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Watch Ghislaine Maxwell plead the fifth during deposition

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell told Congress on Monday she’ll clear both President Trump and former President Bill Clinton in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal – once she’s sprung from prison. Maxwell, 64, opted to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a deposition before the powerful House Oversight Committee when she appeared virtually from...

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Norwegian biathlete wins Winter Olympics bronze and then tells TV interview of affair

  • Sturla Holm Lægreid stuns viewers watching in Norway

  • ‘Three months ago I made the mistake of my life’

The Norwegian Sturla Holm Lægreid broke down in tears after winning bronze in the men’s 20km biathlon, apologising for having an affair and saying: “It has been the worst week of my life.”

Johan-Olav Botn won gold, with the Frenchman Éric Perrot in second, but it was Lægreid who stunned television viewers in Norway after opening up to the broadcaster NRK about his private life over the past six months.

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© Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters

© Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters

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The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill

In Lancashire, I met people living with dangerous levels of Pfas, including in their food. The government is failing them

Last week, on the morning the government published its Pfas action plan, I got a worried phone call from a woman called Sam who lives next door to a chemical factory in Lancashire. Sam had just been hand-delivered a letter from her local council informing her that after testing, it had been confirmed that her ducks’ eggs, reared in her garden in Thornton-Cleveleys, near Blackpool, are contaminated with Pfas.

Pfas – per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as “forever chemicals” due to their persistence in the environment – are a family of thousands of chemicals, and I have been reporting on them for years. Some, including those found in the eggs Sam and her family have been eating, have been linked to a wide range of serious illnesses, including certain cancers.

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© Photograph: Protoggy.com/Alamy

© Photograph: Protoggy.com/Alamy

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Republican congressman says Epstein files ‘likely incriminated’ six more men

Thomas Massie says he may reveal the names under congressional privilege if justice department does not

Thomas Massie, a US congressman, has said he knows the identity of six more men who are “likely incriminated” by their inclusion in the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files after he viewed an unredacted version of the documents relating to the disgraced late financier and sexual abuser.

The Kentucky Republican suggested he might reveal their names under congressional privilege if the justice department (DoJ) continued to conceal their identities in publicly available copies of the documents that are still redacted.

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© Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

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