She had a combative — but dicey — Epstein strategyEarly in the hearing, Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington asked Epstein survivors in the audience to stand up. Bondi was extremely combative throughout, doing whatever she could to avoid Democrats’ and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie’s questions about Epstein — in ways that might seem politically unwise. The hearing pointed to the administration’s many problems. Early in the hearing, Bondi rather puzzlingly suggested Democrats on the committee should instead focus on how much the stock market has surged under Trump. Balint pointed that out while shouting at Bondi and imploring her, “Are you serious?” Then Balint stormed out of the hearing.

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Currently, if contract talks hit an impasse, the five county supervisors can, after a complex mediation process, impose a final offer. Public safety workers, who are not allowed to strike, say they have no leverage with which to fight back, giving the county final word. An arbitration panel would instead make the final decision on some contract disputes for public safety employees, including firefighters, sheriff’s deputies and county lifeguards. Horvath said more than 20 jurisdictions in California use binding arbitration for public safety workers, including the counties of San Francisco and Sacramento. Public safety unions are simultaneously gathering signatures to get the proposal on the ballot in case the board decides against moving forward.

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AdvertisementHer testimony on the Epstein files, however, was mostly punctuated by dramatic clashes with lawmakers — exchanges that occurred as eight Epstein survivors attended the hearing. In another exchange, Bondi declined to say how many perpetrators tied to the Epstein case are being investigated by the Justice Department. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) asked Bondi if federal prosecutors have talked to Lutnick about Epstein. Other Democrats have floated the possibility of impeaching Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files. Beyond the Epstein files, Democrats raised broad concerns about the Justice Department increasingly investigating and prosecuting the president’s political foes.

McDonald’s focus on value is paying offMcDonald's says focus on value is bringing back customersMcDonald’s focus on value is paying off. Chicago-based McDonald's fourth quarter revenue and earnings also beat analysts' expectations. In a conference call with investors last summer, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski warned that those consumers, in particular, no longer saw McDonald’s as a good value. McDonald's said its same-store sales rose 6.8% in the U.S. in the October-December period. Taco Bell, which expanded its value menu in January 2025, said last week that its same-store sales jumped 7% in the October-December period.

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Before her fateful downhill run Sunday — one that ended with a violent crash after 13 seconds — Lindsey Vonn pulled on a pair of out-of-production gloves from her childhood skiing idol, Picabo Street. Street confirmed to The Los Angeles Times that the two longtime friends made the glove exchange before the Olympics. "When she saw a picture of me in those gloves, she was like, 'Oh, those would be cool,' " Street told The Times. "Those gloves are especially meaningful to Street because they are immortalized on the bronze statue of her in Sun Valley, Idaho. Ski Team together — Street at the end of her career, Vonn at the beginning — and have been close friends for years.

James Van Der Beek, the actor who starred in the teen drama series “Dawson’s Creek” and the sports drama “Varsity Blues,” has died. Known for wooing audiences as aspiring filmmaker Dawson Leery in the WB series, Van Der Beek died Wednesday morning. As he celebrated his 48th birthday in March, Van Der Beek said in a video that confronting his own mortality encouraged him to look inward. AdvertisementAfter years of passing on opportunities, Van Der Beek sought to reframe himself and have some fun with it. In addition to his wife, Van Der Beek is survived by their six children Olivia, Joshua, Annabel, Emilia, Gwendolyn and Jeremiah, the Associated Press reported.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — Moderate Democrats who backed a GOP proposal to impose strict voter ID requirements last year on Wednesday abandoned a new Republican-backed effort to crack down on imaginary voter fraud. The old bill, dubbed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, would require voters to prove their citizenship when they register to vote. Advertisement“This is voter ID at the ballot box. The House passed the bill on Wednesday, with all Republicans and no Democrats except Cuellar in support. Nevertheless, voters overwhelmingly like the idea of requiring ID to vote, and some Democrats are willing to go along with it.

And the members of Congress who forced the Justice Department to release its investigative files on billionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein said the government is still engaged in a cover-up. Khanna and Massie were the lead sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, while Raskin led Democrats at a House Judiciary Committee grilling of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, where she insisted the department had done its best. Over at the administration, it’s eating them up.”When he looked at the files at the Justice Department, Khanna said there were hundreds of FBI documents recounting interviews with Epstein’s victims that were improperly redacted. (The Justice Department told Khanna the redaction mistakes were the fault of the FBI.) Khanna and other members were granted access to less-redacted material on four computers inside a Justice Department office.

In the January jobs report released Wednesday – a Schrödinger’s cat of employment snapshots – the seemingly opposed dynamics both held true. “The labor market appears to be stabilizing,” Heather Long, chief economist with Navy Federal Credit Union, told CNN. “I don’t think that one should take this report to show that the labor market is reaccelerating at this point,” he added. That’s because the underlying dynamics of the labor market haven’t dramatically shifted in one month’s time. The case for optimismWednesday’s report indicated that the labor market is neither falling apart nor booming, Hirt noted.