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How a Legal Powerhouse Took on Trump, Then Rolled Over
How a Legal
Powerhouse
Took on Trump,
Then Rolled Over
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Aug 3, 2026 10:38 AM CDT

How a Legal Powerhouse Took on Trump, Then Rolled Over

Law firm Paul Weiss went from years of progressive victories to giving him free legal work

(Newser) - One of New York's most storied law firms, long known for taking on President Trump, has now become a case study in how corporate ambition can collide with institutional ideals, reports the New York Times . The investigation traces how Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison—once celebrated for civil...

Senate Unanimously Opposes Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon

Democratic senator says she wanted to get both parties on the record

(Newser) - The Senate just told the White House, in unison, to keep its hands off Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence. In a unanimous voice vote Wednesday, senators approved a resolution opposing any presidential pardon or clemency for Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate serving 20 years for sex trafficking-related crimes, the Hill reports....

'Devastating' Findings at Epstein's Former School

Report details decades of sex abuse allegations at Michigan's Interlochen Center for the Arts

(Newser) - A Michigan arts boarding school once linked to Jeffrey Epstein is now confronting a much wider history of abuse. A new, 97-page independent report finds that about 70 former students at the Interlochen Center for the Arts say they were sexually abused by 47 adults connected to the school between...

Sarah Ferguson's Charity Is Gone for Good

Former duchess' organization couldn't recover from Epstein fallout

(Newser) - Sarah Ferguson's short-lived charity has shut its doors for good. Sarah's Trust, founded in 2020 and focused on humanitarian and environmental causes, has been officially removed from the UK charities register, reports the BBC . The move comes after the organization announced in February it would temporarily close as...

Model Scout With Close Epstein Links Found Dead

Daniel Siad arranged for sex offender to meet models

(Newser) - A longtime model scout with deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead outside Paris. Daniel Siad, whose name appears more than 2,000 times in US Justice Department files related to the sex offender, was discovered at his home in the suburb of Colombes on Monday, a Nanterre...

Comedian: My Trump Sex Trafficking Joke Got Cut

Whitney Cummings says the Netflix version of her Mark Twain Prize set was sanitized

(Newser) - Whitney Cummings says the joke she really wanted in the Mark Twain Prize broadcast is the one viewers won't hear. On her Good for You podcast, Cummings said a punchline tying President Trump to "sex traffic"—a nod to his past association with Jeffrey Epstein—was cut...

Review Finds Gates Foundation Wasn't Tied to Epstein Crimes

Outside probe does note Bill Gates, other leaders met with Epstein 30 times from 2011 to 2014

(Newser) - A new review clears the Gates Foundation of playing any role in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, though it comes with notable caveats. Law firm WilmerHale, hired by the $90 billion philanthropy, said it found no sign the foundation knew about or joined in Epstein's criminal activities, and no evidence...

House Dem Launches New Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein

Rep. Jamie Raskin wants to know if late sex offender was an unregistered foreign agent

(Newser) - Jeffrey Epstein's name is resurfacing on Capitol Hill, this time with a national security twist. Rep. Jamie Raskin on Thursday announced a new probe into whether the disgraced financier operated as an unregistered foreign agent for multiple governments, reports CNN . In a Monday letter to the Justice and State...

Epstein Victims Say Blanche Was 'Condescending'

AG nominee admits meeting pushed by Tillis was 'not all cordial'

(Newser) - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche walked into a meeting Thursday with Jeffrey Epstein's victims; he walked out with their pointed opposition to his nomination as permanent AG still intact. The sit-down, pushed by GOP Sen. Thom Tillis as a condition for supporting Blanche's nomination to be attorney general,...

Warren Buffett Talks About Cutting Off Gates Foundation

Says Bill Gates' Epstein association was 'distasteful,' but 'no one bats one thousand'

(Newser) - Billionaire Warren Buffett said Wednesday that his decision to cut the Gates Foundation out of his charitable giving is more about believing his three kids are ready to handle giving away his entire fortune than it is about Bill Gates ' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett told...

