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It was a week from hell that nearly broke Donald Trump’s administration. By the time it was over, the president had sustained more blowback and political damage for his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files than he did for bombing Iran last month.

“The week was a big kick in the balls,” a senior administration official bluntly notes. “It was a lot to deal with, and there were many emotions.”

The end is nowhere in sight, as the president’s supporters — from Maga influencers and Republican politicians...

After nearly a decade of stoking conspiracy theories insisting that he was ordained to destroy a cabal of pedophiles in control of the nation, President Donald Trump would like everyone to shut up about Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and trafficker of underage girls who was known to pal around with high-profile figures — including Trump.

The extended Maga universe continues to shred itself over the Trump administration backtracking on promises to release documents and evidence related to the Epstein case. As House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other prominent...

Updated with additional Trump comments: Donald Trump again expressed his irritation over a split in his Maga base over his administration’s contention that there’s no there there when it comes to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Trump wrote that the Epstein story has been orchestrated by Democrats. But figures in his administration, like FBI director Kash Patel, Vice President Jd Vance and Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, had pushed conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein before taking their administration posts.

Trump wrote on Truth Social, “The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the Fake and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia, and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used...

House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans broke with the Trump administration’s decision to keep the lid shut on the government’s files investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Johnson called on the Department of Justice to release documents and information related to the probe into the disgraced financier, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019, and said that Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to explain previous remarks she made on the issue. This is the first time Johnson, a close Trump ally, has spoken so publicly in opposition to the president.

Kevin Spacey, who walked away from a cloud of sexual assault allegations and a surprising number of dead bodies with his freedom, if not his fortune, is calling for the release of “the Epstein files,” because oh that’s right, his name also appeared in the Epstein flight logs.

“Release the Epstein files,” Spacey posted on July 15th. “All of them. For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough.”

You might think this whole thing couldn’t get any more absurd, but we’re just getting started. The actor, who was fired from House of Cards and then spent years making in-character Christmas videos (remember “Let me be Frank?”) added in his online statement, “I hate to make this about me — but the media already has.”

To be clear, there’s probably nothing in the Epstein files that would incriminate Spacey — or really...

In a late night vote at the Capitol on Monday, House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to unseal documents related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans have long stoked conspiracies about the disgraced financier’s death, voted against the resolution in the heat of a Maga civil war over the Trump administration’s backtracking on the release of the files.

The House Rules Committee voted down a bid by Democrats to attach an amendment to the Genius Act — a controversial piece of cryptocurrency legislation currently making...

Jon Stewart said on the Monday night episode of “The Daily Show” that Maga is in “open revolt” against Donald Trump over his failure to deliver the long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein files. The FBI and the Department of Justice issued a statement earlier this month saying the Epstein files do not exist despite Pam Bondi, Trump’s attorney general, declaring in February that she had been given Epstein’s client list from the FBI. Bondi said at the time that “Americans have a right to know” about the files.

“MAGAworld, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field,” Stewart noted about the rare Maga backlash against Trump.

“The Daily Show” host provided video evidence of how Trump misled his supporters, throwing to clips of Jd Vance, Kash Patel and Bondi all talking about the Epstein files.

“These are all people who work...

Multiple federal law enforcement officials who spoke to Rolling Stone on the condition of anonymity say that Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to follow, intimidate, and surveil FBI special agents investigating allegations that he paid underage women for sex. The FBI declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

These new allegations about the pressure exerted on the FBI come after internal divisions in Donald Trump’s administration exploded into public view last week over its handling of files and information pertaining to the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker. Reports...

Attorney General Pam Bondi — who has been purging the Justice Department of anyone tied to the Jan. 6 prosecutions as well as the prosecutions of President Donald Trump — fired the lawyer personally advising her and the department’s thousands of employees on ethics, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

Joseph Tirrell, who began his career in the Navy and spent almost two decades in the federal government, was fired Friday via a brief letter from Bondi, who gave no reason for the termination. The same day, Bondi fired 20 DOJ employees who were involved in prosecuting Trump.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social today to support Attorney General Pam Bondi while chastising his “so-called ‘friends’” in Maga for caring about Jeffrey Epstein, and making demands for her to release files related to Epstein, “a guy who never dies,” he wrote. The definitely dead mogul and convicted sex offender died while in prison in 2019.

“They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a Fantastic Job! We’re on one Team, Maga, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a Perfect Administration,...

