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NPR reports that the Justice Department has illegally withheld Epstein files naming president Donald Trump as the subject of child sexual abuse allegations. It also removed from public view documents from the Epstein files that named Trump in other ...

Trump's approval rating has cratered to 36 percent, with just 26 percent of independents on board, according to a new CNN poll. A Washington Post survey puts him at 39 percent and underwater on every major issue -- the economy (41-57), immigration ...

Last week, the former prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office after the Epstein Files implied that he had shared privileged information with billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier today, Lord Mandelson was taken ...

DOGE staffers showed up to federal agencies carrying what a whistleblower described as "backpacks full of laptops," each pre-loaded with access to databases holding the Social Security numbers, tax returns, biometric data, and background checks of ...

Trump's rootin' tootin' secret police keep "accidentally shooting themselves," reports Newsweek, with three blasting themselves in the leg within two days during "training exercises." A fourth shot himself with a taser, inside an Immigration and ...

The BBC did people with Tourette Syndrome no favors by broadcasting a racial slur at the BAFTA awards. That they could have spared audiences was evident from the two-hour tape delay and the editing out of Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr's cry of ...

Kid Rock, an upper-crust car dealership scion who grew up in a 22-room mansion on 6 acres, has spent his adult life posing as a working-class rough. But you'll need real money to buy the $5,000 "first class" tickets for his shows, a fact he evidently ...

Undocumented immigrants in federally subsidized housing already get zero rental assistance. Their citizen family members receive the aid, and mixed-status households pay higher rent to offset the ineligible members. HUD wants to evict them all anyway ...

When CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico -- citing FCC Chair Brendan Carr's threat to revoke the Equal Time Rule's talk show exemption -- the network handed Talarico the best campaign week of his ...

Three states are now trying to make 3D printers police themselves. Washington's HB 2321 requires printers to ship with anti-gun software so effective that even users with "significant technical skill" can't circumvent it -- on machines that run ...