Trump is now seeming to question the effectiveness of COVID vaccines — demanding in a social post that drug companies "justify the success" of the vaccines that likely have saved millions of lives.
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Trump is now seeming to question the effectiveness of COVID vaccines — demanding in a social post that drug companies "justify the success" of the vaccines that likely have saved millions of lives.
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
Rudy Giuliani has been injured in a car accident in New Hampshire. Giuliani's vehicle was struck from behind at "high speed" on Saturday. He "was diagnosed with a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg."
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "The Trump administration has not contacted me at all whatsoever. Nobody in my administration. They're just looking to invade the city of Chicago, not coordinate with law enforcement … not coordinating with the state of Illinois, the Governor or the Mayor of the city."
NEW on MSNBC: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa plans to announce that she will not run for re-election next year.
Leader Schumer is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "By keeping Robert Kennedy in charge of HHS, Trump is doubling down on his own failure. President Trump must admit his mistake and remove Kennedy now."
Breaking on MSNBC: Trump just revoked Secret Service protection for Vice President Kamala Harris. VPs typically only get six months of protection after leaving office, but President Biden signed a memorandum extending Harris' protection to 18 months.
Save the date: A judge just scheduled a hearing for this Friday in the Lisa Cook case. 10am ET.
Sen. Jon Ossoff on the CDC: "[P]utting a quack like Bobby Kennedy in charge of public health was a grave error. The Trump Administration has been engaged for months in a campaign to destroy the CDC." "The Administration's extremism and incompetence are putting lives at risk."
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Susan Collins was heckled and drowned out by demonstrators at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Maine. "Shame! Shame! Shame!" protesters yelled at Collins. Collins asked the crowd to let her "get through this brief ceremony" — but then she was interrupted again.
He adds: "I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us."
From Dr. Demetre Daskalakis' letter resigning from the CDC: "It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC."
BREAKING: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has just sued Trump over his attempt to fire her from office.
Sen. Patty Murray is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." "I hope my Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK Jr. will join me."
NEW: After reports surfaced that she had been fired, lawyers for CDC Director Susan Monarez say she "has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign."
Quinnipiac poll: 67% of voters disapprove of the way the Trump admin is handling the Epstein files. 19% approve. 73% think the Justice Department is not being transparent in the way it's handling the Epstein investigation.
Minneapolis Police Chief: All of the remaining victims are expected to survive.
Minneapolis Mayor Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating out of a place of love for our kids."
Quinnipiac poll: 56% of voters oppose Trump's decision to send National Guard troops to D.C. 41% support it. 61% of Independents oppose the effort.
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DOGE put the personal data of millions of Americans — including Social Security numbers — on a vulnerable server in June, according to a new whistleblower complaint. The report alleges that the actions of DOGE staffers "constitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority."
Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children — ages 8 and 10 — have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota governor says a shooting has occurred at a school, calls it a 'horrific act of violence.'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he wants to seek asylum in the United States.
Breaking NYT: Federal prosecutors were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against the man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
BREAKING: Democrat Catelin Drey has pulled off a victory in a special election for the Iowa Senate, flipping a Republican-held seat and breaking the GOP's supermajority in the chamber for the first time in three years. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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NEW: A federal appeals court has ruled mail-in ballots that Pennsylvania voters submit without proper dates on the return envelope may *not* be discarded. The ruling, if it stands, would likely boost Democrats in future elections.
More than 180 FEMA employees have sent a letter to members of Congress and other officials, arguing that the agency's direction and current leaders' inexperience harm FEMA's mission and could result in a disaster on the level of Hurricane Katrina. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Breaking on MSNBC: An attorney for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says they're planning to sue Trump after he threatened to fire her — alleging he "has no authority" to do so.
Lawyers for Jack Smith have struck back for the first time against the accusations conservatives have leveled against him, denouncing an ethics complaint from Tom Cotton as "imaginary and unfounded." "Mr. Smith followed well-established legal principles." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Reuters: US JUDGE DISMISSES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAWSUIT AGAINST MARYLAND FEDERAL JUDGES OVER IMMIGRATION ORDER
The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Epstein estate for documents and communications — including the birthday book Ghislaine Maxwell compiled. The Committee will meet with Alex Acosta, the ex-Trump Labor Secretary who orchestrated Epstein's 2008 plea deal, for a transcribed interview.
Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve Board of Governors: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
Sen. Warren on Trump's attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook: "The illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook is the latest example of a desperate President searching for a scapegoat ... It's an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and must be overturned in court."
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."
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Breaking: U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has temporarily blocked Kilmar Abrego García's deportation to Uganda until she can hold a hearing to examine whether the Trump admin will give him an opportunity to contest his removal to that country.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to NBC News: "The [National] Guard is not needed." "This is not the role of our military. The brave men and women who signed up to serve our country did not sign up to occupy American cities."
National Guard troops have started carrying firearms in Washington D.C.
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
House Oversight's Robert Garcia says the "overwhelming majority" of the 33,000 pages of Epstein materials received from DOJ was previously-disclosed information. "DOJ's limited disclosure raises more questions than answers and makes clear that the White House is not interested in justice."
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A posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall. "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" is scheduled for release Oct. 21.
Sen. Adam Schiff to NBC: "This is clearly retribution. I mean, the idea that, what, they just picked John Bolton, a prominent critic of the president, at random? … Anyone who says anything adverse to the president's interests gets the full weight of the federal government brought down on them."
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
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Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
Trump has purchased at least $103 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds since he took office again, according to new filings from the Office of Government Ethics. Trump made about 690 purchases from Jan. 21 through Aug. 1. The active trading by a president of the U.S. is unprecedented.
