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Morgan McSweeney has dramatically quit as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff, after mounting scrutiny over his role in Lord Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US. The PM's adviser had been coming under pressure after pushing for the former minister to be given the job, despite the peer's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein being publicly known about at the time.

The newly released documents from the Justice Department shine additional light on how the convicted child sex criminal exhibited a fascination with transhumanism, a controversial movement in science and philosophy with a eugenicist mission: using cutting edge technology, including genetic engineering and AI, to advance the biology of the human race. They also reinforce how serious Epstein was about pursuing these ideas.

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Former justice minister Alan Shatter said he has been the target of a vicious and antisemitic smear campaign since Social Democrats justice spokesman Gary Gannon put up a social media post that linked him with Jeffrey Epstein. Mr Shatter, who was Fine Gael's justice minister from 2011 to 2014, said he has twice written to Mr Gannon and Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns in the last week seeking the withdrawal of false claims that he met Epstein while in office.

The health influencer Peter Attia had to resign from a protein-bar company after emails showed him participating in crude banter with Epstein. CBS News, where Attia was recently hired as a contributor, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring him. Brad Karp, who in one email to Epstein gushed, "You're amazing," is stepping down as chair of the law firm Paul Weiss.

Former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are calling for their congressional testimony on ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to be held publicly, to prevent Republicans from politicising the issue. Both Clintons had been ordered to give closed-door depositions before the House of Representatives' oversight committee, which is investigating the deceased financier's connections to powerful figures and how information about his crimes was handled.

It is important for me to apologize to all of you whom I have disappointed,

The release last Friday by the Department of Justice of roughly 3 million documents relating to the investigation of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has created a bizarre blame game among billionaires. Epstein was able to commit unspeakable crimes on a mass scale for decades with only a slap-on-the-wrist punishment because he was rich and well-connected. The new files help flesh out our sense of his social world, which was top-heavy with plutocrats

The largest tranche yet of legal documents relating to the prosecution of Epstein for sex offences, including the trafficking of underage girls, includes some 3 million pages of documents, as well as 2,000 videos and 180,000 photographs, and was released a week ago. The documents were published under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in November after pressure from his supporters to make the files public, fulfilling his campaign promises.

Whatever questions remain there of what I don't can't even begin to know all of it, those questions are for those people, and for even my ex-husband. They need to answer to those things, not me. And I am so happy to be away from all the muck that was there. Oof. Yet she also said, more generally: I think we're having a reckoning as a society, right? Cards on the table, I don't think we're having one at all.

Yet through it all, Trump paid no mind to the person who sat directly across from him: the attorney general of the United States, Pam Bondi. Even with weighty Justice-relevant issues exploding across the country, Bondi sat silently through the entire 80-minute meeting. The next day, DOJ called a press conference to address the Epstein files, Minnesota, and other pressing matters; out to the podium walked deputy attorney general Todd Blanche without Bondi.

The tranches of files - the largest of which was released on January 30, comprising more than 3 million documents, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images - contain reams of reputation-staining correspondence between the late sex offender and a seemingly endless list of VIPs, including MIT's Noam Chomsky, Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, New Age guru Deepak Chopra, Katie Couric, Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler.

Karyna my girlfriend, and Jen, the tall girl who you've met will be London Tues and Wed, the 63-year-old disgraced financier apparently wrote in April 2016 to an aide to the then Prince Andrew. They have never been there before. If you are around, I'd appreciate any help you can give them. The email's recipient was David Stern, the director of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's Pitch@Palace business, whose registered office lay within Buckingham Palace.

Michael Ovitz, the cofounder of powerhouse Los Angeles talent agency Creative Artists Agency and a prolific tech investor, effusively praised Jeffrey Epstein and made arrangements to meet him at his New York home and off the coast of St. Barts, newly released files reveal. The disgraced financier invited Ovitz to his private Caribbean island in 2012 and said he knew Ovitz "well" in emails to a Microsoft executive and his publicist, Peggy Siegal.

Epstein claimed within one email he helped Gates get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls and illicit trysts, with married women. The email also references Gates asking Epstein to provide Adderall for bridge tournaments. One draft email alleges that Gates tearfully asked Epstein to delete messages referencing an STD, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and to delete explicit personal details about his penis.

A new batch of more than three million pages of investigative files about Jeffrey Epstein that was released by the Department of Justice on January 30 show how the disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender sought relationships with news outletsincluding Scientific Americanthrough his connections with scientists. New Scientist turns up in more than 50 documents released by the DOJ, and National Geographic appears in nearly 200 documents.