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Democrats to continue Epstein files investigations next year
The House Oversight Committee recently released a 137-page report detailing how Epstein, who died in custody awaiting trial in 2019, and his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell evaded justice for decades “due to a wide array of governmental, institutional, and individual failures.”
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Duffy attributes FAA ground stop to possible contractor error, faulty equipment
"What we're working to determine was whether we had incompetence, meaning was it user error, installer error from L3Harris, or did they install a faulty router?" he said.
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Taxpayers own $31 billion in F-35 parts but Pentagon can’t account for them all
The watchdog found the Department of War does not maintain complete records of the parts, which sit at more than 700 contractor and government facilities around the world.
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S. Korea president declares martial law, Parliament rejects declaration, authorities, citizens clash
President Yoon Suk Yeol made the announcement in a late-night TV address
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Trump says 'all hell to pay' if Hamas doesn't release hostages before he takes office
The terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and killed at least 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 250 people.
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Trump says will block Japanese firm's acquisition of U.S. Steel: 'Buyer Beware'
The acquisition was first announced in December of 2023.
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Trump border czar Tom Homan open to meeting Eric Adams to discuss NYC's illegal migrant population
Adams expressed hope last month that the Trump administration would do more to help him battle the sudden surge of illegal immigrants and rising crime rates from those migrants, than what the Biden administration has done.
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Ninth Circuit rules in favor of federal deportation
At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals.
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Senate quietly promotes general in charge of 82nd Airborne during Afghanistan withdrawal
Donahue, who was a Lt. General at the time, is considered the last person to leave Afghanistan during the disastrous withdrawal in the summer of 2021.
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Special counsel rejects allegations that Hunter Biden's prosecution was politically motivated
Weiss' office argued on Monday that multiple judges have already determined that the prosecution was not vindictive, as Hunter Biden previously argued in court filings.
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Squad member urges Biden to use presidential pardon power on thousands of imprisoned Americans
“In the remaining days of his presidency, I have called on President Biden to use his clemency power to change the lives of families across this nation — families who are disproportionately Black and brown, with loved ones behind the wall, suffering from injustices of the legal system," Pressley said in a statement.
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Delaware judge rejects Elon Musk's bid to reinstate his $56 billion pay package
Musk's legal team argued that McCormick should reverse her earlier decision because Tesla had conducted a shareholder vote to “ratify” the 2018 pay plan at the company's annual shareholder meeting in June.
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House Democrat suggests making it illegal for presidents to pardon family members
Connolly, who currently sits on the House Oversight committee, said he understood the president's decision as a parent, but that presidents should not be allowed to pardon their own family members.