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Matt Gaetz staffer reportedly resigned amid the growing scandal over a DOJ investigation into the congressman. The New York Times first reported last week on the apparent sex trafficking investigation. Gaetz has denied the allegations against him and said that he and his father were targeted in an extortion plot. Luke Ball resigned. A statement from the Florida congressman’s office said, “The Office of Congressman Matt Gaetz and Luke Ball have agreed that it would be best to part ways. We thank him for his time in our office, and we wish him the best moving forward.” Now the

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger said on Thursday night Gaetz must go  Kinzinger is the first Republican to call for Florida congressman's resignation Gaetz's legislative director, Devin Murphy, was reported Thursday to have quit He followed press secretary Luke Ball out the door on Friday Gaetz, 38, is reportedly being investigated for sex trafficking and prostitution  His associate Joel Greenberg, 36, is in jail on 33 federal charges Greenberg is said to be cooperating and readying to take a plea deal  Gaetz reportedly paid Greenberg, an accused sex trafficker, $900 in 2018 The trans...

Matt Gaetz is also reportedly under scrutiny over alleged Florida 'ghost' candidate skulduggery The federal investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), said to center on possible sex-trafficking violations and sex with a 17-year-old girl, has branched out to include a trip to the Bahamas with well-connected GOP allies and allegedly paid female companies plus whether Gaetz was involved in running a third-party "ghost" candidate in a state Senate race to help an associate, Gaetz has denied paying for sex or having sex with a 17-year-old girl, but his alleged partner in procuring women for sex, ...

Kim Jong Un likens North Korea's economic troubles to catastrophic 1990s famine North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday compared his country's economic struggles to the devastating 1990s famine that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. The Korean Central News Agency reports that while speaking to lower-level Workers' Party of Korea members, Kim said there are "many obstacles and difficulties ahead of us," and it's up to everyone in the WPK to "wage another ... arduous march in order to relieve our people of the difficulty, even a little." Earlier in the week, he told party members t...

The news from Kinzinger comes after The New York Times first reported last week that the Department of Justice was investigating Gaetz over an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and accusations that he paid for her travel.  Gaetz told The Hill on Friday that he has no plans to resign, saying rumors that suggested otherwise were "false" and that it was "very safe" to say he had no intentions of doing so. Several of Gaetz's critics on the left, including former Rep. Katie Hill Hill told MSNBC's Chris Hayes earlier on Thursday that she felt "betrayed" by Gaetz after the two h...