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is reportedly considering resigning amid internal tensions within the Trump administration following the release of a controversial Department of Justice memo related to the Jeffrey Epstein case investigation.

Bongino, a former right-wing podcaster, frequently floated conspiracy theories about Epstein on his show. In 2022, he was banned by YouTube for spreading misinformation about Covid-19.

Bongino, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles were involved in a heated confrontation at the White House in a meeting earlier this week. The meeting centered on allegations that Bongino and Patel may have been behind a leak suggesting that the FBI wanted more information about the Epstein case to be made public, which the Justice Department refuted. While Bongino denied any involvement in the leak, he has not endorsed the DOJ’s public statement defending the review process.

The DOJ memo, released on Monday,...

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, is pushing for further investigation into his brother’s death, claiming that it was most likely a murder rather than a suicide.

Mark, 72, said that he “laughed at how stupid it was” that officials ruled out the possibility of his death being a murder.

“Every time they say something or do something to try to quash the fact that he was most likely murdered, they just put their foot further down their mouths,” Mark told NewsNation.

Jeffrey, who was a financier who formed a trafficking ring of young girls, was found dead in his prison cell in 2019, just before his trial. His death was ruled an apparent suicide after officials saw marks around his neck.

Mark began to question FBI Director Kash Patel’s credentials after he ruled the death a suicide. In the interview, he also questioned if Patel had a ” Boy Scout merit badge for first aid.

The butterfly effect of a disgraced financier and convicted sex offender’s death continues to be felt years later, as the highest levels of Donald Trump’s second administration are embroiled in a bitter feud over Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged “client list.”

“This fight is taking up way too much of my fucking time,” one senior administration official notes, referring to the bruised egos, clashes between senior-level personnel, frustrations from some of the president’s base, and intra-governmental allegations of leaking to the media.

The Department of Justice announced...

Megyn Kelly thinks it’s “too late” for President Donald Trump and his administration to try to pretend like people are going to accept the DOJ and FBI’s purported outcome when it comes to the Epstein files.

The journalist and podcast host discussed the case with Mark Halperin on Wednesday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” in an episode titled “Epstein is Dividing Maga.”

“Trump himself promised full transparency on the Jeffrey Epstein case when he was running for president. This has been a big issue on the Right, my friend Dan Bongino was one of the people who made it a big issue. So did Kash Patel, talking about it over and over and over again,” Kelly recapped. “It is just not real for Trump to pretend he’s shocked. This is still an issue. Nothing’s been resolved. Nothing’s been released. He promised transparency, as did his attorney general,...

Following conflicting reports from the Trump administration, the FBI and the Department of Justice regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s purported client list, “The View” host Sunny Hostin doesn’t expect the incident to erode voters’ trust. But that’s only because “that ship’s sailed.”

On Monday, ABC News revealed that, according to a memo they reviewed from the Department of Justice and the FBI, the organizations found no evidence of the long-rumored list. But, back in February, Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly said the list was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” as part of “a directive by President Trump.”

Then, in June, Trump’s former confidant Elon Musk claimed on social media that the president himself was on said list, and that’s why it had not been made public.

So, on Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” the first question of the day was...

Donald Trump hates leakers. He isn’t a fan of journalists, either. He wants to punish them both in response to reporting that early Pentagon intelligence found the administration’s recent strikes against Iran weren’t as effective as the president has been claiming.

“They should be prosecuted,” Trump said when Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business asked him about his contention that Democrats leaked the intelligence, adding that the administration could attempt to force reporters to reveal their sourcing by saying: “National Security.”

One of the ways Trump has discussed...

Donald Trump’s director of the FBI Kash Patel happened to be recording a podcast appearance when Elon Musk posted that the president is in the Epstein files. And while Patel opted out of commenting on the allegation, his avoidance made Seth Meyers laugh a lot on Monday night, considering Patel would be the most apt person to immediately debunk Musk’s assertion.

To kick off his “A Closer Look” segment, the NBC host made a point to highlight Musk’s accusations, saying, “I just want us all to hold space for the fact that the richest man in the world said the most powerful man in the world was suppressing evidence of his ties to the world’s most notorious child sex trafficker, both because it was massive news and because it is so funny.”

As the segment went on, Meyers marveled that not one but two members of...

The two most powerful men in the country are fighting like teenagers on Twitter, shocking exactly 49.8 percent of the country and literally no one else.

