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In 2023, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay Epstein victims $290 million and separately to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands $75 million. Deutsche Bank, that same year, agreed to pay victims $75 million...CNBC has requested comment from the two law firms that represented the victims in the suit filed in October 2025 - Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Henderson.

🚨SECRET SERVICE SCOOP: New details about the agent who shot himself earlier today while accompanying Jill Biden to the Philly airport. The agent was apparently rushing and fumbling around after forgetting his cell phone in the SUV, sources told @RCPolitics . The agent was only one week on the job with the Jill Biden detail. He was in the SUV behind the one Biden was traveling in. He left to accompany Jill Biden through the airport, but soon realized he forgot his cell phone. The agent rushed back to get it, and his pistol fell out of the holster and...

"No Kings," a decentralized protest movement that crystallized in opposition to President Donald Trump's second term, will hold thousands of events on Saturday morning, according to Sarah Parker, an organizer for one of the events in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The protests mark the most recent development for the amorphous group, which has prompted similar events in the past. "Tomorrow we’re going to have over 3,500 events across the country," Parker said. "I think it’s important to be out in the streets at this moment in time to save our country. The events will be overwhelmingly peaceful and there are going to...

Key Takeaways A federal judge in Connecticut upheld the ban on firearms in U.S. post offices, creating a split among federal courts on Second Amendment rights. Judge Oliver ruled the ban does not violate the Second Amendment, citing historical traditions of restricting firearms in crowded areas. The case was brought by David Nastri and We The Patriots USA, who argued for the right to carry firearms in post offices for self-defense. This ruling contrasts with a Texas decision finding the ban unconstitutional, potentially setting the stage for a Supreme Court review of the issue. The ongoing legal battle highlights complexities...

Looking at the letter, Norris called his mother, asking if she could talk with the woman claiming to be his daughter. The matriarch agreed to see her face-to-face instead. While Norris was initially hesitant to meet Dina, his mother called him, urging him to come over immediately. Dina was there. Seeing her stopped him in his tracks. "I walked into the living room and nearly had my breath knocked out of me," Norris wrote in his book. "There, standing before me, was a beautiful young lady. I was stunned, but the moment I saw her, I knew. I didn’t need...

ultiple recent drone incursions over U.S. bases housing strategic military assets amplify concerns The War Zone has been documenting for years about highly worrisome drone flights over these installations and critical capabilities. These incidents, as we’ve noted, present a risk to national and local security. One of the drone overflights took place earlier this month at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, home of B-52 Stratofortress bombers and nuclear weapons storage facilities, and a key part of the airborne leg of America’s nuclear triad. Another was at an unspecified installation last month, the commander of U.S. Northern Command mentioned in...

Rahim Nadali, a cultural official with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, announced "we are lowering the minimum age for enlistment to 12 years old. America's attack has inspired the young men of our country to join in the holy war against the Great Satan. Their martyrdom will turn the tide against the infidels and Jews who started this war and eradicate them from the face of the Earth." Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan went on MS NOW and told host Symone Sanders that "there's no doubt in my mind that Iran is going to win this war."...

Wearing a hijab, Brewer on Monday recorded a video that quickly went viral. In it, she happily admits that if she is commanded, as a member of the U.S. military, to fight other Muslims, she would disobey the orders. She makes this clear in the context of a discussion of the conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Will the Army take action? Or would doing anything to call Brewer to account be “Islamophobic”?

Daily Readings from the USCCBMany of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our land and our nation.” John 11:45–48Tomorrow we begin Holy Week with Palm Sunday, commemorating Jesus’ triumphant entry...

In what sane world does anyone allow a gang-rape victim be "euthanized" to end her pain and suffering as the criminals walk free?AdvertisementThis is really happening in Spain, where the sad case of 25-year-old Noeli Castillo Ramos is playing out, likely in the next hour at 6:00 p.m. in Barcelona. Some kind of "medical" "professional" will administer a lethal shot to put her down like a dog.According to the New York Post:AdvertisementA 25-year-old gang rape victim who was left paralyzed after a suicide attempt is scheduled to die by euthanasia after court officials overruled her father’s desperate last-ditch effort to...

