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August 30, 2025
Congressman Reveals Epstein Estate Will Hand Over Book Containing Alleged Trump Birthday Message
Aug 29th, 2025, 8:03 pm Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) broke some news on Friday’s All In on MSNBC, where he said the estate of Jeffrey Epstein will produce several documents that have not been made public. That includes an album of well-wishes for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. Epstein, a sex trafficker and former friend of President Donald Trump, died of suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, according to officials. Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump sent Epstein a bi ...
Go to discussionNoem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is terminating two dozen members in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s IT department after the DHS agency said the employees failed basic security protocols that allowed hackers to access its networks. Noem’s office said agency Chief Information Officer Charles Armstrong and Chief Information Security Officer Gregory Edwards were terminated, alongside 22 others. They could not be immediately reached for comment. A routine cybersecurity review of F ...
Go to discussion'Keep it peaceful,' Chicago top cop warns ahead of Trump National Guard deployment
Aug. 29, 2025, 7:24 p.m. ET Chicago city leaders and Illinois officials are warning residents of the nation’s third-largest city to keep protests from getting out of hand if the Trump administration follows through on its promise to deploy the National Guard. "When it comes to federal agents or the National Guard, these people work for the federal government and their rules of engagement are different," Chicago Police Superintendent warned at a news briefing on Aug. 27. "Keep i ...
Go to discussionTrump team debates ending federal employees' fundraising arm that has given $9 billion to charities
Friday 29 August 2025 22:36 BST The Trump administration has paused work on a decades-old charitable arm of the government which allows federal workers to donate part of their paycheck to a cause, while officials decide whether to keep the program going, according to a recent report. The Combined Federal Campaign, which falls under the Office of Personnel Management, has raised more than $9 billion for charitable organizations since the early 1960s, including St. Jude Children’s Research Hosp ...
Go to discussionLawyer Alan Dershowitz loses appeal in CNN defamation case
PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2025, 8:07 PM ET Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz lost his bid on Friday to overturn a ruling that dismissed his defamation lawsuit against CNN over the news channel’s coverage of remarks he made during President Donald Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Dershowitz presented no evidence that CNN’s reporters and commentators operated with “actual malice” in covering Dershowitz’s defense of Trump’s push for Ukraine to ...
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