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https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-committed-2000-tariff-dividend-payments-white-house/story?id=127460426

President Donald Trump remains "committed" to sending each American a $2,000 dividend check to be distributed from tariff revenue, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.

White House officials are exploring ways to execute the plan put forward by Trump in a social media post over the weekend, Leavitt added, but she did not provide details about specific options.

"The president made it clear he wants to make it happen," Leavitt told reporters at the White House. "So his team of economic advisers are looking into it."

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>In one message, Epstein said one of his apparent victims "spent hours at my house" with Trump.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epstein-trump-emails-estate-oversight-committee_n_69148e46e4b0c2898bed24f0

WASHINGTON ― The late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein suggested to confidants that President Donald Trump knew about his criminal activity, according to email messages made public Wednesday.

Trump “knew about the girls,” Epstein wrote in one of the three emails released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The emails, culled from thousands of documents obtained from a committee subpoena to the Epstein estate, have previously not been made public, the Democrats said. The messages undermine the president’s efforts to downplay his relationship with Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while facing federal charges related to sex trafficking minors.

In another of the messages, from 2011, Epstein tells Ghislaine Maxwell, his partner in crime, that Trump is the “dog that hasn’t barked” because he’d spent time with someone whose name is redacted as “VICTIM.”

“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote. ”[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once been mentioned.”

At the time, Epstein had already been convicted in Florida of felony solicitation of prostitution following an investigation that discovered Epstein and his accomplice grooming underage girls for sexual abuse by recruiting them to work as massage therapists at Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. Epstein struck a deal with federal prosecutors, who agreed not to press federal charges in exchange for Epstein’s guilty plea to state charges.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-mint-philadelphia-press-final-penny-1-cent-127447997

PHILADELPHIA -- The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant.

The last pennies were struck at the mint in Philadelphia, where the country’s smallest denomination coins have been produced since 1793, a year after Congress passed the Coinage Act. Officials said the final few pennies would be auctioned off.

“God bless America, and we’re going to save the taxpayers $56 million,” U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach said just before hitting a button to strike the final penny.

Pennies remain legal tender, but new ones will no longer be made.

The last coin to be discontinued was the half-cent in 1857, Beach said.

President Donald Trump ordered the penny's demise as costs climbed to nearly 4 cents per penny and the 1-cent valuation became somewhat obsolete. Billions of pennies remain in circulation, but they are rarely essential for financial transactions in the 21st century economy.

“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents," Trump wrote in an online post in February. "This is so wasteful!”

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Which Countries Have Stopped Sharing Intelligence With U.S. Over Boat Strikes in Caribbean?
https://time.com/7333231/countries-stop-sharing-intelligence-with-united-states-amid-boat-strikes-caribbean/
The Trump Administration has authorized a series of missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean, alleged to be carrying drug shipments. 76 people have been killed in some 19 strikes thus far. Trump and his Administration argue the military action is necessary to curb the flow of drugs into the United States. The U.S. government has not yet released any evidence indicating that any of the targeted ships were smuggling drugs.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who also answers to the title “Secretary of War” following President Donald Trump’s rebranding of the Defense Department, has so far led the charge in announcing many of the strikes, which he says are “protecting the homeland and killing these cartel terrorists who wish to harm our country and its people.”

Per Hegseth, the U.S. most recently conducted “two lethal kinetic strikes” on “two vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations” in the Caribbean.

Announcing the Nov. 9 military action via social media, Hegseth said: “These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling, were carrying narcotics, and were transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.”

He went on to add that the strikes were “conducted in international waters” and three male “narco-terrorists were aboard each vessel,” with all six confirmed as killed.

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https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/11/12/federal-judge-orders-release-hundreds-feds-deportation-midway-blitz-warrantless-arrests

Hundreds of people arrested and held in custody amid the feds’ deportation campaign in Chicago could soon be released on various conditions under a federal judge’s order Wednesday.

