Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton, announced he would step back from public engagements to “rebuild trust and repair relationships” following the release of extensive correspondence between him and the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The statement, published by The Harvard Crimson, follows the U.S. House Oversight Committee’s disclosure of seven years of emails showing regular contact between Summers and Epstein through mid‑2019, shortly before Epstein’s arrest on sex trafficking charges. The newly released 20,000 pages of documents depict a close personal and professional rapport. Summers confided in Epstein about his romantic life — referring to one woman as a “mentee”— and received advice Epstein jokingly signed as his “wing man.” In some 2017 messages, Summers made controversial remarks about women’s intelligence, echoing past statements that contributed to his 2006 resignation as Harvard’s president. The correspondence also reveals that Epstein volunteered to fund up to $500,000 for Poetry in America, an educational project run by Summers’ wife, Harvard English professor emerita Elisa New. The financier had previously donated $110,000 to New’s nonprofit in 2016. Summers expressed remorse in his statement, calling his continued contact with Epstein a “major error of judgment.” He wrote that he was “deeply ashamed” and accepted full responsibility for his “misguided decision to continue communicating” with the convicted sex offender. Despite stepping back from public appearances, Summers will retain his faculty role at Harvard as University Professor and director of the Mossavar‑Rahmani Center for Business and Government. He will also remain on the board of OpenAI and continue writing for Bloomberg News, though his spokesman confirmed he will scale back other professional commitments. The correspondence has reignited longstanding scrutiny surrounding Summers’ ties to Epstein, who had donated millions to Harvard during Summers’ presidency and remained in contact with him after his 2008 conviction. Earlier reports, including those from The Wall Street Journal, had shown that Summers asked Epstein for fundraising assistance for News’ projects. The newly public messages now provide the most detailed glimpse into how Epstein could have maintained influence within Harvard’s orbit years after the school claimed to have severed ties. Reaction has been swift. A senior Trump administration official called on institutions to sever ties with Summers, questioning why he remains in prominent academic and corporate roles. Comparisons were made to the British government’s dismissal of Ambassador Peter Mandelson over similar Epstein links. Bloomberg, OpenAI, and Harvard declined to comment.

A hammer-wielding illegal immigrant with a rap sheet attacked a woman jogging on a path in Plano, Texas. Mexican illegal immigrant Sergio Noe de Nova Duarte, 17, struck the female victim with the hammer while she was on a jog in Bob Woodruff Park on Thursday before fleeing the scene, local police said. He was later captured and charged with aggravated kidnapping and bodily injury. The woman fought back as Duarte attacked her, according to CBS News. She was later treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. “Given the nature of this incident and this attack, this could have gone so much worse,” Plano Police Detective Alexandra Cole said. “Luckily, she was brave enough to be able to fight her attacker off in order for this not to be an even more heinous crime than it already was.” But it wasn’t Duarte’s first rodeo. He was arrested last year for burglary and larceny, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement later took him into custody, but the Biden administration ultimately released him. Now, the Trump administration is working to ensure he stays in custody. “This criminal illegal alien should have never been loose in our communities to attack this woman jogging in a park with a hammer,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Monday. “Following this illegal alien’s arrest in 2024, the Biden administration released this criminal illegal alien back into our communities. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE lodged an arrest detainer to ensure this criminal illegal alien is NEVER able to prey on innocent women in our country again,” she said. Duarte came to the United States on a B2 tourist visa in 2016, but failed to leave the country by the required date, according to Homeland Security.

American voters want President Donald Trump’s administration to use trade leverage to protect American businesses from European Union regulations, according to a new poll first shared with The Daily Wire. The EU-US Forum surveyed likely general election voters and found that Americans view two specific European Union directives — the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive — as bad for American businesses at home. The EU-US Forum is an American nonprofit organization working to advance the president’s agenda in Europe and combat “the EU’s radical leftism.” “Our latest national survey of likely general election voters in America shows that they view the European Union’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations as unfair to American companies, chiefly because they expect these rules to raise costs and hurt American competitiveness,” the forum said in a release. “A clear majority want the Trump administration to protect U.S. companies from the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) by using ongoing trade negotiations as leverage to shield American companies from EU overreach,” they shared. “Elected officials who support President Trump in his leadership to confront CSRD and CS3D in trade negotiations stand to benefit politically, as voters say they are more likely to re-elect lawmakers who fight to free U.S. businesses from excessive European regulation.” Almost six in 10 Americans surveyed said that it is important for American officials to use trade negotiations in order to roll back the European Union’s ESG regulations on American companies, according to the poll, conducted via an internet panel between November 11 and 12 with a margin of error of +/-3%. Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said the European Union regulations would unfairly impact United States businesses. Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they would be more likely to vote for a member of Congress who pushes the president to use trade negotiations to stop the European Union from putting strict ESG regulations on American companies. Seventy-one percent said that the European Union’s compliance regulations would raise costs on American families. Seventy-two percent think that the reporting requirements would be problematic for smaller U.S. suppliers. The EU-US Forum argues that their polling shows that the EU directives are unfair for American businesses and will be expensive for American families and that the Trump administration should use its trade leverage to stop them. They also argue that lawmakers who align with the president’s agenda “stand on solid political ground and can credibly claim they are protecting American workers, businesses, and exporters from Europe’s red tape agenda.” The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requires large companies to share information on “what they see as the risks and opportunities arising from social and environmental issues, and on the impact of their activities on people and the environment.” The alleged goal is to help investors, stakeholders, and civil society organizations to evaluate “the sustainability performance of companies as part of the European green deal.” Along similar lines, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive gives companies an “obligation” to “conduct appropriate human rights and environmental due diligence” with “respect to their operations, operations of their subsidiaries, and operations of their business partners in companies’ chains of activities.”

