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Darren Indyke is one of the lawyers who serves as the executor of the estate for Jeffrey Epstein, one of several lawyers who swears he "had no knowledge whatsoever" of the crimes. Democrats claimed he perjured himself with the statements, revealing in real time that he had knowledge. Indyke spoke to the House Oversight Committee on Thursday over the work he did for Epstein, where he testified, among many things, that he did have some concerns about Epstein after he was caught by law enforcement in Florida and became a convicted sex offender. After that, Indyke said that Epstein swore he "didn't know she was underage," CNN reported on air, citing Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.).Brianna Keila

The war with Iran is eroding President Donald Trump's ability to "defy political gravity," according to a new analysis from the Economist, but he will only become more dangerous as his second term is brought "crashing to earth."In a piece published Thursday, The Economist outlined how Trump's "ill-judged, heedless war against Iran" was a situation "precisely engineered to intercept the trajectory of his presidency," presenting a major impediment to his long-

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders — a MAGA Republican who became her state’s first female chief executive after receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump— was kicked out of a restaurant in her own state on Friday the 13th last week.Sanders was told to leave a Little Rock restaurant called The Croissanterie after spending more than an hour eating there with her State Police Executive Protection Detail, according to a report by the

In the past, conservative/libertarian journalist Cathy Young voiced strong criticism of what she viewed as the excesses of third-wave feminism. An op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in 2016 had the headline "How Feminism Came To Be All About Hating Men."But Young, very much a Never Trumper, is equally proactive when it comes to calling out misogyny from the MAGA movement. In an article published by the conservati

Speaking with German newspaper Der Spiegel, a former U.S. general revealed just how perilous the situation actually is in the Strait of Hormuz, and how easily Iran could use it to cause a "catastrophe."The Strait of Hormuz is a small strip of water off the southern coast of Iran that connects the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world, and therefore serves as a key pathway for shipping Gulf State oil to the rest of the world. In the wake of the U.S. and Israel's joint military attack, Iran closed passage through the strait

Denmark had been quietly planning strategies to protect Greenland from possible American aggression soon after President Donald Trump was elected, but those plans surged into high gear this January, when U.S. forces attacked Venezuela. Denmark formed an alliance with France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden, flew heavily armed Danish F-35 f

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday barred the department’s own Stars and Stripes from attending his most recent press conference, the Daily Beast reports. So far, no reason has been given.“Stars and Stripes was not approved by the Pentagon to attend this press conference. I will be watching it on a screen instead,” said an X post from Matthew Adams, a journalist at the media outlet.Stars and Stripes was first published in 1861, and has been continuously available since 1942. It is regarded as credi

Democrats say that the Republicans who claimed they wanted an investigation into possible corruption at the Department of Homeland Security aren't that serious about it. The Bulwark reported on Thursday that Democrats who spoke to them believe it is a ruse because they've been frozen out of all parts of the process. Outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem and her aide and her former aid Corey Lewandowski are linked to several allegations of personal ties to government contracts. A report Thursday cited sev

Over the past couple of years, Donald Trump has explained away his tendency to ramble between topics by describing it as “the Weave,” a practice in which he careens from one subject to the next, theoretically returning to his original point. But now, says Bloomberg political columnist Nia-Malika Henderson, the entire administration has become caught in the Weave regarding its messaging on Iran, and its explanations have become “lost in the fog of war.”Or in other words, “The Trump administration has a coherence problem.”Take, for

At the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Attorney General Pam Bondi and her allies have been running into quite a few roadblocks when it comes to prosecuting President Donald Trump's foes — from prosecutors resigning from DOJ to grand juries deciding not to go forward with indictments to unfavorable ruling from judges in the lower federal courts. On MS NOW, some of the most vehement criticism of Bondi's leadership at DOJ is coming from former federal prosecutors who once worked there, including legal scholars Barbara McQuade