Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices. Here’s a recap.

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By the Associated Press

The emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein released this week shine a light on the delicate relationship between reporters and their sources. And, as can be the case, bright light isn’t always flattering.

Messages between Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died by suicide in 2019, and journalists Michael Wolff and Landon Thomas Jr. are frequently chummy and, in one case, show Wolff giving Epstein advice on how to deal with the media — a line journalists are taught not to cross. Wolff specializes in the “you are there” inside accounts that are possible with intensive reporting, though some of his work has been questioned.

People frequently see journalists in public settings, conducting an interview or asking questions at a news conference. Private phone calls, texts or messages — where reporters try to ingratiate themselves with sources who may not otherwise be inclined to give information — are inherently different. But ethical rules remain and are followed by most in American journalism.

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By the Associated Press

The body’s Republican leader announced Friday that it will no longer meet in December as planned to vote on redistricting, citing a lack of support from members even after months of White House pressure.

The announcement greatly diminishes the likelihood of redistricting in the Midwest state. Indiana is the second Republican-led state that has recently resisted the president’s push for new congressional maps favoring GOP candidates in 2026 elections.

“Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state’s congressional maps,” Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said in a statement. “Today, I’m announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December.”

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By the Associated Press

Released Friday, after the government reopened, the Agriculture Department report shows only two Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans since the summit between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, totaling 332,000 metric tons.

That’s well short of the 12 million metric tons that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said China agreed to purchase by January and nowhere near the 25 million metric tons she said it would buy in each of the next three years.

American farmers were hopeful that their biggest customer would resume buying their crops. But Tanner Ehmke, CoBank’s lead economist for grains and oilseed, said there is not much incentive for China right now because it has plenty of soybeans on hand from Brazil and other South American countries and the remaining tariffs ensure that U.S. soybeans remain more expensive.

“We are still not even close to what has been advertised from the U.S. in terms of what the agreement would have been,” Ehmke said.

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By the Associated Press

The country’s national parks largely stayed open with limited staffing. Outside groups and state governments picked up the tab during the shutdown to keep visitor centers running and help with trash cleanup at many parks. And the Trump administration tapped into previously collected entrance fees to pay for cleaning restrooms and other basic services. But the efforts didn’t stop vandals from defacing rock features along Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park in Utah and toppling a stone wall at Devil’s Den in Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

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National Park Service employees were ordered back to work Thursday. It will take time for rangers to fully assess parks, including backcountry areas, and more damage could yet be discovered, said Kristen Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association. No fees were collected during the shutdown, costing parks almost $1 million a day in lost revenue.

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By the Associated Press

It’s not an official state visit, but the White House is preparing to host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next week with the pomp and circumstance that is typical of one.

The crown prince’s day at the White House next Tuesday will begin with an arrival ceremony on the sweeping South Lawn and a subsequent greeting on the South Portico, according to a senior White House official.

Then Trump will host him in the Oval Office for a bilateral meeting, followed by a signing and lunch in the Cabinet Room where the U.S. and Saudi Arabia will formalize multiple economic and defense agreements, said the official, granted anonymity to discuss the administration’s planning.

Later in the evening, the White House will hold an East Room dinner hosted and planned by first lady Melania Trump.

His visit is billed as an official working visit because Prince Mohammed is not technically a head of state, the official said.

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By the Associated Press

The country announced plans to invest $200 billion in the United States through 2028 as it finalized a deal to slash U.S. tariffs on Swiss goods.

Economy Minister Guy Parmelin said the Trump administration agreed to cut tariffs on most Swiss goods to 15% — the same level imposed on the neighboring European Union — from 39%, the highest rate on any Western country.

Parmelin hailed the deal as a result of “new momentum generated by the commitment of the American president” and said it would take “several weeks” to take effect.

The White House confirmed the deal Friday, adding that companies from Switzerland and tiny Liechtenstein would invest $67 billion of the $200 billion next year.

It said the investments would create thousands of jobs “in a number of sectors, such as pharmaceuticals, machinery, medical devices, aerospace, construction, advanced manufacturing, gold manufacturing, and energy infrastructure.”

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By the Associated Press

Acceding to the president’s demands, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump foes, including former President Bill Clinton.

The announcement caps an eventful week in which congressional Republicans released nearly 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate and House Democrats seized on emails mentioning Trump.

Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, did not explain what supposed crimes he wanted the Justice Department to investigate. None of the men he mentioned in a social media post demanding the probe have been accused of sexual misconduct by any of Epstein’s victims.