An adorable owl was rescued late Thursday evening by the California Highway Patrol after crashing onto a busy Southern California roadway. The injured owl was found on a busy three-lane road in Stevenson Ranch at about 10:14 p.m., officer Luis Quintero from the California Highway Patrol told the California Post. Officers spotted the beige, wide-eyed owl stranded along The Old Road, just north of Stevenson Ranch Parkway in Santa Clarita. Lying helpless in the left lane, the owl struggled on its back, wings fluttering against the pavement.

Taxpayers are yet again helping fund disruptive activism in Los Angeles — this time the radicals planning to chaos across the city and county for Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, which organizers claim will be the biggest yet. One the leading groups participating in the event is the Liberty Hill Foundation, a social justice nonprofit that receives $14 million in Los Angeles city funding for tenant outreach and housing programs. Public filings show the group has donated tens of thousands of dollars to the ACLU of Southern California, raising further questions about taxpayer-supported organizations being used for radical political advocacy. ACLU...

"Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. . . . For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions" (Matt. 6:12, 14-15). An unforgiving Christian is a contradiction in terms. It's possible to confess your sins and still not know the joy of forgiveness. How? Failure to forgive others! Christian educator J. Oswald Sanders observed that Jesus measures us by the yardstick we use on others. He didn't say, "Forgive us because we forgive others,"...

15 attacking Ukrainian drones downed...Leningrad Region around...St. Petersburg... House Government Oversight Committee...disappearance of hard drives...Epstein's mansion... lawsuit...victims of Jeffrey Epstein...US Department of Justice and Google... documentary about the corruption case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Explosions reported in Damascus, Syria and the nearby countryside... United Arab Emirates reporting attacks early Saturday morning... at least five killed in Iran... four Iranian cities hit by airstrikes... Iranian missile impacting 11 locations in Tel Aviv with one killed... in Saudi Arabia 12 US military members wounded... Russia banning the export of gasoline... US intelligence is certain that one-third of Iran's missile arsenal...destroyed......

The war started with Iran by the United States and Israel has left the European far right divided and doubtful... In the first days of the war, the loudest silence came from Hungary's ruling party... Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has praised Trump as a “peacemaker” for his role in the war in Gaza, neither condemned nor endorsed the attacks on Iran. Orbán, who is campaigning for re-election on a “pro-peace narrative” and accuses the EU of fuelling the war in Ukraine by supporting Kyiv with money and weapons, has since resolved the dissonance by saying in an interview with...

On April 4, Nato will be 77 years old. The chance that America will be counted among the celebrants when the birthday celebrations roll around is somewhere between nil and zero. President Trump had long predicted that if America needed help, Nato would not come to its aid, even though, as he sees it, the United States has spent billions of dollars over decades defending Europe from Russian aggression. And when America did need help in the war against Iran – a few mine sweepers, please, sirs – the answer “no” came back in several languages. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir...

Iran’s probably gay and likely incapacitated new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei hasn’t been seen publicly in a month — but it has nothing to do with poor health, the evil regime has claimed. Khamenei has been lying low for security reasons after his father, former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was wiped out by the US and Israel at the start of their war with Tehran. “The reason for his absence from public view is the observance of security considerations due to the current special circumstances,” said Ali Bahreini, Iran’s representative to the United Nations office in Geneva, CNN reported,...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has U-turned on his position on the UK’s involvement in the Iran war amid growing evidence the British public opposes the US-Israeli offensive that has driven up the price of fuel. Last week, Farage said that “the gloves need to come off” and the UK should “do all we can to support the operation — I make that perfectly, perfectly clear”. He added that “we need to accept that we are part of this with the Americans and the Israelis” and has called Sir Keir Starmer’s decision not to back the US from the start...

A rising San Francisco political figure has been sidelined by a sudden health crisis, and insiders say her future in office is now hanging by a thread. Jackie Fielder, one of the city’s most outspoken progressive supervisors, has been hospitalized after disappearing from public view for roughly two weeks, according to a report. Her office confirmed she’s dealing with what it described as an “acute personal health crisis,” but offered no further details about her condition. Sources told The San Francisco Standard there has been significant internal upheaval within Fielder’s office in recent weeks, and that she has privately indicated...