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2+ min ago (238+ words) As President Donald Trump continues to be plagued by his past ties with Jeffrey Epstein, a new poll has found that a plurality of Republican voters now believe that Trump was aware of the disgraced financier's crimes before they were made public, CNN reported Saturday. Commissioned by Reuters and the market research firm Ipsos Group, the new poll asked 4,434 voters between Dec. 3 and Dec. 8 whether they believed Trump had advanced knowledge of Epstein's crimes prior to the disgraced financier's first criminal conviction in 2008 for child prostitution. In total, 60% of respondents said it was unlikely that Trump wasn't aware of Epstein's crimes before they were made public, compared to 18% that said they believed Trump was unaware. While the margin wasn't as dramatic for Republican voters, more Republicans indicated that they believed Trump was aware of Epstein's crimes than didn't. "Even among…...

5+ min ago (191+ words) Donald Trump on Saturday was forced to issue a correction for his own public statement after the president falsely reported information about an active shooter. An active shooter was reported on this weekend at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and news outlets suggested there are multiple victims. CNN also reported the news, publishing an article called, "No suspect in custody after reports of a shooting at Brown University, officials say." CNN and MS NOW both reported that no suspect was in custody, despite there being an initial report of an arrest, but Trump posted outdated information on his Truth Social account. "I have been briefed on the shooting that took place at Brown University in Rhode Island. The FBI is on the scene. The suspect is in custody. God bless the victims and the families of the victims!" the…...

15+ min ago (172+ words) Donald Trump on Saturday contradicted news reports with his first statement on a tragic active shooting incident at Brown University. An active shooter was reported on this weekend at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and news outlets suggested there are multiple victims. CNN also reported the news, publishing an article called, "No suspect in custody after reports of a shooting at Brown University, officials say." The outlet reported that, although an initial school report suggested a suspect was in custody, that was no longer being reported. MS NOW had a similar report. For Trump's part, he claimed there is a suspect in custody, although it's not clear if the president has more updated information. "I have been briefed on the shooting that took place at Brown University in Rhode Island. The FBI is on the scene. The suspect is…...

25+ min ago (420+ words) MS NOW's Ari Melber played a clip Saturday of Steve Bannon confronting Jeffrey Epstein on tape over his sexual "depravity," allegedly in an attempt to rehabilitate Epstein's reputation. "Here, Bannon is aware of how much trouble Epstein is in and how much criticism there is of his past conduct, and he wants to help him," Melber said. Epstein took a plea deal on state charges in Florida in 2008 to avoid a looming federal indictment for sex trafficking. He served just 13 months. Melber showed a 2019 email exchange in which Epstein wrote, "The Christians I met with feel, the media portraying me as beyond redemption is deeply troubling and offensive." Bannon wrote back, "we must counter "rapist who traffics in female children to be raped by the world's most powerful, richest men' " that can't be redeemed. Can't redeem unredeemable " you are a…...

39+ min ago (837+ words) An active shooter was reported on Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and news outlets suggest there are multiple victims. Noteworthy News flagged the news on social media, writing, "BREAKING: Active shooter at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; multiple victims reported." The outlet added, "Several paramedics, ambulances seen staging as they wait to treat victims." CNN also reported the news, publishing an article called, "No suspect in custody after reports of a shooting at Brown University, officials say." "Police are still searching for a suspect as an active shooter situation develops on Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island, according to an emergency alert from the university," CNN reported. "A previous alert from the university said police had a suspect in custody." ALSO READ: The key to Trump's rampant corruption is on open display Donald Trump is…...

50+ min ago (192+ words) Europe's Big Plan to Loan Moscow's Frozen Cash to Ukraine Posted by REDIAL at 05:31 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | NATO chief Rutte: "Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured." [image or embed] #1 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-12-12 12:26 PM | Reply #2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-12 01:02 PM | Reply Is Putin's demented orange bitch going to try to veto this? Of course he is. He will just declare Ukraine to be a terrorist drug smuggler. #3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-12 01:10 PM | Reply They should just give it to them with no expectation of repayment. #4 | Posted by qcp at 2025-12-12 02:49 PM | Reply Europe was slow to respond to Hitler and up to this announcement I think they've been way to slow to respond to Putin and his buddy Trump. #5 | Posted by…...

52+ min ago (272+ words) Donald Trump is "manifesting signs of old age" and it is putting MAGA in a tough spot, according to a former GOP insider. Kurt Bardella, a former staffer for Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, spoke to The Guardian for an article called, "Trump attacks old foe Biden " but presidential parallels hard to avoid." On the economy, Bardella said, "It's hard not to see the parallels both in terms of their age and how that manifests itself and certainly the condition of the economy." "Trump has been cast in this role that Joe Biden had to play out and seemingly trying to use the same script, which is to convince people that you're not feeling what you're really feeling," he said. "It's an unenviable political challenge." The article goes on to say, "The health of US presidents…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (1798+ words) President Donald Trump's Truth Social rants may be unhinged, but they have serious consequences: His violent rhetoric has spurred threats against nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle. According to a new tally by NBC News, Trump's posts over the last few weeks have led to threats on a number of Democrats'but even more Republicans, including over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers, who the president was attempting to bully into voting for his gerrymandering scheme. Meanwhile, Abigail Jackson, a spokesperson for the White House, said that Trump hasn't done anything wrong. "As the survivor of two assassination attempts'and recently watching his dear friend Charlie be assassinated'no one understands the dangers of political violence more than President Trump," Jackson said in a statement to NBC. "But President Trump, and the entire Administration, will not hesitate to speak…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (464+ words) President Donald Trump'found a new way to get the internet to flip out on Saturday " by doing the ceremonial coin flip before the Army-Navy football game. But there was just one problem with it " the coin did not appear to rotate at all. It was, as Outkick's Clay Travis pointed out on X, an "unprecedented coin toss that doesn't appear to flip at all." " Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 13, 2025 The president, while standing at midfield at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, grabbed the coin from the ref, made an amused face for a moment, and asked "are you all set?" He then took the coin in his gloved right hand and lobbed it up in the air " almost like he was tossing an alley-oop to an NBA star like Anthony Edwards " with the coin appearing to go straight up,…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (1820+ words) President Donald Trump raged against ISIS and said the U.S. would retaliate after an attack in Syria on Saturday, possibly laying the groundwork for more American military involvement in another country in the Middle East. Earlier in the day, a lone gunman shot and killed two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter while they were conducting counterterrorism operations in Palmyra, a city in the central part of the country, various outlets reported. The shooter was killed, and three other members of the U.S. military and two Syrians were injured. U.S. Central Command called the attack the "result of an ambush by a lone ISIS gunman," though no group has claimed responsibility for the attack as of yet. More details are still emerging, but Trump took to Truth Social to declare there would be a response. "This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and…...