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Donald Trump created the worst possible outcome for Jeffrey Epstein's victims, according to a columnist.On Friday, December 16 — the deadline for compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act of 2025 — thousands of "unclassified" U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) files on billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were...
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A federal charity drive is reportedly facing hardship due to Trump's actions.In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10927, which authorized the U.S. Civil Service Commission to authorize nonprofit solicitations from employees of the federal government. Then, in 1982, 10927 was replaced when President Ronald Reagan signed...
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During Donald Trump's second presidency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to redirect $3.9 billion away from Housing First — a program that got underway under President Bill Clinton during the 1990s. Trump officials are attacking Housing First as ineffective and claiming that it isn't doing enough to reduce...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in the hot seat on Christmas after her department released a statement that numerous observers flagged as a violation of the Constitution.Homeland Security alarmed some critics when, on Christmas Eve, the department took to social media and wrote, "Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a...
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Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what's likely to happen in the real world. They are more like branding tools that communicate the attitudes of a given administration while rarely offering a detailed or accurate picture of its likely...
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Mike Johnson has been shameless in his attempts to play dumb in defense of Trump, according to one political analyst.When MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) tried to oust Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) as House speaker in May 2024, she got a backlash not only from fellow Republicans, but also, from Democrats. The House voted 359-43 to...
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Raw Story on Christmas Eve reported on a file released by the DOJ which shows a purported victim linking Donald Trump to the currently still unverified murder of a newborn baby, and the internet erupted with people flagging the potential crime.The day before Christmas, we reported that Trump's name had appeared on a newly released Epstein file in...
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Two former Trump insiders who are now activists against the president turned against one another in the run-up to Christmas.Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration and was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info...
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When President Donald Trump angrily attacked and ridiculed actor/director Rob Reiner right after his murder, the dominant reaction was outrage. USA Today columnist Rex Huppke, for example, argued that Trump reached a "new low" following a "decade of Trumpian loathsomeness." And some of Trump's critics described Trump's comments as evidence of his...
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Conservative and liberal powerhouses united around Christmas in their condemnation of a new statement about the Epstein files made by the Department of Justice, with some already notifying the investigative authorities.The Justice Department on Christmas Eve made a surprising announcement, writing, "The US Attorney for the Southern District of New...
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For me, the real lesson of Frank Capra's delightful holiday film It's a Wonderful Life was never as powerful as it is this year. That lesson: it's our choice.We can wallow in despair at the hell that Trump and his sycophants have created, as in the fictional "Pottersville.” Or we can actively and purposefully generate kindness and decency — as...
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The Rev. Jonathan B. Hall has a quick retort to people who demand we "Keep Christ in Christmas.”"There is a quieter, graver danger that does not wait for December and does not end when the lights come down: Taking the Christ out of Christian,” Hall wrote for Religion News Services. "That happens whenever we subtract empathy from discipleship,...
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Donald Trump caused a stir among his critics when he released a Christmas screed attacking his perceived enemies.The president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to strike a familiar tone for his celebrations of various holidays."Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our...
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In light of the scandal at 60 Minutes, it bears repeating that the primary crisis facing American democracy is about information. There are just too many ways for the rich and powerful to control the truth.Over the weekend, news broke that the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, had spiked a highly revealing 60 Minutes investigation into the torture...
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Pope Leo XIV made an "unexpected gesture" at his Christmas service that is being taken as a dig at Trump's key policy.The pope, who has been accused of making "pointed remarks" aimed at Trump in the past, gave a Christmas speech largely devoid of political references. But the issue of immigration crept in, as Reuters reports:"Leo, celebrating his...
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Ipaper columnist Simon Marks argues every "strategic effort” by President Donald Trump's administration to protect him from the most damaging Epstein files "is not working.”"The U.S. president is now twisting in the wind as reporters wait for each batch of files placed into the public domain. On Monday, the release of an additional 30,000 pages...
