Ted Cruz trashed President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in conversations with GOP donors last year, explosive leaked recordings allege. The Texas senator, expected to run for president in 2028, slammed Trump's tariff crusade and said he even threatened his staff with immediate firing if they used the phrase "Liberation Day" to refer to the day the sweeping taxes were announced, reports Axios. "Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10"20% at the supermarket, we're going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath," Cruz told Trump, according to the recording. "You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week." Trump allegedly responded bluntly: "F--- you, Ted.'"
During a recent interview with New York Magazine, President Donald Trump had "an unfortunately timed" memory lapse when struggling to remember the name of a disease perhaps best known for memory loss, The Daily Beast reported Monday. In the interview, Trump addressed mounting questions about his health, which have increased as the president continues to be spotted in public with swollen ankles and bruised hands. His increased instances of rambling during speeches, along with his MRI scan last year that has yet to be fully explained have also raised concerns among critics. Trump remained defiant, however, touting his father's good health in his later years as evidence of his own. He did, however, note that his father, Fred Trump, did have one health condition. He had one problem. At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting ... what do they call it?" Trump told New York Magazine. "Alzheimer's," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt interjected.
The Trump administration pledged to deport violent criminals"but instead, some of them have been on the payrolls of the federal government's most aggressive agencies. ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual and violent criminal histories in recent years, according to a report published Monday by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance with research from the Pacific Antifascist Collective. At least 20 of those individuals committed offenses with underage victims, according to the report.
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the state. read more
Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. They ended it at 7.3 percent " the highest rate in four years. Black women's unemployment is now equivalent to White women's rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. "The labor market that Black women live in is what White women would think of as the worst labor market they've ever been in," said Kathryn Anne Edwards, a labor economist. Without counting the pandemic, White women as a group have only experienced unemployment rates this high three times since 1954, when that monthly data started being collected.
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