AG says ‘truckload’ of Epstein documents have been delivered by the FBI
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the Department of Justice has received more Jeffery Epstein files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after the document release she touted last week fell flat.
Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Bondi confirmed that a “truckload” of Epstein files were delivered by the FBI after she gave the agency until 8 a.m. on Friday morning to deliver them.
“I gave [the FBI] a deadline of Friday at 8 a.m. to get us everything,” Bondi explained. “And a source had told me where the documents were being kept, Southern District of New York, shock. So we got them all by Friday at 8 a.m.”
“Thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them…and Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents,” she continued.
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Bondi went on to describe the documents as being “a truckload of evidence,” and emphasized that a detailed report is incoming.
“And, you know, we’re going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein,” she said.
The attorney general also accused the Biden administration of “sitting” on the documents.
“No one did anything with them. And why were they sitting in the Southern District of New York? I want a full report on that,” Bondi said. “You know, sadly, these people don’t believe in transparency. But I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don’t believe in honesty.”
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“And it’s a new day. It’s a new administration, and everything’s going to come out to the public. The public has the right to know Americans have a right to know.”
The highly-anticipated rollout of the Epstein files drew criticism across the country on Thursday, disappointing those who expected a “client list” or any significant new information about the disgraced Palm Beach-based sex trafficker. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., was one of the many vocal critics of the rollout.
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“I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today… A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein’s phonebook,” the Florida congresswoman wrote on X. “THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
President Trump pausing all US military aid to Ukraine following clash with Zelenskyy
The Trump administration is pausing all aid to Ukraine, including weapons in transit or in Poland, until Ukrainian leaders show more appreciation for U.S. support and a commitment to peace, Fox News has learned.
The pause comes days after a contentious meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump in the White House over how to end the three-year conflict initiated by Russia.
“President Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace,” a White House official told Fox News. “We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution.”
A senior Trump administration official also told Fox News that military aid will remain on hold until Ukrainian leaders show a commitment to good faith peace negotiations.
“This is not permanent termination of aid, it’s a pause,” the official emphasized. “The orders are going out right now.”
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The official said Monday’s move was in response to Zelenskyy’s conduct over the last week.
Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump and Vice President JD Vance last week erupted into a shouting match that was seen worldwide. The Ukrainian president traveled to the United States to meet with Trump after the commander-in-chief said a peace negotiation to end the war between Ukraine and Russia is in its final stages.
Zelenskyy was apparently presented with a minerals for security agreement by the Trump administration prior to the press event, but the deal included no security guarantees to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion.
Minutes after reporters in the Oval Office asked their first questions, an aggressive spat unfolded between the heads of state.
“We cannot just sign an … agreement without any substantial guarantees,” one Ukrainian defense advisor told Fox News Digital. “It’s not going to work. It’s just going to reward the aggressor.”
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Zelenskyy’s refusal to sign a deal apparently contributed to the ire of Trump and Vice President JD Vance. The Ukrainian leader pointed out that Russia never stopped attacking Ukraine between 2014 and 2022, four years of which included Trump’s first term.
“Nobody stopped him you know,” Zelenskyy said, adding that Russian President Putin repeatedly violated bilateral agreements.
Trump then accused Zelenskyy of “gambling with World War Three” as the Ukrainian president pushed back at suggestions that he should work harder to reach a ceasefire with Vladimir Putin.
Following the heated exchange, Zelenskyy refused to apologize when asked by Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier.
“Mr. President, do you think your relationship with Donald Trump — President Trump — after today can be salvaged?” Baier asked Zelenskyy.
“Yes, of course, because it’s relations more than two presidents. It’s the historical relations, strong relations between our people, and that’s why I always began… to thank your people from our people,” Zelenskyy said during an exclusive interview Friday on “Special Report.”
“Of course, thankful to the president, and, of course, to Congress, but first of all, to your people. Your people helped save our people… we wanted very much to have all these strong relations, and where it counted, we will have it.”
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The Biden administration gave billions in military aid to Ukraine to fend off Russian forces amid its three-year war following Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor.
