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GOP Official Snatches Thomas Massie's Mic In the Midst of Comments at Kentucky Event

Feb 7th, 2026, 3:48 pm Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) had a microphone snatched right out of his hand Friday night as he spoke at the Oldham County, KY, Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner. Massie was in the midst of saying, “If you are a congressman, you work not for the Speaker of the House, I work for you!” pointing to the audience, when event emcee and state House Speaker David Osborne (R) decided he’d heard enough. Osborne grabbed the mic away as someone yelled, “Welcome to the snake pit ...

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Laura Loomer Accuses Tim Scott of 'Trying to Sabotage' Trump

Published Feb 07, 2026 at 04:32 PM EST updated Feb 07, 2026 at 04:54 PM EST Far-right political activist Laura Loomer hit out at Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, over his comments he made in response to controversial video that was posted, then deleted from President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on Friday. "I showed this tweet posted by Tim Scott to President Trump last night. 14 million views on a lie because [Scott] wants to cost the GOP the midterms & smear Presi ...

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Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors' Announcement Dated Before His Death

Updated Feb. 8 2026 2:42AM EST Published Feb. 8 2026 12:38AM EST Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. The draft appears among at least 23 documents in the disclosure labeled as statements from the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. A review of the records shows multiple versions of similar statements with inconsistent redactions—some leaving phone numbers o ...

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US agency investigating if ABC's 'The View' violated equal time rules for political candidates

12h WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission is opening an investigation into whether ABC's "The View" daytime talk show violated equal time rules for interviews with political candidates after an appearance by a Democratic Texas Senate candidate this week, a source told Reuters on Saturday. The Republican-led FCC said last month that daytime and late-night TV talk shows are no longer considered "bona fide" news programs that are exempt from equa ...

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Bondi scrambles to explain what Trump meant when he blamed her for Gabbard's role in FBI's Georgia raid

Saturday 07 February 2026 16:26 EST Attorney General Pam Bondi has struggled to explain the confusion over why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was sent to an FBI raid in Georgia last month. Questions have continued to swirl around why the National Intelligence boss was at the scene at all in Fulton County on January 28, where agents seized ballots and voting information from the 2020 election. Bondi failed to clarify the situation at a Friday briefing after Trump said that Ga ...

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'Mysteriously disappeared': DOJ Epstein prosecution memo vanishes after press inquiry

February 7, 2026 2:27PM ET An 86-page Justice Department prosecution memo that included details on “potential co-conspirators” of Jeffrey Epstein “mysteriously disappeared” from the DOJ’s website after the agency was asked about the document by the Miami Herald, investigative reporter Julie Brown revealed Saturday. “Contrary to what the FBI and DOJ have said over the past year, it turns out there really is an FBI list of other people suspected of possible wrongdoing in connection with Jeffrey ...

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Kushner, Witkoff visited USS Abraham Lincoln carrier amid tension with Iran

Updated Feb 7, 2026, 1:28 PM ET PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2026, 11:26 AM ET President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner, visited the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier on Saturday morning after completing talks with Iran on Friday. Kushner and Witkoff were invited to visit the carrier, which is part of the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, by the commander of US Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, a senior US official told CNN. The intention of the tr ...

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Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

Will Lewis, the embattled chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, has stepped down, the company announced Saturday. Mr. Lewis said in a statement that he had made the difficult decision "in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post." Mr. Lewis stepped down days after the company undertook a significant round of layoffs that cut 30 percent of the staff -- more than 300 journalists -- setting off widespread recrimination from current and former Post employees. Ma ...

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Congressional Black Caucus Chair Says Trump's Post On The Obamas Shows A 'Bigoted And Racist Regime'

Feb 7, 2026, 11:15 AM EST WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump’s social media account, the White House has offered shifting responses. First it dismissed “fake outrage,” then it deleted the post and blamed a staff member. Trump later told reporters Friday that “I didn’t make a mistake.” The Republican president insisted that before the video was posted, no one saw the part that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle O ...

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Netanyahu to hold urgent meeting with Trump Wednesday amid Iran negotiations

2h Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has moved up his visit to Washington and is expected to meet with President Trump on Wednesday to discuss the negotiations with Iran, the prime minister's office said in a statement. Why it matters: The announcement of the urgent visit comes a day after Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held negotiations in Oman with Iran's foreign minister over a potential nuclear deal. Trump said the U.S. and Iran had "very good talks" ...

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Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt

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'We All Deserve the Truth': Epstein Survivors Release New PSA Demanding Answers from Trump DOJ

3 min ago - Feb 8th, 2026, 2:47 pm The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein are making it clear that they’re not moving on from the sex trafficking scandal — despite President Donald Trump saying last week that he’d like Americans to “get on to some ... (MEDIAite)

Democrats will stop Trump from trying to nationalize midterms, Jeffries says

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Newsom Mocks Trump With 'Bad Bunny Day' Declaration for Super Bowl Sunday

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Democratic Sen. Schiff says Trump intends to 'subvert' 2026 midterm elections

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Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison

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GOP leaders fret as Trump sits out the party's nastiest primary battles -- with Senate control on the line

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FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn't running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show

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Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota

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Mandelson-Starmer latest: Morgan McSweeney resigns as PM's chief of staff over US ambassador scandal

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UBS banked Ghislaine Maxwell for years, moving her money after Epstein's arrest

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'We will pay,' Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother

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Tulsi Gabbard responds to senator's criticism over handling of whistleblower complaint

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Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors' Announcement Dated Before His Death

9 hrs ago - Updated Feb. 8 2026 2:42AM EST Published Feb. 8 2026 12:38AM EST Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. The draft appears among at least ... (Daily Beast)

Jon Ossoff Tells Marjorie Taylor Greene 'Welcome to the Resistance'

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