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November 22, 2025
Trump's DoJ investigating unfounded claims Venezuela helped steal 2020 election
Fri 21 Nov 2025 10.00 EST Last modified on Fri 21 Nov 2025 16.09 EST Federal investigators have been interviewing multiple people who are pushing unfounded claims that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned. Two promoters of the conspiracy theory have repeatedly briefed the US attorney for the district of Puerto Rico, W Stephen Muldrow, and have shared witnesses and documents with officials, according to four sources. Muldrow declined to comment. ...
Go to discussionSenate Democrats are investigating the Kennedy Center for 'cronyism, corruption'
November 21, 2025 4:06 PM ET The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which oversees public buildings, is investigating leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what he says are "millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies." The committee's ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter outlining the claims to Kennedy Center president, Richard Grenell. Gren ...
Go to discussionNikki Haley's Son Calls to Ban 'Naturalized Citizens' From Holding Office In Tucker Interview
Nov 21st, 2025, 6:14 pm The son of former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told Tucker Carlson that he believes “naturalized citizens should not be able to hold public office.” Nalin Haley appeared on The Tucker Carlson Show on Thursday to discuss his personal views on politics and share with Tucker how he believes young people feel about white nationalist Nick Fuentes after Carlson’s controversial interview with him gained widespread attention and condemnation. When the topic turned ...
Go to discussionHouse committee unlikely to interview Ghislaine Maxwell after her lawyer said she wouldn't answer questions
Nov. 21, 2025, 3:14 PM EST WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee has shelved plans to depose convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator and confidant, after Maxwell informed the committee that she planned to plead the Fifth. The Committee had intended to travel to Texas, where Maxwell is being held in a federal prison camp, to conduct the interview. But in an interview with Politico, Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said he is re-thinking those plans ...
Go to discussionNew Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
12h Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is floating the possibility that the state withholds federal tax dollars in protest of the Trump administration. The comments from Sherrill — made on comedian Jon Stewart’s podcast — underscores how she's trying to find ways to push back against President Donald Trump’s agenda. Sherrill won New Jersey’s closely watched gubernatorial race earlier this month in a blowout, with the results widely viewed as a referendum on Trump. It is unclear how such ...
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