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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM EST President Donald Trump pardoned former private equity executive David Gentile this week, and made it so he will also be free from the responsibility of making his victims whole. That's according to a Wednesday article in Politico, which reported that Gentile -- who was convicted of conspiring to defraud thousands of people to the tune of $1.6 billion - will no longer have to come up with $15.5 million in restitution a judge ordered him to pay to victims. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that Gentile was innocent in the scheme he was convicted of carrying out with his business partner, Jeffry Schneider. December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM EST Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has filed court documents seeking to be released from prison, reportedly "throwing a wrench" into the Justice Department's efforts to release "scores" of files released to her case. "Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Epstein counterpart, wrote in a letter filed Wednesday in federal court that she plans to soon file a court petition challenging her detention, a long-shot bid that, if successful, could result in a new trial," The Hill reported. December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM EST Despite traditionally being regarded as one of America's most storied cultural icons, the Kennedy Center has had significant difficulty filling seats ever since President Donald Trump took over the vaunted institution earlier this year. The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Trump advisor Richard Grenell - his first-term acting Director of National Intelligence who is now president and executive director of the Kennedy Center - erupted after a report by the Athletic (which is owned by the New York Times) showed how the facility's ticket sales have been lagging for months. The report noted that the Kennedy Center allowed FIFA (which organizes the quadrennial World Cup) to rent its concert hall for a $0 fee. December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM EST Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is coming under fire after a report revealed he expects to swear in this week the newest Republican elected to Congress, Matt Van Epps, for whom Johnson campaigned. Van Epps won a narrow victory Tuesday night in a deep red Tennessee district. The move comes after Johnson most recently delayed seating Democratic U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona for 50 days. Johnson offered an array of explanations for why he would not swear in Congresswoman Grijalva, who won her September election for a seat vacant since March but was not seated until November. December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM EST New satellite images at a UNESCO World Heritage site in Saudi Arabia for which there are plans to create a "multibillion-dollar tourism hub" have caught the attention of President Donald Trump's family business, according to Newsweek's Middle East reporter Amira El-Fekki"?. "American engineering firm Parsons Corporation is leading phase two of the design and construction in the historic city of Diriyah, northwest of Saudi capital Riyadh, as part of a recent contract worth $56 million," El-Fekki explains. December 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM EST President Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs on virtually all imports could soon be struck down by the Supreme Court. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is not sweating the possibility, however, and believes there is a legal way open to the president allowing him to keep his import taxes in effect "permanently." Bessent on Wednesday appeared at the New York Times DealBook Summit, where he sat for an onstage interview with Too Big to Fail author Andrew Ross Sorkin. During their conversation, the secretary touched on the major legal challenge facing Trump's tariffs, but cited a few sections of the 1962 Trade Act which argued would provide a framework for keeping them alive if the Supreme Court rules against the administration. December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM EST Five members of Congress -- Republicans and Democrats from both chambers -- are demanding Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide a briefing and status update on the legally mandated release of the files related to deceased convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein by the end of this week, according to NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur. The Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405) that passed on November 19 requires the Department of Justice to release all unclassified records related to Epstein's case by December 19. December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM EST During a televised Cabinet meeting in the White House on Tuesday, December 2, President Donald Trump angrily railed against familiar targets ranging from former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And he reiterated his call for steep interest rates cuts. Although Powell has been gradually lowering interest rates, Trump believes the Fed chairman isn't lowering them nearly enough. And he resents him deeply for it. December 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM EST The peace talks between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine have failed because of poor negotiating tactics, according to a report in Time Magazine . "So far, no compromise version of a peace settlement has been found," Yuri Ushakov, an advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said after Tuesday's five-hour meeting between Putin and U.S. Special Envoy and former Long Island real estate lawyer Steve Witkoff. December 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM EST Stan Kroenke doesn't need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America's largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England's Arsenal soccer club. Yet Kroenke, whose wife is an heiress to the Walmart fortune, benefits from one of the federal government's bedrock subsidy programs, one that props up ranching in the West. December 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM EST Maddy Olcott plans to start a career once she graduates from college. But the junior at the State University of New York-Purchase College is so far not planning to start a family -- even with the Trump administration dangling inducements like thousand-dollar "baby bonuses" or cheaper infertility drugs. "Our country wants us to be birthing machines, but they're cutting what resources there already are," said Olcott, 20. "And a $1,000 baby bonus? It's low-key like, what, bro? That wouldn't even cover my month's rent." December 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM EST "As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters." -- President Grover Cleveland "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." -- President Theodore Roosevelt |
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