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It's wild how we're watching Donald Trump losing his grip on MAGA as MAGA leaders, from Ben Shapiro and Erica Kirk to Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, are tearing themselves apart. They're riven by outlandish debates like allowing Nazis such as Nick Fuentes into the party, while events like Charlie Kirk's assassination are enmeshed in divisive,...
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Politische Ernsthaftigkeit mit satirischem Ausklang:In dieser Sonderausgabe spricht Gordon Repinski mit dem Kabarettisten und Autor Florian Schroeder, der vor Kurzem sein neues Buch „Happy End” veröffentlicht hat. Gemeinsam blicken sie zurück auf 2025. Ein Jahr, in dem Friedrich Merz zwar nicht im ersten Wahlgang, aber immerhin schneller...
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DAN KITWOOD, KENNY HOLSTON, OMAR AL-QATTAA, BEN STANSALL, MOHD RASFAN, OMAR AL-QATTAA, JUAN MABROMATA, GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO, MUHAMMAD, AMDAD HOSSAIN, DIMITAR DILKOFF, FLORENT VERGNES, CHARLY TRIBALLEAU, ROMAN PILIPEY, LUDOVIC MARIN AND JULIEN DE ROSA VIA AFP/GETTY IMAGES; EVGENIY MALOLETK, HUSEYIN ALDEMIR, NIRANJAN SHRESTHA,VOLODYMYR HORDIIENKO AND...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) Republican majority is not only razor-thin, but is also becoming increasingly rebellious, according to a new analysis in the Wall Street Journal.The Journal's Kimberly A. Strassel wrote Wednesday that Johnson has effectively ceded his power to a group of "moderate extortionists" within the House Republican...
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Amid this week's newest release of files pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's two federal criminal investigations, one author is arguing that justice for Epstein's victims is being considered an afterthought.In a Wednesday op-ed for the New York Times, author and MS NOW contributor Molly Jong-Fast lamented that the Department of...
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The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait raked newly-installed CBS boss Bari Weiss over the coals for her controversial move to block the release of a "60 Minutes" report on horrific conditions at the foreign megaprison where President Donald Trump is shipping hundreds of migrants with no due process — and warned that her justifications for it are not...
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President Donald Trump veered off topic to endorse fossil fuel energy during a phone conversation with a small child in a Mar-a-Lago Christmas Eve event."How long until Santa will be here?" asked the child."Well, Santa's now in Sweden," said Trump. "So Santa's got quite a trip to get to your great area, your great part of the world, because you...
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President Donald Trump maintained that he "was never on Epstein's Plane, or at his 'stupid' Island." However, this week's release of thousands of documents pertaining to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein show that the president had not been forthcoming with the American public.In a Wednesday essay, the Atlantic's Sarah Fitzpatrick observed...
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Neo-Nazi activist and "Groyper" leader Nick Fuentes has a new target to defeat in the political arena — and it's a MAGA Republican.According to Fox News, "White nationalist Nick Fuentes vowed to campaign against Vivek Ramaswamy in a slur-laced rant denouncing the Republican's Ohio governor bid," during a stream. Specifically, Fuentes said, "I...
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A former GOP speechwriter bashed President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president went on a late-night "hate tweeting" session. Late Tuesday night, Trump fired off a series of posts on Truth Social about late-night television hosts who have criticized him. For instance, he asked his more than 11.2 million followers which of the large...
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MS NOW senior enterprise editor Andy Campbell says a Jeffrey Epstein-based rift is growing between the MAGA old guard and younger, more rebellious influencers and podcasters who are not so aligned with President Donald Trump."Suspicions of a Trump administration cover-up have sent some sectors of MAGA world into a tailspin,” said Campbell. "A...
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The Justice Department is now all but openly manipulating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files to insulate President Donald Trump from any potentially damaging information, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on her Substack on Wednesday.This comes after White House officials started directly controlling the social...
