It was a week from hell that nearly broke Donald Trump’s administration. By the time it was over, the president had sustained more blowback and political damage for his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files than he did for bombing Iran last month. “The week was a big kick …
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About a month after National Guard troops and federal officerson horseback descended on MacArthur Park, where children at a summer day camp were reportedly present, CaliforniaGov.Gavin Newsom slammed Donald Trump for deploying the U.S. military to Los Angeles. “They’re sitting there on horses with American flags, running through soccer fields, …
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Jon Stewart revealed that he scrapped his intended opening monologue after the X account belonging to beloved Sesame Street character Elmo was hacked over the weekend. The Daily Show host explained that due to the antisemitic, violent tweets that appeared on Elmo’s account, he felt he had to address the …
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In a late night vote at the Capitol on Monday, House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to unseal documents related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans have long stoked conspiracies about the disgraced financier’s death, voted against the resolution in the heat of a MAGA civil …
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Donald Trump hasn’t exactly done a great job handling the backlash to the Justice Department’s memo announcing that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and there is no high-profile “client list.” The president lashed out at a reporter who asked about the memo, before posting a bizarre rant on Truth Social in …
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Speaking to a private gathering of conservative operatives and fossil fuel advocates in January, a top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave “the inside story” about how his office bullied Wells Fargo, one of America’s biggest banks, into dropping out of a global initiative to reduce carbon emissions. …
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Multiple federal law enforcement officials who spoke to Rolling Stone on the condition of anonymity say that Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to follow, intimidate, and surveil FBI special agents investigating allegations that he paid underage women for sex. The FBI declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment. These new allegations …
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Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup final against Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday, 3-0, which has nothing to do with President Donald Trump, but that didn’t stop the spotlight-loving former reality TV star from trying to steal some of their shine by staying onstage for the winning celebration. “Wait, wait, …
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On Feb. 18, two weeks after having her son via C-section, Monique Rodriguez was battling postpartum depression. The Black mother of two, who was born and raised in St. Catherine Parish in Jamaica, had come to the U.S. in 2022 on a six-month visa and settled in Florida with her …
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There’s never a dull moment with Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk‘s xAI, which he has consistently called the “smartest” AI in existence despite its forays into racial conspiracy theories, tendency to speak in the first person as Musk himself, and recent output of what it termed “Hitler fanfic.” Last …
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