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The president has a message for the American people. Elisa Brady, Fox News. He says he'll be talking about the economy in next week's State of the Union address and tomorrow in Georgia, insisting he's making life better for all Americans.
Well, we thank God for the strength and courage and grit and devotion of black Americans who have helped make America the most powerful country in the history of the world.
This during a White House event marking Black History Month, also paying tribute to the Reverend Jesse Jackson a day after his passing, calling him a hero and a good man. Several Democratic lawmakers say they'll boycott the State of the Union, instead planning to attend a rally being organized by progressive groups on the National Mall. The Trump administration says it's ready to help clean up a massive sewage spill.
in the potomac river president trump claims the democratic leaders of virginia maryland and d.c for last month's pipe collapse that surged millions of gallons of raw sewage into the potomac white house press secretary caroline levitt says the president is waiting for a request from the governors and mayor the federal government has been preparing plans we've the white house has been in contact with fema with the army corps of engineers with the environmental protection agency again we've been standing by this is a problem we want to fix Maryland Governor Wes Moore says the collapse pipe is the responsibility of the federal government, saying the spill is mostly contained and President Trump needs to do his job.
Fox's Jared Halpern at the White House. Eight skiers confirmed dead, one still missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in California.
15 skiers, four guides, and 11 of their clients, finishing up a three-day winter camping trip in Castle Peak. An avalanche warning was in effect at the time with heavy snow and gale force winds. It took hours for some 50 rescuers to get to a group of six that managed to survive the avalanche that was described as the length of a football field.
Fox's Claudia Cowan in Sausalito. America is listening to Fox News.
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A billionaire businessman testifies to the House Oversight Committee about his former relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, leaving some members of the panel skeptical, including about Les Wexner's claim he didn't realize Epstein was stealing money from him. Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
It is almost inconceivable to be missing the amounts of money that are missing and somehow... Mr. Wexner have no idea.
Wexner telling the panel Epstein was managing his personal finances in a business, not social relationship, and that he didn't know about Epstein's abuse of young women and girls. Staff attorneys for the committee taking Wexner's deposition at his Ohio home. after the 88-year-old was mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein files. One Texas politician plans to turn a ranch once owned by Epstein into a religious retreat.
In a post on X, Don Huffines reveals in 2023, he and his wife bought the Zorro Ranch near Stanley, New Mexico. the nearly 8,000-acre property owned by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for more than two decades until his death. Huffines, a former Texas state senator currently running for Texas Comptroller, says he's renaming it San Rafael Ranch after the saint associated with healing, noting he plans to remake it as a Christian retreat.
Fox's Christine Goodwin, state lawmakers in New Mexico have launched an investigation into possible abuse and trafficking at the ranch. Redemption for American skier Michaela Schifrin. 30-year-old winning gold in the women's slalom, her final event of the Winter Olympics in Italy.
The most decorated alpine skier ever, Schifrin had gone eight starts in Olympic competition without a medal.
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