The demand — and Bondi’s quick acquiescence — is the latest example of the erosion of the DOJ’s traditional independence from the White House under Trump.

It is also an extraordinary attempt at deflection. For decades Trump himself has been scrutinized for his closeness to Epstein — though he, too, has not been accused of sexual misconduct by Epstein’s victims.

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By the Associated Press

The Labor Department report will come Thursday, a month and a half late, marking the beginning of the end of the data drought caused by the 43-day federal government shutdown.

The statistical blackout meant that the Federal Reserve, businesses, policymakers and investors have largely been in the dark about inflation, job creation, GDP growth and other measures of economic health since late summer.

Thomas Simons and Michael Bacolas at Jefferies, a financial firm, wrote Friday that over 30 reports from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau were delayed by the political standoff.

The Labor Department did not release its weekly report on unemployment benefits for seven straight weeks. That report is seen as a potential early indicator of where the labor market is headed.

Labor did release its September consumer price index on Oct. 24, nine days late. An exception was made because of its urgency.

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By the Associated Press

The president signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities. It’s part of a response to pressure from consumers who complain prices are too high.

The move comes after voters in off-year elections this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey.

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By the Associated Press

The U.S. Postal Service can’t fix its finances through cuts alone, Postmaster General David Steiner said Friday.

Steiner said the 150-year-old agency needs to expand its revenue base to restore prominence in the nation’s delivery network. It also should capitalize on its long-standing legal obligation to deliver to every address.

One way it can do that, Steiner said during the Postal Board of Governors meeting in Washington, is by working with more customers to provide final or “last mile” delivery to individual home and businesses, the most expensive and labor-intensive part of delivery.

“I’ve taken to saying that we cannot cost-cut our way to prosperity,” Steiner said. “We have to grow.”

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By the Associated Press

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to roll back some of the restrictions on commercial flights it implemented at 40 major U.S. airports during the shutdown.

The agency says the current mandatory 6% flight cuts are being downgraded to 3% even though the record 43-day shutdown ended Nov. 12. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has repeatedly said restrictions would remain until staffing at air traffic control facilities stabilizes and safety metrics improve.

The unprecedented order, in place since Nov. 7, has affected thousands of flights. The head of the FAA said troubling data showed the measure was needed to ease pressure on the aviation system as the shutdown entered its second month and controller absences rose. Unpaid for more than a month, many controllers cited financial strain and the need to take on side jobs.

The flight cuts started at 4% and later grew to 6%. The FAA originally had a 10% target, but officials held off on further rate increases because they said more controllers were coming to work amid news that Congress was close to reaching a deal to end the shutdown.

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By the Associated Press

Hours before Bondi’s announcement, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he would ask her, the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with Clinton and others, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman.

Trump, calling the matter “the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans,” said the investigation should also include financial giant JPMorgan Chase, which provided banking services to Epstein, and “many other people and institutions.”

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,” the Republican president wrote, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian interference in Trump’s 2016 election victory over Bill Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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By the Associated Press

The president has no objections to language, tucked into a bill to reopen the government, that would allow senators to sue when a federal official searches their electronic records without their knowledge, according to a senior White House official.

Trump has indicated privately that he does not think that’s a bad provision, according to the official, who was granted anonymity to describe the president’s thinking. The White House had been fully looped in as senators drafted the bill, which Trump signed into law Wednesday night.

But the provision has caused an uproar in the House, where both Democrats and Republicans have decried the language that would allow lawsuits when a senator’s electronic records are searched without prior notification. It would allow senators to sue for up to $500,000 for each violation.

The language seems aimed at helping Republican senators pursue damages if their phone records were analyzed by the FBI as part of an investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he was “very angry about it,” and is planning to bring up legislation to repeal it as early as next week.

“That was dropped in at the last minute, and I did not appreciate that, nor did most of the House members,” the speaker said earlier this week. The senior White House official did not indicate what Trump would do should such legislation reach his desk.

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By the Associated Press

A federal judge on Friday said the Trump administration is still violating detained immigrants’ constitutional rights by restricting their access to attorneys at a detention facility in Los Angeles and ordered the government to remedy the matter.

Immigrant advocacy groups filed the lawsuit in July accusing the administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during its ongoing immigration crackdown. Immigrant advocates accused immigration officials of detaining someone based on their race, carrying out warrantless arrests, and denying detainees access to legal counsel at a holding facility in downtown LA.

