6 h. ago Speaker Mike Johnson says he won’t block House vote to release Epstein files

Johnson’s House has been in recess since shutdown, delaying petition to force vote on making documents publicUS politics live – latest updatesThe Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, on Tuesday said he would not prevent a vote on legislation to make the Jeffrey Epstein files public, even as the chamber remained out of session for a fourth straight week.Johnson has kept the House of Representatives in recess ever since the shutdown began at the start of the month, after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on extending government funding beyond the end of September. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Four key questions about Jeffrey Epstein that Virginia Giuffre’s tell

Abuse survivor’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl provides disturbing reminder of how much remains unknown about the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking operation

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8 h. ago Four out of five Britons want Andrew to be formally stripped of his dukedom

A YouGov poll showed 80% of people want Andrew to have his Duke of York title officially removed amid calls for him to quit his Windsor mansion.

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10 h. ago 'Strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom,' say four out of five Brits as pressure mounts on the disgraced royal

Pressure is also mounting on Prince Andrew to give up his 30-bedroom mansion Royal Lodge where he has lived on a peppercorn rent since 2003

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15 h. ago New Prince Andrew bombshells after disgraced royal is stripped of titles

Prince Andrew has relinquished his royal titles, honours and public duties amid renewed scrutiny of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and an alleged Chinese spy

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16 h. ago Virginia Giuffre would see Prince Andrew giving up Royal titles ‘as a victory’, says memoir co

Virginia Giuffre would see Prince Andrew giving up his Royal titles "as a victory", said Amy Wallace, co-author of the Jeffrey Epstein-accuser's memoir.

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16 h. ago Cabinet minister urges Prince Andrew to give evidence on Jeffrey Epstein to US authorities

Nobody’s Girl ghostwriter Amy Wallace speaks out as Andrew and the royal family faces another wave of damaging details and allegations contained in the book, which is published today

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16 h. ago Timeline of Prince Andrew scandals: From Queen’s favourite to Epstein allegations

Late monarch’s middle child has seen his reputation damaged over his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a car crash BBC interview

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18 h. ago Not many in Parliament would disagree with removing Andrew’s titles, says SNP MP

Stephen Gethins was speaking as the SNP is set to put forward a motion to pressure the UK Government to strip Andrew of his royal title.

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19 h. ago Prince Andrew was 'deemed national security risk over links to suspected Chinese spies'

Cabinet ministers allegedly knew about the concerns which were first raised by security services in 2021 after the then-Duke of York held meetings with suspected spy Yang Tengbo.

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19 h. ago SNP urges Prince Andrew stripped of dukedom 'without further delay'

The SNP has put forward a motion to pressure the UK Labour Government to strip Prince Andrew of his Duke of York title, which would require an Act of Parliament.

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19 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's ghostwriter makes urgent Prince Andrew plea as book released

Virginia Giuffre's ghostwriter Amy Wallace has said that she has "no doubt" about the claims against Prince Andrew which the late Epstein victim makes in her book

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24 h. ago Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and the scandal that won’t go away – podcast

Zoe Williams describes the scandals that have engulfed Andrew, leading to him giving up his titlesOn Friday evening, Buckingham Palace released a statement from Prince Andrew. ‘I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first,’ it read. ‘I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me.’It seemed that Prince Andrew was voluntarily giving up his titles such as the Duke of York, the Knight of the Garter, or calling himself the Earl of Inverness – but perhaps his hand had been forced by the palace, or by his older brother King Charles. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Prince Andrew has barely paid any rent on Royal Lodge in more than 20 years

Prince Andrew has given up use of his royal titles and honours amid intensified focus on his links with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, an announcement that has raised many questions

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26 h. ago An orgy on Epstein's island, losing her baby and being raped by her father at the age of nine: All the claims made by Virginia Giuffre from beyond the grave in her new memoir

In her posthumous memoir, she describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the 'perfect victim' for sexual predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell .

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27 h. ago Virginia Giuffre ‘would have viewed Prince Andrew giving up titles as a victory’

The comments by the co-author of Ms Giuffre’s memoirs were made as it emerged the prince has paid a ‘peppercorn rent’ on Royal Lodge for decades.

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30 h. ago Epstein paid Giuffre $200 and said she was ‘a keeper’ after massage and sexual abuse, new memoir says

Virginia Giuffre said Jeffrey Epstein teased her about her childhood trauma and asked her inappropriate questions during their first meeting, according to her posthumous book Nobody’s Girl

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32 h. ago The Guardian view on the price of a prince: what Virginia Giuffre’s story says about palace accountability | Editorial

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exposed a constitutional blind spot: royal privilege remains beyond democratic scrutiny. MPs must be able to question powerThe tragic story of Virginia Giuffre raises the question of who governs when royal privilege and public outrage collide. As a vulnerable teenager she was drawn into a world of sexual exploitation by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Giuffre alleged that Epstein trafficked her and that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17. He has denied all the claims. Despite previously insisting he had no memory of meeting her, the prince reportedly paid £12m to settle her civil case in 2022. The money was said to have come from his mother, the late queen – who, just six weeks later, was photographed walking beside him at her husband’s memorial service.With a posthumous memoir, Ms Giuffre has brought the issue back into the spotlight. In his calamitous 2019 Newsnight interview,...

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32 h. ago New claims against Andrew of ‘grave concern’ and need examining – palace source

The Metropolitan Police is ‘actively’ looking into claims the prince tried to get his police bodyguard to investigate his sex accuser.

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35 h. ago Prince Andrew latest: Buckingham Palace ‘has grave concern’ over latest Giuffre allegations

Prince Andrew facing fresh scandal over ties with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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