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It was just seven months ago that FBI Director Kash Patel revealed to podcast host Joe Rogan that there was over a gigabyte of information available around the investigation of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Now Patel has disappeared, joked a panel of political and legal commentators on MSNBC.

"Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace recalled that Patel told Republicans in Congress to "put your big-boy pants on and tell us who the pedophiles are."

A drug dealer whom President Donald Trump controversially granted clemency to in 2021 once again faces violent criminal charges following a long string of other arrests in the intervening years.

According to The Daily Beast, Jonathan Braun "faces up to five years in prison if [convicted] for all of the new crimes," which include "allegedly swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse, harassing a family nanny, and evading at least 75 tolls in his white Lamborghini and black Ferrari."

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard retracted an intelligence report on Tuesday because it may have "improperly" identified a Trump administration official, according to a new report.

The report Gabbard withdrew detailed work performed by Richard Grenell in Venezuela, The New York Times reported. Grenell was a top intelligence official in the first Trump administration and currently leads the Kennedy Center.

CNN contributor and New York Times podcast host Lulu Garcia-Navarro warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is taking a "double-edged" sword to the economy, as evidenced by the latest job numbers.

The Department of Labor published data on Tuesday that revised the previous quarter's job numbers downward by 900,000, which was the largest downward revision in the agency's history. The revision came about a month after Trump removed the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because the agency published what he described as unreliable data.

President Donald Trump revealed that the U.S. military discovered Israel's plan to strike Hamas officials in Qatar after it was "too late to stop the attack."

In a Tuesday post on Truth Social, Trump suggested he had no control over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to target a Hamas negotiating delegation in Qatar.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up an appeal of lower court decisions that President Donald Trump's tariffs were illegal, deciding once and for all whether the president has the power to unilaterally declare new taxes on foreign goods on an emergency basis.

According to CNN, "Trump is pressing the justices to overturn a lower court ruling that found his administration acted unlawfully by imposing many of his import taxes, including the 'Liberation Day' tariffs the White House announced in April and tariffs placed this year against China, Mexico and Canada that were designed to combat fentanyl entering the United States. The case puts a major component of the American economy on the conservative court’s docket. And it raises a fundamental question about the power of the president to levy emergency tariffs absent explicit approval from Congress."

Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) is so furious about the delays in funds for Hurricane Helene recovery that he's blocking President Donald Trump's nominee to the Department of Homeland Security.

Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio reported Tuesday that Budd voted against DHS nominee Robert Law. His office then released a statement linking the two issues together.

President Donald Trump's administration has reinstated a program from the first presidency to trick cell phones into connecting to fake towers run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target immigrants. The problem, however, is that data from Americans is getting scooped up in the process, according to privacy advocates.

Forbes cited on Tuesday that "ICE purchased nearly $1 million worth of 'cell site simulator vehicles' in May this year." At the same time, ICE also has a contract worth as much as $4.4 million with Stingray manufacturer, Harris Corporation, to use its “equipment to determine the location of targeted mobile handsets.”

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is one of the very few people who couldn't make money off a hedge fund, one expert dissed.

Investor Marshall Brandt, co-founder of the alternative investment firm Annapurna Funds, spoke to The Bulwark's Tim Miller about how bad a money person one must be to lose billions in hedge funding. That, however, is exactly what Bessent did when running the Key Square Group.

A fateful decision made by Donald Trump in 2015 set the stage for the nightmare he is currently undergoing 10 years later as he tries to fend off more and more questions about his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

What is not in doubt is that the then-New York City real estate developer was close friends with the sexual predator and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, but had he not believed he could pave his way to the White House in 2016 by saddling Hillary Clinton with a scandal involving his friend, he might not face the current unrelenting scandal that worsens by the day.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that "many forensic analyses" showed that President Donald Trump did not sign a birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During Tuesday's White House briefing, Leavitt was asked about a birthday note that House Democrats said Trump sent to Epstein. The note, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, included Trump's signature.

President Donald Trump is reportedly petrified of losing his Republican majority in the House next year, which could set the stage for Democrats to once again investigate his scandals and possibly line up another impeachment — but there might be one particular, last-ditch tool he could use to try to upend any loss, warned Ari Berman for Mother Jones.

For the most part, Trump has already tipped his hand about much of his strategy to try to head off GOP losses, including rigging congressional districts in Republican-controlled states and attempting to prohibit mail-in voting.

Toward the end of a combative interview on MSNBC, an exasperated Mika Brzezinski threw up her hands as Donald Trump’s border czar refused to share data that proves ICE agents are sweeping up immigrants they consider threats while professing ignorance about a high-profile arrest of a landscaper that became national news.

After earlier taking offense at the “Morning Joe” co-host called snatching immigrants and then tossing them in unmarked vehicles “disappearing” them, Homan grew peevish when Brzezinski continued to press the Trump official on his lack of transparency about ICE methods.