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Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women for sex while on work release, women say in lawsuits

Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Jeffrey Epstein had sex with women who were trafficked to his Florida office and home while he was on work release from jail in 2009, two of those women alleged in new federal court complaints.It’s among the allegations against the deceased financier laid out in three separate lawsuits filed against Epstein’s estate and his network of companies, which "were designated to fulfill different roles in recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, obtaining, maintaining, patronizing, or soliciting by any means, young females, including ...

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Trump administration to roll out plan for longer-term detention of migrant families

Photos597/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration is expected to announce, as early as Wednesday, that it's moving ahead with new rules that would allow for the longer term detention of families traveling with children across the U.S.-Mexico border, according to two government officials familiar with the plan.The government's detention of children has been limited to less than 20 days under a court settlement known as the Flores Settlement Agreement. President Donald Trump and Republicans have repeatedly blamed the 20-day limit for encouraging undocumented migrants from arriving ...

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Russia refuses to share data after nuclear explosion, alarming monitors, US officials

MaxOzerov/iStock(MOSCOW) -- A senior Russian official said the country did not have to share with international monitors any data about a recent nuclear blast that spiked radiation levels in a northern region of the country.The international monitor at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization reported Monday that several radiation detection sites in Russia went silent after the accident at a military test facility on Aug. 8. The CTBTO monitors radiation around the world to ensure compliance with the treaty.Four stations went down in the days after ...

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A traveler left a pet snake behind at a TSA checkpoint

TSA(NEW YORK) -- It wasn't quite "Snakes on a Plane."A 15-inch thin, black snake with a yellow band around its neck was discovered Monday night on the floor of a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint in Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport by a "youngster," according to the TSA. A TSA officer then contained the ring-necked snake in one of the gray checkpoint bins to prevent it from escaping. TSA said the checkpoint lane was forced to close temporarily and Port Authority Police were called ...

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Florida man arrested for having Trump-shaped ecstasy pills

Pinellas County Sheriffs Office(CLEARWATER, Fla.) -- A Florida man was arrested after he was caught with five ecstasy pills that were the color orange and in the shape of President Trump's face, police said.Brendan Dolan-King, 23, had the ecstasy pills hidden inside his air vent at his home in the city of Clearwater, according to an arrest report from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.They were labeled “Trump NL," according to the report.A spokesman for the Clearwater Police Department told ABC News that officers occasionally find ...

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Alex Rodriguez uses a fake Instagram or 'burner' account to follow his daughters

bigtunaonline/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Um, we have a feeling this won't go over so well at home.While on the "Chicks in the Office" podcast this week, Alex Rodriguez dropped a bombshell that his two daughters, Natasha and Ella, are sure to roast him for at home.He not only revealed that his daughters screen what he posts on Instagram but that he uses a "burner," or fake Instagram account, to follow their activity. He said they won't let him follow them or see what they post."I have ...

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Conditions at government shelters put migrant kids 'at risk': Watchdog

jose carlos macouzet espinosa/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A non-profit group contracted by the government to house unaccompanied migrant kids kept conditions at multiple facilities that were at times unsafe and unsanitary, federal inspectors found, according to an inspector general report released Tuesday.At two housing centers, children had easy access to keys for the vehicles used by the government contractor. At another, unlocked areas gave the kids access to a pressure washer, a weeding machine and a gas container. Three facilities were found not to have carbon monoxide ...

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