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Oz alleges Maine 'looks a lot like Minnesota' regarding entitlement fraud

02/08/26 7:00 AM ET The Trump administration’s top Medicare official has suggested that alleged fraud in Maine’s social services programs may be on par with the welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz said there is “another big crisis” concerning alleged social services fraud in Maine during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show. “It turns out that Maine looks a lot like Minnesota,” Oz said in the inte ...

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Democratic Sen. Schiff says Trump intends to 'subvert' 2026 midterm elections

February 8, 2026, 11:40 AM Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday that President Donald Trump intends to take action to overturn the result of the 2026 midterm elections should Republicans lose seats in Congress. "I think [Trump] intends to try to subvert the elections," Schiff told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "And if he loses the vote ... he's prepared to try to take some kind of action to overturn the result, and we really shouldn't question that ...

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Newsom Mocks Trump With 'Bad Bunny Day' Declaration for Super Bowl Sunday

Published Feb 08, 2026 at 04:48 AM EST updated Feb 08, 2026 at 05:04 AM EST California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared Super Bowl Sunday “Bad Bunny Day” in the state, marking the day of the Puerto Rican artist’s halftime performance, in a social media post that took a swipe at President Donald Trump. In an all-caps X post on Saturday, Newsom praised Bad Bunny’s music, Spanish heritage, and cultural impact while declaring February 8 as a day to celebrate the Grammy‑winning performer ah ...

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Former Washington Post editor says Jeff Bezos has made the paper's crisis 'dramatically worse'

Feb. 8, 2026, 2:08 PM EST As The Washington Post reels from last week’s massive layoffs and the weekend’s leadership upheaval, former executive editor Martin Baron is pointing the finger at the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, accusing him of decisions that have deepened the Post’s financial and editorial crisis. The Post announced cuts to a third of the staff Wednesday, stunning the staff and readers of the outlet and the wider news industry. Saturday, its chief executive and publisher Will L ...

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Trump Trashes Olympic Skier Who Says He Has 'Mixed Emotions' Representing US: 'A Real Loser'

President Donald Trump speaking with the reporters just after signing an Executive Order establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) President Donald Trump attacked Olympic skier Hunter Hess for saying he has “mixed emotions” about representing the U.S. at the 2026 Games. In a blistering post to Truth Social on Sunday morning, the president ripped Hess over remarks he made ...

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GOP Official Snatches Thomas Massie's Mic In the Midst of Comments at Kentucky Event

Feb 7th, 2026, 3:48 pm Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) had a microphone snatched right out of his hand Friday night as he spoke at the Oldham County, KY, Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner. Massie was in the midst of saying, “If you are a congressman, you work not for the Speaker of the House, I work for you!” pointing to the audience, when event emcee and state House Speaker David Osborne (R) decided he’d heard enough. Osborne grabbed the mic away as someone yelled, “Welcome to the snake pit ...

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Laura Loomer Accuses Tim Scott of 'Trying to Sabotage' Trump

Published Feb 07, 2026 at 04:32 PM EST updated Feb 07, 2026 at 04:54 PM EST Far-right political activist Laura Loomer hit out at Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, over his comments he made in response to controversial video that was posted, then deleted from President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on Friday. "I showed this tweet posted by Tim Scott to President Trump last night. 14 million views on a lie because [Scott] wants to cost the GOP the midterms & smear Presi ...

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Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors' Announcement Dated Before His Death

Updated Feb. 8 2026 2:42AM EST Published Feb. 8 2026 12:38AM EST Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. The draft appears among at least 23 documents in the disclosure labeled as statements from the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. A review of the records shows multiple versions of similar statements with inconsistent redactions—some leaving phone numbers o ...

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US agency investigating if ABC's 'The View' violated equal time rules for political candidates

12h WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission is opening an investigation into whether ABC's "The View" daytime talk show violated equal time rules for interviews with political candidates after an appearance by a Democratic Texas Senate candidate this week, a source told Reuters on Saturday. The Republican-led FCC said last month that daytime and late-night TV talk shows are no longer considered "bona fide" news programs that are exempt from equa ...

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Bondi scrambles to explain what Trump meant when he blamed her for Gabbard's role in FBI's Georgia raid

Saturday 07 February 2026 16:26 EST Attorney General Pam Bondi has struggled to explain the confusion over why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was sent to an FBI raid in Georgia last month. Questions have continued to swirl around why the National Intelligence boss was at the scene at all in Fulton County on January 28, where agents seized ballots and voting information from the 2020 election. Bondi failed to clarify the situation at a Friday briefing after Trump said that Ga ...