An illegal immigrant who failed to leave the country after receiving a deportation order is accused of fatally striking an eight-year-old girl while she was crossing the street in Boise, Idaho, last Tuesday, The Daily Wire has learned. Honduran illegal immigrant Elvin Ramos-Caballero allegedly struck and killed Mora Gerety while he was behind the wheel of a pickup truck, authorities said. The eight-year-old was swiftly transported to a nearby hospital, where she died in the operating room, according to KTVB7. The local coroner ruled that she died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries. “This is a parent’s worst nightmare, and tonight our hearts go out to the victim’s family, friends, and her community at large,” Boise Police Chief Chris Dennison said following the tragic collision. Ramos-Caballero crossed the border illegally into Hidalgo, Texas, in September 2015 as an unaccompanied minor and was transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which released him into the country the next month. Border Patrol agents must hand illegal migrant children who traverse the border without parents to HHS, which typically finds a sponsor for them in the United States. Those children must still go to immigration court for judges to decide their cases. However, in Ramos-Caballero’s case, he failed to appear at his 2016 immigration hearing, where the judge ordered his deportation. ICE was able to nab him last Tuesday after the attack, the agency said. The Boise School District said Wednesday that the young victim attended Washington Elementary School, which is located near the scene of the crash. “Our hearts are with the student’s family, friends, classmates, and the entire Washington community during this incredibly difficult time,” the school district wrote. “In moments like this, we are reminded of the vulnerability of the young people we serve and of the shared responsibility we all hold in keeping students safe—whether they are walking, biking, riding the bus, or traveling in any way on our city’s streets.”

Bill Maher had to school Patton Oswalt on what the Democratic Party has said about certain topics, accusing him of being in a “Bluesky bubble” and not knowing what’s going on. The conversation took place during Monday’s episode of the “Club Random” podcast, as Maher complained that liberals were leaning too far left and embracing increasingly radical policies. “The Left freaked out about a lot of bullsh**,” Maher said. “Gender, race, parenthood, schools, homelessness, crime, the border, education. We stopped being a scientific people.” “But the Left certainly stayed scientific,” Oswalt insisted. “No, they didn’t,” Maher replied, to which Oswalt asked, “Why not?” “Because they think gender bullsh** that they went way too far with … What makes us a great country is that we respect minorities. We don’t think they’re lesser just because they’re lesser in numbers. That’s not what we started to teach, which was that every baby is — I don’t know — let’s not even put it on the birth certificate. That’s what they wanted.”  “When were we teaching that?” Oswalt asked. “Teaching it — it was a law here in California,” Maher explained. “Don’t put sex on the birth certificate. ‘We’ll see.’ Now, we’ve passed that period now.” Oswalt said he didn’t remember that, prompting Maher to shoot back, “Because it doesn’t get in the Bluesky bubble.” At another point in the conversation, Maher asked Oswalt his opinion on immigration from Muslim countries and the negative effects it’s had on certain places, using the example of grooming gangs in the U.K.  Maher asked the comedian if he knew about Pakistani grooming gangs, prompting Oswalt to jokingly ask if Maher was talking about the British royal family. “See, that’s a big story. This is in the UK. That went on from like the 80s to the present … I’m talking about Pakistani men, who are immigrants, who were grooming poor, impoverished, white girls mostly and making them into prostitutes and sex slaves and like really nasty sh** that would pass for more normal in a traditional Pakistani society where women are not considered equal citizens,” Maher explained. When asked how he could miss the story, Oswalt said he got his news from The Guardian and that it hadn’t been featured there.  Maher has been vocally frustrated with the extremes of his party recently and has made enemies on the Left by calling them out for it. But he’s not fully red-pilled yet. At another point in the conversation, Maher claimed that representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would be a “fantastic candidate” for the White House if she “had some deprogramming.”

WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives on Tuesday will vote on a bill calling for the release of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The bipartisan bill, called the Epstein Files Transparency Act, is sponsored by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). This bill requires the Department of Justice to publish “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in DOJ’s possession that relate to the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.” The bill would also require the Justice Department to release materials that relate to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s reported associate and convicted sex trafficker, as well as “flight logs and travel records,” and “individuals named or referenced (including government officials) in connection with the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.” The Justice Department is permitted to withhold certain information, such as victims’ personal information and materials that would “jeopardize an active federal investigation,” the bill summary noted. The House will vote on the bill after 2:00 p.m. If passed, it would head to the Senate, where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he will move for the upper chamber to “immediately take it up and pass it — period.” “Republicans have spent months trying to protect Donald Trump and hide what’s in the files. Americans are tired of waiting and are demanding to see the truth. If Leader Thune tries to bury the bill, I’ll stop him,” Schumer said. It remains to be seen whether Thune will do so, considering Trump has urged House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files and pledged to sign the bill if passed. Republicans had initially opposed releasing the files as Democrats pushed to do so, claiming the files implicated Trump. Trump on Monday said he was tired of the Epstein saga overshadowing his administration’s accomplishments, and claimed that releasing the files would hurt Democrats more than Republicans. Trump’s about-face seems to have turned the tide among Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who had previously urged his party to oppose the release. While several Republicans had already planned to vote for releasing the files, Trump’s change of heart will likely encourage more lawmakers to do so. The bill summary said 15 days after the required publication, the DOJ must report “all categories of information released and withheld, a summary of any redactions made, and a list of all government officials and politically exposed individuals named or referenced in the published materials.” On Monday night, Khanna said the “swamp” is “trying to get it amended in the Senate.” “Anyone who tried to amend a bill POTUS says he will sign is betraying the survivors,” Khanna said.

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