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Stomach-churning new Epstein photos show him kissing and cuddling girls on private jet
Jeffrey Epstein appeared to be kissing and cuddling little girls on his private jet in disturbing photos released in the Justice Department’s latest trove of files.
The stomach-churning photographs, which were framed and put on display at his mansion on Little St James Island, show the pedophile embracing youngsters who appear to be minors.
One image showed the financier holding what appears to be a girl in his lap during a flight on his Lolita Express.
In another photo, he is seen seated next to another passenger, seemingly a youngster, with a book and a magazine sprawled out in front of him.
Other horrifying photos made public during Friday’s records release showed Epstein cuddling what appeared to be a child and kissing a red-headed girl on the head.
It is unclear if the females seen in the undated photographs were victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. He has been accused of abusing girls as young as 11 years old.
The images were among the more than 300,000 files released by the DOJ on Friday. The records were heavily redacted and no major revelations emerged.
At least 16 photographs, including one of the President flanked by women in bikinis, were mysteriously removed from the online records Saturday, prompting accusations of an alleged cover-up by the Trump Administration. They have since been reinstated.
Jeffrey Epstein appeared to be kissing and cuddling young girls on his private jet in disturbing photos released in the Justice Department’s latest trove of files
The stomach-turning photographs were framed and put on display at his mansion on Little St. James Island. In one image, Epstein is seen seated next to another passenger, seemingly a young girl, with a book and magazine sprawled out in front of him
The thousands of records posted publicly offer the most detailed look yet at nearly two decades’ worth of government scrutiny of Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and underage girls.
The tranche of materials released Friday included photographs of former president Bill Clinton and other famous names such as pop stars Sir Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson.
But some of the most consequential records expected about Epstein were nowhere to be found, such as FBI interviews with survivors and internal Justice Department memos examining charging decisions.
Those records could help explain how investigators viewed the case and why Epstein was allowed in 2008 to plead guilty to a relatively minor state-level prostitution charge.
Democrats also accused Republicans of a cover-up after files that had been available Friday were no longer accessible on the DOJ’s website by Saturday.
The missing files included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showed a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers.
In that image – inside a drawer among other photos – was a photograph of Trump, alongside the pedophile, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The DOJ said that the image of the Trump was flagged by the Southern District of New York ‘for potential further action to protect victims’.
Other horrifying photos made public during Friday’s records release showed Epstein kissing a red-headed girl on the head
Epstein is cuddling what appeared to be a child. It is unclear if the females seen in the undated photographs were victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. He has been accused of abusing girls as young as 11 years old
Various photos from a room near the sex dungeon in Jeffrey Epstein’s home released by the Department of Justice on Friday
Following furious backlash, the image was reinstated on Sunday morning after it was determined that ‘there is no evidence that any Epstein victims are depicted in the photograph’, a statement posted on X said.
Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years before the two had a falling-out, tried for months to keep the records sealed.
Though the President has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, he has argued there is nothing to see in the files and that the public should focus on other issues.
Friday’s drop of files, replete with redactions, has not dulled the clamor for information, given how many records had yet to be released and because some of the materials had already been made public.
California Democrat Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, have indicated they could draft articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi for what they see as the gross failure of the department to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
‘It’s not about the timeline, it’s about the selective concealment,’ Khanna said on CBS’ Face the Nation, adding that the redactions in the released files are excessive.
He said he believes there will be ‘bipartisan support in holding her accountable, and a committee of Congress should determine whether these redactions are justified or not.’
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York argued that there needs ‘to be a full and complete explanation and then a full and complete investigation as to why the document production has fallen short of what the law clearly required,’ but he stopped short of backing impeachment.
This photo of an open drawer containing an image of Donald Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell, was removed but then later reinstated in the files
The Department of Justice claimed the photo was removed to ensure no victims were pictured
But Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the redactions DOJ’s decision to release just a fraction of the Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary actions to protect the pedophile’s victims.
