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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. […]

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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 […]

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Former President Obama Has Spoken with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Who Remains in the Hospital – BlackPressUSA

By April Ryan Several sources have confirmed that former President Barack Obama phoned Reverend Jesse Jackson over the weekend, who is in Stable Condition at a Chicago Hospital. President Obama is said to have been coordinating with the family for several days before the 44th president reached the civil rights icon. There have been family connections spanning decades between the Jackson family and the Obamas. In 2008, Jesse Jackson Jr. served as the national co-chair of the Obama Presidential campaign. […]

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Black Caucus members call out Trump after Congress votes to release Epstein files

The U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to release the FBI files related to sex trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. As the Epstein Files Transparency Act makes its way to President Donald Trump‘s desk for signature, Democrats are pointing at the Trump administration, which they say is slow walking transparency amid heightened attention on Trump’s relationship with Epstein. “Let’s not forget: The Department of Justice is already compelled to release the Epstein files to the Oversight […]

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Nicki Minaj visits United Nations to thank Trump after president’s misleading claims about Nigeria

Nicki Minaj quickly accepted the Trump administration’s offer earlier this month to visit the United Nations, appearing at the U.S. Ambassador’s headquarters in New York City on Tuesday. Minaj met with UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, who called the Queens rapper “arguably the greatest female recording artist.” The meeting came after Minaj publicly praised President Donald Trump‘s misleading remarks about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Delivering brief remarks at the UN, Minaj told reporters she wanted to put a “spotlight […]

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Trump administration to further dismantle Education Department, move Civil Rights office: ‘Cruelty is the point’

The Trump administration is reportedly taking further steps to achieve its goal of dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, including the extraordinary measure of relocating critical department offices and their work to other federal agencies. The moves would effectively leave the Education Department, first created in 1979, unequipped and obsolete. According to CNN, the White House will soon announce that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, the Office of Indian Education, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the […]

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Epstein Files Battle Explodes as Redactions Shield Trump and Other Powerful Figures – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent The fight over the Epstein files reached a boiling point today as Congress moves to force their release, but the real story has already unfolded behind closed doors. The documents were scrubbed long before lawmakers ever approached the floor. What should have been a moment of transparency has become a demonstration of how political power shields itself while the public is told to wait. “Once the House passes the bill to […]

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Federal judges block Texas’ new US House map in 2026 midterms, citing racial discrimination

Texas cannot use a new congressional map drawn by Republicans in hopes of securing the party additional U.S. House seats, a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday. The ruling was a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to have GOP lawmakers in multiple states redraw their maps to help the party preserve its slim House majority in the potentially difficult 2026 midterm elections. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role […]

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Trump administration says SNAP recipients will have to reapply for benefits, prove ‘they can’t survive without it’

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the Trump administration will soon require millions of SNAP recipients to reapply for their benefits, citing an effort to eliminate fraud and abuse from the federal food assistance program. Rollins told Newsmax that the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s efforts to collect data on SNAP enrollees from states will allow the agency to “fundamentally rebuild this program.” As part of that mission, the USDA will “have everyone reapply for their benefit” and “make sure […]

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