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The DOJ says it hasn't "deleted" any Epstein files. It just took 47,000 of them offline. That's the department's response to a CBS News analysis that counted the pages in the government's Epstein document release. About 2.7 million pages currently ...

Video clips of Sen. John Fetterman stammering through questions from reporters went viral on Tuesday, shared by journalist Aaron Rupar and racking up tens of thousands of views. Fetterman, who relies on real-time transcription devices due to auditory ...

2010's Fallout: New Vegas is one of my favorite games ever made, and I completely understand the urge to wring every last bit of enjoyment and novelty from it. It's a bit like licking the inside of an empty chip bag. -- Read the rest The post People ...

MidnightBSD, an open-source operating system, recently announced it would block California residents entirely rather than risk liability under the state's new age-verification law. California's AB 1043, the Digital Age Assurance Act, was signed in ...

Congressman John Rutherford, representing Florida's fifth district since 2017, is a standard-issue contemporary Republican: an elderly, gray-haired former sheriff's deputy, firmly aligned with Donald Trump. When he announces his love for "Epic Furry,

A photo showing U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on his private island appeared this week, intensifying calls to have him explain why he was there. President Trump suggested Lutnick will agree to ...

Anthropic, best-known for its Claude AI platform, will be losing Pentagon business after it declined to change its policies against using its technology for mass surveillance of Americans or to create weapons capable of killing people autonomously.

What actually stops a would-be dictator? Political science research points to a single factor above all others: whether enough people can see the threat for what it is. That's the central argument from Zack Beauchamp, who researched democratic ...

Under the Constitution, state legislatures and Congress control how American elections are run -- the president has no say. That hasn't stopped a group of Trump allies from shopping around a 17-page draft executive order that would use a declared ...

Larry Summers used racist language in messages to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein about a woman he was pursuing romantically. "I'd be happy to have a rational affair w yellow peril," he wrote, minutes after telling the pedophile he was "way smitten with ...