Bondi Ripped After Epstein Files Blow Up on Her Bondi faced fresh scrutiny about her role in the Epstein files fiasco after emails released by the House Oversight Committee indicated that Trump knew more about the late sex offender’s conduct than he may have acknowledged. tinyurl.com/rAqpgN

It’s Epstein O’Clock in Congress Sen. Ruben Gallego had a present for Speaker Mike Johnson. Gallego went into the speaker’s office with a special gift: a copy of the memoirs of Virginia Giuffre, the late sex-trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein. tinyurl.com/hExtgP

Trump’s Military Occupations of US Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising The current $473 million price tag now includes $172 million spent in Los Angeles, where troops arrived in June; almost $270 million for the occupation of Washington, D.C., which began in August. tinyurl.com/kUvrzP

Former Pirates pitcher indicted on allegations of fraud, rigging pitches Cleveland Guardians’ pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz are both facing up to 65-years in prison if convicted on all charges of wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and much more tinyurl.com/gIdxtL

Lawrence O’Donnell: Mike Johnson is the real loser in the Senate shutdown deal According to Lawrence O’Donnell, while it may be easy to criticize Chuck Schumer, another lawmaker may earn the title of the biggest loser in the shutdown deal: House Majority Leader Mike Johnson. tinyurl.com/vIftxJ

Phillies predicted to sign $350M World Series champ, 4-time All-Star to succeed Bryce Harper's role The Philadelphia Phillies’ offseason could go in several different directions, with J.T. Realmuto, Kyle Schwarber, and Ranger Suárez all hitting the market. tinyurl.com/rIhvtK

Jack Schlossberg is running for Congress. Almost 64 years after his grandfathers inaugural address, Jack Schlossberg is now heeding the call for generational change from Democratic voters as the party’s leaders continue to cling to office well into their 70s. tinyurl.com/rUdwpV

More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, Poll shows Approval of the way Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, with much of the rising discontent coming from fellow Republicans. tinyurl.com/vEjtxL

House Democrats Release Epstein Papers Saying Trump “Knew about the girls”. House Democrats released emails which they said raised new questions about Trump's relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about his abuse of underage girls. tinyurl.com/zUnpdR

Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote Top officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files. tinyurl.com/tOhycR

Newsom Dubs Any Trump Plans For Offshore Drilling In California ‘Dead On Arrival’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom said a proposal for offshore drilling in the state would be “dead on arrival” as reports have emerged about Trump selling new oil and gas leases in the region. tinyurl.com/tAbtxD

Jeffries, Democrats will offer 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) will offer the legislation as an amendment to the Senate-passed spending agreement during a Rules Committee meeting Tuesday night. tinyurl.com/gIvwHp

Jeffrey Epstein Files Are About to Spill Into the Open (with video) The next phase of the long-running battle over the Epstein files is slowly unfolding now that the government is gearing to reopen after the longest shutdown in U.S. history. tinyurl.com/bEpgtM

On MSNBC, Angelo Carusone discusses how right-wing media infighting is weakening Donald Trump Alicia Mendez: There's an amazing moment in that rant where he claimed that Thanksgiving, the holiday writ large, is 25% cheaper under his leadership, according to Walmart. (Video) tinyurl.com/wOmctG

The climate president in waiting California Governor Gavin Newsom can’t get out of a meeting or a talk at the international climate talks here without being swarmed by reporters and diplomats eager for a quote, a handshake, a photo. tinyurl.com/tOcskX

Italy probes claims that tourists paid to shoot at civilians in Bosnian war The public prosecutor's office in Milan has opened an investigation into claims that Italian citizens travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on "sniper safaris" during the war in the early 1990s. tinyurl.com/tIgcrL

600 Paramount Skydance employees quit instead of returning to the office In September, following the long-stalled $8 billion merger of the two media juggernauts, employees in a would be required to return to working in-person five days a week or take a buyout. tinyurl.com/zEjtnD

The Shocking Price of Groceries in Rural Alaska The village of Unalakleet, on the western coast of Alaska, is accessible only by plane, boat, or—depending on the time of year—snowmobile. Most of the items in the village’s two grocery stores arrive by cargo plane. tinyurl.com/pig-tK

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Trump is not getting positive feedback on the economy “The economy is great”, claims Trump. That, according to CNN, is the plan White House officials are brewing as they prepare to bounce the president all over the nation to deliver speeches on the economy. tinyurl.com/tAmyvP

Stephen Miller’s Wife Schooled on Immigration by NFL Owner Ex-DOGE staffer Miller is married to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the driving force behind the Trump administration’s deportation campaign who has pushed ICE officers to ramp up migrant arrests. tinyurl.com/mUvqjC

Trump to Dine With Wall Street CEOs While Throttling Food Aid for Millions Billionaire JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will reportedly attend the White House dinner, held as nutrition assistance for millions of Americans remains in chaos. tinyurl.com/cOdrhB

Top House Democrats vow to oppose shutdown bill over healthcare funding As House Republican leaders move to hold a vote on legislation to reopen the US government, top Democrats vowed on Tuesday to oppose the bill for not addressing their demand for more healthcare funding. tinyurl.com/gAntlD

US Airlines Grapple With Shutdown Fallout As Thanksgiving Nears The longest federal government shutdown disrupted tens of thousands of flights in recent days, and with it, U.S. carriers' optimistic expectations for the holiday quarter. tinyurl.com/hUbwlC

