Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the US government to tens of millions of dollars of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures. The suspicious activity reports that JPMorgan filed transactions with Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, Alan Dershowitz; and trusts controlled by Leslie Wexner. The nature of the transactions, as well as Mr. Epstein's role in them, is unclear. The JPMorgan report flagged about 4,700 transactions (over $1 billion) because they were potentially related to reports of human trafficking involving Mr. Epstein. That figures that Islamophobic Dummkopf Trumpf supporter Alan Dershowitz is implicated in this vile sex trafficking quagmire. In the UK, former Prince Andrew continues to be dunned, humiliated, and punished by the Royal Family for his ignoble and notorious conduct. Read more
A classified US report has found that Israeli military units committed "many hundreds" of potential human rights violations in Gaza that will take "multiple years" to review. The findings mark the first time a USG report has acknowledged the scale of IDF actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, which bar funding to units credibly accused of such abuses. US officials said the watchdog findings raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel's actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is immensely deferential to the IDF. The Trumpf junta has been working to fire non-partisan Inspectors-General (IGs) from the USG and Empty Suit SECSTATE Marco Rubio recently shuttered the DOS portal to report war crimes: Vapid Marco Rubio Concealing IDF War Crimes. Read more
Both people accused of tying up and starving 11-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia before hiding her body for a year denied their actions and repeatedly lied to police, each blaming the other, according to the warrants for their arrests on murder charges.
Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, intensified rapidly, then stalled near the coast.
Texas judges who refuse to perform same-sex marriages based on "sincerely held religious beliefs" do not violate the state's rules on judicial impartiality and won't be sanctioned for it, the Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The added line reads: "It is not a violation of these canons for a judge to publicly refrain from performing a wedding ceremony based upon a sincerely held religious belief." Read more
New findings reveal the social media abbreviations that are confusing people the most, and FB' has come in first place.
A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration's decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November.
For decades, APEC has helped integrate economies along the Pacific Rim. But on-again, off-again tariff escalation between the world's largest economies means more uncertainty and less room for cooperation.
Steven Hatfill, a senior advisor for the Department of Health and Human Services was fired over the weekend, with health officials telling reporters that he was terminated for giving himself a fake, inflated title and for not cooperating with leadership.
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia's coast. The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb Brown said on Tuesday.
Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment. Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump's innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Read more
BUSAN, South Korea, Oct 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more
It is easy to forget that Argentina was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In 1913, the average Argentinian had about 80 percent of the income of the average American. It took several generations of socialist politicians to destroy Argentina's wealth. Today. the average Argentinian has about 30 percent of the income of the average American. This is a lesson followers of Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders should consider. If the American big government socialists do for the United States what Juan Peron and the Argentinian socialists did for their country, every American will rapidly become poorer.
For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 on the Hot 100 doesn't contain a single rap song. The space is occupied, instead, by the entirety of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl " now in its third week " as well as hits from Morgan Wallen, Olivia Dean, Kehlani, and Alex Warren, whose single "Ordinary" has spent 37 weeks on the chart.
Six House Republicans " who have all previously voiced opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives " are now revolting after a prominent DEI program was gutted by the Trump administration. In September, the Trump White House officially ended funding to "racially discriminatory discretionary grant programs at minority-serving institutions," among which was a grant program for colleges and universities where at least 25% of the student body is Hispanic. For some House Republicans, however, the elimination of the prominent grant program serving education institutions with a sizable Hispanic student body was a bridge too far. Read more
