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08/11/2025

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are requesting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor come to Washington to be questioned as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted s*x offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices.

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Democrats on US congressional panel request interview with former Prince Andrew on Epstein links

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are requesting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor come to Washington to be questioned as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted s*x offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices.
In a letter to Andrew on Thursday – published soon after he was formally stripped of his “Royal Highness” style and “Prince” title – the lawmakers asked that he submit himself to questioning to “provide insight into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators.” The lawmakers ask Andrew to sit for a transcribed interview and ask that he provide a response by November 20.
“Rich and powerful men have evaded justice for far too long,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee. “Now, former Prince Andrew has the opportunity to come clean and provide justice for the survivors.”
The request for an interview comes a week after King Charles III began a process to strip his younger brother of his titles and honors and evict him from the royal estate at Windsor, seeming to cap Andrew’s yearslong fall from grace over the depth of his ties to Epstein.
Andrew will likely decline the request from the Republican-controlled committee. Even with bi-partisan support, the committee would struggle to compel Andrew’s participation. But without Congressional Republicans signing on, the Democrats cannot even take the step of issuing a subpoena — which offers legal weight to force a person to appear.
Nonetheless, the letter underscores how the removal of Andrew’s title as prince will do little to deter those on both sides of the Atlantic seeking justice for Epstein’s alleged victims.
Andrew’s name appears in financial records and documents subpoenaed from Epstein’s estate and published by the committee, including in notations such as “massages for Andrew,” which the committee said “raise serious questions” about the nature of his relationship with the billionaire pe*****le.
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Democrats on US congressional panel request interview with former Prince Andrew on Epstein links

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Updated Nov 6, 2025

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are requesting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor come to Washington to be questioned as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted s*x offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices.
In a letter to Andrew on Thursday – published soon after he was formally stripped of his “Royal Highness” style and “Prince” title – the lawmakers asked that he submit himself to questioning to “provide insight into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators.” The lawmakers ask Andrew to sit for a transcribed interview and ask that he provide a response by November 20.
“Rich and powerful men have evaded justice for far too long,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee. “Now, former Prince Andrew has the opportunity to come clean and provide justice for the survivors.”

The request for an interview comes a week after King Charles III began a process to strip his younger brother of his titles and honors and evict him from the royal estate at Windsor, seeming to cap Andrew’s yearslong fall from grace over the depth of his ties to Epstein.
Andrew will likely decline the request from the Republican-controlled committee. Even with bi-partisan support, the committee would struggle to compel Andrew’s participation. But without Congressional Republicans signing on, the Democrats cannot even take the step of issuing a subpoena — which offers legal weight to force a person to appear.
Nonetheless, the letter underscores how the removal of Andrew’s title as prince will do little to deter those on both sides of the Atlantic seeking justice for Epstein’s alleged victims.
Andrew’s name appears in financial records and documents subpoenaed from Epstein’s estate and published by the committee, including in notations such as “massages for Andrew,” which the committee said “raise serious questions” about the nature of his relationship with the billionaire pe*****le.

He has also been accused by Virginia Giuffre – who died by su***de in April – of s*xually abusing her when she was just 17. In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre wrote that Andrew “believed that having s*x with me was his birthright.”
Despite claiming never to have met her, Andrew reportedly paid millions of dollars to Giuffre in 2022 to settle a civil case she brought against him. He has repeatedly denied all allegations against him

In her memoir, published last month, Giuffre wrote that she feared retaliation if she made allegations against Andrew, claiming that the settlement restricted her to a one-year gag order designed to protect the royal family’s reputation.

She also claimed that Andrew’s “team” tried to hire “internet trolls” to hassle her while he hid behind the “well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle to avoid being served court papers by her lawyers.

Earlier in October, London’s Metropolitan Police said it was investigating reports in the British media that Andrew asked his police protection to “dig up dirt” on Giuffre in 2011.

