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  NEW YORK (AP) — Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials. Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager who once counted as friends former President Bill Clinton, Great Britain’s Prince Andrew, and President Donald Trump, was taken into federal custody and is expected to appear Monday…

Deploying Royal Marines from its Gibraltar territory at the Mediterranean Sea gateway, Britain on Thursday seized an Iranian oil tanker it says is breaching European Union sanctions against trade with Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime. This is proof of Britain’s increasing alignment with America on Iran. Britain insists it supports EU efforts to stabilize the Iran nuclear agreement. But London knew full well the fury its seizure would spark in Tehran….

RIDGECREST, Calif. — Three-year-old River Webb calls them “boom-booms.” That’s one way to describe a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Southern California over the holiday weekend, centered in this Mojave Desert city of 28,000 situated between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. A magnitude 6.4 hit on the Fourth of July followed by a 7.1 the next day, making for the strongest earthquakes to hit Southern California in at least…

In this Thursday, July 4, 2019, photo made available by U.S. Navy, two F/A-18 Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW 7) drop 1000-pound general-purpose bombs during an Independence Day air power demonstration next to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in Arabian Sea. The USS Abraham Lincoln was rushed to the Mideast amid tensions between the U.S. and Iran as its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers…

Jeffrey Epstein, pictured here in an undated photo, was arrested Saturday and charged with sex trafficking, according to media reports. Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images Jeffrey Epstein, pictured here in an undated photo, was arrested Saturday and charged with sex trafficking, according to media reports. Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images The multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested…

Bolstered by a strong economy, Donald Trump reached the highest job approval rating of his career in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll and runs competitively for reelection against four of five possible Democratic contenders. Yet he remains broadly unpopular across personal and professional measures, marking his vulnerabilities in the 2020 election. Forty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump’s overall job performance, up a slight 5 percentage points from April…

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So many earthquakes have rocked the high desert of Southern California since Friday’s 7.1-magnitude temblor that the U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday it is unable to “count all events.” The quakes — there have been more than 3,000 associated with the two major shakers —are part of a sequence that is sure to continue rumbling in Searles Valley and Ridgecrest, California, seismologists say. Late Friday,Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the…

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President Trump said his administration will move forward “fairly soon” with a plan to arrest thousands of migrant families in surprise roundups across major U.S. cities, with the two-week deadline he imposed on Democrats expiring Saturday. Trump tipped off the mass arrests in a June 17 tweet, vowing “millions” of deportations, but called them off five days later. The president tweeted that he delayed the raids for two weeks at Democrats’…

Video Panicked diners rush from a restaurant as a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Southern California The quake, which initially was reported as magnitude 7.1, would be the largest temblor in the region in 20 years; Jeff Paul reports from Ridgecrest, California. Communities in Southern California were bracing for hundreds of aftershocks Saturday after the region was rattled by two of the largest earthquakes felt there in two decades, resulting in multiple fires, punctured water…

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President Donald Trump’s favorite polling company released a new poll on Friday showing that the leading Democratic candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, would comfortably beat him Trump a head-to-head matchup. The Rasmussen Reports survey measured 48 percent support among likely voters for Biden, who is currently running for the Democratic nomination, ahead of Trump’s 44 percent support. “Joe Biden may be finding the going a little rougher in his…

Video Kamala Harris stands by decision to confront Joe Biden at debate Biden supporters push back against Harris; reaction and analysis from Fox News contributor Mo Elleithee and Guy Benson. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced Saturday that she would invest $100 billion of federal money into housing assistance for black families as part of an effort to close the racial wealth gap in the United States if elected president. “After…

A Migrant Jail This story was a collaboration between The New York Times and The El Paso Times. CLINT, Tex. — Since the Border Patrol opened its station in Clint, Tex., in 2013, it was a fixture in this West Texas farm town. Separated from the surrounding cotton fields and cattle pastures by a razor-wire fence, the station stood on the town’s main road, near a feed store, the Good…

Royal fans aren’t happy: Meghan and Harry will not be allowing press photographers to hover outside Archie’s christening. They are not even releasing the names of his godparents. They want, instead, to “shield” him. Within this shield they have, meanwhile, spent some £2.4 million of public money on Frogmore Cottage, their new residence, apparently turning it into a sort of rustic fantasia. And with a £5,000 freestanding copper roll-top bath!…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on Southern California’s strongest earthquake in 20 years (all times local): 9:30 a.m. A fire official says there were no fatalities or major injuries in Ridgecrest after the 7.1 magnitudes earthquake on Friday night. Kern County Fire Chief David Witt also said Saturday there were no major building collapses but some structures could be weakened from the back-to-back quakes. Friday’s quake occurred a day…