Less than a year after controversial Tesla CEO Elon Musk dubbed himself the “First Buddy” while on the re-election campaign trail with President Donald Trump, the two billionaires are trading barbs on social media following Musk’s departure from the Department of Government Efficiency and on the eve of Congress voting on Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Trump has threatened to terminate the many lucrative contracts that Musk’s companies have struck with the federal government, while Musk alleged in a since-deleted tweet that Trump’s name is all over the classified files the FBI has on the late pedophile and financier (and mutual friend to both feuders) Jeffrey Epstein.

The right-leaning media is now in a somber state of dismay over the two oligarchs’ personal differences,...

Insurrectionists beat cops with flag poles, crushed them with riot shields, tased them in the neck, and spat on them during the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But when President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he has no tolerance for “insurrectionists” who clash with police officers, he wasn’t talking about the 1,500 rioters he pardoned upon assuming office earlier this year; he was talking about people in Los Angeles, California, protesting his administration’s anti-immigration actions.

Speaking to reporters outside of the White House on Monday,...

Elon Musk, who has not been taking so much ketamine that he can’t pee right, had a meltdown about his former bromance partner Donald Trump on his website, X, this week.

Vice President J.D. Vance, caught up in the petty feud, has naturally taken Trump’s side, including when it comes to allegations about Trump’s ties to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

As he railed against Trump, Musk escalated his attacks: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real...

Don’t get fooled by the wholesome videos of Donald Trump babysitting Elon Musk’s son XÆA-Xii. Because in reality, the two leading socio-economic powers of the US are going head-to-head with each other. From Musk dropping scandalous tweets about Epstein’s files to Trump’s posts on Truth Social, the duo is having a nasty feud.

And guess what? Joe Rogan and Kash Patel just learned about this squabble following Elon Musk’s most recent social media post about Donald Trump being in the notorious Epstein’s files. Soon, the duo shared their unfiltered reaction to Musk’s post, before the Tesla CEO removed it from his account. Further, even netizens began pulling out receipts from Ghislaine Maxwell’s old interview.

Joe Rogan and Kash Patel react to Elon Musk’s post about Epstein’s files

Following the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, a larger tirade against Donald Trump and Republican leaders appeared online.

In a Bizarro World lawsuit against the federal government, Proud Boys who were pardoned by President Donald Trump for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are alleging “cruel and unusual” treatment and “politically motivated” prosecutions. They seek a minimum of $100 million in damages for alleged “violations of their constitutional rights.”

The suit is brought by former Proud Boys honcho Enrique Tarrio along with lieutenants Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Dominic Pezzola. The plaintiffs were all convicted of serious felonies — up to and including...

Joe Rogan and FBI Director Kash Patel were left gobstruck Thursday as Elon Musk offloaded on Donald Trump with claims the one-time playboy real estate developer is in the Jeffrey Epstein files and that’s why they haven’t been released.

“I’m not participating in any of that conversation,” proclaims a clearly shaken Patel, a person who has supposedly seen the files on the very well-connected pedophile billionaire who died mysteriously in police custody in 2019. Up to this point in the nearly two-hour conversation between Rogan and Trump ultra-loyalist Patel, there didn’t seem to be any topic he wouldn’t address.

Watch the nervous exchange here, and see below for the full interview:

“Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to say,” sputtered UFC commentator Rogan as his producer showed the duo the tweet from the SpaceX boss and frequent Joe Rogan Experience guest. Saying that someone should take Musk’s “phone away,...

As President Donald Trump and his administration continue their systematic attack on trans Americans, both activists and unaffiliated individuals are targeting the FBI’s latest attempt to prosecute doctors giving trans youth gender-affirming care. On Monday, the FBI asked for tips on doctors or hospitals “who mutilate under the guise of gender-affirming care,” which refers to surgical intervention for trans youth. But the “criminals” the Trump administration is hunting may not even exist — every major American health organization is firm that surgical intervention does not happen for children under 12, and...

Eight people were injured and some burned at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, authorities said on Sunday. A man was taken into custody in the attack at 13th and Pearl Street, a popular pedestrian mall downtown, police said. FBI agents are also investigating what the agency has described as a “targeted terror attack.” A male suspect, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is in custody at Boulder County jail.

All eight victims, ranging in age from 52 to 88, were transported to hospitals where they remain after the suspect threw “an incendiary device” into the crowd,...

Donald Trump reposted a baseless conspiracy theory claiming Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced with a robot clone.

The president shared a post from a user on Truth Social late Saturday that alleged: “There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. #Democrats don’t know the difference.”

