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Why a Teen Bullying Case in China Set Off Protests and a Crackdown

Residents in a city in southwestern China protested what they saw as official indifference in the attack on a girl. Police repression and censorship fueled the outrage.
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Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Townhouse: Birthday Letters, First Edition ‘Lolita’ and More

In his seven-story townhouse, the sex offender hosted the elite, displayed photos with presidents and showcased a first edition of “Lolita,” according to previously unreported photos and letters.
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Cécile Dionne, Who Found Fame and Despair as a Quintuplet, Dies at 91

The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cécile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives.
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Delta Pilot Arrested in Cockpit Faces 24 Felonies in Child Sex Case

The pilot was removed from the cockpit of a plane after it landed in San Francisco on Saturday night. A woman was also charged in a related felony complaint.

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A Delta Air Lines jet landing at San Francisco International Airport last year.
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Trump Says Epstein ‘Stole’ Underage Victim from Mar-a-Lago Spa

President Trump acknowledged that Jeffrey Epstein recruited one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre, from Mar-a-Lago, and distanced himself from the allegations: “By the way, she had no complaints about us.”

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President Trump spoke to reporters on Air Force One about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Says She Will Only Testify for Immunity or Clemency

In a letter to Congress, the lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator says clemency would allow her to talk to lawmakers.

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David Oscar Markus, an attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell, during an interview last week at the federal courthouse.
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After Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, Concerns Mount Over Possibility of a Trump Pardon

President Trump, asked whether he would consider pardoning her, said, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about.”

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Justice Department officials on Friday interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s, in Florida, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
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Outrage After Alabama 3-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car While in State’s Care

The boy, who was in foster care, was being transported between a supervised visit and day care, his aunt said. State lawmakers said they were seeking answers and the police were investigating.

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Ke’Torrius Starkes, Jr., 3, died in a hot car while in the care of the state on Tuesday, according to family members and the authorities.
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American Airlines Flight Attendant Who Filmed Minors in Lavatory Is Sentenced to 18.5 Years

The former flight attendant, Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, N.C., secretly filmed girls using the restroom on American Airlines flights in 2023, prosecutors said.

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Estes Carter Thompson III secretly filmed young girls by directing them to specific lavatories on American Airlines flights where he had set up “a secret recording studio” using his cellphone, prosecutors said.
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Bondi Told Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

It was not clear what those documents were, or in what context the president’s name was raised.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi with President Donald J. Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House earlier this month.
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Johnson Cuts Short House Business to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files

The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.

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An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files

A former Jeffrey Epstein employee said that she told the F.B.I. in 1996 and 2006 about what she considered a troubling encounter with Donald J. Trump.

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Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Fla., in 1997.
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Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

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Mar-a-Lago in March 1996.
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When It Comes to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump Says He Is Ready to Defer to the Courts

After months of pushing back against federal judges and the courts, the president has requested the release of Epstein-related grand jury testimony to be “subject to Court approval.”

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President Trump at the White House this week. He asked the attorney general on Thursday to seek the court’s permission to release pertinent grand jury materials relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s indictment for sex trafficking.
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Trump Tells Bondi to Seek Release of Epstein Grand Jury Testimony

The attorney general plans to ask a court to release the papers. But even if the request succeeds, it would fall far short of critics’ demands to release all investigative materials.

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“We are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media.
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