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US House panel subpoenas Clintons in Epstein probe
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - The US House Oversight Committee on Tuesday subpoenaed former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for testimony on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to letters posted on its website.
US Justice Department plans to interview Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
AFP, Published on 22/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - The US Department of Justice is seeking to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, officials said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump struggles to quell a furor over the handling of the explosive case.
AI-powered ‘nudify’ apps fuel deadly wave of blackmail
AFP, Published on 17/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - After a Kentucky teenager died by suicide this year, his parents discovered he had received threatening texts demanding $3,000 to suppress an AI-generated nude image of him.
Kendrick Lamar brings viral diss track to Super Bowl stage
AFP, Published on 11/02/2025
» NEW YORK - Kendrick Lamar commanded one of the world's most high-profile stages Sunday as the Super Bowl's halftime headliner, yet another feather in the cap of the rap laureate who has ascended to new heights of pop stardom.
Priests in Bolivia 'saints by day, demons by night': alleged victim
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» LA PAZ - A Bolivian former seminarian who says he was the victim of a vast sex abuse network in the Catholic Church has told AFP of decades of "hell" meted out to children by men of the cloth.
Brazil on tenterhooks in Bolsonaro, Lula election showdown
AFP, Published on 30/10/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilians will vote Sunday in a white-knuckle presidential race, choosing between wildly different visions of their future offered by incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
US gymnasts slam FBI, sports officials over Nassar abuse
AFP, Published on 16/09/2021
» WASHINGTON - Olympic champion Simone Biles and other top American gymnasts excoriated US sports officials and the FBI in powerful Senate testimony on Wednesday for failing to act promptly on complaints about Larry Nassar, the former team doctor convicted of serial sexual abuse.
Facebook shields VIPs from some of its rules
AFP, Published on 14/09/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook exempts certain celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users from some its own rules for posts as part of a programme launched as a quality-control mechanism, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
US court dimisses defamation suit by Roy Moore against Sacha Baron Cohen
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - A US court on Tuesday dismissed a $95 million defamation lawsuit filed by Roy Moore, a former Alabama chief justice, against British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for his depiction of the politician in his show "Who is America."
Men in black? Dark shadows? Trump hits full conspiracy theory mode
AFP, Published on 03/09/2020
» WASHINGTON - Eight weeks before the US election, President Donald Trump is hurtling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories filled with black-clad saboteurs, "dark shadows," the deep state, QAnon, and claims that he is victim of a coup and/or plans to rig the polls.