Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, requests investment information from Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners

Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025. Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in the first half of 2026 than for the whole of the prior year. The UK-based IWF, which monitors abuse material globally, said it had assessed 6,310 AI images that met the legal definition of child sexual abuse, 40% higher than last year’s total of more than 4,500. Continue reading...

The Trump administration began this week mailing out $500 Affordable Care Act checks to enrollees who were allegedly overcharged for coverage. Here's what to know.

The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.

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Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...

Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.

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Actor and comedian Eric Idle – one of the members of the famous ‘Monty Python’ troupe – joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book, 'Idle in Provence: A Brief History of Thyme.’ Idle explains how in 19...