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Strangely, the media have suddenly taken an intense interest in the case of pedophile and major Democratic donor Jeffrey Epstein. In 2005, the Palm Beach police were told by the mother of a young girl in West Palm Beach that her daughter had been brought to the Democratic donor's mansion and asked to have sex with him for money. This kicked off an intensive, one-year undercover investigation. The police sifted through Epstein's garbage and interviewed 17 witnesses, including the housemen, who told of sex toys and dildos left behind after the underage girls left. One of Epstein's procurers, a 20-year-old...

In the Rewrite Lawrence O'Donnell questions several claims made in a Washington Post story written by a law professor about the shooting death of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson. ...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  Democrats, in a rare grilling of a U.S. District Court nominee, questioned law professor Paul Cassell on Tuesday about his attempts to overturn the requirement that police inform suspects of their right to remain silent.</p> <p>Cassell, a University of Utah law professor seeking a federal judgeship in Utah, persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to re-examine the Miranda warnings. He lost, however, in 7-2 decision in 2000 with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist writing, "Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture."</p>