Ghislaine Maxwell met for a second straight day with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a closed-door session, as the Trump administration faces mounting demands to release additional files tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida federal prison, was accompanied by her attorney, David Markus, during the discussions in Tallahassee.
Democrat Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell charged nearly $300,000 worth of taxpayer dollars on worldwide travel, according to a report from the Boston Herald.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned the United Kingdom’s recent decision to outlaw activist group Palestine Action, calling it a “disturbing” misuse of counter-terrorism law. The ban, enacted under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000, took effect earlier this month after group members caused £7 million in damages by vandalizing aircraft at an air force base in southern England.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Democratic Mayor Tim Keller signed an executive order to move against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies.
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, has called for the release of the files linked to Jeffrey Epstein—after safeguarding the identities of Epstein’s victims. Speaking as a father of three and a former U.S. Army Apache pilot, Hunt was blunt: “If anybody harmed my children in that manner, I would rip out their thorax and feed it to them.”
Five Planned Parenthood facilities in Northern California and the Central Coast are closing following the enactment of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which blocks Medicaid funding from going to organizations that provide abortions. The legislation, signed earlier this month, directly bars any federal Medicaid dollars from being used for services at abortion-performing entities.
A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reported Hungary to the court’s oversight committee after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Budapest in April and departed without being detained. The judges criticized Hungary’s refusal to arrest Netanyahu, calling the decision a violation of the country’s obligations under the court’s framework.
