A federal judge has issued Attorney General Todd Blanche a deadline of next Thursday to explain why it failed to fork over a trove of foreign-language documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, Punchbowl News’ Scott MacFarlane reported Friday.The order came amid a lawsuit filed against Blanche in April b…
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Top Trump administration officials boasted Thursday about thwarting an alleged terrorist plot to attack New York state lawmakers at the state’s Capitol, but one rebel Republican lawmaker is crying foul and accusing the Justice Department of manufacturing a conspiracy.On Wednesday, a 35-year-old woma…
In a surprise reversal, a Texas court has sided with Infowars founder Alex Jones over comments he made about the Sandy Hook shooting, a new report shows. A Texas court has slashed the $50 million judgment to $1.5 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones over falsely calling the 2012 school shooti…
The Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board’s new bid to carve President Donald Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade has been torn apart in an emergency court filing.Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), an ex-officio Kennedy Center trustee, filed the emergency motion Thursday after the board voted Aug. 13 t…
Sen Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) got a thumbs-down from conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker on Friday morning.Parker, whose family comes from South Carolina where she currently resides, used her Washington Post column to make the case that Nordone is far from ready for the…
The Trump administration is opening a new front in its effort to reshape higher education.The Education Department is moving to strip the American Bar Association of its authority to accredit law schools nationwide, escalating a long-running feud between the administration and the ABA, which the Whi…
CNN’s John Berman on Friday pressed a Republican congressman Sen. Darline Graham’s widely mocked debate answer — then called out the hole in his logic. The anchor first asked Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) the same national security question posed to Graham during her South Carolina debate, asking wheth…
A federal judge ruled DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin cannot withhold Oregon disaster relief over President Donald Trump’s ‘pronoun’ mandates as wildfires burn across the state.In a blistering order on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane explained why he granted the city of Salem a prelimin…
A senior Trump administration official revealed Friday the extent to which President Donald Trump’s “politically dire” situation had deteriorated, voicing fears that the commander in chief could reach an unprecedented low point in his presidency — and soon.As noted by Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng in an …
A senior White House energy adviser who spent months publicly championing an offshore oil company’s pipeline has now taken a top policy job at that same company, a move ethics experts say exposes just how thin the Trump administration’s revolving-door protections have become.Brittany Kelm, formerly …