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‘Bizarre turnaround’ from Epstein accountant has shocking explanation: Dem lawmaker

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) provided a shocking explanation Sunday for why he believes that an accountant for Jeffrey Epstein walked back their claim they gave to lawmakers during their recent testimony before a House committee.

Earlier this month, Richard Kahn, one of Epstein’s former accountants, testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of the panel’s ongoing probe into Epstein and potential co-conspirators.

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‘My favorite thing is to take the oil’: Trump goes off script on Iran war plans

President Donald Trump made several telling remarks Sunday in an interview with the Financial Times, revealing some of his administration’s potential war plans as it relates to Iran.

“To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” Trump told the Financial Times, the outlet reported.

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‘Womp womp’: Trump’s ‘obsession’ with crowd sizes rubbed in his face over low CPAC turnout

MS NOW host Catherine Rampell took a sharp jab at President Donald Trump on Sunday for skipping the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention for the first time in nearly a decade, suggesting he did so to avoid embarrassing optics tied to his “obsession” with crowd sizes.

“If we know anything about Donald Trump, it is his obsession with a handful of fairly specific things: gold plating, the Village People, and of course, crowd sizes. So you can only imagine how he must feel seeing this split screen,” Rampell said on MS NOW’s “The Weekend Primetime,” queuing up a split-screen video of the massive No Kings rallies and the CPAC event in Texas.

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Trump rips Senate GOP for ‘playing it too soft’ in shutdown fight: ‘It’s a shame’

President Donald Trump criticized Republican Senate leadership Sunday for having supported a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without funding for two key immigration enforcement agencies, calling their actions “a shame.”

“It's a shame. They should really just go to a filibuster, they should terminate the filibuster and they should vote, that's what I think,” Trump told a reporter aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

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Trump admin smacked with new lawsuit from Epstein survivors over ‘deliberate’ oversight

The Trump administration was hit Thursday with a new lawsuit from survivors of Jeffrey Epstein over what they say was a “deliberate” oversight from the Justice Department (DOJ).

“The United States, acting through the DOJ, made a deliberate policy choice to prioritize rapid, large-volume disclosure over protection of Epstein survivors’ privacy,” the plaintiffs in the lawsuit said, according to a report from NBC Los Angeles.

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‘Unreal’: Trump directly called out for alleged market manipulation by unlikely source

President Donald Trump has faced repeated accusations of market manipulation amid his administration’s ongoing war against Iran, but on Sunday, a new critic emerged, and one whose observations stunned onlookers.

Trump has made a number of well-timed social media posts regarding updates on the Iran war that have significantly shifted markets. Coupled with reports of "mysterious trading patterns,” critics have increasingly alleged Trump to be “using the war” to enrich his inner circle.

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Lindsey Graham takes grilling after being spotted at Disney World amid shutdown

Amid the ongoing partial government shutdown that has sparked chaos and long lines at airports nationwide, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was spotted at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida dining at Chef Mickey’s, and having a “grand ol’ time,” TMZ reported on Sunday, sparking immediate backlash from several notable critics.

“Divas still need vacation,” reads a social media post from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office in response to Graham’s Disney World getaway.

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Uproar after ‘stupidest’ move from Trump loyalist may have 'single handedly' doomed GOP

Former Reagan administration official and conservative media personality Mark Levin delivered a monologue Saturday night that critics say may have “single-handedly” doomed the GOP in the upcoming midterms, and possibly damaged President Donald Trump’s legacy “for eternity.”

On Saturday afternoon, Trump urged his followers on social media to watch Levin on Fox News later that same night. During the broadcast, Levin argued in favor of deploying U.S. boots on the ground in Iran, saying such a move would be necessary to seize the nation’s supply of uranium, a key element in the production of nuclear weapons.

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‘Gave up my career to leak this’: UN delegate sounds alarm on nukes with desperate plea

Mahamad Safa, formerly the permanent representative to the United Nations for a major human rights organization, resigned from his diplomatic positions on Friday to leak a dramatic claim, along with a desperate plea to the United States and elsewhere.

“I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the U.N. is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran,” Safa wrote in a statement shared on social media Sunday.

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US barreling towards ‘total collapse’ within six months if Iran war continues: expert

Disaster preparedness expert, author and U.S. Air Force veteran Christopher Armitage issued a dire warning recently that the supply chain disruptions caused by the U.S. war against Iran had set the United States on track for a “total collapse” within six months, with the bleak conditions only exacerbated by the Trump administration's cuts to social safety net programs.

Writing on his Substack The Existentialist Republic, Armitage noted that nearly 50 million Americans faced hunger in 2025, 14 million of which were children. Armitage also noted that, within 48 hours of the United States striking Iran, the Middle East nation closed off the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route through which a third of the world’s fertilizer flows.

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Tom Cotton rants Dems want to sic their 'street militias' on ICE wives and kids

During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, far-right Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) accused Democrats of conspiring to put the lives of ICE agents’ families at risk as part of their strategy to dial back funding for the Department of Homeland Security.


Speaking with host Shannon Bream about the competing funding bills that have Republicans in the House and the Senate at each other's throats, the Arkansas Republican tried to shift the blame to Democrats.

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GOP falls into disarray as some reps already regret newly proposed DHS shutdown bill

The Republican Party has been left in disarray over a recently proposed bill to finally end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has warned that some GOP Senate lawmakers are unhappy with the recently proposed bill, outlining what could be a future regret for the party. Speaking on ABC's This Week, Scalise said, "Well we actually read their bill and, frankly, a number of senators have expressed buyer’s remorse with what they did at 3 in the morning.

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Trump 'has never been more toxic' to the Supreme Court as ruling looms: analysis

Donald Trump and the Supreme Court's relationship has worsened again as the president wades in on the birthright citizenship case, an analyst has claimed.

The president had signed an executive order on January 20, 2025, that would strip certain babies born in the United States of their citizenship. This executive order has been challenged by the Supreme Court and is set to be assessed on Wednesday. The relationship between Trump and the Supreme Court is already frosty, with a ruling on the administration's tariff policy not concluding in favor of Trump.

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