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Not to be dramatic, but would you die for Hasan Piker?For some of you, Hasan Piker needs no introduction. He is one of the leading voices in progressive political content online, boasting a massive 2.9 million followers on Twitch alone. He’s polarizing, charismatic, and (kind of) a bro. And his fans love him. Just take this Instagram comment for example: “Not to be dramatic, but I’d die for this man lol.”With all the discourse about young men flocking to the political right because of online commentators like Joe Rogan and Theo Von, some have started asking if Piker is the…

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A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the legal status and deportation protections for tens of thousands of immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua.While it could be suspended by a higher court, the ruling is a reprieve for more than 60,000 immigrants who had been previously allowed by the U.S. government to live and work in the country legally for years and in some cases, since the late 1990s, under the Temporary Protected Status program.Immigrants from Nepal enrolled in the TPS program were set to lose their legal status next week, on Aug. 5. TPS…

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Donald Trump said this week that a known Epstein victim was one of the people “stolen” from Mar-a-Lago by the convicted sex offender. Could Trump have known what would happen to her? Ad Policy A message calling on President Donald Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected by an activist group onto the US Chamber of Commerce building across from the White House in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski / AFP) Can Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the best-known victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghirlaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking crimes, possibly get something…

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Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Biden administration, said her appointment to a position at West Point was “unfortunately” rescinded. Easterly referred CBS News to a LinkedIn post she wrote on Thursday: “Unfortunately, the opportunity to serve again at my alma mater was rescinded —a casualty of casually manufactured outrage that drowned out the quiet labor of truth and the steady pulse of integrity.” File: Jen Easterly, director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the 2023 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Thursday, Jan. 5,…

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President Trump on Thursday formally announced higher tariffs against more than 60 U.S. trading partners starting next week — just hours before the administration’s self-imposed midnight deadline. The president signed an executive order listing out tariff rates for imports from dozens of countries, including a handful that have cut trade deals with the administration and dozens that haven’t reached a deal yet. The duties range as high as 41% for Syria and 40% for Laos and Myanmar, while almost no country’s imports will face tariffs below 10%.The new tariffs apply to imports that are “entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse…

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A general view shows shipping containers at the port in Keelung on Aug. 1 I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has issued updated tariff rates, listing more than 65 countries plus the European Union. Some of the rates reflect what was shared in earlier “letters” posted by the president earlier this month. Others reflect recent trade deals that the administration has announced. While the administration has for weeks said Aug. 1 would be the new date to implement tariffs, most countries won’t see these rates take effect for at least…

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“The tide is turning,” says Bernie Sanders. “The American people do not want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza.” Ad Policy Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT makes his way to a vote at the US Capitol on July 17, 2025.(Francis Chung / Politico via AP Images) In the summer of 2024, Democratic Party leaders refused to let even a single Palestinian American speaker address their presidential convention about Israel’s horrific assault on Gaza. But almost exactly a year later, a solid majority of Democratic members of the US Senate has voted to block arms shipments to Israel in response…

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The family of Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers, expressed shock after President Trump said Giuffre was one of the employees Epstein “stole” from the spa at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club. Giuffre, who had accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by Epstein, has been a central figure in conspiracy theories tied to the case. She died by suicide this year.”It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been ‘stolen’ from Mar-a-Lago,” the family’s statement said.Mr.…

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Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended how the Supreme Court is handling an unprecedented number of emergency appeals from the Trump administration, saying that as presidents push the limits of their power, courts will have to respond.Speaking before a group of lawyers and judges Thursday in Kansas City, Missouri, Kavanaugh said presidents in both parties, stymied by inaction in Congress, have relied more on executive orders “to get things done.” That’s led to more legal challenges, Kavanaugh said, which inevitably draw in the Supreme Court to determine whether the new regulation can take effect, at least temporarily, while the legal challenges play…

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