Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly approached 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago, where she worked at that time, and sex trafficked her to Jeffrey Epstein. When asked what justice would look like for her, she said “I would like to see Ghislaine stay in jail forever.” Virginia died by suicide on April 25, 2025. She’s not here to repeat her story, so we will.

 President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young women who worked for the spa at Mar-a-Lago, the latest evolution in his description of how their highly scrutinized relationship ended years ago. One of the women, he acknowledged, was Virginia Giuffre, who was among Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers. Trump’s comments expanded on remarks he had made a day earlier, when he said he had banned Epstein from his private club in Florida two decades ago because his one-time friend “stole people that worked for me.” At the time, he did not make clear who those workers were. The Republican president has faced an outcry over his...

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit off Russia’s coast and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido on Wednesday, tying for the sixth-largest quake ever. It’s the strongest since 2011’s magnitude 9.1 quake off Japan, which triggered a tsunami and Fukushima disaster. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a tsunami as high as 60 centimeters (2 feet) had been detected as the waves moved south along the Pacific coast from Hokkaido to Tokyo Bay. Officials urged caution, saying that bigger waves could come later. Damage and evacuations were reported in the Russian regions nearest the quake’s epicenter on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Russian...