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#1 ‘Total Bloodbath’: Democrats' Sweeping Wins Rock Wall Street Over AI Fears - Declan Harty and Victoria Guida for POLITICO, Gunther Eagleman™/Donald J. TRUMP, Mario Nawfal, Taegun Lee, Paul Bond, and NBC News
Democrats vowed to put a halt to the new data centers cropping up across the country that are fueling the artificial intelligence boom. Now, after the midterms, Wall Street is finally taking them at their word — and President Donald Trump is pointing fingers. A violent sell-off ripped through the U.S. stock market on Thursday, as traders began to reckon with the scale of Democrats’ plans for the AI buildout. The S&P 500 plunged more than 4%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell 5.5%. The market’s so-called fear gauge, the Cboe Volatility Index, spiked nearly 70% in a reflection of traders’ concern about further whipsawing. And the selling continued when Asian markets opened...
#2 Melania Trump Calls for ‘Enduring’ Russia-Ukraine Peace as She Hosts Top Officials at the White House - Yuliya Talmazan and Monica Alba for NBC News, MELANIA TRUMP, Office of the First Lady, Eric Daugherty, CBS News, and The Telegraph on X
First Lady Melania Trump expressed hope that a humanitarian ceasefire around a city in Ukraine would inspire progress toward a “more enduring” peace, as she hosted representatives from Russia and Ukraine at the White House on Thursday. The unprecedented meeting came as the Trump administration pushes for progress in broader peace negotiations, with the United States set to lead renewed trilateral talks with Russia and Ukraine in the United Arab Emirates next week. Speaking at the White House, the first lady expressed hope that the six-day ceasefire around Oleshky would inspire a peace “more enduring than a temporary ceasefire,” before praising the “highly cooperative” Russian and Ukrainian leaders for helping bring about the pause...
#3 Trump Lashed Out at Stephen Miller for Going ‘Too Far’ With Deportations After Melania Complained: Report - Rhian Lubin for The Independent, Jonathan Lamire, Yashar Ali, Daily Mail, Mario Nawfal, Kellie Meyer, and WWCNN on X
President Donald Trump hit out at Stephen Miller - his deputy White House chief of staff and architect of the administration’s aggressive immigration operation - for going “too far” after first lady Melania Trump complained to her husband, according to a report. The first lady lamented to Trump that people she knew were being deported in his sweeping anti-immigration campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal. It follows the outlet’s reporting in March that Melania was part of a group of advisers who warned Trump that his immigration policies had crossed a line as tensions flared in Minnesota during raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Trump and the Republicans suffered a bruising midterm election defeat after the American people delivered a referendum on the first two years of his second term...
#4 Former Trump Staffer Calls for Wiles to Resign Over Midterm Wipeout - Ryan Mancini for The Hill, Wall Street Mav/Jeremy Carl, Mario Nawfal, Jefferey Jaxen, Sheryl L. York, under age mindset/AF Post, and AmericaUncensored/Max Twain on X
Caroline Sunshine, a former staffer to President Trump, on Wednesday called for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to resign over the massive losses Republicans saw in the midterm elections. Sunshine told Fox News’s Jesse Watters on “Jesse Watters Primetime” that she was going to say “what a lot of people are saying privately.” “Susie Wiles needs to resign,” she told Watters, causing the host to raise his eyebrows. “She needs to offer her resignation to the president before he has to ask for it. Her campaign skills have not translated into governing. Susie was behind the historic win in 2024, and she deserved credit for it and got the top job for it.” The former Trump staffer added that Wiles was now “behind the historic loss where we lost Mississippi and have lost potentially the Senate for six years, and so that cuts both ways.”
#5 Head of DOJ Civil Rights Division Resigns After GOP Midterms Loss - Ryan J. Reilly and Gary Grumbach for NBC News, Harmeet K. Dhillon/Jordan K. Carpenter, BaNnErBoY/The Hill, CptcurtX, Sherri™, and Papa Hemingway on X
Harmeet Dhillon, the Republican attorney who oversaw a massive overhaul of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, submitted her resignation Thursday. Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X that he has accepted Dhillon’s resignation. He wrote that she “defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor” and that the DOJ “is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors.” Dhillon posted Thursday on X that the job had been the “honor of a lifetime.” “We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more,” she wrote. The departure of Dhillon, who had a long history of working as an election lawyer for the GOP, comes just two days after Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections.
