The federal sex-trafficking indictment of Wall Street wizard Jeffrey Epstein does not allege that the financier and friend of presidents and stars coerced his minor victims to the sex acts for which he paid after a “massage.”

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Iranian Minister of Cultural and Social Affairs Hossein Nejat issued a warning on July 9 that Iran can strike American bases in the Middle East and destroy U.S. aircraft carriers if the United States attacks Iran.

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Following the Christchurch mass shootings at two mosques, New Zealand politicians reacted just as the shooter hoped they would. In the manifesto he filed just before beginning his rampage on March 15, the shooter, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, wrote: “I chose [those particular] firearms for the effect it would have on social discourse. The gun owners of New Zealand are a beaten, miserable bunch of baby boomers who have long since given up the fight. When was the last time they won increased rights? Their loss was inevitable. I just accelerated things a bit.”

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America has lost one of its most legendary — and controversial — political giants. Henry Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who ran two disruptive independent campaigns for the U.S. presidency in the '90s, died on Tuesday after a five-month battle with leukemia. Perot was diagnosed in February and  the month after nearly died from a secondary infection.

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The Detroit AfroFuture FEST August 3 concert was reportedly charging white people twice as much for tickets as “people of color,” resulting in the withdrawal of a biracial rap performer who was offended by the bigoted system. Fortunately, public outcry against the ticketing scale forced Afrofuture Fest organizers to change their pricing model.

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