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Mark Robinson admitted he did not tell the complete truth about making disturbing comments on a porn site and referring to himself as a “black Nazi,” and said he bent the truth in order to protect President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Some of the things about the whole story, some of it — there’s some truth to it,” Robinson said on pastor Josh Hall’s “After the Call” podcast Thursday. He denied the report and even sued CNN, but eventually dropped the case. “We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don’t want to be the person that cost the President of the United States the election. Didn’t want to cost anyone else their election,” Robinson said.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGMS NOW host Chris Hayes took aim at President Donald Trump’s “whiplash” rhetoric on the war in Iran, comparing it to the scattershot messaging the president used in his first term during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said our allies will help us open the Strait of Hormuz. He said we will help our allies open the Strait of Hormuz. ‘Open schools.’ ‘Close the schools.’ ‘Everyone has to socially distance.’ ‘It will be open by Easter.’”AdvertisementHayes then wondered what the next steps in Trump’s Iran war plan are — if there even is a plan. I don’t think Donald Trump even knows,” Hayes said.

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports unless congressional Democrats agree to a GOP-backed funding deal, escalating a standoff that has already slowed security lines at airports nationwide. The changes Democrats are seeking include a requirement that ICE agents get a warrant from a judge before forcefully entering homes and cease wearing masks. “If you want TSA workers to get paid, then vote yes,” Schumer said on the Senate floor, arguing that Republicans have tied TSA funding to broader Homeland Security spending without new limits on immigration enforcement. “Surely, the next thing people want after waiting hours in long TSA lines is to get wrongfully detained by ICE,” she said. Trump said that he would deploy the ICE agents if Democrats did not “immediately sign an agreement.”That type of operation, Sandweg said, would almost certainly target a population of immigrants without criminal history.

The secretive giving is the latest example of how outside groups are obscuring their spending in competitive campaigns. Special interest groups, including AIPAC, have sometimes tried to veil their spending by using affiliated organizations that appear unrelated to the parent organization’s stated policy goals. Super PACs poured more than $57 million into Illinois races, including two that ranked among the top 10 House primaries targeted with the most outside spending ever. “It absolutely should be a priority, particularly the issue of transparency,” Bean said of outside spending. “Kat’s campaign is being funded with tens of thousands of dollars from right-wing donors to Republicans and Donald Trump,” said an ad the group spent about $800,000 on.

The Algorand Foundation on Wednesday joined the ranks of crypto firms slashing headcount, losing 25% of its fewer than 200 employees and citing "the uncertain global macro environment" and a broader crypto downturn. "Not using AI at Gemini will soon be the equivalent of showing up to work with a typewriter instead of a laptop." To be fair, the company blamed the broader crypto environment. New job postings across major crypto job boards ran at roughly 6.5 per day in January, down around 80% from the same period a year earlier. Just the companies mentioned in this story — excluding Messari, which did not disclose numbers — have announced around 450 job cuts in a matter of weeks.

Starlink cutoff disrupts Russian coordinationRussia’s loss of Starlink access in February significantly degraded its ability to coordinate troops and drone operations. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, introduced a system that restricted Starlink access to approved users, allowing Ukrainian forces to retain connectivity while cutting off Russian units. Ukrainian troops said Russian forces were forced to rely more heavily on radio communications, which could be intercepted. Loss of control inside Russian unitsThe loss of Starlink also affected command and control within Russian units, reducing oversight of frontline troops. Strategic impact on the battlefieldUkrainian partisans have confirmed that the loss of Starlink access has crippled Russian battlefield command and led to incidents of friendly fire.

Israeli security forces violently disperse Muslim worshippers who were performing the nightly Tarawih prayers outside the old city walls of Jerusalem on March 17, 2026. - John Wessels/AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli police attacked a group of journalists outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, including a CNN producer who suffered a fractured wrist in the violent incident. Israeli security forces disperse Muslim worshippers who were performing the nightly Tarawih prayers outside the old city walls of Jerusalem on Tuesday. (CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond is a board member of the FPA.) Following the attack on journalists, CNN issued the following statement: “On Tuesday evening, a CNN producer was among a group of journalists covering Muslim worshippers praying outside the Old City of Jerusalem during Ramadan.

“These affirmations can hold significant healing power, especially when parents may have been preoccupied with their own challenges, leading to unmet emotional needs in childhood.”Relationship: 6 Phrases Adult Children Want To Hear From Their ParentsBelow are six powerful things parents can say to their adult children that would improve their relationship. ‘I’m sorry.’These two words are what many adult children want to hear more than anything else,therapist and author Jor-El Caraballo told HuffPost. “Most adult children understand their parents aren’t perfect and have the best intentions when it comes to parenting,” she said. But we as adult children can certainly try our best on our end to create the relationship we’ve always wanted with our parents as well.”2. “Adult parents have to remember that I, too, have bumped my head.

- Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesThe WNBA and its players union have reached the next step in their new collective bargaining agreement, signing a term sheet. AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe new seven-year CBA, which will begin this season and run through 2032, represents a transformational landmark labor deal for the league. AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementSalary capThe salary cap for the 2026 season is expected to be $7 million with average salaries of more than $585,000. Those will grow starting in 2027 at the rate of the growth of the salary cap. There’s a salary cap exception for pregnancy and child birth.

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“Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote Friday night on X. “You don’t unsanction Iranian oil if you’re winding down. The word for that is desperation.”Erickson questioned whether the action will have much of an impact on oil prices. Europe still has sanctions on Iranian oil, he said, and the firms that purchase it would still be taking a considerable risk. “That’s why prices are unlikely to be impacted significantly.”Analysts who have advised the administration on sanctions and economic policy publicly defended the move.

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That’s because this year’s Senate map would require Democrats to win numerous seats in red states. Independent journalist Chris Cillizza recently observed that for the first time ever, prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi showed Democrats with a narrow edge. Now, prediction markets are not scientific. The difference is that in prediction markets, people are wagering actual money, which tends to sharpen the mind in ways that answering a pollster’s call during dinner does not. In Maine, Republican Sen. Susan Collins once again finds herself in a political knife fight — her natural habitat, though perhaps not her preferred one.