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3+ min ago (155+ words) A third federal judge has cleared the way for the release of additional files related to Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman issued a four-page ruling Wednesday to order the unsealing of grand jury materials, investigative records, documents and communications gathered in a 2019 investigation into the convicted sex offender by the Department of Justice, reported CBS News. The Justice Department moved to unseal grand jury materials in cases against Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, but those initial requests were denied because of federal rules requiring grand jury proceedings and evidence to remain secret. However, the Justice Department argued the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress last month should override grand jury secrecy rules. The Justice Department has a Dec. 19 deadline to issue certain evidentiary files under the recently passed law. ALSO READ: 'We get blamed for everything': GOP…...

5+ min ago (195+ words) Economist Paul Krugman at FIDES 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 25, 2023 (A.PAES/Shutterstock.com) President Donald Trump is angrily lashing out at Democrats for their heavy focus on inflation, insisting that "affordability" is a Democratic "hoax." Trump is also saying that voters should be thanking him because of how much he has improved the economy. Krugman adds, "At this point, I could bombard you with a lot of data showing that the economy is not, in fact, A+++++. But it isn't a disaster area, at least not yet. So why are Americans feeling so down? The main culprit is Trump himself." The economist and former New York Times columnist notes that Trump aggressively campaigned on lowering prices in 2024 " only to chastise voters for being worried about inflation now. Krugman continues, "Many swing voters, I believe, supported Trump out of…...

10+ min ago (360+ words) On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly, meeting in Paris, proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration, which emerged after more than 100 million deaths in the two world wars, separated by a mere 20 years, appeared to be an attempt to establish new parameters for a future of peace and understanding among the different peoples of this planet. In 2025, the UN recognizes 120 active armed conflicts and more than 2 billion people affected by them. This is therefore a moment for reflection, rather than naively accepting a simple date for celebration. On the contrary, it would be more appropriate to critically examine and reflect on the scope and implementation of the Declaration made 77 years ago. Furthermore, using human rights violations as a pretext, they employ violence to invade territories and impose an economic and power system disguised as peace and justice....

11+ min ago (513+ words) As you know by now, I don't like raising big problems without offering big potential solutions. The big problem I want to talk about today is that CEO pay has become utterly untethered from reality. When I was a young man in the 1960s and '70s, CEOs typically made 20 to 30 times the pay of their workers. That was enough to reward leadership, but not so much as to distort the entire economy and alienate workers who could still aspire to the American Dream. Today, the gap between CEO pay and the pay of average workers has exploded. The average CEO at a major corporation now takes home nearly 300 times what their employees earn. In some cases, the disparity is so grotesque it defies belief. For example: The problem isn't just these ridiculous sums. It's also what's happening to ordinary workers. Undervaluing their…...

12+ min ago (420+ words) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s affinity for public exercise was once again on display this week, with the 71-year-old health secretary and his transportation counterpart, the former reality star Sean Duffy, staging a pull-up contest inside Ronald Reagan National Airport to promote Make Travel Family Friendly Again, an offshoot of the departments larger push to bring "civility" back to American travel. "Yes, sir!" spectators cheered on, impressed by the performance of brawn before them. "Hes coming for you!" Were these actual pull-ups? Was the government lying to me? I was in no position to sound the alarm. So I reached out to Casey Johnston of the newsletter, Shes a Beast. My heart stopped. My theory that something was off was starting to prove correct. Thats when Johnston reflected my horror back to me: Crucially, this also must be done without any…...

18+ min ago (495+ words) Woman holding a wad of cash. Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. Submit questions here. (It's anonymous!) When we were teenagers, my grandmother gave her wedding dress to my sister "Opal" and me, stipulating that she could wear it at her wedding or pass it on to me, the younger sister. I'm getting married next summer, and I decided I would wear my grandmother's dress. It was then that I discovered that my sister had sold the dress a long time ago. She didn't tell me anything about it. We had a huge fight when I found out. She argued that our grandmother gave the eldest sister the dress, and she had the right to do whatever she wanted with it. But it was always understood that if Opal didn't wear the dress, it would be mine. I'm so furious…...

18+ min ago (170+ words) The Television Publicity Executives Committee's Rising Star Award will be named after the longtime Warner Bros. TV comms exec who died at 56 in November The Television Publicity Executives Committee is adding two new categories to its 4th Annual TPEC Awards " as well as naming its Rising Star Award after the late Robert Pietranton. In addition to adding Outstanding Campaign for an International Series and Best Press Event for 2026, the Robert Pietranton Rising Star Award has been renamed in honor of the longtime Warner Bros. TV comms exec who died at 56 in November. Submissions for all 21 categories open on Dec. 15. They will then close on March 30, 2026, with voting set for April 2026 and winners revealed in June 2026. Founded in 1992, TPEC is a non-profit organization that "fosters collaboration among senior communications professionals in programming across all platforms and studios. TPEC champions industry evolution, supports…...

18+ min ago (1398+ words) G'za Buz's-H'bel says the integrity of the European Union is in jeopardy if something isn't done to stop Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ crusade. A Hungarian LGBTQ+ rights activist is being investigated for defying the country's new ban on Pride events when he organized a massive march in the city of P'cs. In October, a reported eight thousand people showed up to express LGBTQ+ solidarity in the face of hostility from Prime Minister Victor Orb'n's authoritarian Fidesz party. In April, the party passed a constitutional amendment'outlawing Pride events'in the Central European nation and allowing authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify attendees of the banned events. G'za Buz's-H'bel " who was fired last year from his state teaching job due to his role in LGBTQ+ activism " told The Guardian he and his organization, Diverse Youth Network, still held the march in P'cs because…...

21+ min ago (311+ words) In a court ruling posted on Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the National Guard soldiers must leave Los Angeles. But his comments on the ruling include a sharp warning. Ryan Goodman, a legal scholar and editor-in-chief of JustSecurity.org, highlighted a key excerpt on page 10:"Indeed, at the motion hearing, Defendants confirmed their position that, after an initial federalization, all extensions of federalization orders are utterly unreviewable, forever. That is shocking. Adopting Defendants" interpretation of Section 12406 would permit a president to create a perpetual police force comprised of state troops, so long as they were first federalized lawfully. Such a scenario would validate the Founders" 'widespread fear [of] a national standing Army,' which they believed 'posed an intolerable threat to individual liberty and to the sovereignty of the separate States,'" the judge wrote. Goodman said that the…...

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