President grilled on cost-of-living crisis after big Dem win The Daily Show‘s Josh Johnson said “it’s rough out there” for Americans thanks to rising grocery, rent, and electricity prices which are yet to be tackled by the Trump administration. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims. tinyurl.com/sEtbpM

Trump Still Supports Ludicrous Fifty-Year Mortgages The Trump administration placed an article in Politico which said White House staffers are fuming at Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, for putting this idea in Trump's ear, to offset his lunacy. tinyurl.com/zEhtlB

The Dems Blinked, and That Will Make Trump Ever More Radical The Democrats’ capitulation in the government shutdown seems to have been motivated by four factors, as TNR’s Monica Potts and Alex Shephard explain in the latest edition of Right Now. (link to podcast is below) tinyurl.com/gEvpkS

Then They Came for the Dreamers On the morning of August 13, Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira was pulling up to his mother’s house in Horizon City, Texas, when three unmarked cars blocked the driveway. They ordered him to turn off the engine and step out of the vehicle. tinyurl.com/jug-rA

One Weird Trick to Get Rid of Chuck Schumer Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has to go. That’s the conclusion of multiple Democratic groups, House members, and candidates after Schumer oversaw his caucus implode. tinyurl.com/tYbpfR

'The situation is quite difficult' — Russia captures 3 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid 'intense fighting' Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces said, “We have completely withdrawn from Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka.” tinyurl.com/tEgnpR

Draft Dodger Trump Makes Veterans Day About Himself Trump gave a wandering Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday, revisiting one of his favorite grievances: not getting enough credit. tinyurl.com/vApgtN

New Trump directive could deny more visas based on applicants’ health and finances A new directive by Trump could make it more difficult for foreigners to visit or live in the United States if they have certain medical conditions such as diabetes or obesity. tinyurl.com/gEbpcW

US Supreme Court Extends Pause on Order Requiring Trump To Fully Fund Food Aid The court's action allows the administration for now to continue withholding about $4 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps. tinyurl.com/fAphtX

These GOP states would suffer if Affordable Care Act subsidies expire Of the 10 states with the highest share of Obamacare subsidies, eight voted for Trump last year. They include Florida, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina. tinyurl.com/vEmtfL

I wish to thank ALL veterans, but a special thanks to my Dad, who fought in World War Two, storming the beach in Normandy with bullets whizzing by his head. He never spoke about the war unless I asked him a specific question. He provided for our family working up to three jobs at once. My hero!

Trump Doubles Down Trashing Major Voter Gripe: Just ‘A Con Job By The Democrats’ Trump once again dismissed the economic concerns of the American people, claiming that the affordability crisis is “a con job by the Democrats” and the supposedly complicit media. tinyurl.com/zOntfC

Trump's mental decline appears to be accelerating rapidly Over the last month, Trump’s mental decline has appeared to worsen. Consider: Sunday, he posted an image claiming that Barack Obama had been collecting millions in taxpayer dollars from “royalties linked to Obamacare.” tinyurl.com/mOtcwP

Trump tariff dividends face legal, political roadblocks Trump has floated the idea of sending dividends to the American people multiple times, but his most recent proposal over the weekend comes as his administration is facing public frustration over affordability. tinyurl.com/pIbtfZ

‘A classic authoritarian tactic’: outrage over Trump’s pardons for friends and allies Trump’s unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of “corrupt” pay-to-play schemes & conflicts of interest. tinyurl.com/gEbptX

Fox News Host Confronts Trump to His Face Over Chain Store Gold Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked Trump if his beloved gold White House decor came from a chain store. Trump told the host, “You can’t imitate gold, real gold. There’s no paint that imitates gold.” tinyurl.com/tYnpfC

Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown. Democrats in both chambers of Congress are denouncing Schumer and the deal to end the government shutdown. But they offer no plausible account of how they would have done better. tinyurl.com/vAwpqG

US House Returns to Washington to Vote to End Government Shutdown Members of the House of Representatives returned to Washington on Tuesday, braving the nation's tangled airports for a vote that could bring the longest U.S. government shutdown in history to a close. tinyurl.com/bEvtfL

House Dem delivers brutal putdown to 'racist' Trump attack In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingram that aired Monday, Trump aimed an onslaught at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her country of birth, Somalia. She delivered a brutal putdown to Trump. www.rawstory.com/trump-267428...

Furious Jon Stewart Demolishes Dems for Caving to Trump Jon Stewart is livid at the Democrats for caving on the government shutdown. “I can’t f---ing believe it!” Stewart said at the start of his monologue on Monday. (with video) tinyurl.com/vEzptV

Suicide bombing in Islamabad kills 12, says Pakistan's interior minister A suicide attack outside a court in Pakistan's capital Islamabad has killed 12 people. Mohsin Naqvi said a bomber was planning to attack the district courthouse - but was unable to get inside. tinyurl.com/sEmtcK

Oz Claims Trump Has Obamacare Fix. But It’s a Secret On Monday, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked Oz how Trump would fix rising health care costs under the Affordable Care Act, a sticking point in the government shutdown. (with video) tinyurl.com/bEqmtG

Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million verdict Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. tinyurl.com/tIbgzP

The Many Problems With the FDA’s Big Menopause Announcement On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services made an announcement that it promised would change the lives of millions of American women for the better: Hormone replacement therapy. tinyurl.com/bUxwlF