Judge orders DOJ to produce more unredacted Epstein files — or explain why it won’t ^31.7%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim, Lisa Rubin - 6/27/2026, 1:19 PM

Negativity Bias 29.7% - Appeal to Emotion 18.4% - Unattributed Quote 17.7%

A federal judge ordered acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to produce more unredacted files related to Jeffrey Epstein or demonstrate by next week why the Justice Department was justified in withholding or redacting the files at issue. In an order issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan found that Blanche “has conceded that... more

Iran says Strait of Hormuz is closed, citing Israeli attacks in Lebanon ^21.3%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim - 6/21/2026, 12:17 AM

Appeal to Emotion 13.8% - Pessimism Bias 10.5% - Negativity Bias 9%

Iran’s military declared Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is closed due to Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, The Associated Press reported citing Iranian state media, on the eve of detailed talks about a long-term peace deal. U.S. Central Command countered shortly afterward that commercial ship traffic in the strait actually... more

Trump blames ‘radical left lunatics’ and an ABC reporter for reflecting pool issues ^29.1%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim - 6/20/2026, 8:24 PM

Confirmation Bias 23.1% - Out-Group Homogeneity Bias 22.8% - Negativity Bias 19.5%

President Donald Trump said law enforcement is investigating vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and suggested that “radical left lunatics” were behind some of the structure’s issues. Almost immediately after the completion of a $14 million renovation that was carried out at Trump’s behest, the reflecting pool has run into... more

Kennedy Center loses appeal to pause removal of Trump’s name from building ^1.4%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim - 6/12/2026, 8:07 PM

Negativity Bias 11.6% - Fundamental Attribution Error 9.1% - False Dilemma 6.6%

A federal appeals court on Friday night rejected the Kennedy Center’s request to pause a lower court order requiring the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from a building at the arts institution while the legal challenge proceeds. The ruling leaves in place the court’s earlier decision, meaning Trump's name must be removed by the... more

Lesley Groff, ex-Epstein assistant, testifies before House Oversight Committee ^20.7%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim - 6/9/2026, 2:13 PM

Appeal to Emotion 20.8% - Anecdotal 15.3% - Halo Effect 13.4%

Lesley Groff, a former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, is testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning. Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years until he was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges. Her name appears more than 160,000 times in the Epstein files. She was one of the most present people in... more

Bondi to testify before House Oversight Committee after Democrats file contempt resolution ^69.2%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim, Syedah Asghar - 4/29/2026, 5:27 PM

Negativity Bias 23.9% - Appeal to Emotion 18.5% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 15.5%

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that former Attorney General Pam Bondi will testify before the panel on May 29 as part of its sprawling investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi, whom Trump fired earlier this month, was scheduled to testify before the committee on April 14, but she skipped the deposition, with... more

FBI chief Kash Patel threatens to sue The Atlantic over report on heavy drinking ^0%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim - 4/18/2026, 7:08 PM

Negativity Bias 33.6% - Biased Writer Voice 20.1% - Appeal to Emotion 18.9%

FBI Director Kash Patel is threatening to sue The Atlantic and the author of its explosive report alleging he is frequently intoxicated, consistently absent from work and paranoid about getting fired. In a statement attributed to Patel, the FBI told The Atlantic that its reporting was “all false,” adding, “I’ll see you in court.” Patel’s... more

Trump signs executive order on psychedelic drugs — with Joe Rogan by his side ^0%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim - 4/18/2026, 5:00 PM

Halo Effect 27.4% - Optimism Bias 20.2% - Biased Writer Voice 12.9%

Joe Rogan truly had President Donald Trump’s back on Saturday. The world’s No. 1 bro-caster, who has expressed some buyer’s remorse over his endorsement of Trump, stood directly behind the president, who was seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office signing an executive order to ease restrictions on medical research and treatments... more

Trump tells MS NOW it will take Iran ‘10 years’ to rebuild after U.S., Israeli strikes ^0%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim, David Rohde, Lindsey Pipia - 3/20/2026, 8:07 PM

In an interview with MS NOW on Friday morning, President Donald Trump said it would take 10 years for Iran to rebuild following the military offensive waged by the U.S. and Israel and asserted that toppling the hard-line theocratic rulers of the country was not a primary goal of the operation. “I think I could leave right now and it... more

19-year-old Mexican migrant becomes youngest to die in ICE detention in Trump’s second term ^0%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim, Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt - 3/20/2026, 4:27 PM

A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died earlier this week in federal immigration detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Royer Perez-Jimenez died on Monday at the Glades County Detention Center in southern Florida, where he had been held since Feb. 26. He was the youngest person to have died in ICE custody since the start of... more