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Jeffrey Epstein saga continues as Congress returns from recess
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Congress wasn’t in session in August. But the Epstein files certainly were.
The Epstein files dominated Congress before the summer recess. But when lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill in recent days, the first thing lawmakers wrestled with were the Epstein files again.
Note: If you want something to go away, do not make it among the first orders of business.
The Epstein issue gurgled through the summer. And House Republicans did little to tamp down the embers by adjourning the body a day early in July – because they struggled to pass unrelated bills without delving into a complicated and sticky discussion of the Epstein files. Then, when the House returned, GOP leaders immediately prepped a resolution to formally bless an Epstein investigation by the Oversight Committee. The panel released some 32,000 pages of Epstein-related documents.
Just hours after returning to session, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and others met with Epstein accusers.
‘NOT GOING AWAY’: INSIDE THE EPSTEIN DRAMA THAT’S THROWN HOUSE GOP INTO CHAOS
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks during a press conference calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
That explains why the issue isn’t ebbing any time soon.
«It is very much a possibility that Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset working for our adversaries,» declared Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., after talking to the Epstein victims at the Capitol. «I think this is going to be a criminal investigation for sure. I will say that what’s been released, obviously, the American people have wanted for a long time.»
Before the recess, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., teamed up to potentially bypass Johnson and compel the House to vote on releasing the Epstein files. The Epstein milieu quickly infected virtually every single legislative effort in Congress, effectively hamstringing the body. So Johnson cut everyone loose a bit early.
But the issue festered over the recess. Massie and Khanna were back with their parliamentary gambit to go over Johnson’s head and force an Epstein vote.
Lawmakers from both sides routinely convene press conferences at a spot just outside the Capitol called the «House Triangle.» Lawmakers often use this venue to feature non-members or people specific to the legislation they’re pushing at the news conference.
Sometimes members bring a throng of people with them. A crowd occasionally gathers, depending on the issue.
But I had never before witnessed the multitude of people who showed up at the House Triangle on Wednesday morning to hear Massie, Khanna and victims talk about their effort to pry open the files. People spilled out onto the walkways and plaza. That forced U.S. Capitol Police to restrict access to the area.
Some of the victims recounted their Epstein stories in harrowing detail.
«When I got into the massage room, Jeffrey Epstein undressed and asked me to do things to him, my eyes welled up with tears. And I have never been more scared in my life,» said Epstein accuser Haley Robson.
«I was even taken on a trip to Africa with former President Bill Clinton and other notable figures. In those moments, I realized how powerless I was,» said Epstein victim Chauntae Davies.
EPSTEIN VICTIMS SET TO BREAK SILENCE AMID BIPARTISAN PUSH TO RELEASE FILES: ‘PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE OUTRAGED’
Anouska De Georgiou, right, gathers with other Jeffrey Epstein survivors during a press conference calling for the release of the Epstein files outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Massie and Khanna are deploying what’s called a «discharge petition.» It’s a rarely successful gambit to go over the head of the Speaker and force a debate and vote on your issue – provided one can engineer 218 House signatures. If Massie and Khanna cobble together enough signatories, they may be able to force a vote later this month.
House GOP leaders are concerned about this. That’s why Johnson hoped to intervene with his own measure to formalize the House Oversight Committee’s inquiry into Epstein. But Johnson designed the measure in a way that the House could approve it – without taking a direct vote on it. That way, Republicans could point to angry constituents that they were in fact taking the Epstein files seriously – without an actual roll call vote documenting their position and perhaps infuriating President Donald Trump. Or, they could tell other constituents who wouldn’t want them to cross the President on Epstein to say they never directly voted on it at all. After all, it was buried in an unrelated measure.
Make sense?
But there was another motive behind the leadership’s unique parliamentary maneuver on Epstein: They wanted to give Republicans cover to say that the House was in fact addressing the Epstein issue. The move might coax fewer members to support the Massie/Khanna effort. That would prevent the House from taking a concrete vote tied to Epstein. But otherwise, the House may need to directly wrestle with it.
Massie called this a «political cover» to block his plan with Khanna to release the files.
Johnson fired back at Massie.
«I would not put much stock into what Thomas Massie says. The House Republicans have been very consistent about maximum disclosure and maximum transparency,» said Johnson.
