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Trump Draws Backlash After Sharing Video With Racist Depiction of Obama, Reviving 2020 Election Claims
President Donald Trump ignited a wave of condemnation this week after sharing a video on Truth Social that recycled false claims about the 2020 election and briefly depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys-imagery widely condemned as racist and dehumanizing. 
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Epstein Death Reexamined: Official Rulings Stand as Jail Failures Fuel Persistent Doubt
The death of Jeffrey Epstein inside a federal jail in 2019 continues to provoke public skepticism, despite repeated official findings that he died by suicide. Epstein, 66, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, a moment that has since become one of the most scrutinized custodial deaths in modern U.S. history. 
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Federal Watchdog Faults ICE Over Menstrual Care as Women Report Bleeding Through Clothes
A federal watchdog found that some women and transgender people held in U.S. immigration detention were given as few as 12 pads per month, forcing detainees to improvise with toilet paper, rags and mattress filling to manage menstruation. The findings, released by the Government Accountability Office, raise questions about health, dignity and oversight inside facilities run or contracted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
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Trump Unveils TrumpRx Cash-Price Drug Portal, Promising Discounts on 40 Medications Without Insurance
President Donald Trump on Feb. 5 unveiled TrumpRx.gov, a new federal-backed website aimed at lowering prescription drug costs by steering consumers toward discounted cash prices rather than insurance-based coverage. The initiative, announced at the White House, positions itself as a rapid-response alternative to broader health-care reform, promising immediate savings on roughly 40 commonly prescribed medications. 
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Epstein Medical Emails Reveal Testosterone Tests and 2012 Pitch for “Enlarger Pills” in DOJ File Release
Newly released Justice Department records tied to the late Jeffrey Epstein offer an unusually granular view of his private medical concerns, including emails discussing hormone levels, sexually transmitted infections and a 2012 pitch offering "max p---- enlarger pills." The materials are part of a sweeping disclosure under a federal transparency law that opened millions of pages of documents while withholding categories meant to protect victims and exclude illegal content. 
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Trump Says He ‘Still Likes’ Bill Clinton as Epstein Depositions Set for Feb. 26–27
President Donald Trump said he "still likes" Bill Clinton as congressional investigators prepare to depose both Clintons over their ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The remarks, delivered in an interview with NBC News, come days before the House Oversight Committee's scheduled sessions with Hillary Clinton on Feb. 26, 2026, and Bill Clinton on Feb. 27, 2026. 
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FBI Epstein Brief Flags 11 Prominent Names, Including Trump, Ex Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton
A newly scrutinized FBI presentation compiled during the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein has reignited public attention by listing 11 “prominent” individuals whose names surfaced during investigative work, according to reporting reviewed by The New York Times. The document, a working slide deck summarizing allegations and leads, includes references to Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and William Barr, among others, underscoring the gap between being named in investigative material and being charged with wrongdoing. The presentation, never intended as a public-facing verdict, aggregates tips, interviews and unverified claims gathered by agents. The Times reported that inclusion reflects the scope of inquiry rather than conclusions, a distinction that has proven difficult to maintain as excerpts circulate online stripped of context. For Prince Andrew, the reemergence of documents has revived a familiar pattern of renewed scrutiny without new courtroom findings. ITV News reported that many of the claims referenced in the files remain unverified. In January 2022, Buckingham Palace announced that Andrew’s military affiliations and royal patronages were returned to Queen Elizabeth II and that he would no longer use “His Royal Highness” in an official capacity. Andrew has repeatedly denied wrongdoing related to Epstein. Trump responded forcefully to the renewed attention. Writing on Truth Social, he said: “Not only wasn’t I friendly with Jeffrey Epstein but, based upon information that has just been released by the Department of Justice, Epstein and a sleazebag lying ‘author’ named Michael Wolff, conspired in order to damage me and/or my presidency.” He added: “Additionally, unlike so many people that like to ‘talk’ trash, I never went to the infested Epstein island but, almost all of these crooked Democrats, and their donors, did.” The political reaction has unfolded alongside the release of a vast archive. U.S. Department of Justice disclosed roughly three million records tied to Epstein’s investigations, according to Anadolu Agency. Trump’s name appears more than 3,000 times across the materials, a figure that draws attention but offers no inherent explanation, as names can appear as contacts, references, witness threads or uncorroborated allegations. The FBI presentation itself, as described by The New York Times, is emblematic of how investigative work operates: incomplete, iterative and built to guide next steps rather than adjudicate guilt. The paper noted that there is no automatic leap from appearance in such material to formal suspicion or prosecution. What has unsettled observers is the speed with which a bureaucratic artifact has become a cultural proxy for judgment. The slide deck compresses years of inquiry into a digestible list, inviting readers to infer meaning where none is supplied. Legal experts caution that this dynamic risks converting transparency into spectacle. 
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Pandemic Bonds and Epstein Links Fuel Online COVID Plot Claims, but Evidence Falls Short
Claims linking COVID-19 to a coordinated plot involving Bill Gates and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein have surged again across social platforms, driven by viral posts pointing to pandemic insurance products, pre-outbreak simulations and fragments of historical correspondence. While several of the financial tools cited are real, experts say the leap from documented planning to deliberate orchestration is unsupported by evidence. -
House Speaker Mike Johnson Rebukes Pope Leo XIV on Immigration, Says ‘Borders and Walls Are Biblical’
Mike Johnson has thrust the Bible into the center of the U.S. immigration debate, publicly disputing comments by Pope Leo XIV and arguing that strong national borders are not only lawful but consistent with Christian teaching, a claim that has intensified divisions between religious leaders and policymakers. 
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Bill Gates Says He Regrets ‘Every Minute’ With Epstein as DOJ Files Renew Scrutiny of Elite Ties
Bill Gates said he regrets "every minute" he spent with Jeffrey Epstein, delivering his most forceful public repudiation yet as a massive new release of federal records revived scrutiny of the late financier's ties to powerful figures and ignited fresh political backlash. 
