🔵 10,000+ Epstein Videos

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Citizen Frank
May 07, 2025

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, May 7.

 

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the FBI is reviewing “tens of thousands of videos of [Jeffrey] Epstein with children or child porn” and there are “hundreds of victims” as she addressed concerns about the delay to the full release of the case files.

“The FBI is diligently going through that,” Bondi told reporters on Wednesday morning, and the volume of evidence explained why more files had not been released so far.

Epstein is the disgraced pedophile financier who took his own life in a New York prison in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex trafficking charges. His wealth and philanthropy made him a well-connected figure across politics, academia, and finance.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last five days.

The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called “Operation Restore Justice,” which saw 115 children across the country rescued in the process, Bondi and Patel said.

Bondi called the operation “historic” and “unprecedented,” and she warned parents to be vigilant of sex predators posing as children online. The operation spanned 55 field offices.

Though aerial fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals does not appear to be sustained and ongoing at this point, Pakistan has closed its airspace for nearly all flights on Wednesday, in the aftermath of the Indian cross-border strikes which killed at least 26 people – including a 3-year-old girl – and wounded at least 46 other people, Pakistani authorities say based on the latest revised death toll. International carriers have also canceled flights to the region, and access to social media, including X, was temporarily blocked in Pakistan amid the assault. Heavy shelling is being reported along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the historic enemy nations.

The true casualty toll could be higher, as a Pakistani militant chief targeted in the attacks on ‘terror camps’ said 10 of his relatives, including five children, were killed. The Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) was one of the groups targeted, and its leader Masood Azhar said his older sister, brother-in-law, his nephew and niece are among the dead.

Pakistan says that civilians were harmed and targeted that mosques were hit across six locations in its territory, and so has the right to respond to aggression. Indian has said it attack nine terror sites, but has been careful to stipulate these were non-military locations, and is now seeking de-escalation.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held its key interest rate unchanged as it waits for the Trump administration’s trade policy to take shape and sees its impact on a sputtering economy.

In a move that carried little suspense given the wave of uncertainty sweeping the political and economic landscape, the Federal Open Market Committee held its benchmark overnight borrowing rate in a range between 4.25%-4.5%, where it has been since December.

The post-meeting statement noted the volatility and how that is factoring into policy decisions.

A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.

The F/A-18F Super Hornet jet, worth about $67 million, went overboard after an unsuccessful attempt to slow it down upon landing on the USS Harry S. Truman, the Navy said in a statement. Both aviators aboard the jet safely ejected and were rescued at sea by helicopter with minor injuries, and no one aboard the warship’s flight deck was harmed, the service said.

A Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, said in a statement late Tuesday that the Defense Department is monitoring the situation, and that the jet was not struck by the Houthis, a militant group that has launched drones and missiles at U.S. forces in the Middle East for more than a year. An investigation is underway, and more information will be disclosed when the cause of the accident is identified, he said.

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 9 p.m. local time on May 7, signaling to the world that no new pope had been elected on the first day of voting during the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

At 4:30 p.m., 133 cardinals processed from the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel into the Sistine Chapel. After the papal master of ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, declared extra omnes (“everyone out”), the doors of the chapel were sealed and conclave voting began.

No new pope was expected to be elected on the first ballot during a contest with a range of front-runners and few clues as to who might emerge as the next pontiff. The first round of voting is typically a moment where cardinals are given their first opportunity to see which candidates are getting the most interest from other cardinal electors.

Donald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the US will now refer to the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia rather than the Persian Gulf.

The move has prompted outrage from Iranian leaders, and last-minute efforts are being made to persuade Trump to pull back from offending Iran in the midst of vital talks on the future of the Iranian nuclear programme. “If Trump went ahead with the proposal he would manage to unite every Iranian, pro- or anti-regime, against him, and that is a near impossible achievement,” one diplomat said.

The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said he hoped the absurd rumour about a name change was disinformation, adding that names of Middle East waterways did “not imply ownership by any particular nation, but rather reflects a shared respect for the collective heritage of humanity”.

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