68 m. ago A congressman’s ex got a protective order against him. His boss has little to say about it | Arwa Mahdawi

This isn’t the first time Cory Mills has faced allegations of misconduct – but the House speaker wants to talk about ‘serious’ thingsMeet Cory Mills, a Republican congressman representing Florida. He is rabidly anti-abortion, incredibly anti-immigration, and obsequiously pro-Trump. Earlier this year, perhaps in a desperate bid to get Dear Leader to notice him, he introduced a bill, dubbed the “DON-ument Act”, which would make the wall on the US-Mexico border a national monument.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 h. ago One scandal too many forces UK monarchy to sideline Prince Andrew

Prince Andrew has been banished from the royal whirl after emails emerged this week showing that he had remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein longer than he previously admitted

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3 h. ago Prince Andrew's antics and scandals have tried royal patience, triggering headlines and suspicions

Britain’s Prince Andrew has been forced to relinquish use of his remaining royal titles after the latest revelations about his relationship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein proved one scandal too many for his brother, King Charles III

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6 h. ago Virginia Giuffre’s brother says Prince Andrew relinquishing titles ‘vindicates’ her

Virginia Giuffre’s brother has said Prince Andrew’s decision to relinquish his royal titles "vindicates" his sister, following years of allegations against him.

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12 h. ago Virginia Giuffre ‘vindicated’ by Andrew’s title surrender, says family

The royal development was announced Friday night amid renewed controversy surrounding the Epstein scandal.

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14 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's family issue 'victory' statement as Prince Andrew loses all titles

Prince Andrew has stopped using his remaining titles and honours and will no longer be known as the Duke of York, in a move which finally completes his banishment from royal life

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16 h. ago ‘Andrew is a disaster – he’s attracted to seedy billionaires & destroyed his future but here’s what he needs to do now’

DISGRACED Prince Andrew is a "complete disaster" and his attraction to "seedy billionaires" has led to his own downfall, a royal expert has claimed. Andrew gave up using his royal titles in disgrace after he was engulfed in the sex abuse case with Virginia Giuffre and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew made the announcement in a statement...

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16 h. ago Andrew gives up his Duke of York title in further banishment from royal life

Andrew released a statement via Buckingham Palace saying the decision had been taken in agreement with the King.

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16 h. ago Epstein boasted of ‘blackmailing powerful men with abuse videos’ as mystery over paedophile’s ‘client list’ reignite

PAEDOPHILE Jeffrey Epstein bragged he could blackmail a network of powerful men with videos showing them abusing young women, Virginia Giuffre has claimed. The contents of the book are likely to reignite speculation about whether or not the late disgraced financier kept a client list despite US authorities finding in July that there was no...

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17 h. ago What has happened to Andrew’s dukedom and is he still a prince?

The King’s brother has stopped using his Duke of York title to prevent further distraction from the work of the King and the royal family.

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17 h. ago Virginia Giuffre’s family celebrates after Prince Andrew drops royal titles over alleged Epstein ties

Prince Andrew announced earlier Friday he would cease using his royal titles as the ‘continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the royal family’

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18 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's family say stripping Prince Andrew of his titles is 'victory' in their 'battle for justice'

In a statement Ms Giuffre's family members, Sky and Amanda Roberts and Danny and Lanette Wilson, have also called on the King to remove Andrew's title of Prince.

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18 h. ago King Charles forces disgraced Prince Andrew to give up Duke of York title

Andrew to step back from royal duties after Virginia Giuffre sex abuse scandal and Chinese spy revelations

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19 h. ago Prince Andrew says he's giving up his Duke of York title as Epstein allegations refuse to fade

Prince Andrew says he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines

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19 h. ago Prince Andrew gives up Duke of York title and honours ahead of Giuffre memoir

The latest development in the long-running controversy comes just days before the publication of a memoir by Andrew's late alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre.

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25 h. ago Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are weReading the extract from Virginia Giuffre’s tragic memoir in the Guardian this week, I was struck again by the fate of each of those people involved in that infamous photograph taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house.The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump’s impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned. And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which...

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25 h. ago Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre suffered nightmares of ‘greedy men on top of her’ years after abuse, new memoir reveals

Giuffre described the aftermath of her abuse in the posthumous book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice

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38 h. ago JAN MOIR: How can soiled Prince Andrew live with himself? And the troubling question: What role did he play in Virginia's death?

Can there be a sadder book than Virginia Giuffre 's autobiography, published posthumously after she committed suicide earlier this year at the age of 41?

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48 h. ago Prince Andrew told Virginia Giuffre 'my daughters are a little younger than you' before having sex, she claims in autobiography

Ms Giuffre, who took her own life six months ago, said she felt 'like Cinderella' when she was introduced to the Duke of York at Ghislaine Maxwell's London townhouse in March 2001.

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49 h. ago Prince Andrew allegedly told accuser 'my daughters are a little younger than you' before having sex

Extracts have emerged from the posthumous memoir written by Virginia Giuffre, which is set to be released next week, which make a series of claims about Prince Andrew

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