Exclusive: Science magazine founder courted Epstein for cash, emails show The founder of Nautilus referenced Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal past as he sought to build a relationship with the convicted sex offender.

Science magazine founder courted Epstein for cash, emails show

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'Yes, it’s real': Bombshell Epstein email appears to undercut Trump's story A 2011 email from Jeffrey Epstein recently uncovered from the Justice Department’s trove of 3.5 million files on the disgraced financier appears to undercut President Donald Trump’s version of events ...

'Yes, it’s real': Bombshell Epstein email appears to undercut Trump's story

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“Send photos of you and child. make me smile.” --Jeffrey Epstein to Tom Barrack

There are 2 kinds of people in the Trump administration. The ones involved in raping children and the ones covering it up.

None of this is normal

🔥 REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “The ascent of populist movements tells us governments have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class… economic elites are taking the lion’s share of growth and leaving crumbs for the working class.”

(P.S. “resign, Pam Bondi”)

REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”

Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

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So good. @kajakallas.bsky.social is all of us.

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San Francisco’s top cop says blue cities must draw a line with Trump after killings Months ago, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins warned she would consider prosecuting Trump's immigration agents if they broke the law. Now, she sees the fatal shootings in Minneapolis as a call to actio...

San Francisco’s top cop is urging blue cities to draw a line with Trump after federal agents killed two people in Minnesota.

"The sheer horror of what they’ve already done makes it impossible for them to change course, because climbing down after you’ve murdered people and lied about it would be humiliating — and humiliation is their greatest fear." Paul Krugman

Trump Deploys Border Czar Homan to Minnesota As Protests Ensue President Donald Trump said he is sending US border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis amid a growing outcry over his immigration crackdown that was inflamed last weekend when federal agents fatally shot a US citizen.

President Donald Trump said he is sending US border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis amid a growing outcry over his immigration crackdown that was inflamed last weekend when federal agents fatally shot a US citizen

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence Latin America has lots of experience with private military contractors protecting foreign companies in lawless conflict zones. It seldom goes well.

Last week: There is a sense of deja vu in the jungles of South America to the Trump Administration’s calls for private security contractors to protect the entrance of U.S. oil companies to Venezuela. ...

Government shutdown looms as Democrats refuse to fund ICE after Minneapolis killings | Arizona Mirror Senate Democrats refuse to support DHS funding after Minneapolis ICE killings, threatening government shutdown Friday

“The Trump administration and Kristi Noem are putting undertrained, combative federal agents on the streets with no accountability. This is clearly not about keeping Americans safe, it’s brutalizing U.S. citizens and law-abiding immigrants.”

Alex Pretti remembered by health care workers at a Minneapolis vigil as a ‘stand-up guy’ Health care workers brought flowers and wreaths, lit candles, and draped stethoscopes over a wooden cross as a makeshift memorial to nurse Alex Pretti.

Health care workers brought flowers and wreaths, lit candles, and draped stethoscopes over a wooden cross as a makeshift memorial to nurse Alex Pretti www.statnews.com/2026/01/26/a...

Deaf forced to turn off hearing aids amid NHS battery shortage

Deaf people are being forced to turn off their hearing aids because of a nationwide shortage of batteries within the NHS

Seven dead, one seriously injured in Sunday plane crash in Maine, according to FAA Seven people were killed and one person was seriously injured on Sunday when a private jet crashed as it was taking off from an airport in Bangor, Maine, according to preliminary information released ...

Seven people were killed and one person was seriously injured on Sunday when a private jet crashed as it was taking off from an airport in Bangor, Maine, according to preliminary information released by the the Federal Aviation Administration reut.rs/49Q9xUJ

In Memphis, Federal Crime Task Force Keeps Residents on Edge Support from Republican state leaders for the crime-fighting operation — and to an extent, from the city’s Democratic mayor — has kept tensions to an uneasy simmer.

Memphis has been experiencing a show of force similar to those in cities like Minneapolis, where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of agents to enforce its immigration crackdown. But backlash has been far more muted in Memphis, where Republican state leaders support the operation.

SYRIA: “Two U.S. Army soldiers and one civilian interpreter killed, 3 others were injured, ambushed in an attack… soldiers were conducting a “key leader engagement” as part of a counter-terrorism operation, Pentagon said… A lone ISIS gunman…” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

thehill.com Former Pence aide predicts 2026 midterms will ‘favor the Democrats’

Former Pence aide predicts 2026 midterms will ‘favor the Democrats’

Draft post

On Instagram about 15 hours ago, Eric Trump accidentally leaked a draft Truth Social post from Trump about the flooding in Washington State that destroyed countless homes.

Trump still hasn’t posted about the flooding, but had time to post about tariffs, attack migrants, and threaten Republicans.

www.theguardian.com Three Americans killed in Syria by suspected Islamic State gunman, Pentagon says

Three Americans killed in Syria by suspected Islamic State gunman, Pentagon says

www.upi.com Belarus releases 123 political prisoners after U.S. eases sanctions - UPI.com

Belarus releases 123 political prisoners after U.S. eases sanctions

"Canadian Word of the Year" on a red banner. Beneath the banner reads "maplewashing" and "the deceptive practice of making things look more Canadian than they actually are"

And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”