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Barack and Michelle Obama, among others, not in attendance at Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral

Barack and Michelle Obama skipped the funeral of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney. On Thursday, hundreds of dignitaries filled the pews of Washington National Cathedral to say goodbye to the former VP, who died on Nov. 3 at age 84 — but a few notable names were missing from the crowd. According to People, the Obamas opted to skip the service for reasons that remain unclear. And they weren’t the only absentees. Former President Bill Clinton was also absent […]

todayNovember 21, 2025

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Beliefs clash among students, parents and teachers as the Ten Commandments go up in Texas classrooms

When it became clear to high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn’t ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job she loved. “I just was not going to be a part of forcing or imposing religious doctrine onto my students,” she said. Texas is undertaking the nation’s largest attempt to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools, and in the rush to navigate […]

todayNovember 20, 2025

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Trump says Democrats’ video message to military is ‘seditious behavior’ punishable by death

President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders.” The 90-second video was first posted early Tuesday from Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s X account. In it, the six lawmakers — Slotkin, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan — speak directly to U.S. […]

todayNovember 20, 2025

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US Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida indicted on charges of stealing $5M in disaster funds

U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through […]

todayNovember 20, 2025

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Black MAGA influencer who went viral for rebuking Obama as a kid, is now working to convert Black voters to Trump

CJ Pearson went viral in 2015 when he posted a YouTube video rebuking then-President Barack Obama for his White House invitation to a Muslim student falsely arrested and accused of bringing a bomb to school. Pearson took issue with Obama inviting 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed to the White House after the false arrest over a clock he assembled as a science project. “Mr. President…what are your priorities, because in all honesty, I think you’re being ignorant. I think you’re incompetent, and I […]

todayNovember 20, 2025

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Trump says he and Mamdani will meet Friday in Washington, setting up clash of political opposites

President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who for months have antagonized each other from afar. The sit-down, which Trump said on social media would take place Friday in the Oval Office, could possibly represent a detente of sorts between the Republican president and Democratic rising star, as Trump has since Mamdani’s win moved toward acceptance of Mamdani’s central, […]

todayNovember 20, 2025

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Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts. Trump could have chosen to release many of the files on his own months ago. “Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories,” Trump said in a social media post […]

todayNovember 19, 2025

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‘I can’t answer that’: Epstein survivor struggles to answer if Trump knew of ‘arrangement’ at Mar-a-Lago

As the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation await President Donald Trump‘s consequential signature of a bill passed by Congress to compel the full release of FBI files related to his years-long sex crimes, some are speaking out. One of those survivors, Sharlene Rochard, shared that when Epstein was abusing her as a teenager, she would often attend parties at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. “There were a lot of model parties at the Mar-a-Lago. […]

todayNovember 19, 2025

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Del. Stacey Plaskett fires back at Republicans over failed bill to censure her for texts with Epstein

A Republican-led resolution to remove U.S. Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett from the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence failed on Tuesday. Plaskett, a longtime non-voting member of the U.S. House representing the U.S. Virgin Islands, was accused, without evidence, of engaging in an “inappropriate coordination” with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 hearing investigating the alleged misconduct of President Donald Trump. A Washington Post report linked Plaskett to the timestamps of text messages between Epstein and an […]

todayNovember 19, 2025