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Newly released videos and photos show the epicenter of some of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's crimes -- his private estate in the Virgin Islands. The footage was obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Scott MacFarlane reports.
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The Trump administration is sending Border Patrol agents right into the heart of some of America's biggest cities. We investigate how their tactics are shaping immigration operations from Los Angeles to Chicago to, as of this week, New Orleans.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) spent a significant portion of a recent address criticizing members of his audience for their obeisance to President Donald Trump.Politico reported Wednesday that the two-term governor — who is presumed to run for the presidency in 2028 — told audience members at the New York Times DealBook Summit that they were...
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President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to Tim Leiweke, a media executive who co-founded the Oak View Group, according to CNN on Wednesday.The move is notable as, unlike many other controversial Trump clemencies for rich and well-connected people, this pardon is for a charge brought by his own Justice Department earlier this year."A federal...
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Political analysts and observers bashed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday after he claimed an Inspector General report on his conduct during Signalgate exonerated him. Hegseth's tenure as Defense Secretary has been embroiled in scandal since it began. One of the most egregious scandals occurred in April when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor...
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A leading nuclear safety expert sounded the alarm Tuesday over the Trump administration's expedited safety review of an experimental nuclear reactor in Wyoming designed by a company co-founded by tech billionaire Bill Gates and derided as a "Cowboy Chernobyl.”On Monday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it has "completed...
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An explosive new report Wednesday night undercut Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's attempt to distance himself from an order to kill two survivors clinging to a boat following a strike on an alleged drug boat.The Trump administration's strategy for drug interdiction has come under intense criticism following a Sept. 2 strike that killed two boat...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has been fighting behind the scenes to rip out a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act that guarantees troops access to in vitro fertilization coverage, reported MS NOW on Wednesday.Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who has been involved in the negotiations on the military funding re-authorization, sounded...
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A conservative columnist on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump's economy during an interview on Fox News. Byron York, a columnist for The Washington Examiner, discussed Trump's economy during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham. He noted that the economy is one area where the Republican Party is not addressing a lot...
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When President Donald Trump issued a pardon for Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), he did not give House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) or Republican leadership any heads up about what he was doing first — and now he's thrown a wrench in their plans to flip his South Texas seat.According to Axios, Johnson said he had no notice of the decision, while...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) delivered a one-word response to a report that she is mulling whether to resign from Congress as she runs for governor in South Carolina. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Mace was considering resigning from her seat over how GOP leadership treats women. Mace has publicly broken with President Donald Trump and the...
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A legal expert swiftly shredded the Trump administration after a new report revealed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pre-authorized contingency plans on how to handle potential survivors during drug strike missions.Hegseth has tried to distance himself from an order to kill two survivors clinging to a boat following a Trump administration strike on...
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The Pentagon's internal watchdog determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized sensitive military information and could have endangered American service members when he shared certain details about U.S. military operations in Yemen in a private Signal group chat earlier this year, sources told CBS News. Charlie D'Agata has more.
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It's been more than a month since a media firestorm over old Reddit posts and a tattoo thrust US Senate candidate Graham Platner into the national spotlight, just as Maine Gov. Janet Mills was entering the Democratic primary race in hopes of challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins—a controversy that did not appear at the time to make a dent in...
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A Tennessee Republican is sounding the alarm after Democrats overperformed in a deep-red district during a special election on Tuesday, according to a new report. On Tuesday, Republican Matt Van Epps, a Trump-endorsed military veteran, beat Democrat Aftyn Behn in the special election for the Tennessee 7th Congressional District seat. Van Epps won...
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WASHINGTON — A pair of top Democrats in the House of Representatives slammed President Donald Trump's "deranged obsession" with attacking Somali-Americans on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Trump said he does not want Somalis in the United States because "they contribute nothing," the AP reported. His most recent attack follows a report by the...
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is considering resigning from her seat early, reported The New York Times on Wednesday — largely in frustration over how women have been treated under the leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)."Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated with the Louisiana Republican and sick...
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Six former employees of the US Environmental Protection Agency filed a First Amendment challenge in court on Wednesday to their firing earlier this year for criticizing the Trump administration's environmental policies.The employees were among 160 who were fired shortly after signing a "declaration of dissent” in June against EPA Administrator...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent interview with Aaron Ross Sorkin raised red flags for a pair of analysts on Wednesday. Sorkin interviewed Bessent at The New York Times' DealBook Summit, an annual gathering of business leaders, where the Treasury secretary made a series of questionable claims, according to Jonathan V. Last and Tim Miller...
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Despite traditionally being regarded as one of America's most storied cultural icons, the Kennedy Center has had significant difficulty filling seats ever since President Donald Trump took over the vaunted institution earlier this year.The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Trump advisor Richard Grenell, his first-term acting Director of National...
