48 h. ago Top Democrat on House oversight panel demands Pam Bondi release Epstein files

Robert Garcia cited revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir in letter to the attorney generalThe top Democrat on a congressional committee investigating the government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case demanded on Wednesday that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, turn over files related to the alleged sex trafficker, citing revelations from the posthumous memoir of a prominent abuse survivor.Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, published this week, details how Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell groomed and manipulated her. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Arizona sues to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in new rep

Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who holds the final signature required to trigger a vote to release the Epstein files

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2 d. 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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3 d. ago Virginia Giuffre's family say she was 'gaslit' by UK police and UK and US government

Virginia Roberts Giuffre's brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, have demanded US President Donald Trump release the Epstein Files with the names of those involved unredacted

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6 d. ago Shorn of title, status and dignity, it’s the new Prince Andrew. A life he was born to replaced by a life he will hate | Stephen Bates

Nothing will ever be the same for the disgraced royal or the other Windsors. He can still live in Royal Lodge, but it’s a terrible blow to his sense of entitlementThe saga of Andrew Windsor, the ex-Duke, who henceforth will only be known as plain old Prince, may have finally reached its end. At least the rest of the Royal family will hope so. But even that is likely to depend on what may further emerge from any more releases of Epstein files, letters, records and emails in the US. His image, such as it remains, may yet be tarnished further.It is the loss of titles that will certainly hurt him most. Andrew has not formally lost them – removal of his dukedom requires an act of parliament, which neither government nor Buckingham Palace will want, taking up as it would embarrassingly public lengths of time – and he can’t shed his princely tag since he indubitably is the son of a monarch.Stephen Bates is a former royal correspondent of the Guardian Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Arizona says it will sue Mike Johnson if he does not swear in new rep – and likely trigger release of the Epstein files

Democratic congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva still waiting to take her oath of office almost a month after winning her special election, as her state AG threatens legal action

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1 week ago ‘More Biden than Trump’: Republicans lament MTG’s push away from the party and backing Democrats

Greene’s positions on the war in Gaza, the release of the Epstein files, and now, the Affordable Care Act subsidies, have separated her from her party

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2 w. ago Trump hints at Ghislaine Maxwell pardon in bizarre Oval Office admission

President Donald Trump said he would 'take a look' at pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, speaking in the Oval Office - as he faces mounting pressure to 'release the Epstein files'

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2 w. ago Supreme court rejects appeal from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell – US politics live

Justices declines to take up case that would have renewed attention on case after Trump administration faced criticism for refusing to release Epstein filesThe supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ghislaine Maxwell petition discussed by Supreme Court as Congress appears set to vote on Epstein files release

Maxwell’s lawyers say prosecutors should not have pursued a case against her because Epstein sought a deal with prosecutors more than a decade earlier

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3 w. ago QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T

The QAnon Shaman withdrew his support for Trump after the president refused to release the Epstein files

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3 w. ago ‘Find it in your heart to seek the truth’: Epstein survivor pushes for lawmakers to release files

Jess Michaels says authorities are ‘completely ignoring’ hers and dozens of other victims’ statements about Epstein’s traffickingJess Michaels was in the prime of her life. It was 1990 and Michaels was working as a professional dancer. A colleague in Brooklyn needed a roommate and Michaels took her up on the offer, moving to New York City.Michaels’ career swiftly took off; she even landed an 18-month contract in Japan. “I worked with MC Hammer,” Michaels said, recalling that she also worked as a backup dancer in an Aretha Franklin video. “I was thriving.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release

The materials were made public by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the US

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4 w. ago Key Democrat says bipartisan vote to compel Trump release of Epstein files could come Monday: ‘As soon as she’s sworn in’

Rep. Ro Khanna is optimistic the vote can happen

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4 w. ago Trump scrambles to sway MTG, Boebert or Mace on Epstein files as House now has enough votes to force release within days

A special election in Arizona provides the 218th signature to force a vote on the release of files related to Epstein

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last month Disappointed Christians say 'God is delaying the Rapture' until Epstein Files are released

After the rapture failed to happen on Tuesday, many Christians are blaming it on the fact Donald Trump hasn't released a trove of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein

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