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The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President Donald Trump. The new batch comes as the DOJ is being criticized for heavily redacting many of the files and not releasing all of them by the deadline set by Congress.
President Trump said on social media that U.S. forces staged a Christmas night attack on ISIS forces in Nigeria.
Trump told NBC News in a phone interview yesterday that he is leaving the possibility of a war with Venezuela on the table.
But this week, the documents released by Trump’s own Justice Department—including flight logs and emails—told a different story. Federal prosecutors determined in January 2020 that Trump had been a passenger on the notorious private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein—who would later be charged with sex trafficking—far more often than they had realized.
(CNN) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, who he has accused of persecuting Christians in the country.
In Miami, voters chose Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins over Trump-endorsed Emilio González in a runoff election for mayor, NBC News projects.
The updated travel ban will bar students from Nigeria coming to the US, America's eighth largest sending country.
The deadline for the Justice Department to release a massive trove of investigative documents related to Jeffrey Epstein is upcoming. Follow for live updates.
Donald Trump said Stephen Colbert should be "put to sleep" in a pre-Christmas late-night tirade and another call for broadcast license terminations.
Donald Trump’s bizarre and rambling televised speech yesterday has at least one Democratic strategist feeling hopeful about the future. On CNN, commentator Van Jones said that Trump’s speech made him “not afraid of” Trump anymore.
The massive size of the Epstein files — perhaps more than a million pages — has created problems for the Justice Department.