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Several House Republicans are now calling on the Justice Department to investigate two men tied to Jeffrey Epstein after being accused of sexual misconduct by Epstein’s former assistant, Sarah Kellen. Kellen sat for a transcribed interview with the Oversight and Government Reform Committee last month as part of its Epstein probe, where she told lawmakers she was abused as part of the convicted sex offender’s criminal enterprise. She also told the committee she had been abused by celebrity hair stylist Frédéric Fekkai, who she alleged introduced her to Epstein under the auspices that he was a Victoria’s Secret model scout,…

Naim Qassem has accused Washington of seeking to force Beirut to accept a humiliating Israeli occupation Israeli strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon have injured and killed dozens of civilians, less than 24 hours after West Jerusalem and Beirut agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire proposal.At least eight people were killed and 15 others wounded on Thursday in a series of strikes targeting the towns of Sohmor, Masaken and Arab Al-Jalil, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.Meanwhile, the IDF said an anti-tank missile fired by Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon. Israel also blamed Hezbollah for the death of a UN…

Four illegal alien gang members with Tren de Aragua, three of whom were released into the United States by the Biden administration, have pleaded guilty to a double murder in the sanctuary jurisdiction of New York City, New York. Last week, four illegal aliens from Venezuela — Keiber Jaen Martinez, Samuel Gonzalez Castro, Eferson Gabriel Morillo-Gomez, and Keineyer Ibarra-Mujica — entered guilty pleas related to a 2024 shooting in the Bronx that resulted in the murder of 44-year-old Claretha Daniels and 36-year-old Justin Lawless. “I’m thankful that the victims and their families of these heinous acts finally get the justice they deserve,” Department of Homeland…

Pentagon officials would have five days to tell Congress why senior uniformed military leaders had been dismissed or fired under a provision adopted by a House panel Thursday. The move comes after the sudden firing of multiple top officers under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tenure that have stoked bipartisan concerns that the Pentagon is forcing out experienced officers with little to no explanation. Most recently, the firing of the widely popular Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George stoked outrage from Republicans and Democrats alike. But numerous top officers have been abruptly dismissed since President Donald Trump’s return to office…

Two people were reportedly “shot dead” on Monday during protests in Kenya against a planned Ebola isolation center for Americans at a military installation. According to the BBC, one of the victims was “shot in an area close to the Laikipia Airbase where a demonstration was taking place,” and died in the hospital after friends brought him in for treatment. The other was “already dead when he was taken to the hospital by soldiers.” One of the victims was later identified by his family as Charles Mang’aro Mwangi, age 27. According to his mother, Mwangi was “going to see a…

Manufacturing Productivity Soars Under Record Tariffs, Crushing the Anti-Tariff Folklore Someone should contact the curators at the Smithsonian. An American folk mythology is about to die from exposure to the harsh light of reality. Perhaps the Smithsonian folks should start assembling an exhibit commemorating this dying system of belief and ritual before it is forever purged from our collective cultural memory. The endangered mythology, of course, is the idea that trade tariffs damage the economy by making the very sector they seek to protect, manufacturing, less efficient, ultimately making the nations that impose them poorer. A particularly virulent form of…

The Department of Education (ED) on Wednesday announced that it issued a warning letter to a Colorado school district over its alleged “ongoing refusal” to protect girls’ sports and spaces.  ED said that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter to Jefferson County Public Schools, giving the district ten days to come into compliance with Title IX before the it sends the district a “Letter of Impending Enforcement Action.” Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities as a condition of receiving federal funding. In March, OCR said it concluded its investigation into…

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in an interview the House could a procedural vote as soon as Thursday night setting up final passage of the GOP immigration enforcement bill Friday morning. But he acknowledged the uncertain timing of Senate action could affect those plans. The Senate has launched a marathon series of amendment votes on the party-line bill, but things are stuck at the moment. A vote dealing with the Trump administration’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” has been held open for nearly two hours as Republicans wrangle with how to address the matter. Scalise said he believes House Republicans will ultimately…

The UN assembly has turned its back on Germany, for the first time in the country’s modern history German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has blamed Berlin’s failure to secure a seat at the UN Security Council on his country’s superior moral positions. If only there were a German word for that… Germany failed to win a temporary seat on the UN Security Council for the first time in history on Wednesday, losing out to Portugal and Austria in the ‘Western Europe and Others’ group. Germany easily won all six contests that it entered since 1977, usually with the support of…

The BBC has been forced to issue another grovelling apology to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, after the public broadcaster had attributed fake quotes to the Brexit boss amid the controversial death of an 18-year-old in police custody and attempts by the political establishment to blame the backlash over police failings on Farage. With political tensions rising to a fever pitch this week following the release of bodycam footage showing Henry Nowak bleeding to death while pleading for aid to indifferent if not hostile police officers, who had handcuffed the stabbing victim after deciding to take at face value accusations…