He pledged that the Trump administration eventually would meet its obligation required by law – but stressed that the department was obligated to act with caution as it goes about making public documents that can include sensitive information.
Blanche called that pushback disingenuous as the Trump Administration continues to struggle with calls for greater transparency, including from members of his political base, about the government’s investigations into Epstein.
‘The reason why we are still reviewing documents and still continuing our process is simply that to protect victims,’ Blanche told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
‘So the same individuals that are out there complaining about the lack of documents that were produced on Friday are the same individuals who apparently don’t want us to protect victims.’
He also defended the department’s decision to remove several files related to the case from its public webpage, including a photograph showing Trump, less than a day after they were posted.
Blanche said the documents were removed because they also showed victims of Epstein. He added: ‘It has nothing to do with President Trump. There are dozens of photos of President Trump already released to the public [showing] him with Mr Epstein.’
The deputy attorney general’s comments were the most extensive by the administration since the file dump.
The tranche of materials released Friday included photographs of former president Bill Clinton and other famous names such as pop star Michael Jackson. The pair pose with Diana Ross
Sir Mick Jagger and the former US president have their picture taken with a woman
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen lying across women at a black-tie event with Maxwell at the royal estate in Sandringham, UK
Kevin Spacey (second from the right, next to Clinton) was also pictured in the files, seen here in the Churchill War Rooms in London. Maxwell is wearing a cream blouse
Federal prosecutors in New York brought sex trafficking charges against Epstein in 2019, but he killed himself in jail after his arrest.
Maxwell, Epstein’s onetime girlfriend, is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her 2021 conviction for sex trafficking crimes.
The deputy attorney general also defended the decision by the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer Maxwell to a less restrictive, minimum-security federal prison earlier this year, soon after he interviewed her about Epstein.
Blanche said that the transfer was made because of concerns about her safety.
‘She was suffering numerous threats against her life,’ Blanche said. ‘So the BOP is not only responsible for putting people in jail and making sure they stay in jail, but also for their safety.’
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Richard Marles says the Richardson review into law enforcement and Asio processes leading up to the Bondi attack will involve a certain amount of reporting to the public, but there would be elements that would remain classified – so we won’t get to know everything Richardson finds out.
Marles says:
There will be a public version of the report. I mean, there will be elements of it which necessarily deal with classified information and it’s, by definition, important that remains classified. But we’ve made clear there’ll be transparency in respect of this.
Dennis Richardson is a person with enormous experience, firsthand experience, in terms of being secretaries of departments, but also these intelligence agencies.
He will do this independently. He’s not of the agencies or the department now, so he is able to go into this in an independent way. But we need to get to these answers quickly, and we cannot be waiting around for years, which is what a royal commission would take.
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Deputy prime minister Richard Marles has been speaking to ABC TV just now, and the first question he’s been asked is about the calls for a federal royal commission into the Bondi attacks.
He repeats the argument that we’ve heard a few times from the federal government over the last couple of days, which is about how slow royal commissions tend to be.
Marles says:
Royal commissions take years, and we need to be acting within weeks. It’s really as simple as that. We’ve had Jillian Segal do her report as our special envoy into combating anti-Semitism. We understand that anti-Semitism is at the highest point that I’ve seen in my lifetime. She has given us program of action. We have now endorsed that in full. And we are working on those actions. And we want to do that right now…
We need to be going after hate preachers, and that’s why we’ve announced that we will pursue law reform in that regard. And we want to do that in the coming weeks, not in the coming years. We need to be looking at the opportunities that those who seek to do this damage have in terms of access to guns, and there is further gun reform that can be done. And we need to be doing that right now. And there is a task in understanding what’s happened here in terms of intelligence, in terms of policing and the like.
