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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Epstein’s more than $577m in assets were put into a trust, according to reports Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before killing himself in his New York jail cell, US media reports say. Court papers filed last week in the US Virgin Islands valued Epstein’s estate at more than $577 million (£475m) but listed no details of beneficiaries, the Associated Press reported. The will,…

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Greenland has said it’s not for sale, but that didn’t stop top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow from adding fuel to the idea that the Trump administration wants to purchase the world’s largest island from Denmark. Speaking with “Fox News Sunday,” Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration is “looking at” purchasing Greenland. “It’s an interesting story,” Kudlow told host Dana Perino. “It’s developing. We’re…

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This land is your land, this land is … Greenland? President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions discussed trying to buy the country of Greenland, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Trump has with “varying degrees of seriousness” expressed an interest in trying to purchase the icy 811,000-square-mile island in the North Atlantic, according to the Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the deliberations. Greenland is an autonomous Danish…

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This land is your land, this land is … Greenland? President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions discussed trying to buy the country of Greenland, the Wall Street Journal reported. Trump has with “varying degrees of seriousness” expressed an interest in trying to purchase the icy 811,000 square mile island in the North Atlantic, according to the Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the deliberations. Greenland is an autonomous Danish…

Video Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to being denied entry to Israel Progressive ‘Squad’ member calls Israel’s decision to deny entry to representatives of the U.S. government an affront. Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro claimed Thursday that Israel made an error in judgment by barring Rep. Ilhan Omar D-Minn., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., from visiting the Jewish state and said the Israeli government played right into the lawmakers’ hands. “Is this a smart move by Israel? No….

Image copyright Reuters Image caption US President Donald Trump has suggested a “personal meeting” with Chinese President Xi Jinping over Hong Kong US President Donald Trump has suggested a “personal meeting” with China’s President Xi Jinping to discuss the political crisis engulfing Hong Kong. In a tweet Mr Trump said he had “ZERO doubt” that Mr Xi could “humanely solve the Hong Kong problem”. He also tied the protests to…

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On Monday, Chinese officials focused on what they described as “deranged acts” by the protesters, including throwing gasoline bombs, saying they marked the emergence of terrorism in the Chinese city. “Radical Hong Kong protesters have repeatedly used extremely dangerous tools to attack police officers,” Yang Guang, a spokesman for the Chinese government’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, said in a news briefing on Monday, according to Chinese state broadcaster…

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Video Attorney General Bill Barr raises questions about the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death Former FBI agent Chad Jenkins weighs in on the apparent suicide of accused sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Attorney General William Barr on Monday blasted corrections officials and vowed to investigate the “serious irregularities” uncovered at the federal prison in Manhattan where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was held and found dead Saturday morning. Barr’s criticism came amid complaints about squalid,…

Video Epstein autopsy complete, but results withheld New York’s chief medical examiner says the results will be released pending other ongoing investigations. Correctional officers at the New York City prison that was housing Jeffrey Epstein didn’t check in on him for hours leading up to his apparent suicide on Saturday, which occurred after his cellmate was transferred for reasons that were not immediately clear. Epstein, 66, was found unconscious in his…

This March 28, 2017, photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died by apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. AP hide caption toggle caption AP This March 28, 2017, photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died by apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. AP With Jeffrey Epstein’s death by…

The New York City medical examiner’s office said Sunday that it had completed an autopsy of the financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein but that it needed more information before determining the cause of death. Multiple people briefed on the investigation told NBC News that suicide remains the presumed cause of death and that no sign of foul play has emerged in the day and a half since Epstein,…

Video Law enforcement officials capture an escaped Tennessee inmate The manhunt for an escaped Tennessee prison inmate has come to an end. Police captured the man after catching him on a home surveillance camera. A Tennessee convict who sparked a five-day manhunt following his prison escape and alleged murder of a correctional administrator last week was captured after home surveillance video caught him rifling through a refrigerator at the home of a…

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is not making light of drug abuse. He is not making light of drug cartels. You would think otherwise, though, based on recent reporting. “Mitch McConnell wants to raise money off the nickname ‘Cocaine Mitch.’ Yes, really,” the Washington Post tut-tutted in a headline. The article itself includes quotes from experts whose opinion amounts to: That is not funny. “McConnell Fundraising With ‘Cocaine Mitch’ Shirts…