Repeat Criminal Illegal Charged with Stabbing Young Woman to Death at Bus Stop

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The man accused of being behind the fatal stabbing of a 41-year-old woman at a bus stop in Fairfax County, Virginia, was charged with second-degree murder.

In a press release from the Fairfax County Police Department, it was revealed that on Monday night, around 7:16 p.m., officers “responded to Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive in Hybla Valley for a death investigation.”

Police officers discovered Stephanie Minter “in the bus stop shelter with multiple stab wounds to the upper body,” and after attempting to perform “life-saving measures until relieved by Fairfax County Fire and Rescue personnel,” Minter was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives reportedly identified Abdul Jalloh, 32, through video footage and interviews as being “the last person seen with Minter,” according to the press release. Minter and Jalloh reportedly both got off of the bus “at Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive.” . . .

On February 25, Jalloh was found to be “responsible for the fatal stabbing of Minter,” and police officers obtained a warrant, according to the press release. (Read more from “Repeat Criminal Illegal Charged with Stabbing Young Woman to Death at Bus Stop” HERE)

Bill Clinton Says He “Knew Nothing” About Epstein Crimes in Congressional Testimony

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Former President Bill Clinton says he had no knowledge of the crimes committed by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, insisting in congressional testimony that he never witnessed any behavior that raised concerns during the time the two men were acquainted.

In an opening statement submitted to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Clinton said he “had no idea” Epstein was involved in criminal activity and maintained that he would have severed ties immediately had he known.

Clinton wrote that his upbringing in a home affected by domestic abuse made the allegations especially disturbing to him. He said he would never have traveled with Epstein if he had suspected wrongdoing and would have reported him to authorities instead.

“I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn’t see,” Clinton said in the statement, adding that Epstein managed to conceal his crimes from many people for years. Clinton noted that by the time Epstein pleaded guilty to sex-related charges in 2008, he had already ended his association with the financier.

Records and previously released materials show that Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane several times in the early 2000s and that Epstein visited the White House during Clinton’s presidency. Clinton has maintained that these interactions were tied to charitable and diplomatic effort.

Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has also drawn renewed attention in connection with the former president. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s crimes, reportedly told investigators that she had a “very central” role in helping establish the Clinton Global Initiative. Documents indicate she participated in early planning and coordination for the initiative’s first conference.

Records and previously released materials show that Clinton flew on Epstein’s private plane several times in the early 2000s and that Epstein visited the White House during Clinton’s presidency. Clinton has maintained that these interactions were tied to charitable and diplomatic efforts.

Maxwell was also said to have social connections with the Clinton family, including attending the wedding of Chelsea Clinton. In past statements, both Bill and Hillary Clinton have said their interactions with Maxwell were limited.

Clinton’s testimony comes amid ongoing scrutiny surrounding newly released Epstein-related documents, which include photos, flight logs, and correspondence involving prominent public figures. The former president has denied any wrongdoing and reiterated that he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal conduct during the time they were in contact.

Trump Makes Sobering Admission About Iran Negotiations, Talks About Chances of Drawn-Out Middle East War if He Attacks

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President Trump said Friday that he’s “not happy” about the progress of talks with Iran — while telling reporters that “there’s always a risk” that US airstrikes could result in another drawn-out war in the Middle East.

“I’m not happy with the fact that they’re not willing to give us what we have to have. I’m not thrilled with that. We’ll see what happens,” Trump said — one day after Iranian diplomats rebuffed his demands to give up their nuclear program during talks in Geneva.

“We are talking later. We’ll have some additional talks today. But no, I’m not happy with the way they are going.”

Trump insisted that “we haven’t made a final decision” on whether to follow through with threatened strikes following a massive buildup of American naval and air assets within striking distance of Iran.

“We’re not exactly happy with the way they’re negotiating. They cannot have nuclear weapons,” he reiterated.

A reporter then asked Trump if there was “a risk that strikes could turn into a long, drawn-out conflict in the Middle East.” (Read more from “Trump Makes Sobering Admission About Iran Negotiations, Talks About Chances of Drawn-Out Middle East War if He Attacks” HERE)

Trump’s DOJ Still Refusing To Disclose Gov’t Payments To Twitter During Peak Censorship

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President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is continuing to conceal details of payments the government made to Twitter amid its push to censor “misinformation” online.

Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, agreed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) can withhold the FBI’s quarterly payments to Twitter for “legal-process requests” between 2016 to 2023 in a Feb. 4 opinion.

The FBI paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million between October 2019 and February 2021, an email in the “Twitter Files” reported by journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed. The exact purpose of the payment, which took place during peak government pressure on platforms to patrol content about COVID-19, remains unclear.

Judicial Watch sued in October 2023 to obtain records of any payments after the FBI “failed to respond adequately” to their initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking details about the payments in December 2022.

“These records were created as part of serving subpoenas, warrants, and other requests on Twitter to retrieve information that would help the FBI investigate crimes and national-security threats,” Boasberg wrote in his Feb. 4 opinion. “The investigatory activities that gave rise to the documents were thus related to enforcing federal laws and maintaining national security, and there was a rational relationship between those investigations and the Bureau’s law-enforcement duties.” (Read more from “Trump’s DOJ Still Refusing To Disclose Gov’t Payments To Twitter During Peak Censorship” HERE)

55K Pounds of Frozen Blueberries Recalled as FDA Warns of Potentially Life-Threatening Listeria Risk

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More than 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries have been recalled over a potential contamination with listeria – a disease-causing bacteria that can be fatal — according to food safety regulators.

Oregon Potato Company – which sells potatoes, vegetables and frozen fruits – earlier this month issued a recall of 55,689 pounds of its frozen blueberries.

The funky fruit was sent to food manufacturers, retail brands and food service distributors across Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and Canada, according to the US Food & Drug Administration.

On Tuesday, the FDA identified the recall as a Class I situation, meaning “there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”

That risk comes from the blueberries’ potential contamination with listeria – a bacteria that can cause mild symptoms like fever, muscle aches, nausea and vomiting, but in more severe and potentially life-threatening cases can cause convulsions, stiff neck and confusion. (Read more from “55K Pounds of Frozen Blueberries Recalled as FDA Warns of Potentially Life-Threatening Listeria Risk” HERE)

Here’s Everything in the Ellisons’ Massive Media Empire if Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Proceeds

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Larry and David Ellison of Paramount Skydance are poised to control a behemoth media empire if their winning bid for Warner Bros. Discovery gains regulatory approval – adding HBO, CNN and thousands of movie titles to Paramount, CBS and the film rights they already own.

The deal would put HBO Max, its nearly 130 million subscribers and shows like “The Pitt” and “Heated Rivalry” under the same roof as Paramount+, which has 79 million customers and the “Mission: Impossible” and “Star Trek” franchises, alongside recent hits like “1923” and “Landman.”

It’s unclear if the Ellisons intend to fold HBO Max, the country’s fourth-largest streamer, and Paramount+, the fifth, into a single platform — a move like what Netflix had signaled it might pursue, arguing that it would offer customers more bang for the buck.

Another option would be to mimic Disney’s model, which lets customers sign up for Disney+ and Hulu in bundles or à la carte – a more flexible approach that could potentially ease regulatory scrutiny on the Paramount-WBD deal.

“My guess is that they will keep them separate, and that they would create package deals for consumers because what you’re gonna want is a primary buy and then to lock up the secondary buy from consumers,” Derek Reisfield, a former media executive at CBS News and McKinsey, and co-founder of MarketWatch, told The Post. (Read more from “Here’s Everything in the Ellisons’ Massive Media Empire if Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Proceeds” HERE)

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Bill Gates Admits He Had 2 Affairs With Russian Women, Apologizes to Staff Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties

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By New York Post. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has admitted he had two affairs with Russian women while married to his now-ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, and issued a groveling apology for his links with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Gates, 70, told staffers at his foundation on Tuesday that he flew on a private plane with the disgraced financier and spent time with him in the US and abroad, but didn’t participate in any crime, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates said in the town hall meeting. “To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”

Gates first met Epstein in 2011, which was after the financier’s Florida conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, and continued to socialize with him — seemingly ignoring concerns raised by French Gates.

The billionaire has always denied wrongdoing over his Epstein links, but came clean about alleged affairs during his time with French Gates, who filed for divorce in 2021, ending their 27-year marriage. (Read more from “Bill Gates Admits He Had 2 Affairs With Russian Women, Apologizes to Staff Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties” HERE)

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Inside Bill Gates’ sordid affair with Russian Mila Antonova and the dark links to Epstein

By New York Post. One of two Russian women Bill Gates admits having affairs with during his 27-year marriage was helped financially by Jeffrey Epstein — who used the sordid secret to try to blackmail the billionaire Microsoft co-founder.

