‘Deeply ashamed’: Larry Summers steps back from public roles; scrutiny mounts over Epstein emails

screen grab (Source:X/@nytimes) Former Harvard University president and US treasury secretary Larry Summers has said he will step back from several public roles following the release of documents detailing years of personal correspondence with convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.In a statement issued by him on Monday night, quoted by The Washington Post, […]

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‘Embarrassed and ashamed’: Virginia AG nominee Jay Jones apologises over texts for Todd Gilbert; message reads ‘two bullets to head’

Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, Jay Jones, faced bipartisan backlash on Friday night after text messages from 2022 surfaced in which he suggested that the state’s top Republican in the House of Delegates, Todd Gilbert, “gets two bullets to the head.” The messages, sent by Jones who did not hold elected office at the […]

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