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When the federal government tabled its 2025 budget last month, it included a proposal that tax fraud experts say is long overdue — if also a belated acknowledgement that the Canada Revenue Agency has been repeatedly duped into paying out millions in bogus tax refunds to scammers.
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As we count our blessings this week, we can exult in the undisputed fact that JD Vance is vice president of the United States. And if, over the last 11 months, this has slipped your mind, no need to worry, because JD will consistently remind you that he is — little drummer boy roll please — vice president of the United States."Angels we have...
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The racial reckoning of the COVID era saw Canada grapple with its checkered past — a process that led to statues of some foundational figures being removed, in some instances by force. Five years on, there's a growing movement to restore some of what was taken down in that tumultuous period.
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Talking with an AI chatbot can successfully convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a newly published study. However, Canada has few, if any, rules to govern how artificial intelligence is used in future elections.
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Rixa Fürsen nutzt die ruhigen Stunden für ein Gespräch abseits des hektischen Tagesgeschäfts. Zu Gast ist Constantin Schreiber, Global Reporter bei Axel Springer und Nahost-Experte. Gemeinsam blicken sie auf ein Jahr zurück, das von Kriegen und Krisen geprägt war – von der Ukraine bis nach Israel. Ein Blick in die Welt: Schreiber berichtet...
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New York Times writer Alan Feuer says pro-Trump influencers have "always had a lot to say about the Jeffrey Epstein files.”Several called for the files release before President Donald Trump was re-elected, certain they would "expose a cabal of Democrats who had palled around” with Epstein after he'd been exposed as a convicted sex offender,...
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Criminal Defense Attorney Stacy Schneider accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump of acting well beyond its scope in the wake of the release of incriminating Epstein files."It's like the Justice Department is almost acting like Trump's personal attorney and PR firm,” said Schneider, speaking of the department's...
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A "close outside adviser" to President Donald Trump recently told Jonathan Lemire of The Atlantic that the president has just discovered "the quickest way to become a lame duck."Trump's MAGA base has been fracturing for some time after the administration declined to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in full earlier this year. That move sparked...
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, reposting a long conspiracy theory screed alleging mass voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, and calling for the state's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, to be jailed, alongside Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Atlanta poll worker Ruby...
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Senior White House adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller blew a gasket on Fox News Tuesday, amid reporting of internal anger at CBS after newly-installed right-wing network chief Bari Weiss put a hold on a long-in-the-works "60 Minutes" investigation into the horrific conditions at the Salvadoran CECOT megaprison where President Donald Trump has...
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Former Vice President Mike Pence's think tank, Advancing American Freedom (AAF) has lately been poaching officials from the conservative Heritage Foundation. However, Tim Miller — a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee — is predicting the fight will not be between Pence and extremist MAGA, but between two MAGA extremes. AAF is...
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One of President Donald Trump's former business partners made a stunning comparison on Tuesday between the way the Trump administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein files and another high-profile case of serial sexual abuse. On Tuesday, the Justice Department released another trove of documents from the FBI's investigation into disgraced...
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The Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on Tuesday by handing President Donald Trump a rare loss, ruling 6-3 to deny a stay on deploying the National Guard to Illinois — but the rebuke of Trump was not the only thing some legal experts noticed in the opinion.Specifically, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who drafted a concurrence with the majority on one...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is covering who may have committed crimes with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to the journalist whose reporting led to Epstein's arrest.On Tuesday, Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown tweeted an email between FBI agents from the DOJ's most recent release of Epstein documents that includes...
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Wichita Eagle Opinion Editor Dion Lefler said most voters are feeling the weight of President Donald Trump's tariffs this holiday season, but elderly grandparents on fixed incomes are definitely catching the worst of it."One of the funny things about tariffs — those pesky tax increases President Donald Trump has imposed on imported goods — is...
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President Donald Trump appears to be trying to thread a dangerous needle with China over an important component of artificial intelligence technologies, and his moves could disadvantage American businesses, according to a new report. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration issued a trade report concluding that China's...
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President Donald Trump got a rare and devastating blow at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as three right-wing justices joined with the three liberals to deny a stay of a lower court ruling that prevents him from federalizing the National Guard to deploy troops to Chicago — and said the administration is unlikely to prevail when the case is...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," President-elect Trump promises big change for America's role in the world – but with much of the world on fire, will his policies extinguish the flames or fuel them? Margaret Brennan speaks to Rep. Michael Waltz, Trump's pick for national security adviser, as well as Cindy McCain, director of...