Judge Maame E. Frimpong in Los Angeles said the ruling builds on a temporary order in July that required the government to provide detainees with access to free confidential phone calls with their lawyers.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

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By the Associated Press

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates to discuss the US-led plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the deteriorating situation in Sudan, where the UAE has been accused of supporting the main rebel group.

Rubio and Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed discussed “collective efforts to implement” President Trump’s Gaza proposal, which is currently awaiting endorsement by the UN Security Council, the State Department said.

During Friday’s call, Rubio “also emphasized the importance of achieving a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan,” it said in a statement.

Rubio on Wednesday had decried the humanitarian situation in Sudan and said “something needs to be done” to cut off weapons and other support from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Asked about allegations that the UAE is backing the RSF, Rubio said the US knows who’s involved and is pushing them to stop. But he did not name any countries.

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By the Associated Press

The US military’s 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official said Friday.

The latest strike happened Monday, according to the official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.

It brings the death toll from the strikes that began in September to 80.

The attack comes as the Trump administration expands the US military’s already large presence in the region by bringing in the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. The nation’s most advanced warship is expected to arrive in the coming days after traveling from the Mediterranean Sea.

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By the New York Times

President Trump announced Friday that he wanted the Justice Department to investigate high-profile Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and venture capitalist and megadonor Reid Hoffman.

In a social media post, Trump blasted Democrats for “using the Epstein Hoax” to distract from the recent government shutdown, and said that federal law enforcement would order investigations into members of their party, who he insinuated were involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking of girls.

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,” Trump wrote. “Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’ Stay tuned!!!”

Trump said he would be asking Attorney General Pam Bondi, “and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI,” to conduct the investigation into the “involvement and relationship” between Epstein and the Democrats.

Trump also wrote that it would also include “J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions.”

The Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment.

The demand appeared to be a retaliatory move after Democrats released emails earlier this week that suggested Trump’s knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation was deeper than previously known.

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By the Associated Press

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said air traffic controllers received 70 percent of their back pay Friday for working during the shutdown.

A number of controllers called out of work during the shutdown as they dealt with the financial pressure from going without pay for so long.

Some controllers even got side jobs to help make ends meet. That led to delays and other flight disruptions when the Federal Aviation Administration ran short of controllers at airport towers and other radar facilities.

Controller staffing improved significantly earlier this week as the shutdown drew to a close. Duffy said earlier this week that controllers would receive the rest of their back pay in the next few paychecks.

Duffy and President Trump have also proposed that controllers who didn’t miss a shift during the shutdown should receive $10,000 bonuses. But the details of exactly who might get those checks haven’t been released.

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By the Associated Press

Democratic members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure asked federal officials for an explanation of the decision to cut up to 10% of flights at 40 major airports during the shutdown, along with details on staffing levels and how airports were chosen.

“It appears that the administration made this decision without adequate coordination with key aviation stakeholders,” said Friday’s letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford.

The group requested a briefing and written response by Nov. 20.

The FAA on Wednesday froze reductions at 6 percent, shortly before a deal was reached to end the shutdown. Requests for comment were sent to the department and FAA.

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By the Associated Press

The president is planning to attend the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Switzerland in January, according to a senior White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity to share plans that were not yet publicly announced.

The annual meeting in the Swiss Alps draws world leaders, business executives, celebrities and, sometimes, US presidents. Trump attended in his first term in 2018 and 2020.

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By the Associated Press

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is working with state and local law enforcement agencies to carry out welfare checks on roughly 450,000 migrant children.

They said the program kicked off Nov. 10 in Florida.

The administration launched a similar effort earlier this year, but this one includes state and local law enforcement agencies authorized to work with ICE.

Migrant children traveling alone initially stay in government shelters before being released to sponsors.

Under the Biden administration, officials tried to release children to eligible sponsors within 30 days, reuniting many families quickly.

But there were problems, including some children released to adults who forced them to work illegally.

Migrant advocates are suspicious that the Trump administration’s efforts could end up being a way to deport sponsors or children.

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By the Associated Press

The effects of the rush to redraw US political maps ahead of next year’s midterm elections can be seen in the contrasts between two very different places now in the same Missouri congressional district.

The 18th and Vine area in Kansas City is predominately Black, once known for jazz joints and the meeting that created professional baseball’s National Negro League when the established major leagues barred Black players. Boonville is a small, mostly white town set in an area teeming with cattle and row crops.

