Prince Andrew ‘Hosted’ Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein at Royal Lodge — And the Monarchy Is Under Fresh Fire

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New reporting by the BBC, confirmed by the Irish Times, reveals that Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at his private residence, Royal Lodge (on the grounds of Windsor Castle) in 2006 — just two months after the United States had issued an arrest warrant for Epstein on charges of sexual assault of a minor.

Earlier accounts had indicated the trio visited Windsor Castle in connection with Prince Andrew’s daughter Princess Beatrice’s 18th-birthday masked ball, but it had not been publicly confirmed that they were received at Andrew’s private home. The BBC was able to match patio walls and trees in archival photographs of Epstein and Weinstein at the event to image references of Royal Lodge’s garden.

The 2006 visit occurred at a highly controversial moment: Epstein was already a fugitive subject of U.S. legal proceedings. To host him — and Maxwell and Weinstein — at a royal family-member’s private residence raises fresh questions about the extent of Andrew’s connection to Epstein and whether the royal establishment was fully aware of the risks. The revelations come as part of a broader wave of scrutiny: in October 2025 Andrew relinquished his title of Duke of York and other honors amid the ongoing fallout from Epstein-related allegations.

Andrew had previously stepped back from public royal duties in 2019 after the disastrous BBC Newsnight interview about his relationship with Epstein and his denials of any wrongdoing in connection with Virginia Giuffre’s allegations. In 2022 he settled a U.S. civil lawsuit brought by Giuffre, though without admitting liability.

The latest revelations illuminate a deeper level of association: hosting the convicted film-producer Weinstein alongside Epstein and Maxwell at a private royal residence suggests a level of social access that goes beyond mere acquaintance. Some media reports say a witness recalled seeing Epstein and Weinstein in the back garden of Royal Lodge while attending the pre-party event for Beatrice’s celebration.

As of late October 2025, Andrew is reportedly in advanced talks with senior aides of his brother, King Charles III, about vacating Royal Lodge. The property is a 30-room mansion in Windsor Great Park that Andrew has occupied under a long-term lease at a nominal “peppercorn” rent. Critics now say that arrangement was unfair to the public and raises questions about the Crown Estate’s governance.

Additionally, the publication of Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl in October added new energy to calls for transparency. In it, she alleged that Andrew had sexual encounters with her when she was 17 and trafficked by Epstein — allegations he continues to deny.

Observers say this episode underscores deeper problems: the royal family’s handling of the Epstein scandal has long been criticized for lack of accountability and for the perception of privilege shielding powerful figures from the consequences of serious allegations. Andrew’s continued use of a nearly rent-free estate and the lack of clarity on his post-royal financial arrangements have drawn increasing public and parliamentary scrutiny. His loss of titles, while symbolically significant, leaves open questions about who will hold him to account.

The confirmation that Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge adds a new layer of detail to an already explosive scandal.

Huh?! Helicopter AND Jet from the Same Aircraft Carrier Go Down Minutes Apart in the South China Sea

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By ABC News. A Navy helicopter and a fighter jet, both conducting routine operations from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, went down in the South China Sea about 30 minutes apart Sunday, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said in a statement.

The U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter went down at about 2:45 p.m. local time. All three crew members were safely recovered, the Navy said.

“Following the incident, separately, at 3:15 p.m., an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter assigned to the ‘Fighting Redcocks’ of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 22 also went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from Nimitz.”

Both crew members ejected and were also safely recovered, the Navy said.

“All personnel involved are safe and in stable condition. The cause of both incidents is currently under investigation,” the U.S. Pacific Fleet said in the statement. (Read more from “Huh?! Helicopter AND Jet from the Same Aircraft Carrier Go Down Minutes Apart in the South China Sea” HERE)

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5 crew members rescued after Navy helicopter, fighter jet go down in South China Sea in separate incidents

By NBC News. Five crew members were rescued after a Navy Seahawk helicopter and a Super Hornet fighter jet went down in the South China Sea a half-hour apart in separate incidents Sunday, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.

