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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5610071-trump-sues-california-mask-ban/

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Monday, alleging its law banning federal immigration officers from wearing face masks is unconstitutional.

The lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California against California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), says that the state does not have the authority to regulate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Newsom signed the No Secret Police Act and No Vigilantes Act into law in September. The pair of measures, which take effect on Jan. 1, ban federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks while carrying out operations in the state and require non-uniformed officers to visibly display identification while performing their duties, respectively.

Before signing the acts into law, Newsom said that federal immigration officers would no longer be “hidden from accountability” while conducting operations in the Golden State.

“That’s not the America we’ve grown up in. And so we are pushing back,” the governor added at the time.

The lawsuit, filed on Monday, however, asks the court to declare that the laws violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting California law enforcement officers from enforcing these laws.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-epstein-files-release-trump-drops-opposition-2025-11-18/
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition.
Two days after Trump's abrupt about-face, the vote passed by 427-1, sending a resolution requiring the release of all unclassified records on Epstein to the Republican-majority Senate for consideration. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters the resolution could pass his chamber by unanimous consent, possibly later on Tuesday.

The public and increasingly bitter feud among Republicans over the Epstein files had fractured relations between Trump and some of his most ardent supporters.
Before the vote, about two dozen survivors of Epstein's alleged abuse joined a trio of Democratic and Republican lawmakers outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the release of the records. The women held photographs of their younger selves, the age at which they said they first encountered Epstein, a New York financier who fraternized with some of the most powerful men in the country.
After the vote, they stood to applaud lawmakers from the House's public gallery, some of them crying and hugging each other.
The Epstein scandal has been a political thorn in Trump’s side for months, partly because he amplified conspiracy theories about Epstein to his own supporters. Many Trump voters believe his administration has covered up Epstein’s ties to powerful figures and obscured details surrounding his death, which was ruled a suicide, in a Manhattan jail in 2019.

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/11/15/federal-reserve-gov-deportations-are-slowing-inflation-n2666516

Fed Official Backs VP Vance: Illegal Immigration Drove Soaring Housing Prices

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran told Fox News that deportations are slowing inflation.

"A significant amount of the inflation that we experienced for years is because we through millions of new people into the country without sufficiently expanding the housing stock and sufficient expansion of other forms of fixed capital," Miran said.

He continued: "The truth is that they're living somewhere, and that's a place where other people in America aren't living, and that was inflationary."

"Cutting down net migration to zero, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think, is very deflationary."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/5609014-comey-wins-grand-jury-materials/

Judge orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to James Comey, cites ‘disturbing pattern’

A federal magistrate judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over grand jury materials to former FBI Director James Comey as he fights criminal charges, pointing to possible government misconduct as reason to grant the unusual relief.

Judge William Fitzpatrick referenced several apparent missteps by Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney hand-picked by President Trump to pursue charges against his foe, that may have threatened the proceeding’s fairness.

He said that Comey’s right to due process outweighs the typical secrecy afforded to grand jury proceedings, directing prosecutors to hand over the materials by the end of Monday.

“The Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted,” Fitzpatrick said. “However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.”

Comey faces false statements and obstruction charges stemming from 2020 testimony he gave to Congress about leaks at the FBI. He has pleaded not guilty, and a trial is set for Jan. 5.

Though Fitzpatrick did not name Halligan, a different federal judge confirmed at a hearing last week that Halligan was the only prosecutor to present evidence against Comey to the grand jury. Fitzpatrick also said that just one prosecutor was present.

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https://www.statesman.com/news/politics/elections/article/texas-congress-redistricting-court-case-21118138.php

A three-judge panel in El Paso on Tuesday blocked Texas Republicans’ newly redrawn congressional map, dealing a major blow to President Donald Trump, who hoped the redistricting would help the party pick up five more seats in next year’s midterm election.

In a 2-1 ruling, the judges said the plaintiffs' argument was likely to prevail that the new map violated the U.S. Constitution by drawing districts based on race, rather than simply to give Republicans a partisan edge.

The determination, which was quickly appealed, could have major implications for the upcoming March 3 primary election. Filing for the race opened Nov. 8 and lasts for one month.

