FBI agents scrambled to draw up a list of the most “salacious” Jeffrey Epstein-related allegations against President Donald Trump — just days after it announced the pedophile had left no client list.

Multiple allegations of sex crimes made against Trump to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center tip line were gathered together and emailed among a handful of officials in the agency’s New York field office of the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

WASHINGTON — In the wake of an inconclusive independent autopsy, Mississippi’s only Black U.S. Congressman says the FBI should get involved in the investigation into 18-year-old Nolan Wells’ mysterious death on the Fourth of July.

“Given Mississippi's history, it's very suspicious,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told Raw Story. “For a young Black boy to, basically, be with all white kids who are friends of his and come up missing and the fact that he was left on an island by the same people who went with him, it's just not adding up.”

CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and network leadership left network stations across the country scrambling after reversing course at least three times about whether or not to air President Donald Trump’s speech about election interference last week, an employee told Raw Story.

The staffer of a CBS affiliate, who requested anonymity due to employment concerns, told Raw Story that the network came down to the wire, changing decisions multiple times and sending conflicting messages to producers about if it would broadcast Trump’s speech about election interference and his continued false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe lent credence to President Donald Trump’s wild claims about Venezuelan election manipulation during his national address last week, hinting at plans for federal intervention in the midterm elections.

Ratcliffe’s statement, posted on X as Trump was winding up his speech on Thursday, cited intelligence “showing that Venezuela’s government had developed capabilities to manipulate electronic voting systems, raising serious concerns for U.S. election security.”

For more than a year, Captain Katie Benn has been on administrative absence from the U.S. Army, pulled from her deployment after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from serving in the military.

When faced with the decision last spring to voluntarily leave the military with an honorable discharge and about $60,000 in separation pay, Benn, a decorated air defense artillery officer and honor graduate of captain’s training, decided to fight to keep serving in the military, inspired by the “Warrior Ethos” of “never quit.”

When President Donald Trump gives a televised address Thursday night in which he is expected to claim that the Chinese government interfered in the 2020 election, CIA Director John Ratcliffe is expected to be standing at his side.

Details of the speech teased to major news outlets include some variation on shopworn claims that election deniers have long promoted about supposed manipulation of voting machines and foreign meddling, with CBS News citing unnamed “sources familiar with the matter” as saying the speech will “touch on previously unreported alleged Chinese meddling in U.S. elections,” including that “Beijing compromised U.S. voter data.”

Washington, D.C. — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) came out swinging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Republican leaders were embarrassingly forced to pull a bipartisan veterans bill from the floor Thursday after another revolt from Johnson’s rightward flank.

“Yet again, another reckless Republican bill went down to defeat on the floor of the House of Representatives. House Democrats are in the minority but continue to control the floor, as if we were in the majority,” Jeffries told the congressional press corps Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The 2020 election just won’t go away, and not just because of President Donald Trump and his primetime address Thursday evening.

Some of the president’s prominent allies on Capitol Hill are eagerly fanning the flames ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

The White House released its long-delayed counterterrorism strategy in May, identifying “violent left-wing extremists” as a major terror threat, following a directive from President Donald Trump last September ordering the FBI to investigate antifascists based on a wildly varied set of characteristics that include “extremism on migration, race, and gender.”

Then, as Trump was preparing to celebrate his 80^th and the country’s 250^th birthdays with an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on the White House lawn last month, local law enforcement in Ohio uncovered an extraordinary plot by a national network to carry out a drone attack, with snipers positioned on rooftops to kill “high-value targets" including the president, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Elon Musk.

Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist and intellectual avatar of the MAGA movement, offered a potential preview of the declassified intelligence reports purportedly showing foreign interference in elections that President Donald Trump is expected to discuss during his speech on Thursday.

Discussing an effort by John Solomon, a conservative journalist appointed to a White House task force attempting to uncover evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, Bannon predicted during his “War Room” podcast on Monday that there would be “revelations that get to the heart of the administrative state and the Deep State.”

In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September, Rudy Giuliani unleashed a flood of X posts calling for the firings of teachers and other workers who shared critical posts about the murdered right-wing activist.

Giuliani, former New York City mayor and President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney disbarred for false statements made about the 2020 election, posted phone numbers for schools where such teachers worked and dedicated an episode of his show “America’s Mayor Live” to “Exposing Every ‘Teacher’ Celebrating the Assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

WASHINGTON — Progressives in Maine may be feeling duped as the state’s Democratic Party scrambles to replace former U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, but nine-term Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree says that doesn’t mean the state party needs help from the political class.

"Now they all want to weigh in on the next round of candidates, and I'm just sort of like, 'Leave us the hell alone!'" Pingree told Raw Story.