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At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

Updated 4:27 PM EST, December 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public. The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a serie ...

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Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season

It’s the busiest shopping season of the year – and a time when many are trying to figure out where to ethically spend their money. Over the first year of Trump’s second term, companies and institutions have fallen in line with the administration’s anti-DEI and anti-immigration policies. As a result, people are supporting economic boycotts to show their discontent with the businesses capitulating to the president. Over the Black Friday weekend, the groups behind the No Kings protests – the larg ...

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Bill Clinton Responds To Epstein Files Swimming Pool Photos

By Sam Stevenson Associate News Editor A spokesman for Bill Clinton has responded to the latest Epstein Files release, accusing Donald Trump of scapegoating the former Democratic President. Newsweek has reached out to the Clinton Foundation via a contact form on its website for comment. (snip) Clinton appears prominently in a batch of undated and heavily redacted photographs, including images of him at a swimming pool alongside Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. (snip) Clinton's chief of staf ...

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EXCLUSIVE: US seizes vessel off Venezuelan coast, officials say

Updated Dec. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. ET The United States is interdicting and seizing a vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, Dec. 20, a move that comes just days after President Donald Trump announced a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. This would mark the second time in recent weeks that the United States has seized a tanker near Venezuela and comes amid a large U.S. military bu ...

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Walmart and other US companies want to build a pipeline of skilled tradespeople

Updated 5:10 AM EST, December 20, 2025 BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — As the number of skilled tradespeople dwindles in the United States, Walmart is trying to build up its own workforce to keep conveyor belts moving, refrigerated grocery cases cold, and drains and parking lots flowing. The nation’s largest retailer and private employer revamped its training program last year to increase the pipeline of maintenance technicians who do everything from repair equipment to electrical work at Walmart’s ...

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Romney calls for higher taxes on wealthy in New York Times op-ed

12/19/25 3:12 PM ET Former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Friday in a New York Times op-ed that “it’s time for rich people like me to pay more” in taxes ahead of the Social Security benefits cut projected for 2034. Romney wrote that political ads in 2012, when he ran for president against then-incumbent President Obama, suggested his policy proposals would push “grandma off a cliff.” “Today, all of us, including our grandmas, truly are headed for a cliff: If, as projected, the Social Securit ...

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Massive Train Derailment Occurs 17 Miles Northwest Of Cheyenne

A BNSF train carrying dozens of double-stacked freight cars derailed early Friday morning northwest of Cheyenne. Although no cause has been given, residents blame the wind. "This is the worst wind we've ever seen, and it’s been blowing for days now." Andrew Rossi & Jimmy Orr December 19, 20256 min read After several days of hurricane-force winds, including a 144-mph blast in western Wyoming, double-stacked freight cars fell off railroad tracks near Federal, Wyoming, about 17 mil ...

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Judge excoriates Trump admin for repeatedly 'refusing to comply' with discovery and court orders

Dec 19th, 2025, 5:51 pm A federal court in Manhattan chided the Trump administration on Thursday for trying to dodge discovery obligations in a collection of consolidated lawsuits over terminated grant awards issued by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In a 32-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, a Bill Clinton appointee, issued a victory for the plaintiffs and a loss for the government. The court granted several motions to compel discovery filed by the plaintiff ...

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US military to stop shooting pigs and goats as a way to train medics for the battlefield

Updated 3:37 PM EST, December 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries. The prohibition on “live fire” training that includes animals is part of this year’s annual defense bill, although other uses of animals for wartime training will continue The ban was championed by Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Flo ...

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Trump Admin Slammed Over Redactions In Epstein Release: 'Most Disgusting Cover Up In American History'

Dec 19th, 2025, 6:19 pm The Trump Administration was hit with sharp criticism over the amount of redacted information in the newly released files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. The Department of Justice posted documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act on its website Friday afternoon in accordance with the midnight deadline set by the statute signed into law by President Donald Trump last month. As scores of viewers began to sift through the latest doc ...

