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'Tip of the iceberg': Prince Andrew interviewer predicts new Epstein links coming

A journalist whose interview with Prince Andrew ended his royal career predicts Jeffrey Epstein's files will ruin more reputations.

The Duke of York invited BBC's Emily Maitlis into the palace in November 2019 to discuss his friendship with the disgraced financier shortly after his death in jail — an interview widely considered to be an own goal for the prince, who denied having sex with a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim.

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'More damage than good': Trump bailout for swing state businesses threatens to backfire

President Donald Trump's upcoming tariffs on furniture were designed to be a bailout for the local furniture industry in the critical battleground state of North Carolina — but on the ground, manufacturers there have mixed feelings at best — and many are fearful the new import duties could actually hurt their local economy, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Alex Shuford, who runs Rock House Farm Furniture in Hickory, should theoretically benefit from the tariffs — but he told CNN he's worried, because his company doesn't just manufacture furniture, it also imports it and makes around 20 percent of its income from those imported items.

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Supreme Court conservatives decry case as 'troubling and tragic' — before dismissing it

The Donald Trump-allied group America First Legal was denied review of a civil case that alleged staff at a Colorado school failed to inform parents about an optional after-school club meeting — and the speakers and discussions it involved.

SCOTUS Blog describes the case as having to do with "whether a school district may discard the presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children and arrogate to itself the right to direct the care, custody, and control of their children."

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Eric Trump admits White House being made to mirror Mar-a-Lago: 'Exact same'

President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, told Fox News host Steve Doocy how the White House is being gradually modified to resemble the Mar-a-Lago resort.

During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Doocy praised Mar-a-Lago's "fantastic view" of the ocean.

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Judge furious as he rules Trump blatantly ignored order: 'Ham-handed attempt to bully'

A federal judge in Rhode Island has accused the Trump administration of defying its order prohibiting officials from withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with Trump's immigration policies.

U.S. District Judge William Smith in Rhode Island initially blocked the administration from enforcing this policy in September, ruling that it ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Supreme Court delivers Alex Jones major blow in Sandy Hook defamation suit

Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist and host of InfoWars, suffered a major setback Tuesday when the Supreme Court rejected his appeal of a $1.4 billion defamation judgment over his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Jones has promoted theories that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax involving crisis actors. These claims, which he repeated extensively on his shows, led to a lawsuit being filed against him by families of the victims and first responders, who said they’ve faced threats and harassment due to Jones’ claims.

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Conservative urges unlikely alliance as key to leaving Trump's presidency in ruins

Conservative author and political commentator David Brooks is calling on Americans to launch a “mass movement” to combat the Trump administration’s push “into authoritarianism,” and is proposing an unlikely alliance as the best approach for such a movement to gain traction.

“Today, populists and progressives generally occupy opposing political parties. But as Richard Hofstadter noted in his classic 'The Age of Reform,' at the turn of the 20th century Populists and Progressives formed an alliance,” Brooks wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Atlantic.

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‘Your story is trash!’ Dan Bongino rages as rifts reported in Trump admin

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino slammed The New York Times Tuesday following its report exposing alleged rifts within the Justice Department, decrying the outlet’s coverage as “trash.”

Based on discussions with seven current and former Trump administration officials, The New York Times published a story Monday exposing the alleged “mutual disdain” that both Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche shared for FBI Director Kash Patel.

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Outlandish details of RFK Jr's weekly calls revealed: 'Shirtless Russell Brand in bathtub'

A new venture by the publisher of First Lady Melania Trump’s autobiography is giving fans of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement access to members of the president’s administration.

That, in turn, has led participants in the weekly “MAHA Action Media Hub” conference call to bizarre cameos from the movement's celebrities, including Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, a “recurring star” on the call, as well as “a shirtless Russell Brand [who] calls in from what appears to be a bathtub," reports Margaret Manto of NOTUS.

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Ominous sign flagged in Supreme Court case: 'Rarely do justices order new arguments'

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear new arguments in a voting rights case after they were unable to reach an agreement on the issue in its previous session.

The court's conservative majority surprisingly preserved the 1965 Voting Rights Act and race-based remedies two years ago, wrote CNN's Joan Biskupic. But the justices have sent new signals that they could be on the verge of rolling back the landmark civil rights law intended to rectify centuries of racial discrimination.

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Judge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey

Former FBI Director James Comey notched an early victory in his criminal indictment Tuesday as a federal judge ruled in his favor over a dispute involving evidence.

Federal prosecutors initially filed for a protective order in the case that would prevent Comey from having open access to the evidence presented to the grand jury to secure the indictment in the first place, arguing that Comey could leak the evidence to the media and undermine the trial.

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'White House is hiding something': Speaker fans 'deepening suspicions' about Trump

The decision by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to keep the House out of session for yet another week is not doing furloughed government workers or Donald Trump any favors, a columnist wrote Tuesday.

James Downie wrote for MSNBC that the Louisiana Republican has no plan to negotiate with Democrats over the budget impasse and is using the shutdown crisis as an excuse to keep everyone away — which is leading to more speculation that it may be at the White House’s behest.

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MAGA hounds ex-Trump aide to deliver on humiliating promise: 'Let's go!'

Donald Trump Jr. and other MAGA figures are crowing about a promise made last year by "The View" co-host and former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.

Griffin pledged on air in December that she would don a red MAGA hat if then-president-elect Donald Trump succeeded in getting Hamas to free Israeli hostages, and the president's son and Republican lawmakers are challenging her to follow through on her promise, reported The Daily Beast.

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