Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating. Maxwell was questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she's serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. She's come under new scrutiny as lawmakers try to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years...

Three members of Congress say US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lied during his Senate confirmation hearings in response to newly revealed emails that undermine his testimony that a trip he took to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had "nothing to do with vaccines". The governor of Hawaii, a medical doctor who responded to the crisis, also spoke out – saying that the disclosure of the emails by the Guardian and the Associated Press show Kennedy misled the Senate and that he should step...

Handle with care. That's the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours. Olympic organizers are investigating with "maximum attention" after a spate of medals have fallen off their ribbons during celebrations on the opening weekend of the Games. "Don't jump in them. I was jumping in excitement, and it broke," women's downhill ski gold medalist Johnson said after her win Sunday. "I'm sure somebody will fix it. It's not crazy broken, but a little broken."...

Donald Trump has been silent on Turning Point USA's alternative "All-American" Super Bowl performance after footage from his Mar-a-Lago watch party appeared to show attendees watching Bad Bunny's halftime show Sunday night. Bad Bunny's performance featured surprise guests, including Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, at Levi's Stadium in California. The 31-year-old artist made history as the first Super Bowl headliner to perform primarily in Spanish...

From President Harry Truman to President Trump's second administration, the White House too often exaggerates or ignores the real degrees of danger posed by perceived major threats of the time. The former Soviet Union was a textbook case. After World War II, in which the Soviet Union had been critical to destroying Hitler and the Nazi war machine, benign views of it persisted until the Iron Curtain descended from the Baltic to the Adriatic...

Jeffrey Epstein's web of connections spanned the globe. Since the release of thousands of the sex-trafficking financier's documents two weeks ago, powerful men and women in Europe have been toppled over their links to him. A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians—and now, the prime minister of Britain, Sir Keir Starmer, is teetering on the brink over his appointment of a friend of Epstein to a senior role...

The largest nursing strike in New York City could be nearing the end as thousands of nurses reached tentative agreements with some hospitals, according to the nurses' union. Approximately 10,500 members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) reached agreements with Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside and West, NYSNA said in an announcement on Monday morning...

The Patriots finally had some life, a reason to believe that they still had a chance in Super Bowl 2026 despite getting dominated the entire game up until that point. A questionable decision by head coach Mike Vrabel then hurt their odds at a comeback. Fifty-seven seconds after the Seahawks went up 19-0, the Patriots scored their first points of the game on Drake Maye's 35-yard touchdown pass to Mack Hollins with 12:27 left in the fourth quarter on Sunday...

You have no doubt heard that anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists in Minneapolis demanded that drivers show identification before they were "allowed" to proceed through the makeshift traffic blockades they erected on city streets last weekend. The agitators stopped all unfamiliar vehicles and entered their license plate numbers into a database to "verify" that none were associated with ICE. A reporter from local media outlet KARE 11 informed viewers of a "new form of resistance against ICE, another 'ICE-out' method, that's growing and developing."...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former madame of late sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, invoked the 5th Amendment during her deposition before the House Oversight Committee. "As expected, Ghislaine Maxwell took the Fifth and refused to answer any questions," said Chairman James Comer. "This is obviously very disappointing." Maxwell appeared before the Committee as part of Comer's probe into the Epstein files and the late billionaire's dealings...