When asked Monday about the status of the rare-earth minerals deal, Trump told reporters that he would disclose where the deal stands when he addresses a joint session of Congress Tuesday in a speech akin to the annual State of the Union. He added that he would like to see the Ukrainian leader express more gratitude for U.S. support during the war in order to rekindle peace negotiations.
“I just think he should be more appreciative because this country has stuck with him through thick and thin,” Trump said. “We’ve given them much more than Europe, and Europe should have given more than us because, as you know, that’s right there, that’s the border.”
Conservatives applaud Hegseth flipping script on Hillary Clinton with one picture
Conservatives on social media praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday after he responded to an attack from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a photo that was seen over 2 million times on X.
“Wouldn’t want to hurt Putin’s feelings,” Clinton posted on X over the weekend along with a Gizmodo headline that read, “Trump’s Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders Cyber Command to ‘Stand Down’ on All Russia Operations.”
Hegseth responded to the post with a photo of Clinton smiling with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov in March 2009 in which the two are holding a “reset” button that was meant to symbolize a reset of relations between the two countries.
The post was quickly praised by conservatives on X.
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“Crooked Hillary just got OWNED,” Department of Defense Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson posted on X.
“Call an ambulance …,” Rasmussen Reports posted on X.
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“LOL,” conservative commentator Jack Posobiec posted on X.
“Total Secretary Hegseth W,” Greg Price of the Trump White House Rapid Response Team posted on X.
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Hegseth’s post was reposted over 10,000 times on X with over 3,000 comments and over 70,000 likes.
Fox News Digital reached out to Clinton’s office for comment.
Democrats have been highly critical of the Trump administration in recent days and attacked the president as being aligned with Russia based on the heated Oval Office exchange between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on Friday.
The Trump administration has maintained that the controversy shows Zelenskyy is not serious about peace talks, and Trump has publicly said the Ukrainian president can return to the White House at a later time to resume negotiations.
“We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don’t end up like Europe!” Trump recently posted on Truth Social over the weekend.
Carl Dean, media-shy husband to country music icon Dolly Parton, dead at 82
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband, died Monday, March 3, according to the country star. He was 82.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” the “Jolene” singer wrote on social media.
“Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy.”
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Dean will be “laid to rest in a private ceremony with immediate family attending,” Parton wrote online. “He was survived by his siblings Sandra and Donnie.”
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Parton first met Dean at a laundromat when she was 18 and he was 21. They married in 1966.
He was rarely seen by Parton’s side but always played a strong supporting role in his wife’s life.
“He’s always supporting me as long as I don’t try to drag him in on it,” Parton told People in 2019 at the premiere of her Netflix series, “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings.”
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“He’s always been my biggest fan behind the scenes, but he’s at home. I don’t think they’re probably showing much of this on TV, and if they do, he might see it.
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“But, anyway, he’d never come dragging around. I’d rather bring somebody else with me, you know? He’s never jealous of that either.”
Parton also spoke about the “key” to their love in 2023.
“He loves music, but he’s not in the music business at all, so we have different things to talk about, his world and my world, and we work really well together,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “We have a lot of love and respect for each other, and I think the key to all of it… we both have a crazy, warped sense of humor, so we have a lot of fun.”
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The “9 to 5” singer also recently admitted that the simple things in their relationship kept the couple interested in each other.
“We just enjoy each other,” she told E! News in 2024. “I like to cook. And one of the things that we like to do — not necessarily a date night, we have a lot of date days — we have our little RV, and we like to travel around.
“Going down and get some food, or I’ll make a picnic. And we go down to the river and have a picnic and just kind of ride around and do our little things.”
Parton recently suffered heartache in November when her older brother, David Wilburn Parton, died at his home in Tennessee. He was 82.
David was one of Dolly’s 11 siblings born to Robert and Avie Lee Parton. The couple shared six boys and six girls.
