5 h. ago Prince Andrew on alert as US set to release Jeffrey Epstein files in Congress hearing

The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability is set to begin receiving the first batch of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case on Friday

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12 h. ago JD Vance booed during hamburger handout to national guard troops in DC

US vice-president, at Washington’s Union Station with Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth, defends use of troops in area with less crimeJD Vance was booed and heckled with chants of “Free DC!” during a photo op with national guard troops at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday afternoon.Handing out burgers to troops deployed last week by Donald Trump, at the station’s Shake Shack alongside the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, Vance told soldiers “we appreciate everything you’re doing” and asserted: “We brought some law and order back.” Meanwhile, a crowd of demonstrators protested outside. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Trump's latest attempt to release secret Epstein files rebuffed as 'diversion' by Clinton

Donald Trump was handed another blow on Wednesday when a federal judge denied his administration's attempts to release grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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14 h. ago Judge shoots down Trump DOJ bid to unseal Epstein grand jury notes as ‘diversion’ from releasing unseen files

The content of those materials ‘pales in comparison’ to documents the Justice Department already has and could publicly release, Judge Richard Berman says

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15 h. ago Prince Andrew warned to 'brace himself' as bombshell Epstein files to be made public

The disgraced Duke of York, already scarred by years of scandal, could find his name splashed across official US records.

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15 h. ago Prince Andrew told to 'brace himself' as Epstein files to be made public in days

Following a subpoena, US lawmakers will begin receiving the first batch of documents from the Department of Justice on Friday - a development which adds further strain on Prince Andrew

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16 h. ago Prince Andrew told to 'brace himself' as explosive Epstein files to be made public

Disgraced Prince Andrew could find his name splashed across official US records as Congress prepares to release secret documents linked to the billionaire sex offender

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35 h. ago Alaska man gifted $22,000 motorcycle by Russian government after viral interview

An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage

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37 h. ago Secret Epstein files will be made public for the first time EVER... with a mandatory condition that could drive Trump supporters mad

Lawmakers in Congress expect to begin receiving Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case this week.

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38 h. ago Congress plans to release Epstein files to public after it gets them on Friday: report

The House panel is expected to start receiving some of the material from the Justice Department on Friday.

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41 h. ago US pursuing stake in struggling chipmaker Intel, commerce secretary says

Trump administration looking to convert funding from Chips Act into equity in the semiconductor manufacturerThe US government is pursuing a stake in Intel, the US commerce secretary said on Tuesday, confirming reports of discussions between officials and the company that have circulated for the better part of a week.The Trump administration wants to convert funding from the Chips and Science Act, which funds research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips in the US, into equity in the struggling tech company, according to Howard Lutnick. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Department of Justice to begin handing over Epstein files to Capitol Hill – US politics live

DoJ agrees to provide Congress documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation, says House lawmaker on MondaySoftBank has agreed to invest $2bn (£1.5bn) in Intel, amid reports that Donald Trump’s administration is also considering a stake in the struggling US chip maker.The Japanese technology investor announced the multibillion-dollar deal on Tuesday, in a move expected to give it a 2% stake in the business. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Congress to start getting Epstein files later this week from Trump’s DOJ, lawmaker claims

DOJ was facing Tuesday deadline to comply with subpoena from House Oversight Committee

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67 h. ago Can Europe’s leaders drag Trump’s Ukraine policy back on track? – Today in Focus Extra podcast

The Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger on why a ‘dream team’ of Europe’s leaders will flank Zelensky today as he travels to Washington. Can they convince Trump to listen to the Ukrainian president?Last week, the US president, Donald Trump, flew to Anchorage, Alaska, to meet the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. All guns blazing, Trump promised there would be consequences if he did not get the ceasefire he had come for. But after spending three hours in the subartic chill with Putin, a former KGB handler, he seemed to change. He said he agreed with Putin that a long-term peace settlement was more urgent than a ceasefire, and ruled out Ukraine joining Nato.Europe’s key leaders have responded by ripping up their schedules and insisting on joining Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he travels to Washington for his own meeting with Trump, the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Julian Borger explains. Helen Pidd asks what hope this “dream team” of leaders has of c...

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4 d. ago How dare the public be told to tackle criminals... when politicians have left them to roam with impunity: By retired policeman NORMAN BRENNAN

Last week, Donald Trump deployed National Guard soldiers to Washington DC, to enact his promise of 'historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse'.

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4 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer to meet with 'coalition of the willing' ahead of crunch Trump

Sir Keir Starmer is set to meet with Western allies, ahead of Zelensky and Trump's talks at the White House next week, as world leader push for a peace deal in Ukraine. 

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4 d. ago Warm handshakes and an invitation to Moscow: The key takeaways from Putin and Trump’s summit in Alaska

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meeting Trump in Washington next week after the Alaska summit ended without a deal

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6 d. ago Trump’s DC takeover is a move of staggering hypocrisy | Rebecca Solnit

Donald Trump is concocting a drama in DC because he would like us to really stop talking about the Epstein filesThe most violent day in the history of Washington DC, leaving aside the War of 1812, was 6 January 2021, and the instigator was Donald J Trump, who this week has endeavored to seize control of the nation’s capital, after reports that a former employee of the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) was assaulted in the city.In a sense the new event echoes the old; both are illegitimate power grabs made on the basis of lies. In 2021 it was a lie about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election; in the summer of 2025 it’s lies about crime levels. Reliable sources – including the Biden Department of Justice in January – have noted that violent crime there is at a 30-year low. Five people died as a result of that 2021 attack on Congress, and dozens of law enforcement officers were injured, some gravely, by the mob Trump incited. On his first day in office in 2025 he par...

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6 d. ago MSNBC pundit George Conway compares Trump to ‘Tony Soprano’ over DC crime crackdown

President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., this week

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7 d. ago DC braces for massive turning point in Trump's takeover as protesters take the streets shouting 'Go home, fascists'

Trump vowed earlier this week to clean up the streets of the capital and has already sent hundreds of troops with the National Guard in to clean up crime.

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