Similar unfounded theories about Biden have been floating around the internet for years. An eight-hour Facebook video posted in 2021 claimed that “Biden is computer generated.” Others have more recently purported that Biden was replaced with artificial intelligence.

Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on Sept. 11 and later pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes, died on Thursday at the age of 69.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Kerik’s death “after a private battle with illness,” and praised Kerik as “a warrior, a patriot, and one of the most courageous public servants this country has ever known.”

“With over forty years of service in law enforcement and national security, he dedicated his life to protecting the American people. As the 40th Police Commissioner of New York City,...

Ken Dilanian will be part of the MSNBC team as the network prepares for its spinoff from Comcast, while Erielle Reshef will join as national correspondent and fill-in anchor.

MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler announced the latest staffing this morning.

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Dilanian has been NBC News justice and intelligence correspondent since 2023, primarily reporting on the Justice Department. He’s covered justice and national security issues for the past nine years, and has recently broken stories including one on the work habits of FBI director Kash Patel and another on the exodus of lawyers in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. Before joining NBC News, he covered the intelligence community for the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, and he previously worked at USA Today and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Reshef, who will be based in New York, has been national correspondent at ABC News since 2017. She...

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have shocked Maga conspiracy theorists with the recent verdict that the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in 2019.

On Sunday, Bongino and Patel sat down with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News and declared they had concluded that, contrary to hard-right extremists’ claims that Epstein was somehow killed inside New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, the pedophile had taken his own life.

A recent FBI release of new Epstein files was met with dismay by Maga influencers.

Bartiromo said to Bongino and Patel, “You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide… People don’t believe it.”

Patel acknowledged, “[Everyone has] a right to their opinion.”

He continued, “But as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who’s been in that prison system, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing – you know a suicide when you see one.

Michael Che has been hinting all season long that he’s leaving Saturday Night Live, and he sure spent the past year telling jokes like a guy trying to get fired. Here are 20 of Che’s Weekend Update punchlines that proved he didn’t care who he was offending. And fair warning — don’t try these out around the office water cooler…

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“Kamala Harris released an 81-page book outlining her economic policy. Because you know how women like to go on and on and on.”

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“It was announced that Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs’ sex-trafficking case has been assigned to a new judge, one that Diddy hopes is cool with rapes.”

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“According to internal documents from TikTok, the app’s algorithm demoted people it deemed not attractive enough. You know, like Colin does with interns.”

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“The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached a settlement in hundreds of child sex abuse cases,...

Former FBI Director James Comey is under investigation by the Secret Service after posting a picture of seashells spelling out “8647” on Instagram — which conservatives claim is a secret call for President Donald Trump’s assassination.

On Thursday, Comey posted an image to his social media of a “cool shell formation” he found during a walk on the beach. The first half of the shell formation spelled out “86,” ostensibly a reference to common hospitality slang. The second half, “47,” was seemingly a reference to Trump, the 47th president.

To “86” something is an...

Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi recently claimed that FBI Director Kash Patel spends more time at parties than working as the current head of the FBI.

During an episode of MSNBC’s Morning Joe with host Jonathan Lemire, Fligliuzzi said that Patel has been seen at nightclubs more than at the FBI headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover building. “There are reports that daily briefings to him have been changing from every day to maybe twice weekly.”

Patel was recently mocked online for his appearance in military fatigues in a social media video.

Fligliuzzi served as the FBI’s assistant director for counterintelligence and as a special agent for 25 years. Now, he is a columnist and contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. According to Fligliuzzi, his sources revealed that the FBI is in chaos due to Patel’s behavior, and that his absence is a “blessing” and a “curse” due...

Forget those rumors about Colin Jost and Michael Che leaving Saturday Night Live at season’s end. If they keep it up with these censor-shattering punchlines, they might not make it to next week’s season finale.

Here are 10 Weekend Update jokes that come so close to crossing the line that somebody might be looking for a new job…

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Jost: The Vatican has selected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who is from the South Side of Chicago, to be the new Pope. You can tell he’s from the South Side because he’s got his hands up.

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Che: President Trump says he will appoint Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro celebrated the news with a bottle of wine every day for the last 50 years.

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Jost: When I heard the Pope was a super-religious guy from Chicago in a funny robe, I was worried it was Kanye.

FBI Director Kash Patel left senators dumbfounded during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing today, practically scoffing at the idea that he has to deliver a budget request in a timely manner, while throwing up his hands about any responsibility the FBI might have in holding Donald Trump’s administration to account for denying due process to immigrants.

