
Biden's legislative problem is threadbare margins, not left-wing overreach
CNN
After a lousy Election Day in November, a moderate House Democrat crystallized her party's anxiety with a swipe at President Joe Biden.
"Nobody elected him to be F.D.R.," Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, who faces a tough reelection battle, told The New York Times. "They elected him to be normal and stop the chaos."
Her remarks suggested a multi-count indictment: that Biden had entered the White House with a singular mandate, abandoned it for left-wing policy aspirations, and thus split and paralyzed the Democratic-controlled Congress.

One year ago this week, Joe Biden was president. I was in Doha, Qatar, negotiating with Israel and Hamas to finalize a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The incoming Trump team worked closely with us, a rare display of nonpartisanship to free hostages and end a war. It feels like a decade ago. A lot can happen in a year, as 2025 has shown.

Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate
A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.









