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Bombshell Sexual-Harassment Suit Against JPM's Lorna Hajdini Called "Complete Fabrication" The British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail first broke the story earlier this week about a former JPMorgan staffer who claimed that an executive director on JPM's leveraged finance team turned him into a "sex slave" by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra, according to a bombshell lawsuit. However, it now appears that the sexual harassment suit was "fabricated," according to a new report. The New York Post reported late Thursday that Chirayu Rana, now a principal at Bregal Sagemount, filed the...

New Member Of Trump's Iran Negotiating Team Comes From FDD Think Tank Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Amid stalled peace talks and a US blockade on Iranian ports, the Trump administration has added a new member to its negotiating team who comes from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a notoriously hawkish think tank that has been lobbying for aggressive action against the Islamic Republic for many years. Nick Stewart, the head of the FDD's lobbying arm, has joined the office of US envoy Steve Witkoff, journalist Alex Marquardt first reported...

Democrats Will Try Not To Act Like Children During Trump's State Of The Union Address President Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, and according to reports, many seats will be empty. Earlier this month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gave his caucus its marching orders in a closed-door meeting: sit in the chamber with "silent defiance" or don’t attend.  "The two options that are in front of us in our House is to either attend with silent defiance or to not attend, and send a...