Trump long promised to release the files. But Trump’s position this week was to blame Democrats.
«This is a Democrat hoax that never ends. You know, it reminds me a little of the [President John F.] Kennedy situation. We gave them everything over and over again. More and more and more and nobody’s ever satisfied,» said Trump. «But it’s really a Democrat hoax because they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president.»
Massie suggested that Johnson is just trying to stay on Trump’s good side by walking a political tightrope.
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE RELEASES THOUSANDS OF EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and President Donald Trump shake hands during an Invest America roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«The Speaker is wrestling with [whether] he’s going to have to choose between supporting Donald Trump’s new position that the files shouldn’t be released, or finding justice for these victims and survivors. The Speaker probably doesn’t appreciate that he’s going to have to choose one,» said Massie. «The Speaker’s position depends on him not just rubber-stamping but reinforcing anything Donald Trump wants, even if Donald Trump is wrong. So the Speaker is in a tough spot.»
The materials coughed up by the Oversight panel did include a new video of the so-called «missing minute.» It fills in absent footage from Epstein’s New York jail cell on the night he died.
But Massie insists on the release of more material.
«What’s clear is they’re not redacting, just to protect victims. They are redacting to protect the reputations of people,» said Massie.
One Republican aligned with the President threatened to out those linked to Epstein.
«I’m not afraid to name names,» said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., at the press conference. «So if they want to give me a list, I will walk into that Capitol on the House floor, and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women.»
Khanna was buoyed by the support of Greene.
«I’ve never done a press conference with Marjorie Taylor Greene before,» said the progressive Khanna. «I don’t think Marjorie Taylor Greene would be part of a stunt against President Trump.»
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We’ll know soon if the House has the votes to thwart the GOP leadership and consider the Massie/Khanna resolution. And tangling with the Epstein matter could even start to impact the ability of the House to wrestle with routine legislation again.
And so, the Epstein saga continues. The same as it was before the August recess.
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Donald Trump afirmó que el nuevo líder supremo iraní Mojtaba Khamenei “probablemente está vivo, pero dañado”
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmó que considera probable que el nuevo líder supremo de Irán, Mojtaba Khamenei, siga con vida, aunque sugirió que podría haber sufrido algún tipo de daño.
En una entrevista con Fox News Radio, Trump fue consultado sobre la situación del dirigente iraní tras su reciente nombramiento. El mandatario respondió que, en su opinión, Khamenei probablemente continúa con vida, pero cree que podría estar afectado físicamente.
“Creo que está dañado, pero probablemente está vivo de alguna forma”, aseguró el inquilino de la Casa Blanca.
Por otra parte, reivindicó la ofensiva conjunta de Estados Unidos e Israel contra Irán como el cumplimiento de una obligación postergada durante casi cinco décadas por administraciones pasadas.
Durante un acto en la Casa Blanca por el Mes de la Historia de la Mujer, Trump afirmó que la campaña avanza “muy rápidamente”, calificó a Irán como una “nación de terror y odio” y sostuvo que el ejército estadounidense está “haciendo lo que hay que hacer, lo que se debería haber hecho durante 47 años”.
“Realmente son una nación de terror y odio, y están pagando un gran precio en este momento”, insistió en sus declaraciones, expresadas en el día 13 de la operación «Furia Épica“.
Trump emitió en los últimos días mensajes contradictorios sobre el desarrollo de la guerra, al afirmar por momentos que Estados Unidos e Israel “ganaron” frente a Irán y sugiriendo que el conflicto podría terminar “muy pronto”, y en ocasiones que aún existe la necesidad de continuar la lucha para acabar con el régimen.
Trump no respondió directamente a los comentarios del nuevo líder supremo iraní, Mojtaba Khamenei, quien en su primer mensaje tras asumir el cargo prometió venganza y defendió que Irán debe mantener el control del Estrecho de Ormuz.
El aumento de la tensión en la región ha disparado los precios mundiales del petróleo, en medio de la virtual paralización del tráfico de petroleros por esa vía clave. No obstante, Trump afirmó en redes sociales el jueves por la mañana que considera prioritario impedir que el “imperio del mal” de Irán acceda a armas nucleares.
