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Legal experts and White House critics are worried the Justice Department (DOJ) could become a piggy bank for those with grievances as President Trump and a number of his allies pursue million-dollar settlement claims.
While Trump's push for $230 million in compensation for two probes into his conduct would be the most lucrative of the suits, others in his orbit are also seeking millions from the DOJ.
That group includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has said he intends to take advantage of a provision tucked into the bill to reopen the government that allows 10 senators to sue for $1 million after their phone records were obtained by special counsel Jack Smith without notifying them. |
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A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts.
The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom's flu season started a month earlier than usual, a trend also playing out across the Atlantic.
U.S. flu cases have already reached numbers typically seen in December, said Cameron Wolfe, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at Duke University.
"We're here mid-November seeing the beginning of an uptick that's actually mirrored by what we've seen overseas," Wolfe said. |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond.
The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef's rippling effects played a role in her decision to resign. The president told ABC News on Friday that Greene, formerly one of Trump's biggest supporters, did not notify him of her plans prior to the announcement. |
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BY MIKE LILLIS AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
Democrats won a huge victory this week in getting Republicans to enact legislation compelling the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein. Their next battle is keeping the pressure on the Justice Department to comply.
Democrats are eyeing a series of tactical maneuvers — letters, lawsuits, additional subpoenas and votes of contempt — designed to keep the spotlight on the issue and ensure the documents see the light of day. They're bracing for a brawl. |
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State Department officials on Saturday aggressively pushed back on claims shared by some senators that President Trump's 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine originated from Russia and is not the administration's position.
Earlier on Saturday, PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin reported comments from Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) where the lawmakers claimed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them the plan was not authored by the United States but was rather "received" from an intermediary and is "essentially the wish list of the Russians." "The peace proposal was authored by the U.S.," Rubio said in a Saturday night post on the social platform X. "It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations … It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine." |
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President Trump announced late Friday that he is ending legal protections for Somali residents living in Minnesota "effective immediately."
"Minnesota, under [Gov. Tim] Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota." He added, "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It's OVER!" |
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Vice President Vance on Friday defended President Trump's 28-point peace plan to bring an end to the more than three-year war in Ukraine, pushing back on criticism he said is not based on "critical reality."
Vance, in a post online, outlined three things needed for a successful agreement: "1) Stop the killing while preserving Ukrainian sovereignty. 2) Be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine. 3) Maximize the chances the war doesn't restart." "Every criticism of the peace framework the administration is working on either misunderstands the framework or misstates some critical reality on the ground," he wrote on social platform X. |
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The FBI this week concluded its probe into the first assassination attempt against President Trump during a Pennsylvania campaign rally last year, finding that the deceased suspect acted alone and without motive.
FBI Director Kash Patel, in an interview with Fox News, said Trump was informed of the FBI's conclusion to its investigation "as a victim of this case" and said the president was "satisfied with the results and where we left it." The probe was a "Day One priority" for the agency, Patel added. "We have reviewed this case over and over — looked into every nugget," FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told Fox News Digital. "We have spoken to the families, the president — there is no cover-up here. There is no motive for it, there is no reason for it." |
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The escalating feud between President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reached a new level on Friday with the Republican lawmaker announcing her resignation planned for January.
A longtime ally of Trump's, Greene has increased her criticisms toward the GOP and the administration for several months. She amped up her disapproval during the government shutdown, with colleagues like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at one point suggesting she was "very liberal" despite her loyal support for Trump's MAGA agenda. |
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OPINION | I am one of the millions of Americans who live with chronic pain — it burns, shoots, and sears through my body every single day. I have spent decades trying nearly every treatment modern medicine offers, but one of the few options that has worked for me — and millions of other Americans — has been hemp products. They are non-intoxicating, rigorously tested, and they enable me to function. They help me walk, sleep, show up for my family and lead an organization. Simply live.
But now, because of a secretive, backroom deal, Congress is taking them away for no apparent reason. |
OPINION | Never in our republic's history have we witnessed biased, activist judges so deliberately circumvent the will of the American people to systematically delay — or outright destroy — the policies of a democratically elected president.
We all have biases, of course. But true leadership is displayed by those willing to ignore those biases and act for the greater good of the majority. Judges should recognize that solemn responsibility more than most. |
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BY ALAN FEUER, ADAM GOLDMAN AND GLENN THRUSH |
When Alexis Wilkins, an aspiring country singer dating the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Atlanta in the spring, she arrived with a formidable protective posse — a SWAT team from the bureau's local field office.
The two agents, members of a specialized unit trained to storm barricaded buildings and rescue hostages, had been sent there on Mr. Patel's orders. But seeing that the event at the Georgia World Congress Center had been secured, and that Ms. Wilkins was in no apparent danger, they left before the event was over, according to six people with knowledge of the incident.
She noticed. So did her boyfriend. |
Healthcare politics and investing might as well be living in alternate universes.
President Trump and some Republicans have been describing Obamacare as a gravy train for insurers. Trump's latest broadside slammed "big, fat, rich insurance companies who have made trillions," and he urged Congress to send healthcare subsidies directly to patients instead.
Wall Street sees it another way. Many Affordable Care Act plans are losing money this year and investors have grown increasingly bearish. "This is the worst of the five businesses managed-care companies participate in," says John Ransom, an analyst at Raymond James. |
John F. Kennedy's granddaughter disclosed Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in "The New Yorker" that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year and criticizing policies pushed by her cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, said she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34. After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people.
Her essay was published on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather's assassination. |
President Donald Trump faces an unexpected rift in the MAGA movement as Republican officials from statehouses to Capitol Hill warn his full-throated embrace of the tech industry's artificial intelligence boom risks undermining Americans' economic security and exposing their children to new harms.
Trump has appointed influential tech investors and entrepreneurs to key positions in his administration and backed the sector's ambitions for AI, scrapping regulations introduced by President Joe Biden and facilitating huge investments from foreign companies and governments into American AI firms.
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