19 h. ago Newsom uses video of Trump gazing from a window to blast administration over Epstein Files in latest social media attack

‘PAM BONDI, RELEASE THE FILES!’ Newsom captioned the post

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31 h. ago Nikki Glaser makes daring Jeffrey Epstein joke and awards 'Golden Globe to Trump'

Comedian Nikki Glaser opened the 2026 Golden Globes ceremony with a controversial joke about Jeffrey Epstein's redacted client list before roasting Leonardo DiCaprio and CBS in her explosive monologue

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49 h. ago Mandelson praises Trump’s ‘graciousness’ and declines to apologise for friendship with Jeffrey Epstein – UK politics live

In first TV interview since he was sacked as UK ambassador to US, Mandelson says association with Epstein was ‘terrible mistake’ but adds: ‘I was not culpable’Laura Kuenssberg asks Peter Mandelson if he liked Donald Trump when he was the UK ambassador.Mandelson says he did like Trump, listing of numerous reasons why, but said he did not like all of his “language”.I like him, yes, I liked his humour, his graciousness I liked his directness. You knew exactly what he was thinking and where you stood and what he wanted. And how he was proposing to engage, with you. Did I like in all his language? No, I didn’t, did I? Did he make me gasp? What’s going to happen is there’s going to be, another discussion, a lot of consultation and a lot of negotiation.At the end of the day, we are all going to have to wake up to the reality that the Arctic needs securing against China and Russia. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Mandelson reveals what he really thinks of Trump in first interview after sacking over Epstein ties

Lord Mandelson has revealed what he really thinks about Donald Trump.

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5 d. ago Billionaire Leslie Wexner to be subpoenaed over Jeffrey Epstein connections

Wexner, a former CEO and founder of Victoria's Secret-owner L Brands, has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing

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5 d. ago Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty

The US president’s grotesque theatrics on the world stage are an opportunistic distraction from his falling domestic ratingsOf all the commandments for living under Donald Trump, the first is always this: don’t believe him. Nothing he says can be taken at face value; everything should be fed into a polygraph. Those of scrupulous courtesy can wrap it up in red ribbon, or uncork that aphorism about how the man must be taken seriously but never literally. All the same, scratch a Trump promise and underneath will glint a pretext. Scrutinise his grand plans and you find only shabby tactics.The Manhattan Democrat turns into a Florida-dwelling Republican; the troll who demanded Barack Obama’s birth certificate will hem and haw over releasing the Epstein files. From real-estate deals to Trump University, all that this guy swears is solid gold soon settles into so much bullshit.Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago Eight Epstein survivors call for Trump to be impeached over handling of file release

After reading heavily-redacted documents which appear to break the law, the survivors of the convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, are demanding accountability from the president

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1 week ago ‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center

Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation“That’s the tactic they use,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, pondering whether Donald Trump might attach his name to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “You float stuff and you float stuff and you float stuff until people get inured to what a stupid or outrageous thing it is that has been floated and then you pull the trigger.”Whitehouse was sitting in his Senate office and speaking to the Guardian at 11am on Thursday 18 December. Two hours later, his words proved prophetic. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, announced on X that the Kennedy Center board had “voted unanimously” to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Marla Maples warned Trump something was ‘off’ with Epstein, new report reveals, before he was kicked out of Mar

Trump’s second wife reportedly worried about Epstein’s influence on her husband, according to the report

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1 week ago Marla Maples' chilling Epstein warning as she feared his growing sway over Trump

Maples told Mar-a-Lago employees at the time that something about Epstein was 'wrong' and 'off,' adding that she worried about his influence over Trump.

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1 week ago Trump’s DOJ is seeking hundreds of lawyers to sift through more than 5 million Epstein files before release: report

Department of Justice reportedly looking to draft in as many as 400 more legal experts to help with review of files it was required by law to release in full on December 19

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1 week ago Kennedy Center reportedly changed rules before vote to add Trump’s name

Bylaws that would limit voting to Trump-appointed trustees appears to reveal long-held renaming planThe Kennedy Center reportedly adopted bylaws earlier this year that would limit voting to Donald Trump-appointed trustees – a controversial move that appears to reveal the long-held plan to install Trump’s name to the center.The bylaws, in a possible breach of the institution’s charter, were revised in May and specified that board members appointed by Congress, known as ex-officio members, could not vote or count towards a quorum, according to the Washington Post. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Lauren Boebert hints Trump’s decision to veto key project in her state was retaliation amid Epstein fallout

Trump’s veto comes after Boebert voted in favor of releasing documents associated with the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein

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1 week ago US justice department reportedly reviewing more than 5m pages of Epstein files

Figure represents significant expansion on earlier estimates as effort draws resources away from other DoJ cases The US justice department is believed to be reviewing more than 5m pages of documents relating to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – an effort that is drawing resources away from existing cases, according to the New York Times.The figure represents a significant expansion on earlier estimates, which drew on calculations based on 300 gigabytes of data, papers, videos, photographs and audio files held within FBI archives that relate to investigations in Florida and New York. Continue reading...

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1 week ago New report digs in on details of the incident that reportedly caused Trump to ban Epstein from Mar

Employees of Donald Trump’s Florida club were sent to make house calls on Jeffrey Epstein until a young beautician complained about him making sexual advances towards her, report alleges

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1 week ago Redacting Andrew files ‘like removing Trump from Epstein documents’

Cabinet Office accused of cover-up after release of official papers referring to the King’s brother blocked

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1 week ago More musicians drop out of Kennedy Center shows after Trump name change

The Cookers on Monday pulled out of a New Year’s Eve jazz gig at the controversially renamed ‘Trump-Kennedy’ centerA second jazz band has pulled out of performing at the controversially renamed “Trump-Kennedy” center in Washington DC, giving just two days notice before their New Year’s Eve gig was set to take place.The Cookers, described as a Grammy-nominated, all-star septet of legendary post-bop jazz musicians, have not given an explicit reason for their decision but in a statement posted on their website said: “Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump’s ‘faithless’ Charlie Kirk eulogy, the Epstein files, and ‘sexualized’ Mar

Greene attacks Mar-a-Lago culture for overly sexualizing women and Trump for his reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death as rejection of MAGA becomes all-encompassing

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2 w. ago ChatGPT, cooking and Christopher Walken: how parents got their kids to love reading in 2025

Fewer children are reading for fun - but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engagedIt’s been a tough year for our brains. Merriam-Webster dictionary editors chose “slop” as 2025’s word of the year. New York Magazine recently dropped its “Stupid Issue”, with a cover story exploring America’s collective “cognitive decline”. There are big problems in the humanities: reading test scores are down for students nationwide, and undergraduates cannot read full books any more.Even storytime – a comfy couch, a cardboard book, a kid’s rapt attention as their parent reads them a story – is an endangered activity. According to an April report from HarperCollins UK, parents have lost the love of reading to their children, with fewer than half of gen Z parents calling the activity “fun for me”. According to the survey of 1,596 parents of children aged zero to 13, almost one in three found reading “more a subject to learn” than an experience to enjoy. Only a third ...

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2 w. ago Escape To The Country viewers rage 'are you kidding me BBC?!' as they share furious complaint just minutes into Christmas episode

The latest instalment of the BBC programme saw Sonali Shah, 45, meet a couple called Nicky and Gavin who wanted to find their dream home in Dorset for £550,000.

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