Five shady things you didn't know about Epstein's plea deal
CNN's Jake Tapper shares five shady things you probably didn't know about Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal.
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Friend describes pastor's ICE detention
CNN's Victor Blackwell speaks to the family friend of a detained pastor, Daniel Fuentes Espinal. Espinal, who fled Honduras 24 years ago to escape poverty and violence, is waiting to hear when he will face an immigration judge after his arrest this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Farmworkers in constant fear amid ICE raids
Facing constant threats of deportation, undocumented farmworkers in California must decide whether to show up to work the busy harvest season or stay safe from ICE. CNN's Julia Vargas Jones heads to Ventura County where she speaks to worried farmers and their increasingly fearful laborers.
02:13 - Source: CNN
Trump rails against windmills again
President Donald Trump urged European leaders to 'stop the windmills' when reporters asked him questions at the airport in Glasgow, Scotland. This isn't the first time in recent memory that the president has directed his ire at the renewable energy source.
01:00 - Source: CNN
Investigators share details of how hard Xana Kernodle fought Kohberger
CNN's Jean Casarez asked two top law enforcement officials in Moscow, Idaho about Xana Kernodle's fight against Bryan Kohberger, with over 50 reported stab wounds. Officials shared that Kernodle, who was up at the time, "fought hard" for her life as Kohberger attacked her.
00:49 - Source: CNN
Investigators reveal findings from Kohberger's phone
CNN's Jean Casarez sat down with Idaho State Police lead investigator on the Bryan Kohberger case, Lt. Darren Gilbertson, who shared details about what was found on Kohberger's phone during the investigation. Gilbertson sheds light on the Kohberger investigation, including how police found screenshots and pictures of news coverage of the attack on Kohberger's phone.
02:07 - Source: CNN
Why are Thailand and Cambodia fighting?
Tensions are rising between Thailand and Cambodia over a border dispute that dates back to 1907. CNN's Will Ripley explains how the conflict has escalated.
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CNN reports from Gaza aid crossing
CNN's Nic Robertson is on the scene at the Kerem Shalom border crossing as aid agencies warn of rampant hunger caused by Israel's blockade of Gaza. Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday that 900,000 children are going hungry, and 70,000 already show signs of malnutrition. Israel denies it is at fault and accuses Hamas of 'engineering' food shortages.
01:39 - Source: CNN
Almost 50 missing as plane crashes in Russia
Dozens of civilians are feared dead, including children, after a Soviet era passenger jet crashed in Russia's far east Amur Region. Burning wreckage was discovered by rescuers just 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Tynda airport, the plane's destination.
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Erin Burnett on the significance of Trump knowing he's in the Epstein files
CNN's Erin Burnett explains how reports that President Trump was briefed that he is named in the Epstein files shine a light on his recent denials of that exact claim.
02:13 - Source: CNN
Judge declines to release Epstein grand jury documents
A Florida federal judge declined to release additional grand jury documents from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first roadblock in the Justice Department's efforts to quell the public backlash over the handling of the case. CNN's Evan Perez reports.
02:43 - Source: CNN
Bryan Kohberger sentenced to life in prison
Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of four University of Idaho students.
01:29 - Source: CNN
Fans pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
Fans have gathered in Ozzy Osbourne's hometown to pay tribute to the former Black Sabbath singer, who died yesterday at the age of 76. One of them told CNN's Salma Abdelaziz that Osbourne will 'live on forever in his music.'
01:07 - Source: CNN
Hot Chinese brands are coming to America
Chinese brands like Luckin Coffee, Pop Mart, and HEYTEA are expanding in the United States, despite the ongoing trade war. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich and Marc Stewart report from two different continents on why the companies covet American customers.
02:10 - Source: CNN
Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76-years-old
Ozzy Osbourne, the hellraising frontman of Black Sabbath and reality TV star, has died aged 76. CNN's Stephanie Elam looks back at the legendary career as the Godfather of Heavy Metal.
