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In the fall of 2019, just a couple months after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell, the
New York Times ran a report on the relationship between the wealthy sexual predator and
Bill Gates, which was more extensive than the Microsoft founder had previously acknowledged. That September, Gates confirmed having met with Epstein, but said he âdidnât have any business relationship or friendship with him.â The
Times report in October, though, detailed a number of meetings over the course of several years, including several at Epsteinâs New York mansion, all of them after the financier was already a convicted sex offender.
Blake Bailey with an account from
Valentina Rice, a 47-year-old publishing executive who alleges Bailey raped her in 2015 while they were both staying at the home of
Times book critic
Dwight Garner. The story raised eyebrows, and not just because W.W. Norton, Baileyâs publisher, had halted the shipping of the long-awaited book in response to the allegations leveled against the author by Rice and several former students (Bailey denies any wrongdoing).
It was particularly striking that one of the alleged sexual assaults took place at the home of one of the most prominent book critics in America, one employed by the very paper disclosing the previously unreported accusation. All of which came after weeks of its copiousâand often, though not always, glowingâcoverageleading up to Baileyâs release. The
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Ron Johnson has rarely met a dangerous delusion or insidious lie he hasnât liked and shared with the world, so it was perhaps only a matter of time before he latched onto the latest crackpot conspiracyâthat perhaps the COVID vaccines, our hope of putting this godawful pandemic behind us, are part of some unnamed plot to destroy America. In a Wisconsin radio interview Thursday, the Republican and prolific promoter of coronavirus disinformation condemned the idea of âvaccine passportsâ and said there is âno reason to be pushing vaccines on people.â
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After weeks of grueling, emotional testimony, a jury on Tuesday found former Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvinguilty on all three charges in the murder of George Floyd, an all-too-rare showing of accountability to which the nation reacted with palpable, if fleeting, relief. The case against Chauvin was particularly damning given the killing was captured in broad daylight on a 17-year-old bystanderâs cell phone, without which the former officer may have gotten off. Yet despite the indisputable evidence, as well as testimony from fellow police officers who decried Chauvinâs use of force, Fox News host
Tucker Carlson had a different message for viewers, as he argued Tuesdayâs conviction âwas never in doubtâ following ânearly a year of burning and looting and murder by BLMâ to achieve the guilty verdict. âEveryone understood perfectly well the consequences of an acquittal in this case,â Carlson said, arguing the jurors âspoke f