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Austin McCubbin, a longtime Trump ally who ran Mace’s 2022 House re-election campaign, wrote in a Dec. 1 post on X that he was breaking with the congresswoman “out of loyalty to the President” and encouraged voters to “scratch her name from the list” of GOP contenders. McCubbin pointed to the recent discovery of an alleged tie between Mace and a PAC affiliated with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) McCubbin claimed it became clear she “totally embraced” the funds and that she told him she directed a friend to write a seven-figure check to the PAC. “She distanced herself, and...

MARGARET BRENNAN: ... Is the President holding himself to the same standard that he is asking of others when it comes to dialing back dangerous rhetoric? PAUL: You know, everybody knows that the President is famous for his unfiltered social media. But if you take at face value the idea that calling your opponents traitors and then specifically saying that it warrants the death penalty is reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible, there are a number of other ways to describe it, but it’s not something that is helping the country heal wounds. I think it stirs things up and- and really, I...

GE Appliances announced more than 150 million dollars in new contracts for U.S. based suppliers as part of its decision to shift key washer and dryer production from China to its massive Appliance Park complex in Louisville, Kentucky. The new contracts range from 330,000 dollars to 41 million dollars each and cover critical inputs for clothes care production. According to the company, the supplier categories include plastics, castings, steel, aluminum and other core materials required to build its new lineup of washer and dryer units. GE Appliances said the move increases its domestic supplier spending by 3.3 percent. What Products...

Infowars founder Alex Jones urged President Donald Trump to “stop attacking” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday, warning “it doesn’t help” anyone to push the MAGA movement further into civil war. “Trump is not God. We are big supporters, but we’re not Democrat cult members where we don’t question things,” said Jones during an appearance on Eric Bolling’s Real America’s Voice show Bolling! “When we think something’s wrong, we might be wrong too, but we’re gonna speak out about it.” He continued: He’s the best shot we’ve got at saving...

The “same kind of consequences” faced by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein must be inflicted on “perpetrators of heinous crimes” linked to the disgraced financier in the United States, a congressman has said. Thomas Massie, a Republican representative, also pointed to the sacking of Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to Washington, as an example of the fallout faced by those with ties to the late pedophile. Speaking alongside survivors of Epstein at a press conference outside the US Capitol, Massie said: “There’s becoming a reckoning in Britain that needs to happen in the United States: a prince...

A firm representing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) solicited Jeffrey Epstein for donations and to get him to attend a dinner with then-President Barack Obama, newly released files revealed. Thousands of pages of documents from Epstein’s estate published by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week included a 2013 email from a representative of Jeffries’ asking Epstein to meet with and give money to the Democrat leader. House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) exposed the email on the House floor during consideration of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed 427-1: https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1990866192358055989 New York City-based firm Dynamic...

Today’s Republican Party is big on manliness and masculine virtues. The MAGA right in particular is forever obsessing over who is the biggest, the strongest, the most fearless among them.This is why, watching President Trump’s fight to keep a lid on the Epstein files, I have been struck, delighted even, that among the vanishingly few Republican lawmakers with the courage to defy him have been three fire-breathing congresswomen: Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Nancy Mace of South Carolina.Love ’em or hate ’em, these House troublemakers bucked their party leadership, stared down their president and made...

President Donald Trump’s call for House Republicans to support releasing Jeffrey Epstein-related documents was a stunning capitulation after a months-long campaign to block the vote. It was also a specific defeat for Trump at the hands of a despised GOP opponent: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. “He got tired of me winning,” Massie said of Trump’s U-turn in an interview Monday morning. Insisting “I DON’T CARE!” in a late-night Truth Social post, Trump was bowing to the inevitable — a broad House Republican mutiny on a vote that was only scheduled because Massie forced it. It was the result of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers seeking to force the release of files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are predicting a big win in the House this week with a “deluge of Republicans” voting for their bill and bucking the GOP leadership and President Donald Trump, who for months have disparaged their effort. The bill would force the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in federal prison. Information about Epstein’s victims or ongoing federal investigations would be allowed to be redacted. “There...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Cuqita Boyd got into a minor car wreck while driving to work in January 2022, then was charged with driving under the influence after an officer claimed she didn't follow directions during a field sobriety test. But Boyd was adamant she hadn't been drinking and asked to be given a Breathalyzer test on the side of the road to prove it so she wouldn't be late for her job as a U.S. postal worker. The Louisville Metro Police officer, Samantha Davenport, denied that request, later saying she didn't carry a portable Breathalyzer in her cruiser. That...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who is leading the effort to force a vote on the full release of the files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said he is hopeful the number of Republicans backing the measure “could snowball.” “I’ve already had a couple Republicans tell my office privately that they’re going to vote for it,” Massie told CNN’s Manu Raju outside the Capitol on Wednesday. “And I think that could snowball,” he added. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday he will call a vote on the measure next week, speeding up the process after a discharge petition garnered...