He mentions the review into intelligence and law enforcement processes in the lead-up to the Bondi beach attack, to be led by former Australian Security Intelligence Organisation boss Dennis Richardson. You can read more about that announcement here:
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Woman to face court after allegedly yelling antisemitic comments at university group in October
A woman will face court following an investigation into alleged intimidation at a university in Sydney’s inner west, New South Wales police say.
Police said the woman allegedly yelled antisemitic comments at a group of students and other members of the Jewish community who were celebrating the Jewish holiday Sukkoth within the grounds of the university at Darlington campus on 9 October.
The matter was reported to police officers at the time, prompting an investigation which led to a 53-year-old woman’s arrest at Parramatta police station earlier today.
Police said she was charged with three offences – two counts of stalking or intimidating intending to cause fear or physical harm, and one count of offensive conduct.
The woman was granted conditional bail to appear at Newtown local court on 3 February, police said.
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Chants of ‘globalise the intifada’, the phrase Minns wants to ban, at Sydney rally against proposed protest law changes
Hundreds of people rallied in Sydney last night in support of Palestine and chanted a phrase the premier has sought to ban on the eve of a new legislation preventing protests.
Chants of “globalise the intifada” followed an address by Sara Saleh, a human rights lawyer with Palestinian heritage, who condemned the Bondi terror attack but also condemned the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of Israel’s military.
“That is precisely why I intend to keep saying, ‘Globalise the intifada, free Palestine,’” Saleh said.
Our reporter Luca Ittimani was there and has sent this report:
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Greens lead constitutional challenge to anti-protest laws
The NSW Greens justice spokesperson, Sue Higginson, will join pro-Palestine and other activist groups to launch a constitutional challenge against the Minns government’s latest anti-protest laws this morning.
After the omnibus terrorism and other legislation amendment bill was passed by the lower house with Liberal support last night, Higginson will hold a press conference at 9.15am this morning to announce the challenge.
She claims the new laws “impermissibly burden the constitutional freedom of political communication”.
She will be joined by other campaigners and activists opposing the laws including: Michelle Berkon of Jews Against the Occupation; Elizabeth Jarrett of Blak Caucus; Nick Hanna of Hanna Legal; Nasser Mashni, president of Australia Palestine Advocacy Network; Josh Lees of Palestine Action Group Sydney; NSW Timothy Roberts of the Council for Civil Liberties; Sheikh Wesam Charkawi; Shovan Bhattarai of Students for Palestine; Pete Moss of Labor Friends of Palestine; Zack Schofield of Rising Tide; April Holcombe of Community Action for Rainbow Rights; NSW Socialists; and the Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace.
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Anne Davies has also filed this analysis of the legal changes being planned for NSW.
She writes that while a tragedy like Bondi demands action, “the unpredictable political wave of public feeling after a disaster can either wipe you out or see you riding high”.
Drafting laws that significantly curtail rights – such as the right to express your view on political matters by peaceful protest, or even as some would have it, the ‘right’ to own guns – need to be approached with careful and forensic clarity.
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NSW lower house passes gun reform and anti-protest bill
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NSW parliament’s emergency sitting of parliament in the wake of the Bondi shootings will continue today with the omnibus bill to change gun laws and to restrict protests expected to move to the upper house.
The lower house passed the bill last night after nearly 10 hours of debate. The Liberals voted with Labor, while the Nationals opposed the bill.
Labor does not have the numbers to pass legislation in the upper house but will again be counting on the Liberals to support the bill.
The crossbench, the Nationals and the Greens are expected to move hundreds of amendments and could use debate on changes to force a marathon session on Tuesday night.
The usual rule to prevent the parliament sitting for very long hours will be lifted.
The Nationals, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party and other independents are vehemently opposed to Labor plans to restrict the number of guns that individuals can own to 4 while farmers and professional shooters will be restricted to 10.
The Shooters plan to move about 120 amendments to this and other aspects of the proposed gun laws.
The Greens are planning numerous amendments to the bans on protests, which they argue are unconstitutional and undemocratic.
