The Day Epstein Emails Fueled Trump's DOJ Order

A White House correspondent spills details about the 79-year-old president’s odd lifestyle on the Daily Beast Podcast.

Rollins said states are responsible for distributing the restored benefits through their own systems.

Members of Congress collected more than $20,000 apiece during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, even as millions of Americans went without pay and essential services. [Full Story]

Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.

In the House, a discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein files reached 218 signatures. Here's which Republicans joined Democrats in the push.

‘These records show the same partisans who rushed to cover for Clinton rabidly pursued Arctic Frost, which was a runaway train aimed directly at President Trump,’ Grassley said.

Emails released by the House Oversight Committee reveal how Jeffrey Epstein maintained connections with influential figures despite his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

Beam, the Laney College athletic director and its former football head coach, was in critical condition after the shooting on campus, officials said.

“I think Russia is making the same mistake in Mali as it did in Syria,” Anton Mardasov told Newsweek.

A federal judge plans to rule by Thanksgiving on a motion to toss out criminal cases against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The Fujian and its strike group represent a strategic game changer that will bring Beijing closer to its goal of eroding U.S. maritime primacy in its backyard.

President Trump has been dining with billionaires and taken an interest in crises abroad, leading to fears that he is drifting from his more populist stances.

In a survey of SNAP recipients, 72% said they are worried about affording Thanksgiving and Christmas meals.

La Niña effects vary drastically by region, even within the United States. Here's what it means for winter weather.

The Pentagon’s secretive Replicator program isn’t about drones, at least not entirely. If it was, it’s fallen short of its goal.

Millions of Americans will soon go without insurance. We spoke with some of them.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says data from blue states is “going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that… they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says data from blue states is “going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that… they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”

In Valencia, Spain, the right-wing regional president has quit over the mishandling of floods that killed 229 people. While institutional failures forced his resignation, they’ve also fed support for Vox, a far-right party that opposes action on climate change.

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DEM FURY BOILING OVER

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.

Opposing the U.S. would get al-Sharaa and Syria nowhere. Right now, al-Sharaa needs a good relationship with the United States.

A strike that killed six was the latest in a series of assaults that have targeted the power grid in an effort to deprive Ukrainians of energy as winter looms.

The Georgia Republican isn’t quitting in her fight with her own party.

Attorney General Todd Rokita issued subpoenas for information about potential labor trafficking from Amazon, the city of Fort Wayne, and a nonprofit supported by numerous businesses.

The women praised lawmakers who've supported their drive to open the files, saying they stand "on the right side of this issue."

Trump's call came after House Democrats released emails in which Epstein, a convicted sex offender, alleged the president "knew about the girls."

As the longest government shutdown in United States history ends, state officials are working to quickly get full food benefits to millions of people.

Kohberger is serving four consecutive life sentences for the murder of the University of Idaho students.

A crop of progressive-minded veteran congressional candidates say they are aiming to break from the mold of military service candidates — hawkish, corporate-friendly, and weak on labor questions — favored by the Democratic Party establishment.

President Donald Trump received an updated briefing on options for potential military operations in Venezuela, including land strikes, as the United States continues to signal imminent war.

Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

Ex-New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi has claimed in new book, “American Canto,” that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told her he loved her first amid their so-called sexting affair.

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined major tariff changes from 1870 through 2020 across the United States, United Kingdom, and France. Their conclusion challenges the conventional wisdom that dominated economic policy debates in recent years: when countries raise tariffs, prices actually fall, not rise.

The best legal argument for the tariffs assumes we are currently in a declared war with every country on the planet.

A six-figure salary doesn't mean what it used to, a new poll suggests.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

The U.S. Coast Guard reported its recent detection of a Russian military intelligence ship roughly 15 miles off the coast of Hawaii.

The wager was revealed in an email from the child predator to new age guru Deepak Chopra..

TELLS BONDI TO PROBE DEMS — INCLUDING BILL CLINTON!

President Trump accused Democrats of using what he calls the "Epstein hoax" to defect blame for the government shutdown.

The U.S. military's 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official said Friday, coming as the Trump administration escalates its campaign in South American waters. [Full Story]

Noem ally’s shop hid behind a shell company on DHS’s nine-figure ad blitz, report alleges.

How Chinese hackers tricked Claude into hacking governments and companies all on its own.

High-level discussions, underway for days, have explored a variety of potential military options, people familiar with the matter said.

The Trump Administration Finally Admits That Tariffs Raise Prices

Trump faces the prospect of a Republican rebellion when the US House votes on releasing the Epstein files next week. Follow live.

Noem ally’s shop hid behind a shell company on DHS’s nine-figure ad blitz, report alleges.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has formally apologized to President Donald Trump after a recently resurfaced documentary contained misleading editing of a speech the president gave on January 6, 2021.

A new documentary on Selena Quintanilla is hitting Netflix on Nov. 17, featuring never-before-seen footage of the late Tejano singer.

A new book alleges that the Health and Human Services secretary was smoking psychedelic drugs as of last year.

President Trump has signed an executive order to reduce tariffs on grocery items that have risen in price or cannot be grown easily in the U.S.

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The White House cited ’substantial progress in recent trade negotiations’ while announcing the change.

The White House cited ’substantial progress in recent trade negotiations’ while announcing the change.

The White House has announced a framework agreement on reciprocal trade with Switzerland and Liechtenstein, capping U.S. tariffs on Swiss imports at 15 percent -- down from the recently imposed 39 percent rate -- and securing a $200 billion investment pledge from Swiss firms by the end of 2028.

Pam Bondi has appointed Jay Clayton to oversee a DOJ probe into Jeffrey Epstein ties to Democrats. Newsweek’s live blog is closed.

The move appeared to be retaliation after Democrats released emails suggesting President Trump knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

In a newly released email, Epstein provided lurid details of sexual encounters and claimed 'Trump knew.'

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits. It's part of a response to pressure from consumers who complain prices are too high and have urged the White House to focus more on affordability. [Full Story]

Trump issued the order after the US reached framework agreements with Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina.

President Donald Trump has announced the removal of U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and other commodities.

The United States Mission to the United Nations thanked a number of Middle East countries and Indonesia, which has a heavy Muslim population, for backing a Security Council resolution supporting President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan in Gaza.

A 47-year-old pilot and father from New Jersey has been identified as the first documented death in medical history to pass away from alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a rare and delayed allergic reaction to red meat triggered by the bite of a lone star tick.

Trump also said he hasn’t thought about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein associate in prison on charges related to sex trafficking.

Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.

The president is now encouraging primary challenges to the Republican congresswoman.

The president is annoyed that reporters keep asking him about his relationship with the convicted sex trafficker.

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