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Epstein accomplice Maxwell opposes unsealing grand jury transcripts
AFP, Published on 06/08/2025
» NEW YORK - Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, asked a judge on Tuesday to reject a US Justice Department request to unseal the grand jury transcripts in her criminal case and that of the late notorious sex offender.
Trump says fell out with Epstein because he was taking Mar-a-Lago spa staff
AFP, Published on 30/07/2025
» ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he fell out with Jeffrey Epstein because the convicted sex offender had poached staff from his club's spa, including the woman at the center of an underage sex scandal involving Prince Andrew.
Republicans skittish over Epstein votes close US House early
AFP, Published on 24/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives on Wednesday sent lawmakers home early for a six-week summer break to avoid being forced into awkward votes on the probe into the late, politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Biden's lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome
New York Times, Published on 03/07/2024
» NEW YORK - In the weeks and months before United States President Joe Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless or would lose the thread of conversations.
Red airwave: America's conservative talk radio saturation
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» ASHLAND, US: With Pixie the Chihuahua curled nearby and studio walls covered in mementos, Jeff Katz leans into the radio microphone and delivers a rather less cozy message to his conservative audience: Joe Biden and Democrats are corrupt villains destroying America.
For 60 years, a hotline aims to keep cool between US and Moscow
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Sixty years ago, a crisis hotline for the first time sent a message between the world's superpowers.
Trump says prosecutors seeking to restrict his free speech rights
AFP, Published on 08/08/2023
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump pushed back on Monday against a bid by government lawyers to restrict what he can share publicly about his historic prosecution for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Seoul police headquarters raided after crowd surge deaths
Bloomberg, Published on 02/11/2022
» A team of special investigators has raided the headquarters of the Seoul police force, a move that comes as authorities released records of frantic emergency calls warning that crowds of partygoers were growing dangerously large in the hours before a crush that killed at least 156 people.
Guantánamo prisoner 'was waterboarded'; agents omitted it from memo
New York Times, Published on 29/07/2022
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: A prisoner accused of plotting al-Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the CIA, an interpreter testified Thursday. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at his death-penalty trial as evidence that he confessed.
Ghislaine Maxwell jury seeks more witness transcripts
AFP, Published on 30/12/2021
» NEW YORK - Jurors asked for transcripts on Wednesday of the testimony of five witnesses at the sex crimes trial of Ghislaine Maxwell as the judge suggested they work through the New Year's holidays if needed.