As well as investigating alleged abuse committed by Epstein and his circle, the committee said it was also probing efforts to “silence, intimidate, or threaten victims,” citing the Met’s investigation as another reason for wanting to question Andrew. It asked that he provide a response to the committee by November 20.
Royal sources told CNN that the committee’s request is a matter for Andrew, for whom Buckingham Palace does not speak or act.
Andrew’s summoning comes a day after the UK’s official public record showed that he has been formally stripped of his “Prince” title. He is also preparing to leave Royal Lodge, where he has lived since 2003. Royal sources have told CNN that Andrew will be given a house on the King’s private estate in Sandringham, Norfolk, and that he is expected to move after the Christmas holidays

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05/11/2025

US nuclear weapons testing can forever scar a nation. Just ask the Marshall Islands

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads.
What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery systems? Does he understand how nuclear weapons work? How will US nuclear adversaries react?
And some experts caution that the testing of nuclear warheads – creating actual nuclear explosions – hurts humans and can have lasting consequences for generations.
Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, a country of 1,200 islands and atolls in the Pacific, which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.
As it developed its nuclear arsenal post-World War II, the US exploded 67 nuclear bombs there between 1946 and 1958.
Mushroom-shaped cloud and water column from the underwater Baker nuclear explosion of July 25, 1946.

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Those detonations had the explosive equivalent of one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb every day for 20 years, according to a 2025 report from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER).
The radiation effects have been ruinous, according to US government reports cited by the Atomic Heritage Foundation, which said the testing was responsible for 55% of cancers on some of the islands’ northern atolls.
And the effect has been more widespread than in the islands. Scattered by winds in the atmosphere, the nuclear fallout from those tests has resulted in about 100,000 excess cancer deaths worldwide, according to the IEER study. Fallout hotspots were detected as far away as Sri Lanka and Mexico.
Related diseases come from isotopes in the nuclear fallout that can pe*****te the human body and cause mutations in DNA, according to a 2024 paper from the American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal.
A nuclear test during Operation Castle in the Marshall Islands in 1954 Department of Energy

The isotopes can remain in the environment years after testing, afflicting those exposed with cancers including lung, leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid and breast, the paper says.

And the US past nuclear tests weren’t confined to the Pacific islands. The Nevada Test Site in the Mojave Desert saw 100 atmospheric tests from 1951 to 1962, and 828 underground tests, the last of those being in 1992.
Though underground testing is considered safer, 32 of those tests in Nevada resulted in fallout escaping into the atmosphere, according to a 1993 UN report.
“We know that nuclear testing has devastating consequences on communities and ecosystems throughout the United States, many of whom are still seeking reparations for harms caused by US nuclear testing during the Cold War,” said Matt Korda, associate director at the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.
“Resuming testing would almost certainly inflict new harms on those groups,” Korda told CNN.

Tragic nuclear legacy

In the Marshall Islands, the wounds of nuclear testing are still raw.
This isn’t fiction, nor the distant past. It’s a chapter of history still alive through the environment, the health of communities, and the data we’re collecting today,” Greenpeace activist Shaun Burnie wrote after visiting the islands earlier this year.
The environmental group staged a voyage to the Marshall Islands from March to April this year to document their state and to take scientific samples that will go into a coming report on the islands.
On tiny Runit Island, part of Enewetak Atoll, sits “the dome,” a structure 377 feet (115 meters) in diameter, made of concrete about half-a-meter thick. Underneath it lies 85,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste gathered in a 1970s effort to clean up the islands, according to Greenpeace.
A crater covered by concrete to keep decontaminated soil and another crater both created by nuclear testings are seen in Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, on January 29, 2014.

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Because the crater beneath the dome is not lined, as newer nuclear waste disposal sites are, “these substances are not only confined to the crater – they are also found across the island’s soil, rendering Runit Island uninhabitable for all time,” Burnie wrote after the organization’s visit.
The island “may be one of the most radioactive places in the world,” he said.
And with climate change, rising sea levels now threaten the structural integrity of the aging dome. No one’s really sure how far the effects of that waste might spread.
“That dome is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change age,” activist Alson Kelen said in a 2018 report from the Australian NGO Safeground.
Burnie said the radiation in the environment has changed the lives of the 300 current residents of the entire Enewetak Atoll. It’s been taken up by the roots of their coconut palms, contaminating the fruit, making it unmarketable
The radioactive legacy has robbed them of income and opportunity,” Burnie said of the islanders
It’s not just agriculture that’s been affected, according to the IEER report. As their way of life has deteriorated, traditional skills have been lost, such as the skill to navigate the open ocean, a necessity for commerce and even reproduction.
“Reading the waves was ‘indispensable as the sole means of collecting food, trading goods, waging war and locating unrelated s*xual partners,’” the IEER report says, quoting a 2016 New York Time Magazine report on island mariners
Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2024, UN Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif said the legacy of testing has disconnected indigenous Marshallese from their culture.
“The human rights impacts of the nuclear legacy are not limited to what is known and easily quantifiable. They are also rooted in pain that cannot be measured and facts that remain unknown,” she said.

