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Friday October 31st, 2025 evening edition

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Just weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in jail in 2019, banking giant JPMorgan Chase alerted the Trump administration to more than $1 billion in potentially suspicious transactions involving several high-profile U.S. business figures, as well as wire transfers to Russian banks.

open image in gallery Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell (US Department of Justice/PA) ( PA Media ).

Epstein is known to have been close to President Trump and former President Bill Clinton.

The report offered few specifics about the suspicious transactions or why they raised red flags, other than their apparent ties to Epstein.

open image in gallery The report, which JPMorgan filed – and which was released this week among hundreds of pages of previously sealed court records – flagged over 4,700 transactions ( Getty Images ).

The report flagged undisclosed financial activity involving Epstein and Black, his wife, and a family partnership.

According to The Times, the bank also said it regretted its involvement with Epstein but was not aware of his sexual abuse. »

These U.S. National Guards members say they’ll defy order to deploy in Chicago

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Dylan Blaha: As It Happens 6:02 Why U.S. National Guard captain says he'll defy Trump's order to deploy in Chicago.

Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek, a Democratic state legislative candidate in the same district as Blaha, also intends to defy orders to deploy to Chicago.

Refusing a lawful federal order while serving in the National Guard could lead to a court-martial, imprisonment, or a felony-level discharge. »

Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island, a day after she was accidentally abandoned there by the ship’s crew.

Suzanne Rees, a Sydney resident, was on the second day of a cruise circumnavigating Australia when she disembarked the Coral Adventurer last Saturday at Lizard Island.

The ship left the resort island around five hours before reporting her missing late on Saturday, officials said. »

Gay Senate staffer easily completes ICE fitness test that Trump-Noem recruits are failing

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In a video posted to social media, Sorbe, who is gay, completed the same physical fitness test that has stumped a third of new ICE trainees in 12 minutes and 19 seconds.

“MAGA is so desperate to villainize immigrants that they’re willing to try to let anyone become an ICE agent,” he said in the clip.

“I’ve been very frustrated with ICE ever since the Trump administration started escalating immigration enforcement efforts,” Sorbe told The Advocate. »