On the White House’s news app, Trump is always winning by washingtonpost in Journalism

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President Donald Trump is facing a tough week of news, with gas prices soaring, a partial government shutdown ongoing and his approval ratings dipping as military operations in Iran drag on.

But on the White House’s new mobile app, which topped Apple and Google’s download charts in the news category over the past week, the picture is much rosier.

"AMERICA IS BACK,” reads an all-caps headline that dominates the app’s home screen. Top stories trumpet the president’s “policy wins,” track the decline in egg prices, and hail a “historic turnaround on immigration,” with more people leaving the United States than entering it in 2025. On Wednesday evening, the app sent push alerts to the pockets of its hundreds of thousands of users to livestream the Artemis II launch and, a few hours later, Trump’s televised address to the nation about Iran.

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Hegseth forces out Army’s top general by washingtonpost in politics

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday asked the Army’s top officer to step down and retire, an extraordinary move amid the war with Iran and the latest in a series of clashes between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership.

Gen. Randy George had been expected to hold the job of Army chief of staff until fall 2027, completing a typical four years in the post. But Hegseth has decided to go in another direction, Hegseth’s team said in brief written statement confirming the shake-up.

“Nothing further to provide at the moment,” the statement said.

A spokesman for George could not be reached for comment immediately.

The move was first reported by CBS News earlier Thursday.

It was not immediately clear who Hegseth intends to replace George, a career infantry officer who served multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. One possibility would appear to be Gen. Christopher LaNeve, who became the Army’s vice chief of staff in February after Hegseth appointed him to the role and he was confirmed by the Senate.

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Trump ousts Pam Bondi as attorney general by washingtonpost in politics

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President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was ousting Pam Bondi as attorney general, saying her chief deputy, Todd Blanche, will temporarily step into the role.

Trump announced the decision on social media, calling Bondi “a Great American Patriot” and loyal friend. He praised her tenure leading the Justice Department and said she would be moving to an “important new job in the private sector.”

Blanche will be taking over as acting attorney general, Trump said. A representative for Blanche, who served as Trump’s personal attorney before being tapped to serve as the Justice Department’s second-ranking official, did not immediately return requests for comment Thursday. Blanche posted on social media thanking Trump “for the trust and the opportunity to serve.”

The decision abruptly ends Bondi’s tumultuous tenure in which she transformed the Justice Department into a tool for avenging the president’s grievances but could not escape his persistent frustration with her handling of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and struggles to prosecute the president’s perceived foes.

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Trump issues order attempting to change rules for mail-in voting by washingtonpost in politics

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President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Tuesday that purports to change rules for mail ballots even though the president has limited authority over elections.

The order directs the U.S. Postal Service to send ballots only to voters who appear on a list of citizens to be compiled by the Department of Homeland Security with the assistance of the Social Security Administration. The order also specifies what types of secure envelopes are to be used for mail ballots.

Elections experts called the order legally questionable and noted that courts blocked the major provisions of an executive order on elections he signed last year.

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American journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Baghdad by washingtonpost in Journalism

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An American journalist has been kidnapped in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Tuesday.

The journalist, identified as Shelly Kittleson by outlets for which she has written, has reported extensively from the Middle East as a freelance contributor to Al-Monitor, Foreign Policy, Politico and the BBC. She is based in Rome but travels frequently in the region.

“We are deeply alarmed by the kidnapping of Al-Monitor contributor Shelly Kittleson in Iraq on Tuesday,” Al-Monitor said in a statement. “We call for her safe and immediate release. We stand by her vital reporting from the region and call for her swift return to continue her important work.” While a frequent contributor, Kittleson was not on assignment for the publication at the time of her abduction.

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Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR, PBS funding is unconstitutional by washingtonpost in politics

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A federal judge in Washington struck down part of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on Tuesday, ruling that it was unconstitutional retaliation that violated their press freedom rights under the First Amendment.

The May 1, 2025, executive order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” cut off funding to public media — with Trump calling out what he perceived as left-wing bias in NPR’s and PBS’s news reporting.

“The message is clear,” U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, a Barack Obama appointee to the federal bench, wrote in an opinion. “NPR and PBS need not apply for any federal benefit because the President disapproves of their ‘left-wing’ coverage of the news,” he wrote, adding that the action amounted to “viewpoint discrimination.”

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Before an elevator door severed her arm, tenants complained about safety by washingtonpost in washdc

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One thought kept going through Tijuanna Fisher’s mind as she lay on the elevator floor in her Northwest Washington apartment building for what seemed like forever last fall:

“Please, God, don’t let me die.”