Castle Bravo and Bikini Atoll

About 200 miles to the east of Enewetak is Bikini Atoll, the site of the largest nuclear weapons test ever conducted by the US. Known as Castle Bravo, it was a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
In 1946, Bikini Atoll had 167 residents. Before the Castle Bravo test, US Navy officers persuaded them to leave their homes, “for the good of mankind.”
“He explained that they were a chosen people and that perfecting atomic weapons could prevent future wars,” and that one day they’d be allowed to return, an Atomic Heritage Foundation history says.
Rongelap Island, seen from Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on January 28, 2014.

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Today, Bikini is uninhabited, spare a few caretakers. Radiation levels remain too high for full-time habitation, something that was determined after Bikinians were allowed to return in 1969 and began suffering radiation-related illnesses. The island was closed again in 1978
Most of the new generations of Bikinians have never seen their home island,” Greenpeace’s Burnie wrote.
Greenpeace’s final stop on its island tour this year was Rongelap Atoll, which was blanketed by ash from the Castle Bravo test on Bikini, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) to the northwest.
In a 2024 report, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) talked about the effects of that ash – called “Bikini snow” – on the population.
“It burned their skin and eyes, and they quickly developed symptoms of acute radiation sickness,” the report said.

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02/11/2025

Two federal judges rule the Trump administration must tap into billions in emergency funds to at least partially cover food stamp benefits in November.

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Two federal judges require Trump administration to use emergency funds to partially cover food stamp benefits

Two federal judges said Friday that the Trump administration must tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to at least partially cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November.
The rulings from judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island reject a controversial US Department of Agriculture claim that it could not use a contingency fund, which the agency says has $5.3 billion remaining in it, to help cover the benefits amid the month-long government shutdown.
Hours later, President Donald Trump said he has instructed the administration’s lawyers to ask the courts how it can legally fund the benefits as quickly as possible because the attorneys “do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP with certain monies we have available.”

Even if we get immediate guidance, it will unfortunately be delayed while States get the money out,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday evening. “If we are given the appropriate legal direction by the Court, it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding, just like I did with Military and Law Enforcement Pay.”
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, costs between $8 billion and $9 billion a month, so the judges’ orders will not cover all of the needed payments for November.
“There is no doubt that the … contingency funds are appropriated funds that are without a doubt necessary to carry out the program’s operation.” US District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island said. “The shutdown of the government through funding doesn’t do away with SNAP, it just does away with the funding of it.”
During proceedings Friday, McConnell said he was ordering the government to use the contingency fund to ensure at least some benefits could be distributed

There is no doubt, and it is beyond argument that irreparable harm will begin to occur, if it hasn’t already occurred, in the terror it has caused some people about the availability of funding for food for their family,” he said.
In a written ruling released Saturday, McConnell wrote that the administration must make a partial payment to SNAP beneficiaries using the contingency funds by Wednesday.
But he wrote the USDA should, within its discretion, find additional funds to provide full benefits to recipients. If the agency chooses this option, it must make the full payment by the end of Monday, as making the full payment is simpler than calculating partial payments.
In his ruling, McConnell also responded directly to Trump’s comments Friday, writing, “the Court greatly appreciates the President’s quick and definitive response to this Court’s Order and his desire to provide the necessary SNAP funding.”

