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Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - Valeria Chomsky says Epstein had deceived them and they were 'careless' not to thoroughly research his background Noam Chomsky and his wife, Valeria, made a "grave mistake" and were "careless" not to thoroughly research the background of Jeffrey Epstein , Valeria Chomsky said in a lengthy statement on Saturday, adding also that Epstein had deceived them. The relationship between Noam Chomsky, the 97-year-old ...

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - Politics 'The Trust Has Been Absolutely Destroyed' Some state election officials say they no longer trust their federal partners. , , , and Joseph Prezioso / AFP / Getty February 8, 2026, 5:14 PM ET Save T he email that federal law enforcement sent this week to the nation's top election administrators would have been routine just a few years ago. "Your election partners," the Tuesday missive from FBI Election ...

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff resigned on Sunday  over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington despite links to US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself," Morgan ...

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - Washington — A whistleblower complaint containing allegations related to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard includes highly-classified details about a National Security Agency intercept of a call between two foreign nationals who discussed a person close to President Trump, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an attorney for the whistleblower confirmed to CBS News.  Last week, ...

Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 - After first dismissing uproar over depiction of Obamas as apes, White House then said it was erroneously posted by staffer Donald Trump said on Friday he made the call to post a now-deleted video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes but deflected blame for the move, causing new speculation in his orbit about whether the blame lay with the president or his aide Natalie Harp. The brief clip, shared late ...

Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 - Pentagon ends academic ties with Harvard over its 'woke ideology' The US Department of Defense is severing its academic connections to Harvard University, with Secretary Pete Hegseth accusing the oldest US university of being a centre of "hate-America activism". In a video posted on X, Hegseth announced the Pentagon would end graduate-level military training, fellowships and certificate programmes with the Ivy ...