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Deep blue state makes major offer to federal workers fired by DOGE
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul launched an ad campaign in Washington, D.C., and New York City this weekend offering to hire federal workers who were fired by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
One ad, which ran in D.C.’s Union Station and New York City’s Moynihan train stations, depicted the Statue of Liberty and read: “DOGE said you’re fired? We say you’re hired! New York wants you!”
The ad includes a link to the New York state government’s website, which lists nearly two thousand different positions in the state government.
After meeting with New York residents impacted by the federal cuts, Hochul held a press conference on Monday in which she bashed Musk and “his clueless cadre of career killers.”
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She said that many of the fired federal workers “found the whole experience degrading [and] dehumanizing” and accused Musk and President Donald Trump of not caring for the needs of Americans or the services that she said will be impacted by DOGE firings.
“They call themselves putting America First. Give me a break,” she said. “They know nothing about the functions of government. They don’t know who it serves, and they don’t care about the tireless public servants who keep it all running.”
“None of this seems to matter to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, not at all. For them, it’s just fodder for this cheap second-rate reality show. ‘You’re fired,’ it’s fun for them to say it,” she said.
Addressing former federal workers directly, Hochul said: “The current regime in Washington may not recognize your talents, but I can assure you New York State does. We don’t vilify public servants. We value you. We cherish your contribution, and we do want to welcome you to the New York family.”
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“In New York, we know it’s not the demagogues and the technocrats who make America great,” she went on. “It’s public servants like Luke and all the people I just met, and countless who came before them, who dedicate their lives to serving others.”
Hochul said the state of New York has 7,000 public sector positions available, including positions for engineers, attorneys, healthcare workers, educators and others. She said the campaign is part of an “ongoing effort” to rebuild the state’s public workforce after it was “decimated, particularly during COVID.”
Beyond hiring laid-off federal employees, Hochul emphasized states’ role in resisting the new Trump administration’s DOGE efforts.
“It starts in the courts,” she said. “We are ready to file lawsuits to stop anything, particularly with this first wave of layoffs for provisional individuals because the proper notice wasn’t done. They didn’t follow any rules. They did not follow a single rule. They think they are kings and they can just come in and do whatever they want.”
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“So, in the meantime, the states have to step up,” she went on. “This is what we can do. We’ll see them in court, but also, let’s take care of these people. Let’s not have them worry about their healthcare, whether or not their child’s going to get medical treatment for their own families.”
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In response, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital: “No amount of Democrat obstruction will stop President Trump from delivering on the promises he made to the American people.”
“Radical, out-of-touch Democrats should clean up the disasters they’ve created in their own states before trying to promote their failed policies to the rest of America,” said Fields.
FIRST ON FOX: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has made border security a cornerstone issue of his tenure in the House of Representatives, a theme he’s continuing through President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
Fox News Digital has learned that Johnson’s partial list of guests to the prime-time speech will include Tom Homan, the former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, who Trump has tapped to serve as his border czar.
Johnson also invited Olivia Hayes, a young widow from his district who lives in Kinder, Louisiana. Her husband, Wesley Hayes, was killed by an illegal immigrant in a drunken-driving incident, the speaker’s office said.
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On another Republican priority front, Commonwealth LNG Chair Ben Dell will also be one of Johnson’s guests on Tuesday night.
The Commonwealth LNG project was the first major beneficiary of the Trump administration’s reversal of former President Joe Biden’s pause on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits. Energy has been a top issue for Republicans, particularly in resource-rich areas like Louisiana.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright last month announced the permit for the project, which is also in Johnson’s home state of Louisiana.
Wright said at the time that it was “one of many steps that DOE will be taking to assure our future as a reliable energy supplier to the world and resume regular order to our regulatory responsibilities over natural gas exports.”
In a nod to U.S. ties to Israel, Johnson is also bringing Noa Argamani, who was taken hostage by Hamas after the terror group’s brutal Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
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His guests will also include members of conservative media. Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh, both of the Daily Wire, are expected to attend as Johnson’s guests.
Johnson is expected to sit on the dais behind Trump on Tuesday night, the speaker of the House’s traditional position, beside the vice president during the president’s big annual speech.
