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How Epstein Collected Insider Tips on Stocks and Startups From His Network (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/how-epstein-collected-insider-tips-on-stocks-and-startups-from-his-network-424809d7?st=7JJ6qb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p59#a260318p59

A federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6…

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have been on administrative leave for a year back to work. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order came a week after he ruled that Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's choice to effectively lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have the authority to effectively dismantle the congressionally authorized Voice of America. Followin…

They're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My

A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that
Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious,
but gave the president a chance to file an amended complaint.
Attorneys for the newspaper and Murdoch had asked Gayles t…

Judge dismisses Trump’s $10B lawsuit against WSJ, Murdoch
A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order issued Monday that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious, but gave the president a chance to file an amended complaint. Trump's lawsuit came after the Journal published an article that …

Functional connectivity study on visually evoked auditory response based on high-density electroencephalography https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1691902/full

Frontiers | Functional connectivity study on visually evoked auditory response based on high-density electroencephalography
AimThis study aimed to investigate the brain activity involved in visually evoked auditory response (vEAR) using high-density electroencephalography (EEG) an...

Another day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust.
This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch
for an article describing a “bawdy” drawing he penned — allegedly! — for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
Just one day after the story was published, Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito filed suit in Florida alleging
“overwhelming financial and reputational damages to President Trump,
expected to be in the…

Trump's litigation extortion machine
You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

A Q&A with NYT reporters on handling the Epstein files, including creating tools to make them searchable, prepping for the release, and dealing with redactions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/insider/jeffrey-epstein-files-documents.html…

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files
Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case.

Hours after a temporary ceasefire deal between the US and Iran was announced last week,
Israel unleashed a massive, deadly bombing campaign on Lebanon.
In this episode Marc Steiner speaks with Iranian-Canadian journalist Samira Mohyeddin about Israel's pursuit of more war, rather than diplomacy or peace,
and assertions that the US-Israeli war on Iran was never about nuclear threats
but about weakening Iran’s economic and regional power, at devastating costs to ci…

Everyone knows Israel is sabotaging the Iran ceasefire—even the Trump administration
“It's really a bit of a clown show… I think the US administration is quite committed to brokering this ceasefire with Iran, but Israel will not allow for it”

A US judge dismisses Trump's defamation suit against WSJ over an article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 letter for Epstein, but says Trump could re-file (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-lawsuit-…

An interview with Lucia Osborne-Crowley about enduring threats and sexual harassment to report on Ghislaine Maxwell, her book about the Maxwell trial, and more (Melissa Denes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m