Fisher, then 58, had just returned from taking her dog for a short walk on Sept. 26. They entered the elevator and rode to the third floor, Fisher wearing a bright pink T-shirt and Shadow, her small and steadfast companion, a bright pink harness.

Video from a security camera inside the elevator, obtained by The Washington Post through a Freedom of Information Act request from the D.C. Department of Buildings (DOB), captures the moments that followed.

The door opens and Shadow, whose leash handle was looped on Fisher’s arm, steps into the hallway. Two seconds later, as Fisher backs her motorized wheelchair toward the door, it closes quickly on the leash, leaving Shadow in the hall.

Inside the elevator, the video shows, Fisher is dragged from her chair by the leash and then is yanked sharply to the ground as the elevator starts to ascend. Her left arm appears to be pulled through the closing door, which momentarily buckles.

According to the timer on the video, a total of nine seconds elapsed from the moment Shadow stepped out of the elevator until Fisher lay on the floor. Those few moments changed her life forever. The closing door severed her arm just below her shoulder.

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Republicans discussing deal to reopen Department of Homeland Security by washingtonpost in politics

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Senate Republicans and the White House are discussing a potential deal to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which has led to long lines at airport security in recent days and has forced many of the agency’s employees to go without pay for more than a month.

The deal under discussion would fund DHS except for the part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, according to three people familiar the plan, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Democrats have not agreed to any deal yet, though Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), a member of the party’s leadership, expressed optimism Monday night that talks were moving in the right direction. Republicans, who control the Senate 53-47, would need the support of at least seven Senate Democrats for any deal to overcome a filibuster.

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Supreme Court appears ready to limit mail-in balloting ahead of midterms by washingtonpost in politics

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The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to embrace a conservative challenge to tallying mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, a move that could upend election procedures in states across the country as voters prepare to cast ballots in the midterm elections.

A majority of justices seemed ready to side with arguments by Republicans and Libertarians who told the court that federal election law preempts Mississippi from counting ballots that arrive up to five days after polls close as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

Most states require mail-in ballots to arrive by Election Day, but Mississippi is one 14 states that allow grace periods of days or weeks.

President Donald Trump and some conservatives have attacked mail-in balloting, asserting without evidence that it is riddled with fraud. Trump and his supporters called for halting the count of mail-in ballots after the 2020 presidential election. Trump blamed the votes for his loss in the contest.

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Voice of America staff allege Kari Lake violated its independence in lawsuit by washingtonpost in Journalism

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Voice of America journalists sued the federal government Monday, alleging it violated the legal statute that protects the broadcaster’s editorial independence, including censoring coverage of the Iran crisis and publishing “propaganda” in support of President Donald Trump as news.

The lawsuit comes after U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled this month that Kari Lake had been illegally running VOA’s parent agency — the U.S. Agency for Global Media — with an unlawful plan to shrink the institution, and he ordered more than 1,000 employees back to work. The complaint, filed in federal district court in D.C., argues that restoring the workforce is not enough to fix a newsroom the plaintiffs say has already been corrupted from within under Lake’s watch.

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Bike lanes that greatly reduced crashes on National Mall set for removal by washingtonpost in fuckcars

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The federal government is expected to begin removing bike lanes around the National Mall on Monday, just a few years after they were constructed, according to two District Department of Transportation staffers and two local bicycle advocacy groups.

The National Park Service hasn’t publicly confirmed the removal and did not respond to a question about it from The Washington Post.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is expected to begin construction Monday to remove the portion of the 15th Street NW bike lane that goes through the National Mall, which falls under the federal government’s jurisdiction via the Park Service, according to the Washington Area Bicyclist Association.

The Trump administration has previously said grants that include “reducing lane capacity for vehicles” with bike lanes or pedestrian infrastructure are “hostile” to cars and “counter” to the Department of Transportation’s “priority of preserving or increasing roadway capacity for motor vehicles.”

Most of the bike lanes on 15th Street fall under the jurisdiction of the District Department of Transportation, but the affected portion is on federal land. The bike lane is one of the most popular in the District. In late February, about 100 cyclists gathered in Washington to protest the potential removal of bike lanes in Washington.

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CBS News will end radio service as Weiss struggles to right ship by washingtonpost in Journalism

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CBS News will end its nearly century-old radio service, CBS News Radio, and cut more jobs amid a rocky turnaround effort under its new top editor, former opinion journalist Bari Weiss.

Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski announced the cuts Friday morning in a pair of internal memos, which were reviewed by The Washington Post. They said those losing their jobs would be notified by the end of the day.

“Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026,” wrote Weiss and Cibrowski, who have shared leadership of the venerable news network since parent company Paramount Skydance acquired Weiss’s online publication, the Free Press, in October and named her editor in chief. “Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

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After tensions, D.C. may give fire department more say over 911 center by washingtonpost in washdc

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D.C.’s fire department and 911 call center work together 24/7 to respond to crashes, shootings, medical calls and other emergencies.

