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Judge rules against lawmakers pressing for monitor to ensure release of Epstein files
A judge overseeing Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case says two members of Congress lack the legal right to intervene and press their demand for a court-appointed observer to ensure the government complies with a new law ordering release of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.
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Second fatal train crash shocks Spain as death toll in the first collision rises to 43
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Wall Street steadies after Trump says he won't use force to take Greenland
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Former Uvalde officer did his job during 2022 attack, his lawyers tell jurors in closing remarks
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Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
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Supreme Court seems inclined to keep Lisa Cook on Fed board despite Trump attempt to fire her
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Indonesian handprints are the oldest cave art found yet
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EU lawmakers vote to hold up Mercosur trade agreement over legal concerns
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South Korea's former prime minister jailed for 23 years in martial law case
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Divisions emerge among western European nations over Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza
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Air Force One returns to Washington area due to minor electrical issue, White House says
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Guinea-Bissau junta sets election date following last year's coup
Rescuers spot wreckage possibly from a helicopter that went missing near a volcano in Japan
A US shift marked Kurdish-led forces' fall from power in Syria
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Dozens of body parts are found after Pakistan's shopping plaza fire
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Historic love letters from royals, rogues and romantics go on show at Britain's National Archives
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Catholicism shrinks in Latin America while more are religiously unaffiliated, Pew surveys find
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Literary agent Georges Borchardt, who championed Nobel laureates, dies at 97
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Car bomb in Yemen kills 3 and is said to target a leader with Saudi-backed group
From the NFL sidelines to a US Senate race: Michele Tafoya's new play
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Trump to meet with Zelenskyy as Ukraine endures a bitter winter after Russian attacks
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Marine Le Pen admits 'mistake' in EU embezzlement trial as she fights to save political career
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Germany arrests woman accused of supplying war-related information to Russian agent
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Police begin to flex new powers in Guatemala in effort to confront gangs
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Israeli fire kills 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including 2 children, local hospital officials say
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House Republicans begin push to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress over the Epstein probe
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Malaysia to charge 2 former generals in high-profile military corruption case
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What the EU's 'trade bazooka' is and how it works
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Survivor of Spain's train crash pleads for help finding her dog Boro, and social media users rally
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