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Vikings' plane turns around after mechanical issues en route to their game at the Giants

2 hrs ago - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 7:38 PM CST, December 20, 2025 Leer en español The Minnesota Vikings had some travel trouble Saturday getting to northern New Jersey for their game Sunday at the New York Giants. Their team plane experienced me ... (AP)

'Am I Next?' protest art in downtown LA boldly asks who's safe from ICE

4 hrs ago - Sat 20 Dec 2025 12.00 EST Last modified on Sat 20 Dec 2025 12.02 EST Each evening, drivers on the busy 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles pass billboard-size portraits of Angelenos that flash across the side of a building with a simple message next ... (The Guardian)

Over 500 pages in Epstein files were entirely blacked out, CBS News finds

4 hrs ago - Updated on: December 20, 2025 / 10:21 AM EST The Justice Department released thousands of new records on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, but at least 550 pages in the documents are fully redacted, CBS News has found. The newly relea ... (CBS News)

Top DOJ official denies there's any effort to redact mentions of President Trump from Epstein files

5 hrs ago - December 20, 2025, 8:12 AM The No. 2 official in the Justice Department told ABC News in an interview Friday that there has been "no effort" to redact President Donald Trump's name from the release of files stemming from federal investigations into c ... (ABC News)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves for sanctions after Trump admin 'repeatedly violated' court-issued gag order, motion says

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Democrats see health care subsidies leverage in shutdown deadline

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Exclusive: Trump appointee inspired by conservative media outlet to push for probe of Democratic congressman

7 hrs ago - December 20, 2025 1:39 PM EST Updated 3 hours ago NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A mortgage fraud probe of a Democratic congressman began last month after William Pulte, the Republican head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, referred all ... (Reuters)

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

8 hrs ago - Updated 4:27 PM EST, December 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — l ... (AP)

Walmart and other US companies want to build a pipeline of skilled tradespeople

8 hrs ago - Updated 5:10 AM EST, December 20, 2025 BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — As the number of skilled tradespeople dwindles in the United States, Walmart is trying to build up its own workforce to keep conveyor belts moving, refrigerated grocery cases cold, ... (AP)

OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT's enthusiasm level

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Ro Khanna Says Top Trump Officials Could Face Impeachment Over Epstein Files Fiasco

9 hrs ago - Dec 20, 2025, 01:31 PM EST Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said during multiple TV appearances Friday that he and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are pondering impeachment charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi, citing the newly released but heavily redacte ... (Huff Post)

The 'TrumpKennedyCenter.org' website is taken. This comedian owns it.

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Elon Musk becomes first person worth $700 billion following pay package ruling

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EXCLUSIVE: US seizes vessel off Venezuelan coast, officials say

11 hrs ago - Updated Dec. 20, 2025, 12:40 p.m. ET The United States is interdicting and seizing a vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, Dec. 20, a move that comes just days after President Donald ... (USA Today)

Bill Clinton Responds To Epstein Files Swimming Pool Photos

11 hrs ago - By Sam Stevenson Associate News Editor A spokesman for Bill Clinton has responded to the latest Epstein Files release, accusing Donald Trump of scapegoating the former Democratic President. Newsweek has reached out to the Clinton Foundation via a con ... (Newsweek)

Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season

11 hrs ago - It’s the busiest shopping season of the year – and a time when many are trying to figure out where to ethically spend their money. Over the first year of Trump’s second term, companies and institutions have fallen in line with the admi ... (Guardian [UK])

FBI notes detail grim demands Epstein made for procurement of underage girls

12 hrs ago - Fri 19 Dec 2025 18.37 EST Last modified on Sat 20 Dec 2025 06.32 EST Investigative notes describing Jeffrey Epstein’s detailed demands of the people he sent to procure children for his sexual predation are among the documents released by the Dep ... (The Guardian)

'This is strange': Trump fans baffled by puny turnout at North Carolina rally

13 hrs ago - December 20, 2025 7:43AM ET Donald Trump's rally in tiny Rocky Mount, North Carolina drew a smaller than expected crowd to the economically distressed region, leaving merchandise vendors and supporters disheartened. According to interviews conducted ... (Raw Story)

'They're Delusional If They Think This Is Going to Go Away'

14 hrs ago - December 19, 2025, 10:33 PM ET Jeffrey Epstein's victims began the day believing they might finally get something they'd been requesting for years: a direct conversation with the nation's top law-enforcement official before the Justice Department mad ... (The Atlantic)

Trump administration imposes restrictions on Mexican train crews operating inside US

15 hrs ago - December 20, 2025 12:03 AM EST Updated 9 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday it would impose restrictions on Mexican train crews operating in the United States after inspections raised safety con ... (Reuters)