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Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz were mentioned in court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Many more documents containing names of people associated with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein are expected to be released in a New York court in coming days.

More than 150 names of people connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are contained in New York federal court documents that will be made public.

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has kept his distance from former President Donald Trump, depriving his 2024 campaign of a key economic advisor.

Deadly blasts in southern Iran have added to growing international concerns about the prospect of a broader Middle East conflict.

The killing of a senior Hamas leader in Lebanon's capital of Beirut has sparked fears that the war in Gaza could spread far beyond the Palestinian enclave.

Writer E. Jean Carroll has said Donald Trump raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s. The former president denies her allegation.

The White House has said it expects Israel to take every possible measure to reduce civilian deaths in Gaza.

Harvard President Claudine Gay has been under fire for weeks over claims of plagiarism and for her handling of the controversy over the war on Gaza by Israel.

Democrats have voiced concerns about the third-party ticket plan, saying it could derail President Joe Biden's reelection push and instead benefit Donald Trump.

There were high hopes that a Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023 would change the dial in the war against Russia. It didn't, and 2024 could be even harder.

With the eyes of the world on the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, an unprecedented number of potentially "catastrophic" conflicts are going under the radar, analysts have warned.

Michigan's decision contrasts a Colorado ruling earlier in December, which will bar Trump from the state's 2024 ballot.

Security at the National Archives in Washington told abortion opponents to remove or hide clothing with "pro-life" messages during a January visit.

Over 4,000 Ukrainians are still being held as prisoners of war in Russia and many families have not heard from their loved ones in one and a half years.

Yemen's Houthis have made clear their intention of targeting Israeli ships and any ships headed to or from Israel, in retaliation for the country's war in Gaza.

A New Mexico Wells Fargo branch voted to unionize, drawing praise from lawmakers.

Rudy Giuliani served as the lead campaign lawyer for Donald Trump on the heels of Trump's 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.

Rolf Schnellmann helped conceal the income of U.S. taxpayer clients in offshore accounts in Switzerland, according to the New York federal prosecutors.