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Police investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to fly to US to speak to Virginia Giuffre's family

(The Independent) UK detectives are set to fly to the US to speak to family members of Virginia Giuffre as part of their investigation into alleged misconduct by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Thames Valley Police (TVP) want to talk to relatives of Giuffre, who died by suicide aged 41 in April last year, about her allegations of sexual assault against the former prince, The Independent understands. Giuffre claims she was sexually assaulted by Mr Mountbatten-Windsor three times when she was under the age of 18 after she was trafficked by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

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Why the House's Epstein investigation isn't going away

(Politico) The House Oversight Committee's Jeffrey Epstein investigation will hit the one-year mark later this month, and the saga isn't ending anytime soon. No matter which party ends up in control in the next Congress, the Oversight panel will remain under pressure to continue to investigate the late convicted sex offender and the web of power players who may have been complicit in his crimes. Democrats are making clear that they view the committee's work under Republican leadership as incomplete and that the Epstein case will be central to their oversight of President Donald Trump's administration if they win the majority in the midterms.

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Man killed by ICE not intended target, DHS says

(The Guardian) Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the United States for 35 years, the New York Times reported.

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GOP charging guests $20,000 to attend 'Trumpapalooza' convention

(The Independent) The Republican Party’s unprecedented “midterm convention” will see guests charged tens of thousands of dollars to attend, with state party websites offering “honorary delegate” status for $20,000. While the two main political parties typically only hold large-scale conventions around presidential elections to certify their candidates and whip up voter enthusiasm, Donald Trump has pushed for one ahead of this year’s elections marking the midway point in his second term, hoping for a similar boost.

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Trump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midterms

(Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday terminated the last three members of the Election Assistance Commission, the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide, the White House ‌confirmed. The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission were forced out of the commission on Thursday in different ways. ‌The one Republican appointee resigned and the other two Democratic appointees were fired via an email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, according to one person familiar with the decision and two other people briefed on the terminations.

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Federal judge authorizes health inspections at Northwest ICE Processing Center

(Tacoma News Tribune) A judge on Thursday sided with the State of Washington's request for the state health department to inspect the Northwest Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Process Center, following over 3,500 complaints from detainees about the center's conditions. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown announced in April that the state would seek a federal court order to stop GEO Group from blocking state health department inspections of the facility.

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Ex-Epoch Times CFO pleads guilty in $67M multinational money laundering scheme

(AP) The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial on Thursday to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in a $67 million fraud scheme. Weidong “Bill” Guan, 63, of Secaucus, New Jersey, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, admitting his participation in what prosecutors described as a scheme to launder fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and other funds through the New York-based media company’s bank accounts and related entities.

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Eric Trump has lost $600 million of daddy's money betting on crypto

(Futurism) President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, cofounded a crypto mining venture called American Bitcoin Corp last year — and it’s already in deep trouble. As the Bitcoin community reels from a major downturn — the digital currency has plummeted by over 40 percent year to date — the company’s shares have plummeted right along with it, crashing over a whopping 95 percent compared to their peak. On Wednesday, its stock price hit an all-time low of well under $6, down from a high of $140 last autumn.

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Judge has 'serious misgivings' about a $1.5M fine over Elon Musk's Twitter takeover - but approves it anyway

(The Independent) A judge on Wednesday reluctantly approved a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of failing to immediately disclose his growing stake in what was then Twitter ahead of his eventual acquisition of the platform in 2022. District of Columbia federal judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote that she “significant misgivings” over the terms of the deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission. She argued that Musk’s allegedly delayed admission that he owned more than five percent of Twitter, which has been renamed X, is estimated to have saved him upwards of $150 million.

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