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Fragrance and makeup led growth in the second quarter, as the Spanish group gains market share across regions.

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A discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5,400 miles per hour.

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Netflix continues with its slate of prestige offerings with an  East of Eden series adaptation coming this fall alongside another classic adaptation: Dolly Alderton’s take on Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. The series has been brewing for almost four years, and a cast full of starpower has been assembled to bring the characters of […]

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A shocking update has ended the mystery of a missing child and kidnapping case, as a teenager who disappeared from Chicago was found years later, having been held captive all this time, according to NBC 5 Investigates.

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The National Urban League released its annual “State of Black America” report on Thursday concluding that prospects for minorities in the U.S. are under threat due to a second Trump administration.  The report was not only authored by the 116 year old civil rights organization but a range of lawmakers and business leaders, who said…

Zoë Kravitz and Hailey Bieber have given the sport shorts their seal of approval, styled with blazers, boho blouses, or pumps. Consider this your cue to lean into the off-duty staple.

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Nolan Wells’ father says one of the young men calling himself Nolan’s “best friend” is no friend at all … ’cause he doesn’t even recognize the kid. Elmore Wonsley appeared on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” Wednesday night, where Chris Cuomo asked whether…

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While the largest cyclospora outbreak appears to be winding down, others with unknown sources keep popping up.

Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs who had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein, told the House Oversight Committee that Virginia Giuffre’s allegations “lacked inherent credibility,” according to a transcript of her closed-door interview released on Wednesday.

The 171-page transcript, details lawmakers’ extensive questioning of Ruemmler over her yearslong association with Epstein. Her comments about Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent victims, were met with intense pushback from Giuffre’s family.

“The only person who lacks credibility is Kathy Ruemmler, who is trying to get people to believe she didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein was actively engaged in sex trafficking,” Sky and Amanda Roberts, Giuffre’s brother and sister-in-law, said in a statement.

The two said Ruemmler’s “attempt to cast doubt” on Giuffre, who died by suicide in April 2025, “is reprehensible.” They added, “She should be ashamed of herself.”

Ruemmler told lawmakers that some of the allegations women had leveled against Epstein “didn’t have a lot of indicia of credibility.” When asked if she believed Giuffre was victimized by Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Ruemmler said she didn’t know.

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“If she says that she was, I don’t have a reason to doubt that. However, there were allegations that she made that were, I believed, based on my experience as a former prosecutor and as a defense counsel, that were of such a nature that they were — they lacked inherent credibility,” she continued. “Typically, when someone says ‘I was sex trafficked to someone,’ they say who, when, where — not ‘multiple world leaders, multiple foreign presidents.’”

Ruemmler’s relationship with Epstein was highly scrutinized after the Justice Department released documents that included many emails between them, including ones in which she thanks him for lavish gifts and calls him pet names.

In her interview with the committee, Ruemmler said she met Epstein in 2014 when he cold-called the law firm where she worked after she served roughly four years as counsel to the Obama White House. Her firm made “millions” from Epstein referrals, she said.

Yet Ruemmler painted their relationship as far less friendly and intimate than their correspondence appeared to portray. Describing Epstein as a “masterful liar,” she told the committee that they were not friends but merely friendly in a professional context, that she was not at all aware of his criminal conduct during her time knowing him, and that he “used” her and others “to legitimize his standing.”(Ruemmler is not accused of any wrongdoing.)

Ruemmler received many gifts from Epstein over the course of their relationship, including an Apple Watch, $10,000 worth of Bergdorf Goodman gift cards and an Hermès bag. She told the committee the gifts were “inconsequential” to her and that gifting was commonplace in professional services.

“And while, you know, he may have been a little bit extra, it didn’t seem extra to me in terms of the significance to him in light of his wealth,” she said about Epstein.

While questioned about an email she sent Epstein in 2016 — “Best massage ever, but not your kind of massage,” she wrote — Ruemmler said she was making a joke about his criminal conviction in an exchange about a spa day that he had given her.

“I was certainly aware that he had pled guilty to prostitution-related offenses that involved sexualized massages,” she said, later adding, “So what I was making here was an offhanded joke that, certainly sitting here in 2026, is in extraordinarily poor taste, but it was a joke about his prior criminal history.”

Ruemmler also addressed her nicknames for Epstein. She said she called him “sweetie” in one email “in a patronizing way,” referred to him as “big brother” to show her appreciation for his paying for a flight upgrade on a business trip, and labeled him “Uncle Jeffrey” only “as a joke and, frankly, to poke fun” at his arrogance and patronizing qualities.

Ruemmler is one of many prominent wealthy figures who appear often in the Epstein files and who have been interviewed by the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the late convicted sex offender.

Earlier this year, as backlash over her relationship with Epstein grew, Goldman Sachs announced that Ruemmler would step down as chief legal officer. The bank then announced last month that Ruemmler would stay on in an advisory role as senior counselor.

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President Donald Trump wants to add another one of his personal cases to the Supreme Court’s docket: his bid to revive a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others, stemming from his complaint that ahead of the 2016 election, she conspired to “weave a false narrative” that his campaign colluded with Russia.

A conservative appeals court upheld a ruling that rejected his suit and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against him and Alina Habba and her law firm. The appellate panel noted that “[m]any of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous.”

Trump wants the justices to reverse that ruling. He said so in a filing seeking an extension of time to petition the high court. Justice Clarence Thomas, who fields such routine administrative requests from the circuit that ruled against Trump, granted the extension request Wednesday, giving the president until Sept. 9 to file his petition. It takes four justices to grant review of a petition.

In the extension motion, Trump’s lawyers said his forthcoming petition will raise “exceptionally important” issues. They said the appellate ruling and imposition of sanctions “carries with it profound impact on the Presidency, and the nation as a whole.”

This is only the latest of the president’s personal cases to hit the high court docket. Just this week, he filed his second petition seeking to reverse the millions of dollars in damages won by E. Jean Carroll, the writer he was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming. Last month, the justices declined to review an earlier petition he brought in a separate but related Carroll case, which he is attempting to get them to reconsider taking as well.

Trump is also trying to get the justices to revive a defamation lawsuit he filed against CNN over the network’s use of the phrase “big lie” to describe his claims about the 2020 election. Like the 2016 election-related case, he’s been losing that 2020 election-related case at the hands of conservative judges in the lower courts and wants the high court to intervene. His petition in the CNN case is due Aug. 14 after his latest extension request, also granted by Thomas.

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A director best known for eerie thrillers like ‘Cure’ and ‘Pulse’ leans into a mystery set at a feudal castle, where rivalry blooms into unlikely conversation.

The brand, which is testing Wall Street’s appetite for fashion, raised $211 million in its IPO on Thursday. CEO Hali Borenstein shares what happens from here.

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