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'Completely ridiculous': GOP's 'shameful' Jeffrey Epstein stunt torn to shreds on CNN

One Democratic lawmaker is fed up with how the GOP is handling the investigation into the crimes committed by disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, joined CNN's Brianna Keilar on "CNN News Central" to discuss an ongoing interview of former Barclays CEO Jes Staley before the committee on Thursday. Garcia said that Staley was untruthful with the committee during the interview, a problem that was created by the way committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) structured the interview.

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DHS agent indicted after he allegedly 'accelerated' vehicle to strike walking suspect

A Border Patrol agent was indicted after court documents said he "accelerated" his vehicle into a suspect who was walking calmly and posed no threat to officers.

Border Patrol agent Raymundo Ramos Jr., 41, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to MyRGV. A Cameron County grand jury indicted him on June 10, MyRGV reported.

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'Pathetic' Trump blasted for just 'staring off into the abyss' at dignified transfer

A Democratic lawmaker and veteran called out President Donald Trump on Thursday, dubbing him and his team "an absolute clown car" as Americans' frustration over the Iran war mounts.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) told MeidasTouch that as the Middle East conflict grows, it appears increasingly clear that Trump and his administration do not have a strategy for the war — and it's costing more lives as a result.

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Republican senator scrambling to defend Trump makes startling admission: 'I feel the pain'

A Republican senator admitted that Americans were feeling "pain" from President Donald Trump's decision to launch a war against Iran.

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) appeared Thursday on Fox News, where he told anchor Sandra Smith that fuel costs would go back down once hostilities cooled after the unraveling of the memorandum of understanding signed last month.

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Markwayne Mullin's '100% bad move' put him on thin ice with White House: report

Four months into his tenure as the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin is not meeting White House expectations.

According to a report from NBC News, the former Republican senator from Oklahoma serving as secretary of the troubled agency is getting buffeted on all sides over making moves that have not been okayed by the White House.

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Media silence as Kushner's $2B tie to Saudis slips under cover of Trump deal: analyst

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt should be fielding questions about Jared Kushner's $2 billion tie to Saudi Arabia, a media expert fumed Thursday.

Judd Legum, founder of the Substack Popular.info, took to social media to share his disgust after Leavitt was grilled about President Donald Trump's controversial nuclear deal at a White House press conference.

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Trump's 'fix is in' rhetoric is about to boomerang back and hit MAGA: ex-adviser

President Donald Trump's "fix is in" rhetoric could compel his biggest fans to skip voting, a new analysis contends.

Miles Taylor, chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the president's first term, argued Thursday that Trump's constant pushing on the SAVE America Act is fundamentally flawed.

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'Demented old man at the helm': Trump skewered for Truth Social diplomacy 'failure'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Thursday that President Donald Trump has used Truth Social to announce changes to the Saudi nuclear deal, sparking backlash online.

Leavitt told reporters during a White House press conference that Trump had made the public comments despite the fact that he had not consulted them this time.

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'Not oversight!' Outrage as scrambling GOP senator cites dinnertime chat with VP

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) sparked ridicule Thursday after citing a dinner at Vice President JD Vance's home as evidence he was meeting his oversight responsibilities on the Iran war.

During a Thursday broadcast on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney asked whether the Senate should step in and exercise more control over the conflict.

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Jimmy Kimmel drips sarcasm as Stephen Colbert's firing haunts CBS once again

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel hit CBS with backhanded praise after its canning of Stephen Colbert sent ratings at its rival network soaring.

In an interview with Variety, Kimmel — whose show airs on ABC — credited an almost 20 percent increase in viewership to the head honchos at CBS who pulled the plug on Colbert's show to gain favor with President Donald Trump.

"The ratings are very strong, which we are very grateful to CBS for their wisdom," he sarcastically told Variety. "We were doing pretty well before that, but that really helped."

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Susan Collins reels as Trump blows up Maine victory lap: analyst

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has been plunged into a new nightmare as President Donald Trump demolished an effort to escape having his Immigration and Customs Enforcement brutality tied to her, reported The New Republic.

Collins has been immersed in Trump's policies after a killing in Biddeford, Maine, in which ICE agents boxed in a vehicle and shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian immigrant described as a devoted father who was in the country legally. His three-year-old daughter was seen crying at the scene.

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Terrified GOP scuttles 'splashy' bill to stop foe from 'boosting her bona fides': sources

House Republican leaders have bottled up a bipartisan bill protecting deepfake porn victims to keep Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) from claiming a win before a possible 2028 presidential run, according to a new report.

The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act — known as the DEFIANCE Act — would let victims of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes sue their abusers in civil court. The Senate passed it unanimously twice, most recently in January 2026, according to Senate records.

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Teen's mysterious death spurs Mississippi's lone Black rep to seek help from Trump's FBI

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.”

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