4 h. ago The Latest: Kash Patel confronts Senate questions over probe into Charlie Kirk’s killing

FBI Director Kash Patel is confronting skeptical Democrats at a Senate hearing Tuesday, touting his leadership of the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency and facing questions about the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing, the case against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the firings of senior FBI officials who have accused Patel of illegal political retribution

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5 h. ago Chemical castration of sex offenders to be trialled in north west

Chemical suppressants that limit "problematic sexual arousal" will be trialled in north-west

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7 h. ago Chemical castration pilot of sex offenders to expand to two more regions – Lammy

The Government had pledged to widen the existing pilot from four prisons in the south-west to 20 prisons nationwide in May.

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14 h. ago South London teacher who took pupil to Travelodge for sex is banned for life

Waleed Nasir, 27, a convicted sex offender, booked a double room with the pupil at the hotel in Whyteleafe, Surrey

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20 h. ago Paedos in Scots jail share "Dance Moms" DVD of little girls dancing

Police probing how sex offenders were able to get hold of a DVD that was used to fuel sick urges inside jail

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49 h. ago Maddie McCann prime suspect Christian B REFUSES to speak to UK police

German sex offender Christian Brueckner has been a prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann after she vanished from Praia da Luz, in Portugal, in 2007

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55 h. ago The Guardian view on the UK’s dangerous moment: as Labour falters, the far right mobilises | Editorial

Political leadership is missing just as Britain needs it most. The government must step up as others stir division and disillusionment growsPeter Mandelson’s exit from public office in disgrace over his links to the millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should have been a low point for the government. Instead, it exposed a leadership in trouble, with further to fall. Sir Keir Starmer defended his ambassador after No 10 had seen the emails that sank him. Whether or not the prime minister read them, the damage is becoming institutionalised. Labour looks adrift – consumed by infighting as darker forces gather beyond Westminster.At the weekend, more than 110,000 marched through London in Britain’s largest far-right rally in decades. Organised by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, and billed as a “festival of free speech”, it quickly descended into conspiracy theories, Islamophobia and anti-migrant bigotry. There was violence: 26 police officers were injured. St...

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3 d. ago Jeffrey Epstein was linked to the upper echelons of wealth and politics – but where did he get his fortune?

The sex offender was worth $600m when he died, but exactly how he acquired his wealth remains a mysteryJeffrey Epstein was a very wealthy man, but exactly how wealthy and where that money came from remains shrouded in mystery.Newly unearthed emails last week shone light on Epstein’s role as freelance client development officer, acting as a channel between political figures and business titans, greasing up the former with lifestyles they could not afford and the latter with avenues of political influence. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Starmer ‘defended Mandelson after No 10 had received Epstein emails’

PM understood not to have seen messages from former ambassador to sex offender when speaking in CommonsKeir Starmer defended Peter Mandelson in the House of Commons two days after details of the damning emails between the former ambassador to the US and Jeffrey Epstein were passed to Downing Street, according to reports.The prime minister sacked Mandelson on Thursday after emails were published revealing that he had told Epstein “your friends stay with you and love you” while the disgraced financier was facing jail for sex offences. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Sex offender used false name to travel to Ireland and hid trip from police

Paedophile Steven Allen has been breaching court orders designed to protect children for two decades

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5 d. ago Keir Starmer sacks Peter Mandelson over Jeffrey Epstein ties

Foreign Office says extent of US ambassador’s friendship with disgraced financier not disclosed when he was appointedUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has sacked Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US over his association with Jeffrey Epstein.The Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty told MPs that Mandelson had not disclosed the extent and depth of his friendship with Epstein, a convicted child sex offender, when he was appointed as the ambassador. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago As the Epstein case shows, Trump’s Maga faithful care about only one kind of sex

E Jean Carroll won her case, but in Trumpland the only sex offences that matter are committed by paedophiles with links to DemocratsOn Monday, Donald Trump appeared in two, unrelated stories involving the sexual abuse of women. The first was a ruling by the US federal court of appeals, upholding an earlier judgment in which the president was found liable for $83.3m in damages for defaming the writer E Jean Carroll – a woman whom, it was ruled in civil court in 2023, had been sexually abused by Trump. On the same day, Trump’s alleged contribution to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” was shared by Democrats on social media in the form of a lewd drawing the president denied having made. The E Jean Carroll news caused no public inconvenience for Trump; the Epstein story went up like a mushroom cloud in what has become the most politically dangerous episode of his presidency.What, exactly, is the difference then between the sexual abuse of E Jean Carroll, for which ...

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6 d. ago Man who exposed himself to children in Wishaw park narrowly avoided prison

Robert Hunter, 43, was placed on the sex offenders' register for 18 months at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week.

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6 d. ago Starmer challenged over Mandelson vetting after Epstein revelations

PM told to show due diligence was done before US ambassador appointment following publication of messages to convicted sex offender

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6 d. ago Starmer told to publish Mandelson vetting documents after Epstein revelations

Labour peer and diplomat under pressure following publication of birthday messages to convicted sex offender

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6 d. ago Live facial recognition has led to over 700 arrests this year, Met boss says

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 50 registered sex offenders in breach of their condition are among those arrested.

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6 d. ago Mandelson predicts fresh revelations about Epstein friendship

Labour peer and diplomat under pressure after publication of birthday messages to convicted sex offender

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6 d. ago Donald Trump says 'that's not my signature' as he speaks out on lewd Epstein cartoon

President Donald Trump has denied writing a letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the media is "wasting their time" with the story and that "it's not my signature"

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7 d. ago Influencer who was photographed celebrating with a binder of Epstein documents is now ripping into his victims

Jessica Reed Kraus has sympathized with convicted sex offender, Ghislaine Maxwell, believing she was unfairly blamed for actions committed by Epstein’s ‘clients’

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7 d. ago Trump calls release of suggestive note to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein a ‘dead issue’

Administration says it would support an expert review of signature to determine whether it was Trump who signed itWhite House officials on Tuesday doubled down on their assertion that a sexually suggestive letter carrying what appeared to be Donald Trump’s signature that was included in a birthday book for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had not been signed by the president.The letter, and its drawing of a naked woman’s torso around an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein, was part of a batch of documents released by the House oversight committee in response to a subpoena after its existence was first reported in July by the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading...

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