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Rep. Goldman to ICE director: "If you don't want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one."

Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie spent two hours at the Department of Justice reading the supposedly unredacted Epstein files. They found 70 to 80 percent of the documents still redacted -- and six names hidden for no apparent reason, The New ...

In October, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recounted visiting his neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse around 2005. Behind double doors: a massage table, candles. Lutnick told the host of the Podforce One Podcast that he asked Epstein if ...

"Your littlest girl was a little naughty." "Can we talk about treasure hunt for girls on the island." "I found at least 3 very good young poor." These are emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein, released by the DOJ under the Epstein Files Transparency ...

A wise man by the name Hugh Anthony Cregg III once wrote, If money is the root of all evil, I'd like to be a bad, bad man. It's a mission statement that Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the company's shareholders apparently believe in. -- Read the rest The ...

Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually from a Texas prison today for her closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee. She declined to answer questions, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, reports Politico. Then ...

The State Department is removing all posts from its X accounts made before January 20, 2025 -- and that includes posts from Trump's own first term. The posts will be internally archived but no longer publicly visible. If you want to see them, you'll ...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard blocked spy agencies from seeing an intelligence report about a Trump associate -- but she made sure the White House chief of staff got a copy. The report involves an NSA intercept of two foreign ...

President Trump deleted a blatantly racist video clip portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes after an outcry that included members of his own party, reports the New York Times. The 62-second clip, set to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," spliced in ...

A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to explain why communications from Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel don't appear anywhere in the 2 million+ pages of Epstein files released ...