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Trump and Epstein: What the Released Files Show and What They Don't
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Trump and Epstein: What the Released Files Show and What They Don't

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the Senator, and the Seat Nobody Was Supposed to Fight Over: Minnesota's Governor Primary Explodes Tonight
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the Senator, and the Seat Nobody Was Supposed to Fight Over: Minnesota's Governor Primary Explodes Tonight

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Messi and Ronaldo — One Last World Cup, Two Different Endings
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Messi and Ronaldo — One Last World Cup, Two Different Endings

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Iran War Escalates: Nine Nights of Strikes and a Region on Edge
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Iran War Escalates: Nine Nights of Strikes and a Region on Edge

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How the Files That Were Supposed to Expose Everyone Have Become a Tool to Hide the Truth
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How the Files That Were Supposed to Expose Everyone Have Become a Tool to Hide the Truth

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How Argentina Stole a Quarterfinal Spot and Sparked Outcry Across Africa and the Middle East
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How Argentina Stole a Quarterfinal Spot and Sparked Outcry Across Africa and the Middle East

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the Senator, and the Seat Nobody Was Supposed to Fight Over: Minnesota's Governor Primary Explodes Tonight
American Politics

the Senator, and the Seat Nobody Was Supposed to Fight Over: Minnesota's Governor Primary Explodes Tonight

Minnesota votes Tuesday in a governor's primary that was never supposed to be interesting — and has instead become one of the strangest political brawls in the country, pitting the MyPillow founder and America's most famous election denier against his own state Republican Party, while a longtime U.S. senator quietly steamrolls the other side of the ballot toward a nomination that was hers the moment she wanted it. Polls close at 8 p.m., and by the time they do, the GOP will have answered a question that has split the party in half: does Donald Trump's endorsement still override everything, or has it finally hit a wall in a blue-leaning state that Republicans haven't won at the top of the ticket in decades?

Editorial Staff · August 10, 2026

Messi and Ronaldo — One Last World Cup, Two Different Endings
Opinion

Messi and Ronaldo — One Last World Cup, Two Different Endings

For twenty years, football's two defining icons walked parallel paths, forever compared, forever linked, yet never once facing each other on a World Cup pitch. This summer, at the 2026 tournament hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, that streak looked like it might finally break. Instead, the World Cup gave Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo something more fitting of their two decades of rivalry: separate, deeply personal endings, each written in a different key.

Editorial Staff · July 21, 2026

Iran War Escalates: Nine Nights of Strikes and a Region on Edge
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Iran War Escalates: Nine Nights of Strikes and a Region on Edge

What began as a lightning campaign in February has spiraled, five months later, into one of the most volatile and unpredictable conflicts the Middle East has seen in years. The renewed war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has entered its ninth consecutive night of American airstrikes, and instead of winding down, the fighting is spreading — pulling in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the vital shipping lanes of the Strait of Hormuz.

Editorial Staff · July 21, 2026

How the Files That Were Supposed to Expose Everyone Have Become a Tool to Hide the Truth
Epstein Files

How the Files That Were Supposed to Expose Everyone Have Become a Tool to Hide the Truth

Trump promised during the 2024 campaign to release the Epstein files as proof that the government was run by corrupt elites hiding the truth—but now that he controls the Justice Department, he's systematically withholding the most damaging documents, refusing to unredact names of people who discussed underage girls with Epstein, defying court orders to release information, and using legal arguments to delay and obstruct, while the media has largely moved on to other stories, allowing him to bury the files without the same scrutiny he faced over other cover-ups.

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How Argentina Stole a Quarterfinal Spot and Sparked Outcry Across Africa and the Middle East
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How Argentina Stole a Quarterfinal Spot and Sparked Outcry Across Africa and the Middle East

Argentina came back from 2-0 down to beat Egypt 3-2 in a round of 16 thriller that Egypt's coach claims was decided by cheating—a disallowed goal that VAR reversed on a phantom foul, a missed penalty for Egypt that should have been called, and a general pattern of officiating that Egypt believes favored the defending world champions, sparking outrage across the Arab world, calls for FIFA investigation, and conspiracy theories that the tournament is rigged to keep superstars like Messi in contention.