Brittany Henderson, an attorney for numerous Epstein victims and survivors: "Ghislaine Maxwell was federally indicted on two perjury counts … I can't imagine that her testimony will be given much weight by anyone with any knowledge whatsoever of her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein."
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial: "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct … strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
Reminder: Trump's DOJ transferred Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison AFTER these interviews.
BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee says it just received the first tranche of Epstein files from the Justice Department.
BREAKING: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from a Tennessee jail so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial.
BREAKING: The transcripts and audio of DOJ's interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell have just been released. www.justice.gov/maxwell-inte...
NBC News confirms: Pete Hegseth has authorized the approximately 2,000 National Guard troops in D.C. to be armed. @msnbc.com
Trump on the Epstein files: "You got a lot of people that could be mentioned that are in those files that don't deserve to be, because he knew everybody in Palm Beach. I don't know anything about that."
FLAG: Trump says he might declare a national emergency to keep National Guard troops in D.C. "If I have a national emergency, I can keep the troops there as long as I want."
Reuters poll: 57% of Americans fear that American democracy is in danger — including 4 in 10 Republicans.
BREAKING NYT: The FBI confirmed agents early Friday were searching the Maryland home of John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser. Bolton is now a frequent critic of the president. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz — handing environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians a win.
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed the California legislative package advancing its redistricting plan.
BREAKING: California Democrats just passed a legislative package advancing a redistricting plan aimed at winning the party up to five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the legislation tonight.
Breaking: WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Federal judge holds that former Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as US attorney in New Jersey.
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BREAKING: The California Assembly just passed the first of three bills aimed at drawing new congressional maps — a Democratic-led effort to counteract Texas Republicans' gerrymandered map.
New York AG Letitia James plans to appeal the court decision throwing out the $500 million fraud judgment against Trump. "We will seek appeal to the Court of Appeals and continue to protect the rights and interests of New Yorkers."
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Trump just said on a radio show that he's "going out tonight with the police and with the military" in D.C.
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York appeals court has thrown out President Donald Trump's massive civil fraud penalty.
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Elon Musk has been ordered by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing Musk of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.
Trump just called, once again, for an end to mail-in voting. He makes clear why he wants it ended: "100 additional seats will go to Republicans!!!"
Breaking NYT: A close adviser to NYC Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his re-election campaign after giving a journalist cash tucked inside a potato chip bag. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...
BREAKING: Trump's DOJ is demanding hospitals turn over sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents, communication with drug manufacturers and data such as patient dates of birth, Social Security numbers and addresses.
Texas House Republicans just passed the gerrymandered congressional map that Trump demanded. Every Democrat present voted against the map. Every Republican voted for the map.
DOJ's motion "appears to be a 'diversion' from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government's possession."
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman just called out the Trump DOJ and denied its request to unseal grand jury materials in the Epstein case. "The government's 100,000 pages of Epstein files and materials dwarf the 70 odd pages of Epstein grand jury materials."
Today, Texas House Democratic Leader Rep. Gene Wu will introduce an amendment to Republicans' congressional gerrymandering bill that would block the redistricting scheme until the complete release of the Epstein files.
Breaking WaPo: According to newly unredacted court docs, Jeanine Pirro, then a Fox host, told the RNC chair in a Sept. 2020 text that she was determined to aid Trump and the GOP — despite the network prohibiting on-air personalities from political involvement. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Garcia condemns DOJ's piecemeal release of the Epstein files, saying it "just continues this White House cover-up." "Handpicked, partial productions are wholly insufficient and potentially misleading, especially after AG Bondi bragged about having the entirety of the Epstein files on her desk."
UPDATE: House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is calling for Chairman Comer to "release the full, unedited transcript" of ex-Trump AG Bill Barr's closed-door deposition on the Epstein case because, according to Garcia, "Barr could not clear President Trump of wrongdoing."
Elise Stefanik struggled to speak over boos at an event in her home district. Cries included: "You sold us out!", "Shame!", and "Unseal the Epstein files!" She left the podium after speaking for less than a minute and was booed again when she returned. www.thedailybeast.com/elise-stefan...
Donald Trump says "there's a warmth there" between him and Putin. Trump says he didn't call Putin in front of European leaders because he thought that would be "disrespectful to President Putin."
BREAKING NYT: Trump paused his meeting with European leaders and Zelenskyy this afternoon to call Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has since confirmed the call. It lasted for 40 minutes. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
The Justice Department will miss the House Oversight Committee's deadline for the Epstein files it subpoenaed. DOJ will "begin" providing records on Friday. The deadline was Tuesday. No indication of what DOJ will "begin" handing over and no explanation for the missed deadline.
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Republican Gov. Phil Scott has "politely declined" a federal request to deploy Vermont National Guard soldiers to D.C. "The governor just does not support utilizing the guard for this purpose, and does not view the enforcement of domestic law as a proper use of the National Guard."
BREAKING: Trump makes clear why he is attacking mail-in voting. Trump: "If you have mail in voting, you're not going to have many Democrats get elected."
Trump says that when he goes to vote, he's asked for his license plate.
Trump: "I don't think you need a ceasefire" in Ukraine. Trump is aligning himself with Putin on this point.
Trump says he's helped end a bunch of wars but can't name any of them.
BREAKING: DENVER (AP) - Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.
Reuters: DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SCHIFF WANTS FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION TO DISCLOSE IF TRUMP SOUGHT MEDIA OR COVERAGE COMMITMENTS DURING PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE MERGER REVIEW, LETTER SAYS
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Democrats say they're ending two-week walkout that stalled gerrymandered US House maps and returning to Capitol.