Independent Democrat and famed Kentucky horserace trainer Dale Romans today announced his campaign for U.S. Senate to stand up for working people across the state and fix the challenges facing our country like harmful tariffs and dangerous health care cuts – instead of waging exhausting partisan fights that get us nowhere and only divide the nation. “I’ve been in Kentucky my entire life. It's the greatest place in the world and the heart of America. We need a Senator who reflects our people: not polished insiders or party-line politicians running the same old partisan nonsense, but someone who has built...

At least 13 people were killed after a UPS cargo plane crashed after departing Louisville's international airport Tuesday.LOUISVILLE, Ky. — UPS has shared the names of those onboard the plane that crashed in Louisville late Tuesday.Search and recovery operations continued Thursday as first responders and federal aviation investigators sift through the half-a-mile wide debris field. At least 13 people died in the crash, including a young child, according to officials. Mayor Craig Greenberg said nine people are still missing. In a statement, UPS identified the crew onboard as Captain Richard Wartenberg, First Officer Lee Truitt and International Relief Officer Captain...

The Senate on Thursday voted down an effort to block President Donald Trump from conducting strikes against alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela without congressional approval. The War Powers Resolution, introduced by Democratic Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, failed to pass the upper chamber 51 to 49, just a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth briefed top congressional members on the strikes — which some Democrats claimed lacked details on the operations. The resolution would have required Trump “to terminate the use of” U.S. armed forces “for hostilities within or against Venezuela,”...

<p>Two Republican Kentucky congressmen will play a part in deciding the future of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom.</p><p>The lavish gold-accented ballroom, announced by Trump in July, is expected to cost around $300 million to create and sparked controversy in late October after bulldozers removed the entire East Wing of the White House, raising questions around transparency and legal authority.</p>

The engine of a UPS cargo plane that crashed on Tuesday could have detached from the jet, an expert has warned, causing a devastating fireball that killed at least nine people. There are fears the death toll could rise after Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced this morning that sixteen families had reported their loved ones missing. The Boeing MD-11 plane exploded shortly after departing from Kentucky's Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville last night. Speaking with CNN, Mary Schiavo, former Department of Transportation Inspector General, said she believed the engine had come off before the explosion. 'You can see there...

Officials were unable to comment on the cause of the Louisville crash Louisville Metro Police Department chief Paul Humphrey said it’s unclear how long it will take to render the crash site safe for an investigation to take place. Humphrey said they would not be able to answer any questions regarding the cause of the cargo plane crash, as the investigation will be managed by the National Transportation Safety Board. The briefing has now ended, and officials were unable to clarify when the next update might be. Cargo plane was carrying 38,000 gallons of fuel There were 38,000 gallons of...

President Donald Trump boosted Ed Gallrein, the Republican running against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) in the Bluegrass State’s 4th congressional district, on Truth Social Monday afternoon while ruthlessly ripping into Massie. “Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a place I love, and won big SIX TIMES, must be thrown out of office, ASAP! The incredible people of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District gave us a mandate to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and the person that will help us do that is Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Fifth Generation Kentucky Farmer, Captain...

Rep. Thomas Massie has remarried a little more than a year after his wife of 35 years died. The libertarian (R-Ky), who has been blasted as a “loser” by President Trump, confirmed Monday that he wed former Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) staffer Carolyn Grace Moffa — and “of course” raw milk was served at the wedding, he said. Paul and GOP reps. Jim Jordan, Warren Davidson, Marjorie Taylor Green and Victoria Spartz all attended the Oct. 19 ceremony in Pennsylvania, where his new wife is from, he said. Massie’s late wife and mother of his four children, Rhonda Massie, died...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., whose wife passed away last year, announced that he legally remarried last month and then had a celebration with friends and relatives this past weekend.