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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday showing the many powerful figures in the late sex trafficker’s orbit, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and others. Many of the men have been previously linked to Epstein, though the photos may shed new light on the extent of those relationships. Taken collectively, the images – which the Democrats on the committee said came from Epstein’s estate – reinforce the financier was tied in the past to a wide variety of powerful and high-profile people whose ties…
The Indiana state Senate’s vote against a new congressional map that President Donald Trump had pressured it to adopt is one of the most extraordinary examples to date of Republicans standing up to Trump. But it wasn’t even the only example Thursday. Indeed, Trump got a series of brushback pitches in his efforts to dominate his party and American politics. The day seemed to reinforce the emerging limits of Trump’s ability to force others to bow to him, as his poll numbers drop and he trends towards lame-duck status. Indiana was certainly the biggest example. Despite months of pressure from…
London — British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn had spent four days trekking through the Virunga mountains in Rwanda in search of gorillas when his patience and determination finally paid off. There he encountered a young male gorilla who was keen to show off his dancing skills, something that Meth-Cohn captured on camera and which has now earned him the top prize in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. In a press statement, Meth-Cohn said of his image, “High Five,” which also won the award for the mammals category: “One young male was especially keen to show off his acrobatic flair: pirouetting,…
Friday featured yet another drop in the drip-drip-drip of new information from the Jeffrey Epstein files. This time: new pictures released by House Democrats that feature Donald Trump and other powerful people like Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon and Richard Branson, culled from tens of thousands of photos from Epstein’s estate. But Epstein’s associations with these men — none of whom has been accused of wrongdoing by law enforcement — have been a matter of public record, and the pictures by themselves don’t tell us a whole lot. Indeed, the more surprising news on this front Friday morning might have come…
The Rhode Island governor said authorities will debrief at a later stage to look at whether Brown University campus buildings were safe enough after the Providence mayor said the exterior doors of the building where the shooting took place were unlocked at the time. “Everything needs to be looked at on a daily basis and we do that, and we prepare for emergencies,” said Gov. Daniel McKee. “This is no exception… Until we actually know more, it’s difficult to make comment in terms of whether the situation was as safe as it should be, but we’ll follow up.” Providence Mayor…
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” The incident involved JetBlue Flight 1112 from Curaçao, which is just off the coast of Venezuela, en route to New York City’s John F.…
Residents living near a home that the Australian police raided in connection with the deadly Bondi Beach attack described to CNN on Monday scenes of chaos and fear as officers swarmed their normally quiet street. Renato Padilla, who has been living in Bonnyrigg, a suburb of Sydney, for more than 25 years, said the street quickly filled with police vehicles as authorities launched a raid on a nearby house believed to be connected to the attack. “From about 10 pm o’clock (on Sunday) until after midnight, police were asking people to come out of the house,” Padilla said. “At first…
Michele Singer Reiner, who died Sunday in Los Angeles alongside her husband of three decades, Rob Reiner, was an accomplished producer, actor and photographer and collaborated with Reiner on many of his most famous projects. Singer Reiner began her career as a photographer, working on the “MysteryDisc” video games and the thriller “Misery,” which Reiner directed. She also acted, starring in the Nora Ephron holiday movie “Mixed Nuts,” and produced several Reiner films including “Shock and Awe” and “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” which was released this year. Singer Reiner was nominated for an Emmy for the documentary “Albert…
The father and son duo suspected of carrying out a massacre at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday were “driven by Islamic state ideology,” police say, as Philippines authorities confirmed the pair recently traveled to a part of that country which has long been a hotbed of extremism. The two men are 50-year-old Sajid Akram, who was killed exchanging gunfire with police; and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram, who is in custody at the hospital and is expected to face significant charges. Australian counterterrorism official believe the pair underwent military-style training while in the southern Philippines last month, public broadcaster…
Mourners gathered in Sydney on Wednesday as the first funerals began for some of the 15 people killed in Australia’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades. There were emotional scenes outside the Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, where large crowds paid their respects ahead of the service for Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in Sunday’s massacre that targeted Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah. Family members wept as Schlanger’s coffin, draped in black velour bearing a gold Star of David, was wheeled into the synagogue. Schlanger, 41, organized the “Chanukah by the Sea” event at Bondi…