Government sources said the government was prepared to have the parliament sit on Christmas Day if it proved necessary, but added they were hopeful the bill would pass on Tuesday night.
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NSW parliament’s emergency sitting of parliament in the wake of the Bondi massacre will continue today with the omnibus bill to change gun laws and to restrict protests expected to move to the upper house. More details coming up.
The NSW Greens, pro-Palestine and civil liberties groups will launch a constitutional challenge against the anti-protest laws this morning at 9.15. We’ll have more on this shortly.
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A series of clashes erupted in the Syrian city of Aleppo, resulting in two civilians killed and several others wounded.
The cause of the clashes was not yet clear. The Syrian government’s forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) exchanged blame for the two deaths.
According to the state-run news agency SANA, citing the city’s health directorate, the two were killed as a result of SDF shelling of Aleppo neighborhoods. SANA also quoted the Syrian Defense Ministry, which blamed the SDF for attacking two Aleppo neighborhoods.
In response, the SDF said the bombing had been carried out by groups affiliated with the Syrian government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa. The government denied this accusation.
The SDF also accused Syrian government forces of opening fire on a Kurdish checkpoint.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister visits Syria
Just hours before the attacks, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited Damascus and blamed the SDF for failing to commit to integrating their weapons into the Syrian army by the end of the year, the originally agreed-upon deadline.
“Syria’s stability means Turkey’s stability. This is extremely important for us,” Fidan said, calling on the SDF to “cease to be an obstacle to Syria achieving stability, unity and prosperity.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited Syria just hours before the clashes eruptedImage: Murat Gok/Anadolu Agency/IMAGO
The SDF, which controls large parts of northeastern Syria while being backed by the US, is seen by Turkey as a terrorist organization due to its connections to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Ankara has also threatened to take military action against the SDF.
Turkey was one of the main countries that pressured US President Donald Trump to remove the sanctions on Syria. The country’s military provided training for Syrian army soldiers and officers, which was reinstated after the fall of Bashar Assad.
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Israeli officials have slammed the latest report from an organization that earlier this year claimed there was famine in parts of Gaza, saying the new document is biased and that its conclusions were “predetermined.”
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a United Nations-backed organization, previously claimed famine conditions were met in Gaza Governorate in August but now says that about 1.6 million Gazans are facing “high levels of acute food insecurity.
IDF Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which deals with Gaza, called out what he said were “biased claims” by the IPC which he said, “disregard the volumes of food that entered during the ceasefire, indicating that the report’s conclusions were predetermined.”
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Palestinians carry aid supplies which they received from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. (Ramadan Abed/Reuters)
A statement from COGAT noted, “It is important to recall that this is not the first time IPC reports regarding the Gaza Strip have been published with extreme forecasts and warnings that do not materialize in practice. Time and again, IPC assessments have proven to be incorrect and disconnected from the data on the ground, contradicting verified facts, including aid volumes, food availability and market trends. The international community must act responsibly, avoid falling for false narratives and distorted information and refrain from legitimizing a biased and unprofessional report.”
In its latest report, the IPC’s Famine Review Committee addressed the changing circumstances, explaining that “following the publication of the [last] FRC report, there was a partial relaxation of the blockade and an increase in the availability of food and other essential supplies.” While the FRC says this “came too late to avoid famine in Gaza Governorate in July and early August, the persistence of Famine and its spread to other governorates during the projection period has been avoided.”
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In August, the IPC projected that two additional governorates would experience famine by Sept. 30. At the time, several experts disputed the presence of famine conditions, including Dr. David Adesnik, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Adesnik told Fox News Digital that mortality figures, while worrisome, did not reach levels expected during famine conditions. He also said that the prices on key food items had remained relatively stagnant or even declined during the period of alleged famine.
Following the IPC’s latest report, Adesnik said that the IPC are still “dodging the question of proving that they were right” about prior famine declarations.
