless people or poor immigrants just trying to make a living. He is letting these people go hungry, and he is trying to take away medical assistance for them, and deporting almost all immigrants.

At the start of his first presidential campaign, Megyn Kelly, at the time a Fox News journalist, asked Trump at a primary debate about reports that he had referred to women as "fat pigs," "dogs," and "slobs." Trump didn't deny the accusation, and instead made a joke about how he said those sorts of things only about Rosie O'Donnell. Later, talking about the debate on CNN, Trump said of Kelly: " There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."

In the European Union, a 2004 law guarantees airline passengers up to $700 as compensation for delays of three hours or more. The Trump administration just killed a similar proposal for American travelers. On Friday, federal officials withdrew a Biden-era proposal that, if enacted, would have required airlines to compensate passengers up to $525 for carrier-caused domestic flight delays between three and nine hours and $750 to $775 for those exceeding nine hours.

Elon Musk made it back to the White House. The world's richest man was seen attending a dinner at the White House on Tuesday night with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "We have the biggest business leaders in the world," President Donald Trump said at the dinner. It's Musk's first public visit to the White House since his feud with President Donald Trump exploded in June following Musk's departure from his role as the de facto leader of the White House DOGE Office.

Trump also revealed earlier this week that he will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia - making it the first country in the Middle East other than Israel to obtain the aircraft. What they're saying: "A stronger and more capable alliance will advance the interests of both countries, and it will serve the highest interest of peace," Trump said during the Tuesday evening dinner with MBS.

Minaj, who spoke at an event held by the US embassy to the United Nations, thanked Trump for "for prioritizing this issue and for his leadership."

The Trump administration unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to sidestep Congress and outsource large pieces of the U.S. Department of Education, telling lawmakers and staff that it would shift work dedicated to, among other things, elementary and secondary education, postsecondary education and Indian education to other federal agencies. All three of those offices were originally placed at the department by Congress when it created the agency in 1979, and these moves are being made without Congress' consent.

A federal court struck down Texas' new gerrymander on Tuesday, in an extraordinary rebuke to Republicans who sought to hand the GOP five additional seats in the House of Representatives. The 160-page ruling -authored by Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a conservative Donald Trump nominee-scorched the scheme as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, declaring that the Legislature "intentionally drew district lines" to discriminate against Black and Hispanic Texans.

Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) have introduced new legislation aimed at increasing transparency around how artificial intelligence is reshaping the U.S. workforce. The proposal, known as the AI-Related Jobs Impact Clarity Act, would compel large companies and federal agencies to report AI-related job changes to the Labor Department on a quarterly basis. The bipartisan push signals broad concern about AI's effect on employment trends.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued California on Monday to block newly passed laws that prohibit law enforcement officials, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks and that require them to identify themselves. The laws, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, came in the wake of the Trump administration's immigration raids in California, when masked, unidentified federal officers jumped out of vehicles this summer as part of the president's mass deportation program.

The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street. A 70-year-old protester in Chicago is pushed to the ground by an armed Border Patrol agent holding a riot gun. In Los Angeles, an agent shoves away a demonstrator. These videos capture the aggressive tactics of immigration officers under the second Trump administration. But they share something else, too. In each instance, following documented violence by federal officers toward protesters and immigrants, the Justice Department pressed charges-against the victim of that violence.

"The Democratic Party's leadership is not only failing to effectively fight back against Donald Trump, they have also failed to deliver a vision that we can all believe in," Ossé said in a statement to which was the first to report the news of his filing. "These failures are some of the many reasons why I am currently exploring a potential run for New York's 8th Congressional District."

Cable lobby group NCTA called the hearing "important progress" toward "the removal of regulatory impediments that slow deployment to unserved areas." Another cable lobby group, America's Communications Association, said the permitting reform bills "will strip away red tape and enable broadband, cable, and telecommunications providers to redirect resources to upgrading and expanding their networks and services, especially in rural areas."

And in fact, the states that will be most impacted if the Affordable Care Act tax credits are allowed to expire, are all states that are run by Republicans. We're talking about West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, Mississippi, Tennessee being the top five states. I think the next five states are Texas and South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota, and South Dakota. And so we're fighting to protect the health care of the American people.

We're entering into uncharted territory,