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Trump admin hit by Epstein poll bombshell as just 21% of Republicans see justice being done

10 June 2026 at 11:32

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has revealed widespread public skepticism over whether justice is being fully delivered in cases connected to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — with just 21% of Republicans and only 10% of Americans overall saying they believe the Trump administration has helped efforts to hold those involved accountable.

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The vanishing of Nicolás Maduro: how the former dictator is being erased from Venezuela

Billboards are being painted over and former allies seem eager to forget the man they once glorified

For years, his bewhiskered face stared down from propaganda billboards glorifying the supposedly revolutionary rule of a dictator who styled himself as “the protector of the people”.

The spin-doctored adoration was such that factories churned out plastic action figures exalting Nicolás Maduro as an “indestructible” and “iron-fisted” caped crusader nicknamed “Super Moustache”.

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© Photograph: Andrea Hernández Briceño/The Guardian

© Photograph: Andrea Hernández Briceño/The Guardian

© Photograph: Andrea Hernández Briceño/The Guardian

Trump’s intelligence fight puts key spy program on the brink of collapse

10 June 2026 at 09:21

A critical US surveillance law faces an uncertain future as House Speaker Mike Johnson’s assertion that President Donald Trump is close to naming a permanent intelligence chief clashes with earlier reports suggesting the president has no such inclination.

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Bill Gates continued meeting with Jeffrey Epstein years after the financier’s sex-crime conviction and now Congress wants answers

The closed-door interview before the House Oversight Committee makes Gates the latest high-profile figure to answer questions as part of the panel’s review of Epstein-related records

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Law firms cheated in filing claims with NFL's $1 billion concussion settlement fund, report says

10 June 2026 at 05:09
The court officials overseeing the NFL’s $1 billion settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients toward doctors willing to give them a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis whether they exhibited symptoms or not

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