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Migrants languish in US detention centers amid dire conditions and prolonged waits 02/09/2026 12:06am • MIAMI (AP) — Felipe Hernandez Espinosa spent 45 days at “ Alligator Alcatraz,” an immigration holding center in Florida where detainees have reported worms in their food, toilets that don't flush and overflowing sewage. Mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere. For the past five months, th The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/08/2026 12:58pm • The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death’s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the fed FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show 02/08/2026 11:43am • NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused Takeaways from what the Epstein files show about the FBI investigation of possible sex trafficking 02/08/2026 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI collected ample proof that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows. Videos and photos seized Armchair detectives flood social media as search for Savannah Guthrie’s missing mom continues 02/07/2026 09:00am • Moments after the news broke about the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, the floodgates opened on social media. Influencers relayed the timeline from the hours after Nancy Guthrie was last seen and posted photos of the blood found on her front porch that later Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted 02/07/2026 08:31am • LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States. The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s politica Ex-MLB player Yasiel Puig found guilty of obstruction and lying to federal officials 02/07/2026 06:37am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has found former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to federal officials investigating an illegal gambling operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. The verdict came after a multiweek trial that featured testimony fro The Latest: Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash 02/06/2026 07:13pm • President Donald Trump’s social media post featuring a video about election conspiracy theories and a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle has been deleted. The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and bl Government must reach agreement on right to counsel for people at Minnesota ICE facility, judge says 02/06/2026 06:57pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for the federal government have until next Thursday to reach an agreement with human rights lawyers who are seeking to ensure the right to counsel for people detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota, a judge said Friday. Advocates said p Justice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files 02/06/2026 06:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice will allow members of Congress to review unredacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein starting on Monday, according to a letter that was sent to lawmakers. The letter obtained by The Associated Press says that lawmakers will be able to Uber found liable in sexual assault case and ordered to pay $8.5 million 02/06/2026 04:35pm • A federal jury this week found Uber to be legally responsible in a 2023 case of sexual assault — ordering the rideshare giant to pay $8.5 million to a woman who said one of its drivers raped her during a trip using the platform. The verdict, reached Thursday in Arizona, follows years of criticism Accused militant is taken into custody in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack 02/06/2026 03:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An alleged participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been taken into custody to face prosecution for the rampage that killed four Americans and emerged as a divisive political issue, the Justice Department said Friday. Zubayar Al-Bakoush, Norwegian crown princess apologizes to royals and all 'disappointed' by her Epstein contacts 02/06/2026 12:20pm • OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norway’s crown princess apologized on Friday for the situation she has put the royal family in as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, part of a broader apology for all those she has “disappointed.” Crown Princess Mette-Marit’ Deal is signed in Beirut to transfer 300 Syrian prisoners in Lebanon to their home country 02/06/2026 06:30am • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and Syria signed an agreement Friday to transfer more than 300 Syrians from Lebanese prisons to continue serving their sentences in their home country, a step that will likely help improve strained relations between the two neighbors. The signing came a week after Lebanon’s The Latest: Democrats demand ‘dramatic changes’ for ICE 02/05/2026 07:38pm • Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Tru