Russell Brand charged with further sexual offences including rape The former entertainer, 50, faces one count of rape and one of sexual assault of two more alleged victims www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/s...

Larry Summers named backup executor in 2014 draft of Epstein’s will The world-famous economist has stepped back from public life in recent weeks in the wake of new revelations about the extent of his relationship with Epstein. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

ICE has not used taxpayer data to deport people, official says The statements, made in newly-released court filings, offer insight into how the government probed IRS data to fulfill the Trump administration's deportation agenda. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman launches Senate run in Wyoming Hageman is looking to replace retiring Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis and touted her support for Trump's agenda in her campaign launch video. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Former Sen. Ben Sasse says he was diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer Sasse wrote in an X post that he learned about the diagnosis last week, calling it a "death sentence." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Russia and China pledge support for Venezuela as Trump ratchets up pressure on Maduro Trump again called for Venezuela’s president to leave power and said the US would keep or sell the oil it had seized www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Trump flew alone on jet with Epstein and unnamed 20-year-old, new files suggest Claim by a senior US attorney about US president appears in latest batch of justice departme www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

US sees surge in violence against journalists under Trump, report says The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jeffrey Epstein apparently wrote letter to Larry Nassar referencing Trump Letter to former US gymnastics team doctor postmarked three days after Epstein’s death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Letter apparently sent from Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar mentions Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Poll: Major allies see US as unreliable and destabilizing Pluralities in Germany and France, and a majority of Canadians, say the US is a negative force globally, new POLITICO-Public First polling finds. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappears The Justice Department didn’t respond to requests for comment on the new documents or the decision to remove them. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

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Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty sued President Donald Trump and the Board of Trustees of the newly rechristened Trump Kennedy Center late Monday, stating in a complaint that only Congress has the power to change the name of the historic cultural institution. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin Alternative for Germany’s opponents accuse the party of attempting to disclose sensitive information on arms supply routes and drone defenses. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 U.S. military says new strike on alleged drug boat killed 1 'narco-terrorist' The latest strike came the same day President Donald Trump issued warnings to the presidents of Venezuela and Colombia. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Justice Department releases 3rd batch of Jeffrey Epstein files, including some that mention Trump One email released by the DOJ from an unnamed federal prosecutor claimed that flight logs show Trump traveled on Epstein's plane. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The U.S. now controls about 3.7 million barrels of Venezuelan crude from two interdicted oil tankers. And President Trump doesn't want to give it up. "We're gonna keep it," Trump said Monday night when asked about the oil's fate. www.axios.com/2025/12/23/t...

The "60 Minutes" segment pulled from air by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss did not include new comments from Trump administration officials, according to a copy of the segment viewed by Axios. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/6...

Judge orders Trump admin to offer relief to men deported under Alien Enemies Act But the judge, James Boasberg, stopped short of ordering the Trump administration to facilitate the immediate return of the men to the U.S. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

The "60 Minutes" segment pulled from air by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss did not include new comments from Trump administration officials, according to a copy of the segment viewed by Axios. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/6...

Trump administration probes Brown University over deadly shooting The Ivy League school previously reached a $50M deal with the federal government to resolve civil rights probes and reinstate $510M in federal research funds. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

A judge on Monday scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence. apnews.com/article/schu...

The U.S. will build "Trump-class" military vessels that the president on Monday suggested are new-age battleships, inching the country closer to construction of what the administration is advertising as "the Golden Fleet." www.axios.com/2025/12/22/t...

The request, addressed to the top federal judge in Miami, sought to block a U.S. attorney from pursuing a politically charged inquiry before Judge Aileen Cannon, who has repeatedly decided in President Trump’s favor. FREE NYT GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse released a new statement on Monday criticizing the Trump administration’s justice department for failing to release all of the documents related to the case by the 19 December deadline. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

State attorneys general sue Trump administration over efforts to shutter CFPB 20 states and the District of Columbia argue that the Trump administration has a legal duty to keep funding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Inside Turning Point’s effort to take over Arizona’s Republican Party Whether the group can elevate its favored candidates will provide a glimpse into their political staying power following Charlie Kirk’s killing on a Utah college campus in September. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights. apnews.com/article/trum...

The request, addressed to the top federal judge in Miami, sought to block a U.S. attorney from pursuing a politically charged inquiry before Judge Aileen Cannon, who has repeatedly decided in President Trump’s favor. FREE NYT GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Zohran Mamdani to be sworn in as New York City mayor by Sen. Bernie Sanders and AG Letitia James James will formally swear Mamdani in at midnight when his term officially begins, and Sanders will oversee the mayor-elect's ceremonial swearing in. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

FBI Director Kash Patel is being driven around in specially armored BMWs that the FBI bought at his request. The FBI director, who is under fire for use of government resources, also asked for an upgraded jet. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

I’m launching a Substack. Why? Because Trump is completely unfit for office, his enablers are cowards, and the truth needs to be said plainly by someone who knows how these guys tick. Subscribe if you're with me. open.substack.com/pub/gtconway...

Former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative think tank welcomed over a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers, snapping up the leaders of the Foundations' legal, economic and data teams, Axios learned Monday. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/h...

Over a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors shared a letter with Congress on Monday, urging lawmakers to hold the Justice Department accountable for delays in releasing all the Epstein files. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/t...

Bill Clinton spox calls on DOJ to release Epstein files referencing the former president The former president’s spokesperson accused the DOJ of weaponizing the documents against him. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

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The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s unprecedented, sweeping review. www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

If the Smithsonian comply to Trump’s whitewashing of history, it will destroy the world wide reputation of the Smithsonian Institution completely . It would be inconceivable that such an admired bastion of historical knowledge and facts could ever agree with this fascist decree🤔🤬🤬