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Epstein quipped about launching 'sex offender' lingerie line while seeking a state pardon

Disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein once considered launching his own "sex offender" lingerie line while he was angling for a pardon in Florida, according to new records.

Buried in the more than 3 million Epstein files that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice recently released is an undated transcript of a conversation between Epstein and two unnamed people, "Richard" and "Jessica." NBC News was first to report on the transcript.

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'Mortifying': Fury as Trump demands Dulles and Penn Station renamed after himself

A new report that President Donald Trump wants to slap his name on Washington Dulles International Airport, ignited swift backlash on social media.

Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News shared on X a link to their new reporting that Trump wants his name on both Dulles and Penn Station.

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MAGA senator accused of 'flagrant violations' of campaign law by GOP activist

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is being accused by a local Republican activist in Knoxville of "flagrant violations" of campaign finance law to prop up her bid for governor, according to News Channel 5.

"The allegations are contained in a sworn complaint filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance, the state agency that regulates campaign fundraising and spending, by longtime Knoxville Republican activist Gary Loe," said the report. "That complaint accuses the Williamson County Republican of 'deliberately flaunting' rules designed to ensure that money from federal campaigns is not used for state campaigns."

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Ex-GOP operative taken aback by Trump's 'implicit admission' about Epstein victims

A former GOP campaign spokesman was taken aback by President Donald Trump's treatment of a CNN reporter at the White House.

During a press gaggle, CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about the victims of disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The question seemed to trigger Trump, who lashed out at Collins by calling her "the worst" and telling her that she never smiles.

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Trump trashes US elections as he stumps for GOP bill

President Donald Trump trashed the U.S. election system on Thursday in a social media post.

Trump has consistently claimed that elections in the U.S. are rigged against him despite being unable to provide evidence supporting that claim in over 60 lawsuits. Republicans in Congress have introduced a bill called the SAVE Act that would implement significant changes, such as requiring voter ID nationwide and requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

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Surgical mask-wearing suspect arrested at White House official's home in murder plot

A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with a plot to kill President Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget director, Russ Vought.

According to CBS News, 26-year-old Colin Demarco, who has previously warned Trump's presidency would lead to a "fascist takeover," showed up at Vought's home wearing a surgical mask and gloves before being apprehended by authorities.

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Kristi Noem ‘alienating Republicans’ — and it’s not just over her handling of ICE

Republicans have started to ramp up criticism over Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — and not just over her handling of ICE and the growing public backlash after two agents killed American citizens — but also tensions over her leadership of FEMA.

As Noem tries to manage the fallout over the Trump administration's harsh immigration actions, "the embattled Noem faces a litany of other dysfunctions in her department that also imperil her tenure," according to a Politico report published Thursday.

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Expert floats disturbing theory about Trump's election scheme

A legal expert floated a disturbing new theory on Thursday about President Donald Trump's efforts to end elections in the United States.

So far, most media coverage of Trump's plans to meddle with the 2026 midterm election results has focused on states changing election maps, and most recently, Trump's call for Republicans to "nationalize" parts of the elections. However, part of Trump's foreign policy may intersect with his goal of ending America's free and fair election system.

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Epstein waged 'full court press' to get clemency from ex-Florida gov: report

Emails newly uncovered by the Miami Herald reveal how deceased billionaire financier and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein attempted a "full court press" to get clemency from then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist after serving out his sweetheart deal sentence for soliciting prostitution in 2010.

That deal itself, brokered by a prosecutor who went on to become President Donald Trump's first Secretary of Labor, was massively controversial, as Epstein's sex trafficking operation and his role in molesting and assaulting almost three dozen girls were already widely known at the time. But according to the new report, Epstein tried to get even that wiped clean.

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US diplomat cuts ties with foreign official over 'unprovoked insult' on Trump Peace Prize

The American ambassador to Poland had a meltdown Thursday after the country's parliament speaker said President Donald Trump wasn't worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ambassador Tom Rose, a MAGA ally, raged over the comment Thursday in a post on X after Parliament Speaker Wlodzimierz Czarzasty did not agree that Trump was a good potential recipient of the famed prize, The Daily Beast reported.

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Trump dealt another court blow as ICE scheme to mine IRS data blocked

The Trump administration was dealt another court blow Thursday as a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security from using taxpayer address information obtained from the IRS.

The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by several community organizations challenging data‑sharing agreements that allowed ICE to request and receive taxpayer addresses for immigration enforcement purposes, according to court documents obtained by Politico's Kyle Cheney.

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RFK Jr. brutally fact-checked after claiming keto diets 'cure' schizophrenia

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was brutally fact-checked on Thursday after he made a wild claim about the benefits of the keto diet.

Kennedy was speaking to a crowd in Tennessee as part of a nationwide tour to get Americans to eat healthier foods when he claimed that scientists at Harvard University had cured schizophrenia in a patient using the keto diet, The New York Times reported. He also claimed that the food Americans eat is "driving mental illness in this country," a claim that experts have said ignores environmental and social factors.

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Ex-GOP strategist warns of ‘cataclysmic’ midterms: ‘Nobody is happy in the MAGA world’

Former Republican operative Rick Wilson on Thursday warned that MAGA has been showing signs of anxiety over "cataclysmic" midterms as polls show dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump.

The Lincoln Project co-founder described on a Live Substack video how damning polling results and low satisfaction among voters have put Trump's MAGA coalition in a tight spot ahead of the midterm elections this fall. He also added that the decision to pull ICE agents out of Maine following the ICE killings of two American citizens in Minneapolis was a clear political move to try to secure the Republican Senate seat, which will be up for grabs come November and has been the cause of concern among GOP lawmakers.

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