The New York Times published its most comprehensive investigation yet into President Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday morning, and the portrait that emerges fundamentally contradicts years of Trump's public denials about the depth of their friendship. Multiple models described being bused to Mar-a-Lago parties in the mid-to-late 1990s, often facilitated by Jason Binn, co-founder of Ocean Drive magazine. The events were open-bar, no one checked IDs, and young women " some as young as 14 " were given champagne. Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford, said she was told to "dress sexy" for a 1994 Mar-a-Lago party when she was 14. Her mother recalled that waiters kept offering her daughter champagne, and that Marla Maples pulled her aside with a warning: "Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband."
Federal Aviation Administration chief Bryan Bedford said Wednesday that the agency lost up to 500 air traffic controller trainees during the 43-day government shutdown. "We lost, I don't know, 4-, 500 of our trainees that just sort of gave up during the lapse," Bedford told the Senate aviation subcommittee during a hearing. The FAA scrounged together money to keep the training academy in Oklahoma City running amid the funding stalemate, but that apparently didn't dissuade many from leaving. Even though we kept the school open, I think the thought of not being paid was enough to frighten them away," Bedford added. It's a blow to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's effort to boost the ranks of these essential workers, who have high-stress jobs and face aging technology and a longstanding personnel shortfall.
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that President Donald Trump had criminally conspired to over the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press. read more
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First Lady Melania Trump made the last-minute decision to skip a solemn dignified transfer ceremony to honor two U.S. service members killed in action in Syria. President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Chief of Staff of the Army General Randy George attended the ceremony for the Iowa soldiers on Wednesday. Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, were killed in the Syrian desert on Saturday.
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