LOADING ERROR LOADINGDemocrats on the House Oversight Committee released new pictures and videos from the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s island on Wednesday. The Republican-led committee subpoenaed JPMorganChase, Deutsche Bank and the U.S. Virgin Islands government last month for records related to Epstein. “These new images are a disturbing look into the world of Jeffrey Epstein and his island,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said in a release. House Oversight CommitteeHouse Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has sent the subpoenas despite President Donald Trump’s desire for the Epstein story to go away. AdvertisementGarcia suggested on MS NOW that Wednesday’s small batch of documents released by Democrats are basically a curiosity.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGHillary Clinton believes misinformation on social media has shaped young people’s views on Israel and Palestine in a dangerous way. More than 50% of young people in America get their news from social media. So just pause on that for a second,” she told the audience. Alex Wong via Getty ImagesAdvertisementThe politician said that she was particularly concerned when it came to how people are getting news about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. “It’s a serious problem for democracy, whether it’s Israel or the United States, and it’s a serious problem for our young people.”Clinton went on to say it was “shocking” to learn how little her Columbia University students knew about the “history” behind the occupation.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGSen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday said Donald Trump should know better than to encourage violence against lawmakers, calling him “singularly unqualified” for the presidency. They’re violent. She was shot in the head, meeting with her constituents, and Donald Trump was nearly assassinated. And he called out political violent rhetoric and said it should stop. “That’s one of the problems here, is that Donald Trump is so singularly unqualified for this job as president of the United States.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe family of a Colombian fisherman has alleged the U.S. government illegally killed him when it launched a military boat strike in September. Alejandro Carranza was killed on Sept. 15 when his boat was targeted in an anti-narcotics U.S. military campaign. On Tuesday, Carranza’s family filed a formal complaint against the U.S. government with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). AdvertisementThe complaint alleges that Carranza was simply fishing when his boat was targeted in the deadly strike. The same month Carranza was killed, Hegseth ordered back-to-back strikes on a Venezuelan boat off Trinidad’s coast, The Washington Post reported.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGDemocratic activist Mayra Macías announced Wednesday she’s running as an independent for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.). AdvertisementGarcía’s apparent scheme to choose a successor earned him a formal reprimand on Capitol Hill and may be a major theme of Macías’s campaign in Illinois’ fourth congressional district. “Part of why I’m running is to make sure that voters have a choice in November,” Macías said. My father was a garbage man for the city of Chicago, and my mother is still a home care worker,” Macías said. “We have to leverage this opportunity to put forth proactive immigration policy.”The district, which connects several majority-Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, is solidly Democratic.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON ― Republicans in Congress have rejected Jack Smith’s offer to testify in public, demanding instead that he come to Capitol Hill later this month for a closed-door deposition. Smith led the two prosecutions of President Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents after he left office and for trying to overthrow the 2020 election result. Trump has called Smith a criminal who should be in prison. A spokesman for House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Smith’s deposition would happen behind closed doors. ), the top Democrat on the committee, criticized Jordan for insisting on a private interview after Smith had volunteered to testify in public.

Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAnd this is happening at the same moment weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have become omnipresent. That beauty equals thinness. This isn’t about calling out celebrities, and it isn’t about body shaming. Photo Courtesy Of Rebecca MorrisonThe new thinness cult isn’t just happening on red carpets. It’s shaping how young people define health, beauty, morality.

They can’t push back the way you can, so those boundary-crossing comments don’t bounce off; they stick. Twenty47studio via Getty Images Strangers and other family members can say things that don't align with your parenting. “Most ‘creepy’ comments to kids don’t come from creepy people,” Cameron Caswell, an adolescent psychologist and host of the “Parenting Teens with Dr. Cam” podcast, told HuffPost. But the things adults say to children can become deeply internalized. “We are teaching them who they are and what’s expected of them with these kinds of comments.”“Most ‘creepy’ comments to kids don’t come from creepy people.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGBOSTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing in 22 states a provision of the Republican’s signature tax and domestic policy bill that would deprive Planned Parenthood and local affiliates that perform abortions of Medicaid funding. But she put her ruling on hold for seven days to allow the Trump administration to appeal. Talwani had previously blocked the law from being implemented on other grounds in a separate case by Planned Parenthood. They said the provision constituted a change the states could not have anticipated when they joined the joint federal-state Medicaid program, which provides healthcare coverage to low-income Americans. States, not the federal government, have long been left to determine which providers qualify for the Medicaid program, the states said.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump said he will issue a preemptive pardon for Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) on Wednesday, effectively voiding Cuellar’s 2024 indictment for bribery. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump announced a “full and complete PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar” and his wife, Imelda Cuellar. The indictment charged Cuellar and his wife with illegally accepting bribes and acting as unregistered foreign agents. Cuellar represents a Texas district on the border with Mexico that swung hard towards Republicans over the past three election cycles. In 2024, Trump flipped the district, winning it by seven points.

Not at her, her beautiful spirit, breathtaking voice or right to move through the world in the body she chooses. Grande and Cynthia Erivo are everywhere promoting Wicked in interviews, photo shoots, red carpet events. It’s about the unspoken message all of this is sending: when it comes to health, thinner is always better. It’s shaping how young people define health, beauty, morality. My anger is at the cultural shift that’s pushing people, especially kids, toward disordered eating, mental health crises and lifelong shame.

He recalled the arrest during the ad, saying he told ICE agents he is a U.S. citizen who was just trying to get to work. However, the agents got “hostile” and eventually threw tear gas behind his vehicle and pepper-sprayed him in the face. Retes said had ICE had just looked at his ID, they would have seen that he is a U.S. citizen. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost on Retes’ statements or the ad campaign. Retes’ $250,000 video ad campaign will now run on those “streaming platforms targeting audiences exposed to DHS’ propaganda ads.”

A white buffalo must be sacrificed in the Sun Dance. The buffalo loved their people as much as the Kiowas loved them.”Dunbar-Ortiz continued: “There was war between the buffalo and the white men. They could protect their people no longer.”The horrific history underscores the significance of recent efforts by the Blackfeet Nation in northern Montana to bring back the buffalo to their community. White settler attacks on the buffalo were in turn designed to annihilate and render extinct the Blackfeet people—like other native groups. Once the buffalo were brought back, Blackfeet cowboys were employed to corral the herd and teach them new habits.