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U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announces charges against Jeffery Epstein on July 8, 2019 in New York City. Epstein was charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.

Florida is releasing Jeffrey Epstein's grand jury report

6:24pm February 29, 2024

by Greg Allen

Jeffrey Epstein was a wealthy financier, who was charged with paying dozens of girls over many years for sex. He died in a jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

This photo illustration shows national guardsman Jack Teixeira reflected in an image of the Pentagon.

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Jack Teixeira expected to plead guilty in documents leak case

6:15pm February 29, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

The request comes almost a year after Teixeira was arrested and charged with the illegal retention and transmission of national defense information. He originally pleaded not guilty to the charges.

New York state prosecutors are trying to stop JBS from making "fraudulent and illegal" marketing claims about its climate efforts.

New York sues beef producer JBS for 'fraudulent' marketing around climate change

5:58pm February 29, 2024

by Michael Copley

New York state Attorney General Letitia James said the food company is misleading the public about its efforts to cut its climate pollution.

President Biden walks with Jason Owens, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, in Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 29.

Biden and Trump were both at the border today, staking out ground on a key 2024 issue

5:56pm February 29, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden is trying to go on the offensive on migration, an issue that is a big liability this year. He visited the Texas border on the same day as former President Donald Trump.

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark claps during the second half of a game against Minnesota on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

Iowa basketball phenom Caitlin Clark plans to forgo next season and enter WNBA Draft

5:31pm February 29, 2024

by The Associated Press

Caitlin Clark, who is on the verge of becoming the all-time NCAA scoring leader in college basketball, announced that she will leave the Hawkeyes after this season and turn pro.

Hundreds gather for a protest rally in support of in vitro fertilization legislation on Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala.

Alabama Legislature moves to protect IVF services after state court ruling

4:59pm February 29, 2024

by The Associated Press

Alabama lawmakers rushed to protect in vitro fertilization services after fertility clinics shut down in the wake of a ruling that frozen embryos are children under the state wrongful death law.

Relatives of Amal Hassan al-Durr, a 5-year-old girl, lay her body to rest at the cemetery in Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon, on Feb. 22. She lost her life during an Israeli attack. In recent weeks, Israel has intensified its airstrikes, penetrating deeper into Lebanon.

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Relatives in Lebanon mourn victims of Israeli strikes, including a 5-year-old girl

4:45pm February 29, 2024

by Diego Ibarra Sánchez

Photographer Diego Ibarra Sánchez accompanied mourners in southern Lebanon after Israel stepped up airstrikes that claimed the lives of civilians and Hezbollah fighters.

Palestinians pray over bodies of people killed in an Israeli bombardment, brought from the Shifa hospital, before burying them in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 22.

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Gaza's death toll now exceeds 30,000. Here's why it's an incomplete count

3:36pm February 29, 2024

by Aya Batrawy

Gaza's health ministry announced Thursday that 30,035 Palestinians have been killed in the war. A close look at how the ministry counts those killed reveals a system buckling under the weight of war.

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Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike at the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza on Thursday.

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Scores killed trying to get food from an aid convoy during a chaotic scene in Gaza

2:17pm February 29, 2024

by The Associated Press

Health officials in Gaza say over 100 are dead after Israeli troops fired on a crowd that was trying to pull food from the convoy. Israeli officials said the crowd had approached in a threatening way.

Tracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala. Supreme Court

1:31pm February 29, 2024

by Terry Gross

Bradley Onishi is a former Christian nationalist who's now a professor of religion and the author of Preparing for War, a critique of the movement and its impact on American democracy.

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