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In assessing the lack of mortality numbers that indicate famine, Adesnik said one of the IPC’s current arguments is that “data largely capture trauma-related deaths and overlook a substantial proportion of non-traumatic mortality.” He called this “a big leap,” explaining “They’re basically saying that with all of its efforts to track down every name of someone killed during the war, the Gaza Ministry of Health somehow missed all the people who didn’t die because of bullets, shrapnel or falling buildings — that there’s just all these people who would have died of hunger, disease, other things.”
He said that the IPC’s figures show the highest number of malnutrition-related deaths per month being 27, with all malnutrition deaths peaking at 186. “Hundreds of people dying from malnutrition is still a terrible, terrible thing,” Adesnik said. “But we were asking a question: Is this famine? And that is not remotely close to the threshold for determining famine.”
Palestinians await donated food at a community kitchen in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, May 19, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo)
The IPC told Fox News Digital that to meet the famine threshold, “at least two in every 10,000 people” “or at least four in every 10,000 children under five are dying daily” on account of “outright starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease.”
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In response to questions about its famine data, the IPC told Fox News Digital that “in the case of the Gaza analysis, there was clear evidence that thresholds for starvation and acute malnutrition had been reached, and analysts reasonably assessed from the broader evidence that the mortality threshold (third outcome) has likely been reached.”
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said on X that “The IPC also disregards the fact that, on average, between 600 and 800 aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip every day, 70% of them carrying food – nearly five times more than what the IPC itself said was required for the Strip.”
Palestinians carry bags and boxes containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 16, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)
Though it is not claiming famine is underway, the IPC still states that in a “worst-case scenario” of a return to conflict, “the entire Gaza Strip is at risk of famine through mid-April 2026.”
Adesnik said that the IPC is merely “guessing about the future.” He noted that accuracy from the IPC holds serious importance given the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice’s allegations of war crimes and genocide against Israel. A declaration of famine would be a “big building block in what seems to prove part of the case.”
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Last week, the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sanctioned two more members of the ICC for engaging “in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent, including voting with the majority in favor of the ICC’s ruling against Israel’s appeal on December 15.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department “will continue to hold accountable those responsible for the ICC’s morally bankrupt and legally baseless actions against Americans and Israelis.”
Beth Bailey is a reporter covering Afghanistan, the Middle East, Asia, the United Nations, Central America and antisemitism. She was formerly a civilian intelligence analyst with the Department of the Army. You can follow Beth on X @BWBailey85
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Supporters of a prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist say an immigration judge has ruled that she can post bond and be released after spending nine months in detention.
The judge issued a written ruling Sunday allowing Jeanette Vizguerra to post $5,000 bond, said Jennifer Piper of the American Friends Service Committee, who has been working with Vizguerra’s lawyers and her family. Vizguerra’s family and a nonprofit group that helps pay bonds for people in immigration detention were working Monday to post the bond, which can take a day or more to process, she said.
Emails seeking comment from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.
Vizguerra gained prominence after she took refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration. She was arrested in the parking lot of the Denver-area Target store where she worked on March 17.
Vizguerra, who came to Colorado in 1997 from Mexico City, has been fighting deportation since 2009 after she was pulled over in suburban Denver and found to have a fraudulent Social Security card with her own name and birth date but someone else’s actual number, according to a 2019 lawsuit she brought against ICE. Vizguerra did not know the number belonged to someone else at the time, it said.
Vizguerra’s lawyers have said ICE was attempting to deport her based on an order that was never valid and challenged her detention in federal court.
A federal judge recently ordered that a bond hearing be held in immigration court to determine whether Vizguerra should be continue to be held in detention facility in suburban Denver as her immigration case plays out.
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- Kylie Kelce revealed her top hacks for navigating Christmas as a mom to daughters Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett, and Finnley
- She shares her secrets for curating the perfect gift list and finding the best places to take family photos with Santa
- Kylie even pulled inspiration from Mandy Moore, who shared one of her own favorite hacks on social media
Kylie Kelce is sharing all her best holiday tips.