03:05 - Source: CNN
Newly uncovered photos show Jeffrey Epstein attended Trump's wedding in 1993
Photos from Trump's 1993 wedding and video footage from 1999 Victoria's Secret fashion show shed light on Trump-Epstein relationship. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski has the story.
01:31 - Source: CNN
Missing child case from 46 years ago reopened
A federal appeals court overturned the verdict of Pedro Hernandez, the bodega worker who was found guilty in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979. Patz was 6 years old when he disappeared on the first day he was allowed to walk alone to his school bus stop in New York City.
01:50 - Source: CNN
US citizen among Druze executed in Syria
Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian-American from Oklahoma, was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed in an execution-style attack amid an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria this month. The violence flared between Syrian Druze groups and Bedouin tribes in the Druze-majority Suwayda province. Video geolocated by CNN shows a group of men, Saraya included, being marched to their death.
02:04 - Source: CNN
Epstein's brother vividly details relationship between Trump and Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark, tells CNN's Erin Burnett about his brother's 'very close' friendship with Donald Trump in the 1990s.
02:01 - Source: CNN
Stephen Colbert addresses 'The Late Show' cancellation
'Cancel culture has gone too far,' Stephen Colbert told the audience as he began his first post-cancellation episode of 'The Late Show.' The host went on to fire back at Trump's Truth Social post celebrating the announcement by CBS. The episode also featured cameos by late night talk show hosts including Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Seth Meyers.
01:24 - Source: CNN
Fire tornado rips through Turkish forest
Turkey's forestry ministry has released video of a fire tornado tearing through the country's woodland. Hundreds of wildfires have gripped Turkey this summer, as well as Greece and other Mediterranean countries.
00:33 - Source: CNN
Breonna Taylor's mother speaks out on officer's sentencing
CNN's Laura Coates speaks with Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor's mother, about the sentencing of former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison. He was given three years in prison for using excessive force during the deadly 2020 Breonna Taylor raid.
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- USA Today
Trump says poached Mar-a-Lago spa staff included prominent Epstein accuser
Among the workers Epstein stole was Virginia Giuffre, a former attendant at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said on Air Force One. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says his falling out years ago with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was prompted by his former friend's recruitment of Trump's Mar-a-Lago spa staff, and that one of the people who accused the disgraced financier of sex trafficking had been a Mar-a-Lago employee. Trump told reporters that the staff Epstein "stole" from him worked in the spa and staffers included Virginia Giuffre, a former attendant at his Palm Beach resort who said in a unsealed deposition for a defamation lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that she was forced as a teenager to have sex with powerful men. Among the men Giuffre said she was directed to have sex with was Prince Andrew of Britain, according to a lawsuit. Prince Andrew has denied the allegation. Giuffre died by suicide in April of this year. She is the only person Trump has named since he attested he'd ended his friendship with Epstein. He said he did so because the deceased multimillionaire, who was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges at the time of his 2019 death, "stole" workers from his businesses. Trump acknowledged on July 29 that some of the staffers at the Palm Beach spa were young women. He first declined to provide the detail, telling reporters who were on a flight with him from Scotland, "Everyone knows the people that were taken." But he then affirmed that young women were involved, telling a reporter: "The answer is yes, they were." Asked what the workers did, Trump offered that they were "in the spa." "People that work in the spa. I have a great spa, one of the best spas in the world at Mar-a-Lago, and people were taken out of the spa – hired by him, in other words – gone," he said. Trump was asked if Virginia Giuffre was one of the people Epstein had hired. At first, the president said, "I don't know." But after a short pause, he said, "I think so, I think that was one of the people, yeah. He stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us." More: Trump met teenage Epstein victim who was contestant in his beauty pageant He could not say how many staffers Epstein poached from him, noting that the incident took place many years ago. He said that after Epstein was given an initial warning, "he took some others, and once he did that, that was the end of him." "When they steal people, I don't like it," Trump said. The White House previously said that Trump ended his friendship with Epstein, whom CNN reported attended the president's second wedding to Marla Maples, because the financier was a creep. Trump told reporters on July 29 that the two explanations were essentially the same. Trump has been under immense pressure to explain his relationship with Epstein and release documents related to the government's investigation into Epstein's alleged sex crimes. His most recent comments came after Maxwell, Epstein's codefendant, agreed to provide testimony to a congressional committee in response to subpoena if the panel granted her immunity. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking. She appealed to the Supreme Court on July 28.