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With President Donald Trump's massive corruption pulling down billions of dollars for himself and his family, MS NOW producer Steve Benen says it's easy to forget that Trump originally campaigned on "draining the swamp.”"As laughable as it might seem in hindsight, Donald Trump told voters that he saw the political establishment as a corrupt...
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A legal expert signaled Tuesday that MAGA's "cult of personality" has hit a major breakdown over a specific "ideology" split involving how the right-wing movement plans to handle Nazis and racism. Journalist and lawyer Jill Filipovic wrote in a Slate report that the breaking point was apparent over the weekend during Turning Point USA's...
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Just two hours after reporters flagged what appeared to be a 2019 letter from deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to fellow offender Larry Nassar reflecting on how President Donald Trump shared their liking of young girls, the Justice Department put out a statement proclaiming the letter was almost certainly fake, citing among other things that...
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Judges who have been threatened by fans of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement are speaking out against the president for fomenting security risks for themselves and their families.NBC News spoke to multiple judges who have faced threats after ruling against Trump in a case. In a report published on Tuesday, judges appointed by Trump and other...
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A former White House adviser questioned President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles after her explosive Vanity Fair interview dropped last week — suggesting she may have devised the move as "retribution." Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, argued that Wiles could be positioning herself...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to X on Tuesday to rage against the Trump administration officials who kept the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files under wraps for as long as they did.Greene, a far-right lawmaker who is known for pushing conspiracy theories about Jewish space lasers on social media, has been drifting apart from Trump...
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A Democrat on Tuesday warned that it's likely that lawmakers will pursue legal action against the Department of Justice over its delayed release of the Epstein files. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) told CNN that the DOJ has released these documents without context, and added the agency could face legal action. The DOJ had released additional files...
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Attorney Alan Dershowitz lashed out at Jeffrey Epstein survivor Maria Farmer after news reports said she had been "redeemed" because documents released by the Department of Justice proved she had reported the sex offender years before he was arrested.During a Tuesday Newsmax interview, Dershowitz began by taking issue with host Greta Van Susteren's...
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On Christmas Day, West Virginians should be focused on family, faith and the small joys that carry us through the coldest months of the year. Instead, far too many families across our state are staring down something that should never be part of the holiday season: the real possibility of losing their health care on Jan. 1.With Congress leaving...
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The federal government added two additional felony charges against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, who is accused of murdering National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and wounding Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, according to a new report. CBS News Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane reported on Tuesday that federal prosecutors...
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Newly released files in the case of wrongly-deported Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia indicate that the Justice Department has been misrepresenting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's connection to the case for months, legal expert and American Immigration Council fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick posted to X on Tuesday.Abrego, who for years...
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The Department of Justice has said that a purported letter from Jeffrey Epstein to sex offender Larry Nassar was "fake" after the note suggested President Donald Trump preferred "young" girls.The letter was part of a trove of Epstein documents released by the Justice Department this week."As you will know by now, I have taken the 'short route'...
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CBS News' decision to spike a story on its flagship "60 Minutes" about the efforts of President Donald Trump's administration to deport people to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador stunned one Democratic analyst. Cliff Schecter, a political ad man who worked on President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, wrote in a new essay on Substack on Tuesday...
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What a cop out. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he didn't want to sign another voter suppression bill into law before he signed a sweeping anti-voting measure into law last Friday.Spoken like a true invertebrate.Despite an outpouring of opposition from voting rights advocates, DeWine codified Ohio Senate Bill 293, a measure rushed through the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Vice President JD Vance was torched after he boasted online Monday about having endured a 90-minute training session with Navy SEALs, which journalist Edith Olmsted described as a "recent cosplaying adventure” in an op-ed published Tuesday in The New Republic."It's not entirely clear what prompted Vance's recent cosplaying adventure. Perhaps it...
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An analyst on Tuesday flagged an "alarming" rise in attacks on Muslim Americans and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric growing within the Republican Party. The Bulwark's Joe Perticone called out Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), who has been "proudly anti-Muslim" and has made comments against Muslims, including this statement during a Newsmax interview last...
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A slew of economists, including ones aligned with President Donald Trump, spoke out on Tuesday, warning that the president is about to upend the "crown jewel" of the U.S. health care system, according to a new report. Multiple economists spoke to Fox News on Tuesday, saying that Trump's plan to create a government price cap for medications could...
