He was referring to so-called supercritical nuclear test explosions banned under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, known as CTBT, where fissile material is compressed to start a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction that creates an explosion. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the following month that such tests would not include nuclear explosions. Shen said Beijing regrets the New START’s expiration and urged the U.S. to accept Moscow’s offer to stick to the treaty’s limits and resume nuclear talks with Russia. He said that “at this stage, China will not participate in nuclear disarmament negotiations” because its nuclear capabilities ”are not on the same scale as those of the United States or Russia.” “The U.S.’ continuous hyping up of China’s nuclear arsenal expansion is essentially aimed at shifting its own responsibility for nuclear disarmament and seeking excuses for promoting nuclear hegemony,” Shen said. Ambassador Shen Jian of China rejected what he called “false narratives and unfounded accusations by the United States,” saying that “we abide by our commitment to suspend nuclear testing.”

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Roy said it was “troubling” and “concerning” that Epstein survivors’ names were not redacted in the files released by DOJ. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, was the second Republican, other than Massie, to press Bondi about the Epstein files. Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., asked Bondi if she would commit to publicly providing the unredacted version of an Epstein email “so that the American people can understand the extent of Donald Trump’s lies about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.” In July of last year, the DOJ and FBI released a joint memo saying they had conducted an “exhaustive” review of the entirety of the investigative files into Epstein and determined there was no evidence to bring charges against any other third parties. “As with all matters, the Department will pursue this with urgency and integrity to deliver answers to the American people,” Bondi wrote then. Bondi responded a few hours later on X that she was assigning the task to Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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It’s exceedingly rare for a federal grand jury to reject prosecutors’ attempts to secure an indictment, since the process is stacked in the government’s favor. Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein stand as Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies today. “I’m not gonna get in the gutter for her theatrics,” Bondi said as Jayapal tried to reclaim her time.

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Even as New START expired, the U.S. and Russia agreed Thursday to reestablish high-level, military-to-military dialogue following a meeting between senior officials from both sides in Abu Dhabi, the U.S. military command in Europe said. In September, Putin offered to keep the New START’s limits for another year to buy time for both sides to negotiate a successor agreement. But the Kremlin also emphasized it wasn’t withdrawing from the pact altogether, pledging to respect its caps on nuclear weapons. New START restricted each side to no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads on no more than 700 missiles and bombers deployed and ready for use. New START, signed in 2010 by then-President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, was the last of a long series of agreements between Moscow and Washington to limit their nuclear arsenals, starting with SALT I in 1972. The monitoring network registered all of North Korea’s six nuclear tests, but it’s unable to detect very low-yield supercritical nuclear tests conducted underground in metal chambers, experts say.

“At the same time, we’ve got the jet stream way to the south, bringing exceptional wet weather to Spain and Portugal.” Yet parts of East Anglia, the South East and perhaps west Scotland could see some brightness breaking through on Saturday. Northern Ireland is also subject to a yellow rain warning until midnight on Friday.

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Jim Grech, the chairman of the National Coal Council, who also spoke, thanked Trump for the work his administration is doing to propose building new coal fuel power plants in the U.S. “We have a new group of people that we’re very close to, come very close to, and that’s called Venezuela,” Trump said. Burning fossil fuels unleashes carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the planet’s atmosphere. Coal is considered the dirtiest fossil fuel, and it has been the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. “This case threatens the unprecedented and unlawful release of highly sensitive information of every Nebraska voter,” lawyers for Common Cause wrote in a brief seeking the injunction. The Republican-controlled House voted today to pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping election bill that Trump is pushing Congress to enact.

Approval of Trump’s sweeping deportation policies dropped steeply after federal agents killed two Americans last month in Minneapolis. The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey finds nearly 3 in 4 U.S. adults support some changes to ICE, with 29% saying it should be abolished outright. In newly released documents from the Epstein files, it was revealed that a former Palm Beach police chief said Trump called him two decades ago to warn about Epstein. There are 44 lawmakers on the committee, and each member will receive five minutes for questions. The department recently released millions more pages of documents related to Epstein, but critics are urging more transparency in releasing additional documents and uncovering certain redactions.

  • She continued, “Perhaps even worse, the mental scars will always be there as a reminder of the time my own government attempted to execute me, and when they failed, they chose to vilify me.”
  • The Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI conducted a court-authorized search of a home in the desert community of about 20,000 people where an individual, Carlos Palazuelos, was staying.
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  • When asked by NBC News if the U.S. government trusts Rodriguez, Wright responded, “We’re early on but the first month of the relationship has actually gone remarkably well.”
  • The Judiciary Committee has recessed the hearing so that lawmakers can participate in votes on the House floor.

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“When he was elected overwhelmingly by the American people, the majority of the American people wanted Donald Trump, one of the main reasons was border security and keeping Americans safe,” she said. “They are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done,” she said, an accusation she repeated multiple times during the hearing. “And as we say here today, there are over 1,000 sex trafficking victims, and you have not held a single man accountable.