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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USConvicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has reacted to the long-anticipated release of a trove of court documents naming several of the dead paedophile’s associates.Maxwell’s attorneys Arthur Aidala and Diana Fabi Samson released a statement on Wednesday night, after the filings began to be unsealed, in which she continued to insist her innocence and vowed to plough ahead with her appeal.“Ghislaine Maxwell took no position on the Court’s recent decision to unseal documents…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter After the magic of FA Cup third-round weekend, the matches to take place in the fourth round proper will be decided as the lower-league teams remaining get another shot at drawing a Premier League giant.There will be 32 balls in the hat as English football’s most prestigious cup competition intensifies, with the road to Wembley heating up.Manchester City are the defending champions after beating cross-town rivals Manchester United in a historic derby final at Wembley last June…

Donald Trump doubles down on anti-immigrant rhetoric after Supreme Court decision Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court that he cannot run for elected office again because of his role in the January 6 Capitol riot under the terms of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which bars those seen to have “engaged in insurrection” from returning to power.As it stands, Mr Trump will not appear on the state’s…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USA father and son have been arrested in connection with the death of pregnant teenager Savanah Soto and her boyfriend who were found shot dead in San Antonio.Christopher Preciado, 19, was arrested and charged with capital murder, while his father, 53-year old Ramon Preciado was charged with abuse of a corpse for helping his son move the bodies after Ms Soto and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra were found dead inside a car on 26 December, police…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter A derby defeat to Sunderland finished off a Newcastle United manager who had reached a cup final the previous season. His team were on a losing run, he compounded it with a disastrous team selection and a loss to local rivals. He left a few days later.Eddie Howe, it is safe to say, has rarely been compared to Ruud Gullit. He proved the first Newcastle manager since the Dutchman to take United to Wembley, and also lost…

Kyiv suffers largest ever drone attack by Russia leaving five woundedFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsUkraine has launched a fresh salvo of missile strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod as war in the sky between Kyiv and Vladimir Putin’s forces intensifies.The attacks are the latest in hundreds of drone and missile strikes traded by Russia and Ukraine in recent days, after Moscow fired one of its largest aerial assaults of the near two-year war late in December. On…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USA trove of legal filings listing dozens of names linked to Jeffrey Epstein have been released. The 40 documents released on Wednesday are part of a long-running defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against his former fixer and convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015.Although the case was settled in 2017, Maxwell’s attorneys had fought for the names to continue to remain private. Their objection was lifted in 2022, a year after she was…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USA judge in Las Vegas was attacked by a defendant during his sentencing in a felony battery case after his plea was denied on Wednesday.Clark County district judge Mary Kay Holthus was pronouncing the sentence while convicting Deobra Delone Redden when he leaped over a defence table and the judge’s bench and landed atop her.Video caught in courtroom cameras show Redden, 30, yelling “nah f*** that b****”, before leaping at judge Holthus, who fell back from…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USForty court documents containing information on associates of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – including former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton – have been made public.More than 150 associates of the disgraced paedophile are expected to be unmasked in the trove of documents, which are being unredacted as part of an 18 December court order.US judge Loretta Preska ordered that the court filings in a lawsuit brought against Ghislaine Maxwell by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USThe release of court documents naming associates of Jeffrey Epstein caused a website hosting them to crash within minutes.The CourtListener site, run by the non-profit Free Law Project, initially showed the 40 documents made public in the case by Judge Loretta Preska in New York.But the site soon went down with the message “This usually happens when we are doing maintenance or our server is overloaded.”The documents were still available on the PACER system, which gives…