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Stephen Colbert's show axed after blasting CBS-Trump deal as 'big fat bribe'

CBS will end Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" next season after the comedian openly criticized the network and its parent company, Paramount, over a settlement with President Donald Trump.

CBS executives insisted in a statement that the cancellation was "purely a financial decision."

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'More evidence' just emerged on Pam Bondi's 'mysterious' Epstein flip: insider

For more than a week, the MAGA world has been ablaze over the fact that Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to release the Jeffrey Epstein files despite promising to do so just a few months ago.

Now, new evidence puts that decision in a new light.

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'We have certain things in common, Jeffrey': Trump shocks with imagined script

It seems like President Donald Trump won't be able to outrun the Jeffrey Epstein story after all.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Trump sent Epstein a 'bawdy' letter for Epstein's 50th birthday. It contains several lines of typewritten text and an outline of a naked woman, as well as an imaginary conversation between the two men written in the third person. Trump allegedly signed his name to the letter in a style "mimicking pubic hair," according to WSJ.

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'Fake thing!' Trump vows to sue over WSJ's explosive Epstein report

President Donald Trump flatly denied the new bombshell reporting about his friendship with deceased money manager and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the Wall Street Journal — and threatened to sue the paper over it.

“This is not me. This is a fake thing," said Trump, according to the report. "It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”

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‘DoorDash Woman of the Year!’ Analyst stunned by price Trump paid to 'buy' Bondi

President Donald Trump may have purchased his Attorney General's loyalty long before he entered politics, according to a new report.

In 2013, Trump faced a litany of complaints against his now-defunct Trump University. At the time, Pam Bondi served as the Attorney General of Florida and was considering joining a lawsuit brought by the Attorney General of New York involving potential tax fraud charges.

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Trump sent Epstein risqué letter featuring nude woman and vulgar signature: WSJ

President Donald Trump's birthday letter to deceased financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 featured a raunchy reference to naked women, reported the Wall Street Journal in their bombshell story on Thursday evening.

The letter from Trump "is bawdy — like others in the album," said the report. "It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly 'Donald' below her waist, mimicking pubic hair."

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WSJ drops bombshell Epstein story as panicked Trump fails to kill it

As President Donald Trump tries to distance himself from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, explosive new reporting gives salacious details about the two men's intimate friendship.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday evening that Trump was one of several celebrities to send Epstein a 'bawdy' letter for his 50th birthday. The letter contains typewritten text and is "framed by the outline of a naked woman," according to a copy of the letter reviewed by the outlet.

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'Petty': Trump order barred ex-CIA chief from party for dog named for late wife

In a move blasted by The Atlantic's Shane Harris as sheer "pettiness," President Donald Trump prohibited the former Obama administration spymaster from attending the graduation ceremony of a bomb-sniffing dog he sponsored and which was named after his late wife.

The dog, named Susan, was "an adorable yellow Lab [who] completed a CIA training program for 'detection K9s,'" and was "a natural at sniffing out concealed explosives," including suicide vests and car bombs. And she had been sponsored by James Clapper.

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National Guard 'compromised' in massive Chinese hack on Hegseth's Pentagon

An elite group of Chinese hackers infiltrated the National Guard over nine months, according to a report from NBC News.

The Department of Homeland Security initially acknowledged the hack, known by its nickname "Salt Typhoon," in a June memo. It says the hacking group “extensively compromised a U.S. state’s Army National Guard network” but does not specify which state.

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'Disgusting': Trump DOJ sparks outrage with suggested sentence for killer cop

The Department of Justice is recommending a one-day sentence for the cop who killed Breonna Taylor in 2020, according to reports.

Louisville, Kentucky, police officer Brett Hankison was found guilty of violating Taylor's civil rights last year. Hankinson fired several shots into Taylor's home while she was sleeping in a drug raid gone awry. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

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Tesla stock crashes after Trump slaps massive tariff on vital battery material

Tesla stock fell on Thursday after an extremely large tariff was imposed on materials used in car batteries.

The New York Times reported that the Commerce Department announced that it intends to issue a 93.5% tax on Chinese graphite, which is necessary for creating the batteries in electric vehicles.

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Trump's budget blitz may force GOP to own a government shutdown

President Donald Trump's administration could face serious consequences for playing hardball over budget cuts, according to one analyst.

Over the last few days, the GOP worked to ram through Trump's $9 billion rescission package that cuts money from foreign aid and public media outlets like NPR and PBS. Those efforts included holding an all-night vote-a-rama that began on Wednesday afternoon and ended in the early morning on Thursday.

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‘Insane’: Nobel-winning economist torches Musk’s failed bid to MAGA-fy AI

Nobel-Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman claimed in a new Substack article that Elon Musk's Grok chatbot started calling itself "MechaHitler" and spewing antisemitic tropes because it was pushed too far to the right by its creator in an overcorrection gone horribly wrong.

Musk has been working to undo the damage ever since, and the fallout even led to the ouster of X CEO Linda Yaccarino this week.

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