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Ten months after Virginia Giuffre's death by suicide, a newly released email appears to support her claims that she met and posed for a photograph with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 10:03 pm
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Investigators believe the missing mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie is "still out there," but they have not identified any suspects, officials in Arizona said Thursday.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 8:07 pm
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The Donald Trump administration on Thursday finalized its overhaul of the U.S. government's civil service system, ​according to a government statement, which would give the president the power to hire and fire an estimated 50,000 career federal employees.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 6:13 pm
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Famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday as an attack by paramilitary forces on a military hospital in the country's south killed 22 people, including the hospital's director and three members of its medical staff.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 5:51 pm
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The U.S. and Russia has agreed to re-establish high-level military dialogue for the first time in more than four years in another sign of warming relations between the two countries since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office and sought to end the war in Ukraine.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 2:47 pm
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday and said he ​was sorry for having appointed Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador, who was a close friend of the late sex offender.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 12:43 pm
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The attorney general for the Mexican state of Sinaloa says she wants to speak with officials from a Canadian mining firm whose employees were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 9:00 am
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A man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in ​Washington, D.C. last year was indicted on four additional counts of terrorism, according to a new indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday.

Posted: February 5, 2026, 12:50 am
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As the U.K.’s ambassador, Peter Mandelson lasted eight months until Prime Minister Keir Starmer sacked him over his resurfaced connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, the prime minister's judgment is under close scrutiny, after the U.S. Department of Justice released three million more files related to the convicted sex offender on Friday. The latest drop revealed more details about Mandelson's relationship with Epstein.

Posted: February 4, 2026, 11:39 pm
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Minnesota civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong says she was shocked when she learned the White House had posted an altered photo of her appearing to sob during her arrest when, in fact, she was calm and poised.

Posted: February 4, 2026, 11:04 pm