In one incident, an MH-60R helicopter assigned to the “Battle Cats” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 went down at 2:45 p.m. local time, the Pacific Fleet said on Facebook. The squadron is based at Naval Air Station North Island on the Coronado peninsula in San Diego.

Search-and-rescue teams were deployed and safely recovered all three crew members on the helicopter, the Pacific Fleet said.

Separately, an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter assigned to the “Fighting Redcocks” of Strike Fighter Squadron 22 went down at 3:15 p.m., according to the fleet. That squadron is based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in Kings and Fresno counties, California.

Both crew members “successfully ejected” and were also rescued, the Pacific Fleet said. (Read more from “5 crew members rescued after Navy helicopter, fighter jet go down in South China Sea in separate incidents” HERE)

House Committee Uncovers Staggering Autopen Impropriety in Biden’s final days, wants to Invalidate Pardons to Fauci, Milley, Others

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The US Department of Justice is being asked to review every single executive action taken by the Biden administration following a months-long inquiry by top investigators in the US House of Representatives.

A lengthy report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee — led by Republican Chairman James Comer — describes the deeply ‘flawed process’, akin to a ‘presidential pardon game of telephone’ used in the Biden White House.

Among the most controversial measures taken via autopen by the former president were the pardons of Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members of Congress who served on the January 6th committee. Biden also pardoned members of his family – James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden – on his last full day in office.

The House Committee, led by Comer, is effectively asking the Department of Justice to invalidate Biden’s actions, including some of his most controversial pardons – a move that would be without precedent. . . 

Joe Biden’s only hand-signed pardon during his final months in office was also his most controversial – his son, Hunter. (Read more from “House Committee Uncovers Staggering Autopen Impropriety in Biden’s final days, wants to Invalidate Pardons to Fauci, Milley, Others” HERE)

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‘The Future of Christianity Is Already Here’: Gospel Spreading at an ‘Explosive’ Rate in Africa

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Evangelicalism is growing around the world but nowhere more so than in Africa where the increase has been “explosive”, says researcher Jason Mandryk.

By contrast, growth in Western nations remains “modest”, he told the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) on the first day of its World General Assembly taking place in Seoul this week.

In a detailed presentation tracking growth, delegates heard how in 1960, evangelicals accounted for only 8% of the global body of Christ. Today it stands at over 25%, said Mandryk, a Christian researcher with Operation World. The total number of evangelicals worldwide, he estimates, sits between 600 million and 650 million.

“We are many …, we are increasing,” he said, explaining that the growth is down to a combination of factors, including natural reproduction, evangelism, and the “evangelicalisation” of Christians who were not previously evangelical.

Around 70% of Christians in general, many of them evangelicals, live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, he said. In Africa specifically, this growth has gone hand in hand with “rapid urbanisation”, with many rural Christians migrating to cities. (Read more from “‘The Future of Christianity Is Already Here’: Gospel Spreading at an ‘Explosive’ Rate in Africa” HERE)

Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Trans Lover Lance Twiggs Goes Missing 6 Weeks After Political Assassination

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The transgender lover of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer has seemingly vanished from his hometown six weeks after the political assassination that shook the country.

Lance Twiggs, 22, has been on the down-low since his boyfriend Tyler Robinson allegedly shot the Turning Point USA co-founder dead and then sent Twiggs a string of text messages confessing to the slaying, according to feds. . .

Authorities previously said that he is cooperating with authorities, but Twiggs has refused to speak with media while Robinson awaits trial in a Salt Lake City jail cell. . .

It is unclear whether Twiggs is living with his parents or is even still in St. George — four hours from Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk was killed.

Twiggs’ car, an Inifinii FX35, is now parked in his parents’ driveway.

