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'Hypocrites': GOP lambasted as video shows halftime show played at Trump Super Bowl party

Despite the White House insisting that President Donald Trump would “much prefer” to watch the “All American” alternative Super Bowl halftime show, video suggests that the official performance by Puerto Rican artist and Trump critic Bad Bunny was aired “on the big screens” at Trump’s private watch party in Florida on Sunday.

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, has been the target of MAGA scorn since being announced as the headliner for Super Bowl LX’s halftime show.

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Epstein survivor reveals Trump DOJ's attempt to 'silence' victims backfired spectacularly

One survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's horrifying crimes revealed on Sunday how the attempts by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice to silence victims have backfired spectacularly.

Last week, the Trump DOJ released more than 3 million new files from the FBI's investigation into Epstein, a disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal who has been accused of running a global pedophile ring for wealthy clients. The files included personal identifying information of more than 40 victims, according to several reports, a move that survivor Liz Stein described on Sunday as a way to "silence victims."

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MS NOW host taken aback as criminologist unpacks latest Nancy Guthrie case updates

A MS NOW host was visibly taken aback as a criminologist unpacked the last development in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance case on Sunday.

Guthrie, 84, the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona last week. A ransom note was delivered to TMZ and investigators, demanding millions in Bitcoin in exchange for Guthrie's release. Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted numerous videos pleading with the abductors to return their mother safely.

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Epstein survivors drop Super Bowl Sunday ad calling out Pam Bondi: 'We deserve Truth'

Survivors of the late child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein released a video ad on Super Bowl Sunday, naming Pam Bondi specifically and saying simply, "We deserve the truth."

Ex-CNN journalist Jim Acosta is among those who broke the news on social media, writing, "BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not 'move on' from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world."

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​Trump 'buying' Maxwell's silence to protect 'Epstein island afterparty' admin: lawmaker

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) accused President Donald Trump on Sunday of openly trying to “buy” the silence of a key witness in Congress’ investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, and all to protect his “Epstein island afterparty” administration.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s co-conspirator who’s currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, is slated to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, but her lawyers have made clear that she plans to remain silent.

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'Oh, come on': CNN's friendly Trump appointee interview goes sideways with one statement

Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid, made a remark Sunday that caught CNN’s Dana Bash so off guard that it instantly upended the otherwise friendly interview.

Oz was speaking to the Trump administration’s push for more transparency in health care costs before Bash asked him to comment on the nationwide surge in measles cases, with South Carolina reporting 920 cases of the respiratory virus on Friday, its highest numbers since the disease was declared eradicated more than three decades ago.

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GOP barreling toward 'massive splintering' that will hurt JD Vance: journalist

Signs that the Republican Party may suffer a “massive splintering” once President Donald Trump leaves office are already taking place in Texas, and may very well expand across the nation, journalist and author Jonah Goldberg predicted Sunday on CNN.

At the center of the GOP’s split in Texas is its controversial attorney general Ken Paxton, a devout Trump loyalist who’s often clashed with the state’s more traditional wing of Republicans. That divide, Goldberg argued, was “prologue” to what Republicans can expect after Trump leaves the White House, and one that could ultimately sever the party into two distinct factions.

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'Just resign!': GOP lawmaker takes fight to Trump Cabinet member over Epstein ties

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took to CNN Sunday to demand Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick resign after being exposed for lying about his relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Last year Howard Lutnick, a finance industry billionaire and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, told the New York Post that he cut off all ties with Epstein – then his neighbor in New York City, New York – after a disturbing encounter in 2005. Select documents and emails released by the Justice Department last month, however, directly contradict Lutnick’s version of events.

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Savannah Guthrie communicates with mom's kidnappers in new vid: 'We received your message'

There has been a new development in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, as Savannah released a new video promising to "pay" to have her mom returned to the family.

Days after TMZ dropped details about a purported ransom letter, a new video was released by the family in which they speak directly to the kidnappers.

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Video shows Kentucky Republican 'snatching' mic out of fellow GOP lawmaker's hand at event

A Republican congressman can be seen on video having a microphone yanked out of his hands by a fellow GOP colleague.

Thomas Massie, who also on Saturday accused the Trump admin of hurting Epstein victims with the botched and unlawful files release, went to social media to tell his side of the story. He linked to an article which described how David Osborne, Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, took the mic aggressively from Massie while the rebel Republican was speaking.

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Trump hints at 'solution' in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping as answers  expected 'fairly soon'

President Donald Trump delivered an eye-popping update late Friday, claiming investigators have made significant progress in the Nancy Guthrie abduction case.

Guthrie, mother of NBC's "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home on Jan. 31. Authorities found her blood on the doorstep, as well as a disabled doorbell camera, and were probing multiple notes believed to be from the kidnappers.

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Trump ally blasts Republican's $3M Super Bowl 'gimmick' as massive waste of money

A Republican strategist dismissed Republican efforts to politicize Sunday’s Super Bowl as a waste of money, ripping a $3 million ad as "a gimmick."

The moment unfolded on Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” when host Jake Tapper highlighted a $3 million Super Bowl ad buy from Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Perry Johnson. The ad urges viewers to skip the halftime show because it features international superstar Bad Bunny as the performer.

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Desperate Trump is 'slinging hate' to cover up an even bigger scandal: Dem star

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) shredded President Donald Trump on MS NOW Friday evening, in response to his racist social media post of a conspiracy theory video that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as monkeys while jungle music from "The Lion King" played in the background.

"We were talking a little bit earlier in the hour about how all of this happened six days into Black History Month and the complete lack, disregard for how this month resonates with Black and brown people in this country," said anchor Michael Steele, a former Republican National Committee chair. "What's your reaction to both what you heard from the president and from [Minority Leader Hakeem] Jeffries? Just because they both framed, I think, this moment very well, to be honest."

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