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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Tuesday pushed for the Trump administration to release files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “and let the chips fall where they may.” “This is why people don’t trust government. You can never go wrong with being transparent. Redact victims’ names but release the rest,” Haley wrote Tuesday in…
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Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith on Monday said he would consider jumpstarting his career as a politician by campaigning for the presidency.  “You want to start as president of the United States?” Stephen Colbert asked on “The Late Show.”  “Why not?” Smith responded.  Smith has been a sports commentator for over two decades, which has…
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Whoopi Goldberg took aim at former President Obama and billionaire investor Mark Cuban for criticizing the way Democrats have been responding to various actions and policy initiatives undertaken by the Trump administration. Goldberg cited recent criticism from Obama, who urged Democrats to “just toughen up” in remarks Friday at a private fundraiser in New Jersey,…
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David Sacks, President Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar, urged tech billionaire and friend Elon Musk to reconsider his recent third-party push, arguing his political goals could be achieved through the Republican Party.  Sacks, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, also said that he hopes Musk repairs his relationship with Trump, as the two had…
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that Democratic voters are “fully caffeinated, double espresso” when it comes to involvement in politics at the moment.  “If you look at every special election and every primary, Democratic turnout since 2024 is way up on a comparative basis, and it’s very, very — Democratic voters…
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House Democrats are hammering President Trump and his GOP allies for pushing to alter Texas’s congressional lines ahead of the midterms, accusing the Republicans of rigging the system to stay in power.  “It’s painfully clear why Republicans are doing this: They know they are going to lose the majority next year,” Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.),…
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A Justice Department memo seeking to douse conspiracy theories around Jeffrey Epstein has split the MAGA influencer ecosystem into competing factions, with some of President Trump’s loudest backers refusing his demand to drop the issue.    The memo said there was no evidence Epstein kept a “client list” or blackmailed powerful global figures. The report also…
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Inflation moved up in June, due partially to businesses passing tariff costs onto consumers. Despite the uptick, President Trump is on the warpath for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, a move that would stimulate markets and investment, but that could also push inflation higher. As tariff-induced inflation threatens to become the dominant narrative…
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The latest attempt by House Democrats to force a vote on releasing files related to the disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein failed on Tuesday. Democrats unsuccessfully urged the chamber to oppose a routine procedural vote — known as the motion on ordering the previous question — since failure would have triggered a vote on Rep. Ro Khanna’s…
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Just three percent of Americans say they’re satisfied with the amount of information the federal government has released in the case involving disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a CNN/SSRS survey released Tuesday. Meanwhile, 50 percent of U.S. adults say in the poll that they are dissatisfied with the amount of…
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President Trump is in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout his technology and energy agenda. Trump, participating in a conference alongside Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), is expected to announce tens of billions of dollars of investments in the sectors within the Keystone State. The president, since returning to office in January, has repeatedly pledged “energy dominance”…
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President Trump said he hopes Texas Republicans will pick up five seats in the House from a redistricting plan they hope to enact in a special legislative session later this month.  Trump told reporters that it’s “OK” if other Democratic-leaning states like California or New York also seek to redraw their congressional district lines to…
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President Trump told reporters Tuesday that Ukraine should not target Moscow with military attacks and that the U.S. was not looking to give long-range missiles to Kyiv in its ongoing war against Russia. “No, he shouldn’t target Moscow,” Trump said of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he departed the White House for a trip to…
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Conservative commentator Candace Owens said on Monday that President Trump thinks his “base is stupid” and that “people around him” think he is “stupid” during the latest episode of her show. Owens accused Trump of “gaslighting the public” after the FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) published a memo earlier this month stating there’s no evidence Epstein had…
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President Trump on Tuesday said his administration will impose a 19 percent tariff on Indonesia, lowering the import tax rate he slapped on the nation last week, which was set to go into effect Aug. 1. “We made a deal with Indonesia. I spoke to their really great president, very popular, very strong, smart, and…
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Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday afternoon on the State Department’s fiscal 2026 budget request. The hearing comes just days after the Trump administration began its plan to layoff 1,300 employees amid its reorganization efforts. The decision has drawn criticism from Democrats and former diplomats alike…
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Having covered several administrations, I know from my own experience that there’s one common complaint among White House reporters, no matter who is president: Lack of access. Why isn’t he more available? Why won’t he take our questions?  That’s not true of President Trump, though. He’ll stop and take questions anywhere, anytime, on any topic.…
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Paramount, Meta and X are among the companies giving tens of millions of dollars to Trump’s future library as they seek perks from his administration.

Actor Kevin Spacey is demanding the release of all the files and names associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s case. In a Tuesday morning post on the social platform X, Spacey called for the release of the files, adding that the “truth can’t come soon enough.” “Release the Epstein files. All of them,” he wrote. “For those…
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Commentators Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro sparred on Monday over Jeffrey Epstein’s files and theories regarding his death.  Kelly said sources have confirmed to her that Epstein did not kill himself but was targeted while working as an “agent” for the Israeli government, while Shapiro said unnamed whistleblowers were unreliable.  “I can claim that he…
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American astronauts have been in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station for nearly a quarter century. Their continuous presence in space has led to innovations such as cochlear implants that help deaf people hear, technology that makes our phone cameras sharper, better water filtration and so much more that benefits us back here on Earth. Unfortunately, President Trump’s budget…
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Legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow lambasted his own industry in a 1958 presentation that has famously been labeled the “Wires and Lights in a Box” speech. Presciently, he warned the broadcast journalists of the Radio Television News Directors Association about the dangers of letting corporate and special interests get in the way of solid…
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Russian leaders responded flippantly Tuesday to the Trump administration’s threat of “severe” tariffs if Moscow doesn’t quickly come to a peace agreement with Ukraine. “Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting the consequences,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote in a post on…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said that the process to pick a new chairman of the Federal Reserve has started, ahead of chair Jerome Powell’s term ending in 2026 and amid growing pressure from the White House for him to step aside early. “There’s a formal process that’s already starting,” Bessent told Bloomberg Television,…
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President Trump said he is “disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin after threatening Moscow with sanctions over its war with Ukraine, but added that he is not “done with him.”  “I’m disappointed in him, but I’m not done with him. But I’m disappointed in him,” Trump said in an interview with the BBC that was…
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