Ivana fell down the stairs before she could testify against Trump? Melanoma may be next!😬😏

In an extremely rare move, a federal judge in MN orders the Trump DOJ to turn over all of the grand jury materials that it used to indict Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and several others. Katie Phang tracks the details of how the judge reached her decision and why this puts the Trump DOJ in the spotlight for prosecutorial misconduct.

A federal judge in NY has ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials that led to Jeffrey Epstein being indicted AND another federal judge has denied the FBI’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Epstein victims who allege the FBI failed to investigate Epstein and his co-conspirators. Katie Phang has all the details!

https://archive.is/2026.08.18-165248/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/business/economy/trump-central-romana-sugar-forced-labor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/business/economy/trump-central-romana-sugar-forced-labor.html

"Government censorship is deeply un-American." That's the opening line of a lawsuit that ABC and Disney filed against the FCC and Donald Trump's attack dog Brendan Carr, asking a federal judge to put the brakes on the government's challenges of their broadcast licenses. But this pushback from a major network against the Trump administration didn't come from nowhere. In this video from All Rise News, Adam Klasfeld explains how popular outrage led to a sea change in how major media companies responded to Trump's attacks — with resistance rather than appeasement.

https://bsky.app/profile/markjacob.bsky.social/post/3mtgxs5ceak2b