A woman identifying herself as Katie Johnson sat down and delivered a detailed account of events she said happened in 1994, when she was 13 years old. She alleged that Jeffrey Epstein recruited her with promises of modeling work and that she ended up at parties where both Epstein and Trump sexually assaulted her. One […] More

SYDNEY — Three months after a warm, almost unchallenged podcast sit-down with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, Karl Stefanovic is off breakfast television, off commercial radio, and struggling to restart the independent show that was meant to replace both. Insiders have described the period since as “a hellish few months.” That outcome did not come […] More

A $4 billion luxury resort tied to Jared Kushner is planned for one of Europe’s last relatively wild stretches of Adriatic coastline: a flamingo-filled wetland and lagoon near Zvërnec and the Vjosa-Narta protected landscape in southern Albania. Locals and environmentalists have been fighting it for months. Albania’s special anti-corruption prosecutors are already deep into the […] More

Three clocks are running at once: a House that is already forcing impeachment votes, a fresh wave of Epstein-file pressure inside the Justice Department and the courts, and a Florida legal climate that has spent two years hardening penalties for the worst crimes against children. Any one of those stories would be explosive. Together, they […] More

Two private Bahamian islands. Helicopters and seaplanes. Oceanfront villas. A five-tier cake flown in from Florida. Fireworks off a barge. About 50 guests. The president’s eldest son and a Palm Beach socialite, newly married, dancing under the Caribbean night. Donald Trump Jr. later called it “really small” and “just really close friends.” His wife posted […] More

The letters arrived first. Then the phrase that made election officials sit up: they were “currently under investigation.” Last week the Justice Department asked officials in about 30 states and the District of Columbia for election records. What Washington demanded The Justice Department did not ask for the public voter files most states already sell […] More

Mid-August, bar inside a Ritz-Carlton outside Washington. Two men sat down with an aquarium owner and his wife and explained, as if discussing a kitchen remodel, how mercy works now. The official pardon form had already failed. A stamp and a three-page application had put Ammon Covino on a rejection list. The new price, they […] More

On a Wednesday night in Dallas, Donald Trump stood before a Republican midterm convention crowd and made a promise almost no sitting president has ever made so explicitly. If voters keep the House and Senate in Republican hands this November, every adult U.S. citizen would get $5,000. He called it the “Trump Dividend,” compared it […] More