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6 days ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Isabel van Brugen |Erkki Forster |Yasmeen Hamadeh
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in full damage-control mode after causing outrage with his comments about autism during his first official press briefing as health secretary. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, attempted to dial back the controversy in a sit-down Thursday night with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. He had triggered a firestorm by claiming that people with autism—a neurodevelopmental disorder—will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Leigh McManus
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hunt for suspected leakers inside the Pentagon has claimed its third victim. Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was put on administrative leave Wednesday and escorted out of the building, according to a defense official and a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Yasmeen Hamadeh |Leigh McManus
Katy Perry was trolled online after her 11 minute Blue Origin space trip—with fast food chain Wendy’s leading the charge. “Can we send her back,” the chain’s X account posted after Perry returned from her Jeff Bezos-sponsored joyride with five other women, including the billionaire’s fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS News anchor Gayle King. Can we send her back— Wendy’s (@Wendys) April 15, 2025Wendy’s shade-throwing didn’t stop there.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Janna Brancolini |Aazim Jafarey |Leigh McManus
MONEY PROBLEMSAnthony Scaramucci, who infamously served as President Donald Trump’s White House communications director for just 10 days in 2017, is once again sounding the alarm on his former boss—this time over Trump’s trade policy.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Amethyst Martinez |Mia Maguire |Nandika Chatterjee |Erkki Forster
OPEN RACEA new poll has compiled some pretty interesting picks for the next Democratic presidential candidate. Conducted by Echelon Insights between April 10 to April 14, the survey of more than 1,000 participants found former Vice President Kamala Harris topping the list as a favorite to win with 28% of votes. Meanwhile, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker soared up the ranks following his record-setting Senate floor speech earlier this month, landing at the number two spot with 11% of votes.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |William Vaillancourt |Yasmeen Hamadeh
A collection of conservative commentators promptly came to Donald Trump’s defense after CNN anchor Dana Bash corrected the president’s latest criticism of the network—that it “hates” the United States. CNN has long been a central target of Trump’s attacks on the press. He has routinely called it—and the press at large—the “enemy of the people” for reporting he deems unflattering.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Amethyst Martinez |Nandika Chatterjee |Mia Maguire |Erkki Forster
TragicKyren Lacy, the 24-year-old NFL draft prospect who died over the weekend from an apparent suicide, led police on a chase right before his death. The former Louisiana State University wide receiver was found dead in his crashed car after the Houston-area chase with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. “Preliminary information indicates that Lacy shot himself during the pursuit and prior to the vehicle crashing,” officials stated.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Leigh McManus |Erkki Forster
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went on an Oval Office tirade about why a father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador should not be returned to the United States. Invited to talk by Donald Trump, Miller launched into an attack on the American media, saying it was “arrogant” to claim the administration should tell El Salvador how to treat its own citizens.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Kenneal Patterson |Erkki Forster |Lauren Lewis
MAGA guru Steve Bannon slammed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Monday as “close to an unmitigated disaster.”Lutnick, the billionaire Cabinet secretary who promised “no recession in America,” has become one of Donald Trump’s most prominent spokespeople on tariffs. But Bannon—who is a major proponent of tariffs—turned on him in his podcast and linked him to Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and DOGE supremo with whom Bannon has openly been at war.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Catherine Bouris |Yasmeen Hamadeh
Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller came unglued on Fox News Monday morning. The top Trump aide launched into a voice-cracking tirade justifying the Trump administration’s refusal to bring home a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. “He was not mistakenly sent to El Salvador. He’s an illegal alien from El Salvador!” Miller for policy barked, steamrolling America’s Newsroom host Bill Hemmer, who struggled to rein him in.