Goldman's Former Top Lawyer Says Epstein Duped Her

Ruemmler tells House panel that he was a 'masterful liar'

(Newser) - Goldman Sachs' former top lawyer says she now sees Jeffrey Epstein as something she missed: "a masterful liar" who used her to burnish his image. In closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Kathryn Ruemmler, White House counsel to Barack Obama, said that during the years she knew him,...

Amid Epstein Scrutiny, Buffett Breaks a Promise to Bill Gates

Billionaire chooses not to donate to Gates Foundation after 20 years

(Newser) - Warren Buffett just rewrote one of philanthropy's biggest relationships. The 95-year-old Berkshire Hathaway chief has halted giving to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ending nearly 20 years of major donations after fresh scrutiny of Bill Gates' past ties to Jeffrey Epstein . In his latest annual pledge, Buffett said...

New Mexico AG Wants to Know Where Epstein Records Are

Investigators looking into late sex offender's Zorro Ranch says delay hampers justice for survivors

(Newser) - New Mexico's top prosecutor says federal officials are slow-walking key Jeffrey Epstein files, and it may be costing the state its chance to build a case. In a sharply worded June 30 letter released on Thursday, Attorney General Raul Torrez accused the Justice Department of blocking access to unredacted...

Epstein Survivors: Aide Knows More Than She's Letting On

6 victims tell CNN that Lesley Groff met them, handled their passports, handed over cash

(Newser) - Jeffrey Epstein's former assistant is being accused of more than just looking the other way. Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee in June that she never met the young women who gave Epstein "massages," never knew their ages, never handled their passports, never paid them, and...

Michael Cohen on Making Up With Trump: The Left Got 'Feral'

Ex-Trump fixer says reconciliation with president came about over shared sense of 'betrayal'

(Newser) - Michael Cohen now describes himself as back in President Trump's corner, after years spent trying to help bring him down. In a Friday interview with New York's 77 WABC (where he apparently just landed a new job), Trump's former so-called fixer and star witness in his criminal...

Andrew's Pizza Alibi Is Fizzling
Andrew's Pizza Alibi
Is Fizzling
Jul 6, 2026 10:03 AM CDT

Andrew's Pizza Alibi Is Fizzling

Former prince's years-old claim to refute Virginia Giuffre has no evidence to support it

(Newser) - It may be an odd footnote to years-old interview, but it's relevant today as former Prince Andrew continues to fend off accusations. As the BBC explains, Mountbatten-Windsor gave a famous 2019 interview in which he claimed to have been at a Pizza Express restaurant with his daughter on the...

DOJ Filing Opposes Unredacting Epstein Files

Blanche says he'd brief judge in private

(Newser) - The Justice Department argued this week that the public has seen enough of its Jeffrey Epstein files for now. In a court filing late Thursday, the DOJ argued it has "adequately complied" with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and should not be forced to unredact more material involving the...

Gates on Epstein: Looks Like He Was Brainstorming Blackmail

House Oversight Committee releases June 10 transcript

(Newser) - The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a transcript of its closed-door June 10 session with Bill Gates as part of its probe into Jeffrey Epstein. The Times reports Gates detailed three extramarital affairs he had, and said that Epstein learned of two of them after Gates had cut off...

Vance Spars With The View's Anti-Trump Hosts

Vice president defends Trump record, sparring with liberal co-hosts

(Newser) - JD Vance picked a notably unsympathetic stop on his book tour Tuesday, sitting down with the mostly anti-Trump hosts of ABC's The View as he promotes his new memoir and eyes a 2028 presidential run, CNN reports. The vice president fielded questions on everything from Jeffrey Epstein to inflation...

Norway Crown Prince's Stepson Sentenced to 4 Years for Rape

Conviction follows a sensational 7-week trial that exposed drug abuse and violence

(Newser) - An Oslo court on Monday found Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit's son, Marius Borg Høiby, guilty of 34 offenses and sentenced the 29-year-old to four years in prison. The charges include two counts of rape, domestic violence, serious bodily harm, abuse in close relationships, physical assault, threats, six...

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