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Donald Trump is dropping his attempt to prosecute six congressional Democrats who made a video urging federal law enforcement and members of the military not to obey illegal orders.

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The Justice Department has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor, MS NOW has confirmed.

NPR reported on Tuesday that more than 50 pages of notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews with the woman are not found in the Justice Department’s publicly released database of documents related to convicted and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to a source who has viewed the unredacted documents, a woman interviewed by the FBI in July 2019 about her Epstein allegations is the same woman who alleged that Trump forced her to perform oral sex on him 35 years ago, when she was 13 or 14 years old, and subsequently hit her. That allegation appears in a 2025 PowerPoint presentation detailing each of the FBI’s Epstein-related investigations and a spreadsheet of unconfirmed tips called into the bureau’s National Threat Operations Center reviewed by MS NOW. MS NOW has found that of at least four interviews the FBI conducted with the woman related to the Epstein investigations, only one memo — and no handwritten notes — reflecting such an interview is included on the DOJ site.

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We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.

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All the cool effects, honorifics, translator notes that explain references that you might miss as non-japanese viewer... Whoever put this much effort for free more than 10 years ago, thank you! It was so refreshing seeing this in the era of corporate sloppy subtitles!

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today, as the Pentagon threatens the AI company with what could amount to a government blacklist.

At issue is the guardrails Anthropic placed on its AI models. The Pentagon, which has a $200 million contract with Anthropic, wants the company to lift its restrictions for the military to be able to use the model for “all lawful use,” according to a source familiar with the discussions.

But Anthropic has concerns over two issues that it isn’t willing to drop, the source said: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. According to a source familiar, Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons and no laws or regulations yet that cover how AI could be used in mass surveillance.

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Hacker News.

In the early hours of 23 March 2025 in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, Israeli forces massacred fifteen Palestinian aid workers: eight from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, six from the Palestinian Civil Defence, and one UNRWA staff member. Our investigation confirms that Israeli forces attacked the aid workers while they were travelling in clearly marked humanitarian vehicles, in the absence of any threat or exchange of fire. Spatial and audio analysis conducted in partnership with Earshot reveals the positions from which Israeli soldiers fired on the aid workers – in at least once instance within one to four metres of their victim – over a period of more than two hours.

Working with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and survivors of the massacre, Earshot and Forensic Architecture (FA) conducted a joint investigation that reconstructs the incident with unprecedented precision, expanding the scope and findings of previous media investigations. Collaborative audio and spatial analysis of witness recordings was reinforced by new ‘situated testimony’ interviews with the two survivors of the massacre from PRCS, volunteer Munther Abed and paramedic Asaad al-Nassasra. Their firsthand accounts were situated within a detailed 3D digital model of the site of the incident. This reconstruction precisely located structures, vehicles and individuals throughout the incident, which in turn formed the basis of Earshot’s audio analysis of the available recordings. This combined methodological approach allowed us to determine the extent, duration, and origins of the hundreds of rounds of bullets fired by Israeli soldiers at the aid workers over the course of the incident.

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Federal prosecutors in Washington have dropped their case against six Democratic lawmakers who released a video urging military servicemembers to refuse illegal orders.

The decision - confirmed by the BBC's media partner CBS News - follows US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office failing to secure a grand jury indictment against the six military and intelligence veterans.

The justice department could still pursue the case in a different district, but there were no signs on Tuesday that it intended to do so. Pirro's office had no comment.

After the Democrats released the video, President Donald Trump called the lawmakers "traitors" and suggested the video was an offence "punishable by death".

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Federal law requires noncitizens to carry proof of their lawful status.

The idea is to set people up for a 2nd arrest, and deportation alongside that.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa confirmed that the government has successfully facilitated the return of citizens who were deceived into participating in combat for Russia, as reported by Bloomberg on February 24.

According to a statement from the president's office, four individuals returned to South Africa last week, with another 11 expected to return soon. One individual is currently hospitalized, and another is preparing to travel.

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Somehow not a joke, I'm kinda excited to see where this goes

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A familiar pattern developed during the federal government’s massive deportation operation in Minnesota: Despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained for days or weeks.

But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

Again and again, according to 10 immigration lawyers interviewed for this story, immigrants in Minnesota have been released from detention centers without the work permits, Social Security cards, licenses, and other documents that prove their status.

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Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR reviewed multiple sets of unique serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question, stamped onto documents in the Epstein files database, FBI case records, emails and discovery document logs in the latest tranche of documents published at the end of January. NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

The Justice Department declined to answer NPR's questions on the record about these specific files, what's in them, and why they are not published. After publication, the Justice Department reached out to NPR, taking issue with how its responses to questions were framed. Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre reiterated DOJ's stance that any documents not published are because they are privileged, duplicates or relate to an ongoing federal investigation.

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For those that don't know: the movie Iron Lung was directed by Markiplier and he's married. He was screwing his wife throughout filming of the movie.

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Hey y'all. I'm in need of some food assistance. I'm jobless, and while i'm trying to get SNAP, that's not available to me right now.

$50 would go a long way for me. I cook what I can from scratch; I basically buy a couple of proteins and build a meal around them.

I'm hoping I can get enough together to make a large meal to feed myself over the next few days, and I have profound gratitude to anybody who could help make it happen.

My venmo/paypal is @ktkatte

i have a cashtag i can provide in DMs

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This just sets them up for deportation upon a second arrest because

Federal law requires noncitizens to carry proof of their lawful status.

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