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6+ min ago (462+ words) The Supreme Court was in business on Monday, musing over the question: Can Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, fire any federal employee he wants to? Not with a gun on Fifth Avenue by Seal Team Six, silly, they have already established that would be perfectly fine. But YER FIRED them, as in on his former reality gameshow. The case in point is about Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, member of the Federal Trade Commission. Federal law, and seemingly the contract in effect when Slaughter accepted the job, says that in order to fire her, Trump has to have some reason. But Trump says he doesn't need to give no stinking reason to fire her or anybody else. And if the Court agrees with him here, things could get real wild! Last year, Trump was also making noises…...

6+ min ago (295+ words) A federal judge slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for "misleading" both victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the American public in what some critics have called a ploy of distraction. New York District Judge Paul Engelmayer approved Tuesday the Justice Department's request to unseal the court records of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking victims for Epstein. In his ruling, however, Engelmayer torched the DOJ's request as an act of deception. "DOJ, although paying lip service to Maxwell's and Epstein's victims, has not treated them with the solicitude they deserve," Engelmayer wrote, The Independent reported Tuesday. "The motion itself misled victims " and the public at large " in holding out the Maxwell grand jury materials as essential to the goal of "transparency to the American public,' when in fact the grand jury materials would not add…...

8+ min ago (1784+ words) A federal judge opened the floodgates Tuesday, allowing the Justice Department to publicly release investigative materials related to a sex trafficking case brought against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate and girlfriend of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Engelmayer is now the second judge to allow the DOJ to release previously secret Epstein documents, after a judge in Florida approved the release of transcripts from an abandoned federal grand jury investigation into the New York financier roughly two decades ago. In a statement issued prior to Engelmayer's ruling, Maxwell's attorneys claimed that the release of the documents "would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial." "I think they're weak," Trump said of European politicians. "But I also think that they want to be so politically correct," adding, "I think they don't know what…...

8+ min ago (1801+ words) I think they're weak," Trump said of European politicians. But I also think that they want to be so politically correct," adding, I think they don't know what to do. Europe doesn't know what to do." NATO calls me "Daddy," Trump said when asked about European elections. I have a lot to say about it." The president claimed that he had a new draft of a peace plan that some Ukrainian officials received favorably, but that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had not read it yet. Meanwhile, Zelenskiy met with the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany Monday and stressed that Ukraine would not give up territory in any peace deal. Trump said that regarding Ukraine, European leaders talk, but they don't produce, and the war just keeps going on and on." He also made a jab at Zelenskiy, urging…...

8+ min ago (261+ words) President Donald Trump insisted that the U.S. Supreme Court should revoke birthright citizenship because he said it was "meant for the babies of slaves." During an interview with Politico this week, correspondent Dasha Burns asked Trump about the upcoming Supreme Court case. "If the court sides with you and ends birthright citizenship, are you going to try to take away citizenship from people who already had it?" she wondered. "I honestly haven't thought of that, but I will tell you this. The case is very interesting because that case was meant for the babies of slaves," Trump argued. "And if you look at the dates on the case, it was exactly having to do with the Civil War and all of a sudden their whole family becomes, you know, United States citizens." "That case is all about slaves, the babies of…...

15+ min ago (291+ words) A new column by The Atlantic's David Graham highlights a jaw-dropping moment from Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino's recent Fox News interview, in which he effectively admitted that his past MAGA media claims " including the false allegation that the government planted the Jan. 6 pipe bombs " were paid-for opinions rather than fact-based assertions. Speaking to Sean Hannity, Bongino said he once "was paid" for my opinions," but now must rely on evidence in his FBI role, a confession Graham calls "astonishing" and emblematic of right-wing media figures who openly acknowledge pushing baseless narratives. Graham warns that Bongino's casual admission on Fox News raises serious questions about his credibility, especially if he returns to his former role as a pundit.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag. roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms Top FBI official admits past MAGA claims…...

19+ min ago (483+ words) Several Trump officials made unsubstantiated claims that the app encouraged or led to violent outcomes. The developer of an iPhone app that allows users to report and track immigration enforcement operations across the U.S. is suing several Trump administration officials, alleging that they unfairly characterized his app's intent, leading to it being unduly removed from the Apple Store. According to the lawsuit, Aaron created the app in early 2025 to allow "members of the public to report publicly observable locations of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents." By April, the app was available on the Apple App Store, and by October, it had been downloaded more than 1 million times. Around that time, however, Apple removed the app from the store, a decision that Aaron alleges came after public pressure from those officials, who falsely claimed that Aaron had sinister intent and…...

22+ min ago (191+ words) U.S. job openings barely changed in October over the previous month as employers grappled with economic uncertainty. The Labor Department released its report a month late due to the 43-day government shutdown that showed that employers posted 7.67 million openings in October, slightly up from 7.66 million in September, reported Reuters. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) also showed that layoffs rose and the number of people quitting their jobs, which is seen as a sign of confidence in the labor market, dropped in October. Jobs openings have dropped steadily since a record peak of 12.1 million in March 2022, following the Covid-19 lockdowns, but the job market has slowed down due to high interests rates set by the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023 to offset high inflation. The Labor Department will issue job numbers for hiring and unemployment for November next Tuesday, 11 days…...

24+ min ago (622+ words) I remember the first time a source humiliated me in public. I was walking down a busy hallway at police headquarters in Spokane, Washington, when the chief stormed out of the executive offices and, at the top of his lungs, told me that my newspaper was a piece of excrement, that I was a crappy reporter and that everybody in the department thought I was a joke." Back then, that sort of rude behavior was rare, but not unheard of. These days, with a president of the United States who revels in public mockery, it's a common occupational hazard for journalists, particularly women." Sooner or later, most journalists face a moment like this, when someone in power makes them the story. Away from the heat of the moment, it's easy to declare that the best response is to do nothing,…...

25+ min ago (329+ words) In his new role, Kozack will oversee ad sales, brand sponsorships and revenue partnerships for AMG's linear networks, sports, streaming, digital, social and branded content TelevisaUnivision's John Kozack will join Allen Media Group in January as its chief revenue officer of advertising sales." Kozack will be based in New York and report directly to AMG founder, chairman and CEO Byron Allen. Kozack spent 22 years at TelevisionUnivision and served as executive vice president of multimedia sales, where he oversaw a team of nationwide sales leaders responsible for client and agency partnerships, as well as advertising revenue for the company's portfolio of linear networks, sports, streaming, digital, social, and branded content. Prior to TelevisaUnivision, he served as an account executive at Fox Cable Sports. He also was a vice president/group supervisor with the ad agency The Media Edge, where he was…...