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A report from Senate Democrats accuses big banks of failing to report suspicious money transfers made by Jeffrey Epstein until after his arrest in 2019.

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In its latest earnings report, Spotify said it now has 300 million paying subscribers. The Swedish company said it’s a “milestone no audio streaming service has ever reached.”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces criticism from various sectors as his administration’s aggressive regulatory policies regarding plastic packaging and agricultural standards prompt calls for congressional intervention to protect national interests and consumer prices.

George R. R. Martin, author of the wildly popular “Game of Thrones” book series, shared that he’s pulled back from updating fans via his blog as he “battled sadness and depression.”

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Ukraine said the video – showing a terrified civilian being hounded by a remotely controlled drone – amounted to a war crime.

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Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, will request the House Ethics Committee to investigate domestic abuse allegations made by his ex-wife to try to exonerate himself.

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A SpaceX rocket is on track to crash into the moon on Wednesday at 2:35 a.m. EDT. The 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at a speed of 5,400 mph, experts say. The impact will create a crater spanning approximately 89 feet, or 27 meters, wide. The crash is expected to…

Donald Trump fielded a question about the war with Iran during an unrelated White House event on Monday afternoon, and as is often the case, the president responded with a meandering, five-minute answer that touched on a variety of subjects that had nothing to do with the initial subject.

But it’s where this particular tangent ended up that matters.

Trump: “Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It’s really all of them.”

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“Like, look at the blue cities,” the Republican said. “What do they have in common, aside from massive crime? Much more crime. The Republicans have very little crime. But what do the blue cities have in common? And also, you can say this with nations, when they go bad, the blue cities have something in common— crime, high crime, vicious, violent crime — but what do they have in common?

“They’re all dirty. They’re filthy, dirty. Their streets are dirty, their streets smell, their storefronts are broken, their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty, and I don’t want to mention any specific city. It’s really all of them.”

In case that weren’t quite enough, the president soon after added that he considers cities led by Democratic officials to be “disgusting.”

For those who keep an eye on Trump’s day-to-day activities, the rhetoric probably wasn’t too surprising, but his tirade was a timely reminder that the incumbent president doesn’t just favor cities and states that voted for him; he also expresses routine contempt for communities filled with Americans he sees as unworthy of resources, support or even some modicum of respect.

I’m trying to imagine what would happen if Barack Obama or Joe Biden publicly declared their disgust and disdain for Republican-led areas of their own country. It’s a safe bet the reaction would be overwhelming, and for good reason: Presidents are supposed to represent the interests of the United States, not the parts filled with voters they like.

Trump, however, shares his revulsion toward many American cities and states with such frequency that it has become little more than the background noise of our civic lives.

Worse, it’s not just a matter of baseless public condemnations. Last week, we learned that Trump overrode officials in his own administration to deny federal disaster aid to Democratic-led states. Less than a week earlier, Team Trump acknowledged in a court filing that it scrapped federal energy grants to blue states, terminating funds “based solely” on political criteria, targeting projects in Democratic-led states where voters opposed the GOP ticket in 2024.

Team Trump has also curtailed federal healthcare funds, but only for states the White House doesn’t like. Team Trump has also tried to freeze $10 billion in funding for social services programs in five states, but only blue states were affected. Team Trump has also launched a supposed crackdown on fraud in social insurance programs, but its sole focus is on Democratic cities and states.

It’s not that the president is failing to bring the country together, it’s that he seems wholly disinterested in even trying.

During Richard Nixon’s second term, Patrick Buchanan was credited with arguing in a memo, “If we tear the country in half, we can pick up the bigger half.” Nearly six decades later, it’s a concept a different Republican president is embracing with a bit too much enthusiasm.

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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx has found his next starring vehicle in Deadlocked, an action film that has landed at Amazon MGM Studios for worldwide distribution. Directed by Nikhil Bhat, the Indian filmmaker behind the Hindi-language action-thriller Kill, Deadlocked follows a grieving former Marine serving jury duty who is forced back into action when the trial of the century […]

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Two of the three victims killed in a shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger restaurant on Saturday have been identified by their families.

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