Associated Press
3 minutes ago
- Associated Press
Trump says US will partner with Israel to run additional food centers in Gaza, but details are scant
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza to address the worsening humanitarian crisis there, but he and U.S. officials offered few additional details about the plan or how it would differ from existing food distribution centers. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned from a trip to Scotland that Israel would preside over the new food centers 'to make sure the distribution is proper.' 'We're going to be dealing with Israel, and we think they can do a good job of it,' Trump said. The opaque details come as the Trump administration is facing calls at home and abroad to do more to address the hunger crisis in Gaza. The U.S.'s close ally, Israel, is at the center of an international outcry as more images of emaciated children continue to emerge. That pressure comes after the U.S. pulled out of talks last week to try to broker a ceasefire in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, accusing Hamas of acting in bad faith. But Trump this week broke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, disagreeing publicly with him about starvation in Gaza and citing the pictures of hungry people. The White House described it as 'a new aid plan' to help people in Gaza obtain access to food and promised that details would emerge. It did not elaborate. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Tuesday that she didn't know 'the framework' of how the new aid distribution would work. 'I'm waiting for the president to return. I don't want to get ahead of him,' Bruce said. Democrats in Congress have implored the Trump administration to step up its role in addressing the suffering and starvation in Gaza. More than 40 senators signed a letter Tuesday urging the Trump administration to resume ceasefire talks and sharply criticizing the Israeli-backed American organization that had already been created to distribute food aid. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, questioned why the U.S. was not allowing long-standing aid groups to run food centers. 'I'm glad that the president is saying that this is a problem. But if we want to solve the problem, turn to the folks who have been doing this for decades,' Kaine said. The few details Trump provided about the new food centers appeared similar to a program that was already rolled out in May, after Israel had blocked all food, medicine and other imports for 2½ months. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American contractor, opened four food distribution sites that month. Israel and GHF said that system was needed to prevent Hamas from siphoning off aid. The United Nations, which has been distributing food in Gaza throughout the war when allowed, denies any significant diversion of aid by Hamas. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces while heading to the GHF sites, according to witnesses, health officials and the U.N. human rights office. Israel says its forces have only fired warning shots at people who approach its forces, and GHF says its armed contractors have only used pepper spray and fired occasional shots in the air to prevent dangerous crowding. The aid sites are in Israeli military zones, which is off limits to independent media. The U.N. refuses to cooperate with GHF, saying its model violates humanitarian principles by forcing Palestinians to travel long distances and risk their lives for food and because it allows Israel to control aid and use it to further mass displacement. Trump said Tuesday that he last spoke to Netanyahu two days earlier and that the Israeli leader wants to distribute food 'in a proper manner.' 'I think Israel wants to do it,' Trump said. 'And they'll be good at doing it.' The president, for the second day in a row, remarked on the images of starving people and kids in Gaza, which seemed to prompt him this week to announce the new plan and his break with Netanyahu. Trump said Tuesday that everyone who saw the images coming out of Gaza would declare it terrible 'unless they're pretty cold-hearted or, worse than that, nuts.' 'Those are kids that are starving. They are starving,' Trump said. 'They've got to get them food. And we're going to get them food.' The shift brings Trump closer to some in his MAGA base, who have rejected the Republican Party's long-standing, unequivocal support for Israel and see aid money flowing to the country as yet another misguided foreign intervention. They include Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch Trump ally, who has echoed the rhetoric of progressive Democrats in recent days. 'I can unequivocally say that what happened to innocent people in Israel on Oct. 7th was horrific. Just as I can unequivocally say that what has been happening to innocent people and children in Gaza is horrific. This war and humanitarian crisis must end!' she wrote on Sunday on X. On Monday night, she went further, calling what is happening in Gaza 'genocide.' But Greene's comments do not represent MAGA as a whole. On Monday, podcaster Charlie Kirk, who leads the powerful Turning Point network, railed against what he deemed a 'propaganda campaign trying to make it seem as if Israel is intentionally starving the people of Gaza.' ___ Associated Press writers Stephen Groves and Joey Cappelletti in Washington, Jill Colvin in New York and Joseph Krauss in Ottawa, Ontario, contributed to this report.
