A former UK ambassador has been summoned to testify before Congress over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Two members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested testimony from Peter Mandelson in a Friday email to the former British official as part of the panel’s investigation into Epstein’s activities. Ranking…
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Thursday dismissed an insult directed toward him by Attorney General Pam Bondi during a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing this week, in which she called him a “washed-up, loser lawyer.” “Hey, I’m not a washed-up lawyer. I’m a washed-up law professor,” Raskin joked when asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on…
The chair and CEO of DP World resigned early Friday over his alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he was named in the files released by the Justice Department (DOJ). The Dubai-based supply chain giant announced the departure of Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem in a statement, saying the resignation is “effective immediately.”…
When Rep. Ro Khanna took to the House floor this week to read aloud the names of six “wealthy, powerful men” whose identities were originally redacted in the Jeffrey Epstein files, it catapulted the congressman further into the national spotlight. In recent months, Khanna has helped lead the charge around the Epstein case, meeting with…
This week’s rebuke of President Trump’s tariff regime by a small group of House Republicans is only the start of what will likely be a series of headaches over the issue for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), threatening to derail the White House’s messaging on the tariffs in a critical election year. First, Republican leaders failed…
The mayor of Culver City, Calif., clapped back at claims made by Attorney General Pam Bondi about the city’s crime rates. During a back-and-forth with Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) about right-wing extremism at a heated congressional hearing on Wednesday, Bondi accused the congresswoman of “not talking about any crime in her district.” Kamlager-Dove represents a…
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) on Thursday slammed claims that the federal immigration operations in Minnesota, which the administration said will draw down over the next week, made the state safer as “wildly untrue.” “I’m glad to hear that the Admin plans to withdraw ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and CBP [Customs and Border Protection] from…