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new video loaded: Fact-Checking Trump on EpsteinBy Linda Qiu, Claire Hogan, June Kim and Zach Wood•August 14, 2025For the most part, President Trump has ignored questions about Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who paid teenage girls for sex. He has brushed off the matter as a “hoax” without elaborating, and he has tried to deflect by attacking his political enemies. But there are a few instances when the president did address questions about Epstein. Here’s an assessment of some of those claims.Recent episodes in PoliticsShow more videos from Politics Source link

A hiker died in Tennessee’s Savage Gulf State Park after being bitten by a venomous snake, officials said Thursday. Grundy County Emergency Management Agency personnel were dispatched to a trailhead in the park around 12:30 p.m. local time on August 8, agency director Matthew Griffith told CBS News in a statement. The unidentified hiker was about half a mile down the trail when first responders, including fire and rescue workers, EMS members and park rangers, arrived. Griffith said a witness reported the man had picked up a snake, and the reptile then bit him on the hand. The snake is believed to…

Ben Meiselas in his home studio in Los Angeles. His left-leaning media outfit MeidasTouch has surged in Donald Trump’s second term, appealing to progressives outraged by the president. Maggie Shannon for NPR hide caption toggle caption Maggie Shannon for NPR Ben Meiselas is pacing in front of his home in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles, talking on the phone with one hand, a Starbucks coffee cup in the other. He wraps his call. He has 588 unread text messages. But he’s thinking about something else: his frenetic YouTube schedule. “We will have already had a video…

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is working to make inroads with Latino voters ahead of the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election, releasing her first Spanish-language radio ad on Thursday.The former congresswoman addresses rising costs, telling voters in Spanish, “I know what it’s like for families today. I got things done to lower costs. That’s what I’ll do as governor, too.” Democrats across the country are working to regain the Latino support the party lost in the 2024 elections. President Trump made inroads with Latino voters both nationally and in key battleground states in the last election, outpacing Vice President Kamala Harris among Latino men.…

In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.  We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms shipments to Israel.  The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make: Will it embrace a politics that is principled and popular, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with the out-of-touch elites and consultants that got us here?  At The Nation, we…

Federal authorities say they’ve returned a lost page from a 500-year-old manuscript to Mexico, decades after portions of it went missing. Dating back to the 16th century, the document describes an early payment structure established by the Spanish military commander who conquered parts of modern-day Latin America, according to the FBI.”This is an original manuscript page that was actually signed by Hernán Cortés on February 20, 1527,” said FBI special agent Jessica Dittmer, a member of the bureau’s art crime team, in a statement. The page “outlines the payment of pesos of common gold for expenses in preparation for discovery…

Washington — A divided panel of appeals court judges ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid.Two of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that grant recipients challenging the freeze did not meet the requirements for a preliminary injunction that restored the flow of money.In January, on the first day of his second term in the White House, President Trump issued an executive order directing the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to freeze spending on…

Texas state Senator Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, speaks in a crowd of other Democratic state lawmakers outside the Massachusetts State House on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 in Boston. Leah Willingham/AP hide caption toggle caption Leah Willingham/AP President Trump sparked a national sprint to redistrict when he asked Texas Republicans to draw five more congressional seats for the GOP in their state ahead of next year’s elections. In response, Democratic and Republican leaders in at least seven other states have said they’re open to moving their political lines in the fight over the U.S. House, but that means very different things…

California Democrats are preparing to counter Republicans’ attempt to reshape a series of Texas congressional districts for political advantage in a back and forth that could define next year’s midterm elections and with it, the final two years of President Trump’s second term. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has announced plans for a major state announcement Thursday as national tensions rage over changing congressional lines mid-decade. Districts are usually redrawn after the decennial census. Newsom has vowed his state would respond after Texas Republicans released plans earlier this summer to redraw five seats held by Democrats and make them more favorable…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in theshow: Donald Trump is demanding that UCLA pay a one billioin dollar fine as a penalty forantisemitism on campus–that’s on top of the $584 million in cuts for research grantsthat his administration has imposed. But one Billion? Why not one Trillon? David Myers willcomment. But first: the Danes resisted fascism. We can too. Sarah Sophie Flicker will explain –in a minute.[BREAK]Everybody who knows about resistance to Hitler knows about Denmark. The Danes rescuedmore of their Jews than any other country, 99%. And Jews here…