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Latest documents bring renewed attention to Prince Andrew and claims the royal ‘spent weeks’ at Epstein’s Palm Beach homeNew batches of documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse were released on Friday afternoon, bringing renewed attention to his longtime friendship with Prince Andrew and prior claims that the royal “spent weeks” at the late financier’s Palm Beach home.Juan Alessi, Epstein’s former...

In address near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, US president tore into Donald Trump like never before, including calling him a ‘loser’This time it’s personal. On Friday Joe Biden tore into his predecessor Donald Trump as never before. He brimmed with anger, disdain and contempt. He apparently had to stop himself from swearing. So much for “when they go low, we go high” – and plenty...

Randy Roedema, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, is the first official to be sentenced in the 23-year-old’s killingA former Colorado police officer convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 14 months in county jail on Friday.Randy Roedema, an ex-Aurora police department (APD) officer, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in October. He is the first...

State will be first to import drugs under federal program that Florida governor says could save consumers $150m in first yearA public health policy that won rare backing from both the Biden and Trump administrations looks ready to open a flow of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada to Florida, ending a decades-long block on the importation of certain pharmaceuticals to the US.The federal Food...

More than 300 additional pages deepen the picture of Epstein’s elite orbit while resurfacing old claimsA new batch of documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffery Epstein’s sexual abuse were released on Thursday.The additional 19 documents, totaling around 300 pages, add to the more than 900 pages of documents already unsealed on Wednesday evening, the release of which prompted an online frenzy that crashed...

Lawsuit announced by Eric Adams says 17 bus companies violated state law by transporting 33,000 people to the cityNew York City has sued 17 charter bus companies that transported migrants from Texas, the mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Thursday.The lawsuit, filed in New York state court in Manhattan, says the city is seeking $708m from the firms because that was the cost it incurred...

Civil rights leader hosts protest outside office of alumnus who spearheaded campaign to remove Claudine Gay and criticized DEIThe civil rights leader the Rev Al Sharpton hosted a protest outside the office of the Harvard alumnus Bill Ackman on Thursday after Ackman criticized diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Harvard following the resignation of the former university president Claudine Gay.“[Ackman] declared war on DEI....

Investigators believe suspect died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, and at least one of the victims is a school administratorPolice said that a 17-year-old suspect killed a sixth grader and wounded five others in a shooting early Thursday at a high school in the small town of Perry, Iowa.The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, a 17-year-old student at Perry high school, officials said at...

In latest move by University of California, Berkeley, law enforcement agencies arrested protesters and erected barrierIn a midnight operation, hundreds of police officers descended on People’s Park in Berkeley, California, to clear out the activists and unhoused campers occupying the area, to make way for the construction of a housing complex for students.By dawn, the park that was once the centre of the 1960s...

Exclusive: Evidence found by Hannah Durkin includes ships landing in Cuba in 1872, and people held in Benin in 1873Historians have generally assumed that the transatlantic slave trade ended in 1867, but it actually continued into the following decade, according to new research.Dr Hannah Durkin, an historian and former Newcastle University lecturer, has unearthed evidence that two slave ships landed in Cuba in 1872....

The 2024-page document released by a US judge is littered with names, but some secrets stay hiddenIt has long been known that the disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein operated at the center of a globe-spanning network of the rich, famous and powerful but the documents released Wednesday were nonetheless shocking in revealing the sheer magnitude of his elite circle.Through the prism of a defamation...

A day after resigning, university’s first Black president says the call to testify on antisemitism at elite colleges was ‘a well-laid trap’The first Black president of Harvard, who resigned Tuesday after a successful rightwing campaign to oust her, warned that the tactics used against her were “merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society”.“Trusted institutions...

Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, David Copperfield and Prince Andrew among names contained in court documentsExplainer: who was Epstein and what are court documents about?Click here to read the documents in fullNumerous court documents identifying associates of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made public on Wednesday.Some of the high-profile names in the court documents include Prince Andrew, the former US president Bill Clinton, Michael...

The mother and uncle of Ragi A Sckak were taken from Gaza in an operation coordinated by the US, Israel and Egypt, according to a US officialThe mother and uncle of a US service member were rescued from the fighting in Gaza in a secret operation coordinated by the US, Israel, Egypt and others, according to a US official speaking to the Associated Press.It...

Stainless steel mesh beneath iconic 1.7-mile span took decades of advocacy and is already workingA long-awaited suicide prevention barrier at the Golden Gate Bridge has been completed, officials announced on Wednesday, marking the culmination of a tireless campaign by families who lost loved ones at the famous structure.Crews had been working to finish installing stainless steel nets on both sides of the bridge before...

Hundreds of pages of documents linked to Epstein associates were made public on Wednesday. You can read them here in fullFull report: Jeffrey Epstein court documents unsealedExplainer: who was Epstein and what are court documents about? Court documents linked to associates of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been made public on Wednesday.The unsealed papers run to almost 950 pages and list people including Prince...

US hedge fund manager Bill Ackman posts 4,000-word screed decrying ‘racism against white people’ after Gay’s departureChief among the campaigners celebrating the resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University was a man who arguably did the most to push Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, out the door: Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager and Harvard alumnus.Ackman, who accused Gay of antisemitism and...

Jungle between Colombia and Panama marks the start of the dangerous trek north from South America to the United StatesA record 520,000 people crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darién Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the year before, according to new figures from the government of Panama.The people who made the journey that marks the...