Some Democrats in Congress, including U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Austin, have said they won’t decide whether to run for reelection until the map is settled. The redrawn version had wiped out a Democratic-leaning district in Houston, Austin and Dallas, and made two South Texas districts held by Democrats more Republican-leaning.

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Larry Summers, former president of Harvard and renowned sexist, is the latest to be linked to Epstein. Discuss.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11530884/larry-summers-steps-back-jeffrey-epstein-emails/

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President Donald Trump's administration is not taking high prices seriously enough, according to one conservative commentator.

In a Monday night post to his official X account, Erick Erickson — the founder of conservative website Redstate — lamented to his 260,000-plus followers that the administration wasn't inspiring confidence among Americans that they were committed to lowering prices. While Erickson was once a "Never Trumper," he ultimately endorsed Trump's 2020 and 2024 bids for the presidency.

"This White House needs a new message about the economy because the message sounds like the Biden White House's message, denying reality," Erickson wrote. "I bought a 12oz bag of Community Coffee at the grocery store Sunday for $14.99. It was $11.99 at Kroger. And that's just one of many items."

Erickson emphasized his point by posting a clip of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller defending the administration's economic record on far-right network Newsmax. Miller's comments were spliced together with clips of Biden administration Council of Economic Advisors chairman Jared Bernstein insisting that prices for consumer goods under former President Joe Biden were under control.

"The Democrat media lies for a living. They're professional liars," Miller said in the clip. "... Under President Trump, in the last few months, we've seen the first significant reduction in prices and the cost of living since the last time President Trump was in office."

Erickson's argument is based on sound data: According to Federal Reserve data, the consumer price index for groceries is higher than it's ever been. The AAA gas price index shows that a gallon of gas is in excess of $3 per gallon on average. And while Trump specifically ran on lowering the price of eggs, egg prices climbed significantly during the first few months of his second term.

https://www.alternet.org/white-house-high-prices/

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/trump-backs-full-release-of-epstein-files-in-sharp-reversal

United States President Donald Trump has called on Congress to make public additional files related to the notorious late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a reversal of his earlier opposition to the documents’ release.

“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote late Sunday on his Truth Social platform.

“We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party.”

Trump’s shift comes as a growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined Democrats to back legislation that would compel the US Justice Department to unseal all remaining Epstein-related records.

Democrats and a handful of Republicans reached 218 signatures on Wednesday to force a floor vote on a bill to release the files within 30 days.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act appears poised to clear the House of Representatives, although its prospects in the Senate remain uncertain.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie, a co-sponsor of the bill, told ABC News on Sunday that as many as 100 Republicans could vote in favour.

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https://fortune.com/2025/11/17/america-national-debt-inflation-fed-independence-inflation-fears-jp/

Business leaders, policymakers, and investors are growing increasingly concerned by the United States’s borrowing burden, currently sitting at $38.15 trillion. The worry isn’t necessarily the size of this debt, but rather America’s debt-to-GDP ratio—and hence, its ability to convince investors that it can reliably pay back that debt. It currently stands at about 120%.

To reduce that ratio requires either GDP to increase or scaling down the debt. On the latter end, this could include cutting public spending. This was already tried by the Trump administration, with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk claiming to have saved $214 billion.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

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MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and former Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has extended his foreign visit amid reports about his possible involvement in the high-profile corruption scandal gripping his government, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, or parliament, said.

"Umerov’s official trip was to be completed yesterday. He has extended it until November 19. Well, Rustem, we are waiting," Alexey Goncharenko (designated as terrorist and extremist in Russia) wrote on his Telegram channel.

A number of Telegram channels had reported that Umerov refused to return to Ukraine.

https://tass.com/world/2044783

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The identity of ‘Bubba’ has remained a mystery after the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails took the world by storm. In one of the mails, from the convicted child sex offender's brother, Mark, there is a mention of 'Trump blowing Bubba.'

The reference to President Donald Trump kicked up a row, with many speculating Bubba to be former President Bill Clinton, since that's been his nickname from back when he was an Arkansas politician. However, Mark Epstein confirmed to Newsweek that the Bubba mentioned here is not Clinton.

