Epstein Secrets

oney, city officials say, Washingtonians will be put in the unprecedented position of funding federal security needs with local tax dollars." -- A State Department intelligence official resigned after the White House blocked him from submitting written congressional testimony about climate change. Juliet Eilp

side the Democratic caucus. "They're four people and that's how many votes they got," she said. The Squad — consisting of Omar, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) — replied by calling Pelosi a bully. "The four are struggling with the speaker's moves to

after she won her upset last June in a Democratic congressional primary. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) -- Our Sunday magazine has a long profile of Ocasio- Cortez's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti. (Read it here first.) -- New Yorker editor David Remnick interviewed AOC after she returned from her trip to

businessman suing Steele "read his text messages with Strobe Talbott, the former president of Brookings Institution, and with David Kramer, a former State Department official who worked with McCain." In another text, Steele "told Sir Andrew Wood, a former British diplomat, that McCain EFTA00136010 was `comprom

tez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks- that-kind-of> (7/21, Lillis, 2.98M) reports that Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) "challenged" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (D-NY) "in an unusual — and decidedly personal — confrontation on the Capitol steps." Yoho reportedly "told Ocasio-Cortez she was 'disgusting' for r

uzzle its criticisms of Beijing's attacks on Hong Kong's already limited freedoms while trade talks are ongoing. That reportedly led Mike Pompeo's State Department to nix a planned speech by the outgoing U.S. consul general for Hong Kong that would have offered support for the protest movement, despite Pompeo

to a fake news story he posted to his personal Facebook page on Thursday at 1:51 p.m. The story's headline attributed a fabricated quote to Ocasio- Cortez saying, 'We pay soldiers too much.' The photo on the post is marked as `satire' and it had been labeled 'false' by the website snopes.com on Wednes