It’s not clear how many of the 615 people covered by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings’ order remain in the country. And the judge said he doesn’t want anyone released who poses a risk to public safety. He’s giving the Justice Department a chance to identify any such person.

But Cummings ultimately said he’s trying to restore the status quo that existed before the Trump administration recently changed its interpretation of immigration law. That policy shift subjected people across the country to mandatory detention who previously would have been given a chance at a bond hearing.

Immigration advocates have said that law only applies to “noncitizens who recently arrived at a border or port of entry,” not to people who have lived in the country for an extended period of time. And more than 100 judges across the country have apparently agreed with them.

But, Cummings noted in a hearing last month, “I do not think the government has appealed,” meaning no higher court has had a chance to weigh in.

The 600 or so detainees come from a list of roughly 1,800 arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Chicago area between June 11 and Oct. 7. Only about 750 of them remain in the country, and about 135 had final orders of removal or criminal convictions, according to Mark Fleming, a lawyer with the National Immigrant Justice Center.

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> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U36NlAOhgCY

https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/us-news/lunatic-stabs-woman-at-chicago-train-station-3-months-after-iryna-zarutskas-murder/

> Lunatic stabs female straphanger, 27, at Chicago train station

A 27-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest by a lunatic at a Chicago train station Saturday night — nearly three months after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was murdered by a pocket knife-wielding madman on Charlotte’s light rail system.

The assailant was walking along the UIC-Halsted Blue Line platform near the University of Illinois Chicago around 11:14 p.m. when he pulled a large knife from his backpack, approached the straphanger sitting on a bench and plunged it into her chest, according to the Chicago Police Department.

The violent brute then ran off, heading north on South Morgan Street.

The woman sustained a laceration to the chest and was taken to a local hospital for treatment, police said.

Police are now on the hunt for the armed suspect, who was last seen wearing a pink beanie, gray hooded jacket, orange sweatshirt, light blue jeans, white shoes and carrying a gray backpack.

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https://stateline.org/2025/11/12/congress-pushes-hemp-crackdown-after-pressure-from-states-marijuana-industry/

A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows years of pressure from states and the marijuana industry.

While states continue to expand access to legal marijuana, a separate market of hemp-derived intoxicants has blossomed. The products, from drinks to gummies, are sold in gas stations and smoke shops. Critics say some companies have exploited a legal loophole from 2018 to manufacture products that get people high — without the safety regulations and taxes facing the legal marijuana industry.

That’s led dozens of states to limit or ban certain intoxicating hemp products. Most states also have pushed for federal changes, though some farm states worry the pending federal bill — which the House is expected to vote on as soon as today — goes too far.

A bipartisan group of 39 state attorneys general recently urged Congress to clarify the federal definition of hemp, arguing that the underregulated industry threatens public health and undermines law enforcement.

Texas lawmakers this year approved a strict ban on intoxicating hemp, but that measure was vetoed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The governor raised constitutional concerns because federal law allowed the products, but he then issued an executive order increasing state agency regulations, including age restrictions.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/epstein-files-discharge-petition-next-steps

Adelita Grijalva’s swearing in on Wednesday will make her Democrats’ newest member in the US House of Representatives, but it’ll also officially set in motion lawmakers’ effort to force a vote on a measure the White House has fought for months: a bill to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files.

After her 4 p.m. swearing in, Grijalva is expected to provide the 218th – and final – signature needed on the discharge petition to force such a vote and, in turn, trigger a number of procedural steps before the House can vote on a bill compelling the files’ release.

As a refresher, a discharge petition is a critical tool at rank-and-file members’ disposal. Under the arcane procedure, if 218 members of the House – a majority of all 435 districts – sign one, they can force a floor vote in the chamber on anything — even if leadership opposes it. Such an effort rarely succeeds.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has joined with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California to spearhead this particular discharge petition, but while Grijalva will provide the decisive signature, the effort faces a number of hurdles — and the bill is unlikely to become law.

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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417620

The United States is advancing a plan to build a large military base in the Gaza envelope, the Shomrim news website reported, citing Israeli officials who were exposed to the plan.