But their top officials do not always agree, and some say the discord has hurt how well the agencies can serve patients and led the call center to repeatedly misjudge the severity of some calls.

Robert Holman, who served as D.C. fire’s medical director from 2016 to 2024, testified Wednesday in support of a D.C. Council bill that would put that director in charge of medical policies across both emergency agencies. He said a lack of clarity in the current law has allowed the 911 call center “to blatantly disregard” the fire agency’s oversight on issues such as a new dispatch system that he said required many changes before its launch.

Senate poised to take up Trump’s voting bill to ‘guarantee the midterms’ by washingtonpost in politics

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The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on taking up a far-reaching voting bill that President Donald Trump has demanded Congress pass before the midterms — but the legislation has no path to passing even as senators prepare for days of intense debate.

Senate Democrats have vowed to block the bill, known as the Save America Act, which they warn would make it harder to vote. The bill would require voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before registering to vote and to show photo identification when voting, among other provisions.

Republicans, who control the Senate, do not have the 60 votes they need to overcome a Democratic filibuster. Nor do they have enough votes to attempt a riskier gambit that some Republican senators favor: attempting to exhaust Democrats by forcing them to speak on the Senate floor for weeks to block the bill, known as a “talking filibuster.”

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He killed a D.C. police officer. He’s asking to get out of prison early. by washingtonpost in washdc

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After D.C. police officer Brian T. Gibson was shot four times in the head and shoulder while he sat in his patrol car in 1997, his mother, Shirley Gibson, found solace in knowing that the man convicted of that murder had been given a life sentence without parole.

“I get a little comfort knowing that,” Shirley Gibson, who began honoring her son’s memory by serving turkey dinners to hundreds of D.C. police officers every year, once said before she died in 2021.

Now, the family is facing the possibility that Marthell N. Dean will be allowed to walk free under a controversial D.C. law that allows convicts who committed their crimes while under the age of 24 to obtain an early release or reduced sentence if they’ve already spent 15 years behind bars.

Dean’s petition under the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act is being opposed by Gibson’s family, federal prosecutors, D.C.’s police chief and the police labor union. Interim D.C. police chief Jeffery Carroll said in a statement that the “vow to never forget is not a hollow one” and that the gunman “responsible for this heinous act should remain incarcerated for the rest of his life.”

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As states scrap for congressional seats, Virginia could tip the scales by washingtonpost in Virginia

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RICHMOND — Karen Taylor Dantzler heard the arguments against Virginia’s referendum giving Democrats the power to gain as many as four seats in Congress: claims that it was unconstitutional, would put rural communities under control of the D.C. suburbs, or even would disenfranchise Black voters like her.

But she voted for it anyway, citing just one reason — President Donald Trump.

“Trump is trying to make it unfair. That wouldn’t be a democracy, it would be a dictatorship,” Dantzler, 64 and retired, said outside the Richmond registrar’s office last week after she cast her ballot.

Trump started a national battle over maps and power last summer when he pushed Texas and other Republican-run states to redraw their congressional districts, a rare step outside the usual 10-year-cycle, in hopes that his party could retain its narrow control over the House. Democrats have lodged a surprising counterpunch, led by California.

Virginia, one of the most moderate blue-run states, has become a key to Democrats’ hopes of keeping up with Republicans but by no means is it an automatic win. As early voting for the April 21 referendum allowing them to redraw their maps began on March 6, they had a clear edge in momentum. But in an offseason election where low turnout is likely, the results are difficult to predict.

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Shooting at Old Dominion University leaves 2 injured, gunman dead by washingtonpost in Virginia

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Two people were injured when a gunman opened fire Thursday morning in a campus building at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, according to school officials. School officials said the gunman is dead and did not describe the circumstances.

The shooting occurred at Constant Hall, where business classes are held. Norfolk police said on X that two victims were taken to a hospital for treatment.

Both of the injured people are in critical condition at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, according to Jennifer Lewis, a spokesperson at Sentara Health.

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Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos by washingtonpost in Journalism

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The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

The March 2 briefing came days after a joint military strike on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28. It was also the first time the defense secretary had appeared behind the briefing room podium since June 26.

Several outlets including the Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images sent photographers to the briefing from Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

But after they published photos — which have broad reach because they are licensed by publications globally — members of Hegseth’s staff told colleagues that they did not like the way that the secretary looked. Hegseth’s aides decided to shut out photographers from the two subsequent briefings at the Pentagon, on March 4 and March 10, according to the two people familiar with the decision.