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has filed court documents seeking to be released from prison, reportedly "throwing a wrench” into the Justice Department's efforts to release "scores” of files related to her case."Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Epstein...
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President Donald Trump is losing touch and becoming isolated, a White House journalist said Wednesday. Past presidents have also had to deal with appearing — or actually being — out of touch with what everyday Americans go through, between heightened security measures and busy schedules. But MS NOW and Atlantic journalist Jonathan Lemire, who...
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David Gentile, a convicted fraudster freed by President Donald Trump, will no longer have to pay the $15.5 million in restitution he owed. The former CEO of GPB Capital and his business partner, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of conspiring to defraud thousands of investors in a scheme totaling $1.6 billion, Politico reported...
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A victim of a fraudster that President Donald Trump recently let out of jail spoke out on Wednesday, railing that the president's move "makes no sense."Carolann Tutera, who was defrauded by David Gentile, the former CEO of GPB Holdings, discussed the impact of Gentile's fraud on her family during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Lead" with Jake...
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Virginia Democrats threatened to go nuclear on the GOP in their retaliatory mid-decade redistricting, potentially deleting as many as four Republican seats to create a map where Democrats win 10 out of 11 districts.Don Scott, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was asked about redistricting at a meeting of the Virginia Property Owners...
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A report published Wednesday by Greenpeace exposes the plastics industry as "merchants of myth” still peddling the false promise of recycling as a solution to the global pollution crisis, even as the vast bulk of commonly produced plastics remain unrecyclable."After decades of meager investments accompanied by misleading claims and a very...
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When a special election for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District was held on Tuesday, Democrats didn't realistically expect their candidate, Aftyn Behn, to defeat GOP nominee Matt Van Epps. And she didn't: Van Epps won by roughly 8.5 percent, according to the New York Times. But Democratic strategists were...
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is coming under fire after a report revealed he expects to swear in this week the newest Republican elected to Congress, Matt Van Epps, for whom Johnson campaigned. Van Epps won a narrow victory Tuesday night in a deep red Tennessee district. The move comes after Johnson most recently delayed seating Democratic...
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Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC) spoke out in Congress on Wednesday to demand change on what he sees as a pressing issue facing Americans: burdensome federal regulations on the water flow of showers."Nobody likes weak showerheads. Really, nobody likes weak showerheads," said Fry. "Weak showers are for sad motels and gyms built in the 1970s. If we wanted a...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, already under intense scrutiny over allegations he was involved in a possible war crime, is now facing renewed attention on a separate controversy from early in his tenure. According to analysts, the long-dormant "Signalgate” scandal is set to resurface just as pressure on Hegseth reaches a new peak.During a...
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A group of Democratic Senators sent a scathing letter to the heads of the General Services Administration and the Office of Presidential Personnel, arguing that President Donald Trump's latest appointee "betrays the trust of every American."The Democrats, all of whom serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said in...
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Republicans appear ready to "shoot themselves in the foot" on a key issue for voters after they voted to cut Medicaid funding in President Donald Trump's domestic spending bill, according to one analyst. A key provision of Trump's domestic spending bill prohibits Medicaid from funding abortion care, which UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler argued...
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A Trump official on Wednesday struggled to defend the Trump administration's racist attack on Somalis. CNN anchor John Berman asked Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, "Exactly how much of the Somali American community in Minnesota, an estimated 40,000 of whom were born in Somalia, could be considered garbage," The New...
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A day after President Donald Trump went viral after falling asleep during a cabinet meeting following an all-night Truth Social posting binge, some Republican loyalists spent Wednesday trying to spin the narrative to say that Trump is nothing short of the Energizer Bunny and the picture of perfect health.Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KY), who also happens...
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One of President Donald Trump's top economic advisors is scrambling to blame anything but tariffs after a new jobs report indicated that they might be 'hammering" small business jobs, a move the New Republic dismissed as "only damage control.""No, no, it's not tariffs,” Lutnik told CNBC's Sara Eisen. "Remember, you had the Democratic shutdown,...
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President Donald Trump playfully scolded Sean Duffy for mispronouncing "Buttigieg" during a White House press conference on Wednesday. Duffy, Secretary of Transportation and acting administrator for NASA, was commenting on an announcement that the Trump administration is slashing fuel economy standards put in place by former President Joe Biden....
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Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It's a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally proclaimed a year ago. Israeli human-rights organizations have reached the same conclusion. But such clarity is sparse in Congress.And no wonder. Genocide denial is...
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A former Biden administration official and human rights expert warned Wednesday that harmful MAGA immigration policies have crippled struggling local economies — further damaging Americans. Michelle Brané, a non-resident fellow at the Cornell Law Migration and Human Rights Program and the executive director of Together and Free, wrote in a...