The hearing focused on the FBI’s budget, although Patel didn’t seem very interested in cooperating with Congress — which is tasked with appropriating the agency’s funding. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was...

John Mulaney says that one of the biggest bummers of the current Trump administration is that everyone with a conscience now has to care about what wide-eyed Kash Patel is going to do to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an organization so lame that they monogram their own windbreakers.

On tonight’s episode of Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, the superstar stand-up comedian and bizarro late-night host ranted about the rollout of Real ID restrictions on air travel and entering government buildings. However, to caveat the comical destruction of a federal government program when the Trump administration is destroying actually helpful initiatives, Mulaney opened the show with a monologue about how it sucks that we have to worry about the government sucking too much instead of having a patriotic disdain of our most important public institutions.

But, as far as importance goes, Mulaney is a doubter of the FBI...

The hacker who snagged a bevy of the Walt Disney Company’s confidential information last year and tried to blackmail a House of Mouse staffer has made a deal with the Department of Justice.

In an agreement released today by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Central District of California, Ryan Mitchell Kramer (a.k.a. NullBulge) has agreed to enter a guilty plea over his mid-2024 attack on Disney’s systems. Hit with one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer. Kramer is looking at up to a decade in a federal prison, a.k.a. a maximum of five years on each count.

“We are pleased that this individual has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges,” Disney said today after the DOJ made the deal with Santa Clarita-based Kramer public.

The FBI has arrested a judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they have accused of obstructing the arrest of an undocumented migrant.

According to a now-deleted X post, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote that the FBI has arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan “after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.”

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” Patel wrote, adding that Flores Ruiz had been arrested.

It took time, but President Donald Trump finally gave Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania, a call after his reported arson attack. Just four days ago, Good Morning America reported that he hadn’t yet picked up the phone to check on him. However, that changed over the weekend.

The Call Came Days After Arson Attack

Josh Shapiro’s arson attack happened in Harrisburg, and then the Democrat waited about a week for the president to call him up. Interestingly, when the call came, it was via cell phone and the governor didn’t recognise it. So, he didn’t take it straight away. According to NBC Philadelphia, Josh called the number back and they had an amicable discussion.

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The response to the call with Donald Trump came via a press conference on Tuesday. In it, Shapiro said, “I appreciated that...

In 2020, Dan’s wife lost a pregnancy. When Dan, a 41-year-old from Minnesota, told his parents about the loss, his mother said that the Covid vaccine was responsible for the miscarriage (though multiple studies found that it did not increase risk). In the months leading up to that, she had posted memes featuring slogans like Save the Children and Where We Go One We Go All. But when she blamed vaccination for the loss, it was the last straw. He started searching online for a way to combat his mother’s conspiratorial thinking.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) acknowledged during a leadership summit in Anchorage this week that “we are all afraid” three months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office. Murkowski has been a fairly outspoken critic of Trump in a Republican Party that publicly worships him.

An audience member asked Murkowski what she would say to people who are feeling afraid or to the lawmakers who represent them.

“We are all afraid,” the Republican told the audience of 500 nonprofit leaders. She paused, then added: “It’s quite a statement. But...

Colin Jost and Michael Che had a lot of news to dig into from the week, but nothing elicited a greater reaction from the audience than the latter’s dig at Will Smith’s first album in two decades.

“Will Smith has released his first new album in 20 years, and ironically the album doesn’t slap,” he said on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update, first eliciting jeers, which then gave way to strong cheers.

Elsewhere during the segment, the anchors took turns dragging President Donald Trump’s administration, having fun with the news of the Signal group chat that leaked sensitive war plans in Yemen to a journalist at The Atlantic.

“Well, this week we learned our entire national security team has the texting skills of my aunt Janet,” Jost began. He continued with multiple jabs at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has long faced allegations of alcohol abuse,...

“We live in the stupidest possible version of human history,” said Nish Kumar to a roaring packed Largo at the Coronet in LA last week, perfectly summing up 2025 so far.

Cited as one of the 50 best comedians of the 21st century by the UK’s The Guardian and the subject of a recent New York Times profile that raised his American profile considerably, After Midnight alum Kumar’s relentless shiving and mocking of pompous and populist politicians was on full display on March 20 in those back-to-back shows at the iconic venue on La Cienega Blvd. From Donald Trump and Maga authoritarianism, UK right winger Nigel Farage (“if gout was a guy”) and race riots, and how horrible Kash Patel and Rishi Sunak are, Kumar raged against the moronic and self-declared messiahs. There was also material on his mother’s obsession with Princess Diana, woke scolding, the return of Nazis to public life,...

