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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals for clemency from Trump as she declines to answer questions from lawmakers

By STEPHEN GROVES
Feb 09, 2026 11:57 am - Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their relationships with Epstein.
Norwegian ambassador resigns as she faces scrutiny over contacts with Epstein

Feb 09, 2026 9:38 am - A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most recently served in Jordan has resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
UK leader Starmer fights for his job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a crisis

By JILL LAWLESS
Feb 09, 2026 7:35 am - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just a year and a half in office.
Iran sentences Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to 7 more years in prison

By JON GAMBRELL
Feb 08, 2026 2:48 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporte...
Japanese prime minister's party secures supermajority in lower house in landslide victory

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG
Feb 08, 2026 2:21 pm - TOKYO (AP) — The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election Sunday, Japanese media reported citin...
Trump claims Americans waiting ‘200 years’ for an arch

By Bob Oswald
Feb 08, 2026 4:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that Americans have been waiting ‘200 years’ for an arch to be built in Washington, D.C.
Bringing the country together, one pancake at a time: Political discussion group disagrees agreeably

By Steve Zalusky
Feb 08, 2026 3:00 am - A group that meets regularly in Schaumburg is proving you can disagree politically without being disagreeable.
Police arrest protesters at Minneapolis federal building one month after woman’s death

Feb 07, 2026 8:57 pm - Several dozen protesters were arrested Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis, breaking up a protest marking one month since a Minnesota woman's death at the hands of an immigration officer.
Appeals court affirms Trump policy of jailing immigrants without bond

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
Feb 07, 2026 8:43 pm - President Donald Trump's administration can continue to detain immigrants without bond, marking a major legal victory for the federal immigration agenda and countering a slew of recent lower court decisions across the country that argued the practice is illegal.
Pentagon cuts academic ties with ‘woke’ Harvard to focus on training ‘warriors’

By Victoria Craw and Susan Svrluga
Feb 07, 2026 7:23 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said his department will cut academic ties with Harvard University, claiming it is no longer the right place to develop military personnel, in the latest flash point in the Trump administration’s long-running battle with the Ivy League institution.

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