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President Donald Trump is famously targeting the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by demanding that it be renamed to mention him, despite courts repeatedly ruling that he cannot legally do this without congressional authorization. Yet even as he targets America's premiere cultural center, the president also has another legendary institution in his sights — the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Also like the Kennedy Center, USIP is applying for legal relief. "NOT JUST THE KENNEDY CENTER: U.S. Institute of Peace asks for emergency relief to bar any 'plans to carve President Trump’s name into the facade of the iconic USIP headquarters building,'" Politico's Kyle Cheney posted on X on Thursday . He included a screenshot of a legal filing by USIP in which they appealed to the courts to "prevent Appellants or those acting on their behalf from carrying out plans to carve President Trump's name into the façade of the iconic USIP headquarters bui...

President Donald Trump has suffered a string of defeat in the last few weeks, but veteran, activist and “Independent Americans Podcast” host Paul Rieckhoff, told CNN Wednesday that he should get accustomed to that losing sensation in the weeks leading into November and the remaining two years of his term. The Supreme Court recently told Trump where to put his attempt to constrict mail in voting , Congress has passed a Russian sanctions bill against a nation led by what Trump considered a friend . And on Wednesday his own appointed Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh voted to raise interest rates despite Trump engaging a year-long war with the former fed chair over the same threat. To top all that off, the underpowered nation of Iran is beating Trump to a pulp on his economy by launching savvy military attacks that have ballooned global oil prices — assuring that an angry host of voters will be heading to polls in November to punish the party in power, and Trump. CNN anchor Erin Burnet...

President Donald Trump tried to cancel talk show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel last year, in an effort that boomeranged so badly on him that it helped Kimmel's ratings and even rallied some conservatives against him . Now a political scientist is observing that Trump, apparently learning nothing, may have drawn attention to Kimmel's recent interview with Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico — and, in the process, helped that interview outperform Trump's own midterms convention. "This is a profile in boomeranging," Jason Johnson, an associate professor of communication and journalism at Morgan State University, told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Wednesday. "The effort to censor the interview we have Kimmel here has actually enhanced it only because they chose to fight. By putting it on YouTube, that puts it out to the world and, oh my gosh, we are way over the normal audience. And the intrigue — I mean, I'll tell folks, they titled it the intervie...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper reports Republican policies have raised health care subsidies for Obamacare and escalated the trade war . Add to that the Iran war driving fertilizer prices and diesel prices to historic levels, and you can see why Republican Senate hopeful Ashley Hinson of Iowa is proposing to “reach across the aisle” to Democrats if elected. “I'm Ashley Hinson, and I approve this message because working across the aisle isn't always easy, but it's how you get results,” said Hinson in her new ad. But Tapper said Vice President JD Vance has a different kind of message as the U.SA. economy drags down the GOP with 48 days to go until the midterms. “Don't give power to the people who caused the problems that we're fixing,” Vance told a recent audience. “Give us another chance or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the past two years.” “Well, there's a bumper sticker for you: Give us anothe...

President Donald Trump has not reacted well to being told by the courts he cannot put his name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. From putting a tarp over the building's name in the early morning hours to vowing to shut it down altogether unless he gets his way, the Republican leader has vented his ire repeatedly. Now a new report claims that Trump insulted Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), who serves on the board, by calling the African American female lawmaker "dumb" in a tense phone call with the board — although she replied with insults of her own. "He went into a tantrum," Beatty told MS NOW host Ari Melber on Tuesday. "Let me just make it simple: it was the most unprofessional thing that I've ever witnessed or been a part of. He went into name-calling — from trying to say that I was an obstructionist, to saying I was 'dumb.' He said, 'I think you're incompetent.' And I said, 'I know you're incompetent.' And ...

Either President Donald Trump or someone close to him reportedly ordered workers to put a tarp over the Kennedy Center's name late at night — presumably to salvage the Republican's wounded pride over losing a court battle over whether he can add his name. "Trump, apparently, could not submit to the public indignity of having his name removed from the building in June," reported The Atlantic's Tom Nichols on Tuesday . "He—or someone seeking to please him—ordered workers to cover the building’s wall with tarps at 3 o’clock in the morning so that no one would see the removal. The tarps remain in place." Earlier Nichols reported, "The saga of Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to slap his name onto the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will not go away. In May, Trump lost in court and was ordered to remove his name from the building. But now—according to a 57-page presentation by Trump’s hand-picked executive board obtained by The Washington...

New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald announced his resignation from the bench on Tuesday, effective immediately, after being accused of violating the state’s judicial code of conduct for his role in orchestrating a payout to a top ally last year, reports New Hampshire NPR. “MacDonald’s departure marks a sudden and stunning end to his five-year tenure leading New Hampshire’s judicial branch. The 64-year-old has been out on medical leave since late July, with no explanation provided for his absence,” reports NPR’s Todd Bookman. “In a resignation letter released Tuesday morning, MacDonald said, ‘I believe this is in the best interests of the New Hampshire Judicial Branch. I accept responsibility and accountability for my conduct.’ News of MacDonald’s resignation came on the heels of an announcement from the New Hampshire Supreme Court that he had admitted to violating several sections of the state’s judicial code of conduct. An ethics probe centered on MacDonald’s...