Politico
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- Politico
MTG not running for Georgia governor
Senate Republicans are privately discussing whether to change the chamber's rules amid growing frustration with Democrats' slow-walking of President Donald Trump's nominees. The discussion, which came to a head during a closed-door lunch Tuesday, comes as Republicans seek to confirm dozens of Trump nominees before leaving for their traditional summer break. Doing so without weeks of delay would require Democrats to cut a deal to speed up the process. 'This can't continue — Democrats either have to change their behavior or we're going to have to change other things,' Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the No. 2 Senate Republican, said Tuesday, adding that changing rules surrounding nominations would be 'part of the discussion.' Possible rules changes that Republicans are entertaining include reducing the amount of debate time each nominee is required to undergo before a final vote or allowing 'en bloc' voting on groups of nominees. Republicans are also discussing whether to reduce the number of nominees who have to undergo Senate confirmation. 'We are absolutely trying to avoid a nuclear option issue, but at some point you've got to have an operational government,' said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). Republicans also spoke at length during their party lunch about allowing recess appointments — a once-unthinkable idea that appears to be gaining new traction within the conference. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said afterward there was a 'consensus' within the Senate GOP about formally adjourning the Senate and allowing Trump to make recess appointments. The Senate typically holds brief 'pro forma' sessions during long breaks that prevent presidents from circumventing Congress. Republicans 'just don't have a choice,' Kennedy said, while also stressing that he wasn't certain every Republican senator is on board. Another GOP senator in the lunch, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said there was 'a lot of support in the room' for either changing the rules or allowing recess appointments. Even as some Republicans float recess appointments, they are still viewed as unlikely to happen. For one, GOP senators have a hangup out of their control: Both chambers need to formally adjourn, and the House left town without doing so. They're holding pro forma sessions instead. The GOP's internal frustration has been quietly building over the past months, with many Republicans particularly annoyed about the lack of voice votes for Trump's nominees. Senate Majority Leader John Thune noted in a floor address Monday that at the same point in his tenure President Joe Biden had gotten dozens of nominees approved without having to call individual roll call votes. Thune added in an interview Tuesday that 'pressure is going to grow to take steps to expedite this process if the Dems don't start playing ball soon. It's going to start coming from every direction.' There are roughly 150 nominees currently awaiting action on the Senate floor. Democrats are forcing Republicans to eat up floor time to overcome procedural hurdle nominees on even mid-level picks, sparking GOP frustration over not being able to clear those nominees via unanimous consent or voice votes. 'Republicans would like to return to those golden years when there were groups of nominees considered, but we weren't given that courtesy by them,' said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), referring to the trickle of nominees confirmed under President Joe Biden. 'We're kind of stuck where we are,' he added. Even as senators air their frustrations, Thune said he is talking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about a potential package of nominees that could get confirmed before the extended summer break. Durbin confirmed the negotiations. Durbin said the question for Democrats is 'what's the quid pro quo' that they would get in exchange for expediting nominees.
