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The House Republican Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the estate of Jeffrey Epstein to obtain certain documents, as well as the now infamous « birthday book » prepared by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

The House Oversight Committee has deepened its probe into the federal government’s investigation of the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, issuing a subpoena to his estate for an array of documents.

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-08-26T00:01:01.530735457Z

And according to The Wall Street Journal, the book contains a mysterious message from Trump…

According to CNN, a letter from Republican Chairman James Comer to Epstein’s estate indicates that, according to several reports, the estate is in possession of the famous « birthday book ».

This book, prepared by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s birthday in January 2003, is said to contain messages from several of his close friends and family.

The committee is seeking, among other things, in this subpoena documents such as Epstein’s will, financial records and confidentiality agreements he signed.

It is also asking for any documents or records that could reasonably be interpreted as a potential list of clients involved…

The committee’s request comes after the Trump administration handed over the Epstein files, but several members of a bipartisan committee, eager to make the records public, say they essentially contain only documents already available and would represent only about 1% of what the government actually holds.

Part of this committee, as well as several observers, accuse the administration of withholding information, especially since we learned a few weeks ago that a campaign to black out and trace Trump’s name had been carried out by the FBI a few months ago.

The House Republican Oversight Committee seems determined to get to the bottom of the Epstein affair, despite the Trump administration’s attempts to block it. With this new subpoena, it is also setting a September 8 deadline for Epstein’s estate to hand over all documents.

According to Wired, thousands of migrant children have reportedly been entered into an FBI criminal DNA database under a policy instituted in 2020, during the Trump administration’s first term.

NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-07-16T17:31:10.284Z

According to the most recent data from the first quarter of 2025, there has been a marked increase in DNA collections, bringing to over 1.5 million the number of migrants whose DNA would have been collected by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) since the program was launched.

Among them, migrant children, sometimes as young as 4 years old, have also been involved, with over 133,000 DNA samples recorded, according to estimates reported by Wired.

These data were integrated into the permanent CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database, usually used in criminal investigations to compare DNA samples taken from crime scenes or from people convicted of serious offences.

According to Wired, of more than 133,000 young migrants under the age of 21, 230 were children under the age of 13, some as young as 4, and more than 30,000 were aged between 14 and 17, all permanently added to the criminal DNA database.

After the landmark 2023 settlement forcing Fox News to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million for disseminating false information about the 2020 presidential election, a similar new court case has just concluded.

The multimillion-dollar settlement came as President Donald Trump continued to make false claims about voting machine fraud.

— Forbes (@forbes.com) 2025-08-18T15:05:03Z

This time, conservative TV network Newsmax is being forced to pay a hefty sum, as it is also accused of intentionally spreading false claims about Dominion’s voting machines during the same election.

Newsmax has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 million in installments over three years, far less than the $1.6 billion claimed in the original complaint in 2021.

Newsmax explained that it had agreed to a settlement on the grounds that it would not have received a fair trial, while continuing to deny that its reporting had been defamatory.

In September 2024, the channel had already reached a similar agreement with Smartmatic for $40 million.

It’s also worth remembering that three close Trump allies have been sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems: Rudy Giuliani, whose proceedings have been suspended due to bankruptcy and no trial date has been set, Sidney Powell, who reached an out-of-court settlement in June 2024 for a confidential amount.

Mike Lindell, sentenced in June 2025, was forced to pay $2.3 million.

While France has launched a criminal investigation into billionaire Elon Musk’s social network X, Musk is denouncing a political plot via the platform’s official accounts.

French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged “fraudulent data extraction.” X categorically denies these allegations.

This investigation, instigated by French politician Eric…

— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) July 21, 2025

The Global Government Affairs account, managed by X, claims that the proceedings are entirely politically motivated and rejects the request for access to the platform’s algorithm.

Musk’s app claims in its statement that such a request threatens its users’ rights to privacy and freedom of expression.

For their part, the French authorities justify their investigation with suspicions of manipulation of X’s algorithm for the purposes of « foreign interference », in alleged violation of French law.

Prosecutors opened the investigation to determine whether X had broken the law by modifying its algorithms and fraudulently collecting data from its French users.

X accuses the French experts involved in the investigation of having, in the past, run campaigns encouraging users to leave the platform, such as « HelloQuitteX » or « Escape X ».

Elon Musk’s company says this raises serious concerns about the impartiality, fairness and political motivations of the proceedings.

The Trump administration is in turmoil as the Epstein scandal expands, contradicting the initial desire to close the case.

Bill Clinton and former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller are among the names a House panel plans to subpoena in its Epstein probe.

— Axios (@axios.com) 2025-07-24T13:44:18.147Z

Revelations are multiplying by the day, including the claim that Donald Trump was informed as early as May that his name appeared numerous times in documents linked to Epstein.

A fact that both he and his administration had emphatically denied for several weeks.

With the House committee approving a subpoena targeting the Justice Department and Ghislaine Maxwell, the pressure to go public continues to mount.

This quest for transparency is fueling interest around this hot-button issue.

A subcommittee is now seeking to subpoena former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton.

In addition to the Clintons, other personalities are also targeted by this request, such as Merrick Garland and William Barr. However, the President, who is at the center of the affair, has still not been called to testify, even though this scandal is far from over for him.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are scheduled to appear in court in October… so more details to come.

This long-awaited moment, as much by the Swifties as by some Travis Kelce fans, has finally arrived!

Well, yes, on her Instagram page, Taylor Swift shared the big news: her lover got down on one knee and made the big proposal.

A proposal worthy of a fairy tale, accompanied by an engagement ring that will have many dreaming.

«Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married», wrote TayTay.

Marry me, Juliet, you’ll never have to be alone. I love you and that’s all I really know. I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress. It’s a love story, baby, just say Yes.

Who else has these song lyrics in mind?

It’s a safe bet that the topic of the day will be their engagement!