Breaking: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

“A federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth.” www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.

Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small ‘Box,’ Amnesty International Says Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has granted Texas’ request to stay a lower court ruling blocking it from using a heavily gerrymandered congressional map the state legislature passed at the behest of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

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"FBI headquarters is pressuring the bureau’s domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members" DC Field Office career leaders pushed back citing "a lack of legal and factual basis to initiate a criminal case."

MS NOW: Federal prosecutors are expected to seek to reindict New York AG Letitia James TODAY in Norfolk, VA. Lindsey Halligan will NOT present the information. Now Roger Keller, a federal assistant U.S. attorney normally based in Missouri, is expected to present information before a grand jury.

This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world. Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him. It's not just immoral — it's un-American. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

READ: The Pentagon inspector general just released the 84-page report on Pete Hegseth's use of Signal to discuss sensitive military strikes in Yemen. The report found Hegseth's actions risked putting troops in danger. www.dodig.mil/reports.html...

The Trump Administration's latest rationale for killing striken seamen was that they knew that two men had survived the initial strike but that they "needed to sink the vessel" so they fired again. That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.

The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos, says a new study co-authored at UC Berkeley. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/02/w...

Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell say client will ask a judge to release her from federal prison, a new court filing shows.

Exclusive: The four-star admiral in charge of Caribbean operations had concerns about the legality of the boat strikes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to retire shortly after they started.

Hmm. Ghislaine Maxwell is filing a habeas petition challenging her incarceration PRO SE (no lawyers). I guess even David Markus has his limits? Incidentally, she's worried that the release of the Epstein files would be devastating to her case.

Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts

Between budget cuts, the government shutdown, and delayed SNAP benefits, the number of families seeking food from Share Food Program has increased 12-fold. It’s daunting.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

🚨BREAKING: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee advanced a blatantly unconstitutional bill Tuesday to exclude noncitizens from the decennial census counts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"

In the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force. n.pr/3XwjcZy

"I chose a crass serial rapist and adulterer, who calls women 'nasty' and 'piggy,' and took away by daughters' reproductive rights, over my daughters. So why are they displeased with me??? It must be all THEIR fault! I take no responsibility. NONE!"

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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

🚨BREAKING: The Justice Department launched a new wave of lawsuits against six more Democratic-led states Tuesday — escalating a federal effort to seize unredacted information from millions of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

Breaking News: The Trump administration fired eight immigration judges in New York City, part of a disruption in the courts around the U.S.

The White House press secretary announces that Admiral Mitch Bradley is the officially designated scapegoat for the "kill them all!" order to eliminate survivors, in the event this is found to be illegal. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

If immigration judges are neutral and independent as due process requires, then they must be independent from the Executive Branch. We must move immigration judges from Article II to Article I to provide a check on a lawless administration like this one.

“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.

Number of states where average gas prices are below $2: Zero. Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2: Zero.

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

We learned ~nothing from the Global Financial Crisis

“He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection. His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Barring potential legal delays from lawsuits, Haitians now will face returning to an unstable country facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises as criminal gangs control all major roads in and out of the capital of Port-au-Prince, and aggressively spread their terror to other regions.

BREAKING: The suspect in the shooting of National Guard members near the White House is an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021, AP sources say.

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

More than six weeks after Vicente Ventura Aguilar was taken by masked agents in South LA, his family still has no answers. They’ve searched hospitals, morgues, consulates & agencies across SoCal while DHS claims he was never in custody. 🔗@latimes.com: shorturl.at/pX0FU

A new federal directive by Mehmet Oz allows the sharing of Medicaid applicant data with DHS effective immediately, rescinding previous “interagency integrity” firewalls. This forces mixed-status families into an impossible calculus: access life-saving medical care or remain invisible to enforcement.

Nexus Health, a Santa Fe health care company that has grown steadily over the past several years, opening a large, three-story clinic on the city’s south side a little more than a year ago, abruptly announced to patients Wednesday it is closing.

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

The prosecutor appointed to replace Fani Willis in Georgia moved to dismiss the election fraud conspiracy case against Trump & others. Judge McAfee just granted that motion. Case over.

Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."