At which, the MAGA cult, inside and outside government, goes completely bananas. Now it appears that the upper echelons of the FBI might come tumbling down. From CNN: This comes after a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the case earlier this week.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department scrambled on Tuesday to answer questions after its leadership concluded there was no evidence to support a number of long-held conspiracy theories about the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele.

She characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be."

Joe Biden’s White House physician on Wednesday declined to answer questions during a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee, invoking his Fifth Amendment right as the Republican-led panel pushes forward in its probe of the former president’s mental fitness and decline.

President Donald Trump's tariff talks heat up again. Fallout from the Department of Justice's Jeffrey Epstein memo continues. Federal agents and protesters clashed in California over ICE raids. And Democrats keep their foot on the gas in opposition to the recently passed "Big, Beautiful" spending bill.

An official memo also says that the disgraced financier did take his own life - contradicting conspiracy theories.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the state of US democracy keeps her up at night in remarks that built on her dissents lamenting Trump administration attempts to expand presidential authority and the decisions by fellow colleagues so far backing that effort.

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that sexual predator and financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while incarcerated in New York in 2019.

James Ryan, the University of Virginia’s president, is resigning after a pressure campaign by the Trump administration and amid a Justice Department investigation into UVA’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.