It's difficult to know how to feel about the potential release of Joel Souza's "Rust." This is the independently produced Western that became a major news story in 2021 when a .45 Colt revolver brandished by star Alec Baldwin -- who continues to claim he did not pull the trigger, hence the bizarre wording here -- fired a live round directly through the chest of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and into Souza's shoulder. The set's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was ultimately found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her negligence in loading the weapon. Meanwhile, involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dismissed with prejudice by New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer.

Principal photography on "Rust" was eventually completed in 2023. This delay caused cast members Brady Noon and Jensen Ackles to drop out of the movie, but Souza and company dragged the film across the finish line and screened it at the Camerimage film...

Top intelligence officials and Republicans are trying and failing to downplay the revelation that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and others discussed secret plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen in an unsecured Signal chat group that featured Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, because someone on it accidentally invited him. Meanwhile, the internet is reveling in the fallout as if it were petty online high school drama.

Derek Guy, an internet personality known for his fashion commentary, appeared to set off one meme trend on...

“Deliberations should be conducted through classified channels,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Tuesday. He was speaking during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee that took place just a day after The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeff Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a group chat in which senior Trump administration officials discussed and shared plans to bomb Yemen.

On Monday, Goldberg’s bombshell report detailed how he had been added to a Signal group chat titled “Houthi PC small group.” In it, Trump Cabinet members and officials including Ratcliffe,...

A Justice Department official believes she was fired from her job due to refusing to restore the gun rights to controversial actor Mel Gibson. Elizabeth G. Oyer is a US Justice Department pardon attorney appointed by Joe Biden in 2022. However, the role is not political, as her job is to supervise matters of clemency and recommendations for presidential pardons. She was working on a new project to restore gun ownership rights to individuals convicted of crimes and misdemeanors. The 95-person list was narrowed down to nine. One name not on that list was actor Mel Gibson.

Oyer told The New York Times she was fired from her position on Friday, Mar. 7, 2025, due to her denying a request to put Mel Gibson on the list of people to have their firearm rights restored. Oyer said that her memo was sent back to her with and told her,"'We would like you...

On Saturday night, actor and Donald Trump Hollywood “ambassador” Mel Gibson sat next to FBI Director Kash Patel at a UFC event in Las Vegas. The pair fist bumped and posed together for photographs. Just a day before the encounter, a Justice Department pardon attorney was summarily fired after refusing to restore Gibson’s gun rights, which the actor lost in 2011 after being convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

According to a Tuesday report from The New York Times, Elizabeth G. Oyer was dismissed without explanation on Friday alongside several other high-ranking DOJ officials.

Last week, the White House took a stab at transparency by distributing binders of files related to the late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to a number of prominent far-right influencers. The idea was that these people would comb through the material — what U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had labeled “Epstein Files: Phase 1” — and share their findings with their millions of followers, demonstrating the Trump administration’s commitment to freely sharing information with the American public.

The move backfired completely. What Bondi had teased on Fox News...

The U.S. Department of Justice finally declassified the files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

The late convicted sex offender and sex trafficker, who was in jail at the time of his passing in 2019, had a contact book with a detailed list of celebrity names – and this has officially been released.

More on this story, below.

Celebrities In Epstein’s Little Black Book Revealed

The public has been anxiously anticipating the release of Epstein’s little black book. More than 200 documents linked to the Epstein case were released by the Department of Justice, and some of the celebrities included in Epstein’s contact book were, Minnie Driver, Naomi Campbel, Alec Baldwin, and Mick Jagger.

As of this writing, none have been accused of involvement in the crimes related to Epstein’s charges. Being included in the documents might not necessarily indicate guilt but does represent a list of individuals whom Epstein had contact information on.

The Justice Department of the U.S. has released a document relating to the notorious s*x predator Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday evening, February 26th. The list includes a contact list and flight logs. The 200-page document has made no big revelations, but it has mentioned all the celebrities and politicians who were on the contact list of the offender. Attorney General Pam Bondi has claimed that the FBI office in New York will investigate the document further for it to be disclosed to the public.

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Jeffrey Epstein had been charged with s*x offences against several underage girls in his homes and private islands. He had several acquaintances among whom some big Hollywood names are involved. The document containing the names of the contact list has revealed all the names related to the offences to the public.

Who are there on Jeffrey Epstein’s contact list?...