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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Justice Department makes bombshell Epstein announcement
Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down the Trump team's shameless attempt to wriggle out of having to release ALL the Epstein files, in violation of the law that Trump himself signed.

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DOJ releases documents weeks after Trump signed bill
The Justice Department has begun to publish documents from the Epstein files in its possession regarding the life, death and criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Friday morning, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche indicated in an interview with Fox News "several hundreds of thousands" of pages would be released on Friday, with more to follow. The release of the Epstein files is the latest development in a political saga that has dogged President Trump's second term in office and caused bipartisan backlash against Trump's conflicting and shifting commentary on the subject.

Pete Hegseth is committing murder with the full force of the US military. He needs to face the music
Win Without War: U.S. forces have killed more than 100 people in dozens of strikes targeting boats across the Caribbean and Pacific. Absent authorization from Congress, the Trump administration’s bombing campaign is illegal even if these WERE drug traffickers as they allege. The truth is that we don’t know who was on those boats because the Trump administration refuses to open up their extrajudicial execution campaign to oversight. We do know, though, that Pete Hegseth was recently implicated in a second strike that killed two helpless survivors as they clung to a wreck, which is murder no matter how you slice it. We deserve to know the truth about these strikes, and Hegseth needs to be held accountable for these disturbing allegations. Add your name to tell your Congressmember to call Pete Hegseth to testify under oath before Congress!

A Reddit post helped find MIT and Brown shooting suspect
A Reddit post by an observant witness helped lead investigators to the gunman officials say was responsible for the killing of two students during the shooting at Brown University on Saturday and for the fatal shooting of an MIT physics professor two days later. That's according to an affidavit from the Providence Police Department. Brown students Ella Cook, 19, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed and nine were injured in the attack on Saturday at the school. MIT physics professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, about 50 miles away from the site of the mass shooting in Providence, on Monday. Earlier this week, law enforcement tracked Valente to a Salem, New Hampshire, storage unit where he was discovered dead. "While we'll never be able to prosecute this individual, I hope this result begins to provide some small measure of closure for the victims and their families," said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha.

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik drops out of New York governor's race
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik said Friday that she is ending her campaign for New York governor and will not run for re-election to her House seat next year. In a lengthy post to X, Stefanik, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, wrote that she had "not come to this decision lightly for our family." "As we have seen in past elections, while we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted Republican primary, especially in a challenging state like New York. And while many know me as Congresswoman, my most important title is Mom," Stefanik said. Stefanik's surprise decision comes just days after she drew her first major challenger in the Republican primary in Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County county executive and another Trump ally. The party's eventual nominee will face an uphill climb in the solidly blue state, though Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul's approval rating has been under water.

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Epstein files vindicate a survivor who reported him in the 1990s, but others are still seeking answers
The Justice Department’s partial release of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday marked a moment of triumph for Epstein survivor Maria Farmer and her sister Annie, who have said for years that Maria had filed one of the first complaints against Epstein in the 1990s. An FBI document released Friday included a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against Epstein related to child pornography. While the name of the complainant is redacted in the document, Maria Farmer’s lawyer, Jennifer Freeman, confirmed on CNN that the complaint was in fact made by her client. The “facts of complaint” part of the document says that the woman — who describes herself as a professional artist — had taken photos of her underage sisters for her own personal artwork. “Epstein stole the photos and negatives and is believed to have sold the pictures to potential buyers,” the document reads. “Epstein at one time requested (redacted) to take pictures of young girls at swimming pools.” It continued: “Epstein is now threatening (redacted) that if she tells anyone about the photos he will burn her house down.” Hours after the DOJ’s partial release of the Epstein files, it was not clear whether Farmer’s triumph would end up being an exception in the broader world of Epstein survivors.

US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
The Trump administration has indicated that it will fund a $1.6m study on hepatitis B vaccination of newborns in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau, where nearly one in five adults live with the virus – a move that researchers call “highly unethical” and “extremely risky”. The news follows an official change in recommendations on hepatitis B vaccines at birth from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which called the shots an “individual” decision, despite decades of safe and effective vaccination and no evidence of harm. It is part of sweeping changes to childhood immunizations by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, which have global repercussions – including cutting funding for programs that bring vaccines to countries around the world. “He has a fixed, immutable belief that vaccines cause harm,” said Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “He will do everything he can to try and prove that.” The actions taken this year by Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, have “a global impact”, said Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita at the University of Arizona and a founding member of the grassroots group Defend Public Health. “It is spreading like an infection all its own throughout the globe.”

Shop small business and shop anti-Trump this holiday season!
Minocqua Marketplace: It’s both holiday shopping season and boycott corporate authoritarian sycophants season, and what better way to celebrate than by shopping at the Minocqua Marketplace, a Wisconsin-based “collective” of ONLY Blue-owned anti-Trump small businesses. They have a wide variety of interesting stuff ranging from regular gifts and household items to clever protest merch and things like “Woke Coffee” and “Gulf of MEXICO Mexican Lager.” It’s the perfect way to shop and feel good about it AND they donate a portion of proceeds to Wisconsin anti-Trump organizations! Click here to check out their online store!

Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes
The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned Thursday until the new year with no solution on expiring health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, meaning insurance premiums for about 22 million Americans will rise next month. But despite opposition from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., some lawmakers in both parties hope there’s still a path to act in 2026. And if that fails, Democrats say they’re determined to wield the issue to impose maximum political pain on Republicans in next year’s midterm elections.