## A vocal Jeffrey Epstein accuser is urging judges to unseal his court records

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NEW YORK (AP) — One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ‘s most vocal accusers urged judges on Wednesday to grant the Justice Department’s request to unseal records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”.

Farmer and other victims fought for the passage of the law, known as the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The attorney was critical of the government for failing to prosecute anyone else in Epstein and Maxwell’s orbit.

In a court filing Wednesday, Maxwell’s lawyer again said that she is preparing a habeas petition in a bid to overturn her conviction.

The lawyer, David Markus, first mentioned the habeas petition in court papers in August as she fought the Justice Department’s initial bid to have her case records unsealed.

Engelmayer, who’s weighing whether to release records from Maxwell’s case, gave her and victims until Wednesday to respond. »

### House Republicans join with AOC and use Epstein files playbook to force a vote on stock trading ban: ‘Hell’s frozen over’

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A group of renegade House Republicans and Democrats deployed the same procedural trick used to force a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files to wrangle a vote on a measure to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

open image in gallery Legislation to ban stock trading for members of Congress languished under former speaker Nancy Pelosi.

That led to Trump raging against the bill and Hawley eventually having to smooth things out with the president. »

### Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say

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Hegseth declined to sit for an interview with the Pentagon’s inspector general but provided a written statement, that person said. »

### Afghanistan’s Taliban makes 13-year-old boy execute convicted murderer in stadium spectacle attended by 80,000

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The convicted murderer, called Mangal, and two others had been found guilty of killing 13 members of the teenager’s family, including several children and women.

open image in gallery A Taliban policeman looks on as a crowd heads toward the stadium to witness the execution ( AP ).

During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the Taliban regularly carried out public executions, floggings and stonings. »

### Belgium Opposes Seizing Russian Assets, Says Moscow’s Defeat Is “a Fairy Tale” — UNITED24 Media

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He said that for this reason, frozen Russian assets will ultimately need to be returned to the Kremlin once the Russia’s war against Ukraine ends.

The prime minister said Belgium is under “enormous pressure” regarding the debate over whether Russian sovereign funds should be seized and transferred to Ukraine.

EU officials suspect that Belgium has been keeping the revenues generated from these assets for itself rather than transferring them to Ukraine. »

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