Gates’ surprising mea culpa Tuesday was a questionable attempt to cleanse his image over his friendship with Epstein, which ex-wife Melinda French Gates largely blames for destroying their marriage.

“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player … and one with a Russian nuclear physicist,” the billionaire told staff at a town hall for his Gates Foundation, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Gates admitted the affairs while maintaining that he did nothing “illicit” with his now-dead pedophile pal.

However, rumors of the fling with the bridge player, Mila Antonova, first emerged over her own ties to Epstein — ones featured heavily in damning exchanges in the Epstein files. (Read more from “Inside Bill Gates’ sordid affair with Russian Mila Antonova and the dark links to Epstein” HERE)

‘Elite’ Ex-US Air Force Fighter Jet Pilot Charged With Providing Defense Services to the Chinese Military

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An “elite” former US Air Force officer and combat pilot was arrested Wednesday over allegations he spent years overseas training Chinese military pilots.

Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., 65, was arrested in Jeffersonville, Ind., and charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).

“The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our Nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said in a statement.

“When US persons – whether military or civilian – provide training to a foreign military, that activity is illegal unless they have a license from the State Department,” Eisenberg added. “The National Security Division will use all tools at its disposal to protect our military advantages and hold to account those who would violate the AECA.”

Brown, who went by the call sign “Runner,” led combat missions, commanded sensitive units, was responsible for nuclear weapons delivery systems and served as a pilot instructor for a variety of aircraft during his 24 years of service in the Air Force, according to the Justice Department. (Read more from “‘Elite’ Ex-US Air Force Fighter Jet Pilot Charged With Providing Defense Services to the Chinese Military” HERE)

Conservative Event Sabotaged With Radical Trans Group Info, Photos Show

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Flyers advertising a conservative speaking event at Gettysburg College were hijacked and altered to show incorrect information intended to “purposefully deceiv[e]” students and prevent them from attending.

The flyers posted by the school’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter to draw attention to an upcoming speech by North Korean defector Yeonmi Park were replicated and reposted on campus with an incorrect date, time, and location, the chapter has informed the Daily Caller News Foundation. The QR code on the original flyer directed prospective attendees to ticket information for the talk. In the fake flyers that code was replaced with one leading to radical trans organization The Trevor Project, a proponent of medical gender transition for minors.

“Yesterday, it was discovered that an individual on campus took one of our flyers, scanned it, digitally modified the date, time, location, and QR code, and then printed the flyer,” Gettysburg YAF told the DCNF. “From our perspective, this was done to detract from attendance at the event by purposefully deceiving viewers. On the modified flyer, the room number was changed to ‘420’ and the event time to ‘February 31st,’ a non-existing date, and that doors open at ‘5pm,’ which is false. The event is actually to take place today, February 25th in CUB 260. Doors will open at 6:30pm.”

The fraudulent flyer retained the YAF chapter’s logo, as well as that of its parent organization, Young America’s Foundation. This use, the Gettysburg YAF chapter says, falsely implies the group supports views on child sex change surgery which it actually opposes.

“Gettysburg YAF believes that any kind of transgender ‘treatments’ offered by doctors is not medicine, but mutilation, and that physicians do a great disservice to their patients by affirming delusion,” the chapter informed the DCNF. (Read more from “Conservative Event Sabotaged With Radical Trans Group Info, Photos Show” HERE)

Ex-Harvard President Resigns Over Close Epstein Ties

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Former Harvard president Larry Summers is resigning from his professorship over his widely reported relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers issued his resignation and will take leave through the rest of the academic year, relinquishing all duties from the university afterwards, a Harvard spokesman confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The former university president and Clinton administration Treasury Secretary also confirmed the resignation in a statement to The Harvard Crimson on Wednesday.

Emails released by Congress show Summers remained in close contact with Epstein even after his 2008 guilty plea for solicitation, and even until his 2019 arrest. Summers co-directs Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, but had already stepped back from teaching after students circulated a video of him apologizing for his relationship with Epstein, saying it was “misguided.”

“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” Summers told The Harvard Crimson, adding that the decision to resign was “difficult” but he was “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” (Read more from “Ex-Harvard President Resigns Over Close Epstein Ties” HERE)