En sintonía con los desafíos regionales que surgen de la escalada en Medio Oriente, el secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, Scott Bessent, anunció que la Marina estadounidense, posiblemente junto a una coalición internacional, escoltará buques a través del Estrecho de Ormuz tan pronto como las condiciones militares lo permitan.
En declaraciones a Sky News, Bessent confirmó por primera vez que Washington contempla operaciones de escolta naval para reabrir este paso estratégico, por donde circula aproximadamente el 20% del petróleo mundial.
“Mi convicción es que, en cuanto sea militarmente posible, la Marina de Estados Unidos, quizás con una coalición internacional, estará escoltando buques”, afirmó Bessent y detalló que el operativo comenzará cuando Estados Unidos logre “el control total del espacio aéreo” y las “capacidades de reposición de misiles de Irán estén completamente degradadas”.
El funcionario añadió que petroleros iraníes y de bandera china han transitado la zona en días recientes, lo que, a su juicio, descarta que Irán haya minado el estrecho.
Tras el inicio de la Operación Furia Épica el 28 de febrero —una ofensiva coordinada de Estados Unidos e Israel contra instalaciones militares, nucleares y de liderazgo iraní, que resultó en la muerte del líder supremo Alí Khamenei— el tráfico comercial por el estrecho se redujo prácticamente a cero.
Según la Agencia Internacional de Energía (AIE), el flujo de crudo cayó de unos 20 millones de barriles diarios a una mínima fracción, obligando a los países del Golfo a recortar su producción en al menos diez millones de barriles diarios. El precio del Brent llegó a rozar los 120 dólares por barril.
(Con información de AFP)
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Transgender triple killer removed from home with 2 foster children months after authorities were notified
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Two foster children who had been living with a convicted transgender triple killer, despite authorities being aware of the situation since late December 2025, are no longer residing with the violent criminal, according to local media reports.
Reginald Arthurell — who began transitioning to a woman shortly after his release from prison in 2020 — was removed from the home after heavily armed officers raided the address on Monday, radio station 2GB reported. He had been living with a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old for several months, the outlet said.
The minister for Families and Communities of New South Wales (NSW) on Tuesday issued an apology, saying the situation «should never have been allowed.»
«It is entirely unacceptable for a vulnerable child in the care of the state to be living with a triple murderer,» Kate Washington told 2GB. «It should never have happened and I’m deeply apologetic for what has happened.»
VIOLENT REPEAT OFFENDER ACCUSED OF KILLING TEACHER AS 911 CALL REVEALED HER FINAL MOMENTS: REPORT
Reginald Arthurell began transitioning into a woman after 2020 in Australia. (Obtained by the NY Post)
She added that «very poor decisions were made» at the time when authorities became aware of the situation and said a review is underway to determine how the «terrible» circumstances were allowed to happen, promising systemic changes.
The situation has sparked widespread backlash and calls for the resignation of authorities who allowed the crisis to continue for months.
Late last year, Arthurell moved into an existing foster home in Sydney, where two children were already living under the care of an elderly woman, 2GB reported. He reportedly met her while she was working at a hospital, and he was a patient there.
The woman, who invited him to move in as a housemate, already had two foster children living with her under her approved placement with the New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice.
Arthurell therefore shared the household with the children. The arrangement went unnoticed by authorities until the carer’s daughter reportedly raised concerns late last year.
FLORIDA MAN WHO WRESTLED COP’S GUN AWAY AND KILLED HIM TO BE EXECUTED AFTER FINAL APPEALS REJECTED
Reginald Arthurell is a three-time convicted murderer in Sydney, Australia. (Obtained by the NY Post)
Prior to moving in, Arthurell had built a long criminal history, primarily involving the killings of three people over three decades, court documents show. He was first convicted of manslaughter in 1974 for reportedly stabbing his stepfather to death in Sydney. In 1981, he fatally bashed a 19-year-old sailor during a violent robbery, and while on parole in 1995, he killed his fiancée by beating her to death with a piece of wood, local outlets reported.
After killing his romantic partner, he was caught photographing himself wearing one of her dresses, 2GB added.
All three killings involved alcohol, court documents show. Records indicate that Arthurell spent nearly 39 years of his life in custody following the murders.
