Trump takes aim at Rupert Murdoch and Fox News after poll frames President in negative light

Thursday, April 24, 2025

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Donald Trump demands Rupert Murdoch fire Fox News staff after a negative poll, a pronatalist couple reviled by the internet is offering the president advice on raising birth rates, and internet sleuths think a serial killer may be on the loose in New England.

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1 | Trump takes aim at Rupert Murdoch and Fox News after poll frames him in negative light

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2 | They became the internet's most hated couple with their pronatalist lifestyle. Now they're telling Trump how to up the birth rate

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3 | Driver took Elon Musk at his word that Teslas could drive themselves. Then he hit a tree

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4 | Trump says Russia has made 'pretty big concession' to peace by not seizing whole of Ukraine

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5 | Eight people have been killed in New England in two months. Internet sleuths fear a serial killer is loose

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