What Jamie Raskin saw in the unredacted Epstein files  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up “more than a million times.”

Governors won't hold Trump meeting after White House only invited Republicans  —  The National Governors Association will no longer hold a formal meeting with President Donald Trump when the group of state leaders meet in Washington later this month after the White House planned to invite only Republicans.

Former Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew of Epstein's Actions  —  Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document.  —  After it became known that Jeffrey Epstein …

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed.  Here's Where It's Going Next … BY LEAH FEIGER  —  BYE BYE BRANDING  —  OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware  —  A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.

A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Wilder, Idaho — When Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue described the October raid on a popular community horse racing venue here …

Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated From Election Denier in Trump White House  —  A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.

Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot … The Food and Drug Administration has refused to start a review of Moderna's application for its experimental flu shot, the company announced Tuesday, in another sign of the Trump administration's influence on tightening vaccine regulations in the U.S.

Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump  —  HIDDEN HORROR  —  The woman and her father got into a “big argument” about Trump the day she was fatally shot.  —  A woman was shot dead by her alcoholic father after the pair argued about President Donald Trump.

So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker.  Now What?  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick clearly wasn't forthright about the extent of his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, the child sex trafficker.  —  In a New York Post podcast interview in October …

Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada  —  A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.

Johnson says it's full steam ahead on tariff vote ban  —  Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday he will push ahead an afternoon vote to ban challenges to President Donald Trump's global tariffs over committed internal GOP opposition.  Language tucked into a procedural measure …

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet  —  America, it's time to refamiliarize yourself with Ring.  —  Video  —  At Sunday's Super Bowl, Ring advertised “Search Party,” a cute, horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood …

Indicted Dem asks ICE acting director Todd Lyons whether he thinks he's ‘going to hell’  —  WASHINGTON — Indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) accused the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of having blood on his hands Tuesday, and suggested that he would go to hell during …

ICE's Masks Are All a Lie  —  Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America. … This week, Congress is debating what reform might be acceptable for the masked fascist secret police currently occupying major American cities in Democratic-run states …

How ICE defies judges' orders to release detainees, step by step … A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees across the country shows judges increasingly furious and exhausted by the Trump administration's tactics.  —  “There has been an undeniable move by the Government …

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum  —  The Department of Health and Human Services' new AI nutrition chatbot will gleefully and dangerously give Americans recommendations for the best foods to insert into one's rectum and will answer questions about the most nutrient-dense human body part to eat.

US Vice President Vance's office backtracks after statement on ‘Armenian genocide’  —  The White House on Tuesday deleted a post from Vice President JD Vance's account that commemorated massacres of Armenians as a “genocide,” saying the message that was likely to irk U.S.-allied Turkey was posted in error.

Pride flag removed from Stonewall monument  —  Government officials removed a pride flag from New York's Stonewall National Monument, the birthplace of the modern queer rights movement, following federal guidance restricting what flags can be flown in national parks, community leaders say.

The US slips to its lowest-ever rank in a global corruption index  —  The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.  —  The world's most powerful democracy …

Navarro says expectations for monthly jobs numbers must be reduced ‘significantly,’ citing deportations  —  White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro cautioned the public to lower expectations ahead of Wednesday's monthly jobs report, citing the Trump administration's deportations of immigrants working in the country illegally.

The New York Times manufactures consent for ICE  —  Most Americans disapprove of the Trump regime's lawless terrorizing of American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, but you wouldn't know that from reading two recent New York Times articles that center the views of Republicans rather …

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate  —  At dawn on August 10, 2024, Yasmin Mahani walked through the smoking ruins of al-Tabin school in Gaza City, searching for her son, Saad.  She found her husband screaming, but of Saad, there was no trace.

Trump Has Lost The Culture  —  And his greediest collaborators are awakening to the fact that they made a terrible bet.  —  Democrats were slow to mount opposition to Donald Trump, because they got it in their heads that his popular vote plurality was tantamount to a lasting public verdict on MAGA cultural politics.

The Trump Admin Arrested an Antifascist for Shit-Talking a Fascist  —  A supposed ‘antifa domestic terrorist’ was arrested for ‘cyberstalking’ a controversial right-wing agitator who showed up at a reporter's home to threaten him.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Donald Trump's administration made a show …

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against Trump's election bill, with a warning to her party  —  The Alaskan reminded her fellow Republicans that they claimed to oppose any new federal election laws just a few years ago, insisting that the issue should be left to states.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Mejia Declares Victory in New Jersey Race After Her Main Rival Concedes  —  Tom Malinowski, who was battered by negative advertising, congratulated Analilia Mejia, a political organizer running for Gov. Mikie Sherrill's vacant seat in Congress, on a “hard-won victory.”