More: CNN ANCHOR BRIANNA KEILAR: Happening now in the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, testimony from Epstein's longtime accountant Richard Kahn. He's being deposed behind closed doors today.

The House Oversight Chairman calls Kahn a, quote, "big witness.".

Lawmakers were expected to ask him, among other things, how Epstein accumulated his vast wealth and how he spent it.

Moments ago, a member of the House committee said Kahn provided some new information about the system that enabled Epstein to commit his crimes. The congressman also saying this:

REPRESENTATIVE SUHAS SUBRAMANYAM (D-VA): We can't get into the details of everything that was said, but one of the things that we did learn was that there was another head of state that was mentioned as having financial transactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Not an American one.

And then another person who was an accuser of Donald Trump was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. We did confirm that.

She wants in on all the steak and lobster tail the Secretary of War Crimes ordered.

Almost seems like this was the plan when we started the war.

More: The four companies each committed millions of dollars to the project through legal settlements with Trump in the months after the 2024 presidential election, seeking to resolve claims they had harmed him by restricting his access to social media or defaming him in their coverage. The commitments totaled at least $63 million, according to company statements and media reports.

But the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund, Inc., which was set to receive at least some of the settlement funding, was administratively dissolved last September by Florida officials after it did not submit a mandatory annual report. Three months later, Jacob Roth, the lawyer who originally incorporated the fund, filed articles of dissolution, OpenSecrets first reported last year.

"Now it is unclear where this money has gone, exacerbating concerns about corruption that were apparent at the time of the settlement," the lawmakers wrote.

More: On Monday, Donald Trump said the war on Iran was "very complete".

On Tuesday, Pete Hegseth, his secretary of defence, said Iran would face "the most intense day of strikes" yet in Operation Epic Fury.

If the messaging seems confused, it may be because the US " and to a lesser extent Israel " has found itself caught in a classic military trap. By relying on overwhelming firepower, they have been suckered into what could yet prove to be another Vietnam.

There, the US won every battle over 11 bloody years, but famously lost the war.

This was despite it, as now, having complete air superiority, and quickly destroying most of the crucial military and industrial infrastructure on which the enemy was thought to rely.

By escalating the Vietnam War "horizontally" into the towns and cities in the south on their own terms, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces outmanoeuvred the US.

Tehran also has little chance of defeating the US military, but escalation may again favour the enemy, according to Prof Robert Pape, director of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats, and the author of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.

"Horizontal escalation occurs when a state widens the geographic and political scope of a conflict rather than intensifying it vertically in a single theatre," he says in an essay published in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the US Council on Foreign Relations.

"It is especially appealing as a strategy for the weaker parties in a military contest. Instead of trying to defeat a stronger adversary head-on, the weaker side multiplies arenas of risk " drawing additional states, economic sectors, and domestic publics into the remit of the conflict".

More: The 67-year-old musician, born Eric Reed Boucher, experienced a hemorrhagic stroke Saturday, March 7, caused by high blood pressure, according to a Facebook post from his record label, Alternative Tentacles.

Biafra described the moment he realized something was wrong.

"I hopped out of my bed because I needed to pee, and my left leg just collapsed under me and I fell to the floor," he recounted in a statement. "I couldn't even break the fall with my left arm because it wasn't working either. I tried to hop back up again, and I couldn't. I realized I had fallen and I can't get up!'

"It was this point I thought, Oh s", I'm having a stroke!'"

They better get to building, June is right around the corner. /s

More: The notes from multiple 2019 interviews with a woman who claimed that both Epstein and Trump assaulted her as a minor were released on Thursday. They detail her uncorroborated accusations surrounding her interactions with Trump in the 1980s, when the woman claims she was between 13 and 15 years old.

The woman, whose name is redacted, alleges that the assault occurred after she met Trump and a group of people that included Epstein. Trump allegedly asked the others to leave the room before, according to the FBI notes, "mentioned something to the effect of, Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.'"

The allegations go on to claim that Trump attempted to make the woman perform oral sex on him. The woman claims she "bit" his penis, to which Trump responded by striking her and having her removed from the room.

You guys are right, lets just stick with the current plan of the rich paying nothing and everyone else covering everything. /s

The Turks will not like this one bit.

Always good to see fewer Republican Senators even if only temporarily.

Good idea that doesn't have a snowball's chance of becoming law.

More: In a post on the Old North State Politics blog, Catawba College political science professor Michael Bitzer wrote of the early voting surge: "Democrats appear to have generated disproportionate early energy, both among registered partisans and among unaffiliated voters. The fact that more than half of Unaffiliated voters chose the Democratic ballot " reversing the traditional go where the action is' pattern " is one of the cycle's most intriguing developments."

"The question now," Bitzer wrote, "is not whether early voting was strong. It was. The question is what these patterns signal about overall turnout " and whether Election Day reinforces or rebalances what early voting has already revealed."

North Carolina Democrats are heading toward November with a clear advantage in public opinion, according to a High Point University Poll released on Monday.

The survey of registered voters asked how they would vote for generic ballots for the House and Senate. In both cases, those responding intended to vote Democratic 46% to 41% percent for Republicans. It was the same margin when voters were asked how they would vote in state House and Senate elections.

Unless there is a dramatic change in the economy or a major national event, it appears that Democrats are ready to ride a wave of support driven mostly on disapproval of the Republicans' performance in both Washington and Raleigh.

More: The department's failure to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden and his aides is the latest example of its increasing inability to follow through on Mr. Trump's demands and bring indictments against those he wants to be criminally targeted. Some of those cases were rejected by grand juries, some were rejected by judges and some, like the autopen case, were abandoned by prosecutors.

But the fact that prosecutors even pursued the matter to begin with reflects the degree to which Mr. Trump has sought to use the levers of government to undermine Mr. Biden's presidency by seizing on an unsubstantiated theory: that the pardons Mr. Biden issued in his final months in office were invalid because he did not have the mental capacity to consent to them.

They had many Exocets when I was over there on float in the 90s.

Sucks Tillis waited until the very end of his political career to grow a spine. NC deserved better representation.

Skilled piloting is not a miracle, just good training.

Guess the Santa Claus defense didn't work out. Nice to read some good news for a change.

This time they'll listen for sure! /s

Impeach the mother ------ ffs

Nothing builds trust like corrupt agencies investigating themselves.

Will everyone wear a red neckerchief in remembrance?

They found out.

Is this because Trump's DOJ is so egregious they started to lie to the courts recently or because they're so incompetent they are screwing up underhandedness that has always been a tool used by DOJ but overlooked by deferent judges?