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How Jeffrey Epstein Built a Network to Recruit and Exploit Victims
Epstein Files

How Jeffrey Epstein Built a Network to Recruit and Exploit Victims

Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of dozens, likely hundreds, of underage girls and young women over more than two decades was not the work of a lone predator acting on impulse. Court records, FBI files, victim testimony, and years of investigative reporting — most notably the Miami Herald's 2018 "Perversion of Justice" series by reporter Julie K. Brown — describe a deliberate, self-sustaining system for finding, grooming, and exploiting victims. Understanding how that system operated helps explain both the scale of the abuse and why it went largely unpunished for so long.

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How the Files That Were Supposed to Expose Everyone Have Become a Tool to Hide the Truth
Epstein Files

How the Files That Were Supposed to Expose Everyone Have Become a Tool to Hide the Truth

Trump promised during the 2024 campaign to release the Epstein files as proof that the government was run by corrupt elites hiding the truth—but now that he controls the Justice Department, he's systematically withholding the most damaging documents, refusing to unredact names of people who discussed underage girls with Epstein, defying court orders to release information, and using legal arguments to delay and obstruct, while the media has largely moved on to other stories, allowing him to bury the files without the same scrutiny he faced over other cover-ups.

Editorial Staff · July 8, 2026

How Jeffrey Epstein Built a Network to Recruit and Exploit Victims
Epstein Files

How Jeffrey Epstein Built a Network to Recruit and Exploit Victims

Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of dozens, likely hundreds, of underage girls and young women over more than two decades was not the work of a lone predator acting on impulse. Court records, FBI files, victim testimony, and years of investigative reporting — most notably the Miami Herald's 2018 "Perversion of Justice" series by reporter Julie K. Brown — describe a deliberate, self-sustaining system for finding, grooming, and exploiting victims. Understanding how that system operated helps explain both the scale of the abuse and why it went largely unpunished for so long.

Editorial Staff · July 6, 2026

What the Files Actually Show and What Remains Hidden Behind Redactions
Epstein Files

What the Files Actually Show and What Remains Hidden Behind Redactions

When the Justice Department released millions of pages of Epstein files this year, it included FBI summaries of interviews with a woman who allegedly told investigators that she was forced to perform oral sex on Trump when she was 13 or 14 years old in the 1980s, claims she says she fought back against and that led to Trump allegedly hitting her—allegations that remain unverified, uncorroborated, and disputed by Trump, but which the FBI apparently deemed credible enough to conduct four separate interviews, while simultaneously at least 53 pages of interview notes and related documents have mysteriously gone missing or remain heavily redacted by the Justice Department.

Editorial Staff · July 3, 2026

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Why the USMCA Rejection Matters More Than You Think
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Why the USMCA Rejection Matters More Than You Think

On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced it will not renew the USMCA trade deal that Trump himself negotiated and signed during his first term in 2018, transforming a supposedly historic trade triumph into a decade of annual negotiations and uncertainty with America's two largest trading partners—a stunning reversal for a president who once called it "the best agreement we've ever made" but now claims it failed to accomplish its goals of controlling trade deficits.

Editorial Staff · July 2, 2026

How a President Turned Digital Tokens Into $1.4 Billion While Leading the Country
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How a President Turned Digital Tokens Into $1.4 Billion While Leading the Country

In a 927-page financial disclosure filed Tuesday, President Trump revealed he earned between $1.2 and $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in 2025—nearly tripling his net worth in a single year while simultaneously dismantling the regulatory framework that used to oversee crypto companies and championing new legislation that benefits the industry he's now heavily invested in, creating what appears to be a textbook conflict of interest that Democrats are calling for investigations into.

Editorial Staff · July 2, 2026

'I'm Gonna Do Whatever I Can': Trump Pivots to Ukraine at the G7 as Allies Test a New Playbook
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'I'm Gonna Do Whatever I Can': Trump Pivots to Ukraine at the G7 as Allies Test a New Playbook

With a tentative end to the Iran war finally in sight, President Donald Trump arrived at the Group of Seven summit in the French spa town of Evian-les-Bains this week and turned his attention to the conflict that has bedeviled three American presidents: Russia's war on Ukraine. The president met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, pronounced their conversation "very good," and pledged to do "whatever I can" to bring the fighting to a close. But beneath the warm words lay a more revealing story—one about European leaders quietly experimenting with a new way of handling a famously transactional American president.

Editorial Staff · June 18, 2026

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