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Epstein Survivors Begged Trump to Release Their Files. He Called It a “Hoax.”

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There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in a very divided DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the Epstein files. On Wednesday, a group of Democrat and Republican lawmakers—including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—held a press conference on Capitol […]

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Trump and Adams Might Soon Go Official

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The grand arc of Eric Adams’ political evolution, which kicked off in 2021 with a bombastic claim that the former NYPD officer was the “future of the Democratic Party,” only for him to find salvation in Donald Trump’s return to office, appears to be reaching its logical endpoint: a prominent gig with the Trump administration. […]

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The Trump Administration Hopes to Revive the Climate Change “Debate”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Should you be worried about climate change? The answer used to be debatable—literally. Way back in 2007, NPR aired a debate over the proposition that “Global Warming Is Not a Crisis.” The panel had six commentators, divided equally into two sides. […]

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Trump Administration Hopes to Revive the Climate Change “Debate”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Should you be worried about climate change? The answer used to be debatable—literally. Way back in 2007, NPR aired a debate over the proposition that “Global Warming Is Not a Crisis.” The panel had six commentators, divided equally into two sides. […]

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House Dems Blast Labor Department For Abandoning Disabled Workers

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On Wednesday, a group of six Democratic members of Congress, led by Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.), raised concerns that the federal government is “failing to protect federal contractor workers with disabilities” in a letter sent to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. “The Trump administration is waging a war on disabled people and working to undo the […]

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RFK Jr.’s Enemies List Just Got a Lot Longer

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It hasn’t been a great week for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, authored an op-ed in the New York Times calling for Kennedy to resign, as my colleague Inae Oh wrote. The next day, nine former directors of the […]

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The National Guard Soldier Pissed About Trump’s DC Takeover

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Thanks to President Donald Trump, the residents of Washington, DC, are now safe from the horrors of fallen leaves and errant litter. Otherwise, as the US commander in chief threatens to send National Guard troops to Chicago, the usefulness of Trump’s DC deployment has been doubtful. “They just see us as little toy soldiers to […]

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Florida’s Surgeon General Just Said He Will Eliminate “All Vaccine Mandates”

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Florida’s crusading surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, announced at a news conference on Wednesday that he intends to eliminate “all vaccine mandates” in the state. “The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida,” he said. “Every last one of them is […]

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New York Sues Anti-Immigration Group For Multimillion-Dollar Charity Fraud

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Peter Brimelow, founder of the vehemently anti-immigrant website VDARE.com, is being persecuted. That’s what he’s been telling followers, anyway. In a video posted on X last July, Brimelow announced his resignation and the suspension of VDARE, claiming the organization “has been murdered by New York State Attorney General Letitia James,” who “is quite obviously aiming […]

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On Trump’s Orders, Missouri Republicans Plan to Gerrymander a Black Lawmaker Out of Office

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Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms through a series of unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders shifted from Texas to Missouri on Wednesday, as the GOP-controlled Missouri legislature began a special session to pass a new redistricting map that would eliminate one of two Democrat-held US House districts and net Republicans an additional seat. If successful, […]

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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 1

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a massive heart attack nearly took his life. That near-death experience forced him to reckon with the toll his reporting has taken on his life, including the years he’s spent chronicling gun violence involving Black […]

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Putting Military Lawyers in Charge of Immigration Courts Is Problematic—and “Unlawful”

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The Trump administration has decided to get more immigration judges from an unprecedented source: the military. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon plans to send up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to temporarily run immigration courts around the country. Some of them could receive their new assignments as early […]

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