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A Democratic strategist Tuesday called out the Department of Justice for its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.Mike Nellis, founder and chief strategy officer of Authentic, described the disappointment surrounding the case and lack of justice for Epstein survivors.He wrote the following on X: "All the drama around these Epstein file drops...
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The Trump administration was handed a big Supreme Court loss Tuesday over deploying National Guard troops in Chicago. The High Court ruled that Trump and his administration lacked the authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to enforce laws in Illinois."At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of...
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President Donald Trump's White House pressured Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to quickly produce social media videos — all in a push to try and score viral hits, a report claimed Tuesday.The Washington Post revealed a series of internal chats, leaked to the outlet, that suggested ICE's media relations office was urged by the...
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Conservative economist Stephen Moore, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, admitted that his wife returns from the grocery store "really angry" about food prices.During a Tuesday appearance on "The Charlie Kirk Show," a viewer emailed in to complain about Moore's rosy view of the economy."It's food, Stephen!" the viewer insisted. "Go to the...
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In politics, as in war, victory often depends on your choice of battlefield.Here in Georgia, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has chosen health care and the economy as the grounds on which he will defend his Senate seat in next year's election. His Republican opponents have chosen loyalty to Donald Trump and, I guess, "wokeness.”Good luck with that. So far,...
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A Guardian report documenting the struggles of immigrant children forced to assume care giving responsibilities after their parents were detained by ICE prompted criticism from Katie Miller, wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller.The article, published 10 days prior, highlighted how ICE arrests have removed parents who served as primary...
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Stephen Miller has been increasingly targeting the children of immigrants in the Trump administration's nationwide crackdown, according to a new report.President Donald Trump's deputy White House chief of staff has been a driving force in the mass deportation campaign, and the New York Times reported that Miller believes that millions of immigrants...
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Republicans have quietly started to talk about removing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to a report.Johnson has been criticized by fellow Republicans and rival Democrats in recent weeks — and now the GOP majority has shown signs it's unhappy with him, The Atlantic reported Tuesday. "Johnson's own members, in the past month, have...
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Organizers of Turning Point USA's AmericaFest, held this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, hoped attendees would unite around a shared vision for the organization's future. Instead, the event revealed significant internal discord and infighting, according to a report Tuesday.In interviews with young conservatives who attended the gathering, the New...
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Donald Trump's MAGA voter base has become "jaded" with his handling of several key issues, with a new analysis from Australia's ABC News predicting that "more fights are brewing" due to these divides.In his analysis, ABC's Washington, D.C., correspondent Brad Ryan highlighted the Epstein files disclosure scandals as one of the biggest and loudest...
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Emerald Robinson, a host on Mike Lindell's network, accused President Donald Trump of a "stain" on the presidency after she said he abandoned Jan. 6 rioters who were allegedly "beaten" during incarceration.On Tuesday, Robinson began her show by claiming that Ryan Samsel "was arrested on totally trumped up charges on January the 6th.""He was held in...
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President Donald Trump's administration will reportedly begin seizing wages from up to 5 million student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments.On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed the plan to CNBC.Borrowers' paychecks have not been at risk since the COVID-19 pandemic. The education department will begin sending out...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (17 hours ago)
The Republican Party has been told to brace itself to field tough questions on Donald Trump and his administration.The president is under fire for a multitude of reasons, including the cost-of-living crisis, healthcare woes, and frequent mentions in a newly released collection of Jeffrey Epstein's files. The GOP will have ended the year in a...
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Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can't appease a tyrant.David Ellison's CBS — after gutting DEI policies, appointing right-wing hack Kenneth R. Weinstein to a new "ombudsman” role, and making anti-"woke” opinion journalist Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News (despite her lack of experience in either...
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The Department of Energy's newest order, based on one of Donald Trump's long-running "obsessions," seems destined to fall flat as it runs into "inevitable court battles," according to an analysis from MS NOW.On Monday, the DOE announced that all leases for ongoing offshore wind energy construction projects were being paused. Energy Secretary Doug...
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"Terrorism for accelerationism, then we get the military supplies to everyone and start war,” a group chat leader wrote on the encrypted platform Signal in October 2024, to almost 150 members spread across Europe, the United States and Australia. "People need to see lone wolves acting to become empowered,” he continued. Using a slur, the chat...
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An attorney for Jeffrey Epstein's survivors ripped into the Department of Justice Tuesday for making "a complete mess" of its release of files about the late sex offender's network.Congress passed a law last month compelling the release of DOJ investigative files, with redactions of victims' names, but attorney Helene Weiss told "CNN News Central"...