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President Donald Trump made some strange comments as he took phone calls from his southern Florida abode, Mar-a-Lago, during a Christmas celebration on Wednesday. Trump participated in the NORAD Santa Tracker phone calls on Christmas Eve from Mar-a-Lago, taking calls from children across the country. The president's comments during one interaction...
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The Department of Justice dropped an announcement on Christmas Eve that the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, which was supposed to have concluded by now under a law passed by Congress, will instead take weeks more."The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of...
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An embattled former county clerk in Colorado who is serving a nine-year sentence for her efforts to help President Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election asked the Colorado Court of Appeals to recognize the president's pardon of her, according to a new report. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that lawyers for Tina Peters...
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President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report. Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign. The...
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President Donald Trump has boasted that Harvard University is on the brink of capitulating to a deal with the administration after months of government attacks and moves to pull funding from the storied institution. But according to The New York Times, recent email communications show the talks are going nowhere.A huge sticking point, according to...
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Top Democrats on the foreign affairs and armed services committees sounded off against President Donald Trump's latest turn toward China in a recent letter, according to a new report. Fox News reported on Wednesday that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) sent a letter to Under Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffrey...
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CBS News' newly-appointed right-wing chief, Bari Weiss, doubled down in an email to staff on her decision to delay a "60 Minutes" investigation into the way migrants President Donald Trump has sent to the Salvadoran CECOT megaprison are being tortured, some without having any criminal record or violation of the law whatsoever.Weiss, who founded The...
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A legendary filmmaker revealed what America's Founding Fathers would likely consider the "most disturbing" part of President Donald Trump's second administration in an interview with CNN. Trump's second administration has been marked by his swift efforts to amass executive power. Trump has attacked independent agencies, fired multiple independent...
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"The Kennedy Center Honors" reportedly drew its lowest ratings ever after President Donald Trump announced he would host the event."According to preliminary Nielsen data, 'The Kennedy Center Honors' on CBS drew its smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025, averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers," Programming Insider reported on...
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Like Islam, Christianity is incredibly diverse, ranging from severe fundamentalists to people who are devout but have a more nuanced and complex view of their faith. President Donald Trump is not a Christian fundamentalist; he was raised Presbyterian in Queens and comes from a Mainline Protestant background. But some of his most ardent supporters...
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Donald Trump's administration has gone to great lengths to spin his first year back in the White House as one of the best and most productive in US history, but as a new analysis from The Guardian laid out, his "erratic and at times confused behavior throughout 2025" has often dominated the conversation, and "questions about his mental and physical...
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When it became clear that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was going to drop out of the race to challenge Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, allies of President Donald Trump privately reached out begging her to change her mind, but to no avail.Stefanik, a former moderate Republican lawmaker turned hard MAGA loyalist in the Trump era, announced her...
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The Justice Department on Tuesday released a previously undisclosed FBI report documenting a tip submitted in October 2020 that included unverified allegations involving then-President Donald Trump and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.The report was made public as part of the DOJ's ongoing release of Epstein-related records. It summarizes...
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Podcast host Joe Rogan blasted President Donald Trump for distorting history with his so-called Presidential Walk of Fame.During his Tuesday podcast, Rogan and comedian Tom Segura discussed recent changes at the White House."And he took out the Kennedy Rose Garden, and you're like, what?" Segura noted."There's nothing nuttier than the plaques...
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The photographer who illustrated last week's bombshell Vanity Fair profile of President Donald Trump's inner circle revealed that his photo shoot was scrambled by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The West Wing profile featured remarkably candid quotes from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and unvarnished portraits by Christopher Anderson, and he...
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If anyone doubted that the rich would use their control of the media to push their agenda and silence dissent, CBS removed it with its decision to censor the scheduled 60 Minutes broadcast on CECOT prison. CECOT is the notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador where President Donald Trump has sent a number of the people he has deported....
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The Department of Justice announced what could be "a million more documents" related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a Christmas Eve post on X, the DOJ said that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI located the documents."[T[hey have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein...
