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October 26, 2025
Pam Bondi Gives Trump Bad News When He Asks Her To Discuss Alleged Grand Jury Probe: 'We Can't, Legally'
Oct 23rd, 2025, 5:48 pm President Donald Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to speak about the reported grand jury investigation into Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), only to be told that she could not legally do so. Back in August, NBC News reported that sources at the Department of Justice said that grand juries would investigate Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James for potential mortgage fraud in separate cases. James was indicted two weeks ago. The president took questions f ...
Go to discussionSuspects arrested over brazen jewel theft from Paris' Louvre museum
Updated Oct 26, 2025, 7:19 AM ET PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2025, 5:28 AM ET Police have arrested suspects in connection with the theft of priceless jewels from the Louvre museum, just as one attempted to leave the country, the Paris prosecutor's office said. Thieves last week targeted the Louvre's Apollo Gallery in a brazen daylight raid, fleeing with jewelry worth tens of millions in a matter of minutes. Scores of investigators have been involved in chasing down those suspected of the heist, which ...
Go to discussionHunter Biden believes Donald Trump is hiding something by not releasing Epstein files
Saturday 25 October 2025 16:30 EDT The Trump administration is seeking to keep damaging information in the Epstein files from reaching the public, according to former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. During an interview this week on Substack with journalist Tommy Christopher, Biden said he had “no insider information whatsoever” to support his theory, but believed it was “silly” to think the administration wasn’t running political cover of some kind. “The simplest explanation in this insta ...
Go to discussionTrump's Push for Gulf to Pay For Rebuilding Gaza Faces Hurdles
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM EDT When US President Donald Trump spoke in Israel's parliament ahead of the signing of his Gaza peace plan this month, he thanked "Arab and Muslim nations" in advance for pledging "tremendous amounts of money" to rebuild the devastated Palestinian territory. That appeared to resolve the question -- to the US leader at least -- of how to find the $70 billion the United Nations says is needed to reconstruct the territory destroyed by Israel's two ...
Go to discussionTrump ally says grand jury empaneled in Florida to investigate a sweeping conspiracy against Trump
October 25, 2025, 6:35 PM A key Trump ally says a federal grand jury has been empaneled in Florida that will begin meeting in January to investigate what he calls a decade-long conspiracy against President Donald Trump. In a series of interviews with conservative podcasters over the last week, conservative attorney Mike Davis -- a close friend and informal adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top Trump administration officials -- has claimed that the grand jury will consider wheth ...
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