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With Epstein’s Death, Accusers Seek New Legal Recourse – NPR

Monday, August 12, 2019

This March 28, 2017, photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died by apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. AP hide caption toggle caption AP This March 28, 2017, photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died by apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. AP With Jeffrey Epstein’s death by…

After autopsy, cause of Jeffrey Epstein’s death awaits ‘further information’ – NBC News

Monday, August 12, 2019

The New York City medical examiner’s office said Sunday that it had completed an autopsy of the financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein but that it needed more information before determining the cause of death. Multiple people briefed on the investigation told NBC News that suicide remains the presumed cause of death and that no sign of foul play has emerged in the day and a half since Epstein,…

Police: Erie day care center fire kills 5 children – Tribune-Review

Monday, August 12, 2019

ERIE — A morning fire in Pennsylvania killed five children and sent another person to the hospital, authorities said. The fire was reported at about 1:15 a.m. Sunday in Erie, Chief Guy Santone of the Erie Fire Department said. The victims ranged in ages from 8 months to 7 years, Santone said. The Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership lists a day care at the fire address. Detectives are working…

Escaped Tennessee inmate found after four-day manhunt – KVOA Tucson News

Monday, August 12, 2019

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Epstein’s accusers call her his protector and procurer. Is Ghislaine Maxwell now prosecutors’ target? – The Washington Post

Monday, August 12, 2019

Marc Fisher August 11 at 3:15 PM Ghislaine Maxwell was, according to her accusers, Jeffrey Epstein’s protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam. She was, by all accounts, a soul mate and a mirror image. He grew up in Brooklyn with no money to speak of and never finished college. She is Paris-born, Oxford-educated, a jet-setter who partied with princes and billionaires. Together, Epstein and Maxwell allegedly built what…

Lyft Driver Who Allegedly Raped Intoxicated Passenger Arrested – SFGate

Monday, August 12, 2019

Caption Close San Bruno police arrested a 46-year-old male Lyft driver on suspicion of raping a 25-year-old female passenger on Saturday morning. The victim reported that she scheduled the ride while intoxicated at a bar in San Mateo and passed out in the backseat of the ride-share vehicle, according to San Bruno police. The driver, Tonye Kolokolo, took the victim to his residence in Tracy without her permission, according to…

Source: Jeffrey Epstein’s cell was not monitored the night of his apparent suicide – CNN

Sunday, August 11, 2019

New York (CNN)Jeffrey Epstein’s cell was not regularly monitored the night he is believed to have killed himself, a source with knowledge of the accused sex trafficker’s time at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York said Sunday. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘business/2019/08/11/reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network: ‘cnn’,markupId: ‘body-text_20’,theoplayer: {allowNativeFullscreen: true},adsection: ‘const-article-inpage’,frameWidth: ‘100%’,frameHeight: ‘100%’,posterImageOverride: {“mini”:{“width”:220,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-small-169.jpg”,”height”:124},”xsmall”:{“width”:307,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-medium-plus-169.jpg”,”height”:173},”small”:{“width”:460,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-large-169.jpg”,”height”:259},”medium”:{“width”:780,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-exlarge-169.jpg”,”height”:438},”large”:{“width”:1100,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-super-169.jpg”,”height”:619},”full16x9″:{“width”:1600,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-full-169.jpg”,”height”:900},”mini1x1″:{“width”:120,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190811140007-reporter-who-reopened-epstein-investigation-demands-answers-00010701-small-11.jpg”,”height”:120}}},autoStartVideo = false,isVideoReplayClicked = false,callbackObj,containerEl,currentVideoCollection = [],currentVideoCollectionId…

CNN Anchor Confronts Border Chief With Reports of Undocumented Migrants Working for Trump Businesses – Newsweek

Sunday, August 11, 2019

CNN anchor Jake Tapper confronted the director of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency on Sunday with reports of undocumented immigrants working at businesses owned by President Donald Trump. During CNN’s State of the Union, Tapper interviewed acting CBP commissioner Mark Morgan about recent raids on businesses employing undocumented migrants. Citing a weekend report by The Washington Post about the Trump Organization’s hiring of undocumented migrants, Tapper asked why…

Trump promotes Epstein-Clintons conspiracy theory, the latest in a pattern of baseless claims spread by President – CNN