People in both areas worry about being ignored in the new district.

The incumbent is Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, who preached about racial justice as a Methodist minister and has worked for decades for federally funded projects in 18th and Vine. Boonville’s decades-long project is a trail favored by cycling enthusiasts.

But their differences are deeper and extend to issues such as health care, education and gun rights.

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By the Associated Press

A union representing federal prison workers is suing the Bureau of Prisons after the agency said it was canceling its collective bargaining agreement.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Connecticut federal court, seeks an injunction to block what the Council of Prison Locals union called an “arbitrary and capricious” move that has jeopardized the livelihoods of the agency’s nearly 35,000 employees.

Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III announced the termination for the collective bargaining agreement Sept. 25, citing President Trump’s executive order in March that exempts certain federal agencies from collective bargaining or recognizing employee labor unions.

Marshall said the union had become “an obstacle to progress instead of a partner in it.”

The union, in its lawsuit, contends the Bureau of Prisons failed to provide “any reasoned explanation” for its decision, as required under federal law.

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By the Associated Press

The Swiss government says it’s reached a deal with the United States to reduce US tariffs on the rich Alpine country to 15 percentt from 39 percent, which had been the steepest Trump administration tariff level faced by a developed Western country.

The Swiss Federal Council, the country’s seven-member executive branch, said “Thank you President Trump for the constructive engagement” in a post on its X account.

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By the Associated Press

Steve Sadow said he’s confident that “fair and impartial review” will lead to a dismissal of the case against Trump.

“This politically charged prosecution has to come to an end,” he said in an email.

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By the Associated Press

The president kicked off his Friday with posts on social media complaining about Democratic lawmakers focusing on thousands of documents from Epstein’s estate released this week by the House Oversight Committee.

Trump called it a “hoax” and a distraction from Democrats’ policies and the “EMBARASSMENT” of the government shutdown and decried “Weak Republicans” who “have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish.” Trump seemed to be referring to the House Republican who are joining Democrats in a push to release files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein.

Trump said Epstein is “not the Republican’s problem” and “don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!”

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By the Associated Press

“While it would have been simple to allow Judge McAfee’s deadline to lapse or to inform the Court that no conflict prosecutor could be secured — thereby allowing the case to be dismissed for want of prosecution — I did not believe that to be the right course of action,” Pete Skandalakis wrote in a statement. “The public has a legitimate interest in the outcome of this case. Accordingly, it is important that someone make an informed and transparent determination about how best to proceed.”

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By the Associated Press

That included those charged in Georgia. But that doesn’t affect state charges.

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By the Associated Press

The leader of a nonpartisan organization announced he will take over the Georgia election interference case against President Trump and others after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was removed from the case.

The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia was tasked with finding someone to lead the case after Willis was disqualified over an “appearance of impropriety” created by a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she’d chosen to lead it. The organization’s executive director, Pete Skandalakis, said Friday that he would take the case on himself.

While it’s unlikely that any action against Trump could proceed while he’s the sitting president, there are 14 other people still facing charges in the case, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

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By the Associated Press

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on CNBC on Friday that the White House plans to post details of the deal online Friday.

Greer said the agreement will see Switzerland move manufacturing of some pharmaceuticals, gold smelting and railway equipment to the United States.

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By the Associated Press

Antifa-Ost — a German network suspected in attacks on people it perceived as fascists — was among four European left-wing groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Trump administration Thursday.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Josef Hinterseher said at a regular news conference in Berlin that his ministry has “taken note” of the designation. Asked whether the German government was contacted beforehand, he replied that “the U.S. decided independently on this.”

Interior Ministry spokesperson Sarah Frühauf said “we don’t evaluate the decisions and assessments of other states, so I also have no assessment of whether we consider this proportionate or disproportionate.”

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By the Associated Press

Trump does not have any public events on his schedule for today, but this evening he will travel to Mar-a-Lago.

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By the Associated Press

Trump’s administration on Thursday designated four European left-wing groups as terrorist organizations, following through on his vow to crack down on leftists after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The networks targeted by Trump’s administration all appear to be based in Europe, with no operations in the US. They are an Italian anarchist front that sent explosive packages to the then-president of the European Commission in 2003, two Greek networks believed to have planted bombs outside riot police and labor department buildings in Athens, and an anti-fascist group whose members were prosecuted by German authorities for a hammer attack against neo-Nazis in Dresden.

