Month: November 2025

They also weren’t buying his boasts about the president’s “excellent” health.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday said she’s giving $10,000 bonuses to “exemplary” Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents following the end of the government shutdown. “Americans can be proud of TSA workers across the country who continued to serve with excellence throughout the shutdown — many going to great lengths to protect our country,…

The “Late Night” host mocked the president over the “crazy” way his administration is responding to the Epstein emails.

The FBI on Thursday clapped back at conservative pundit Tucker Carlson after he claimed the agency lied about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump in Pennsylvania in 2024. Ahead of a “story tomorrow,” Carlson wrote in a Thursday post on the social platform X, “The FBI told us Thomas Crooks…

Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that aired on Thursday that neither he nor Secretary of State Marco Rubio are entitled to the presidency, but said he will have a conversation with President Trump about the 2028 presidential election after next year’s midterm elections.  “We’re going to do everything that we can to…

Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he gives credit to the moderate Senate Democrats who the administration worked with during negotiations to end the government shutdown.  “I do give a lot of credit to the moderate Democrats who were with us from the very beginning,” Vance told Fox News host Sean Hannity.  “If…

The Committee on House Administration will hold a hearing next Wednesday on banning congressional stock trading, which could lead to reforming the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. The hearing, called “Taking Stock of the STOCK Act” and led by House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), will determine policy options to take into…

Joyce Vance questioned whether the Epstein saga could “finally” burst the president’s bubble.

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff said two federal officials had confirmed an enforcement operation could potentially start this weekend.

The network’s data chief said the more Epstein’s case “is in the news, the worse it is for Donald Trump.”

President Trump has tapped Paul Ingrassia to be deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration (GSA), less than a month after Ingrassia withdrew his nomination as head of the Office of Special Counsel over racist comments. “Paul Ingrassia is a very helpful addition to GSA and will successfully execute President Trump’s America First policies,” a…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he will sue the Department of Justice (DOJ) for $500,000 over investigators obtaining his phone records during special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Senate, in its proposal to reopen the government, included a provision allowing senators…

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“I have met some very bad people,” Epstein once privately observed to a friend.

In a statement, the BBC said they “strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”

Trump’s Department of Justice keeps going after the president’s open critics and political enemies with accusations of the same crime.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump “knew about the girls.” The newly released files include spreadsheets, images of books relevant to…

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday blasted conservative attorney George Conway online for calling into question Blanche’s interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Conway wrote that Blanche’s July questioning of Maxwell “was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump,” Conway wrote…

Lawmakers in the House have secured enough signatures on a discharge petition to force a vote on the floor regarding the release of files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have led the measure seeking transparency about the deceased financier’s relationships — including with President Trump,…

The U.S. military conducted its 20th lethal strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Monday, killing four “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill on Thursday.  There were no survivors following the attack, part of what the Trump administration argues is a military campaign, which kicked…

“They didn’t play pickleball. They played tickleball,” said the “Daily Show” host.

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday that the air travel system “should return to normal by the weekend” after recent chaos caused by the government shutdown. “[Transportation] Secretary [Sean] Duffy did the right thing by getting ahead when they saw that the staffing levels and the controllers were having a difficult time managing…

The BBC has issued an apology to the White House over the way it edited a clip of President Trump speaking to his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, before the attack on the Capitol. The apology came just days after Trump’s attorneys threatened to sue the British broadcaster for $1 billion over the clip, which…

The Trump loyalist was called to the White House Situation Room as she backed efforts to release all of the Justice Department’s documents on the late sex offender.

NBC News spoke with two senior Republican congressional staffers, two senior Democratic congressional staffers and two other people briefed on the cost.