Sunday, August 11, 2019

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Anthony Scaramucci warns that Trump will turn on nation – AOL

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Donald Trump’s short-time communications director and one-time pal Anthony Scaramucci attacked the president on Twitter Saturday with a chilling warning that Trump will eventually “turn” on the “entire country.” Trump lashed Scaramucci on Twitter earlier for his former friend’s criticism of him. Scaramucci, who served as White House communications director for a mere 11 days in 2017, has called Trump’s attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color “racist and unacceptable.”…

People kill people but capitalism makes it easy and profitable around the world – Salon

Sunday, August 11, 2019

The corporate media fakes soul searching for the root cause of mass murder in a nation that floods the world with weapons of every description and markets violence as recreation and entertainment. You don’t have to be Marianne Williamson to know that this is another manifestation of late-stage vulture capitalism that has no conscience and feeds off the ever-mounting pile of human carrion it generates worldwide. As tragic as our…

Final evasion: For 30 years, prosecutors and victims tried to hold Jeffrey Epstein to account. At every turn, he slipped away. – The Washington Post

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Marc Fisher Jonathan O’Connell August 10 at 4:53 PM At the beginning, middle and end of his career, Jeffrey Epstein faced a reckoning with his misdeeds. At every stage, he managed to avoid the efforts of prosecutors and victims to confront him with his financial chicanery and sexual abuses. On Saturday, he apparently chose to end his life rather than face what he had done. Epstein’s death by hanging in…

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in spotlight after Epstein’s apparent suicide – NBC News

Sunday, August 11, 2019

The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, who was found unresponsive Saturday morning in his federal jail cell, is the latest stunning development in the case against the once-powerful financier on charges of sex trafficking. His death came hours after the release of 2,000 pages of court documents, part of a related lawsuit, that revealed allegations that Epstein and a former longtime member of his inner circle, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell,…

There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, a former NYC jail inmate says – Fox News

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Video Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has died from an apparent suicide Epstein’s death comes two weeks after he was placed on suicide watch. The following account is from a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan, where Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive Saturday, and declared dead at a hospital of an apparent suicide. The ex-convict, who spoke to The Post’s Brad Hamilton and Bruce Golding on the condition of anonymity, spent several…

How the Warren-loving media may accidentally elect Joe Biden – Washington Examiner

Sunday, August 11, 2019

For months, the media have bent over backwards to convince us that 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, who plans on paying for a $32 trillion “Medicare For all” bill and $1.25 trillion college plan with an unconstitutional wealth tax accruing just $2.75 trillion, is a serious policy wonk. In that same time, front-runner Joe Biden has wisely stuck to the sidelines as the crowded left-wing lane of the field careened…

Hong Kong Protesters Clash with Police Amid Fears of Mob Violence – The New York Times

Sunday, August 11, 2019

HONG KONG — Several districts of Hong Kong were again convulsed by mass demonstrations and street clashes on Sunday, amid concerns that local gangsters might try to assault protesters in a reprise of earlier violence. The prospect of further street brawls between civilians lent a heightened sense of danger and uncertainty to protests that have continued for 10 consecutive weekends, prompted by fears about the erosion of civil liberties under…

Elizabeth Warren gun plan: 2020 Democratic candidate releases plan to tackle gun violence on heels of deadly mass shootings – CBS News

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday released an ambitious plan to combat gun violence that combines executive orders and congressional action with the aim of to reducing gun deaths by 80%. The plan comes amid renewed calls for gun control one week after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left more than 30 dead.  Warren released the plan shortly before joining the majority of other Democratic candidates…

Trump Is Making Xi’s Superpower 2050 Plan Tougher by the Day – Bloomberg

Sunday, August 11, 2019

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El Paso suspect said he was targeting ‘Mexicans,’ told officers he was the shooter, police say – The Washington Post

Sunday, August 11, 2019

A Honda that police say belongs to Patrick Crusius, 21, the suspect in the El Paso mass shooting, is shown at an intersection near where the shooting occurred on Saturday, Aug. 3. Crusius told police he drove 10 hours from a suburb of Dallas to target “Mexicans.” Police say he exited the vehicle and immediately surrendered, telling them “I’m the shooter,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained Friday. (Robert…