Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to testify before Congress, but with major conditions, including immunity, according to a list of her demands sent to the House Oversight Committee by her attorneys. An Oversight Committee spokeswoman on Tuesday rejected the idea of giving Maxwell immunity. "The Oversight Committee will respond to Ms. Maxwell's attorney soon, but it will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony," the spokeswoman said. Read more
Britain will recognise the state of Palestine in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the "appalling situation" in Gaza and meets other conditions, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told his cabinet on Tuesday according to a government statement. "He said that the UK will recognise the state of Palestine in September, before UNGA (United Nations General Assembly), unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, reaches a ceasefire, makes clear there will be no annexation in the West Bank, and commits to a long-term peace process that delivers a Two State Solution," the statement said.
The FBI has a version of the surveillance video filmed near Jeffrey Epstein's prison block on the night of his death that"unlike the video released to the public"is not missing a minute of footage. Read more
When Trump bought the Menie estate, about eight miles north of Aberdeen, in 2006, he promised to create the "world's greatest" golf course. But he soon became infuriated at plans to construct an offshore wind farm nearby, arguing that the "windmills" - as he prefers to call the structures - would ruin the view. For clarity, there are no windmills in the North Sea. Windmills mill grain into flour. What he's seeing are wind turbines. But making them sound like centuries old technology is a way to deride their worth. Getting rid of them - or even stopping more being built - would be at a huge cost to the economy. Read more
A politically active couple in Wisconsin is facing intense public scrutiny following the arrest of Scott Soucek, 56, of Sturgeon Bay, who was charged this month with ten counts of possession of child pornography. The charges stem from a Door County Sheriff's Office investigation that uncovered over 300 illicit images and videos on devices linked to Soucek. Soucek is married to Stephanie Soucek, chair of the Republican Party of Door County and former chair of Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District GOP. The charges are particularly jarring in light of Scott Soucek's public online persona. On Facebook, he repeatedly portrayed himself as a staunch defender of conservative values and posted extensively about issues like child trafficking and moral decay.
The Trump administration has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Baltimore. Of the 145 community violence intervention (CVI) grants totaling more than $300 million awarded through the U.S. Department of Justice, 69 grants were abruptly terminated, opens new tab in April, according to government data analyzed by Reuters.
When the ambulance arrived in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia two years ago, an angry EMT got out and barked at the crowd, "Who called this in?" Standing next to my cameraman and above the prone body of a shirtless soul bedecked in boils and not moving, I said, "I did." He didn't say a word, he looked at me, then down the street at the dozens of strung out bodies, then back at me as if to say, "Look at all this, what do you want me to do?" I had no answer. Read more
Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, has been identified as the shooter in a tragic incident at 345 Park Avenue, New York City. He allegedly used a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 assault rifle, which retails for about $420. Smears of blood were visible on the assault rifle Shane Tamura used during his deadly rampage at New York City 345 Park Avenue on Monday night, according to a photo obtained by The New York Post. The rifle is a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 assault rifle in 0.223-caliber. According to the report, the gun retails for about $420. At least four, including a New York City police officer, were killed in a mass shooting in the city's Park Avenue Tower in a Midtown Manhattan office building
The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management. The guidance, from OPM Director Scott Kupor, declares that federal agencies "should allow personal religious expression by Federal employees to the greatest extent possible unless such expression would impose an undue hardship on business operations." Read more
US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian
The officers' testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with "assaulting" and "impeding" federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers' inaccurate reports, court records show.
The justice department has also dismissed at least three felony assault cases it brought against Angelenos accused of interfering with arrests during recent immigration raids, the documents show.
Republican lawmakers' decision to overturn a voter-approved expansion of paid sick leave means benefits Missouri workers accrued in recent months will disappear on Aug. 28.
They also placed a question on the 2026 ballot rolling back abortion rights that voters enshrined in the state constitution in November.
It's not the first time the GOP-dominated legislature overturned voter-approved laws in recent years. But this time, the backlash could have long-lasting consequences.
The Justice Department announced that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in "performing transgender medical procedures on children." The department's brief announcement Wednesday did not name any of the 20 doctors or clinics or say where they were. It also did not specify what constituted "transgender medical procedures" but said its investigations "include healthcare fraud, false statements, and more."
In a rural stretch of Bibb County in central Alabama, past pine forests and gravel roads, deputies uncovered what a sheriff called the most disturbing child abuse case he's seen in his 33 years of working in law enforcement. Inside a concrete bunker near a home, at least 10 children were harmed as part of what the Bibb County Sheriff's Office described as a criminal operation involving sex trafficking, torture and the theft of innocence. Most of the victims were between 3 and 10 years old; one was 15, officials said. At a news conference on Wednesday, Sheriff Wade said seven people, including family members and parents, were charged in connection with the trafficking operation in Brent, Ala., a city of 2,600 people about an hour south of Birmingham, where children were harmed in the bunker's underground structure.
President Donald Trump on Monday reduced to less than two weeks his deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to either reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face massive "secondary tariffs" on Moscow's trade partners.
A recent $934 million transfer of funds to a Pentagon budget may hold a clue as to how much it will cost to renovate the Boeing 747-8 gifted by Qatar to be the next Air Force One, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Although the actual price tag is classified information, this transfer to an unnamed classified project described in a Pentagon document sent to Capitol Hill likely includes the cost of renovating the plane. Read more
The Democratic Party's image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections. The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party"the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view.
