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Jared Kushner's father paid $25,000 to have a prostitute seduce his sister's husband on a hidden camera. Then he had the sex tape mailed to his sister.
His sister had been cooperating with federal investigators looking into his taxes and campaign donations. Charles Kushner, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, wanted leverage.
According to the FBI complaint, the men he hired couldn't find a woman willing to do it. So Kushner personally recruited a call girl in New York and promised her $7,000 to $10,000.
She met the brother-in-law outside a diner and said her car had broken down. The next day, a hidden camera in her motel room recorded them having sex.
Kushner watched the tape in a conference room at his office and "expressed satisfaction," the complaint says. He asked for copies with her face pixelled out, and still photos.
He tried the same thing on another witness, a former employee, and advanced $10,000 to $12,000 for it. That man turned the woman down twice.
In May 2004 he ordered the tape mailed to his sister and to her children, timed to arrive right before a family party. The investigator he hired talked him out of sending it to the kids. His sister opened the envelope and gave it to federal agents.
In the video below, Chris Christie, the US attorney who prosecuted him, says it was her son's engagement party, one Kushner was going to attend. He calls him "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted in his seven years there.
Kushner pleaded guilty and got 2 years. In 2020, Trump pardoned him. In 2025, the Senate confirmed him as US ambassador to France, 51-45.
At his hearing he said: "I made a very, very, very serious mistake." And: "There's only one accountant I trust that I believe in, and it's God."
Should a man who did this to his own sister represent America in Paris, or did 2 years in prison settle it?
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He’s never been in my house.
He’ll never be in my house.
Thank you for your attention to the matter of my house.
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Democrat Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Governor's race.
She will make history as the nation's first Native American governor.
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Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, will be the first female Native American governor of any U.S. state, not the first overall. Johnston Murray was the first Native American to be elected governor in the U.S.
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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won the Georgia governor's race.
She will become the first Black woman ever elected governor in US history.
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The Atlantic: Hegseth is not a popular figure in much of the White House. Some close to Trump suggested to us that the defense secretary has not been honest about the state of the war, which he consistently paints in rosy terms to keep Trump happy.
“Hegseth is good at telling the president what he wants to hear,” said one of the outside advisers.
The Atlantic: As the war has dragged on, Trump’s anger has risen over the conflict’s damage to Republicans’ midterm chances. The House appears gone, and the Senate may be too.
Trump has raged in recent weeks that his messaging is not breaking through, and he now believes that the Iran war is at least in part to blame for his political predicament
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NEW: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghans in Louisiana and plans to deport them back to Afghanistan, where they could face persecution under the Taliban.
The group includes relatives of Afghans who helped the U.S. military and at least one gay man. More than 150 people could ultimately be deported.
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💖 Actress Marina Sirtis Posts Heartbreaking Tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart! 💔
Posting on Instagram, she said: "He's gone. My friend. My Captain. Me fellow football fan"
Sirtis and Stewart worked alongside each other across #StarTrek: The Next Generation, 4 movies and returned for #StarTrekPicard 🖖
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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
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President Zelensky:
“Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating? This is precisely why Ukraine has always said that just and decisive action by America and Europe is needed in response to Russian escalation – sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues.
It is time for new, stronger sanctions steps by the EU, the United States, and the G7. I thank everyone who is ready to help in this way.”
MORE RUSSIAN TERRORISM: A Russian jet-powered drone struck a crowded railway platform in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 14 people and injuring 14 others.
Two passenger trains were at the station, including one preparing to depart for Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine’s Air Force said it intercepted three drones, but a fourth got through and hit the station.
The attack came just hours after Trump claimed there was “a lot of progress” in talks to end the war, adding that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky would be set up “very soon.”
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.@BarackObama: I am old enough to remember when a president wearing a tan suit was a major national controversy. They were very upset. And I know I looked good in that suit.
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Tina Turner's role in the Birtish musical drama Tommy was originally built around casting Mick Jagger or David Bowie for the role. Turner originally turned it down due to its dark nature, but director Ken Russell felt her explosive stage energy and persona fit perfectly.
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court allowed a deal between the Trump administration and Texas, affecting the rules for deportation proceedings that opponents have described as “egregious collusion.” nyti.ms/4Bvevlh
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FIRST ON CBS: As President Trump boasts about how much money the U.S. oil and gas industry is making from the war with Iran, the president's personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5 million and $81.6 million, compared with $12.6 million to $46 million at the end of 2025, according to a new report by Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. cbsn.ws/47IN9un
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This is basically Musk admitting he was behind the Starlink restrictions in Ukraine, after denying it.
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needed video to believe he actually said this 9 days before an election.
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Trump and Republicans are selling out Alaska to Russia.
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
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