On Monday, Dec. 22, the mom of four, 33, gave insight into how she navigates the holiday season with her husband, Jason Kelce, and their four daughters, Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 4, Bennett, 2, and Finnley, 8 months, during a special “More ‘S— Monday” clip of her Not Gonna Lie podcast.
To begin, Kylie revealed that she has two very specific go-to destinations that she visits every time she wants to take her kids to “meet a Santa.” And although she often turns to her personal photographer to take their family portraits with a “great Santa” that she knows, Kylie noted that the Santa at the King of Prussia mall, not far from Philadelphia, is a close second.
“You need to take them to a large mall; it can’t be the mall that’s half forgotten,” she emphasized. “You can’t do that. Don’t do that. You gotta go to the big mall.”
Kylie also passionately advised against taking any child to a Santa that might have a fake beard that pulls down away from his face.
“Go to the big mall,” she repeated. “They grow that s—, it’s crazy.”
As for how she gets her girls the perfect gifts? This year, Kylie admitted that her kids’ wish lists, which their Elf on the Shelf personally delivers to Santa, have been a little “out of pocket.”
“We can’t find the middle ground between actual things that exist and crazy whack ass options and I wanna meet in the middle on one gift — we were always a one big gift house — one gift that’s really really cool and exactly what they want,” she explained. “That’s how I ended up with, I believe it was three different doll houses last year to figure out which one was the correct one.”
Despite their best efforts last year, she and Jason ended up being “Santa’s elves” and painting rainbows all over one of the houses on Christmas Eve.
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So, Kylie decided to turn to a “parenting hack” that she learned from one of her former podcast guests, Mandy Moore.
“Taking pics at the toy store to send to Santa,” Moore, 41, wrote on one of her previous Instagram Stories, as seen in a clip from Kylie’s podcast. “Any other parents use this as a hack to get out of getting something on the day?”
Calling the idea an “outstanding safety net,” Kylie made it clear that she’s “very much in on this.” In fact, she’s already been taking pictures of various items her daughters have pointed out for future birthdays and holidays.
“We have had things over the year that I have taken a picture of and been like ‘Oh, we could ask for that for your birthday, or we could put it on your Christmas list,’ ” she explained. “I really love to have them focus on, you either earn it by doing something where it warrants this type of reward, or you ask for it and save up for Christmas, birthday, things like that.”
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Bill Clinton demands ALL Epstein files be released by DOJ as victims claim THOUSANDS more pictures still being held from public
Bill Clinton has demanded that Trump’s Department of Justice releases the rest of the Epstein files, after he was featured in multiple images in the last drop.
The former president, in a statement through his spokesman, said ‘someone or something is being protected. We need no such protection.’
Clinton called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to ‘immediately release any remaining materials referring to, mentioning, or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton’.
He accused the DOJ of ‘selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same Department of Justice, over many years.’
Clinton further alleged that by refusing to release the files, the DOJ would be confirming suspicions that its actions are about ‘insinuation’ and not transparency.
His statement comes as a group of 19 alleged victims of Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell accused the government of missteps in its partial release of the files.
They accused the DOJ of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act by ‘withholding massive quantities of documents’ and ‘failing to redact survivor identities.’
They that the failure to release the full trove of files and the DOJ’s alleged lack of communication about its actions ‘suggests an ongoing intent to keep survivors and the public in the dark as much as possible and as long as possible.’
Bill Clinton (pictured in a photo from the Epstein Files) has demanded that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice releases the rest of the Epstein files, after he was featured in multiple images in the last drop
The records that were released by the DOJ last week – including photographs, interview transcripts, call logs, court records and other documents – were either already public or heavily blacked out, and many lacked necessary context.
