A draft proposal to end the war in Ukraine advanced by the Trump administration has drew swift resistance from Ukraine and several of its European allies on Thursday. The plan, developed by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and shared privately with Ukrainian officials in recent days, reportedly includes provisions that would significantly downsize its military, forgo certain long-range weapons, accept Russian control over occupied territory and require Ukraine to withdraw from the roughly 14% the Donbas region that is not under Russian control.

JPMorgan Chase is facing intense scrutiny from a top Senate Democrat over its longtime financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, issued a report on Wednesday that alleges the financial giant may have underreported more than $1 billion in “suspicious transactions to the federal government” for nearly two decades.

Federal prosecutors charged Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick with orchestrating a scheme to keep a $5 million federal overpayment made to her family’s health care company during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the indictment unsealed Wednesday, the payment was made in 2021 to Trinity Healthcare Services through a contract funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support vaccination efforts, The company was led by Cherfilus-McCormick at the time.

President Donald Trump threatened six Democratic lawmakers with the death penalty on Thursday, saying they were “dangerous to our country.” The four Democratic representatives and two Democratic senators issued a joint statement calling on members of the military and intelligence community not to take unlawful orders from the president. All six were either former veterans or national security analysts. “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” they said in the video.

The Justice Democrats, a group that’s helped elect some of the fiercest progressives in Congress, just got its newest candidate: Darializa Avila Chevalier, an upper Manhattan community organizer looking to unseat Rep. Adriano Espaillat in a Democratic primary. The district, New York’s 13th, went overwhelmingly for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani despite the fact that Espaillat initially opposed him. Avila Chevalier announced her candidacy Thursday morning with a video highlighting Espiallat’s connections to the Democratic establishment, such as former Gov.

Second State, a restaurant opening on Tuesday in Washington D.C., is going to charge one dollar for a single artisanal ice cube to be plunked into your drink. No, that is not a dumb joke made by a dumb blogger trying to think of a dumb thing that dumb young people would do. It is a true fact about our world.

The release last week of 20,000 pages of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and a high-profile collection of friends and associates offered a revealing look at the network of status and influence the late sex offender had at his disposal. For some readers — Noam Chomsky fanboys, for instance — they were a chance to find assurance that their fave had no significant ties to Epstein.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing calls from both Republicans and Democrats to not delay the release of the government’s trove of documents on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, warning that holdups could anger a weary public. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed yesterday by President Donald Trump, requires the Department of Justice to release all Epstein files within 30 days, with redactions in place to protect survivors of Epstein’s abuses.

Despite his supposed reversal on the Epstein files, Donald Trump is still desperately trying to make the whole scandal go away. After months of pulling out every stop to prevent the release of FBI documents pertaining to the sex trafficking case of his friend Jeffrey Epstein, Trump suddenly appeared to change his mind, posting on his Truth Social platform, “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.”

It has long been an article of faith that Donald Trump rules the GOP with an iron fist. There shall be no deviation from his word. Lest anyone stray from his path, the sinner can expect to be smote with a single Truth Social post and their political career destroyed with fire and brimstone. Trump’s rule by intimidation has allowed him to usurp the constitutional duties of Congress — and led congressional Republicans to a near-total abdication of their legislative prerogatives. 

Sometimes a single day or single event symbolizes the spirit of an age. Think of the September 1938 meeting in Munich, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders met with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to forge an agreement allowing Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler’s pledge to not invade any other Northern European countries.

Marwan Marouf’s friends say that he’s the kind of Texan to show up at your door when hardship strikes with a bag of groceries, a smile and a helping hand. To Noor Wadi, that meant the Muslim Dallas community leader has helped her feel at home in the North Texas city, stuffing her with cheese pies and checking on her after she moved from her home state of Missouri in 2011.

With the latest shift by President Donald Trump on releasing the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice – he’s now for it after being against it after being for it – the MAGA base may finally get to view the documents it’s long wanted to see. On the afternoon of Nov. 18, 2025, the House voted overwhelmingly to seek release of the files, with…

Joe Rogan mocked Donald Trump during an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” prodding the president for switching up his story around the Epstein files. Trump had spent much of his second term calling the Department of Justice‘s case files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a “hoax.” In posts to Truth Social and statements to the press, the president accused his…

The case against former FBI Director James Comey grows flimsier by the day. On Wednesday, prosecutor Lindsey Halligan admitted that a full grand jury never voted to approve the indictment of Comey, raising questions about whether the case is even legal. The stunning revelation came during a hearing meant to determine whether the case against Comey was a malicious prosecution. While under questioning from U.S.

The fallout from the recently released Epstein emails continues. Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and ex–Harvard University president, resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors on Wednesday. Just days earlier, the documents that became public revealed his long-running correspondence with the disgraced financier. Summers, who joined OpenAI’s board in late 2023, said the move was part of a broader retreat from public-facing roles.

Earlier this year, after the Texas Legislature passed a new congressional map engineered to net five extra GOP seats, Republicans in Texas and across the country were triumphant. The first shot in a brewing redistricting arms race had been fired at the behest of President Donald Trump, who was also looking to Republican legislatures in Indiana and Missouri to take up similar redraws.

A federal court blocked Texas from using its newly drawn congressional map in 2026, concluding that state lawmakers likely relied on race rather than politics when they redrew district lines at the urging of President Donald Trump. In a 2–1 ruling on Tuesday, judges ordered Texas to revert to the congressional boundaries that were in place for the last two election cycles.

Moments after “The Beast in Me” introduces Nile Jarvis, the real estate scion played by Matthew Rhys, viewers are left with few questions as to whether he murdered his wife. If you haven’t yet watched the limited series, you may be under the impression that this is a spoiler. Rest assured that it isn’t. Rhys goes out of his way to ensure that his character isn’t the least bit charming.

A concerted effort between Donald Trump’s White House and the right-wing media ecosystem it effectively controls to distract the public’s attention from the Epstein files appears by pushing a baseless conspiracy theory appears to be a flop.  After a 427-1 vote in the House, on Tuesday the Republican-controlled Senate passed legislation forcing the Justice Department to release any remaining files it has on Epstein.

In the days leading up to the Nov. 8 agreement eight moderate Senate Democrats made with Republicans to end the government shutdown after 40 days of party unity, much speculation centered on one senator in particular. According to the Wall Street Journal, Senate Republicans saw Georgia’s Jon Ossoff, who is widely acknowledged as the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for reelection in 2026, as among…

Despite his supposed reversal on the Epstein files, Donald Trump is still desperately trying to make the whole scandal go away. After months of pulling out every stop to prevent the release of FBI documents pertaining to the sex trafficking case of his friend Jeffrey Epstein, Trump suddenly appeared to change his mind, posting on his Truth Social platform, “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.”

The recent New Yorker documentary “Rovina’s Choice” opens with scenes of hot blowing sand and drone footage of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya, home to about 300,000 people. Many of the residents here have fled the civil war in South Sudan, only to encounter a new challenge: the erosion of international aid that residents rely on to survive.

Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States. “The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back,” Tate posted on X before the trip in February — one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.

The White House is defending a stunning interaction between President Donald Trump and a reporter aboard Air Force One. Last week, Trump grew frustrated with a reporter’s line of questioning about Jeffrey Epstein. He stuck his finger in her face and said, “Quiet, piggy!” The video was released by the White House days later and quickly went viral. The outrage over the exchange prompted a response from the Trump administration.