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After Democrats' strong showing in Tuesday's deep-red Tennessee special election — losing by single digits in a district Trump won by 22 points — political pundits and anonymous Republican lawmakers have begun predicting a large GOP exodus from the House of Representatives after the winter break.Already, Speaker Johnson has a razor-thin margin,...
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has filed the necessary paperwork to run for Minnesota governor.In an interview on Wednesday, Lindell told Minnesota Public Radio that he had not made a final decision about running. "I'm 98 percent sure I'm going to,” the pillow executive explained. Lindell has faced multiple lawsuits over his claims that voting...
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President Donald Trump's son-in-law likely broke the law this week, one analyst wrote Wednesday.Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow on Tuesday to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over a potential peace deal with Ukraine. The U.S. delegation consisted of Kushner, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff,...
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Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, former companion to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has said she will ask a judge to release her from prison. Maxwell has filed a court petition to release her from the minimum-security federal camp in Texas, according to The New York Times. In a letter filed by her attorney, David Oscar...
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Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen.In a video captured by David Goodhue of The Miami Herald on Wednesday, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol, and U.S Border Patrol could...
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House Republicans were forced on Wednesday to cancel an upcoming vote on the SCORE Act, a controversial piece of legislation backed by President Donald Trump that would give a sweetheart deal to college sports leagues at the expense of players.According to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman, Republicans lacked the votes on the legislation, as Democrats...
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The Pentagon's watchdog review found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "risked endangering troops" when he used Signal to share war plans, according to reports Wednesday. The report is still classified and has not been publicly released. The inspector general for the Pentagon did conclude that Hegseth "risked compromising sensitive information,"...
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The Trump administration has already doomed its attempt to cover up a possible criminal act by embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to a conservative columnist.Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal directive to "kill everybody" in a missile attack on a suspected drug smuggling boat, and the White House confirmed that Adm. Frank Bradley...
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An analyst Wednesday described the MAGA battle unfolding over President Donald Trump's succession as infighting has ensued within the Republican party. The Guardian's Moira Donegan wrote in an opinion piece that cracks have emerged in the Trump administration and MAGA as the president's influence has begun to lessen. "The sharks can smell blood in...
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Missouri Republicans have been doing everything they can to block a referendum to put the state's gerrymandered congressional map on the 2026 ballot. The latest twist came late last month when Attorney General Catherine Hanaway accused a company hired to collect signatures for the campaign of human trafficking. You read that right: Human...
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday called on Attorney General Pam Bondi for an urgent sit-down over unreleased information related to Jeffrey Epstein's files. A letter sent to the attorney general on Wednesday told Bondi she had until Friday to give "new information" that the administration cited as the reason for a new investigation...
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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) faced criticism for a proposal to limit where food stamp recipients can purchase meals.The Iowa Republican, who is not seeking re-election, told Fox Business that she would introduce a bill to prevent SNAP recipients from using their government assistance to buy fast food."I have a McSCUSE ME Act which would disallow those...
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Officials at Turning Point USA invited MAGA influencer Candace Owens to participate in a live-streamed event debunking her conspiracy theories about the murder of the group's founder, Charlie Kirk.Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff read a lengthy statement on Wednesday after Owens accused Turning Point leadership of betraying their former...
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During a televised Cabinet meeting in the White House on Tuesday, December 2, President Donald Trump angrily railed against familiar targets ranging from former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And he reiterated his call for steep interest rates cuts.Although Powell has been gradually lowering...
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President Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs on virtually all imports could soon be struck down by the Supreme Court. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is not sweating the possibility, however, and believes there is a legal way open to the president allowing him to keep his import taxes in effect "permanently."Bessent on Wednesday appeared at the...
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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) filed to run for re-election as a Democrat after President Donald Trump pardoned him after he was charged with bribery and conspiracy.Following Trump's pardon — which came before trial — Cuellar told reporters that "nothing has changed" as he filed to run for office.The Democratic lawmaker also praised Trump for his...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro accused former vice president Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies” about him in her new book.The Democratic governor spoke to The Atlantic's Tim Alberta about the vetting process he underwent as Harris considered who to choose as her running mate during the 2024 presidential campaign, and the Washington Post...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) leadership position among Republicans is currently "in a state of collapse," according to a top GOP lawmaker.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said that Johnson was losing control of his party ahead of the midterm elections."He certainly wouldn't have the votes...
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a conservative Democratic congressman facing bribery, money laundering and conspiracy charges, out of disinterested concern for the politicization of the Department of Justice under Joe Biden, Republican senator Ted Cruz claimed on Wednesday."The Constitution gives the pardon...
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