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Wednesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said if the Democrats win the majority in the midterm elections, he will be “leading investigations” on alleged corruption related to President Donald Trump. Host Nicolle Wallace said, “Are you optimistic as you’re sort of out there talking to voters about all the damage he’s doing in real time, much more quickly than the first term?” Goldman said, “Am I optimistic about what?” Wallace continued, “Are optimistic about optimistic about the Democratic Party’s ability to sort of hold him accountable? I mean, he’s got two and a half more years in…

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that the newspaper favored diversity goals over merit in promotion decisions The New York Times has been sued by a US government agency over allegations that its diversity policies led to discrimination against a white male employee in a newsroom promotion decision.The lawsuit, filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, centers on the appointment of a deputy real estate editor in 2025. The agency alleges that the newspaper violated federal law by passing over the employee because of his race and sex.According to the…

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said President Donald Trump was destroying the Department of Justice, which “undermines the entire democratic fabric of our society.” Goldman said, “There’s no basis for this investigation. And he is simply abusing the power of his office to get retribution against someone who wrote something unflattering. And it’s just more and more of the same politicized, weaponized stuff that Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel are doing that is devastating and destroying the Department of Justice.” He continued, “Kash Patel has completely abused the law, his power, and is misusing the…

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has caught global media attention and triggered a lot of COVID trauma. The Dutch-flagged passenger ship the MV Hondius was cleared on Wednesday to dock in the Canary Islands, after three passengers were evacuated at Cape Verde.Seven people aboard the MV Hondius have fallen ill with hantavirus since the vessel left Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1: three people have died, one is critically ill, and at least three others have symptoms, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Those evacuated at Cape Verde will be taken to the Netherlands…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pressured Iran to stop blocking the Strait of Hormuz during Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s visit to Beijing on Wednesday, a week before President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing for talks with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. The meeting between Wang and Aragchi was mostly supportive, with much praise for the bilateral ties between the two tyrannies, but Wang was firm on the need for normal traffic to resume through the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible.” To that end, Wang called for a “complete” conclusion to the war in Iran, including an…

A suicide note allegedly written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released on Wednesday by a federal judge after being sealed for years. In the alleged note, Epstein suggests his innocence without proclaiming it while vowing to “say goodbye” on his own terms. “They investigated me for month — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins before claiming that the charges go back 15 years. “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” the note continues. “Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!! NO FUN.” The note concludes with the words “NOT WORTH IT!!!”…

“Operation Trust Me Bro failed,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said, after the US president suspended efforts to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz Iran’s top negotiator has mocked US President Donald Trump after he abruptly suspended American efforts to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, adding that Washington was again spreading falsehoods about ongoing talks.In a post on X on Wednesday, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ridiculed Trump with a sarcastic one-liner: “Operation Trust Me Bro failed. Now back to routine with Operation Fauxios.”Ghalibaf’s comments came after Trump paused ‘Project Freedom’, an operation aimed at clearing a…

A federal judge has sentenced two Ohio brothers who posed as Middle Eastern royalty in a series of multimillion-dollar fraud schemes to more than twenty years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent sentenced Zubair and Muzzammil Al Zubair, ages 42 and 31, to 24 years and 23 years in prison respectively, as well as $21 million in restitution, in schemes that also involved an East Cleveland official in the mayor’s office. “You stole a lot of money, defrauded people and put East Cleveland in a terrible light,” Nugent told the brothers during their Tuesday sentencing. “You basically flaunted…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that while there were an elevated number of antisemitic incidents in 2025 relative to recent years, there was a decline from 2024 to 2025 and part of that was due to “a two-thirds drop on college campuses year over year. I think that’s a function of the fact that campuses started enforcing their policies, instituting new rules, in part because of pressure from the White House, in part because of oversight from Congress, in part because of pressure from groups like ADL with our campus report card that…

President Donald Trump’s new national counterterrorism strategy accuses the EU of allowing hostile groups to “exploit open borders” US President Donald Trump has signed a new national counterterrorism strategy that describes Europe as both a target and “incubator of terror threats,” while also singling out drug cartels and violent left-wing extremists as major dangers to America.The 16-page document, released by the White House on Wednesday, says Washington’s counterterrorism policy will be guided by “America First,” “common sense,” and “Peace through Strength.”The strategy lists three major categories of terrorist threats facing the US: “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs,” “legacy Islamist terrorists,” and “violent left-wing extremists,…