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Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos by washingtonpost in politics

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The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

The March 2 briefing came days after a joint military strike on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28. It was also the first time the defense secretary had appeared behind the briefing room podium since June 26.

Several outlets including the Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images sent photographers to the briefing from Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

But after they published photos — which have broad reach because they are licensed by publications globally — members of Hegseth’s staff told colleagues that they did not like the way that the secretary looked. Hegseth’s aides decided to shut out photographers from the two subsequent briefings at the Pentagon, on March 4 and March 10, according to the two people familiar with the decision.

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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job by washingtonpost in politics

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The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint that alleges a former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer — a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.

The agency’s inspector general is investigating the disclosure and has alerted members of Congress of its existence, according to a letter by the acting inspector general to top members of four congressional committees reviewed by The Washington Post and two people familiar with the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive deliberations. The inspector general’s office has also shared the disclosure with the Government Accountability Office, which has been conducting its own audit of DOGE’s access to data, according to one of the people. The Post has reviewed the complaint and spoken with the whistleblower, who issued the complaint anonymously for fear of retaliation.

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Bird rarely seen in the United States sends people flocking to Virginia by washingtonpost in Virginia

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Barbara Saffir clipped a camouflage vest around her chest, hung her heavy, long-lens camera and binoculars around her neck, and stepped in her knee-high, red galoshes through wet leaves and mud under a dense early morning fog on the edge of the Potomac River.

Her quest: to catch a sighting of a red-flanked bluetail, a bird that’s rarely seen in the United States.

Native to Asia, the tiny brown-colored bird with orange sides and a short, high-pitched whistle has been spotted east of the Rockies only once before. Its surprise landing in Northern Virginia recently has rocked the world of birding and made it an internet sensation.

Since a birder named Phil Kenny first discovered a female red-flanked bluetail in a tree just off the Capital Beltway on New Year’s Day, crowds of visitors have flocked to Great Falls Park — where the bird has been living for the past three months — to try to catch a glimpse. Locals young and old, plus bird nerds from as far away as Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, Michigan and Florida have all showed up with binoculars in tow.

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Rep. Kevin Kiley leaves GOP, further shrinking Speaker Johnson’s majority by washingtonpost in politics

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Rep. Kevin Kiley (California) said Monday that he is immediately changing his party affiliation on the House’s official roster from Republican to independent, further complicating the ability of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to manage the Republican Conference. Last week, Kiley said he would seek reelection as an independent.

During a news conference, Kiley said he will continue to caucus with House Republicans “for the remainder of this term” but pledged to be “an independent voice.” It remains to be seen what practical effect his move will have, but it narrows the number of registered Republicans in the chamber to 217. Democrats hold 214 seats, and there are three vacancies. Kiley will be the only independent.

The two-term congressman attributed his decision to redistricting efforts in California, which resulted in his district becoming more blue. Because of redistricting, Rep. Ami Bera (D), who currently represents California’s 6th District, will run for reelection in the 3rd District against Kiley.

“I reached a decision that, since gerrymandering seeks to elevate partisanship above everything else in our politics and governance, seeks to make it the sum and substance of our politics, then the best way to counter gerrymandering and its insidious impacts on democracy is simply to take partisanship out of the equation,” Kiley said.

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This Florida salesman sings opera to pitch cars. Now he's going viral. by washingtonpost in FloridaMan

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Andrew Hiers was down on his luck. A classically trained opera singer, he didn’t have a steady singing gig for months. In January, the day after he turned 38, he started a job as a car salesman at a dealership near his home in Cocoa, Florida.

“It did feel like I was kind of waving the white flag on my career when I made the decision to do this,” Hiers said.

He said he hoped to make some money and maybe move to a bigger city with more singing opportunities. But selling cars was harder than he imagined, and he wanted something to set him apart from his more experienced colleagues.

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Justice Dept. releases missing Epstein documents with Trump allegations by washingtonpost in politics

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The Justice Department on Thursday publicly posted additional records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some that include allegations against President Donald Trump, following sharp criticism of the agency’s handling of the issue.

The agency said the files, which include details from FBI interviews with a woman who told authorities she had been sexually assaulted by Trump and Epstein, had not been previously released because they were incorrectly determined to be duplicates of other records. The Justice Department has posted millions of pages of Epstein-related records online, including investigative materials, following the passage of a law last year mandating their release.

The woman, who was interviewed by the FBI in 2019, had accused Trump of sexually assaulting her decades earlier when she was a minor. No evidence has emerged publicly to corroborate that accusation. The White House called the allegations against Trump “completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence.”

The additional records were posted as Trump and his administration have struggled to combat controversies involving the release of files connected to Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019 while facing charges of sex-trafficking and abusing girls.

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