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In 2025, President Donald Trump's makeover of the White House has taken on two different forms: (1) tearing down the historic East Wing to make way for a lavish new ballroom, and (2) redecorating parts of the West Wing in a distinctly Trumpian fashion.The New York Times' Sam Sifton, in a newsletter published on Christmas Eve Day 2025, describes...
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Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan.The Justice Department released this file ahead of Christmas Eve in which an unnamed individual, on Aug. 3, 2020, is looking for an update on the status of their earlier...
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President Donald Trump's rhetoric and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's campaign for governor in Minnesota are testing Republicans' optimism in the state."We should be able to beat Tim Walz with a dog," House GOP Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Politico recently.But many Republicans in the state fear that Trump will sabotage the party's chances."When the...
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Vice President JD Vance drew criticism this week after publicly boasting about completing a 90-minute training session with Navy SEALs, an episode that sparked ridicule online and prompted sharp commentary from political observers.In an op-ed published Tuesday in The New Republic, journalist Edith Olmsted characterized Vance's appearance with the...
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Some good news to end the year on. The Supreme Court today blocked Trump from sending the National Guard into the Chicago area — finally setting a limit to Trump's executive power.The decision was 6 to 3, with Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett joining the three liberal justices in a majority. Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas dissented.The court said that...
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Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) called out the Trump administration for waiting until the week of the Christmas holiday to release files from the Jeffrey Epstein case — even though the documents were required to be shared with the public earlier."So you guys may be wondering why it is that they are releasing some of the Epstein files...
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The White House has taken control of the Department of Justice's social media account to manage the public relations battle over the Jeffrey Epstein files, alarming some.The Trump administration estimates there's another week to go in the congressionally mandated release of the DOJ's files on Epstein's sex trafficking network, with up to 700,000...
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The Supreme Court's decision blocking President Trump from deploying the National Guard into American cities has alarmed legal experts who fear the ruling may inadvertently create a pathway for the administration to invoke the Insurrection Act.Trump and his aides have repeatedly suggested they would invoke the rarely used law, which would be...
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Allies of President Donald Trump, speaking to Politico, said that his plummeting economic approval is "baffling" as the rich prosper while the poor struggle, with one former adviser saying that he "just can't quite get [his] arms around" the problem."President Donald Trump's economy has exceeded expectations in his first year back in office,"...
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Donald Trump's significant increase in presidential pardons during his second term has attracted intense lobbying efforts, with millions of dollars being offered to secure clemency for wealthy convicted clients.According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump's pardon activity stands in stark contrast to his first term. Previously, he issued only one...
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Katie Miller, the wife of President Donald Trump's chief strategist and speechwriter Stephen Miller, has for the second time in the runup to Christmas posted an attack on Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, then quietly deleted it.Her first remark came last week, after Leo, a relatively progressive pontiff in the spirit of his predecessor...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was accused of stealing a video of troops wearing Santa hats from a freelance reporter who covers the alt-right and focuses on exposing Nazis.On Christmas Eve, Hegseth shared a video of National Guard troops dressed in Santa garb. The video did not include any attribution."Fully authorized uniform modification!" the...
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Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting last week before going on vacation, it appears former Congressman Alan Grayson was right. The GOP Healthcare Plan is simple and straightforward:"Don't get sick."If you do get sick, die quickly.”And it appears Trump is...
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President Donald Trump's response to the release of court-ordered Jeffrey Epstein files suggests he is operating in an "alternate reality,” according to a USA Today column by Chris Brennan.Brennan pointed to Trump's public comments downplaying the controversy, including remarks such as "I thought that was finished” and claims that there was...
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The official social media account for the Department of Justice insulted a critic's intelligence in a Christmas Eve post.The DOJ initially responded Tuesday afternoon to the widely followed "Pop Base" account on X to rebut its post claiming "a newly released Epstein document includes a letter that Jeffrey wrote to fellow sex offender Larry Nassar,...
