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Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Friday released more than 300,000 pages of photos and evidence connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The vast trove includes images showing the disgraced financier and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell socializing with high-profile figures, including former president Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson. One photograph appears to show Clinton in a swimming pool alongside Maxwell and several unidentified, partially clothed women. Clinton broke his silence on Friday to turn the tables on Trump, releasing a statement that declared: 'The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late...

The United States would suffer a devasting defeat and lose its biggest aircraft carrier if it tried to stop China invading Taiwan, according to a top secret Pentagon report. War games showed the U.S. would be overwhelmed by China's arsenal of around 600 hypersonic weapons, along with missiles and nuclear submarines. The grim assessment, revealed by the New York Times, confirmed the conclusions of previous war games, but it also highlighted wider concerns about the future direction of the U.S. military and its continued reliance on outdated methods. *** Ships like the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford - the...

Donald Trump's top immigration official has been removed for failing to arrest enough illegal immigrants. Caleb Vitello, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was reassigned on Friday. It came as deportations of migrants have lagged expectations, a senior Trump official said. Vitello, was in the role in an acting capacity and under pressure to step up enforcement after other top ICE officials were reassigned last week. The move was said to have come after frustration within the Trump administration over the speed of deportations. According to the Department of Homeland Security Vitello will stay at ICE...

Debate night has arrived with Joe Biden and Donald Trump set for their first showdown of 2024 at 9:00 p.m. EST in Atlanta, Georgia. With just hours to go Trump has been hit by a shock poll in the red state of Texas showing him only 6 points ahead of Biden. Meanwhile, a stunning report suggests Michelle Obama has expressed frustration with the Biden family.

The West is poised to send nearly 200 battle tanks to Ukraine in a potential hammer blow that could help Kyiv win its war against Vladimir Putin...It brought the total number of tanks Kyiv can expect to have at its disposal to nearly 200, with potential for more...Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the new tank deliveries "would bring nothing good to the future relations".