After his prison release in November 2020, Arthurell began transitioning into a woman under the name Regina. The first public photos and self-introductions appeared on a transgender community Facebook page in May 2021, 2GB reported. Arthurell had also expressed plans to undergo gender-affirming surgery «as soon as possible,» News.com.au reported.
Reginald Arthurell was removed from a home that housed two foster children following a raid by armed police officers. (Obtained by the NY Post)
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Court documents also described that «her transition has been taking place over quite some years,» confirming the process was ongoing after his release.
Arthurell now remains in private accommodation following his Monday removal, ABC Australia reported Tuesday.
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Mamdani touts landmark court victory against repeat offender landlord in housing enforcement push
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday touted a Bronx Supreme Court judgment he said has already topped $2.1 million against Bronx landlord Seth Miller, portraying the case as a new template for City Hall to squeeze owners who don’t fix violations.
Speaking at Bronx Borough Hall, Mamdani said the court found that «years of uncorrected code violations at 919 Prospect Avenue constitute a public nuisance,» and ordered penalties of «$1,000 a day» for violations dating back to April 21, 2019, «totaling more than $2.1 million so far,» with «fines continuing to accrue» if repairs are not made.
«Since your landlord, a repeat offender on New York City’s annual Worst Landlord Watch List, purchased the property in 2011, your tenants have faced an unending stream of violations that have taken a toll on their health, safety and well-being,» he said. «We are speaking of infestations of, mice, rats and cockroaches; leaking pipes; collapsed ceilings; black mold; and lead paint. The list of abuses and failures, frankly, goes on.»
«This is a landmark victory,» he said, saying it was «the first time that the court has levied the maximum civil penalties allowed on a landlord under the Nuisance Abatement Law.»
IS MAMDANI’S SOCIALIST PUSH FOR RENT CONTROLS ABOUT TO WRECK THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING MARKET?
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a «Rental Ripoff» hearing at Fordham University in the Bronx borough of New York on March 11, 2026. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
He also warned other owners: «If you do not change your ways, we now have a strong precedent to pursue the same kind of legal action against you.»
Mamdani’s corporation counsel, Steven Banks, declined to spell out how the city would force compliance if the landlord attempts bankruptcy tactics.
«There are multiple ways forward. I’ve always learned [that] when dealing with somebody like this particular landlord, it’s best not to telegraph exactly what we’re going to do,» Banks said. «But rest assured: we will be ready.»
The mayor said the city has «allocated more than $85 million in our preliminary budget to add 200 new attorneys and 100 support staff to our Law Department,» arguing the goal is compliance, not revenue.
People attend a rally before a «Rental Ripoff» hearing at Fordham University in the Bronx borough of New York on March 11, 2026, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The push escalates Mamdani’s day-one posture that targeted landlords and promised aggressive legal intervention.
On Jan. 1 at his inauguration, Mamdani vowed, «We will make sure that 311 violations are resolved.»
«Today is the start of a new era for New York City,» Mamdani said. «It is inauguration day. It is also the day that the rent is due.»
HOURS AFTER TAKING OFFICE, NYC MAYOR MAMDANI TARGETS LANDLORDS, MOVES TO INTERVENE IN PRIVATE BANKRUPTCY CASE
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a «Rental Ripoff» hearing at Fordham University in the Bronx borough of New York on March 11, 2026, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
During his day one action plan, Mamdani announced an executive order creating a LIFT task force, or a land-inventory effort designed to leverage city-owned land and accelerate housing development. He said the task force will review city-owned properties and identify sites suitable for housing development no later than July 1.
He also announced the SPEED task force, which Mamdani said stands for Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development. He said the task force will work to remove permitting barriers that slow housing construction.
Both task forces will be overseen by Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Lila Joseph, he said.
«These are sweeping measures, but it is just the beginning of a comprehensive effort to champion the cause of tenants,» Mamdani said.
WATCH:
Landlord groups have attacked Mamdani’s tenant-protection chief, Cea Weaver, a longtime housing activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), over past comments linking homeownership to «White supremacy,» calling them «racist» and evidence of hostility to property owners.
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Speaking about housing policy and equity in a March 2021 DSA video, Weaver said, «For centuries, we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good, and we are going to … in transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity, will require that we think about it differently.»
«Families, especially White families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have,» she added.
Fox News Digital’s Nikolas Lanum and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
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