Jesse Riley, who lives just a few houses down from Twiggs’ and Robinson’s apartment, said he couldn’t recall seeing any activity from the property since Robinson, also 22, turned himself over to the cops. (Read more from “Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Trans Lover Lance Twiggs Goes Missing 6 Weeks After Political Assassination” HERE)

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Trump Admin Moves to Bar States From Wiping Medical Debt Off Credit Reports

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The Trump administration is moving to undercut state-level efforts to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports, just as millions across the country are facing massive healthcare premium increases stemming from congressional Republicans’ refusal to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.

On Tuesday, according to reporting by The Lever and Bloomberg Law, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will publish a nonbinding interpretive rule arguing that federal statute “generally preempts state laws that touch on areas of credit reporting.”

The guidance aligns with views expressed by a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas who, earlier this year, vacated a Biden-era CFPB rule that would have prohibited the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports. The Trump administration, which has repeatedly violated court orders, is complying with the decision.

Medical debt is a growing crisis in the United States: Roughly 14 million adults owe more than $1,000 in medical debt, and an estimated 20% of Americans have medical debt on their credit reports.

Supporters of removing medical debt from credit reports argue it is not a reliable measure of creditworthiness. The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at UC Berkeley notes that “medical debt often reflects the simple misfortune of getting sick unexpectedly and having to face a medical system that is rife with insurance stonewalling, delay, and mistakes.” (Read more from “Trump Admin Moves to Bar States From Wiping Medical Debt Off Credit Reports” HERE)

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Bill Gates Backflips and Says ‘Climate Change’ No Threat to Humanity After All

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Why are people panicking about the weather? Climate doomer Bill Gates thinks everyone should just calm down. He believes “climate change” is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of humanity as we know it, a 17-page memo released Tuesday by the billionaire reveals.

Gates now thinks scientific innovation will curb any threats — real and perceived — to the planet’s climate and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.

The 70-year-old said in the memo the world’s primary goal should now work to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.

AP reports if given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”

The Microsoft co-founder wrote his 17-page memo – as seen by AP – hoping to have an impact on next month’s U.N. climate change conference in Brazil. (Read more from “Bill Gates Backflips and Says ‘Climate Change’ No Threat to Humanity After All” HERE)

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Report: Gavin Newsom’s Prostitution Shield Law Creates Sex Market Full of 12, 13-Year-Old Girls in Downtown L.A.

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The New York Times has shone a spotlight on the Democrats’ long-ignored “kiddie stroll” sex market on Los Angeles’ Figueroa Street, yet the newspaper downplayed the pimp shield law pushed by a libertarian Democratic legislator, Rep Scott Wiener, and signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“For the 77th Street Division, which covers the northern half of the Figueroa Corridor, prostitution had always been a problem. But in recent years, the officers had seen the magnitude of child sex trafficking explode,” says the article, written by reporter Emily Baumgaertner Nunn.

Gangs that had long sold drugs began to take advantage of Figueroa’s lucrative opportunity. With a dozen girls, one trafficker could easily make $12,000 a night. “Drugs are sold once and gone forever, but girls can be resold indefinitely,” said [police sergeant Alvaro] Navarro, who had been in the division for two decades. Motel owners who noticed the parades of customers but feared the gangs’ retribution kept quiet.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the police handcuff bill after it was pushed by Wiener and his far-left allies, who passed SB357 in 2022.

The newspaper did not mention Newsom or Wiener, or clearly describe the pro-prostitution bill, which was pitched by Wiener as legal support for minorities along with gays and “transgender” people.