McConnell’s ruling during a hastily scheduled hearing came minutes after US District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston made a similar order. Both judges, appointees of President Barack Obama, also said that USDA is allowed to tap into another bucket of money of nearly $17 billion to pay November SNAP benefits in full, but that decision is currently up to the administration

Though Talwani stopped short on Friday of requiring the administration to tap into the contingency fund, she said the USDA was required to use money in that rainy-day fund to partially cover November benefits and gave it until Monday to decide whether it would use only those funds or also dip into a separate pot of money.
“This court has now clarified that Defendants are required to use those Contingency Funds as necessary for the SNAP program. And while these contingency funds reportedly are insufficient to cover the entire cost of SNAP for November, Defendants also may supplement the Contingency Funds by authorizing a transfer of additional funds … to avoid any reductions

The Trump administration opposes tapping into those other funds, arguing in court it will hurt the child nutrition programs that the revenue supports.
Even with Trump’s directive and the judge’s rulings, millions of recipients will still face delays in getting their benefits, which were scheduled to start being distributed on November 1. It will take time for the Department of Agriculture and states to get the money flowing again.
In the program’s decades-long history, a government shutdown has never prevented it from distributing SNAP funds to states, which administer the benefits, though the program was at risk during the 2018-2019 impasse.
The Boston lawsuit was filed earlier this week by a group of Democratic attorneys general and governors from 25 states and Washington, DC, while the case in Rhode Island was brought Thursday by a coalition of cities, non-profits, unions and small businesses.
As the government shutdown nears its one-month mark, courts are increasingly being asked to intervene to stave off a series of dramatic developments. Earlier this week, a federal judge in California indefinitely blocked the administration from laying off thousands of federal workers, saying the government was unlawfully using the shutdown as legal justification for the layoffs

Each state has a specific date by which they must send the information ahead of the new month in order for benefits to go out on time, according to the lawsuit. Payments are made on a staggered basis throughout the month

Talwani acknowledged the likely delay in benefits during a hearing Thursday, and also asked about the process of providing partial payments to recipients next month since the contingency fund alone won’t cover the full amount.
“We’re dealing with the reality that … the benefits aren’t going to be there on November 1,” she said.
This story has been updated with additional developments.

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02/11/2025

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02/11/2025

There are two main reasons why countries test military technologies. The first is to see whether a weapon works as designed. The second is to send a political message to other countries. I think there’s a certain amount of signaling attached to Russia’s recent missile tests. Although it’s difficult to decipher Moscow’s intentions, in testing these technologies, the Kremlin may be implicitly saying to the United States and NATO: Back off in Ukraine — look what we might do if you continue to interfere.

02/11/2025

Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?

This was a big week to get more afraid about nuclear weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the testing of a new nuclear-capable missile.
President Donald Trump responded by calling for the US to resume the testing of nuclear weapons.

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Neither country has tested nuclear weapons since the ‘90s, and Russia was quick to clarify that Putin did not announce new nuclear testing. During a trip to Asia, Trump did not meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who has rejected demands that his country denuclearize.
North Korea is one potential villain in a fictional movie about nuclear war on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.” It is a “Rashomon”-style thriller about the concept of mutually assured destruction that the filmmakers mean to be a wakeup call for nuclear powers.
The Pentagon felt the need to draw up a memo responding to the film’s depiction of US missile defense systems as inherently flawed – like “trying to hit a bullet with a bullet” is the line repeated throughout the movie.
The film’s writer, Noah Oppenheim, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he welcomes the criticism, since the movie’s intention was “to invite a conversation about an issue which we think is tremendously important and doesn’t get enough attention, which is the fact that we have all these nuclear weapons that exist in the world and that pose a great threat to all mankind.”
There’s more talk of nuclear weapons to come. A treaty between the US and Russia to limit the size of nuclear arsenals expires in February and there’s currently no movement to extend it.
The Trump administration’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities set back its nuclear capabilities, but likely did not completely destroy them.
There’s new tension this week between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers.

I went back to Matthew Fuhrmann, a professor at Texas A&M University who has written extensively about nuclear weapons and disarmament, including in the books “Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence” and “Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy” with Todd S. Sechser. We last talked around the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when nuclear threats were also in the news.
Our conversation about the developments this week, conducted by email and edited for length and style, is below:

What do Putin and Trump mean by ‘nuclear test’?

