How a 17-Year-Old Girl Became Enmeshed in the Matt Gaetz Scandal  —  A 17-year-old with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men.  She wants the public to have a fuller understanding of how she was victimized.  —  She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida.

Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein's Orbit  —  A new cache of emails released by a House committee paints a vivid portrait of the relationship between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Trump official refers Rep. Eric Swalwell for a federal criminal probe over alleged mortgage fraud  —  Swalwell is the latest Democrat to face mortgage fraud allegations from Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte, who sent a letter to the Justice Department on Wednesday.

BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation  —  The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.  —  The corporation said the edit had given …

Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days  —  Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House.

Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress  —  The Justice Department on Thursday sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters last week, joining a court battle that could help determine which party wins control of the U.S. House in 2026.

Trump taps Ingrassia for new role after texting scandal … “It's been the greatest honor to serve Secretary [Kristi] Noem and President Trump, alongside all of you,” he wrote in Thursday's email.  He added, “I genuinely feel this is the strongest group of political appointees anywhere …

Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices  —  If the proposal goes into effect, it would be the latest rollback of one of President Trump's key economic policies over concerns about affordability.  —  The Trump administration is preparing broad exemptions …

Donald Trump pardons UK billionaire and former Tottenham owner Joe Lewis  —  Lewis was fined $5m and given three years probation by New York judge over ‘brazen’ insider trading scheme  —  Joe Lewis, the British billionaire and former owner of Tottenham Hotspur FC, has been pardoned …

Judge appears skeptical of Lindsey Halligan's appointment as interim US attorney … Currie seemed particularly concerned that a portion of the grand jury proceedings that led to Comey's indictment was “missing,” leaving certain aspects of Halligan's interactions with the grand jury unreviewable.

Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data  —  A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration's top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials …

Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights  —  You know us.  —  For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area.  As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered.

U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will consider chronic health conditions and even factors like retirement age as reasons to deny visas to immigrants.  —  The Trump administration has directed visa officers …

The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency  —  Read the e-mails—this isn't going away anytime soon.  —  Washington scandals can metastasize in the most unexpected ways.  The classic example of this is the long-running Whitewater investigation in the nineteen-nineties …

The Left's New Moralism Will Backfire  —  Under Trump, progressives have embraced the rhetoric of “moral clarity.”  It won't help their cause.  —  In the age of MAGA, ideological lines that once distinguished left from right have blurred.  Republicans who said they were willing to die …

He's Acting Pretty Damn Guilty  —  Just like that, the shutdown is over.  Six Democrats crossed the aisle to help House Republicans get a stopgap bill funding the government over the finish line yesterday evening, and Trump signed it at once last night.  “This was an easy extension …

BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash  —  The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid where nine employees were arrested.

Senators distance themselves from controversial payout provision … “Oh definitely,” Graham said at a news conference after the passage of the government funding bill.  “And if you think I'm going to settle this thing for a million dollars — no. I want to make it so painful …

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.  —  Desire to migrate among younger American women has quadrupled in the past decade  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the second straight year, about one in five Americans say they would like to leave the U.S. and move permanently to another country if they could.

Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump's Claims About Cartels  —  Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president's desired course of action.  —  A secret Justice Department memo blessing President Trump's boat strikes …

Federal workers question whether the longest government shutdown was worth their sacrifice  —  Jessica Sweet spent the federal government shutdown cutting back.  To make ends meet, the Social Security claims specialist drank only one coffee a day, skipped meals, cut down on groceries and deferred paying some household bills.

Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson  —  The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy.  —  A professor who showed …

Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about  —  The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics  —  In 2003 David Carr, the New York Times's late …

JD Vance Received a Dire Warning About the Groyper Takeover of the GOP From a Strange Source  —  The call warning of a dangerous tide of extremism in Donald Trump's Washington is coming from inside the house — the vice president's house.  —  And this alarm bell that things are going way too far …

Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper  —  What we know about her alleged special privileges at prison camp.  —  Earlier this week, Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee announced that Jeffrey Epstein's convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell intends …

WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats.  Company says that's not in its report.  —  It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October. … The White House posted a blog on its website earlier this week announcing “NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks.”

Tremane Wood Receives Last-Minute Clemency, Sparing Him From Execution  —  His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.  —  MCALESTER, Okla. — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) granted clemency to 46-year-old Tremane Wood on Thursday …

First Lady Melania Trump Announces Executive Order on Fostering the Future, Opens New Opportunities for Public-Private Partnerships  —  First Lady Melania Trump successfully organized a new Executive Order entitled, “Fostering the Future for American Children and Families.”

America First Legal adds Byron Donalds as plaintiff in US Census Bureau lawsuit  —  EXCLUSIVE — America First Legal added Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Wednesday as a plaintiff to a lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau in an amended complaint.  —  The lawsuit, filed by the University …

Megyn Kelly Eviscerated Over Epstein Remark: ‘This Is Career Ending’  —  BEYOND THE PALE  —  The right-wing host said she did not view the sex trafficker as an “actual pedophile” until recently, among other head-scratching remarks.  —  Megyn Kelly has been eviscerated for suggesting Jeffrey Epstein …