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One of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistants testified before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday and claimed to know nothing about the billionaire sex offender’s crimes. Lesley Groff told members of Congress that she believed the massage appointments she…

The Trump administration is attacking the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—which helps maintain federal laws against workplace discrimination—for apparently violating the Constitution.The Justice Department on Tuesday accused the EEOC of pressuring…

The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is still ongoing, and while a worldwide soccer tournament played mostly in the United States should be an opportunity to promote peace and unity, it appears regular people in the Middle East will not be given that courtesy.Iran,…

Vice President JD Vance has referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation based on a wild conspiracy theory.In a letter Monday to Assistant Attorney General Colin…

One of President Trump’s lawyers is being sued for millions of dollars over his role in an international spying scandal.Ted Kittila, who used to work for Trump’s social media venture Truth Social, was sued in federal court for $120 million for alleged…

First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli—who oversees 500 attorneys—went on The Glenn Beck Program on Monday to beg listeners to help him find evidence of election fraud.“Tell me what credible allegations exist…

Asked whether he thought the Los Angeles mayoral election was rigged, House Speaker Mike Johnson did what he does best: steer away from facts and embrace nebulous speculation.“I’m not saying it’s rigged, I’m saying it stinks to high heaven, and…

President Donald Trump shut down Midtown Manhattan Monday so he could take a nap at the NBA Finals. After getting loudly booed by attendees at Madison Square Garden, Trump was spotted snoozing in his box seats next to Knicks owner James Dolan and his…

An Indian billionaire paid millions of dollars to Donald Trump Jr. and later won major concessions from the Trump administration.Anant Ambani, 30, is a member of the richest family in India, and his family’s energy business was in the White House’s…

Vice President JD Vance is echoing his president’s false claims of election fraud in the Los Angeles mayoral race.Vance went on Fox News to carry water for the baseless theory after Republican Spencer Pratt was defeated by progressive Los Angeles City…

Speaking to reporters after attending game three of the NBA Finals, Trump claimed that he’d received a warm reception from the crowd at Madison Square Garden. “You mean when they had the camera on me? I thought it was very good, yeah. It was certainly…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Over the…

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With the Supreme Court’s next slate of decisions for this term not coming until Thursday, it is worth looking ahead to some of the top cases that the justices will hear next term. One of them, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, could significantly reshape the…

A famous figure who lives a very long life risks outliving his fame. That was the case for Robert Coles, the celebrated child psychiatrist and social critic, who died earlier this week at age 97. From the 1960s through the 1990s, Coles was revered by…

A single exchange in last Friday’s D.C. Circuit argument laid bare the Trump administration’s strategy in a series of recent cases: Push through deeply unpopular and frequently illegal measures, and make certain the public can’t do a thing about it.The…

“It is a death sentence for us if larger nations continue to open new fossil fuel projects,” Feleti Teo, the prime minister of Tuvalu, said in 2024. Located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, Tuvalu is a nation of extremely low-lying reef…

Over the weekend, Donald Trump exploded during an on-air interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. He called her “crooked” and “stupid” and abruptly ended the interview in a fury. This was ostensibly because she questioned his claims that California’s…

FBI Director Kash Patel’s incessant desire to uncover a “deep state” conspiracy against Donald Trump ruined multiple federal employees’ careers and turned judges against the Justice Department, The New York Times reported Monday.Patel first announced…

ProPublica reports that the federal government was looking into violations of the Clean Water Act from Southern Coal and other affiliated mining operations controlled by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice and his family. In the past, the companies have been…

The African continent’s top referee has been banned from entering the United States ahead of the FIFA World Cup.Omar Artan was set to make history as the first Somalian to officiate the World Cup before he was allegedly denied entry at Miami International…

President Trump’s immigration czar, Tom Homan, is pledging a rapid surge of immigration agents in New York City.Homan told Fox News Monday that he is reviewing plans to rapidly increase ICE activity in the city, deploying “more ICE agents than you’ve…

President Donald Trump has once again turned his ire onto the Senate parliamentarian, amid his ongoing feud with members of his own party. “Senate Majority Leader John Thune should immediately fire the Parliamentarian, who treats Republicans, and everything…

Despite deadly disease outbreaks, a fractured dynamic among members of his staff, and myriad public health institutions being stripped of funds, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “checked out.”A lengthy New York Times report Sunday describes the extent to which the…

Republicans are trying their best to push the blame for the resurgence of the flesh-eating New World screwworm on former President Joe Biden—even though it was their current boss who cut funding for the monitoring program.“Under the last administration…

A federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s exorbitant $100,000 H-1B visa fee.In a 42-page ruling, Massachusetts District Judge Leo Sorokin ruled that the fee was an illegal tax on businesses and ordered it to be vacated. Sorokin used the…

One of the worst cryptocurrency scam artists is trying to get a pardon from President Trump.Sam Bankman-Fried has officially filed with the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney Office, Bloomberg reports. The co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading site FTX…

The FBI is interviewing former Wisconsin poll workers who helped to fuel President Donald Trump’s long-debunked claims of election fraud in 2020, Votebeat reported MondayDavid Bolter, a poll worker whose claims about election fraud were included in Trump’s…

Immigration czar Tom Homan claimed that reports of inhumane conditions and abuse at the Delaney Hall detention center were false because he went there and had some spaghetti. “I went to the bathrooms, I went to the detention area, I went to indoor and…

Texas turning blue wouldn’t have been on any Democrat’s bingo card back in November 2024, when President Donald Trump took the state with 56.2 percent of the vote and Ted Cruz easily held the senator’s seat. But thanks to Republican Senate nominee Ken…