Now, a bizarre claim has been made that Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. This outlandish claim, to be sure, comes from unverified profiles and has been widely circulated online.

What to know about Ghislaine Maxwell's horse
While several social media profiles have claimed that Maxwell had a horse named Bubba, there is no official report on the same. However, Epstein's accomplice has made no secret of her love for horses.

In an interview with TalkTV, Maxwell had shared the time she interacted with the late Queen of England. She had said, “the story that we shared was about horses because I love horses and she loves horses and so we talked about horses briefly, I remember, and just shared a love of horses. And that was one of her great loves."

One person on X wrote, “Wait a minute. Ghislaine Maxwell owned a horse named Bubba!”. Another added, “Fun fact: Ghislaine Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. The plot thickens.”

A person claiming to be an independent investigative journalist, wrote, “Ghislaine Maxwell’s actual horse was named Bubba. No, seriously. Before Epstein’s “downfall” she had a show-jumper with UK registries.”


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https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5610501/trump-seth-meyers-fired

NBC late night host Seth Meyers has consistently made President Trump the target of his jokes. The latest bits include Meyers teasing about a recent decline in Republican support of the president and his recent comments to Fox News host Laura Ingraham that America doesn't have enough skilled workers for certain jobs.

Trump seems to have had enough with Meyers, as he had with late night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

"NBC's Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)," the president posted on Truth Social on Nov. 15. "He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his "show" is a Ratings DISASTER. Aside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!"

Less than an hour later Trump's tirade was reposted on X by Brendan Carr, chairperson of the Federal Communications Commission, the independent agency that regulates radio, TV, wire, satellite and cable across the country.

While the FCC can fine broadcasters for indecency, it has limited authority over content. According to its website, "The limitations on the FCC's power to restrict or ban speech begin with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which decrees that the federal government 'shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.'"

Carr's repost drew quick criticism.

In an email to NPR, Lisa Macpherson, policy director at the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, wrote that Carr's intervention is "a distortion of the FCC's authorities in an effort to force the media to toe the line for President Trump."

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Top Democrat, Californias Chief of Staff, Dana Williamson and Secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Alex Podesta are federally indicted for corruption of public office and embezzling covid relief funds
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/14/how-californias-ultimate-power-broker-went-down-00653137
How California’s ultimate power broker went down
Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff scaled the heights of California politics with a take-no-prisoners style. This week, it came crashing down.


Soon after Dana Williamson re-entered the inner echelons of California’s Democratic power structure in early 2023 — taking over as Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff — she was discussing directing a senior attorney to resolve a state discrimination lawsuit against a former corporate client, according to an indictment unsealed this week.

And when a whistleblower began seeking public records about the Newsom administration’s involvement in that case, Williamson derided the request to her close associate and alleged co-conspirator Alexis Podesta.

“Fuck her,” Podesta said, according to a transcription of the secretly recorded June 2024 conversation included in the indictment against Williamson. “They don’t really know who they are messing with.”

“They really don’t,” Williamson replied. “It’s bad for them.”

Few people in California politics have accumulated as much influence — or as many detractors — as Williamson did while serving multiple governors and cementing herself as a sought-after counselor to campaigns and interest groups in Sacramento. She built a reputation as a ruthlessly effective and at times caustic operator with a penchant for dealmaking and an expertise in wielding power, earning both fear and respect in Sacramento.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/trump-ready-to-sign-security-agreement-with-saudi-arabia-deepening-us-commitment-00653108

President Donald Trump is making a high-profile overture to Saudi Arabia and its polarizing de facto leader — even as some major MAGA figures say the White House is too focused on foreign affairs at the expense of domestic issues.

When Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the White House on Tuesday, it will mark the first such visit since he was implicated in the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

And he will be feted as one of the United States’s closest allies, expected to receive significant economic and national security wins.

Trump, who will also host Mohammed at a lavish dinner, is considering a bilateral security agreement pledging to defend Saudi Arabia in the event of any attack, according to a person familiar with the plans who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. It would mark the second such NATO-style pact with a Gulf ally, coming on the heels of Trump’s executive order in September promising to defend Qatar.