There were few revelations in the tens of thousands of pages of records that have been released so far. Some of the most eagerly awaited records, such as FBI victim interviews and internal memos shedding light on charging decisions, weren’t there.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has now urged his colleagues Monday to take legal action over the DOJ’s incremental and heavily redacted release of the records.
He introduced a resolution that, if passed, would direct the Senate to file or join lawsuits aimed at forcing the DOJ to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted last month that required disclosure of records by last Friday.
‘Instead of transparency, the Trump administration released a tiny fraction of the files and blacked out massive portions of what little they provided,’ Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat said in a statement. ‘This is a blatant cover-up.’
In lieu of Republican support, Schumer’s resolution is largely symbolic. The senate is off until January 5, more than two weeks after the deadline.
Even then, it’ll likely face an uphill battle for passage. But it allows Democrats to continue a pressure campaign for disclosure that Republicans had hoped to put behind them.
The Justice Department said it plans to release records on a rolling basis by the end of the year. It blamed the delay on the time-consuming process of obscuring victims’ names and other identifying information.
So far, the department hasn’t given any notice when new records arrive.
That approach angered some accusers and members of Congress who fought to pass the transparency act.
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A court in Ecuador has sentenced 11 air force personnel to decades in prison over the forced disappearance” of four Afro-Ecuadorian boys aged between 11 and 15 during security operations in the country’s largest city last year.
The case of the “Guayaquil Four” is widely seen as the starkest example of human rights abuses under the iron-fist security policy pursued by the rightwing president, Daniel Noboa, who placed the armed forces at the centre of the fight against drug trafficking.
Eleven servicemen were sentenced to 34 years and eight months in prison. Five others, who confessed and cooperated with the investigation, received reduced sentences of two years and six months, and one was acquitted.
“The cruelty with which the four minors were victimised has been proven,” said the presiding judge, Jovanny Suárez, who was joined by two other judges.
It remains unclear who exactly killed the boys. The trial focused on the crime of forced disappearance, and the public prosecutor’s office is still pursuing a separate investigation into kidnapping resulting in death.
On 8 December last year, Steven Medina, 11, Nehemías Saúl Arboleda, 14, and brothers Josué and Ismael Arroyo, aged 14 and 15, were returning from a football match in Las Malvinas, an impoverished neighbourhood in southern Guayaquil, when they were stopped by air force personnel – who have been deployed on street patrols since Noboa declared a state of “internal armed conflict” two years ago.
For more than two weeks, their families had no news of them, until charred bodies were found on Christmas Eve about 25 miles away.
Noboa’s defence minister, Gian Carlo Loffredo, repeatedly denied the involvement of the military and said instead that the youths had been victims of “criminal groups”.
But CCTV footage later emerged, capturing the moment the boys were assaulted and forced into vehicles.
The case has also been seen as an example of how Afro-Ecuadorians are particularly vulnerable to human rights violations: after their abduction, the boys were taunted with racist insults and beaten with punches, kicks, and blows from belts and gun barrels.
They were stripped naked and abandoned far from home, at a location where one of them managed to call his father to ask for help.
By the time the father arrived, however, the boys were no longer there. Their bodies were eventually discovered on Christmas Eve.
Forensic examinations concluded that all four had been killed by gunshots at close range to the head and back. Their bodies were then burned and dismembered.
The defence teams for the servicemen, including those who confessed to taking part in the abduction and torture, deny that they were responsible for the killings.
One of those who confessed, Christian Eduardo A. Q., said during the trial that troops were being sent to patrol the streets without any training to do so.
“I never received any training in human rights or operational procedures. I worked in the control towers in Quito as a weather observer and air traffic technician. I should never have been sent out on to the streets. They took untrained personnel, because of staff shortages, and sent us to patrol,” said the soldier.
One possible line of investigation is that, after being tortured and abandoned naked miles from home in an unfamiliar area with high crime rates, the four were killed by local criminals.
Suárez, the presiding judge ruled that “the abandonment of the minors in a dangerous and desolate place was the cause of the victims’ deaths.”