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Jeffrey Epstein died in prison in August 2019 and left a legacy of unanswered questions. He had been part of America’s service economy, but there is controversy as to just was the nature of his services. Certainly, much of it was sex trafficking with underage girls. But he apparently rendered financial services as well. Epstein…
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Congress is pushing toward its summer recess this week, putting the focus on government funding amid the swirling saga of Jeffrey Epstein. Monday marks two weeks since the Justice Department and FBI issued a memo stating the disgraced financier and sex offender kept no “client list” and that he died from suicide in 2019. A…
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Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver, two of the biggest names in current events-focused comedy, expressed dismay at the decision by CBS to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “It’s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy,” Oliver said during a recent event in Erie, Pa., adding that he is “partly excited to see”…
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A former federal prosecutor based in Manhattan says she doesn’t expect grand jury transcripts in the Jeffrey Epstein case to produce much new information involving the disgraced financier and sex offender. “It’s not going to be much,” Sarah Krissoff, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, told The Associated Press…
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By backing inhumane and aggressive policies, he’s managed to turn one of his strongest issues into a major vulnerability.

If the feud between President Trump and Elon Musk exposed cracks in the “MAGA coalition,” the brewing fight over the Jeffrey Epstein client list threatens to blow the levees wide open.   For the first time, there is a very real threat to Trump’s perceived infallibility among the most devoted.  The fight, which began with a…
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We know from decades of scientific research, and now from brutal experience, that global climate change is real. Few, if any, places in the U.S. are safe from its many consequences. They are as quick as flash floods and as slow as rising seas, but they are undeniably real and growing worse.  They are the…
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“People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package has created bad blood on Capitol Hill. White House budget director Russell Vought says the administration plans to send up another wave of…
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Their 2016 White House meeting takes a chilling turn in the clip shared by the president.

The former talk show host opened up about her reason for leaving the U.S. permanently.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) launched a slate of new digital ads targeting Republicans in a number of key battleground states ahead of legislative races in 2025 and 2026. The digital ads, which were first obtained by The Hill, will target voters in Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The ads will…
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And Republicans understand one thing about the Epstein scandal, said the Texas Democrat.

Critics offered the former Fox News star a reminder of her own TV history.

The South Carolina Republican tried to spin the viral jumbotron moment into a win for Donald Trump and people pointed out the hilarious flaw.

Miles Taylor predicted that Trump will create distractions to keep people from talking about the Epstein case.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Todd Lyons said in an interview that aired Sunday that his agency will crack down on American companies hiring unauthorized workers. “Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we’re focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these…
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that the public is “going to love the deals that President Trump and I are doing” as the administration promises forthcoming breakthroughs on tariffs. “Well, you heard in our polling some of the perceptions of the economy,” CBS News’ Margaret Brennan told Lutnick on “Face the Nation.” “Sixty-one…
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It adds to the administration’s departure from targeting the “worst of the worst” in its immigration enforcement.

When Mike Johnson gifted Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans’ tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House.

President Trump responded angrily on Sunday to a Wall Street Journal story that Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent had personally sought to talk him out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Trump, who is currently suing the Journal over its reporting on his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, has been aggressively…
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A majority of surveyed Americans oppose the way President Trump is using migrant detention facilities amid his broader crackdown on immigration, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. When asked in the survey if they “favor or oppose the way the Trump administration is using detention facilities to hold people it may try to deport,”…
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Rep. Tim Burchett, who’s called for the government to release all files on the disgraced financier, now warns against releasing names in any flight logs.

Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency last week.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that a White House insider is warning President Trump of a “massive market reaction” if he fires Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.  “I mean, what happens if there’s a tweet that says the Fed chair is gone?” CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked Himes on “Face the Nation.” “Well, interestingly, inside…
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