“Republicans are so at odds about how to handle Fuentes’s encroachment into their ranks that many commentators have likened their infighting to a civil war and posed it as a battle for the soul of the conservative movement”

BREAKING: Jets cornerback Kris Boyd is in critical condition after an overnight shooting in New York City.

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Why Trump Gets Away With It The institutional checks that got the country through Watergate are far weaker now

Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump The president is desperate to make the questions go away, but there is no sign they will

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Trump may be relying on the arrival of so much firepower to intimidate Maduro, who the U.S. says is not Venezuela’s legitimate president Maduro has put his forces on high alert, leaving the two countries with their weapons cocked and ready for war

The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump Analysis of documents released this week by Congress shows President Trump was mentioned in more than half of the messages

“The move is part of a shift from the administration to water down some of its so-called reciprocal tariffs in the face of both price increases for consumers and legal uncertainty following a high-stakes Supreme Court hearing this month”

We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts. “It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.” https://t.co/mLScwUxZmH

“As soon as it became clear that Trump himself was in said files, all those right-wing media influencers, who had promised their audience a lib bloodbath, began to drop or downplay the issue”

Breaking News: Pam Bondi assigned a prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats including Bill Clinton, at President Trump’s urging.

Dread is creeping into the White House as the Jeffrey Epstein story returns during the weakest moment of Donald Trump’s second term, Jonathan Lemire reports. https://t.co/20cn1kjcaf

“The Epstein emails are a skeleton key for understanding the dynamics of Trump’s America, one in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved”

“FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information”

“Few people in the White House believe that the Epstein matter will swing many votes next year. But it has the makings of an unrelenting distraction, a scandal that could bog down Trump’s presidency”

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“Is Trump trying to protect himself? Or someone close to him? He doesn’t talk about it, allies say, except to fume that it’s still a story. But Trump’s over-the-top response makes even fellow Republicans wonder what he is trying to hide”

But the president had indicated to aides the last two days that he didn’t want to face reporters’ questions, because every inquiry was going to be about the one subject that Trump, for all his power, simply can’t make go away: Jeffrey Epstein is back

Jeffrey Epstein is dead But the scandal continues to shadow Trump and its reemergence dealt another blow to a president already at the weakest moment of his second term Even a Trump ally says he is “not acting like someone who has nothing to hide”