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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…
Investigators say two early clues – a campus custodian’s observations and an anonymous Reddit post – helped narrow their search for Brown University shooting suspect Claudio Valente, according to a newly released affidavit. A university’s custodian told detectives he had noticed a suspicious person with a surgical mask whose clothing matched images police had released several times in the weeks prior to the shooting. The man “walked with a limp,” the affidavit said. Detectives later reviewed university surveillance footage from Dec. 1 and found a figure consistent with the general description of the suspect. Two weeks later, on Tuesday, police…
The Justice Department released thousands of files related to sex offender and accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in a much-anticipated document dump Friday. The documents are the result of Congress forcing the Trump administration’s hand. The administration had initially promised extensive disclosures on Epstein but then, in July, abruptly changed course. Congress ultimately last month passed a bill requiring the administration to release the files, after a bipartisan revolt. The documents are not everything the Justice Department has; it said Friday it will continue rolling them out in the coming weeks. But they give us our biggest glimpse to date of…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual violence. The Justice Department’s partial release of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday marked a moment of triumph for Epstein survivor Maria Farmer and her sister Annie, who have said for years that Maria had filed one of the first complaints against Epstein in the 1990s. An FBI document released Friday included a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against Epstein related to child pornography. While the name of the complainant is redacted in the document, Maria Farmer’s lawyer, Jennifer Freeman, confirmed on CNN that the complaint…