WOLF: Both Trump and Putin referred to nuclear tests this week, but neither the US nor Russia is supposed to have tested nuclear weapons since the ‘90s. What did you make of Russia’s test and the US response? Is this the kind of coercive diplomacy you’ve written about or something else?
FUHRMANN: It’s firstly important to clarify what we mean by a “nuclear test.” Russia has tested missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. But, in the traditional sense, a nuclear test is a denotation of a nuclear explosive device. Think of the July 1945 Trinity test in the New Mexico desert that you may have seen depicted in the 2023 film “Oppenheimer” (although after the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, most nuclear explosive tests were done underground rather than in the atmosphere). This is not what Russia has done, and I don’t believe this is what the US is threatening to resume, either.
There are two main reasons why countries test military technologies. The first is to see whether a weapon works as designed. The second is to send a political message to other countries. I think there’s a certain amount of signaling attached to Russia’s recent missile tests. Although it’s difficult to decipher Moscow’s intentions, in testing these technologies, the Kremlin may be implicitly saying to the United States and NATO: Back off in Ukraine — look what we might do if you continue to interfere.

More worried about a nuclear crisis today than four years ago

WOLF: Do you generally think the threat of a nuclear standoff has increased in recent years?
FUHRMANN: I’m more worried about the possibility of a serious nuclear crisis today than I was at the end of 2021. This is in large part because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the possibility that Moscow may continue to brandish its nuclear arsenal to help it prevail in that war. But it’s not just that. The possibility of a US-China nuclear standoff over Taiwan is not trivial, especially if one side misinterprets the other’s resolve to fight. North Korea’s nuclear capabilities are expanding too, and there is the potential for disaster on the Korean Peninsula arising from an accident or miscalculation. Not to mention the perennial possibility of a nuclear-tinged crisis between India and Pakistan. This doesn’t mean that the probability of a standoff is high. Actually, I still think it’s relatively low. But given the stakes involved, even a small increase in the risk — say, 2% — is cause for concern.

Do US missile defenses work?

WOLF: Coincidentally, there’s a movie on Netflix about the 30 minutes it would take for an intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the US and the difficulty of intercepting such a missile. The Pentagon felt the need to produce a memo responding to the film. Are missile defense systems any better than the coin toss suggested by the movie?

FUHRMANN: I haven’t seen the movie yet. I’ll leave that question to technical experts who understand the intricacies of missile defense systems better than I do. I will say that, from a strategic standpoint, there’s value in convincing your adversaries that your missile defense systems are impenetrable. This can strengthen deterrence: If adversaries believe their missiles won’t get through, they may be less likely to fire them.

Would Trump’s Golden Dome solve the nuclear threat?

WOLF: Trump (taking cues from Project 2025) has called for a new “Golden Dome” missile defense shield. Is it worth the cost and would that do anything to solve the nuclear threat?
FUHRMANN: That’s a complicated question. On the surface, missile defense sounds great – and in some ways it is. Consider, for example, the relatively high rate at which Israel successfully shot down missiles fired by Iran in their war over the summer. However, in the long run, developing these systems can encourage your adversaries to develop technologies that circumvent your defenses, or to develop missile defenses of their own. In the end, you may get a costly arms race that leaves both sides worse off. The United States and the Soviet Union recognized this during the Cold War, which is one reason they agreed to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.

Will the expiring Obama-era nuclear treaty be renegotiated?

WOLF: The US and Russia have a nuclear arms treaty that expires in February. New START, negotiated during the Obama administration, limits the size of the countries’ nuclear stockpiles. Will it be renegotiated?
FUHRMANN: The prospects currently look bleak. As long as there is tension over the war in Ukraine, it’s hard to imagine Russia agreeing to a new arms control deal with the United States. If that tension is alleviated, the prospects for a deal would improve.

What about China?

WOLF: Should China or other countries be a part of that process?
FUHRMANN: Many US policymakers would like to include China as part of an arms control deal with Russia. The problem is that China’s nuclear capabilities currently lag behind Russia and the United States. Countries usually don’t like to negotiate from a position of weakness. As China’s nuclear arsenal expands — a trend that is happening — a trilateral deal becomes more likely, especially if Beijing achieves parity with the other two countries.

Bring back the test ban treaty?

WOLF: Bill Clinton helped negotiate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the 1990s but failed to get the US Senate to ratify it. Trump isn’t talking about reviving it, but if he could get the handful of nuclear powers that have likewise not ratified the test ban treaty — including China, Russia, North Korea, India, Pakistan and Israel — to ratify it, would he be a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize?
FUHRMANN: The US Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1999 was a setback for global nonproliferation. There are obstacles to bringing the CTBT into force in the current political environment. If the Trump administration was able to get this done, it would be a major foreign policy achievement.

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