A group of Jeffrey Epstein accusers on Wednesday told emotional, gut-wrenching stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, raising pressure on lawmakers to back the release of all of the files in the Justice Department's years-long Epstein investigation. The accusers at the conference said that if Congress isn't willing to release all of the investigative documents pertaining to Epstein, they would compile their own list of names to hold those in Epstein's orbit accountable. "Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who were regularly in the Epstein world," said Lisa Phillips, who said she was brought to Epstein's island. read more
Trump labeled the Epstein files a 'Democrat hoax' that never ends as he met in the White House with the President of Poland. read more
Graham Greene, the prolific Oscar-nominated Canadian First Nations actor and Hollywood trailblazer, has died aged 73 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. Greene's Hollywood breakthrough came when Kevin Costner cast him as real-life Lakota Sioux medicine man Kicking Bird (Zitk Nagwka) in his Academy Award-winning 1990 western Dances with Wolves. Greene's performance landed him an Academy Award nomination and launched his Hollywood career, which included roles in Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009). read more
The nonpartisan Democracy Defenders Fund has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department over the agency's refusal to release documents from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that mention President Trump and his Mar-a-Lago residence. read more
Jonathan Freedland: Trump's dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. It's like being woken in the night by a burglar wearing a striped shirt and carrying a bag marked "Swag": we would assume it was a joke or a stunt or otherwise unreal, rather than a genuine danger. So it is with Trump. We cannot quite believe what we are seeing. read more
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