#6 Rubio Pushes Back on Reports Claiming He Plans to Resign for 2028 Run - Sean Noone and Ava Thompson, Eric Daugherty/Bobby, Steve Hanke, Dread Fellow, CommonSense, and Raymond Chan/Superman03 （此Superman非彼Superman) on X
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office is pushing back against reports that claim he plans to resign to focus on a potential 2028 presidential bid. “This is complete and total fake news based on the word of anonymous sources, befitting a tabloid,” Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state, told NewsNation. “The Secretary has not discussed leaving his role, and he will continue to proudly serve in President Trump’s administration long after this fake news is revealed as yet another baseless hoax.”
#7 MAGA Loyalist Laura Loomer Announces ‘Hiatus’ After 119-Post Tirade Over GOP Rout - David Gilmour for Mediaite, Rabbi Jeff, GenXGirl/Alex Bruesewitz/Laura Loomer, White Guy, Jared Holt, and Evan Kilgore
MAGA loyalist Laura Loomer announced Thursday she is taking a break from her political podcast just days after launching into a furious social media tirade over Republicans’ crushing defeat in the midterm elections. Loomer, one of the president’s most outspoken supporters, revealed in a post to X that she would suspend her twice-weekly livestream, Loomer Unleashed, saying that she was “running on empty” and needed “a healthy work-life balance.” “I’m taking a hiatus from my show @LoomerUnleashed, which I livestream twice a week,” she wrote on X...
#8 A Judge Blocks Construction of Trump’s Arch Moments After It Won Federal Approval - Rachel Treisman for npr, The Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Deborah Richmond Foulkes, and Anne Applebaum on X
A federal judge blocked construction of President Trump's arch, stopping work the administration had hoped to begin immediately. Just before midnight Friday, District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an order — finalized and made public minutes later - barring the government from any construction work for 14 days, granting a request filed days earlier by the governments of D.C. and Virginia. She laid out her reasoning in a 33-page opinion, in which she scrutinized the administration's competing justifications for the arch — particularly its sudden emphasis on national security — and agreed that the local governments are likely to be harmed by its construction. The 250-foot arch would stand in Memorial Circle, a traffic island on the bridge linking the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery...
#9 El-Sayed Says He’d Back Van Hollen as Majority Leader Over Schumer - Sarah Davis for The Hill, Manu Raju, Mark R. Levin/MossadilCommentary/Missy, Massimo Messina, and AIPAC on X
Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic senator, reupped his calls Thursday morning for Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to become Senate majority leader over current Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) In an interview on “CNN News Central,” El-Sayed echoed his May endorsement of the Maryland senator for the role. I’ve been very clear: I think he’d be an amazing Senate majority leader,” El-Sayed told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Thursday. “Of course, that’s a choice he has to make about whether or not he wants to pursue that. “It seems like he’s quite interested in another goal politically,” he added, in apparent reference to speculation around whether Van Hollen will run for president in 2028...
#10 DeSantis Comes Out Swinging as Vance Takes Heat - The Hill, Political Polls, Fox News Politics, The Michael Knowles Show, Andy Thomas/Marc Hennemann, and Gunther Eagleman™ on X
Democrats gained control of Congress in the midterms, with Vice President JD Vance blaming the GOP losses on the Iran conflict and its costs, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Trump's leadership in making tough calls for the country's future. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to his state's stronger showing, crediting conservative policies like property tax relief, and dismissed an 'extinction-level event' in other states. Betting markets now show JD Vance leading 2028 nomination odds at 38%, with DeSantis rising to 13% and Rubio in contention amid party debates on foreign policy and governance.
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Dump Trucks, AI, and Unemployment - Walter Block for UncoverDC