Europe has a long history of left-wing political violence, while in the United States political violence has been more likely to come from the right in recent decades, according to multiple studies, including by the Justice Department. However, there’s been an uptick in American political attacks across ideologies in recent years, culminating in the September fatal shooting of Kirk by a gunman who prosecutors contend was driven by hostility toward Kirk’s stance against transgenderism and other positions.

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By the Associated Press

The frameworks are about increasing the ability of US firms to sell industrial and agricultural products in these countries, according to a senior administration official who insisted on anonymity as a condition for briefing reporters on a call about the agreements.

The White House also released statements on the frameworks, which have yet to be finalized and are expected to be signed within roughly two weeks. It’s all part of a broader effort by President Trump to rewrite the rules of global commerce through the use of broad tariffs.

President Javier Milei of Argentina hailed his country’s first bilateral trade framework with the US in nearly a decade as “tremendous news.”

“As you can see, we are strongly committed to making Argentina great again,” he said.

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By the Associated Press

Epstein emailed current and former political figures on all sides, sending news clips and discussing strategy or gossip often in short, choppy emails laden with spelling and grammatical errors.

In several emails in 2018, Epstein advised Bannon on his political tour of Europe that year after Bannon forwarded Epstein a news clip that the German media underestimated Bannon and that he was “As Dangerous as Ever.”

“luv it,” Epstein responded.

Epstein wrote that he’d just spoken to “one of the country leaders that we discussed” and that “we should lay out a strategy plan. . how much fun.”

Just a few months earlier, Epstein was insulting Trump — whose movement Bannon was a representative of — in emails to Kathryn Ruemmler, the former White House counsel under President Barack Obama.

Ruemmler sent a message to Epstein calling Trump “so gross.” A portion of that message was redacted, but Epstein replied, “worse in real life and upclose.”

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By the Associated Press

Trump and Epstein were friends for years but at some point had a falling out, even before underage girls started to come forward to accuse Epstein of sexual abuse.

Journalists sometimes reached out to Epstein, perhaps hoping he might have dirt to spill on Trump. One of those writers was Michael Wolff, who has written extensively about Trump. In a 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein mentioned that one of his best-known accusers, Virginia Giuffre, had worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

“She was the one who accused Prince Andrew,” Epstein wrote.

Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, had said that Epstein’s longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her from Mar-a-Lago to give sexualized massages to Epstein. And Trump had long claimed that he banned Epstein from coming to Mar-a-Lago.

Epstein said in an email to Wolff that Trump hadn’t asked him to resign from the club, because he hadn’t been a member.

“Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop,” Epstein added.

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By the Associated Press

By the time Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, he had established an enormous network of wealthy and influential friends. Emails made public this week show the crime did little to diminish the desire of that network to stay connected to the billionaire financier.

Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday offer a new glimpse into what Epstein’s relationships with business executives, reporters, academics and political players looked like over a decade.

During that time, Epstein’s network was eclectic, spanning the globe and political affiliations: from the liberal academic Noam Chomsky to Steve Bannon, the longtime ally of President Trump.

Some reached out to support Epstein amid lawsuits and prosecutions, others sought introductions or advice on everything from dating to oil prices. One consulted him on how to respond to accusations of sexual harassment.

Epstein was charged with sex trafficking in 2019, and killed himself in jail a month later. Epstein’s crimes, high-profile connections and jailhouse suicide have made the case a magnet for conspiracy theorists and online sleuths seeking proof of a cover-up.

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By Bloomberg

When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives in Washington he will be greeted with great fanfare by Donald Trump — much as the US president was given a gilded welcome in Riyadh earlier this year. He will hope to leave with agreements on deepening long-standing ties between the world’s biggest economy and the largest oil exporter.

Yet, until recently, next week’s visit was at risk of being postponed, according to people with knowledge of the preparations.

The two leaders have developed a warm rapport since early in Trump’s first term, and the next phase of the relationship has ramifications for the geopolitical balance of the Middle East. For all the smiles, though, there remains tension over security, access to AI chips and nuclear technology, the future of Gaza and the thorny issue of relations with Israel.

Crown Prince Mohammed, known as MBS, is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday following weeks of often strained behind-the-scenes negotiations between American and Saudi officials, the people said. The next day, energy and tech executives are expected to attend a US-Saudi investment forum in Washington.