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Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - 10 min read Jeffrey Epstein had a message he wanted to get to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was June 2018 – about a year after Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin had suddenly died . Churkin had been someone Epstein met with regularly in New York, according to new documents released by the Department of Justice, and Epstein had even offered to help Churkin's son , Maxim, get a job ...

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez defeated her Republican opponent by double digits in the special election Saturday night for a state House seat in a district President Trump won by 13 points in 2024. Martinez won 62% of the vote compared to 38% for her Republican opponent, Brad Daigle, according to unofficial results from the The special election was held after its former state representative, a ...

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he's stepping down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff. Lewis announced his departure in a two-paragraph email to the newspaper's staff, saying that after two years of transformation, "now is the right time for me to step aside." The Post's chief financial officer, Jeff D'Onofrio, was ...

Sunday, Feb 8th, 2026 - The online telehealth company pulls the plug on its compound version of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy drug in the wake of FDA commissioner's warning BY Hims & Hers scrapped plans Saturday to sell a $49 knockoff of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy weight-loss pill, one day after the online telehealth company was threatened with legal action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The surprise announcement derails the introduction of ...

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 - Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump said 'of course' he condemns the racist parts of the video, but would not apologize for sharing it President Donald Trump has refused to apologize for a video shared on his Truth Social account— which was later deleted — that included a racist image depicting ...

Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 - The Department of Defense will also review partnerships with other universities. Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon would end its academic partnership with Harvard University over what he called a "woke" institution that is not welcoming to the U.S. military. In a posted on Friday to X, Hegseth said the Department of Defense would end its partnership and work with the ...