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Nick, an asylum seeker living in Chicago legally and issued with a temporary Real ID, won a jackpot at the Bally's casino there. The casino is refusing to pay him the $1,250 it owes on the basis of his immigration status, CBS News reports, while also ...

Insurance subsidies that lower healthcare costs for millions of Americans expired Wednesday. The credits were canceled by congressional Republicans eager to roll back the Affordable Care Act, passed during the Obama administration to limit the costs ...

Julie K. Brown spent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald. Her 2018 "Perversion of Justice" series identified 80 victims, exposed the sweetheart plea deal that let Epstein walk in 2008, and generated enough pressure that federal ...

Jair Bolsonaro, the former right-wing president of Brazil jailed for an attempted coup, suffers maladies both mundane and mysterious. One even prevented him from wearing pants. The latest to hit the news is his chronic hiccups, which complicated an ...

Elon Musk promised DOGE would cut "at least" $2 trillion from federal spending. By the first cabinet meeting, that number dropped to $1 trillion. Now, according to a New York Times analysis, the actual savings are far smaller -- and many of DOGE's ...

FBI Director Kash Patel -- who styles himself "K$H" on social media -- is now being chauffeured in specially armored BMW X5s that the bureau purchased at his request. Every previous FBI director rode in a Chevy Suburban. Patel found that ...

60 Minutes was set to broadcast an investigation into CECOT, the brutal megaprison in El Savador housing migrants sent there by the Trump administration. Supposedly home only to the "worst of the worst," it turned out many detainees were sent there ...

Less than a day after the Justice Department posted its initial release of Epstein files, at least 16 documents vanished from the public website with no explanation or notice. Among them: a photograph showing Donald Trump. According to multiple ...

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) don't agree on much. They do agree that Attorney General Pam Bondi should face consequences for the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. According to NBC News, the bipartisan pair ...

The DOJ released a de-Trumped batch of Epstein files, missed the deadline, and redacted extensively. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring the Justice Department to release all its files on Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days.