Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday showing the many powerful figures in the late sex trafficker’s orbit, including President Donald Tr...

Noem’s office said she did not learn her afternoon meeting had been canceled until 25 minutes after she left the House committee meeting

Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held

President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling “mortgage fraud” when done by political rivals, records show. ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that within seven weeks of each other in late 1993 and early 1994, the president obtained loans for neighboring Palm Beach homes, pledging each would be his primary dwelling. Instead of living in them, though, he rented both out as investment properties. Continue reading...

The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

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And even some Republicans are finally grasping that it's a mistake to always stick by him

Rep. Elise Stefanik said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would lose an election to lead the House if a vote were suddenly called. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday night, the New York lawmaker said Johnson is an “ineffective leader” who is losing control of the Republican party. “He certainly wouldn’t have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow,” Stefanik, a close ally to President Donald Trump, said. “I believe that the majority of Republicans would vote for new leadership. It’s that widespread.” Johnson replaced former Rep. Kevin McCarthy to helm the lower chamber in 2023, accepting the speaker’s gavel after a historic series of multiple rounds of voting. He easily won re-election to the speakership earlier this year on a near-party-line vote. It’s not the first time Stefanik, who is running for governor, has criticized the speaker. Earlier this week, she accused Johnson of blocking provisions to the National Defense Authorization Act that would notify Congress if the FBI begins investigating federal candidates. Johnson, she said Monday in a post to X, is “getting rolled by House Dems attempting to block my provision to require Congressional disclosure when the FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into presidential and federal candidates seeking office.” Still, Johnson appears to have the favor of Trump, who has been able to keep a lid on most GOP internal disputes this year and was credited with mediating the quarrel between Johnson and Stefanik. But in an interview with Playbook, Stefanik pointed out that between Trump and Johnson, “one has historic support among Republican voters, and one has catastrophic, plummeting support among Republican voters.” Meanwhile, Democrats watching from the sidelines have cheered on the in-fighting with glee. “THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING!” a Tuesday memo from the DCCC highlighting the Stefanik-Johnson feud said.

Pete Hegseth’s hostility toward the press has been a defining characteristic of his time as defense secretary.