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Lara Trump decried the Supreme Court's decision preventing her father-in-law from militarizing the streets of Chicago."I think it's such a shame, obviously," Trump told Fox News in a Christmas Eve interview. "You hate to see a ruling like this because our ICE officers around the country have seen an increase of a thousand percent in assaults on...
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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 US Department of Justice on Tuesday released a new batch of documents related to the criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—along with a disclaimer aimed at exonerating President Donald Trump, who is mentioned numerous times in the latest disclosures.In a message posted on X, the DOJ asserted that some of the latest...
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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) turned up the heat in his demands for House Republicans to allow the closed-door testimony from former special counsel Jack Smith to be released in a post on Wednesday morning.Smith was in charge of the federal prosecutions of President Donald Trump for the 2020 election conspiracy plot, and for the hoarding of classified...
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Donald Trump's aggressive use of his presidential pardon powers has reached such a fevered pitch that some White House insiders are getting nervous about blowback that they are not prepared to push back on.According to a deep dive from the Wall Street Journal's Rebecca Ballhaus, Josh Dawsey and C. Ryan Barber on the almost weekly presidential...
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As the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files continue to trickle in from the Justice Department under Congressional mandate, allies around President Donald Trump are scrambling for a narrative to reassert control of the conversation, CNN reported on Wednesday — and they can't figure out what to do."When the Justice Department released a...
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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has hovered like a dark cloud over the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency, and a Republican strategist released a forecast on where the political fallout would land.The president's longtime association with the late sex offender has periodically exploded into the foreground after backtracking on campaign...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) recently issued a call for volunteers to come into the office over the Christmas and New Years' holidays to help prepare Jeffrey Epstein documents for release. One former deputy director of the FBI is now accusing the administration of being held captive to its own lack of urgency.During a...
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Ridicule of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's change in appearance since she joined Donald Trump's administration led a Wall Street Journal columnist to rush to her defense by arguing that, while there are some obvious enhancements at work, there is nothing wrong with it.On the day before Christmas, columnist Louise Perry argued that...
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Despite this being a year when everything about the executive branch has been so horrible and destructive, Christmastime instills a vibe of generosity that can't be ignored. Even those idiots in or adjacent to the Trump administration deserve something besides our contempt. It is in this spirit of giving that I present below my own list of holiday...
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A Republican strategist warned that President Donald Trump's seeming impunity did not carry over into a scandal that's threatening to consume his presidency.The U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling before he won re-election emboldened Trump, GOP strategist Maura Gillespie told "CNN This Morning," and she said that had set the tone from the start of...
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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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Republican lawmakers admitted 2025 was a legislative wasteland, with Congress setting a modern record for lowest output in a president's first year, but some attributed their inaction to a simple explanation: President Donald Trump did much of their work for them through executive orders.With fewer than 40 bills signed into law, the House and...
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President Donald Trump's reaction to the release of the Epstein files shows that he is living in an "alternate reality," Chris Brennan wrote for USA Today.Nothing better exemplifies this, wrote Brennan, than when Trump responded to the controversy over the files by saying "I thought that was finished" and "There's tremendous backlash. A lot of...
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Upon returning from their holiday break, Republican House members will confront significant legislative challenges after a disappointing final session that produced minimal accomplishments and growing discontent with embattled Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).According to Politico reporters Meredith Lee Hill, Mia McCarthy, and Benjamin Guggenheim, the...
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The Trump administration is planning to warehouse more than 80,000 immigrants in industrial storage facilities in a dramatic expansion of its detention system treating human beings as logistics problems to be processed and moved along like packages.According to a draft solicitation reviewed by the Washington Post, U.S. Immigration and Customs...
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Zeteo reports Republican leaders are face-palming over how badly President Donald Trump's White House is blundering the Epstein file release."Trumpworld is wildly unimpressed with the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, with many in the MAGA and GOP elite flabbergasted at how Donald Trump's Justice Department keeps pathetically...
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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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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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