Because Trump has not been president for the entire past year, the speech is not called a “State of the Union” but rather a presidential address.
Secretary Hegseth orders iconic military base to be renamed — but with a twist
The U.S. Army’s installation that trains all of its infantry and armor soldiers, will be renamed Fort Benning, its original designation.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered the Columbus, Georgia, military post to revert to its old name after it was re-designated as Fort Moore during the Biden administration.
However, the base won’t honor Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, its original namesake. Instead, it will be renamed after Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his “extraordinary heroism” in action during World War I in France in 1918.
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“This change underscores the installation’s storied history of service to the United States of America, honors the warfighter ethos, and recognizes the heroes who have trained at the installation for decades and will continue to train on its storied ranges,” Hegseth said in a statement.
The name change is part of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle a Biden-era Defense Department initiative motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests to change the names of military installations named after Confederate military figures.
In February, Hegseth ordered that Fort Liberty revert back to Fort Bragg. The base was originally named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, North Carolina, who was known for owning slaves and losing key Civil War battles that contributed to the Confederacy’s downfall.
The new name pays tribute to Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II hero who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his exceptional courage during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Fort Benning has long been home to the Army’s infantry school and is home to the service’s elite Army Ranger School, as well as basic training for soldiers in non-combat fields. In recent years, the Army’s armor school relocated from Fort Knox, Kentucky, to the Georgia installation.
Fort Moore was named after Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife Julia. Hal Moore served in Vietnam as commander of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment based at Fort Benning and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. His service during the first major battle of the Vietnam War at Ia Drang was depicted in the 2002 Mel Gibson film “We Were Soldiers.”
Julia Moore successfully lobbied the Pentagon to adopt a policy that military families would be notified of war casualties in person rather than by telegram.
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“I further direct the Army to honor the legacy of Lieutenant General Harold Moore’s storied military service and Ms. Julia Moore’s family and casualty notification advocacy in a manner that celebrates their significant contributions to the local community and the Army,” Hegseth said.
Eagles reportedly letting 6-time Pro Bowler go after Super Bowl win
The Philadelphia Eagles are already making big offseason moves after winning Super Bowl LIX, but they aren’t in the additions department just yet.
Instead, veteran cornerback Darius Slay is getting released after five seasons with the organization.
Slay, a six-time Pro Bowl cornerback, will be a post-June 1 cut, which saves the Eagles $4.3 million against their salary cap to make other moves, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
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The Eagles’ roster is stacked, but GM Howie Roseman has been known to make some big splashes in recent offseasons, and creating space on his cap is crucial in doing so. One mustn’t forget every NFL Draft class also requires a good amount of cap space.
The Eagles have just over $20 million heading into this month, and key players like linebacker Zach Baun, defensive end Josh Sweat and offensive guard Mekhi Becton are set for free agency.
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“As the cap gets tighter, as all our expensive players start becoming expensive, you have to go with young players,” Roseman said this past month, per ESPN.
So, Slay, 34, is a casualty despite his defensive prowess in the secondary. The Eagles, though, could afford to let him go considering their rookie tandem of Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean played a vital role in winning the Lombardi Trophy. They project to be the team’s top cornerbacks for years to come on their rookie deals.
Slay, however, was a defensive captain for this Eagles locker room, playing a large role in senior leadership as well as helping the team be the No. 1 defense in the pass game last season.
In 14 games, Slay had 13 passes defended, 49 tackles, one forced fumble, as well as a fumble recovery.
According to CBS Sports, Slay wants to play one more year, and that usually means going to a contender to vie for another Super Bowl ring.
One team to look out for is the Detroit Lions, the squad Slay started his career with. They need cornerback help, and they’re expected to look for it in all sectors this offseason, including free agency, where Slay is headed.
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Slay totaled 347 tackles and 104 passes defended over seven seasons with the Lions. From 2017-19, he made three straight Pro Bowls and was named first team All-Pro in 2017 after leading the league with eight interceptions and 26 passes defended.