According to the report, the base is intended to be used by the international forces who will operate in the Gaza Strip to enforce the ceasefire and is expected to house thousands of servicemembers.

The cost of construction is estimated at half a billion dollars, and the Americans have begun examining possible locations in the area for the base. The initiative is being advanced in cooperation with the Government of Israel and the IDF.

At the moment, the US military presence in Israel is relatively limited, consisting of 200 soldiers operating out of the US Central Command Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat.

However, according to reports, the CMCC is expected to take full control of the humanitarian aid distribution system in Gaza, a process that was previously carried out under Israeli supervision.

The Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories' (COGAT) role is expected to be significantly limited.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c201yq43k66o
>From March 2022 to May 2023, the man known as "KlammereFyr" on Reddit posted sexually explicit scenes featuring over 100 actresses.
>Experts say the man was prosecuted under a rarely-used clause in Danish copyright law, with the judge finding that by taking the scenes out of their original context, the man had damaged the artists' "moral rights".
>In 2023, campaigners reported the case to the police on behalf of the affected actors, directors and producers, which led to the subreddit being closed down.
>One of the actresses whose explicit scenes were shared in the group, told the Danish broadcaster DR at the time she felt there was a difference between appearing naked in a film and appearing on Reddit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/shutdown-jobs-report-inflation-rcna243533
The White House said Wednesday that it was unlikely the federal jobs report or the consumer price index reports that were due to be released in October would be published after the government shutdown ends.

“The Democrats may have permanently damaged the federal statistical system, with October CPI and jobs reports likely never being released, and all of that economic data released will be permanently impaired, leaving our policymakers at the Fed flying blind at a critical period,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

The statement caught investors and economists by surprise, especially Leavitt’s suggestion that the September report could be shelved altogether. As recently as Monday, analysts at Morgan Stanley wrote that they expected the jobs report to be published within three business days of the government reopening.

Leavitt’s comment about the October CPI inflation report came as less of a surprise. Economists had already expected that it might not be released because federal workers who would have collected the data if the government had been open were not deployed after Oct. 1.

The most recent jobs report issued before the shutdown began was the August jobs report, which was released on Sept. 5.

It was unclear Wednesday whether Leavitt meant that the jobs report for the month of October that was scheduled to be released on Nov. 7 would not be released, or September’s report, which was due to be issued on Oct. 3.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Labor did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Leavitt’s comments.


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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

The exchange was among dozens that showcase Epstein’s extraordinary network of international associates, whom he often corresponded with about Trump’s first-term policy decisions.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/senate-democrats-shutdown-vote-00644146

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

The 8 Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown

Eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus broke ranks Sunday and voted to advance a deal to reopen the federal government.

That’s fewer than the 10 Democrats who broke ranks in March to advance a previous GOP-led stopgap funding bill — a move that sparked a huge backlash against Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

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Democrats are furious after folding like a lawn chair as they got substantively nothing from the protracted Democrat Shutdown except for now holding the record for longest shutdown
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5599865-house-democrats-oppose-spending/
Democrats rage as funding bill heads to House

Democrats from both chambers of Congress and differing wings of the party are furious after eight Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to advance a measure to reopen the government.

The Senate passed the spending bill Monday night, and House leaders said they would vote on it as early as 4 p.m. on Wednesday. President Trump said he would “abide by the deal” once it reaches his desk.

House Democrats are widely expected to oppose the bill, while a few moderate members may buck the party and vote for it. Republicans will be operating with an ultranarrow majority to get it to Trump for a signature.

The agreement has also reignited a debate among Democrats over the party’s direction and the right leaders to chart the path forward, with several progressive House members and those running next year calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to be replaced.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) released a statement declaring his opposition to the agreement before it passed a procedural vote on Sunday. The House will return from an extended two-month recess to vote on the measure.

“We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits,” Jeffries said. “We will fight the GOP bill in the House of Representatives, where Mike Johnson will be compelled to end the seven week Republican taxpayer-funded vacation.”

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