Laura Coates Live

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Trump Accuses Dems Of “Seditious Behavior, Punishable By Death” Nov 21, 2025

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President Donald Trump has yet again suggested that his political opponents deserve to be executed. And yet again, he’s basing this argument on a rather novel legal theory and a dubious interpretation of the facts.

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Bondi On Releasing The Epstein Files: “We Will Follow The Law” Nov 20, 2025

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President Donald Trump said on social media tonight that he has signed the bill that directs the Department of Justice to publicly release all its Jeffrey Epstein-related files.

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Congress Greenlights Bill Forcing Trump To Release Epstein Files Nov 19, 2025

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The Senate has unanimously agreed to pass the House-backed bill forcing the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files as soon as it’s received from the chamber. Majority leader John Thune said that would happen tomorrow.

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Trump Now Backs Epstein Vote Nov 18, 2025

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Speaker Mike Johnson signaled he could support a bill on releasing the files if changes were made to some provisions in the Senate. GOP Senate leader John Thune is still mulling whether to schedule a vote, a source said.

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Trump Orders DOJ To Investigate Epstein Ties To Democrats Nov 15, 2025

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President Donald Trump said Friday he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to many other high-profile figures, in an extraordinary step that comes just days after Democrats released emails from the late Epstein that mention him.

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DOJ’s No. 2 Says “Epstein’s Estate Hid” Emails For Years Nov 14, 2025

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House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to quickly schedule a House vote on an effort to force the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files once the calculation was made that it couldn’t be stopped.

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WH: New Epstein Emails Prove Trump Did Nothing Wrong Nov 13, 2025

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The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released an additional 20,000 pages of documents the GOP-led panel received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew.

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Trump Rejects Worries Over Rising Costs Nov 12, 2025

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Congress is moving quickly to pass a funding package that would end the longest federal shutdown in the nation’s history. Plus, Trump was discussing the issue of “affordability” after Democrats won state and local elections Tuesday in part by campaigning on the cost of living.

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Dems Fume Over Deal To End Shutdown With No ACA Guarantees Nov 11, 2025

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A small band of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Monday night to approve a funding measure to reopen the federal government — without securing their party’s demand to guarantee an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, which help millions of Americans afford insurance.

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No Shutdown Deal As SNAP Funding Paused Nov 08, 2025

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday temporarily paused a lower court order that required the Trump administration to cover full food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November, siding with the administration on a short-term basis in a legal fight that has quickly become a defining confrontation of the government shutdown.

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