@nytimes A 50-block stretch of Los Angeles has become one of the most notorious child sex trafficking corridors in the U.S. Our reporter Emily Baumgaertner Nunn rode along with undercover officers trying to rescue the girls and arrest the traffickers. Video by Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, Christina Shaman, Kassie Bracken, Stephanie Swart, June Kim and Christopher Orr/The New York Times #losangeles #figueroastreet ♬ original sound – The New York Times

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Doc Shows Garland, Wray, And Monaco All Over Corrupt ‘Arctic Frost’

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The fingerprints of top deep-staters in President Joe Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice are all over the launch of the corrupt “Arctic Frost” investigation, according to a document just dropped by Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Just received this doc frm DOJ Proof that Biden Atty General Merrick Garland+ Deputy Atty General Lisa Monaco+ FBI Dir Chris Wray all PERSONALLY APPROVED opening Arctic Frost,” the Iowa Republican wrote Thursday afternoon on X.

“This investigation unleashed unchecked govt power at the highest levels. My oversight will continue,” Grassley added.

The document is initialed by the DOJ’s top generals, unleashing Arctic Frost, the flimsy FBI probe that led to politically conflicted Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election lawfare campaign against President Donald Trump. The political witch hunt aimed to take down the Democrats’ biggest political threat in advance of the 2024 election.

Dated April 4, 2022, the Memorandum for Attorney General Garland from Wray and through Monaco is an urgent request asking Garland to sign off on the FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) opening a full sensitive investigative matter (SIM) into Trump, his campaign, and allies on allegations that they attempted to overthrow the 2020 election. The memo provided very thin detail and basis to open a criminal case that appears to have trampled all over the rights of Republican groups and individuals, including Trump and members of Congress. (Read more from “Doc Shows Garland, Wray, And Monaco All Over Corrupt ‘Arctic Frost’” HERE)

Judge Rules Accused Charlie Kirk Shooter Can Wear Civilian Clothes — But Must Remain Restrained in Court

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A Utah judge has ruled that the man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk may wear civilian clothing in court but must remain restrained during proceedings.

Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of gunning down Kirk, 31, on September 10 while the Turning Point USA cofounder and close ally of former President Donald Trump was speaking to students at Utah Valley University in Orem. Robinson, who later turned himself in, faces aggravated murder and multiple felony charges, with prosecutors pursuing the death penalty.

At a hearing on October 27, Judge Tony Graf ruled that Robinson “shall be dressed as one who is presumed innocent” during all pretrial appearances but denied the defense’s request to remove restraints entirely. Graf acknowledged that Robinson has no prior criminal history and has behaved appropriately while in custody but said the “extraordinarily serious” nature of the case, coupled with heightened public emotion, justified additional precautions.

“The court must balance the presumption of innocence with the need to maintain order and safety,” Graf said in his decision. He ordered the sheriff’s office to use the least restrictive restraints possible and barred the media from photographing or filming the restraints to prevent potential juror bias.

Robinson’s defense team had argued that appearing in shackles or inmate attire could prejudice potential jurors and violate his right to a fair trial. They cited precedent from the Bryan Kohberger case — the convicted murderer of four University of Idaho students — where the defendant was temporarily allowed to appear in civilian clothes.

Prosecutors, however, opposed Robinson’s motion, citing security details that have not been made public due to the high-profile nature of the case. The matter was discussed in a closed-door hearing on October 24.

The Utah County Sheriff’s Office had suggested Robinson could appear remotely for some noncritical hearings to minimize concerns over public perception. Defense attorneys objected, arguing that virtual appearances would infringe on Robinson’s constitutional rights and limit his ability to communicate with his legal team.

Both the prosecution and defense agreed that media coverage should be limited, particularly photo and video recordings, to avoid further prejudicing the jury pool. Robinson’s attorneys said extensive pretrial coverage had already “relentlessly focused on Mr. Robinson’s demeanor and appearance” and risked undermining his right to an impartial trial.

Judge Graf also ruled in favor of a defense motion challenging a joint filing made by the sheriff’s office and prosecutors, calling it procedurally improper. However, he declined to issue an immediate ruling on broader questions regarding a media ban or remote hearings.

Graf emphasized that the proceedings will remain open to the public, instructing attorneys from both sides to submit separate motions on those issues.