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The FBI requested a handwriting analysis after a message allegedly sent by Jeffrey Epstein to another notorious sex offender apparently suggested the implication of Donald Trump.The letter, postmarked Aug. 13, 2019, three days after Epstein died in federal custody, to former U.S. gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually...
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A handwritten note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to a convicted pedophile in which he claims Donald Trump "shares our love of young, nubile girls” left a MS NOW panel almost speechless on Tuesday morning.Towards the end of the Morning Joe” episode that had been light-hearted all morning as the holiday weekend looms, the panel became...
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The FBI received an explosive tip in October of 2020 regarding then-President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and an incident that allegedly took place in the 1990s, a new release from the Justice Department revealed Tuesday.An FBI report documenting the tip was made public early Tuesday morning as part of the DOJ's ongoing release of Epstein...
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President Donald Trump's policies are set to hurt his own followers more than anybody else, a New York Times columnist warned Tuesday.Thomas B. Edsall wrote, "The Trump Administration (has) adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off...
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A Nobel Prize winner has suggested "nobody knows what's next" for the economy under Donald Trump's administration. The president has struggled to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, prompting Paul Krugman to point out that the economy under Trump is hard to pin down. Writing in his Substack newsletter, the award-winning economist claimed the Trump...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (19 hours ago)
One of the documents briefly disclosed by the Department of Justice contains an FBI tip related to a party allegedly hosted more than two decades ago by President Donald Trump that featured prostitutes.An unidentified female told the FBI in in October 2020 that she had information about a "Jeffrey Epstein party" in 2000, according to a partially...
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President Donald Trump floated the idea of ditching the Oval Office Tuesday to instead pursue a career as a television host, asking his followers whether they supported the idea of an abrupt career change.Whether serious or in jest, Trump made the remarks after announcing that he would be hosting the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony scheduled for...
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President Donald Trump's first-term Department of Justice declined to prosecute 10 of Jeffrey Epstein's "co-conspirators," according to files released this week.On Tuesday, attorney Aaron Parnas pointed out that the revelation was from "by far the most important document released overnight.""There were 10 co-conspirators investigated by the DOJ...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
An email released by the Justice Department early Tuesday morning as part of its ongoing release of Jeffrey Epstein files revealed that law enforcement had uncovered a potentially new photograph of President Donald Trump with a co-conspirator of Epstein's as part of its probe into Trump ally Steve Bannon.The email, sent June 11, 2021, appears to...
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CNN's Maria Cardona lost patience with a conservative panelist's efforts to justify the detention and deportations of U.S. citizens as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.The panelists were discussing the case of Dulce Consuelo Díaz Morales, a Baltimore mother in ICE custody whose attorney says was born in the United States, but...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (20 hours ago)
A MS NOW segment of JD Vance's increasingly higher profile as he apparently makes a bid to claim the MAGA mantle from Donald Trump took a humorous turn Tuesday when it was brought up that Vance once used to equate the president with Hitler.That was when co-host Joe Scarborough mimicked Vance's voice, making him sound mentally diminished.After first...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
Remarks made by President Donald Trump on Monday when asked about the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files raised eyebrows on MS NOW Tuesday.On "Morning Joe,” the co-hosts ran a clip of the president, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, stating, "They're asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein. I...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
On my Sirius XM program, I discussed the almost comical hearing this month in which a top FBI official, flanked by dog-killing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, claimed antifa — short for anti-fascist — was the "number one terrorist” threat in the United States. Yet he couldn't answer repeated questions from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)...
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The Justice Department released a letter allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein Monday that it then quickly removed from its website — and its contents, some critics say, "directly implicates" President Donald Trump.The letter was postmarked "just days after Epstein died” in 2019, according to the progressive media company MeidasTouch. It was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
CNN's Audie Cornish put an end to a conservative panelist's efforts to exonerate President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The Department of Justice disclosed another batch of documents related to a sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, with the president's name mentioned frequently, but...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (21 hours ago)
CBS News head Bari Weiss's decision to "spike” a "60 Minutes' segment detailing the horrific treatment of migrants sent by President Donald Trump's administration to a brutal maximum security prison in El Salvador looks even worse now that the video clip was leaked online.On Tuesday morning, the hosts of "Morning Joe” revealed that they had...
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This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," a deal was finally reached to fund the government, but was last week's Capitol Hill chaos preview of what's to come in 2025? Reps. Tony Gonzales and French Hill join to discuss. Plus, exit interviews with Sen. Joe Manchin and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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