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USPS Launches New Forever Stamps

21 min ago - Published Feb 08, 2026 at 07:19 AM EST updated Feb 08, 2026 at 07:21 AM EST The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced a new collection of commemorative Forever stamps titled “Lowriders,” according to the official USPS press release, as p ... (Newsweek)

Jeffries Says Democrats Won't Pass DHS Deal Without ICE Reforms

1 hr ago - Sun, February 8, 2026 at 11:34 AM EST 2 min read (Bloomberg) -- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats are insisting on their full list of demands to reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement before agreeing to pass the remaining gover ... (Yahoo! Finance/Bloomberg)

Nation's only Black governor says race could have been the reason he was excluded from Trump event

1 hr ago - Sunday 08 February 2026 14:49 EST The nation’s only sitting Black governor was excluded from an upcoming bipartisan dinner for governors at the White House, a decision he feels could be rooted in racism. ​​“This week, I learned ... (The Independent)

Former Washington Post editor says Jeff Bezos has made the paper's crisis 'dramatically worse'

2 hrs ago - Feb. 8, 2026, 2:08 PM EST As The Washington Post reels from last week’s massive layoffs and the weekend’s leadership upheaval, former executive editor Martin Baron is pointing the finger at the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, accusing h ... (MS NOW News)

Breezy Johnson's winding road leads to Olympic downhill gold for US on day marred by Vonn's crash

2 hrs ago - By PAT GRAHAM and ANDREW DAMPF Updated 10:16 AM CST, February 8, 2026 CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — For Breezy Johnson, the road to an Olympic gold medal was similar to the winning downhill run she turned in Sunday: It was full of jarrin ... (ap)

Trump accepts ownership of the current economy: 'I'm very proud of it'

2 hrs ago - Feb. 8, 2026, 3:17 PM EST President Donald Trump says it’s his economy now. In an interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas that aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday, the 47th president said the country is already experienc ... (NBC News)

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt

3 hrs ago - It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice. But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, ... (The Guardian)

'We All Deserve the Truth': Epstein Survivors Release New PSA Demanding Answers from Trump DOJ

3 hrs ago - Feb 8th, 2026, 2:47 pm The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein are making it clear that they’re not moving on from the sex trafficking scandal — despite President Donald Trump saying last week that he’d like Americans to “get on to some ... (MEDIAite)

Democrats will stop Trump from trying to nationalize midterms, Jeffries says

4 hrs ago - Sun 8 Feb 2026 12.41 EST Last modified on Sun 8 Feb 2026 12.43 EST Democrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year's midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said on Sunday. Jeffries ... (The Guardian)

Newsom Mocks Trump With 'Bad Bunny Day' Declaration for Super Bowl Sunday

4 hrs ago - Published Feb 08, 2026 at 04:48 AM EST updated Feb 08, 2026 at 05:04 AM EST California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared Super Bowl Sunday “Bad Bunny Day” in the state, marking the day of the Puerto Rican artist’s halftime performance ... (Newsweek)

Trump Trashes Olympic Skier Who Says He Has 'Mixed Emotions' Representing US: 'A Real Loser'

5 hrs ago - President Donald Trump speaking with the reporters just after signing an Executive Order establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Im ... (Yahoo Sports)

Democratic Sen. Schiff says Trump intends to 'subvert' 2026 midterm elections

5 hrs ago - February 8, 2026, 11:40 AM Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday that President Donald Trump intends to take action to overturn the result of the 2026 midterm elections should Republicans lose seats in Congress. "I think [Trump] intends to try to s ... (ABC News)

Oz alleges Maine 'looks a lot like Minnesota' regarding entitlement fraud

6 hrs ago - 02/08/26 7:00 AM ET The Trump administration’s top Medicare official has suggested that alleged fraud in Maine’s social services programs may be on par with the welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Adm ... (The Hill)

Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison

6 hrs ago - By JON GAMBRELL Updated 10:39 AM CST, February 8, 2026 Leer en español DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supp ... (AP)

GOP leaders fret as Trump sits out the party's nastiest primary battles -- with Senate control on the line

7 hrs ago - Updated Feb 8, 2026, 9:51 AM ET PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2026, 7:00 AM ET Top Senate Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on President Donald Trump to pick a side in the party’s nastiest primary battles before it’s too late, with anxiety spiking ... (CNN Politics)

FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn't running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show

7 hrs ago - By MICHAEL R. SISAK, DAVID B. CARUSO and LARRY NEUMEISTER Updated 9:30 AM CST, February 8, 2026 NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and ... (AP)

Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota

8 hrs ago - Updated 12:08 AM EST, February 8, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS -- For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibilit ... (ABC News/AP)

Mandelson-Starmer latest: Morgan McSweeney resigns as PM's chief of staff over US ambassador scandal

9 hrs ago - Starmer’s chief of staff said he took ‘full responsibility’ for the advice to appoint Lord Mandelson Morgan McSweeney has resigned as the Downing Street chief of staff over his role in the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as US amba ... (The Independent)

Apps to boycott US goods gained traction in crisis over Greenland

9 hrs ago - Updated 5:54 AM EST, February 8, 2026 COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flare-up in tensions ... (AP)

Senators far apart on DHS deal as talks stall with deadline looming

10 hrs ago - 02/08/26 6:00 AM ET Pessimism is increasing across the Capitol that lawmakers will reach a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as they point fingers over the lack of talks and float canceling the upcoming recess. Senators return to ... (The Hill)

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